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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

Respectfully don't think he did. It reads as a filler article/free advert for Season Ticket's. My guess is that someone at the club suggested it to PM/DR or perhapssimply DR/KJ to PM. I very much doubt PM started the ball rolling. Too many didn't want to listen to PM when he was pointing towards the spivs and now some seem to have a problem with a favourable article towards the club. Christ knows what they'll think of him if he does something wrong.

Said a while ago that we might be interested but the fee will be too rich for us, or at least won't represent value. I doubt he'll go 5M but I reckon they'll get in the region of 2.75 plus add-ons from an English Championship team.

Interesting list ! Thanks Not enough of those players went on to contribute in a significant way to our first team and we can only hope that in the future, the % increases. Two of few who would have a career that saw seven/eight figure transfer deals (McCormack and Adam) but the millions didn't go to Rangers.

Man Utd may yet sneak a CL spot the way this is going. Slightly behind but all the other teams involved will be playing European semi-finals soon.

IIRC it was more The Sun that was Irvine's go to rag but they also had Rangers to use as a conduit. Irvine/Green, whilst in and out of Rangers officially declared the Record as an enemy of the club. That went down well with too many of a baying support who were still following the pied piper. In the real world, newspapers don't tend to take sides for noble reasons, it's mainly about commercial motives. What I was highlighting was relationships form that include degrees of trust and that was clearly the case with Paul Murray and someone at the DR. For the bigger stories that indirectly came from 'good guys' they tended to be reasonably accurate and yesterdays article seems to have little in the way to get bothered about... (Forlan is the man who knows much more about this). In the real world, the DR is still read by many Rangers fans and effectively a free advert is a no-brainer. Your idea of a boycott by our players, officials, Directors or even ex-directors would be counter-productive. The boycott that hurts and is within the power of all, is simply not consume it. In the real world, the independent press won't always give you favourable coverage and sensationalist/clickbait publications taking things that bit further. Nor is it a particularly good idea for everyone to to always get their news about the club from the club.

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Back in the spiv era, the DR effectively served as the good guys conduit to get information out there and during this time relationships formed and as tends to be the way, endure to varying degrees. Yes, there has been negative coverage (just as there has been many negative aspects to our clubs affairs) but ignoring the decent coverage or not even wanting it when it serves a positive purpose isn't a good or realistic way forward.

I think Woodward's 5 year plan went somewhat astray. If they bin him he might still be able to get a job as an advisor to the Tory cabinet on Brexit.

Like em or not, the press remain a significant conduit and need to be used for positive communication where possible. This article is effectively a free advert that hits the mark.

Scottish fitbaw is generally a low quality environment that is best at hating itself into insignificance and worse. The SFA made a bad appointment that had car crash written all over it. To compound it, their own past incompetence had forced them into a money-making end of season trip to Central and South America that no-one (including many of the players) was interested in. It put Eck on the general defensive from the off and squad harmony was at least partly torpeded before a competitive game. In terms of complete f**k-up, they couldn't have done it better had it been their actual aim. What it did do was give the unashamed Rangers haters like Cosgrove and Stewart something to opportunistically get their teeth into but IMO the biggest culprits in all of this are the SFA.