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It still depresses me that so many still yearn for a sugar daddy to make everything good again. I do wonder just how many in our support would accept literally anyone in control of the club if it guaranteed we'd win the league and beat Celtic. It's always worth casting your mind back and remembering why you became a Rangers supporter. Was it simply because you expected us to win the league every season? Most seasons? I started 'supporting' Rangers at primary school, mainly because most of my pals, my dad and my big cousins did. It was a north Glasgow primary in the late 1970s, you'd the choice of Rangers or Partick Thistle, no other clubs were available. But the relationship was cemented in the 1980s, when I was old enough to go to games. Here's the thing, in the first half of the 1980s there wasn't a lot of winning going on. We weren't just behind Celtic, we were behind Aberdeen, Dundee Utd and even Hearts for a while. Don't get me wrong there were some good times, a couple of League Cups, a Tennents Sixes too (well it excited me at the time!), but mainly it was a struggle on the pitch. But then going to the football isn't just about the football, is it? It was meeting up with your mates, a common shared interest. It was the ritual of going to the game, lucky omens, lucky clothing, buses or trains, the programme, the pie, I was too young to drink but clearly that was important to many guys too. Then the game itself, the singing, the noise, the smell, the chance to share every emotion, publicly. Football and gigs were probably the only places you could be emotional without feeling stupid or being ridiculed. Winning was always great, a bit of magic from a player a bonus, and a defeat met with anger. Our club is going through the most turbulent period in it's long history since the late 1800s. We're not out of it yet, we're hopefully towards the end, but who actually knows. Football is a very different sport to the one I started watching, but the essence of supporting a club, the things that cemented that bond I don't think they've changed, although pricing of tickets and timing of games does make it harder. Our club is still perfectly capable of being stable and solvent as well as competitive, some stability would help that happen, I think.

We could definitely do with any of the above right now in our team, no doubt. Even Windass, someone needs to clean the toilets.

Davie Macpherson - 276 appearances, 27 caps and never rated by anyone. He looked awkward but was actually really effective. Stuart Munro - from the same era, underrated fullback, played 179 times, wasn't signed from Italy or England and so was often overlooked by media, supporters and management.

Disagree. Leadership, judgement, professionalism, good governance, performance management. There are lots of things that happen in football clubs that don't cost money. Or at least, are more about the people we employ and how effective they are. For the financial year 2023, our wages to turnover ratio in terms of playing budget was 51%, calculated approximately as £42-43m. Compared to 2021 when we won the league under Gerrard, it was £33.5m. For me thats a pretty stark evaluation of how effective the likes of Robertson, Bisgrove and Wilson have been, at least since Gerrard left. Throwing money at the problem is no longer the solution, its about using the money we have much much better. Just look at Man United. They've a billionaire owner and they throw money around like confetti, but you wont find too many of their fans who are happy with recent performances.

I think in both. He broke into the first team during a difficult period for the club, but during the title winning 86/87 season he played 47 games and scored 8 goals, our 4th highest scorer that season. Not bad for a centre half who played right back for periods. Souness didn't fancy him, as seemed to be the case with most of the players he inherited, and sold him that summer to Hearts. Smith brought him back five years later and again he did everything that was asked of him. He was solid, brilliant in the air and faster than he got credit for on the ground. He was no Richard Gough, but he was underrated and under appreciated by most of us.

For me it was the mid sixties first game I went to was V the Jags at Ibrox with a neighbour Gers won 4-1 and have supported them ever since. Those visits were with many school friends including a certain Danny McGrain,Travelling on the 19 bus through the Clyde tunnel and walk from Govan Cross or sometimes the subway also the Finnieston ferry. Magical days and memories of great times.

Another severely boring International break that has no appeal whatsoever. So to get a Rangers chat going with positivity I was wondering about unsung hero's and who everyone thought would fit into this category. (pretty sure we had one years ago but I couldnt find it and they may be new / more opinions now). Im only going to name one. My stand out would be Gordon Durie. He was ever reliable, a seriously hard worker, banged in a number of good goals, formed good partnerships and was a regular at both club and international. He also came at the right time as the Hateley / McCoist partnership was just about to decline after Ally broke his leg against Portugal that year. So for me Durie went a bit under the radar.

need investment but No such thing as a free lunch.

You've misunderstood my point. The point being that last year we spent way more on wages compare to 2021 (approx 30% more), yet achieved far less under their stewardship. That isn't an endorsement.

Huistra is one on my list. (except he did have a song Ooo ahhh Huis-Tera) Davie Robertson was highly rated though. Not sure about Stephen Wright - we paid 1 million and he was injury prone and hardly played.

Slightly surprising role, I cant see him lasting too long in it. Seems like a position has just been created and more of a commercial thing. Does he really want to be advising in the MLS and Austrian league? Perhaps just a payday until the German job comes up as this new job has a clause where he can leave for that job. But how boring is this international break! Its ridiculous. The nations league has to be scrapped or changed. FIFA should not allow clubs to enter the WC through this back door - it should only be qualification through the WC qualifiers only. If UEFA want to mess around with the Euro qualifiers and allow Nations league countries that way then so be it as its a UEFA competition. That way the Nations league should be played every couple of years instead. The WC qualifiers start in March so these 3 international breaks are a complete waste of time.

Craig Whyte, then Charles Green & Co. That is to say the vast majority of the support weren't just fooled once, but twice, in short order. I don't have any doubts that the vast majority would willingly buy into more of similar spinning bullshit.

We must have more vacancies than the Govan Jobcentre at the moment.

What about the fans who kept turning up back in the days when we had some dire attendances they deserve a special mention

You were just telling us how effective bisgrove, Robertson & Wilson were ? 🧐 Robertson was out of his depth at Rangers. Wilson was signing players the manager never wanted.

Woah there horsey! Nothing about what I said was to say everything is fine, quite the opposite. When Bennett took over as Chair, and even prior to that as Vice-Chair, he was waxing lyrical about the player trading model being fundamental to our sustainability financially. That culminated in this summer's transfer window with millions of potential transfer revenue walking away when their contracts ended. Thats just one example of ineffective leadership within the club that has cost us significant sums of money unnecessarily.

Everything’s fine is it? Have you watched the product on the park lately? We are still in too much debt with a poor sets of accounts on the horizon hence why funding/ investment is needed if we’re to become successful again

And it looks like it's snowing already too.

Rangers need funding from somewhere. The imminent annual accounts will soon prove that. Where that funding comes from is for debate. The current ownership structure is unsustainable if we’re to progress in the foreseeable future. The major shareholders seem unwilling to sell up or invest. So we have stalemate whilst the club slides further into mediocrity on the park. The return of the pre-Souness days of the 1980s is a distinct possibility. Only one of the major shareholders seems to realise this it would appear

John Little succeeded Tiger Shaw and successfully partnered George Young, Eric Caldow and Bobby Shearer. In this photo he torpedoes Paddy Buckley of Aberdeen. Tackles like that were fine in those days but pull somebody’s shirt and you got jeered off the park. Quite right too.

I thought Davie McPherson was pretty good both spells and not bad at the Hearts either.

It'd cost more than a pound coin this time. Hasn't it been said that (some) current board members aren't keen on the idea of one person coming in and taking a controlling stake? If someone did want a controlling stake, he/she would need to make a big outlay to buy up the requisite amount of shares and I think, would also need to make an offer to buy the shares of the others. Can't see a long queue of investors keen to throw their money down what is our longstanding black hole of a business model. That would leave those with emotional attachment. Some of those have already had enough. I think Dave King coined a phrase, "investor fatigue". The only way that I can see us becoming attractive to investors is if there was a European league restructuring where we increased revenue streams markedly. ... As it stands, not happening in the short to medium term.

It's very much a 'be careful what you wish for' scenario. Some seem far less careful than others.

We've done it too and ended up with Craig Whyte and Charles Green. #betterthedevilyouknow

I don't hack, that's for amateurs. Subliminal messages and Jedi mind tricks more my cup of tea.