Tannochsidebear

I agree with that also. I completely disagreed with naming our famous Govan Stand in his honour, and still do. The decision was taken for political and deflection reasons, not on merit IMO. You cannot compare Bill Struth with Sandy Jardine i'm afraid, yet they both have the same honour. What happens when Greig passes away? Was Jardine more deserving than other playing legends? While Jardine worked tirelessly in his last few years when our club needed it most, which I will be eternally grateful for, his previous two decades of employment at Rangers were more miss than hit, and I have many different reasons and events for saying that, none of which will be published out of respect for the man. The bust is a fine honour and that is where it should have been left. Another poor decision by that board that we will be left with, although in fairness I am much more content to let this one lie than the many other poor decisions they made.

That was my first thought as well. Hearts loss was definitely our gain.

It is all quite simple when you think about it logically Frankie. I hope others can understand this simple summation. I would urge fellow Bears to refrain from any further attempt to introduce scumbags rumours into the fray without any evidence other than what a mate read on a Tim/Irvine inspired blog. We must be clever enough to be able to understand what is clearly mischief-making from anything with a grain of truth in it. Some posters desire for our board (and/or King) to fail just to save face from a proven error of judgement is quite worrying.

I have it on very good authority that the rumours are wrong, and have been created by anti-board antagonists who cannot accept the EGM decision. More spin and bluster from Irvine and his employers, and those of the 3names ilk. They remind me of tossers on twitter who still have a "45" twibbon 6 months after their defeat, and coincidentally i'm sure they are also usually to be found with anti-Rangers sentiments.

Great work by NARSA to pay for this. (Thanks to barca72 for link)

There is definitely something not quite right with this. I might be putting 2 and 2 together here and making 5, but it seems King was never a fan of AIM, and was looking for a way out of AIM while still having to be looking keen to remain part of it to satisfy the likes of R&M whose votes he got at the EGM, votes that may have been crucial in gaining power. The statement makes it too easy to blame the previous board for AIM refusing a new NOMAD, or a "reputable" NOMAD refusing the gig, but I am guessing had King really wanted to rejoin AIM, he would have found a NOMAD happy to accept the gig without any difficulty at all. As long as shares can be easily traded I will be quite happy. I do not want a matched trade facility, as there is no way to buy out those in power should the need ever arise. This was a big problem in the Murray era, and is a warning we should heed. For our fans groups like RST and RF who have successfully been recruiting members to buy more shares, these shares have to be readily available, not on a matched trade basis or through expensive stockbrokers. I see the RST have jumped to the defence of the board immediately with a spectacularly quick statement for a notoriously slow mechanical organisation. One would almost think it was co-ordinated! I would prefer them to have a bit more balance, while we are all happy (or should be) that the scumbags have been thrown out, we must still scrutinise our new board at every turn to ensure they dont get carried away, or take our support for granted. I certainly dont go as far as some on here with shameful accusations of lying or mistrust of the new board, but this delisting was well warned to us and has come about. It may be that it is like a broken clock that is right twice a day, but it is a little unnerving when that lot get something spot on. The new board will have to sort this out within the "few weeks" timescale they have promised - we will be watching with interest.

"paid for by Rangers supporters" Any idea what group, if any, paid for this? I dont recall any group asking for funds for this, or this ever being mentioned before?

That doesnt make sense to me. If the Auditors resigned several months ago, the Nomad only resigned a few weeks ago, so we clearly dont need auditors in place to have the services of a Nomad.

Was just about to say the same. For the first decade Murray was a very good Chairman. From 1988 to 1998 I have no problem with him. Obviously from 1998 onwards his unchallenged ownership was detrimental to our club's financial future.

He looks like a luxury player to me. He is not a worker and is probably always going to be best coming off the bench. Whether we can afford this type of player will depend on what players we have in midfield/forward positions as luxury players can win you games but you need the others to work so much harder to make up for him. If I am being harsh on him it is probably because he is being judged on only a handful of games, and he clearly lacks match fitness/sharpness. Time will tell if he can make the step up to 90 minute contributor and not go hiding for long spells in games. I look forward to seeing if he is the real deal, then we can perhaps talk about a deal for next season IF he is a free agent.

I dont understand what rule it is that prevents him from playing for us, can anyone expand? By definition that must make his loan agreement null and void, and therefore any monies paid for loan fees, wages etc will have to be returned to us?

Interesting that Patullo refuses to discuss the club about to go bust but is quite happy to discuss Rangers, quite clearly knowing nothing of where we stand at the moment as a club. Surely the story here is that a senior scottish club is about to go to the wall. Take your pick between st mirren and Kilmarnock IMO.

Given that the play-offs are causing such a headache regarding dates etc, has anyone considered holding this on the last home league game of the season, against Falkirk on Saturday 25 April with a 3pm kick off. That seems to tick all the required boxes to me, but excuse me for butting in when I am unfortunately unlikely to be able to attend.

Do you ever hear a Rangers fan proudly call themselves a H**? There is a clear definition between the two, and one is totally offensive, the other is only offensive if the person using it is not one.

Any sectarian abuse that is football related can be prosecuted under the offensive etc act. This was included so they could "do" fans on their European trips if caught using sectarian language at an away game in England or abroad. If you live here you can be done here apparently.

FFS, 20 years went by in a flash! Remember clearly the massive amount of flowers, rangers tops, teddies, etc at the blue gates at Ibrox in the days following his death. Probably the first time I had ever seen a shrine like that in such numbers. Only really recall the tail end of his career with us, and it was such a shame he spent so many years of his career in such a poor Rangers team. Often wonder how his lack of work rate without the ball would be seen nowadays, as he was known not to be a great trainer or the fittest guy around, but when he was in the mood he was unplayable and an absolute joy to watch. It is well publicised he died while filming a coaching video, and I wonder if he would have pursued a career in management and how well he would have done. Sadly we were robbed of finding out by his untimely early death. RIP Coop.

I have no problem agreeing/disagreeing with any ratings system and treat it as a bit of fun and discussion pointers. Sorry if it came across as anything else. I can understand your rationale with the subs, and I think most papers used to do something similar. hey-ho! The new site looks good, easy to read, nice and bright and clear. I dont go through the main site for any of the forums I use as I have links set up to bypass them straight to the forums, as i guess most users do, and any articles posted to the main site are usually copied in to here anyway, but I am guessing you need a good front page to attract new users and if that is the objective, your new front page will certainly do the trick.

As always with ratings, everyone has a totally different view of how most players played. I think Jig got about 8 points too many but I appreciate I am clouded by his gross ineptitude! I also dont understand how Black & Vuckic got 5 points each when all Black done was concede a dangerous free kick and Vuckic got involved with a Hibs player in a skirmish around the halfway line. Both contributed nothing to our cause and to give them just two points less than some players who contributed greatly to our win is annoying to me. 2 or 3 should be all they got for such a short shift. Agree with Wallace's 9, Shiels McGregor & Murdoch all getting 8, and Miller/Law being the lowest, although slightly generous with 6 as a 5 would have been enough for their hide and seek performances.

I agree that the points difference is resounding, no other way to judge it. There is no guarantee that their youngsters, none of which I can think of off the top of my head as standing out when we have played them, will get better next year. It may be this is their level and stepping up to the top tier will be too much for them and they will be in the bottom half next season. What they have shown is that if the off field stuff is settled, the football side has a much better chance of being settled. That was the massive difference between the two clubs, also they fell only one flight, not 3.

While they deserve the title for getting the points total they have, I do not believe for a minute that they are a better team than us. We were the better team, IMO, against them in both the games against them that finished this season, and our own capitulation, bad management, and ownership issues have given them a free run. Yes, they have still had to go out and win their games, but there have been a lot of scrappy wins with late goals for them this season, that if we were able to have got ourselves sorted out and brought in a proper manager at Christmas, I believe they would have dropped far more points than they have as the pressure was cranked up.

It has been booked for about a year now, and the thought process was that our season would be over by 2 May, as indeed it should be if we were run properly over the last 12 months given our superior squad and finances over the rest of our league!

Did the funeral take all day man?

Not looking good for me this time I'm afraid. I am away to Vegas between 11-19 May so that pretty much takes up all of the possible dates when I will have other things to attend to in the weekends before/after my trip. Have a good one guys, and I will hopefully be back at GD4!

At first I thought this would be a good idea for clubs to get more fan ownership, or at least the chance to buy if the club is for sale. Then I read the article that Celtic (i.e. the SFA/SPFL) are against it and that made me pretty much certain that this must be a good thing. The only thing making me worry about this is the fact it was brought up in our kiddy-on parliament in Edinburgh by the Greens, which nothing good has ever come out of. Is it a case of even a broken clock is right twice a day and the parliament has actually done something good for a change, or have the SFA/SPFL finally got something right this time after their "extensive consultations" and this is the wrong way to go?

Those advocating a return to a forward position for Jig are having selective memory disorder problems and are forgetting how immobile, slow of mind, and poor a finisher he was and that everyone was glad when he was finally binned from a striking position. In fact, this is the same relief that has been relevant when Jig has been moved out of any position he has played in for us. If Bears will recall the relief of him playing in centre midfield after being a terrible striker until we realised that he was too slow, couldnt tackle and wee boys in the 3rd/4th tier of Scottish football were taking the piss out of him and we need to move him back to centre half. There is only one position for Jig, and that is in the stands, preferably at another club's ground. And from what I have heard this morning in a private conversation I unfortunately cannot repeat here, he is just as bad for the club off the pitch as he is on it. That actually surprised me as I thought he was at the very least a good team player and a nice guy but my information is without doubt spot on, and makes me have even less respect for him that I had previously, and that wasn't much at all to begin with.