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The decline of Scottish football appears to be a result of forces beyond the SFA/SPFL's control. Not much point in tinkering with it or asking people like McLeish for advice.

I think Shiels has been involved in most of our matches. Mostly as a substitute though so maybe that doesn't make it into the highlights.

What makes you say that?

I like the terms of what I agreed with for Buy Rangers. If that changes to what Rangers First does then I'll just become a private shareholder. I suspect this will be a minority view.

Who could replace Gordon Strachan and do better?

Not too concerned about seeing the back of him.

I laughed out loud.

Can you explain for those of us who are a bit slow? This is not the first time that I've read one of your posts and had little idea of the point you are trying to make.

Let me see if I understand. King promised a nomad. There is no nomad yet. If King gives Warburton some money in January then I don't care about the nomad. Is that fair?

So money must be divided in a way to maximize all three of the above, yes?

I like to get my knickers in a twist about stuff like this because it is not often that I look for news about other teams. I only come here to keep up with, er, Rangers Chat. I don't like reading stuff from anti-Rangers bloggers either but every now and then it turns up.

How will you measure the success?

Can we take this seriously? I mean, has he even kissed the badge yet?

The only thing that I would change about Scottish football would be to ban any opinion columns on the subject.

Completely irrelevant if the board don't even bother to deal with the council.

Yes, I wouldn't rule out improvement by the current team though. A couple more players will be required for a significant improvement though.

After watching us against St Johnstone tonight I don't expect a run in the Scottish cup. Hopefully get drawn against another top league team though and we will see what progress has been made.

Nobody has to buy it.

This is a quote from an article, by a Rangers fan (yes ?), about Celtic.

Well, he was getting paid a wage . . .

Quite poor today. Despite that we performed much better than the referee.

I quite enjoy King's press conferences. Despite that it does sadden me slightly to think of him having to answer a series pedestrian, often repetitive, questions from Scottish football journalists.

We've started well and I don't think anyone seriously believes we will fail to win this division now. All of our wins have been against teams playing in this division or below though. Despite our success there are still plenty of unanswered questions about the team. I'll be interested to see how we cope if we encounter a team who prevents us from controlling possession and forces us to defend. We have not had to defend much so far but we have still managed to lose a few goals. Before the end of the month we will face opponents from the top division, St Johnstone, in the League Cup. It seems like most supporters are looking forward to this now. I don't think we are going to learn too much more about the team from the league matches but that's not the case with the cup. The top division appears to have a range of quality in it. Last season we managed to knock some out with a poor team, so we should expect to beat some. We also lost against three of the teams now in the top division, so we can expect it to be more difficult against others. Once we start to play teams from the top division we will find out how far we can go in the cups and have a reasonable idea of who we could finish above in the league. Interested to read what you all think just now. Who can we expect to beat from the top division? How far will we go in the cups?

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For a while, during the first half, I wondered if Raith would ever get to kick the ball again.