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An important hurdle was cleared last week when the Court of Session validated him as potential Rangers director but this was King being declared “fit and proper” only so far as the insolvency act is concerned. You don't think his 40 odd SARS tax convictions will affect him being able to pass the FAPP ? Yes I will wait to hear 'the full extent of the carnage'. How long will that be then ?

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So after spending how many years trying to get onto the board now they are now actually on the board & haven't yet outlined their future plans? That might not worry you but it certainly is starting to worry me. Yes I do know King has to pass a FAPP test. He won't though will he ?

ST renewals start next month. Can't see too many renewing until there is some sort of communication from the board about funding/investment

So when will they reveal their plans for the future ? next month? next year? Let's not kid ourselves, Rangers are still surviving month-to-month on loans. That cannot continue indefinitely. Is DK going to invest ? If so when & how much? And when will DK take up a directorship or chairmanship now he's been cleared by the CoS?

Whenever Rangers win 4-0 I'm happy.

A few more performances like today & the crowds will return.

Assuming young SInnamon not quite ready,then because we haven't got a decent RB ?

But only if McCall understands he got his team selection & tactics wrong on Wednesday night against QOS and doesn't repeat those mistakes. Rangers are still conceding too many goals & not scoring enough.The right team selection & tactics would go a long way to rectifying that. For example, Darren McGregor looks to me our best defender this season. Is it best to play him out at RB to accommodate McCulloch in the team or put him right in the central heart of the defence? Is it really that difficult?

Scrapping the outdated BBC licence fee would solve all these problems instantaneously. The BBC(including our chums at Pacific quay) would then have to live in the real world and employing Rangers-hating pondlife such as Spence,Cosgrove,Spiers etc would make no commercial sense with plummeting viewing/listening figures

Whilst I'd say McCall got his team selection & tactics badly wrong last night, perhaps the biggest challenge he faces is trying to make Rangers harder to play against and harder to beat. That means, for starters, conceding a lot fewer goals, something he has to put right before play-offs. I'd suggest the 3-5-2 system QOS used last night would be better-suited for us as it allows 5 in defence when defending and five in MF going forward. Defensively we always seem likely to concede so having greater numbers at the back should help although individual errors played a big part in the QOS goals last night What must not be repeated is last nights 4-4-2 where we had two up front, two wide men and Law and young Murdoch in central MF. It was far too cavalier an approach to a game against a team whose tactics at home on their plastic surface are often too invite a team to attack them then hit them on a quick counter.McCall must learn from last night's shambles before the play-offs or it is another unappealing season in the championship

I'd have thought after his ridiculous performance recently against Alloa that would have been the last we would have seen of him in a Rangers jersey. But it wasn't to be. There was a good delivery into the box for him late on but he couldn't get to it. Quelle Surprise

How was he to blame at their goals? Wallace was to blame for the first two & Crawford for their third

Although he screwed up badly last night with his team selection and tactics IMO.

When the new board got appointed they need to make a quick appointment because McDowall remaining in place was simply not an option. McCall was the easiest option in the timescale they had. Whether he's the longterm answer remains to be seen

We can get promotion but it will be determined by McCall's team selection & tactics. He simply cannot get them as badly wrong as he did last night.

Interesting but Dundee HIbs hadn't won in something like 8 or 9 of their previous games.Theyre just rank IMO. Maybe now their supporters will turn on baldy Thompson their Rangers-hating chairman

With all due respect I think that would be an extremely bad idea indeed. We are going to need to regain representation within Scottish football's governing bodies again and that will need someone preared to fight our corner against our enemies & detractors who have most certainly not gone away. Wallace always struck me as an appeaser who would always try to negotiate out of difficult situations. The kind of people we are up against in a Scottish football such as Liewell, Thompson, Milne etc we need someone prepared to give these kind of people both barrels if need be. My own choice would be ex-SRU chief executive Gordon McKie.He's a would take no nonsense from our enemies and he's a Rangers man too. CEO is one position at Ibrox where I genuinely believe we do need a Rangers man. Unless I'm mistaken McKie would have been Brian Kennedy's choice had he bought Rangers

Probably because they're not good enough

And the hertz player was down with a head injury was he not?

Nothing maybe. He would have stopped play to send a player off.As Isaid it wasnt a goal scoring opportunity I'm not sure how this is interpreted in the rules.

I don't know for sure but I'd have thought so. By allowing play to continue WHAT IF McCulloch got back and cleared off his own goal-line to prevent hertz scoring? Or Rangers got possession from which McCulloch scored? That's why when a player is to get sent off I'd always thought play would get stopped immediately unless there was a clear goal-scoring opportunity, which wasnt the case yesterday.

As discussed on RM, why did the referee allow play to continue if he considered McCulloch's 'challenge' to be a straight red card? Should he not have stopped play immediately & sent him off if he considered it to be a straight red? Looking at those highlights it would appear the referee gets a clear view of the incident and wouldnt have needed any input from the AR or forth official?

An interesting OP but I've two brief comments about LeeMcCulloch:- 1) he is not good enough to play CB for Rangers 2) if he is currently earning £18k p.w. or thereabouts then that is a scandalous amount of money to be paying someone as things stand at Rangers. That money could be much better spent elsewhere at Rangers. Ditto his pal McCoist too

In terms of home attendances Newcastle must be the third most-watched side in the EPL(behind Man Utd & Arsenal). No wonder their supporters despair at their lack of success & ambition shown by their owners...