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Question of reputation. You wouldn’t hire O’Reilly with an uncovered yard somewhere if Reliable Fabrication Worldwide plc had declined to tender. You might let the work to Well Founded Construction Ltd. though.

Did that company have a decent past history or was it an opportunistic bid?

They didn’t say on time, though. Much as you would like to throw up your hands about the Board again I’ll make a guess that rather than any individual director or directors trying to do it, the design, construction and supervision were all contracted out. That means architects, engineers, surveyors and contractors. In light of what Devil’s advocaat says above, what would your contingency plan have been?

A decorated hero.

Davie declined the offer. Eric Caldow said no to Manchester United.

National Service in the Black Watch. The lad with the kilt looks soldierly enough but unlike his right half, he only had to fight paper clips and typewriter ribbons.

Scary if you’re a North Korean or a celtic player.

Wallyford and he’s a … er, let’s not go there. Remember he can ban us in a heartbeat. A holiday residence in Gullane, perhaps?

I thought a military chap would prefer the name “Volunteer Arms”? And it’s “Canny Man’s”. You should have paid more attention on your trips to civilisation from deepest, darkest Lanarkshire.

Neither. Utterly posh as in Grange. I don’t know if he actually lives there but I bet he talks like it.

Same difference. Lothians folk speak nearly as posh as Embra.

@Rousseau is in Edinburgh. He speaks posh. Where I am it’s “yalla”. Some benighted folk will say “yally” but generally your proposition is correct.

I crave pardon, Sire. My eyes were dim, I did not see. I did not have my specs with me.

Do I hear cheering from a Bo’ness-wardly direction?

Lampard on Coventry City’s short list, apparently.

The hypothesis remains true, though.

During Rangers’ niar there was fairly consistent, sometime stern, competition from Aberdeen and at times Motherwell and Kilmarnock and the occasional flicker from Hearts and at the end, celtic started to become a nuisance. Over their niar Hibs had a go, sometimes Dundee Utd and Aberdeen though not terribly seriously. I think Rangers did better in their niar than they did in ours so I conclude that Rangers’ niar has more merit than theirs. No bias or anything like that.

Thanks CF. From what GS says, Lampard seems better suited to Assistant Director of Football (Recruitment)

The unmentionable ones.

Doesn’t prevent him from being right occasionally.

The voice of sanity. I’ll calm down now.

Perhaps but momentum means a lot in football. Players with greater determination or even the players we had managed by Smith or Wallace would probably have got through it and not collapsed at Dingwall So, one Cup and not far off a treble. What did Beale come close to winning?

It was a pretty good bounce - one trophy, unlucky in another cup competition and Rangers would have won the league but for fixture postponements.

Look at that front row. You might have expected Woodburn or Mccoll, both titans, to be seated next to Geordie Young but it’s a youthful Eric Caldow. Mr Struth could obviously foretell the future. Look at the second row. Pass quickly over Stanners and disregard Woodburn and McColl - we won’t see their like again - but Rae, Little and Prentice would transform the current team.

A sort of anti-hero, Jimmy Brown of Kilmarnock. Took abuse for ninety minutes and loved it. He was only 5’9” but looked six inches taller than that in his red jersey and baseball cap. First ‘keeper to discard the traditional bunnet.