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I think it now depends on who we can move out before any others come in.

Scott Allan is going to sign for Rangers. Hibz need to face up to this. It only remains to be seen when he signs that is the issue

Just watch - hibz will now try to sell him to someone else to spite Rangers.You can bet they'll accept a bid for SA from someone.

Let's hope SA will stick to his guns & refuse to go anywhere except Rangers

Where are all the fans groups ? Have they no comment on this ?

It must be stated that an element of our own support continue to provide the opportunity for BBC Scotland to exercise that bias.

 

Sellik will visit Tynie soon enough, let's see if Chris is as good as his word and treats the game similarly? We should be mindful reference this fixture because I suspect the official observer appointed will be Sellik friendly, BBC Scotland will concentrate on the football action, and Chris will be hors de combat. Maybe his sister and fellow BBC Scotland employee, Connie will step up to the plate to lionise the hooped horrors?

 

The Solicitors defending the arrested and charged Rangers supporters should pay particular attention to McLaughlin's indiscipline, there may be legitimate claims of sub judice.

Their 'Tynie game' will not be treated similarly. That is where the problem lies & something needs to be done about this. There is a blatant agenda within this state-funded organisation & it's there for all to see.

It's deja vu all over again.

 

Our first game of 2008-09 season was away to Inverness Caley Thistle and BBC Radio Scotland decided to be pro-active with the then SPL match observer. Diarmid O'Hara had recently been appointed BBC Scotland's News Editor and Rangers supporters were in his sights. Barry Ferguson put Rangers one up and a twenty second burst of the Billy Boys by an element of the travelling support, saw BBC Radio Scotland presenter, John Barnes move into over drive. Half time arrived several minutes later and Barnes announced, "we have received dozens of complaints by listeners reference sectarian chanting and have dispatched Chick Young to locate the official match observer, Alan Dick to ENSURE this unacceptable episode in INCLUDED in his report".

 

The next 3-4 days saw every BBC Scotland news bulletin begin with the issue, we even had the depictation of the Rangers support singing with a bouncing ball at the bottom of the screen highlighting the lyrics. This tactic reappeared later in the season, after an old firm match at Parkhead reference the Famine Song. Fair enough on a matter of principle, if sensitivities are being offended then BBC Scotland will react correspondingly, won't they? Three weeks after the Inverness intervention, ra Sellik visited Tynecastle and the IRA karaoke was at full volume throughout. BBC Radio Scotland received no complaints from listeners, dispatched nobody to locate the SPL match observer, and ensured no inclusion. Former Sellik player, Andy Ritchie was the observer and it took the Edinburgh Evening News to question Ritchie whilst leaving Tynecastle, "the Celtic fans sang a few old Irish songs, it's no big deal". Thus, the BBC's bouncing ball was rendered redundant.

 

Chris McLaughlin is utilising a precedent. The ducke are in a row: an unexpected Rangers win, another loss of discipline by elements of the away support, BBC Alba and BBC Radio Scotland providing live coverage, and a Sellik man as official Observer. The recent highlighting of both the Lord Advocate, Frank Mullholland and Justice Minister, Michael Mathieson's determination to make the statistics benefit their plans, and Chris is pushing at an open door. However, the door remains firmly closed on Diarmid's brother, Brendan O'Hara, the recently elected SNP MP for Argyll. His social media outpourings over the years were published by the Scottish Daily Mail, apparently the term, 'Rangers supporter' is NOT common currency with the great grandsons of one of ra Sellik's original founders. No, H-n, orange wanker, animal, knuckle dragger, ............. are preferred. Brendan has apologised and his fellow Sellik season ticket holders, Frank and Michael view his offence as statistically inconvenient.

Does anyone still believe there isn't an anti-Rangers bias at bbc Scotland?

A quick google search confirms that Douglas was Celtic security chief for a few years, taking over the head of scottish footy security chiefs from our own Alistair "Herr" Hood in the late 90's.

 

So another job for the bhoys, another hatchet job.

 

Our club should investigate to ensure this is correct, then seek the sacking of Douglas for leaking the info to Scrote, and see what can be done to the untouchable Scrote at the beeb, if anything. As more info becomes available about this, it seems more likely this was agreed in advance for any singing they can get us for between known Rangers-haters, then ears pinned for any verses of any songs. They must have been gutted at the very low arrest numbers but clearly Scrote had his piece written in advance and just had to fill in the blanks.

Or are we back to the 'dignified silence' days again? Does no one within Rangers have an opinion on this?

George Douglas was the match delegate.

Never heard of him but would like to think he's now got some explaining to do

Who was the SPFL's match delegate on Saturday? Does anyone know?

And should the SPFL not be concerned that whoever it was seems to have given some or all of the match report's contents to McLaughlin? And this is not supposed to happen?

Here's another example of why I want a high profile CEO at Rangers to seek out these people and demand answers from those responsible when this sort of thing happens when you get Rangers-hating individuals working together to besmirch Rangers name. Surely we're not back to the days of dignified silence are we? Look where that got us before.

I think thats a dreadful draw for Scotland. Very difficult to see us getting second in that group

Hopefully we'll be discussing Rangers in the EL this time next year. Need to win the SC next season or at least get the final

Would love to see Scott Allan in a rangers jersey but to pay £500,000 + for him would be folly.

 

He's in the final year of his contract and plays in the 2nd tier of Scottish football, reality is he should be worth £200,000 tops.

three years ago we paid circa £800k for Templeton !!!!

Hibz seem to want a lot of money for a player who isn't an internationalist, hasn't really played in the top division of Scottish football & hasn't managed 100 first team games yet despite being nearly 24

SA will be a Rangers player before the end of next month.

I suspect we may well offer a player or two in exchange for Allan. We've plenty for them to choose from !!!

Only a matter of time now. SA wants to sign for Rangers & hibz know that. How long can they keep an unhappy player?

He only has one year on his contract so they have to accept something before the end of next month before he's free to speak to ther clubs in january

We need at least one more striker. Preferably one with a proven record somewhere other than Scottish football

The plan looks superb.

The manager is fantastic.

Think I have a man crush on travernier!

Halliday was far better than I thought he would be. Very impressed.

Law looks far better in this line up.

 

Unfortunately he doesn't have the players this year. Whoever said Kiernan and Wilson were good with the ball at their feet has been drinking the coolaid.the keepers a donkey. Bell will be number 1. We don't look like scoring. Don't see even 30 goals out the front 3.

 

All in, things look very very good in the long run. Short term we have big problems.

Bell No1 ? Not a chance !!

Raith and Alloa are represented and we aren't ???!!!

Welcome to Scottish football where the tail wags the dog as the late great James Sanderson used to say.

Budge and Robertson fail to get elected on to the SPFL BOARD.

 

Quelle surprise, corrupt to the core.

Ever since SDM abandoned ship a few years ago and we had no representation at the SFA & the then SPL we've seen Liewell & his chums take over. It will take many years yet before anything changes unfortunately.

Chris McLaughlin ‏@BBCchrismclaug 49m49 minutes ago

 

SPFL agrees 3 year deal allowing Scottish Football to be shown on mainstream TV in China for first time. Worth around 500k a year.

 

https://twitter.com/BBCchrismclaug

BIG WOWEEEE....just what will the SPFL do with all this chinese money ?

Compared to other countries TV deals, the word 'peanuts' springs to mind.

Are PUMA happy with things as they currently stand? Wouldn't have thought so

Now we need to get a couple of strikers in who can get 25 goals each next season

Think they all under estimated the number of gers fans who took in other games. The clubs, infrastructure and pricing all pit fans off they need to be more attractive

This is a good point about Gers fans taking in other games. I'd suggest though that has stopped significantly since 2012 when ten SPL chairmen voted Rangers out the SPL. These clubs have since had to cut their budgets accordingly since Rangers left and saw their incomes nosedive. We even had Liewell initially telling us the yahoos didn't need us only to later tell us it was costing them 10m.

We're certainly talking about vast sums of money. HMRC denied it, but the total cost of the Harry Redknapp case was estimated to be in the region of £8m to £10m. That was a five year investigation and 13 day trial for 80 grand's worth of suspected tax evasion, so if those estimated costs are even remotely close, then it's probably safe to assume that HMRC's case against us has cost the taxpayer a hell of a lot more than £10m.

But when HMRC finally concede they've lost(after the Supreme Court no doubt) won't they be liable to pay Rangers legal costs? We'll find out that figure won't we?

In past tribunals it's been moths before the result was released

Last summer's UTTT didn't take months. HMRC were dismissed pretty quickly IIRC