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Not a bad team, the select.

Deans hoofing it over the bar again. His altimeter was always a bit suspect.

Some notable celts: O'Neil, Larssen, McStay, McNeil, er, em, er - well, there must be some others but who have they trotted out to squeal about title stripping? Darren O'Dea. Oh dear God..

Speirs should be squirming He admits EBTs were legal at the time but they were used for an illegal purpose i.e. Saving tax . Jings.

John Terry's got older.

DK is not going to jail on the basis of events thus far.

I'll let you know when I think he's at risk.

Happy birthday to the great man.

He would say that, wouldn't he?

The "common sense" approach has an initial attraction (see my facetious post #42) but the question is "whose common sense?"

The trick is to apply common sense to the interpretation of the statute, regulations and precedent.

The "common sense" notion is akin to the application of Equity which English judges are quite keen on and most of the Supreme Court judges are English so the appeal might be starting under handicap.

On what grounds, D'Art?

No. Better to spend the money on Rangers.

I see from the summary of the judgement that the learned judges have invoked a rarely used principal of the law of Scotland, namely the "common sense" rule.

Shame to see an honourable club like the Wanderers drsgged down like this.

I wonder how Nat Lofthouse their mighty centre forward of long ago would have dealt with Master Lennon.

"Rangers chairman Dave King faces December 9 court date in Mike Ashley battle.. meaning he could spend Christmas in jail"

according to DR.

They are right. But only if DK turns up at Court and tells the Judge he's a corrupt old badger and he and his pal Ashley can take a running jump or something similar.

At worst, if he's found to have breached the Injunction, he'll be fined but that's boring innit?

He did. Most strikers do. He'd have got it back on if he'd been allowed the stay at Rangers.

He didn't achieve much after his departure but his confidence would have been shattered by the manner of his waygoing.

On 3 October Little General posted a list of players who scored 100 goals or more for Rangers. Here is the top ten from that list:

Goals Appearances

Jimmy Smith 382 411

Ally McCoist 355 581

Bob McPhail 287 465

Willie Thornton 248 410

Robert Hamilton 247 293

Jimmy Fleming 240 295

Willie Reid 226 262

Derek Johnstone 210 546

Ralph Brand 206 317

Alex Venters 205 407

Most of that is as expected, with good old Super in runner-up position but no Jim Forrest and no Kris Boyd. But have a look at the average/strike-rate and see what happens.

Goals Appearances Average Strike Rate

Jimmy Smith 382 411 0.92944039 1.075916

Jim Forrest 145 163 0.88957055 1.124138

Willie Reid 226 262 0.86259542 1.159292

Robert Hamilton 247 293 0.84300341 1.186235

Jimmy Fleming 240 295 0.81355932 1.229167

Max Murray 121 154 0.78571429 1.272727

George Henderson 161 223 0.72197309 1.385093

Billy Simpson 163 239 0.68200837 1.466258

Ralph Brand 206 317 0.64984227 1.538835

Kris Boyd 112 180 0.62222222 1.607143

Jimmy Smith is still out in front but Forrest rockets into second place and Boyd lumbers into tenth.

Some surprises. The (by me )much maligned Maxie Murray is in this exalted company, also the respected but (by me) under-rated Billy Simpson.

Willie Thornton and Bob McPhail don't make it. And what's this? Where's Super? He's twelfth after McPhail and just ahead of Thornton.

Statistics - they tell you everything. Except of course the quality of the striker's inside men and the strength of the opposing defences and indeed the strength of his own defence to keep the ball up to him. Interesting, though.

(The figures looked quite neat when I typed them but they don't read very easily on screen)

Hurlock definitely looked the scariest but the man with cold fear on tap was Harry Davis. Behave youself and play the game, you're fine but don't try to clog the wee Prime Minister.

For a few seasons back in the sixties every time you saw a photo of a Celtic goalkeeper Jim Forrest was standing in front of him with his arms raised and the ball in the back of the net.

Poor old Caesar. Just when he thought he was safe from Jimmy Millar out jumpling him, along came Forrest to run him ragged.

We old codgers remember the 1964 final better than 1963 because in Dundee there was a high quality opposition which made for a better match. I remember the goals like yesterday. Kenny Cameron's was a screamer.

I'm only surprised that he got the job in the first place.

Never. Black was no tough guy. I don't want head bangers.

It's a rubbish tune.

Baxter and McMillan didn't get kicked much.

Two reasons. One, they were helluva hard to get at. Two, Harry Davis was riding shotgun.

I admire Warburton's philsophy. I have no qualifications to argue with his team selections but it is useful to have a tough guy around. A proper tough guy. Not a headcase.

The Press won't be hard on Gibbons unless at some time in the future he signs for Rangers.

Burchill - I rember him. The new Simon Donnelly, or somebody.

Moanie faced Petty Houston's Falkirk side saw their hopes of 2nd place dented by Torn faced ugly bassa Mowbray's Dundee Hibs after losing 0-1 at home...

 

It's a shoot-out by those two on who'll meet Shit faced Rangers hater Mikko Paatelainens Scumdee Utd in the play-offs come May. This will only happen if the 'Supersheep' continue their demise and end up finishing

F*ck the whole lot of them...they deserve everything they get.

I'm pretty much with you in all of that, BM, but it was the real Hibs and Mowbray has long gone. The plug ugly in charge is Stubbs.

Good for Bobby Brown. Last survivor of the great Curtain