alexscottislegend

Exactly - and why was that? If they could not do anything in Europe no other Gers team could. I suggest it was because psychologically everything was about beating C****c - pathetic.

Caption competition:"Get your hand in your pocket, Tom". "And bring your pal David Beckham as well."

I agree. It's tacky and vulgar. Surprised Arsenal with their dignified history went for it.

Rhetorical question.

If that is the perception, then you wonder why they come here on trial in the first place? And we should be persuading them that they have a fantastic shop window here; that they would have a better chance of first team football with us (see D. Wilson) than the multi-million pound spending big four?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1234021/Liverpool-boss-Rafa-Benitez-set-tie-deal-Icelandic-starlet-Kristjan-Gauti-Emilsson.html So he was apparently on trial with us and we failed somehow to spot his potential. How come he's good enough for L'Pool and not us? Are our coaching staf really on the ball? I think we should be told.

Hey, just suppose this supporters' scheme goes ahead. Some of our detractors might see it as an ideal example of workers' control and democratic management. It could set a dangerous precedent. Imagine the country or HBOS being run like this.:devil:

Good article from Hateley:totally agree.

I used to actually want RoI to win, being as they were a neighbour and all that. Now after the way the've behaved, I'd actually want England to thrash them.

So being left-wing is incompatible with being a Rangers supporter? Since when?

Surely we could get much more for him AFTER the World Cup when his profile will be raised?

While I always thought Gough was manager material, I cannot agree with his suggestion that we need a few 'nasty' characters. I don't see how John Brown or Ian Ferguson would improve our current side; in their day they had ball players like Laudrup and Gazza to supplement their aggression. what we lack now is artistry and class - like the aforementioned Hleb. And we have big Lee to represent the street-fighting ingredient.

If you Google 'Graham Duffy' - Grantly you will find the link at the top of the list; the company seems to be the Florida-based property company, not the U.K. ones listed in the RM article. Wherever that makes any difference or not, I'll leave that to the likes of Bluedell, who are more qualified than most of on here to judge.

Wasn't calling you a Jeremiah actually, though it could have seemed that way. Just referring to the general malaise enveloping us right now. On the surveilance issue, the UK has the most spy cameras anywhere in Europe.

Ah! Still, whenever someone comes up with a good idea to do with Rangers, there's always someone else ready to shoot it down in flames. Call it the Jeremiah syndrome if you like, but I'm waiting for an injection of some positivity.

I know this guy is no Rangers lover, but with apologies for starting yet another Kris Boyd link, it certainly got me thinking. (Kierkegaard and Kant - pompous phart. Yes, I do know who they are..) http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/top-stories/Tom-English-39If-Rangers-sell.5867483.jp

Agreed. I'm sure when he was bought from Killie Walter said that he saw him as a striker.

DJ - any chance you could post the link. I've read the Herald article but no mention of stadium changes?

Hilarious!

Actually it's a serious blow for us. Who else do they have who can run around for 90 minutes, give the ball away constantly and concede needless fouls while expecting to be sold for �£4m?

That's how I am with Scotland. Or has our modern generation (treacherous McGeadies apart) no patriotic feeling at all now? If so it would help to explain why we are tumbling down the world rankings.

A good article, Frankie and not much to argue about but one thing continues to puzzle me. Why is it always assumed that Scotland is the only country where kids have stopped playing sport in favour of computer games and where the burger culture rules? It's as if they do not have these things in England, but I can assure you they do, and in Europe as well. Yet their (England's) academies seem to be producing a conveyor belt of indigenous talent (witness the schoolboy international last night) in spite of all the distractions. It cannot simply be a question of money. And I also keep hearing about one governing body as the answer to our ills. They have just as many bodies down here. Here's a novel thought, for what it's worth. Many of the best English talent seems to be of West Indian/mixed race stock (Defoe, Ferdinand et al) as a result of the Windrush immigration in the sixties. For some odd reason, very few of them settled in the West of Scotland, so we have comparatively fewer black players. Strange, considering Glasgow's links with Jamaica. As I say, just a thought.

I do concede that LM has his uses as a utility player; it's just that I can't stand the thought of our 'quality' players performing well for anyone else. I'm jealous of the way BF and Adam are playing at the moment, for example.

Mendes and Davis may have been inconsistent, but the fact that they would still command interest form some EPL clubs is for me a reason to keep them - or else we just shelve our ambitions. They do have some sort of ability in the arts of passing, shooting and moving - all things we have been missing lately. If they are not performing to capacity - well, that is the coaches' jobs is it not - to get the best out of them?