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Good executive management needs a tadge of foresight or at least decision-making that has a sound base. During some of the times you point towards it was "institutional failure" and we still count the cost in salaries and pay-offs. - don't push unreasonable expectations - promise 'less' and deliver more - SG 1er season don't mention 'them', it's about us improving and building - Give SG&Co time, this season will probably deliver little tangible reward - Lets work towards there being real substance in our optimism for 2019/20 (politicans line but reasonable all the same, IMO) .

Only time will tell on much of the detail. In mitigation, you have to consider the state of our main rivals and the increased difficulty to access European revenue. I've never known Celtic to be in a stronger state, both on and off the park. Something that makes the job of whoever was in charge at the club so much more difficult and more easily prone to risk-taking or sanctioning such, eg. transfer policy for the previous two summers. European football revenue is oft mentioned as something we have to attain by 'overspend'. Given how the competitions are set-up/co-efficients/date of qualifiers, it is more difficult to qualify and for how long can you 'overspend' ? SG&Co pretty much HAVE TO work and have to be given time, regardless of what happens in the next few months.

Yes, good and not so good but my main bugbear is too long without a coherent, holistic strategy and the lack of a hard-nosed, more than competent CEO to carry it out......It's not a new thought, I wrote a Gersnet article that featured that, way back. Too much tends to be reactionary rather than following a strategy. eg. Counter-attacks on individuals on governing body boards came after the 2 SFA charges. Regards SDI, let's review that in a couple of weeks after the courtcase. Regards TP, it doesn't look good and I doubt that it will end well. As for not effecting the football club, (TRFC), IMO he's being disingenuous....... it might well effect RIFC and hence the club...eg. share issues ? Regards the football, it's been that much of a mess, AJ called it an "institutiuonal failure" We hope that the SG&Co appointments can help turn the tide. Hopefully, the changes and improvements to the football operation as a whole are a sign of 'strategic approach' at that level.

I only did it so as to give Petrocub a better chance Ive sent a link to the Petrocub Gaffer so he can print it out and pin it to the dressing room wall.

He put his money where his mouth was and with some others fought a battle no one else seemed prepared to do and that should be fully recognised but I don't think he or others for him have went about executive control of the club in a coherent fashion and that is partly why we struggle to take the next step.

It makes for an interesting debate.............. A more settled and clearly improving side on the park would certainly help some of the other issues. eg. players doing well = less pay offs and potential profit on player trading, increased European revenue, etc. There is an argument that suggest that this is the current approach, opposed to 'top down', which in some areas is proving very difficult. If so, it's a big gamble.

We aren't 5 players off Aberdeen, that's patent nonesense. We are currently way off Celtic, that is an obvious fact.

An answer to the straightforward question as to why the Faroes and not Macedonia would be interesting. It's closer and could be slightly cheaper but I don't think there would be a significant difference in cost. Maybe they think the Faroes tie is still in the melting pot, Runavik did get an away goal edit Thinking about it, I think they'd wrap an answer up in the Tuesday being Betfred Cup night.

Bet365 will have a livestream of Osijek v Petrocub tonight (for account holders with at least 0.01 pounds/euros in account). Incidently, Osijek are priced at 1/5 on by the same bookie to win tonights game. Petrocub (midseason) unbeaten in 8 games Osijek played 5 friendlies prior to EL qualifiers, including a 3-0 win against St.Johnstone. Sat 23/06/18 CLF Osijek 2 - 1 Vidi More info Wed 27/06/18 CLF Osijek 1 - 3 Shkendija More info Sat 30/06/18 CLF Osijek 3 - 0 St. Johnstone More info Tue 03/07/18 CLF Osijek 0 - 0 Lokomotiv Moskva More info Wed 04/07/18 CLF Osijek 2 - 0 Zalaegerszegi

Location Nice plaza with showers to help cool you down. Most famous ex-player and golden boot at WC 1998 Davor Suker Croatian League 2017/18 1 Dinamo Zagreb 36 22 7 7 68 34 +34 73 WLLDL 2 Rijeka 36 22 4 10 75 32 +43 70 WDWLW 3 Hajduk Split 36 19 9 8 70 38 +32 66 LDWLD 4 Osijek 36 14 14 8 53 38 +15 56 LDWLL 5 Lokomotiva Zagreb 36 14 9 13 47 48 -1 51 WWWWW 6 Inter Zaprešić 36 11 10 15 43 64 -21 43 LLLWW 7 Slaven Koprivnica 36 11 10 15 35 45 -10 43 WWLDD 8 Rudeš 36 10 10 16 41 62 -21 40 DWWWW 9 Istra 1961 36 6 9 21 28 60 -32 27 DLLDL 10 Cibalia 36 6 8 22 36 75 -39 26 Starting XI in 1st leg last week. 9 Croats 2 Bosnians Average Age: 24 13 M. Malenica 3 B. Barišić 6 S. Radeljić 17 T. Šorša 16' 21 M. Škorić 7 G. Boban 30 H. Hajradinović 5 B. Mioč 12 P. Bočkaj 2 D. Lončar 24 M. Marić 52' Coach: Z. Zekić Recent Europa League results Thu 29/06/17 UEL UE Santa Coloma 0 - 2 Osijek View events Thu 06/07/17 UEL Osijek 4 - 0 UE Santa Coloma View events Thu 13/07/17 UEL Osijek 2 - 0 Luzern View events Thu 20/07/17 UEL Luzern 2 - 1 Osijek View events Thu 27/07/17 UEL PSV 0 - 1 Osijek View events Thu 03/08/17 UEL Osijek 1 - 0 PSV View events Thu 17/08/17 UEL Osijek 1 - 2 Austria Wien View events Thu 24/08/17 UEL Austria Wien 0 - 1 Osijek View events Thu 12/07/18 UEL Petrocub 1 - 1 Osijek 2 qualifying campaigns (including this season) 6 wins 1 draw 2 defeats 6 clean sheets Only team to KO them have been Austria Vienna Good to see that Petrocub at least scored against them. Support / Stadium

Anyone in the land of reality think Forrester will prove a good acquisition for the Tractor XI ? Promising first half hour then it'll be downhill from there.

As Dave King said today, it's an expensive business to go through so many managers in such a short period of time. #PayOffCentral

He's limited as to what he can say about the ongoing legal matters with SDI and TP. He doesn't mention the two SFA charges and the ongoing process. He hopes, like the rest of us that SG can be successful but it's football and we have to wait and see. What's important is how the above actually end-up and that would need someone with the predictory prowess of Craig to tell us ...

I think it comes down to if Alfredo wants to be at Ibrox or not. If he genuinely does and it's a confidence issue then fair enough but if it is more and I suspect it is, then his agent needs to be called. There are 6 weeks left in the window, less if we are talking England. As for now, he needs benched (at least)* *Sadiq better get warmed up sharpish and Rudden couldn't do any worse

We probably don't have a spare 750K in the budget.

The frustrating thing for me is that I rate Morelos as a player, he's shown us that he can play and has various qualities but his Rangers career has sort of fell off a cliff (months ago) and the new season under a new manager is showing very little sign that things have changed. I think you are right that his value will continue to fall. There are times when I think you have to accept something isn't working and you have to do something about it. I think moving him on NOW would be in everyones best interest.

I think we could do with a closed doors game this weekend. Work on things Thursday and Friday, game on Sunday to put it into practice then it'll be the European tie on the Thursday.

You are right, there wasn't much time and tbh it serves little purpose to go over it. SG&Co have to look forward and quickly work on improvements. Is there a game (closed doors) this weekend ?

Perhaps they should be but they patently aren't an irrelevance at this point in time. The sooner we realise that there isn't an automatic fast pass taking us to where we want to go, the better. The club have to get their act together at all levels, put together a coherent strategy and work towards it rather than the constant upheaval at various levels.

Last year 15 June 2017 Friendly Rangers 5 − 0 Coleraine showAuchenhowie 19 June 2017Friendly Rangers 1 − 1 The New Saints showAuchenhowie 22 June 2017Friendly Rangers 0 − 0 St Johnstone showAuchenhowie 29 June 2017 Rangers 1 − 0 Progrès Niederkorn 1 July 2017Friendly Rangers 3 − 0 Raith Rovers The difference being that on the 4th of July we lost 0-2 to Progres.....so yes, when it mattered we kept another clean sheet this year but you can't really judge our defence on the matches thus far. They've done what they had to but the real tests are still to come. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017–18_Rangers_F.C._season

I wouldn't read too much into clean sheets against Bury and a Macedonian pub team. If we can get one in Coatia and Aberdeen then it's a much better indicator.

Looking at individuals goes so far but it's the middle to front block that the manager has to sort out via changes in personnel/formation/tactics. Rather than just change all the individuals, the manager has to prove his worth by coming up with something that is more effective. It looks undercooked at the moment, no real cohesion. I think we lack gametime and should have looked to play a couple more friendlies.

To tell Windass and Morelos that they seriously lack quality, opposed to say a lack of understanding/cohesion is more or less saying you ain't good enough and I need new, better and/or more committed players. To get these you need finance.............. Sadiq plus one decent loan makes logical sense BUT IMO we seriously need to look at the Morelos situation and deal with it before this window closes.