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If McInnes ends up Rangers manager would the last person please remember to put the lights out

He played in 3 separate World Cups, and, interestingly, in Argentina he missed the debacles with Peru and Iran, but played when we beat the second best side in the World, Holland. Just coincidence I'm sure. He captained the best club side in Europe, arguably the world, won 3 European Cups, 5 English League titles and 2 Scottish League titles and played helped Sampdoria win the first trophy in their entire history. For four years running he was named in the PFA Team Of The Year and also named in the PFA Team Of the Century 20 years after he retired. For 4 or 5 seasons Souness would have been a first choice for any club, and any country, in the world. I don't know what your definition of 'World class' is but if Souness doesn't qualify for it then I don't know who does.

You've spelt devastated wrong.

Do I hear cheering from a Bo’ness-wardly direction?

I read this article over the weekend and found it interesting. It's not an issue that is unique to Rangers but not investing in youth when we were demoted was a terrible decision. As for promoting / developing them so they are ready for 1st team / squad is another discussion. I think we need to get the B-Team back into competitive leagues. Hopefully it's something our new Chairman and new CEO put near the top of their "to-do lists".

I think he was also linked while he was at Monaco when they went for Tedesco so likely, its just lazy journalism, but you never know, usually no smoke without fire

Rangnick might be available soon. Civil war in Austria. Make him DoF; give him free reign.

Hence why Rangers withdrew their team from the lowland league

I think Bill took the huff after a spell in the Lounge sin bin where I forgot to restore his posting privileges. IIRC, Calscot also left over something trivial back in the day. bmck is working away hard but doesn't have the time to post whilst Craig was also busy with personal commitments so has taken a wee sabbatical but will appear back online soon enough I'm sure.

He was excellent, covering up for Hanley's mistakes and poor positioning. Just needs to stay injury free and could be a future captain of Rangers and Scotland.

Made me chuckle.....

I would say that the Celtic 65/67-73/74 was far superior to our run of leagues when we were practically buying the league and let’s not kid ourselves we overspent won the domestic titles apart from the first champions league our European record was dire over in the east end they dominated the league by playing really good attacking football as well as performing to the highest standards in European competition they even won the quiz ball show on the Telly.

Very good point regarding Europe. I meant to say in my post that during our 9-in-a-row we really should have done much better in Europe. The inaugural CL being the exception.

And a Scotland victory. Which means something but I don't know what (other than keeping Clarke in a job).

Looked a bad one as well. Time we replaced Simply The Best with this

Kasanwijro taken off injured...

This was exactly the first thing I thought of when I read the headline earlier 🤣

What's Graeme Murty up to these days? Asking for a board member, sorry friend.....😀

I should have said that once teenagers reach 18 there’s nothing but amateur football for them if they can’t get into one of these u20 teams

Tbh if you're having to drop to that level, you're not making it as a footballer.

Beneath the lowland league & the highland league are a lot of juniors/ amateur teams in divisions which make up the pyramid structure. Most/all have u20 teams. if teenagers can’t get into one of those u20 teams they have to go amateur. Many aren’t ready for the physical side of amateur football. Ridiculous set up

Aribo was 23 when he joined. Bassey, 20 is a better example and he showed how important physicality can be.

BOOOOOOOO

I think if you take Aribo and Bassey, it shows you don't have to look far. They were obviously at the top end of the youth age bracket, but Bassey was signed as a B-Team player but quickly showed he had what was required. That's the physicality and skill level we need to be targeting.

Not saying we should but you are on the back foot if you have to look further afield with the added complications that it entails. Eg. Homesick kids from Andalucia.

We shouldn't be restricting ourselves to Scottish youths.

Scottish youngsters often have a physical deficit compared to say, eg. English or German 17-20 year olds. It makes competing with men so much more difficult.

On the topic of youngsters in Scotland ... Rangers U17’s beat PSG and they need to be given a chance 16th November Former Rangers youth coach Cameron Campbell has revealed his frustration at the lack of opportunity for youngsters in Scotland. Now with RB Leipzig, Campbell moved to Germany at the turn of the year and has enjoyed his time with a club that puts developing talent to the very top of its priorities. And while Lennon Miller at Motherwell and David Watson at Kilmarnock have been Scottish Premiership standouts this term, Campbell reckons there are others denied the chance to shine in his homeland. He told the Daily Record: “It all comes down to needing two things. Talent and opportunity. “What frustrates me is when everyone talks about the gap (between youth and first-team) like it’s unattainable. It’s the academy’s job to produce players who are good enough. But you then need a whole club to buy into creating opportunities. Those players need chances. When I was a youth coach at Rangers, I saw how much talent there is in Scotland. “Lennon Miller and David Watson are doing really well at Motherwell and Kilmarnock right now. But I would argue there are one or two at the top seven or eight clubs who – if given the opportunity – could probably do similar things. “It frustrated me. These kids need a chance. We’d go to international tournaments with Rangers U17’s and beat PSG. So talent wise, player for player, we have enough to compete with them. But when they get to that age, they need a chance to play first-team football. “Whether that’s at their club or through the loan system, opportunities must open up for them. One of the studies I’ve done at Leipzig is to look at the top 100 players in the world right now. “Ninety-seven per cent of them made their first team debut before the age of 20. When you look back at their journeys, most were involved in men’s football at some level from the age of 16. It’s no coincidence. It’s about creating opportunities.” https://www.rangersreview.co.uk/news/24728760.rangers-u17s-beat-psg-need-given-chance/ And while we are at it, the one and only Ryan Kent has been freed by Fenerbahce and the transfer window is but 6 weeks away. (Await @Rousseau's excited smiley)

For anyone who's been a member for a while, do you ever wonder what happened to some of the people who used to post here (good and bad)? Some names that immediately spring to mind for me are Bmck Colshy Jon Jim'll Del (Ian) (bump into Ian at Ibrox occasionally) Smalce 8ball @Gribz (still here along with @Frankie and @ian1964). We had a few meet ups back in the day both at Ibrox and a few in Belfast. Hope they are all good and still supporting Rangers. I'll have missed a few and apologies for that, it's my age 😀

Will do. Juffery's still around. I occasionally see him out and about, and he was supposed be on the supporters bus to the Hearts game last week, but he pulled out on the morning of the game.

The 64/65 season before Celtic embarked on 9iar, they finished 8th !!! We came in at 5th. The season we won the ECWC was during their 9iar and we finished 3rd behind Aberdeen. I'd settle for a Europa League repeat !! Our league was relatively a lot better in European terms and much more competitive during the late 60's and early 70's. So I think it difficult to argue against it having more merit. We had a much better team to provide opposition in those times and reached 2 European finals. Celtic, in the 90's were impovishered and provincial like opposition. The least merit is reserved for the more recent 8.75iar.

England huffed and puffed in 1st half and sending off changed the game and allowed England to run out easy winners.

Smith told 2 funny stories. One about Jimmy Bell / Kyle Lafferty and one about Duncan Ferguson / Jim McLean. Neither for on here! I can remember Smith playing for us and thought he was a very good player and struck up a lethal partnership with DJ. This helped us win a few trophies. He also had decent spells at Man City and Brighton. I liked him as a player when he played for us, but some of posters older than me will be better placed to say. As for his commentary career, I don't mind him. He got a few things wrong yesterday regarding events but overall he was very good and spoke very well. Souness is Souness - a world class player, part of a legendry Liverpool team, rejuvenated Rangers (we hadn't won the league for 9 seasons). Is / was he perfect, off course not, but none of us are. He will remain one of my Rangers hero's up there with Walter Smith, Jock Wallace, John Greig, Davie Cooper, Super Ally, Richard Gough et al.

He’s struggling for game time since we got Cerny