craig

So simple, but so effective, and so frustrating that ex-pros cant even see it.

Couldnt agree more. LIstening to Boyd and Foster at the weekend was so infuriating, talking as if Morelos was out of form. He isnt being asked to score goals as much this season, if he does then great - his role this season is one of creating space for others. By coming deep he pulls defenders with him, which in turn creates space for others to find the net. And there have been a number of beneficiaries to that - Roofe, Tav, Arfield to name but 3. They get more space because Morelos creates it by dragging defenders all over the place. The team has scored far more goals at this stage than they had last season at the same stage, despite opponents still playing the same low block. There is a player in Itten but if he were asked to play the Morelos role, would opposing defenders bother tracking him ? 73 goals in 26 games, at an average of just a tick under 3 a game suggests to me that Morelos not scoring isnt an issue - he is being asked to be a link rather than the focal point - and it is working incredibly well to this point. Long may it, and long may Alfie's form, continue. If he also starts popping up with goals someone, more than one team, is going to get a Hamilton-style doing

The reason there’s only 15 is because we also can’t draw Benfica ??

What if Rangers are on the pitch on time and the opponents are still in the dressing room ? surely the responsibility for a game kicking off on time rests with the referee, not one of the clubs ?

Looking at the seeded teams, that victory tonight was absolutely massive. Some big, big clubs in there. We could still give them a game right enough - but being seeded is very beneficial ??

In football that wouldn’t be too hard ?

In your opinion, correct

Was Webo, not Demba Ba, was it not ?

Yes, it is. It is YOUR opinion based on YOUR observations of Bill and his postings. Beyond me that you can defend it as anything other than your opinion. But there we have it.

Head of investor relations at RIFC Good luck in the new role Stevie, whatever it is

It likely just means his family are his agents in essence.

I will say it is nothing to do with discrimination because you alleged that it was discrimination as a result of the sub-prime mortgages. You said "sub-prime mortgages scandal where BAME were disproportionately affected". That inferred that sub-prime mortgages caused their foreclosures - and nothing could be further from the truth. Indeed, it could legitimately be argued that those sub-prime mortgages were the causal factor in the 2008 financial crisis, not the mortgage lender who provided mortgages on them. You really should spend a little more time understanding this before casting accusations everywhere. BAME families living in lower-income neighbourhoods and being discriminated against in that manner is a completely, completely different discussion topic than sub-prime mortgages. You are trying to conflate two different issues because it fits your agenda to lob everything into "capitalism = bad" rhetoric. And yet, strangely enough, it is the desire for people to have assets (a form of capitalism itself) that resulted in lower-income families being able to get on the housing ladder when they perhaps shouldn't have been based on income - and it was their inability to service that debt which caused the whole market to crash, aided and abetted by Wall Street types who saw opportunity to create financial products from such assets. Had nobody missed mortgage payments then there would have been no foreclosures, and there actually would have been no market crash (at least not due to that issue) - so rather than being the victims, those same BAME lower income households you refer to were actually causal factors, and not merely victims. Harsh though it sounds, they definitely contributed to the financial crisis of 2008. Their income distribution vs other ethnic groups is a completely different discussion.

What scandal ? The 2008 crisis wasn't one of mortgages foreclosing - those sub-prime mortgages ALWAYS ran the risk of foreclosure. BAME customers were disproportionately affected because they disproportionately live in lower income households. That is nothing to do with JPMC or Jamie Dimon. His organization was complicit in packaging sub-prime mortgages as A-rated products and selling them as high quality - but that had NOTHING to do with sub-prime mortgages themselves. As I said, sub-prime mortgages, by their very definition, are at a higher risk of foreclosure than other mortgages. Many of those BAME customers were already failing to make mortgage payments, and that is the reason they were foreclosed upon. Nothing to do with discrimination.

Well, aside from the fact it was actually frm IOPC and BBC merely published it ??

May be snobbish but "rich footballers" is little to do with the reason behind the gestures.

How petty are UEFA ?

Surely they didn't say that ?

"Truth is our results would have any celtc team behind us in the last 40+ years."

What isn't a statement of fact is saying that this Rangers team would have been ahead of any Celtic team over the last 40 years. That isn't a statement of fact, it can't be when one of those Celtic teams had a better record at this point. It is an opinion. At no point did I disagree that they haven't been under pressure.

I don't think it is a statement of fact. Debatable whether we would have beaten that Invincibles team during that initial 16 game run. Pointless debating a point that can't be proven one way or another. Better to just enjoy how well THIS Rangers team is doing

We never really put them under pressure last year either though. We went top with the OF win in December, and then lost away to Killie in first game back which handed them the initiative again.

When you have leaders of BLM groups openly declaring that "the white person will not be our equal, they will be our slave" and not one, not a single one, of the MSM or the celebrity hangers-on call it out as racism is when you know we are well and truly fucked. As you say, if you act like a racist you are. Racism isn't a one-way street - so when a black person is openly racist towards someone of another race it is.... by definition.... racist. The fact that this isn't then highlighted for the dangerous policy that it is shows we are on a very slippery slope. I have no time for racism. None. I neither act it nor am I. My then 10 yr old son was subjected to racism and given most of his friends were black (Bermuda is a predominantly black island) he hadn't a clue as to why some kid would talk the way they did. Thankfully his friends, all black, informed me that the other kid was a brazen liar when the kid tried to back-track out of what he said. The other kid was also about 10 years old.... these things ae learned in the home.....

Not sure that has any relevance to the statement that "our results would have had any Celtic team of the last 40 years behind us". Mine was merely a statement of fact that one of their teams started better than we have. Would they have done so against this team ? Unknown. But regarding your statement about them not having any pressure from us - I have long held the view (since Gerrard came in) that if we could apply pressure to them then they would struggle to cope. Each time we had a chance to do so in the last two years we have immediately stumbled. All the frothing yahoos would say is "we've won everything, we know how to cope with pressure" when the reality is, as you say, they never had any pressure applied to them. Now that they are under pressure it appears that not only are their players struggling under the weight of it but so too is their manager, CEO, and fans. And, for now, it is delicious. However, Rangers management and playing staff..... please continue to apply the sole of the boot firmly to the neck of them

Aside from the Invincibles under Rodgers - their results to this point were better than ours. 15 wins and a draw. But other than that, absolutely true. The number of records this Gerrard-inspired Rangers are creating really is something.

They will, but they are now one result away from the league already being out of their own hands.