buster.

Don't take everything so literally.

If we talk politics then we won't all stick together. If we talk about football, we might.

I think you have to take into account the 2014 referendum, the way social media has effected debate which leads on to and contributes to an increasingly polarised society (many places). I think the above has had a marked effect on current attitudes, rhetoric, situations and the in your face nature of them.........in many different strands of society, concerning different groups and issues. Not to mention, the exploitation by interested parties (eg. lobby groups) to use new technologies to influence matters in a way that can often contribute to polarisation. Easy access to target markets for agitation.

That was out of Left-Field.........good luck to him.

Wallace was 'club-trained' by Hearts.

You can have 25 Association trained players (locally trained) but you'd lose 4 slots and be limited to a 21 man squad. There is a link to the rules a few posts back.

No You must have 8 Locally Trained players (ATP and CTP) That includes a maximum of 4 Association Trained players Hence if you only have 1 Club Trained player, you lose 3 slots in the squad.....As per us with only McGregor.

I think they'd have to arrange the draw so as the first match out of the hat would be for the Saturday (if us and them were kept seperate / if drawn together, it'll be the Sunday) Otherwise the SPFL would need to make a decision they won't want to have to make. The following midweek has another round of League fixtures. We are at home whilst Celtic play away from home, a game that would probably be moved for TV.

Opinions

Being born in X won't make you patriotic.................... Familiarity and a bond/love grown over years might produce what I'd consider a 'pure patrotism'. A good objective education may better inform you of background but would probably mean you didn't make life decisions based upon only patriotism. Indoctrination of one kind or another is a route to a different type of patriotism.

Here is a 'naughty' question for you. If the UK is a longterm political construct, a Union of nations. Then in 300 years might a football team be flying the EU flag at it's games ?

Patriotism in it's pure form is indeed noble. As for 'getting rid of flags', rather than a serious proposal, it was a metaphorical viewpoint. The abuse of Patriotism is very different than simple mediums like TV and social media. Although there is an argument to say getting rid of TV & SM would in many ways improve the world

You'll be able to get Kenny Millers version in the Daily Record further down the line. Via his go to plumber, Keith Jackson.

That is the point. Many seem 'to value' the Union, ahead of the nation and (metaphorically) wave that flag. I was brought up in the East and I always considered myself Scottish and as I got older, the Union, as a longtime political construct. I'd do away with all flags tbh, patriotism is too often badly abused by the few and often used against the best interests of the majority of the people.

As we all knew, the League games after the European matches have all been moved to Sunday. https://rangers.co.uk/matches The potential issue occurs if: 1. Rangers and Celtic get past Ayr Utd and St.Johnstone respectively and reach the League Cup semi-finals. and 2. Rangers and Celtic avoid each other in draw for semi-finals. Both teams have EL matches on Thursday 25th October League Cup semi-finals are scheduled for Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th October. Either us or them would have about 38 hours between BIG games. We have Spartak Moscow at Ibrox. They have a trip to Germany.

Yes, it is.....just a different flag. In Scotland, you have Celtic fans with Irish flags and Rangers fans with Union flags

Fine, I would say Dorrans being available for 2 or 3 group games in a position we are short trumps that of Wallace, in a position we are well covered....but thems opinions and wrt Dorrans return from injury timescale that will only be known to a few, including who selected the squad (SG). You said the club in your opinion, was being vindictive. If that was the case, why did they allow SG to bring him onto the pitch against Motherwell when the player had already taken the case to appeal ? I'll leave this one here as I think we'd just go round in circles.

Fine, but from a football perspective We can only pick 4 Association Trained Players...... Would you put Wallace ahead of Arfield, Jack, Halliday and Dorrans ? After Barisic and Flanagan, Halliday offers cover at both LB, DCM and potentially more. SG has used him and trusts him. That leaves Dorrans, he gets ahead because he offers something we are short of and if he could be available for the second half of the group, it would IMO provide a better option than LW, with three options in already for Left Back.

IMO it had a lot to do with the previous years of Chris McLaughlin spearheading the BBC Scotland conduit (and requested slant) for the whichever 'spiv(s) Jack Irvine was serving at the time. IMO, he had it coming and fully deserved it. However, one way or tuther, the 'case' should have been put out there of the Head football writer of the National Broadcaster playing for one side.

Siege Mentality only goes so far.

Toxic Jack Irvine was presented with the gig by sir Duped and it was as much about PR for Murray than for Rangers. He then became a 'continuity bridge' for the endless stream of spivs, again paid by Rangers but actually acting in other individuals best interests. Traynor was an ex-journalist who in his first gig, has proved himself to not be very good at PR, as subtle as a hammer. The story goes that it was Traynor who took McLaughlin to the front door and told him to leave. If true, without any thought of how to play the immediate situation. I take you back to where I think we erred wrt the beginning of an 'ongoing situation' Rangers haven't had well directed and competent PR in place for god knows how long. No surprise what follows...........

He wasn't removed from the sqaud. There are easily justifiable football reasons as to why Wallace didn't get into the 22 man squad (see the 4th post on this thread).

In recent years PR wrt fans has been 'tell them what they want to hear' and later we'll see if we can do anthing. Sometimes it works, other times, not. Again, the lack of a collective holistic strategy being evident.......and the impression of less than competent executives doing the day to day.

I often harp on about reactionary management opposed to strategic. You can see many examples of this during the last few years and one of those was the withdrawal of press privileges from Chris McLaughlin.......or rather to do so without making it very clear why the action was taken and in so doing effectively giving BBC Scotland a case to answer. I think the club were right to do it but didn't handle it well.

Regards the current 'relationship' between the Rangers support/brand and the SNP. My impression from afar is that the heightened political polarisation that came from an Independence Referendum coinciding with the relatively new medium of social media took things to a level of evident, in your face anomosity that hadn't been seen before. The fact that some Rangers supporters politically lean towards the SNP will in many cases probably be an opinion formed prior to the more in your face general confrontation. Bottomline IMO, is that whilst I respect those whose politics stem from or are linked to the football team they support, equally they should respect those whose politics have nothing to do with the team they support.