alexscottislegend

If the RoI can get Trappatoni we would be showing similar ambition if we went for Hiddink, but here's the rub: what is the point of recruiting a performance director if we allow Scottish players to play for TeamGB and put at risk the whole concept of Scottish international football. I hope someone has a quiet word with young Wylde and Hutton so they don't raise this nonsense again. What IS a performance director anyway?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/london_2012/13886352.stm Very disappointed if this is true and they are not being prompted by journos without realising what they are saying. Team GB could spell the end of the Scotland team as pointed out by Craig Brown among others. It could also lead to Scottish clubs being excluded from the Champions League as well, if the SFA is forced to merge with the English FA. We would just as well be called England.

I am old enough to remember. Great team/squad but a clown of a manager - Ally McLeod - of whom his players said he thought tactics was a peppermint.

Why not Davis? Better to have a midfielder than a goalkeeper.

A future Gers manager, surely? So in that case, I hope he is not too successful in England if Ibrox comes calling.

He won't get it because his achievements were for Scotland. Just like Jock Stein never got one when he became the first British manager to win the European Cup - if he had managed Man u like Busby did one year later he would have got it then. Yet winning for a Scottish club was a far greater achievement than Busby's.

I recall that one too. To think he's just gone to Brum on a free transfer. I would have taken him back.

How on earth people like James Collins and richard dunne have got a game ahead of him at Villa is beyond me. Snap him up I say.

They needed Walter to teach them how to play anti-football!

Eh? Please explain.

In which case he is tailor-made for the Scotland job. After Levein's latest squad omitting fletcher,S. and Goodwillie and including yet another English player it can't come soon enough for me.

I agree. If we hadn't commented how long before it would have been turned into more anti-RFC bile. Don't give our enemies any more ammo. than they need.

In which case surely there's some sort of offence he could be charged with, like incitement. Remember Boruc was nearly charged for a much more innocuous act IIRC.

The Fleck situation is baffling. I think many of us have forgotten just how great the hype was. He was even touted as a certainty for the GB Olympic team by a London newspaper. Still young enough to be considered in terms of potential, though, but at all costs we must avoid an Adam situation. Remember John Spencer, Charlie Miller to name but two?

What, after what you've been saying about doubting his bid?

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/sport/Tom-English-39On-a-day.6764352.jp?articlepage=3 Not much to add to that. Good article from someone not normally a friend to us.

'Wavetower' - is this some sort of joke/inference that there is Dubai financial involvement somewhere along the line?

Yet they constantly see US as the establishment club, they honestly think the BBC and the media are biased v. them. I agree, though, we need our friends in positions of power - as cotter says - to step forward. And maybe a few celebrity fans would help; offhand I can only think of Graeme Dott. surely there must be more than that?

Yeh, but the status quo is NOT an option. Just means further paring down and even poorer quality than hitherto coming into Ibrox. If Whyte walks, we are stuck with LBG. If Dave King was really an option he had plenty of chances before now; in any event I'm not happy with us being linked with someone described as a criminal by the SA authorities. Surely Johnston's misgivings are not that serious. What axe does he have to grind actually? He is retiring from the board soon.

Your post raises some interesting conundrums which have always bothered me as someone who has not lived in Scotland for over 40 years now. As a life-long Rangers supporter who would I vote for? Is the natural home the Conservative and UNIONIST party? Yet what if I don't believe in rampant free enterprise capitalism? Well, there's the Labour Party, championed by Sir Alex, Govan lad and all, but as you point out it has become infiltrated by Green Nationalists (not Socialists because the Provos et al are anything but socialist, being republicans first and last) and even the UK Labour Party have long ditched Clause 4 as an ideal and got into bed with the market system. So we come to the SNP. I'm proud to be Scottish AND British but there is a school of thought which seems to equate the SNP with republicanism instead of simply being a useful safety valve, an alternative to the other big two. I remember being verbally abused by a fellow Rangers supporter because I dared to express some tentative support for the SNP. I guess what it boils down to is this: Is it a mutually exclusive concept to be a Gers supporter and a Socialist? Is it mutually exclusive to be a Labour supporter and a Unionist? What would happen if the SNP referendum voted for independence (unlikely I know)? Would we Gers fans still fly the Union flag? Why could we not adopt the St Andrews Cross and flaunt it as a counterweight to those who identify with a foreign nation? Am I building up a false dichotomy here? I see Keltic as a Scottish AND British club just as Millwall is an English club with Scottish roots. I'm afraid I cannot write to Marge Proops or Clare Rayner as they are deceased but truly I am confused.

Apologies if anyone has already posted this: http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/sport/editor-s-picks/sir-david-murray-sells-stake-in-rangers-for-one-pound-1.1100047 Mind you it was Darrell King who broke news of the Florida guy - name escapes me.

So you'd be happy if Paul Murray had done some sort of deal with the (very dodgy) Dave King? We have no other alternatives.

Hear! Hear! I would love to see that displayed over the tunnel or somewhere in the ground much like the 'This is Anfield' sign.

Nobody would object to Lennon applauding his own fans but he was clearly directing his taunt at the Gers fans. I dread to think what would have happened if Diouf had made any kind of gesture to the Bheasts.

It's about time we officially adopted the slogan: 'The quintessential British club.'