RANGERRAB

I disagree. Not every young player who breaks thro' into our first team will be a guaranteed superstar. In the current team we're giving youngsters their chance but we'll be lucky to get a couple IMO who'll be good enough to play at the level we want to be at. What concerns me is that Murray Park could become something that produces players for the Dunfermlines, St Mirrens etc i.e producing players not quite good enough for us but OK for their standard. That will be costly unless we really can produce the standard of player we require from our youth teams.

Just wait til the bills start coming in for their cheapskate stadium. It was never built to last. It's nearly 20 years old now. That's its lifespan.

Should be noted Jeff Randall is one of us. Describes Rangers as 'the quintessential British Club'.

Ally neede to make the right signings last summer due to embargo. We're seriously short in creativity in central MF & also at CB which is why I think Goian may be back in new year if we can get him.

now that he seems to be winning his tax battles in SA, it'll be interesting to see if Dave King adds to that 22m.

Nothing surprising really. I've said it before & I'll say it again: Did LBG blackmail SDM into selling Rangers to Whyte ? If so who was it at LBG and for what reasons? We know that the 2 bhoys Fullerton & Kane were in charge of LBG's Scottish business division at the time. Was it them or did they get some lackey to do it on their behalf?

have they written it off?

if this is true Green must sort it out

didn't he borrow something like 20m from ticketus (and would have paid back 27m). why anyone would have given whyte that amount of money is a total mystery given his business history.

LBG got it after they blackmailed SDM into selling to Whyte

Is Speirs still on Radio Cattolica after being caught lying on Scotland Tonight after the BTC verdict?

the bit I never got was why they gave Whyte this money in the first place. Seemed one hell of a risk

never listen to radio cattolica so can't comment but led to believe their superscoreboard phone-ins are infested with timothys calling in to have a rant about Rangers. Any normal organisation would have done something but they didn't. They actually seemed to encourage it. People like Daryll King just sat back & took it. Mind you you'd expect it to be accepted by the rest like Keevins, Walkers etc

wonder what they'e up to. Whyte conned them out of 20 odd million didn't he?

Good news but don't be fooled into believing this share issue was for supporters. The timing of it & the fact supporters only got one week leading up to Christmas to buy shares leads me into thinking it was primarily for the financial institutions.In that respect it has been an undoubted success to which CG deserves utmost praise. Fan ownership isn't necessarily a good thing. Look at Barcelona. Great team but with massive debts which won't be sustainable for too much longer because the Bankrupt Spanish Government won't be able to bail them out anymore by buying a worthless piece of land from them for an exorbitant amount of Euros. Even the Bayern Munich president recently asked how much longer the European taxpayer was to subsidise Messi's wages.

Well said but couldn't he have given this sort of reply more often during his stint on Radio Cattolica.

Don't bet against him doing that too m8.

brilliant. when we return back to where we belong we must bring re-sign him. We need players who genuinely want to play for us.

So would I m8 but apparently not so for some.

The reason Naismith left for Everton was because they offered him £35k pw compared to the £15k pw he was on at Rangers. He could have stayed & done what Edu did but chose not thus thus denying the club a much-needed fee. Rangers supporters aren't stupid and realised this. He will never be welcome back at Ibrox like his other deserters. Unfortunately though it's all about to go disasterously wrong. The TUPE advice he got last summer now looks extremely dodgy wherby he could simply walk out & go elsewhere. If not why are the SPFA ( & their legal chum Gribbon of Bridge litigation) launching this ridiculous counter-claim against Rangers for 67( yes 67) players if they're not confident the advice they gave was sound ? They say they'll drop this claim if Rangers don't pursue the players who walked out but there's no chance of CG doing that. He knows he's got a winnable case even if he has to go to the law courts if the SFA tribunal doesn't go in his favour. This is just the start of a case which could have repercussions in the football world longafter.

Can you get me a ticket for his next gig?

I get the impression that some lawyer has acting on behalf of the players union has taken it upon him/herself and done this unilaterally without consulting anyone. Margaret Gribbon of Bridge Litigation per chance?

I think Bell will primarily be back to Alexander. Rightly or wrongly McCoist doesn't seem to think Gallacher is up to it.

How can Wylde be on it ? he left in February.

I was TUPED over at the start of this year. The onus is on the employee to refuse the transfer.