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  1. Tannochsidebear
    I was impressed with Lafferty and it was a great goal, but I actually agreed with the official MOTM last night (a rarity) and thought McCulloch had a great game, for the second game in a row. I am on record many times as not being a big fan of Jig, but credit where it is due he has really got stuck in, looks a bit fitter, and also scored a great goal last night. I wonder if having Ness beside him has forced him to step up a level where he has to talk the kid through the game and look after him a bit as well. A better performance from recent displays from Davis last night, and as i've said many times, if Davis plays well, we seem to play much better as a team. One thing I was really happy about was the clean sheet, and although they had a couple of chances to score, the goalie earned his keep with a couple of fine saves, and I thought the defence handled a very attacking and on form team quite easily. Roll on the weekend and we can get some more points on the board.
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    We may be able to arrange another of our outstanding fixtures for that night, against St Johnstone perhaps, if we and they can avoid SC replays over next couple of days. This would be better than sitting out another midweek idle, never mind the suspensions angle.
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    It still utterly amazes me that some will buy the line that this is all the bank's fault, as if our owner for the last 22 years has absolutely no control over things at our club. There is only 1 man to blame for the financial situation we have been in for the last decade, and that man does not work at a bank, or HMRC, but is our 92% shareholder and number one problem, David Murray. Yet again a posssible takeover (however genuine) has been blown out the water due to the demands of this very same man, who clearly doesnt want out as much as he claims. Any fans disgust or petitions or questions can and should only be aimed at one man and one man only. There can be absolutely no doubt about that no matter what the bank's role is in this, it could all disappear yesterday if the will of one man was there. His continued strangulation of our club should be the only off-field interest to all Rangers supporters worldwide, but so many cannot/will not see past him, such is his media prescence and manipulation, and he still rides on the the wave of his first, successful, decade of ownership that some seem to think should be the only memory of this charlatan.
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    I'll believe it when I see it confirmed, I cannot believe Miller will leave the UK as he is on record as saying he wants his family settled here, so it sounds to me like positioning to try to get a better deal from us/Brum.
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    From a purely selfish POV i'm absolutely delighted that this game has been cancelled as I was going to miss it due to my wife's 40th birthday dinner with friends tomorrow night. This means I can make the replayed match, whenever they manage to fit it in. From the teams POV this is terrible as we miss another game and fall further behind the schedule, and indeed will probably be behind the scum by the time we play them on Sunday as I dont think they will have too many problems beating a managerless Motherwell side that looked lost against us a couple of days ago. I believe the powers that be should now scrap Scottish cup replays for this season and play each tie to a finish on the night, then the nights earmarked for replays can become league matchnights.
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    Just had official Rangers text, the game tomorrow is off due to weather conditions in Perth.
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    Have you met our owner?
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    I've just found out that the 2nd leg, the away leg, coincides with my wife being away in New York for the week for her 40th birthday bash. Therefore I am stuck at home with my son and the dog and wont be able to travel. Absolutely gutted. I have now changed from my earlier thoughts of Amsterdam or Paris to Kiev or Moscow as I would be unlikely to go there anyway. I am going to need to come up with a master plan to get out of this one.
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    I dont know why I pressed the Thanks button when surely a groan at those terrible puns was more appropriate! Incidentally, on your original preview, I just noticed the crowd for the 'Well v Hearts game. I thought it looked low when I caught the last 15 mins of the first half, but that is shocking. I thought Hearts would have taken a big crowd given their recent form, and for a supposedly big club from a big city that is absolutely shocking. I know the weather has been bad and it was on tv, but given the run they are on I expected them to fill that stand behind the goal that we normally get.
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    You can guarantee that any fans rep council at the SFA will be full of tims, and fans of wee diddy clubs that dont even go to games, and think the OF are the problem rather than the lifeblood. It sounds like one quango too many for my liking, but run properly it should be a source for some good for us ordinary supporters of the game. My problem is how can you possibly expect a body like that to properly look after the interests of the fans of all clubs in the game in Scotland, when it is such a diverse and divisive group. We cant even get a supporters group to look after just us Rangers fans without it all going crazy with internal politics, can you imagine a group that has to look after the rights of Rangers, celtic and all the other clubs fans as well. No chance.
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    Firstly, this is a disgrace that our stadium has been run down to such an extent that we cannot maintain it properly and as a result we are losing another match being played on schedule. Murray should hang his head in shame that the beautiful and modern stadium he inherited has been allowed to fester and rot under his watch, with broken tv screens in every area of the ground (apart from the corporate areas surprisingly), and not a penny being spent on the stadium in years for supporter comfort or interest. If this was a wee diddy team that had to cancel a game due to this we would, rightfully, be saying they had no right to be in the league if they cannot even ensure there ground is fit for purpose. I know burst pipes can happen anywhere at any time, but with the proper precautions and maintenance they are fairly easily avoided, and that should not have been beyond our capabilities. I need to go visiting my mother and grandmother now tomorrow instead and I am not in the slightest bit happy about it.
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    I am in favour of a bigger league, perhaps 14 at the moment. The move from 10 to 12 was a success in my book, with the additional 2 teams proving to be valuable additions to the league, and I feel that there are perhaps another 2 clubs that could add to the quality of the league as it is. Obviously the number of games is an issue, and with 14 clubs there would need to be a split of sorts as playing twice is too few and playing 3/4 times is too many. In the comments box, I put in that the question of Rangers fans being unfairly priced at away games needs to be addressed, sometime by as much as 50% increase from normal gate prices, and this despite us bringing the largest travelling support and the host club receiving tv money as all our away games are shown live. And I also put that there should be a rule that in the event of an abandoned game that does not stand as a result, fans who attended that game should be allowed entry to the rearranged game without further charge. You pay to see a fixture completed, and your ticket should be valid until that fixture is completed, even if it is postponed or abandoned. Now that the McLeish report has been published, I dont see the point of the survey as the horse has bolted, but I filled it out anyway.
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    From my seat right behind the goal at the side Beattie was sliding in at, it looked to me that the ball was drilled far too hard across goal for him to have any chance at getting to it. Perhaps he was slow to get moving and that was why he never reached it, but he was certainly more short than the distance between his knee and his boot. Not seen it back on tv, so it may have looked worse from the tv angle, but from about 20 feet away he had no chance to score.
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    Was also thinking McGregor deserved MOTM for his couple of fine saves amidst another lethergic performance. We cannot keep playing 45 minute games whilst giving the oppo a goal of a start. Poor finishing by Miller and Naismith which would only have papered over a dismal performance. Thought Beattie looked better than I have seen him to date, and hope he can get his first goal to get him started, and I was hoping we would have let him take the penalty just to get him his first goal, rather than the awful Miller (smashing goal aside) whose selfish and lacklustre performance at least spares us another week of "give Miller the money" articles.
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    Just remember that what we call a really poor performance and that we were struggling to pick a MOTM, we got a result that equalled the total amount of points that Timmy has won in their entire CL away games history. It always puts a smile back on my face!!
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    We must take into account that most of the "big" clubs in Europe care not a jot about the Diddy/Thursday/2nd raters (pick your own favourite) Europa League cup. Look at the likes of Juventus who didnt even get out of their group, such was the sides they put out. Any big team from a big league in with a shout of CL footy next season wont be sending out their best 11 to play the likes of us in the diddy cup on a February night sandwiched between 2 big games in their leagues. This is why such poor sides make the latter stages of this competition year after year, and big names keep getting pumped out. There is absolutely no side we can draw that I would be afraid of for the above reason, and we are capable of beating, or losing to, any one of the list printed in the OP. It will come down a lot to our own attitude to the tourny, and if we play our best side available, and if our best players are fit and in form. We seen in 2008 that we can compete and beat the Germans, Italians, Portugeuse in this tournament. I will finish by saying I couldnt even tell you who was in the final of this cup in either 2009 or 2010, where it was played or anything about it. I could tell you that the last Diddy cup match I watched entirely was the 08 final, and such is the respect this cup is given, I'll bet i'm not the only one.
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    I hate watching the game on the telly, and it hurt like hell not being there with the bears last night. The best part of the telly viewing was the first 5 mins of the second half when there was stadium noise but no commentary. Anyway, onto the match itself and I thought we were very comfortable and looked like being able to score until Naismith went off, at which point we had no mobility at all. Cole did well until he tired and allowed the cross in that led to the goal, although Weir and Whittaker both should have cleared it after that, and I thought Walter should have given the kid more protection as they bombarded that flank in the second half after they had made their subs and stepped up the pace a bit. Our lack of numbers meant we could not change anything defensively, and their deserved equaliser had been coming for some time, and in the end we were holding on to a point rather than pushing for the win ourselves. Had we taken our chances in the first half, we could have cruised through the second half against a team so out of their depth at this level, the green and grey hoops were never more fitting. As for MOTM, either Naismith again (that would be 6 out of 6 for me) or perhaps young Hutton in centre midfield who after a shaky first 10 mins settled well and certainly outperformed his more experienced centre mid partner. Foster did well again although out of position, as did Whitty until the goal. All in a very poor match that despite all the pre-match ramblings from both managers lived up to the tag of dead rubber perfectly.
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    If Walter and Ally were managing a club on the south coast of England, I doubt very much if he would have signed for them. His move back was for family reasons, and therefore geographic, which I commend him for putting his family first, and is the main reason we should play hardball with him now.
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    I have never criticised the board for offering too little, but often for offering too much. I appreciate there are many who have done so however. He wont be missed on the basis that he has probably had his decent run of form for the season (he usually has one hot streak then much more mediocrity), and the return of Jelavic will see us not so dependant. Dont get me wrong I am not doing down his scoring record this season which has been fantastic by any players standards and supersonic for a player of Miller's record and ability, and without his goals this season we would have been struggling. The flip side is of course that if he wasnt here, who is to say whoever was playing number 9 wouldnt have got just as many goals as Miller, given the chances our team were creating in the early months of the season. All hypothetical mate.
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    I'm glad that at last Rangers are offering contracts that better reflect not just current form or fitness, but the overall picture. It is something we have dismally failed at in the last few years. Miller is the wrong side of 30, and a new 2/3 year deal will be his last big deal of his career, given that at 33 he has no resale value and can only really get one year deals from then on. We have to look at it from our (the club) point of view here. We have a player who only came to us for geographic reasons and we know fine well that we are one of only 2 clubs in the geographic area he wishes to stay in that can afford his wage demands. He is not wanted by the other, so we have a very strong hand for bargaining. There is also no way we should be offering an improved deal to a 30 year old player than we did to a 27 year old player, especially given our financial decline in the intervening 3 years. From what we hear the offer on the table is looking for him to take a cut in basic wages to get an extended deal. That seems fair given the way of things just now. If he feels he can better it elsewhere, and that these offers from Italy and the Far East are in fact genuine (no laughing at the back), good luck to him. He wont be missed, and he wont miss us, thats for sure. If we can get a fee for him in January, all the better. We wont lose the title by selling Miller, of that I am absolutely convinced. The returning Jelavic will be a much better player for the team IMO.
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    This was actually our fault. I have it on good authority that a group of Rangers casuals went over there early due to our game being cancelled, got dressed up in green and white and started causing all sorts of trouble. I am fully expecting this story to be the lead news item on BBC Reporting Scotland tonight, as one of the fans arrested was once in Glasgow, and has also visited Manchester in the past. Therefore it is possible to link him to the Manchester "riots" of 2008 and a pure 100% Rangers fan.
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    I was a great fan of Boyd during his time here, and had hoped he would stay right up until the day he left. However, I am most definately in the one-time only brigade, and the only one I think has done himself justice with a return to the club is our current manager. Any player who chooses to leave our great club should not be allowed back. That in itself doesn't really stack up as players like Gattuso and Gio went on to become much better players and to say we would not have welcomed them back at the peak of their careers is just plain silly. However when talking about guys who were also Rangers fans and chose to leave, the door should remain firmly closed in my book. Boyd could have chosen to stay and try to break Ally's goals records at the club, but decided to go to a club a fraction of the size of us, and while I wish him well wherever he goes, that shouldn't include a return to us.
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    Very simple, move the Dundee match to the wednesday, the 15th, and let us play on the Tuesday. It seems we are getting into similar territory to 2007-08 where backlogs of games are being crammed in at unreasonable times as Timmy's only chance of preventing us winning the title. 5 games in 15 days over the Christmas period, including 3 tough away games and an OF game, is a big ask of an already stretched squad. I hope we use it as extra motivation to ensure we come through it with 2 fingers sticking straight up at them. Bring it on.
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    Good news for my favourite all time Rangers player.
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    I understand where you are coming from MF, and I am similarly sceptical about this chancer's involvement, but flip it around and ask why would Whyte agree to a request from Murray to give Ellis a slice. It has already been quoted that Ellis will put up no cash initially, but will eventually get a 25% stake on some sort of pay-up deal with Whyte. One possible answer may be seen from the Scum's bunnet-takeover in the early 90's where some local chancer (Dempsey) facilitated the takeover, got some nice headlines, a small slice he couldnt pay for, and eventually got punted by the bunnet when his usefulness had been used up. This could be the case here where Ellis has put a lot of work into getting the deal done but with no cash to do it, the real moneyman comes along and uses him as a facilitator to speed things along, and will get rid of him in about a year when he cant make his first payment on the shares.
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