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Here is a player who we shouldnt have sold in the first place. He has been playing consistantly well for the last 2 seasons even though he is 33/34 and id welcome him back in the summer even on a years contract.

Yeah we have been away from finals for too long. The league cup was always one we could rely on winning about once every 2 years. But i said on another post the other day we are about to go on the biggest gap of not being in a Scottish cup final since the 1981-1992 gap. We havent been in this since 2003 and once again we miss out this year. So next year is a must for a cup final and win!!!!

The Beer drinking one is badly missed

I would never have guessed that in a quiz!! Great player!!

It has to be Ronaldo, he is risen the bar this season and played at a level that Henry has played at. He has to continue it for the next few seasons to be classed as a Premiership great but this season he has been awesome. Drogba, Scholes and Vidic would be the next 3 contenders. Ben Foster for the best keeper and Steve Coppell for manager of the season unless Sir Swex wins the treble again or Jose wins the quadriple

Agree with Juffery here but the only way Ferguson wont be the captain is if we sell him and I cant see Smith doing that. Weir and Webster may be the only other possibilities at the moment, or maybe an outside shout for Hutton as his performances and attitude has been superb of late. Prso would be the only suitable foreigner but he is away at the end of the season.

Haha he is slagging Ronaldo!!!! Ronaldo is by far the best player in the world right now and most fellow professionals are even coming out with this. Big McNee says he isnt so he must be junk!!! What a joker!!! He makes himself look stupid

Lol, Yeah Ritchie and Johnston for sure. Did Ritchie not get punted after about 3 weeks or something??? I thought about Duncan Ferguson aswell actually, 4 million and he did nothing except head butt the Raith player

Yeah, there should be some sort of rule that says teams have to play in the same shirt for 2 seasons. I dont like that design anyway, the red and white stripe along the top is horrendous.

Chelsea nicked it. Blackburn were unlucky tho. But fook me, Chelsea v Man Utd - what a final that will be!!! It couldnt be set up for a better occassion.

Nah he could probably still do a job for us and be better than half the team!!! What about Frank, how old is how these days???

Freddie Nieto was another one who was unlucky and never got a good enough chance. He scored about 6 goals in 4 games then got sent back to his club.

Yeah welcome to the boards, a good first few posts from you. BTW no you can post in the lounge straight away! Im with you on Ferguson and other points. But Im sitting on the fence with Le Guen. While he was in charge I kept saying we needed to be patient and it wouldnt be until February until we STARTED to see a change in his team - he never even got to Feb so we will never know. I was backing him and backing him but towards the end a few of his results were just getting ridiculous and I started to doubt if he could turn it round. However looking back now I probably think I was being rash and was angry with the poor results. I think Murray should have backed him in the Ferguson situation but the boo boys came out and won - just a shame. I do think Le Guen would have advanced the club in many areas but it wasnt to be.

Good read. I'll raise a few points though. I think there was a difference between Souness' departure and Smiths. Wasnt Souness about to leave us in the lurch while Smith announced he was leaving after bowing down to a big of fan pressure?? I also think Smith earned the right to stay on that season from SDM as he wasnt walking out on Rangers to another club like Souness was. We didnt take 10 IAR for a few reasons. The first error was Smith going public on leaving although I think this was maybe to prevent fan pressure. But this should have been kept between Murray and Smith. The next massive error was allowing Advocaat have a say on who would and who wouldnt be part of his plans. That let to a half fit Paul Gascoigne being moved on to Middlesboro at a crazy time. Andy Goram stated himself on a interview last week that if Gazza had stayed to the end of the season it would have made the difference as a half fit Gazza was still better than most in the league. We did win those 2 games against Celtic in both tournaments and it set it up nicely. But wasnt it a defeat at Kilmarnock and not Motherwell Cammy that put us behind? Then we also lost at Pittodrie. Anyway it was the end of a era and by far the most fond memories I have of Rangers. Advocaat came in and built a scary team who were a match for most in Europe. Only Valencia outclassed us but they went onto the CL final that season. We were better than Munich, Parma and PSV and were so unlucky not to progress that season. But then Advocaat lost it. He sold off our whole midfield. 2 players wanted to leave (Gio and Reyna) but 2 were Rangers through and through and wanted to stay (Albertz and Tugay). They were replaced with Nerlinger who got the Ibrox injury jink straight away, an aging duo of Latapy and Caniggia. But we had no solid midfielders and we have struggled with this positions since that days. Il jump to the present now and Smith in his 2nd spell has his work cut out. This summer is going to be huge, bigger than last, to see if Smith gets the backing of Murray and a bit of cash to spend. Smith has practically sorted the defence out but the keeper, midfield and forward positions are still in free fall and are probably at the lowest standard I have ever seen - infact no probably about it. Signing average SPL players like Gow, Thomson and Broadfoot is not filling me with any confidence but I think they may be ok for squad players as long as a few quality players come in during the summer. Smith did this at the back with Weir and Ehiogu, they are a pretty decent standard. But a 3rd season without a trophy or not even getting close to one wont be tolerated.

Man U go to the new Wembley for the cup final. I wonder if it will be the dream final for the organisers with Chelsea or will Blackburn cause an upset today!! I think the old sticky fingers were used for the draw to try and get a Man U v Chelsea final. I hope Chelsea beat Blackburn today as it will be a awesome match. And it would be even better if they had the CL final a few days later. Plus the league game is in May, we could have 3 Man U v Chelsea games in 2 weeks to decide the 3 trophies.

18 years ago!! Unbelievable! RIP to those who suffered that day

Again il have to disagree on that point. I just cant see how BF will ever be as good as Gazza for Rangers. I just think back to April 1996 when Gazza clinched us 8IAR with that hat trick against Aberdeen. The 2nd goal where he ran from his own half was awesome and something only a Gascoigne or Laudrup could do. You may have a point here. Gazza lost it when it came to europe and was always too fired up for the occassion most noticebly Ajax away. But thats a mental problem and nothing to do with ability. I still remember Gazza turning it on against Steau Buchurest and scoring another individual classic. Yes i can agree there. When Ferguson was in the team of 99-2000 he was very impressive. But now he goes about his job different and tries to do too much which is part of his downfall IMO. As Pete says less can be more.

No Cammy said he thought Ferguson could be as good as Gazza etc. The bit about Gazza was that he thought Ferguson was one of the better players he had played with. It was maybe an over reaction from me to say it was the worst post ever but its one i strongly disagree with. I think Ferguson has had 1 season with 19 goals out of 7 or 8 years.

I saw there was around 5000 at this game, thats a SPL gate.

Lennon and McGeady do come up there with Lampard, especially Lennon

28,000 at Hampden yesterday, a good showing from the TGFITW:sigh:

Ridiculous result for West Ham afer doing all the hard week recently.

How old is he now anyway?? We could really have been done with him for another year or 2.

Hibs are still on for the cup double tho

Cmon the Saint Johnstone, get into that cunts