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Telling the world isn't the best negotiating tactic.

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Thank's John ! I think that those numbers point to a difficult task for an emerging lobby/pressure group on the protestant side. I reckon that just like the football politics within Glasgow, that more of the RC side will be politically active and generally more practised at it. They also have a union of sorts with the politicians of the day, as well as important media outlets.

Yesterday was a difficult day for the Accumulators This time of year tends to throw up more unexpected results than the norm.\ Rangers Women are 33/1 to win today 26/1 two quid double Leicester to win Rangers v Aberdeen correct score 0-0

Don't know any background to this but tend to think this extension is something that should have been done a while ago.

In the two defeats at Ibrox against Aberdeen this season (only two home defeats of the campaign) we have hardly created anything. It's about management finding a system and picking the right players to be able to create chances against a parked red bus without 350M to spend in the summer. If the chances are missed blame the players but if we can't create the chances, large % of blame goes to management.

Aye, that we do. I hope you both enjoy the day out !

The absence of Morelos has been a feature of games against Aberdeen, even when in the starting line-up. I hope Defoe makes it today because it should give us a better idea as to the comparison you mention. The obvious thing after 180 minutes without a goal at Ibrox against Aberdeen, is that we have to do something different. I hope SG would have been for a change in our approach, whether Morelos was available or not. It's probably more a test of the management team today than the players.

Does anyone know the numbers regards population divide (protestant/catholic/other) in the Glasgow area ?

Katic has different characteristics to Souttar. I get the impression SG generally prefers players who are better at retaining possession. That is why Kamara was bought and plays whilst Docherty is on loan and McCrorie is on the bench. ...and perhaps partly why Worrell has played more than Katic.

I think we are seeing a time when what is perceived as the best Scottish talent at provincial clubs is outwith our financial grasp. We'll have to wait and see if that perception is shared by any interested English teams for Souttar but if it is then he'll probably join the list. Last summer saw Villa pay a relatively huge fee for McGinn going into the last year of his contract with Hibs. Reportedly it also saw relatively huge bid(s) for Aberdeen's McKenna. At least the circumstances around these two players showed that Celtic aren't immune to the effect.

Souttar @ 1.5M - 2M makes sense,...anything over that and it's a pass IMO

Friday night Sportsound broke the news about Scott Brown's Not Proven verdict and the three pundits in the studio to discuss it were three ex-Celtic men. Might as well have been Radio Celtic with the predictable unanimous support for him. Why do the Polis bother talking to the players prior to an OF match ? Scott MacDonald referring to the Broon gesture said that we over scrutinise things in Scottish football. Anyone remember that being said on PQ when it comes to Alfredo Morelos ?

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Good to see Rangers take the initiative and have a minutes applause (as per family wishes) before the Aberdeen game on Sunday.

Very much so.....but we don't want to go overboard and let them in to score an early goal, as has happened in their two previous visits (McKenna 7 mins and McGinn 3 mins). I can't remember a season with so many early goals (mostly for us)........(my memory isn't that good so I stand to be corrected).

The preview is still to be posted and that will probably concentrate on us, so a wee bit about the opposition. As far as recent months go, Aberdeen have been way more effective playing away from home than at Pittodrie. Gaffer has predicted his customary 5-0 win for us on Saturday but I had a glance at their away record and they've conceded 5 goals in their last 10 away league fixtures, including two clean sheets at Ibrox and the Brendanbeuless (that doesn't include the other clean sheet in the Cup-tie at Ibrox). Wed 05/12/18 PRE Rangers 0 - 1 Aberdeen View events More info Sat 15/12/18 PRE St. Mirren 1 - 2 Aberdeen View events More info Sat 29/12/18 PRE Livingston 1 - 2 Aberdeen View events More info Wed 23/01/19 PRE Hamilton Acade… 0 - 3 Aberdeen View events More info Sat 02/02/19 PRE Hibernian 1 - 2 Aberdeen View events More info Sat 23/02/19 PRE St. Johnstone 0 - 2 Aberdeen View events More info Sat 09/03/19 PRE Celtic 0 - 0 Aberdeen More info Sat 30/03/19 PRE Hearts 2 - 1 Aberdeen View events More info Sat 06/04/19 PRE Dundee 0 - 2 Aberdeen View events More info Sat 20/04/19 PRE Kilmarnock 0 - 1 Aberdeen I watched part of their first half against Kilmarnock last week and it was brutal. Next to no football, lot's of fouls and the ball hardly hit the plastic pitch....but Aberdeen (with a numerical advantage) were more comfortable with that type of game and predictably, a set-piece provided them with a winner. What we'll get tomorrow is more of the same. Last-time at Ibrox they received EIGHT yellow cards as they took turns at kicking us. I think SG would be well advised to highlight this prior to the game and start to put some pressure on the referee (D.Robertson) to do his job. SG&Co know exactly what is coming so I hope he has something different in mind to what has been tried before. Obviously the absence of Morelos tends to force his hand to a degree but it's still a big challenge to get it right. Can only hope the doubts, Tav and Defoe make it because their absence would be significant. They'll probably be missing a couple of important players (Shinnie and McGinn), which would help. The good results in the last couple of weeks need to be built upon with a solid home run against Aberdeen, Hibs and Celtic. So far this season we've played those three teams 12 times and won only 2 matches. We now have an opportunity to improve those numbers with three victories and help cement the recent good vibe that the new approach has brought.

That's actually a good illustration of what a section of the reaction was like, post-Whyte. Anyone can make mistakes but it's better to try and learn from them than wallowing in ignorance, then going onto to repeat the mistake.

Have never seen such long-odds for a team to win an EPL game as Huddersfield are tonight at Liverpool #40/1

Whilst the result may not mean a great deal in the wider scheme of things, it still feels important to me. Never has our future been so invested in our youth development.

This is the Rangers forum equivalent to a quietish pensioners club Any whippersnappers looking for the modern fastlife would be better going to the big city where there is much traffic and all sorts goes on !! ....

Some people desperately want to be right even when they are wrong One of the reasons why so many fell for Green so soon after they had been duped by Whyte was the refusal to take on board any lessons in the short window between them. Very few even wanted to discuss the subject when given circumstances, it was exactly the time they should have at least listened. Some would defend their ignorance by going on a verbal offensive. Well done for getting the A of D line in very apt ! I previously mentioned the real world, IMO I think the club have to operate commercially in that real world. That includes indirectly using one of the two most widely read daily Scottish newspapers when it can for what is effectively a free advert in what is the most important sale of the commercial year. The proverbial no-brainer. Regards the media, it's BBC Scotland where the the club have major issues with, not the DR. There may well arise problems within relationships with any media outlet but they can't be controlled by the club. I don't think it a good idea to confront and ban everything that moves as some would have us do. What that would do is further marginalise us at a complicated and difficult time. The more we are marginalised, the easier it becomes for others to kick us and commercially get way with it. Some say that in-house media at the club should be enough and we can ignore MSM outlets, not a good idea, IMO. However, the developing scene in fans podcasts give this angle a slightly different look and one that is developing. It's down to the individual fans out there as to what media they use (within their personal world view) However, the real world still points to a lot of our fans consuming the Daily Record and commercial/PR decisions have to be made on the back of that. The irony is that whilst Real World situations are sometimes built on a fabric of lies and such, various little known individuals/groups may actually be more accurate... ie. Real World situations are often built on varying degrees of bullshit but it's still Real World (eg. a lot of what underpins geopolitics).

Listened to the podcast of Monday night Sportsound and PQ solved the problem of a convincing Rangers win at Tynecastle by simply not mentioning it. They concentrated on the managers involved in the game with no football, Kilmarnock v Aberdeen and the match with no goals, Hibs v Celtic. When talking about Lennon, Michael Stewart was defending him saying that he did well to get the last minute win at Tynecastle because it is a difficult venue for away teams. Unfortunately, he didn't get the chance to ring our praises for such a good win at such a difficult venue