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26th and his Crystal Baws Very good, they got a bit misty 3 weeks in but then Michael Fish didn't know what was happening the same night.

First Five Killie (A) Hibs (H) St.Mirren (A) Celtic (H)........... (31 August) Likely to be moved to 1st September Livingston (H) Ambitious but I think we really need all 15 points to well and truly lay down the preverbial marker. First round of fixtures has a reasonable balance Home to Hibs, Celtic and Aberdeen Away to Kilmarnocjk and Hearts. Full List https://spfl.co.uk/admin/filemanager/images/shares/pdfs/Ladbrokes-Premiership-2019-2020.pdf

A proposal to merge Rangers and Celtic into Glasgow United for a potential UK League was met by widespread hysterical nonsense yesterday despite valiant efforts by some to tell them it was only fitbaw. ...

One year extension to add onto the year he had left. He's the same age (19) as David Turnbull. Would he get a game for Motherwell if he went out on loan ? @elfideldo

I'm reading in my coffee beans that it'll be Easter Road, Ibrox, Livingston, Ibrox and Perth. What it won't throw-up this year is Dundee, Hamilton, Cork !!

Growth sector / profile / sell mare taps. Makes sense for a club the size of Thistle. Next up will be a film where their ex-mascot, Kingsley turns into a serial killer of Glasgows LBGT community but is caught by Taggart, played by John Lambie's Ghost.

Not the member of staff you'd have thought to talk about a young player and the choosing of contracts. Injured at 21 and never really recovered. Not to mention the clubs he was involved with (Turnbull may do them in a different order) Taken from his wiki page.... On 14 July 2008, BBC Sport reported that Kennedy had joined Motherwell on a six-month loan deal,[21] but this report was denied by Celtic later that day.[22] Kennedy did, however, meet up with the Motherwell squad in Austria, on trial. Soon afterwards Kennedy joined Norwich City on loan until January 2009.[23]

Simply another layer of (costly) controversy. If you have sub-standard officials then VAR won't deliver what it purports on the tin.

Given an improved Co-eff place in the table, Scotland's Cup winners will go in at EL QR2 in 2020/21. Access points depend on national co-eff place, not the individual club numbers. Access List for this season (includes Scotland's co-eff 26th place) https://kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl/bert/uefa/AccessList2019.html Our improved position at the end of season 2018/19 is now 20th and this will be used to deteremine access points for 20/21. https://kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl/bert/uefa/data/method5/crank2019.html

In the event of being in the QR3 draw, we wouldn't even be close to being seeded. For the QR2 draw yesterday we scraped in as 47th seed out of 47. Note that the draw for QR3 (July 22th) takes place before QR2 is played (ist leg July 25th). #MuchoEitherOr&Ifs

Scotland manage to throw a 3 goal lead away and lose the the 3rd goal in injury time. They'll do similar for the next 20 years worth of summer tournaments and then it'll be 20 years of wilderness #NationalTraits

Looking at the provisonal list of seeds, if we are in the draw for QR3, we'll need a wee bit of luck in the draw. Roma Espanyol Wolves Eintracht etc

Absolutely, individuals and separate groups will always be able to do their own thing, it's natural and can be a positive, especially if everyone is pushing in the same direction. However, when it comes to your point about Marginal Gains, it would surely often need a degree of understanding, agreement and co-ordination for it to stand a chance of being effective. A good example of individual initiative is here on this forum,..26th and his excellent thread on Pacific Quay. Now, think about the ongoing situation between the club and bbc Scotland, your idea of marginal gains and looking for a solution.

Agree,...keeping hold of him will obviously depend a lot on how the lad and his advisor/agent see the future. One thing the Turnbull tansfer saga shows is a 19 year old provincial Scot able to effectively price himself out of the reach of Celtic. Taken alone, that is a positive for us but the bigger picture is more about how the financial gulf is affecting the market in the UK and it won't have gone unnoticed by McPake.

One thing SG&Co and Mark Allen/Football Operation realised before they took over at Ibrox was the need to do the transfer business early and have as many of your planned squad at your pre-season training camp as possible....I think this was a vitally important factor in our European run last season. Rather than trying to analyse individual players from videos, I think that is the biggest plus as we approach another season. That said, we are much more liable to receive bids for our players this summer than 12 months ago and that might cause some upheaval.

You have to say that the list of provisional second round opponents isn't daunting, at least in name (benefit of squeezing into the list of seeds). Pressure will come from a general expectation that we are now already in the 3rd qualifying round draw

McPake obviously sees a move to Liverpool as his way into our first team Roma's apparent interest in the lad would surely be on the back of the tournament success in the middle east. RYD is the way to go but we can't continually lose our better prospects before they get a sniff of our first team. I guess it comes down to the increasing financial gulf between the footballing rich and poor. The rich look to hoover up the talent (ownership) and loan them back to the poor to fatten them up....#NeoliberalismRuiningTheFitbaw

So it's the second round draw today ... Seems a strange way to conduct the draw unless UEFA have struck an agreement with various hotels in the Nyon area Forlan could try and land a double by booking flight(s) for potential second round opponents. Bigger odds at play if we were to provisionally come out against another either or opposition

We always tend to return to the same old background. problems and questions underpinning much of any such debate,....you could call it quicksand. Somebody mentioned our collective strength but we are a long way away from being anything close to a collective We discourage quality leadership because of the way we have tended to treat those who do stand-up We are good at loyalty and following the team, not at politics We tend to follow pied pipers and not want to learn lessons We are increasingly marginalised and we inadvertently seek to go ever deeper (where others want us to go) We tend to respond positively to ideas that take us further down the road of marginalisation and vice versa (club often react to this so as to curry favour / ie. PR between club and support/customers). That doesn't mean such a road is always mistaken, it's not You could fairly argue that the general political situation and societal tendencies have exacerbated such marginalisation and helped take it to a level that it's difficult to see changing positively anytime soon... #confrontation

Rangers reopen talks with Josh McPake over new deal as Liverpool and AS Roma track winger https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-transfer-news/rangers-reopen-talks-josh-mcpake-16536624 ------------ We really need to keep a hold of our better prospects.

Will probably be back to the same part of Europe we started in last season as the Kosovan team easily got past a team from Gibraltar last season. Thu 29/06/17 UEL Norrköping 5 - 0 Prishtina View events More info Thu 06/07/17 UEL Prishtina 0 - 1 Norrköping View events More info Thu 28/06/18 UEL Europa 1 - 1 Prishtina View events More info Thu 05/07/18 UEL Prishtina 5 - 0 Europa View events More info Wed 11/07/18 UEL Fola Esch 0 - 0 Prishtina More info Thu 19/07/18 UEL Prishtina 0 - 0P Fola Esch

Given how many options we have on the left, instead of trying to add Kent, I think we'd be better using the cash for other positions. You could argue that Kent can play in the middle but I'm not convinced his game is conducive to the number 10 role.

Looking at appearance stats and nothing else (ie. stop here if you think that worthless !!)....... Ojo seems to have made a real mark at English Championship level with Fulham in 2017/18 and the subsequent step-up to the French top flight saw him struggle to make the same impact. The SPFL is probably seen as going back a level to enable him to get more game time although being Rangers, the demands are such it still presents the young man with a more than significant challenge. The fact that two seasons ago, he did well enough at Fulham to get a lot of gametime at Championship level is a major positive and if his attitude is right, I'm sure he can make a contribution. That said, starting berths for our plethora of wingers should be about performance levels and what they bring for specific games, nothing else.