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Great to win it at last but hopefully over the next few weeks we'll get a better idea of where we're going regards a number of issues. CG now needs to come out and clarify more than a few things

where's he going then ? who'll give him the same or better terms than in his 4 year deal he got last summer ? a poor signing whom we're stuck with unfortunately.

hasn't oldco changed its name?

Only issue I have with Jon Daly is how we'd play him. Surely not for CB. Up front he tends to have striker playing off him i.e. goodwillie or Russell at Dundee Utd. I'd hope we'd do something similar & wouldn't use him(if he signs) as a lone striker and simply punt high balls to him because he's 6'3".

I'd say there's a very good chance of that happening. They need us for the money. That being the case then CG would hold all the aces..........now that would be interesting

They cannot afford not to have us in their top division next season otherwise the big financial contributors such as SKY and whoever replaces the CB (if they can get anyone) will either reduce these contributions or walk away altogether

I think he'd be a decent signing but get the impression he'd rather go down south to the championship or whatever.

Traynor has ammunition to unleash on the SFA regards the Whyte fiasco. Better to have him on our side so as to use this when the time is right. Since Traynor joined us it's been noticeable Rhegan & Dumbcaster have both kept a significantly lower profile.

would take him back on a short term deal to allow him to prove himself but as I keep saying it's MF & CB where were woefully short just now. These positions are the ones needing filling first

Our oldco hasn't been liquidated and will not be for years to come. It is simply an empty corporate shell with £5.5m in its account. All its assets i.e. club, stadium, training ground, players etc, were transferred over to CG's newco. Every non-bigot with half a braincell knows its the same club run by a different company. When the SFA licence transferred to the newco the club and all is history went with it.

the product on the pitch simply isn't good enough at present. The key issue is how to improve it i.e. give Ally more time & resources or bring in someone new. The status quo is not an option.. Something must change.

I couldn't even tell you which club sides Bridcutt & Boyd play for. Anyone know ? just goes to show how bad things have got

I think improving the style of play has generally been a fans requirement, and has been a massive failure. Promoting youths to 1st team - success developing youths - generally a failure. Are the youngsters in the team improving with match experience??? you have to ask if the young players playing in the first team this season are really good enough to start with. I'm not convinced very many we've seen this season will make it. McLeod & McKay have the potential to go far but whether they do or not remains to be seen. The rest are a 'no from me unfortunately

The reality is they're everywhere in Scotland. They're over-represented in politics(councillors, MSP's, MP'S & MEP's), the mhedia( BBC Scotland, Radio Clyde, Daily Rebel etc) and various professions such as the legal profession where just about every solicitor/lawyer seems to be one of them nowadays. Not bad for a section of the Scottish population which is supposedly less than 20%. Small wonder they're now more or less running Scottish football's governing bodies too.

One of the problems we need to understand is that the youngsters who have come into the first team this season aren't as good as we think. From those we've seen I'd say only McKay & McLeod have a chance of being here for the longterm.

we'll only have the makings of a good team when we add to the squad in MF & CB where we're seriously short at present

Not exactly played a lot of games for their club have they?

I think CG is playing mindgames with Liewell here. Liewell is(or should be) our public enemy no1 just ahead of Rhegan & Doncaster. We should all know that. Liewell is involved in just about everything to do with Scottish football(including the mhedia)to the detriment of Rangers wherever possible. Everyone knows Desmond would like Ra Sellik to play in England if there was a way to do this. Now here's CG coming out & claiming he has a means of doing this for Rangers via these 2 financially-strapped un-named clubs. Normally there would be a response from the east end of the city aimed at ridiculing him(via the usual mhedia patsys) but what have they said so far ? not a lot. You can be sure Desmond has been on to Liewell about this. It's been an attempt to provoke a statement from Liewell or one of his cohorts knowing full well they'd have difficulty saying anything as he's caught them on the hop so to speak

McKay & McLeod have got passmarks. Nothing more. Will they cut it higher divisions ? that remains to be seen.

I reckon CG/Ally might offer him a payment in order to terminate his contract. He's been a dud & offering him a 4 year deal was a big mistake

won't happen. You'd need to totally overhaul everything to do that from top to bottom. We can't even get the first team doing basics as we saw yesterdayFFS

the unfortunate truth is that the majority of these young players won't be with us in the long run. They won't be capable of the standards required for where we want to be. The sooner everyone understands this the better for all concerned

Great post but we do need to bring in new players, especially in MF & CB. What CG will need to decide is whether Ally is the man to do that. Unfortunately it's a no from me

a change needs to be made before the new season starts. Like many, I really don't think Ally's up to the job. We can't allow Ally to make new signings for next season then discover things don't work out then ask someone else to come in. That must not be allowed to happen

Who'll take him ? he's only scored 2 goals this season. We're stuck with him unless he's breached his contract, which I'd doubt