RANGERRAB

We should never have bid for Allan no matter if we were interested or not but simply told him to sign a pre contract in January. We've given our haters an opportunity to embarrass us & they've duly taken it. Hibz were never selling to us at any price

What I Don't understand is why Allan asked for a transfer with less than a year left on his contract. He is free to sign a pre contract in January anyway. Look at what De Gea is doing at Man Utd. It's obvious he's going to Real Madrid either now , January or at the end of the season. He hasn't asked for a transfer. Allan could do the same. If he ends up with the yahoos I genuinely believe he'll regret it given his background. He should speak to me Kenny Miller who found out what it is like to go there with previous Rangers connections.

I just can't see Scott Allan wanting to sign for the Southampton Feeder Club in the east end of Glasgow

If he can play defensive MF does this mean we're not signing Eustace?

Things are looking better than they were last season that's for sure(could they have got worse ?) but I think it's a bit early after just three games to say 'we're on our way back' or anything like that. I'd say around October/November we'll have a clearer picture of where we are

Do the SC runners up get a EL place? Think was stopped after Hibz in 2013. Seems very strange if the sponsors were ok with this

Vuckic would be out of our price range just now.

Allan is a better player than Holt,Halliday,Law & Shiels. That's why we're trying to sign him

Why ? Dont you think oldco & newco might get merged?

Any more clues?

Playing one striker up front will cost us in the long run.This needs to change.

I think we need to start playing two strikers up front. For just now we should go with Waghorn & Miller IMO.

We need someone to play alongside Waghorn up front. I think young Hardie will go out on loan somewhere. Clark will be offloaded somewhere if anyone will take him. And Miller will see out the final year of his contract here but won't play every week. That leaves an opening for someone to come in who can get 25 goals per season. You can see by the stats we're not scoring enough goals for the chances created. MW isn't stupid. He will be fully aware of this. He will bring someone else in before the transfer window shuts

They could never have predicted that sort of yahoo riot & got sufficient stewarding for it. The blame lies with the yahoos.

Good point.

Next summer when we get hopefully promoted back to the top division how will we compete with the yahoos who may well have greater finances than we will have? One way to do that is by securing loan signings EPL clubs and MW is well-connected with many EPL clubs. Or we could just settle for second or third best ?

Who's she and which bodies?

W They can win games in their own age group as often as they like. It's whether they're capable of making it into the first team which is what matters. Having youngsters on the books for seven or eight years then discovering they're not first team standard seems a waste to me

All very well but unless this academy(or whatever it's called) can produce players capable of getting into the first team on a regular basis then the whole thing just becomes a financial drain on the club. I wouldn't get too hung up on youth football as it's often difficult to assess how good a youngster actually is until he moves out of his age group. And also how do we ensure our greater-funded youth system is better than say the likes of hertz or dundee utd whose will probably have less funding than ours?

If hibz hadn't realised that Allan would rule out going to Rotherham they must be really stupid indeed.

Hibz have a choice:- 1) keep an unhappy player and lose him at the end of the season for nothing or a pittance in january 2) sell him now and use whatever money they get to strengthen their squad Incredibly Stubbs seems determined to keep Allan as per 1) which suits us fine IMO. I think he'll find the player's heart is no longer in it and his form will suffer.Allan was easily their best player last season and if he's less effective this season then that can only help us in the league. Somehow though I think he'll be a Rangers player by the end of month even if it goes right down to the last few seconds of the transfer window like what happened with Steven Naismith.

And the mhedia don't know what to make of such an articulate man being the Rangers manager who clearly knows what he's doing and where he wants to take Rangers.

What they say they get for their players and what they actually get are completely different. They often seem to include sell-on fees & signing-on fees in their inflated figures just to keep the guillible green'n' grey hordes happy

Will McLaughlin report the arrests at every game he attends this season or just Rangers ones? I think this is where the problem lies

As long as the young lad wasn't wearing a pair of 1970's corduroys he should be OK.