buster.

Probably because he was in the Belguim squad.

Proof is in the pudding, either way.

Whatever XI start, they need to be 100% in application, concentration and effort (not just for 10 minutes). If they can do that and the basics, we'll win. At a time of uncertainty, we could do with seeing some unity and cohesion between players and coaching staff.

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You didn't, but if it makes you feel better about yourself, fill your boots. You are going on ignore because stalking and stupidity are a toxic mix 😁

Two points about my post. Both you have got completely wrong. 1. Nothing to do with turning up to football matches. Very few supports could match the loyalty shown in that regard. 2. The word 'toxic' was selected carefully and describes something that you don't seem to get. Must do better Especially when (stalking😁) shouting out like you do.

I thought John Gilligan posted on here with the username 'Compo' ? Connection: biscuits 🕵🏽‍♀️

Just as well we have a constructive and united supporter group to help things along.

Might as well put Compo in charge. He may be able to raise temporary finance via Bet365.

We don't have all the details but it is fair to say we have become a toxic binfire. If true, the manager won't be feeling as secure in his post. Edit. Sorry to hear about John Bennett's health issues. Hope he recovers as soon as possible.

If the rumour / report of John Bennett about to resign is correct. It would seem as senior executive posts at the club aren't an attractive proposition for those in situ, either. We have become toxic and the fans have to take their share of the blame.

A fair wind would fan the flames. We need calm 😂 For half a second I thought that you had suggested Willie Miller!

Unless we are offering a relatively generous package, we aren't an attractive proposition for a reputable CEO. A bonfire of a club with the fans and press ready to pounce.

Pot, kettle, black. Nearly every time I come back on here you follow posts of mine with some excuse to have a snidey, pathetic snipe. I'm just calling you out for it.

Which board (directors) ? The current board are looking to make the club a viable business after multiple previous boards have went with the more popular spending more than they made, whilst kicking the can further down the road. The current board, like multiple prior boards, have made a lot of poor decisions and lack real leadership qualities BUT under Bennett, are at least trying to make the club viable. If the support don't show a degree of patience over the MEDiUM TERM then they deserve what will come further down the line.

Mr thread polis, Ever so sorry for developing the conversation into areas that you don't seem to approve of or in part, agree with. I did directly address the topic in my first post. However, I didn't realise that the former freedom of speech warrior had appointed himself as thread polis. Well, maybe I did because you have made a habit of it, every time I come back on here. FO

"A slight hangover" Its a wee bit more than that. Bar the odd exceptional year, we haven't been able to live within our means for decades. Our main rivals have become the polar opposite. It was the main reason behind the fall in 2012. Creatively, trying to lower outgoings. In the age of FFP, we have to radically change our addiction of spending too much money, badly.

Do the new FFP rules allow a club to cover losses in this way ?

The leagues haven't yet been designed but I get your point. What I was getting at was access to better revenue streams. To eventually be reasonably competitive at the level we were shoehorned into. At the moment, we aren't competitive in the SPFL.

What does outside investment mean ? Back to (remaining in) the 'good old days' of spending more than we earn, perhaps? How would that go down with the new FFP regulations? Is there a queue of well intentioned extremely wealthy benefactors because I didn't see many of them in 2012. Bennett is at least right in that we firstly have to become viable and it will be painful.

Back in '86, we were a sleeping giant. Now we are a badly run, financial basket case with a support who have next to no patience. Good luck trying to get the calibre of leadership that we require to directly compete with a club who are miles ahead of us, when money and patience are scarce. A downsizing rebuild. Yet another outside bet. This has been coming. I was accused of being too pessimistic when I talked about it over the years. Restructured European leagues is our best bet to become relevant again. But it won't be in the short term.

Then, David Holmes was given the where with all to help bring in a big hitter, Souness alongside England Internationals at a time when European football wasn't effectively, a closed shop and domestic rivals weren't out of sight. There was also scope to significantly increase revenue by filling the stadium. Today, it is a LOT more difficult. We are badly run, have weak leadership, little finance and the challenge will be to maintain attendance levels.

I'd say that the current situation is very different to pre-Souness in various important aspects. The league is a lot lesss competitive and we find ourselves moored in a very predictable second place. A long way behind the team above and over a season, a long way in front of the provinicial pack. We have went decades spending more money than we generate. We have become used to spending our way (often badly) out of problems. Even after 2012, when things caught up on us. We dressed up the continual overspend as a strategic medium term measure that would be financed and get us back to the top of Scottish football, 'structured losses'. Fine, only we can't shake the addiction. John Bennett rightly recognises the need to change. But it seems to me that he hasn't got the cojones to face up to a support who generally don't really get the extent to which things need to change and the time it may take. Fergus McCann was the guy who turned the other side of the city around and later, they happened upon Peter Lawwell, who took charge of building on those new financial foundations. Two strong characters, who most of the Celtic support didn't/don't care for because the short-term medicine wasn't what they wanted. But they didn't flinch or seem to care about their popularity, headlines and social media 'feedback'. We don't have that type of leadership. We don't have the money to embark on our usual M.O. path to solve problems FFP further complicates matters In a season or two, European football post August will not be a given. The normal timescales of cyclical success in Scottish football no longer apply and as it stands, we depend on them making an complete erse of things. Only way out is for a good manager to be given time to build a team/squad. I thought Clement was that man. Now, I'm not sure but looking at his signings, he does seem committed to the medium term and we need to support the 'project' and cross our fingers. Given expectation timescales, I'm not optimistic. As for what Compo was getting at. When you come away from an OF scudding with questions about the application of some players, it suggests that something isn't quite right.

Getting bogged down or divided in small relatively unimportant details is a speciality of the majority of Rangers fans on message boards. It is little wonder that as a group, we have been shown to be so gullible and easy to exploit. However, it goes beyond the support. I see a consistent lack of strategic competence at a board level. Sometimes, we might talk a good game but we are unable to carry it out. We are currently where we deserve to be.