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Plenty of players have made bridged the gap. Allan McGregor Alan Hutton Chris Burke Gregg Wylde Steven Smith Barrie McKay Danny Wilson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangers_F.C._Under-20s_and_Academy#List_of_Academy_graduates You might be advised to stop looking for the next Barry Ferguson. I'm pretty sure that European football has some rules that make it desirable to fill the squad with academy graduates.

It's guaranteed to be better for clubs like Rangers in one way. There is no debate about that. Rangers will be able to increase the likelihood of players moving from the Rangers youth system and into the first team. Sadly that doesn't mean that it won't do any harm. One way that smaller clubs can compete for good players is by offering playing time to young players. Very few are good enough to break through at bigger clubs so most need to go elsewhere. By allowing big clubs to play youth teams in the lower leagues we will cut off small clubs access to good players. Small clubs will not be able to compete at all. We can already see that our youth team is a match for many teams in the second tier. What will that be like when players don't need to leave Rangers to go and play somewhere like Inverness? The game is already structured in a way to favour big clubs. We earn a higher proportion of prize money. We have higher gate revenue. We get more money from televised matches. We earn income from European competitions. We can afford to underwrite young players wages while loaning them out to smaller clubs. We can afford to run a large youth development setup with quality facilities. We get to bypass the earlier rounds of the League cup. We get to bypass the earlier rounds of the Scottish cup. Some of these advantages are unavoidable. The game wouldn't function if the winners didn't get more prize money for example. Some other advantages are designed to make the game less competitive. If we keep stacking up these advantages then Scottish football will be less competitive. In the long run that it bad for Rangers. It is also bad for anybody who watches Scottish football.

Lets be fair. The S.P.F.L. don't mention it anywhere near as often as some of us.

Terrible idea. Just like having youth teams in the lower leagues.

The other teams would be very foolish to accept this. How many advantages do we need?

As many false tens as we can fit on the park. Triple pivot too.

Nobody think to proofread the email?

Quite. This sort of thing happens every year though. Why does the chance to buy a Rangers strip, or season ticket, inspire so many complaints?

All Wilson had to do was wait.

Another day another terrifying Lewis Ferguson rumour. Thankfully a silver lining always appears when we discover that it is a load of rubbish.

Hate to break it to you but football supporters go to football matches. Though the straits be broad or narrow and so on. Promoting the Record is an unrelated activity. People attending matches is healthy for Scottish football. The Scottish football press circulating nonsense is very unhealthy.

Every click, or impression, keeps the Record on life support.

If only. Some are intent on promoting it but who is intent on reading it?

When the time comes we will fight that battle too.

I hope the failed trialist continues to double down at each subsequent turn of this process. His reputation, such as it is, will disintegrate along with Doncaster et al.

I'm going to vote no. Then change it to yes. Can't wait to play out some pre-season friendly predictions with the big hitters.

The S.P.F.L. is a complete disgrace.

I thought that the failed trialist was an expert on semantics.

This will come as quite a surprise to anyone that has given the matter no thought at all!

Why would anyone interact with Roger Mitchell? He's completely disingenuous so there is no point in responding or sharing his tweets. All you do is make him appear relevant.

Great news. This will prove to be a key step on the way back to the top. Looking forward to a sea of Rangers tops at our next home game.

What are you talking about? That's not a hard choice.

Great! Another chance to buy a season ticket at Ibrox! I would have quite liked to see a price increase but I can't have everything.

Titter. You would find better punctuation, and grammar, in a fanzine.