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The following mouthpieces are thumping the tub loudly in favour of the stupidity of the new proposals:

Richard Gordon (Stewart Milne)

Jum Spence (Thingmy Thomson)

Tom Irish (Lawwell)

Also Graham Spiers (Unattached)

Anyone heard any others in favour?

Ask a Geordie where he goes every other Saturday and he'll tell you St. James.

Lot of nonentities on that list.

Missed out Ian Botham.

Any league where you play four games against every othe team is proven boring rubbish. They don't want "meaningless" games but Killie v St Mirren is always going to be "meaningless" except for the true followers of those teams. The competition is always going to be Rangers v celtic plus, in a good year, one other team most likely to be Hearts, D Utd. or Motherwell. Killie and Aberdeen have had a go in the past. Hibs never seem to be able to make it.

No matter the size of the league table there will always be a mid table. Falkirk v Dunfermline will almost always be a mid table fixture. But the winner gets nearer to a respectable fourth or fifth and the loser edges closer to the relegation zone. There's a competition. Not very exciting for broadcasters or journos but interesting for fans of the two teams and for those who look at the league as a whole and not just who's going to be Champions.

"Gazza and Lauders were undoubtedly great players for Rangers but at a certain age you remember players who were even BETTER than those two (honest!).....'Gers reached THREE European cup finals and won one of them...c'mon the 'Auld Yins' on here, what about guy's like......Greig, Shearer, Caldow, Henderson, Brand, Wilson, Stein, Bud, Doddy, Jardine, Baxter, Dave Smith, Johnstone......etc, etc, ALL better than G & L, anyone for a pint?"

These are illustrious names and very great players but only Caldow and Baxter were of the same absolute highest quality as L and G.

PG was a great player for "Glasgow". Whatever he got paid he deserved it.

It's easy to recall the brilliance of his hat trick against Aberdeen but the guy was a worker as shown by the goal he scored against celtic when he made an accurate clearance from his own penalty box and got up to the other end to finish off the cross.

Also in his last season rangers were 3 - 1 down at Easter Road just into the start of the second half. PG with a bit of help from Albertz pulled the team up off the floor to end up Hibs 3, Rangers 4.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Mr Gascoigne.

Excellent stuff, Mr. D'. I like your plan of attack.

As many of us as possible must have a go at this but copying and pasting will devalue the effort. Nor is it any use to resort to the messageboard nonsense of celtic/lawwell conspiracy.

I intend to contact HMRC to express concern that a taxpayer's personal details may not be kept secure having regard to the apparent leak of information in a recent high profile First Tier Tribunal case, to express concern that a citizen's obligation to disclose is not being matched by the Revenue's obligation of confidentiality and to ask what they're going to do about the Feenyunns in HMRC who leaked all the stuff.

I'll maybe tone that last part down a bit.

The absence of a credible rebuttal of the issues raised tells the story. HMRC have no answer - at least no answer that they want to publish.

Harry Davis - the only man who could have strengthened the Iron Curtain.

Monotonous - bang bang bang bang.

Trouble is, very few remember the days before chanting when there was a constant hubbub of noise rising into thunderous cheering and fallling again then more great roars of encouragement. No long periods of glum silence. The game was more exciting in those days. That might explain it.

Who? Leggat or CG?

"One member was arrested for banging a drum next to a police horse "

How daft was that? He was lucky he didn't get his head hoofed in.

What's the point of a drum at football. Leave it at home and cheer the team instead.

You're in good company D'Art. I got banned from FF a few years back for rubbishing the BJK farrago.

Lord NS may not be entirely worldly-wise but he's not too bad at purely legal analysis. Sets out the position very well.

The point is, they made their offer after it was known that someone else had made good the loss.

On a rare occasion in my shabby life I've done a good deed but I've kept quiet about it.

An easy ofer to make. Some benefactor has already made up the loss.

The reason they are angry is nothing to do with tax. It's the Titles deficit that won't let them sleep at night. That and the senchurries o' oppreshun an' the Normans an' Cromwell an' that.

It was obviously a rogue tarrier at the wind up. Major over-reaction from some of us again and a nice statement from Montrose clearing things up.

"rogue tarrier" - are there any non-rogue ********?

I don't think Montrose has many green yins. The author is most likely a sheep.

Johnny Hubbard - one of the legion of star 'Gers wingers post-war. Waddell, Scott, Wilson, Henderson, Johnston, McLean, Cooper even wee McCann and Huistra. Another team in the city had wee jinky and .. em .. er .. big hughes? .. mibbees lennox .. oh, and the half season wonder tully.

City tickets for the postponed match sold out in two hours last night to fans queueing in frost and snow.

Lets hope nobody's busy with a home printer outfit.

Don't think so, Zappa. That's the way they talk.

It's probably Tommy in Glasgow.

Do you think he failed his degree course at Caley University?

As if Yank radio could care less.

"We don't care if they win or lose or draw." - The original refrain of a popular east end song and I don't care either though perhaps not entirely true as I prefer that they lose every game they play. But that is the extent of my interest in them. I don't go to their websites or blogs. I don't watch them on the telly. I don't read about them in the papers. They play no part in my life unless Rangers or Elgin City play against them. They have no purpose as far as I am concerned.

Contrast that with their numerous adherents in the professional and amateur media and the plaintive bleaters who hog the 'phonelines. Last Saturday's Radio Scotland programme to replace Traynor's 'phone-in featured that gent's move to Rangers and discussion about whether our history is 140 years or not. I had switched off before the last item came on so it may not have happened but it was most certainly trailed with invitations to take part.

Their collective mentality allows for no rest until Rangers cease to exist. The question is - what will they do then?

I've come to the conclusion that "celtic-minded" truly means "Rangers-obsessed" though Fergus McCann got the sub-plot right.

First we have PFA or whoever is behind them apparently acting for individuals without instruction which prompted a damage limitarion statement yesterday saying the Tribunal application was really on behalf of the Union. OK. I'll believe that. It's Christmas after all.

Now we have a public statement that PFA will drop their case if Rangers drop theirs. Now this sort of bargaining goes on all the time in private but making it public smacks of abuse of process.

What will PFA's "legal team" say to that?