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Former Rangers defender Philippe Senderos has signed for MLS side Houston Dynamo.

Waghorn in Ipswich having medical now.

PC after match interview. Dorrans after match interview.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IByhg9Br5G4 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zRsghGAT8-Q

Foderingham poor at crosses for me. Makes good saves but all round game not a the highest.

Miller off, Wilson on.

Crazy from Moult.cool by Dorrans.

Miller miss, a sitter.

Foderingham slow to come out again.

It could/should be 2-4 at moment.

Good hit by Dorian's for the goal. Pity about the moron with flare before KO.

From Evening Times. PEDRO Caixinha has revealed Carlos Pena still needs “a little more time” before he is ready to make a regular contribution to the Rangers team. The Mexican is one of nine new summer signings but didn’t feature in the Europa League loss to Progres Niederkorn and then only fleetingly in the home friendly against Marseille. With Ryan Jack and Graham Dorrans the two likely starters in the central midfield area in Caixinha’s preferred 4-4-2 set-up, Pena may need to bide him time before forcing his way in. But his manager is confident the 27-year-old will make an impact once he has properly bedded in and is fitter. “When you have a group, especially a new group of players with 10 new players coming to this massive club, they are players you know are going to adapt easier than others,” said Caixinha. “Carlos came with another Mexican [Eduardo Herrera] and the other Mexican adapted differently than him. So it’s not about being a Mexican, it’s more about yourself. “We are definitely very glad to have Pena with us. He’s a great player and he is going to show very good things in this football. It’s just a case of him adapting and needing a little more time. “We are all the time giving him that confidence and all the time giving him that support. We know he is growing day by day and he is adapting. He wants more day by day and that is the important thing. “Pena is starting to know that the game here is more physical so you have less time and less space. He needs to understand that and that comes with a rhythm that we are trying to get him into. “He also needs to get fitter so he is working hard to make sure his body is ready for when he is called into action. He will totally get it that he won’t have the same amount of time and space because the good players and the clever players anticipate the actions. He just needs to get the right rhythm and the right fitness.” Caixinha described Pena as a versatile player but one who would thrive in an attacking central midfield role. “Pena is that type of box to box player. He is a really offensive player, those players who easily get in the opponent’s box. He can score goals, he can assist. He can play in all of the offensive roles, but especially in the middle of the park. “If you ask me where he can play, and the formation that we are using now, he can play with two in the middle and the one that goes further forward. Or he can play as a shadow striker. Or even a little bit on the left coming inside. But mainly within the central spine, that’s his position. “We have options and that makes me very happy because last season that was something in the middle of the park we were struggling. Now we have a strong middle of the park and we have strong options, not only for the players playing now but also those who are on the back placing that competitiveness within the team. That allows us also to be competitive when we face opponents.”

Who remembers when pitches were like this? Plus 2 of the greatest ever Scottish player.

Back on Twitter tonight complaining about IRA songs at Parkhead. Did not read that anywhere else.

As has been said I also never go into a season without thinking/hoping we will win the title, plus never back against us. Having said that we have played two meaningful games against piss poor opposition, won one and lost one and failed to go further in the tournament. Motherwell game is more important than any friendly, we have to get a victory tomorrow to get our season off and running. Anything else and the questions return about the manager.

Cannot open the above. Is this the same photo? Covering up the glass work!

Money, simples.

️ Unable to make the match against Hibs next weekend? You can earn money by selling back your seat. rng.rs/2u4wa14

James Dornan MSP & Celtic fan on BBC saying these guys are "animals". Hope he has a glazer on speed dial.

BY GREGOR KYLE 15:14, 31 JUL 2017 Remembering Jimmy Speirs, Rangers' and Bradford's lost hero of Passchendaele Today marks the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the Battle of Passchendaele, a tragedy which counted an English F The numbers are overwhelming. At times they even mask the true extent of the tragedy. It is hard to visualise the nine million who died on battlefields in the First World War. Harder still when the total number of war dead rises to 16 million when you include the number of civilians who lost their lives during the four years. During the Battle of Passchendaele alone, which broke out on this very day in 1917 and raged until November 10 that year, the death toll was over 615,000. The true horror lies not in the numbers but in the details and as we sit here today, 100 years on, the fact that many of those men died, not from their wounds, but drowning in thick mud is hard to comprehend. And when you begin to try and visualise those scenes of battle, the relentless drives ‘over the top’ and the bombs that fell so steadily that they drove men to madness and then remember that the dead were young, many of them boys in their teens, an almost sickening grief sets in. Among the older men in the Allied ranks in 1917 was a Scot whose face would have been familiar to the men who stood alongside him. Jimmy Speirs was, after all, a former Rangers player and, more than that, an English FA Cup winner, having lifted the trophy with Bradford City six years earlier. At 31 years of age and with a wife and two young children, Speirs should never actually have been there at Passchendaele. A stretcher-bearing party carrying a wounded soldier through the mud near Boesinghe during the battle of Passchendaele in Flanders(Image: John Warwick Brooke/Getty Images) He would have been exempt from conscription but signed up on May 17 1915 with the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders just days after returning to his home city of Glasgow after a season spent with Leeds City in the English Second Division. The club captain scored 32 goals in 73 league games during his three years with City, who folded in 1919 - just a year after World War I ended. Speirs was promoted to Lance Corporal during training in his home country. By the time he travelled to central Europe to join the fighting in May 1916 he had again been promoted - this time to the rank of Corporal. Within months he was wounded, either from gunshot or shrapnel. A newspaper report at the time said that he was “wounded in the heavy fighting of Autumn 1916, but was not fortunate enough to be sent to a home hospital. He rejoined his Regiment after convalescence." The following April he was back in the front line, this time at the Second Battle of Arras, which claimed 158,000 lives. Speirs and his fellow soldiers buried their brothers in arms during a break in fighting. When it resumed he was, in May 1917, awarded the Military Medal for acts of bravery. The reasons for his commendation and the accompanying paperwork have been lost in the decades since but his family at home read reports that put ‘the Fighting Camerons’ in the very thick of battle. A period of leave followed in July where he visited family and friends in Leeds, Bradford and in Glasgow. Newspapers carried stories of his return and it is clear that Speirs was held in the highest regard as both a player and a man. He had been a highly successful Junior footballer before signing on at Ibrox and while his time there was trophy-less, he did win his one and only cap for Scotland, against Wales in a 2-1 win in 1908. From there he moved to Clyde in 1908, who then played at Shawfield, just a few miles from his home in Govanhill. He scored 10 in 20 league games for the Bully Wee, who in his one and only season there finished third in the league (three points behind champions Celtic) and reached the semi-finals of the Scottish Cup. Then he was on the move again, to Bradford City, where he joined a team bristling with fellow Scots. In his three-year spell the Bantams enjoy their highest ever league finish (fifth in the top flight) and he led them to FA Cup victory as captain in 1911, scoring the only goal against Newcastle United in a final replay. After that came his spell with Leeds City but those triumphs would have been a distant memory when he returned from his spell on leave and was consumed by the horrors of Passchendaele. He fell on or around August 20, the exact details of his death are unknown although a month after his death Bradford’s Telegraph and Argus reported that Speirs was "hit in the the thigh during an advance, and managed to crawl into a shell-hole. “There he was attended to for a short time, but the Cameron Highlanders did not return from their raid that way, so he was not seen again.” In October 1919 Jimmy's body was found and buried alongside thousands of others. No veterans remain from that battle,’ the last Tommy’, Harry Patch, passed away in 2009. The fear today is that, with the passing of living witnesses that memories fade, that men become numbers and their memorials ‘spots’ to be checked off by tourists as they tour the battlefields. Today fans of several football clubs will remember Jimmy Speirs and the thousands of others who died amid the mud and terror. And throughout the month ahead the Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917 will take people on 'The Long Road to Passchendaele', with the highlight of the main ceremony on 19 August the unveiling of a number of life-size steel silhouettes, representing Scottish soldiers marching to Passchendaele. Among them will stand Jimmy Speirs.

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Did not get a minute today. Is he injured or just so unfit?