buster.

You can see and understand why we kept playing him but it doesn't make it the right thing to have done. I get paranoid when it comes to our better young players and injury because of what has happened in the past. These things can obviously happen but you should do all you can to prevent them.

Can't help but think of a Viz type character in a weekly comic strip. Terry Tank Commander (with sellick tap) battles against his imagination .

“Those are two historical ones that have had, not relapses, but we are taking our time with because we want to make sure that we don’t push them too hard and we give them longer-term problems." -------------- Sounds as if we have already pushed McCrorie too hard after he first suffered the injury. He's the type of guy who will just keep going until he's well and truly f**ked so we need to carefully look after the young man, both for the player and the club's best interests.

He's probably looking at somewhere around a 30K p/wk contract. Not bad for a lad from Livingston who went down south. Over about 10 seasons, Arfield has been very consistent. His application is very apparent

Is that The Moderators on stage ?

It is what it is. Prefer to call a spade a shovel rather than dance between guilt and resentment

IMO he was simply a lazy bast**d who couldn't (be bothered to) reach a decent level of fitness or if he did, was world class at hiding it during games. Some players are so good they can get away with it, Carlos wasn't. It was nothing to do with where he came from. A poor professional...... A label that he arrived with from his former club.

Agreed It's a joined-up strategy with competent leadership and management that is needed at the club.

I never saw anything to suggest real application, nor any real improvement along the way. We agree to disagree ?

At the end of the day, It's a judgement call / business decision. Perhaps we are prioritising the short-term given the need to start qualifying for European group stages. If you go down this road wrt age profile and make a net loss on player trading, it ups the pressure to do well in European qualifiers. IIRC the accounts mentioned the need to qualify for at least the EL group stages in 3 of the next 5 years.

For me, it's more about not seeing anything to suggest he was applying himself.

Docherty would make much more sense (if the fee wasn't prohibitive). Arfield is 29, would want a big wage and wouldn't have much resale value potential. Given the difficulty of securing serious European revenue in the short-term, we could do with making something out of player trading.

I wonder who is behind this prospective set-up ? Makes you wonder if whoever it is has been close to our saga at one stage or another.

For whatever reasons, it was fairly plain that Pena wasn't for applying himself or particularly interested in doing a professional job with Rangers. Facts prior to him joining were that he had been good enough to play for Mexico and that in more recent times had had issues outwith the game that might have been a factor in a sustained lack of form. The signing was a distinct gamble. Pedro Caixinha was to be the man who was to get Pena back to playing the way he had been when capped by Mexico. If he did, we'd win a watch and have an excellent midfield bargain with sell-on value....The real gamble had been Pedro Caixinha. What we got was a Pena who wasn't particularly interested or bothered in applying himself. Caixinha left and the writing was on the wall and if there was any doubt about his attitude, we got yesterdays video tweet

Looking at it from a commercial POV, the redtops will almost certainly get more traffic for the destructive type story that feeds into the real yahoo dream. Generally, redtops thrive on the negative, destructive, sad, violent, related story. If they can mix it with sex and/or gangster land all the better for commerce. Add a football angle and you have the full house, eg Kenny Miller story in the DR earlier this week. Positive stories on Rangers get space but often tend to drift down the digital page relatively quickly unless they have some actual substance.

Heid Yin = Major Role I don't think he's allowed to be dictatorial.

Time will tell how positive it may be but at least we appear to be seeing the ongoing re-construction of the football operation and we have to presume that the DoF is playing a major role in this.

That's a new level of 'sad and obsessed yahoo' The Scottish Football Monitor is the bast**d child from the RTC blog and purports to monitor Scottish football, whilst from the times I have seen it, it only ever looks at ONE club. If they were honest, it'd be renamed The Rangers Monitor. What it pretends to be is a voice for Scottish football fans run by Scottish football fans and a force looking to push for positive change. What is it ? A conduit for obsessed fans (sellick 95%, Others 5%) run by celtic-minded fans as a tool to focus on all things 'bad' at Rangers. It attempts to influence others into their way of thinking*. * In 2012, the RTC blog played a major part in trying to gather support amongst Scottish football fans to pressure their clubs into voting against Rangers in votes regards league status.

I was talking about the finances, not Sutton (hadn't heard about story until you mentioned it).

I've said it a thousand times. Until we as a club adopt a joined up strategy throughout the business, have focused leadership and committed, powerful & competent execs running the club on a day to day basis...we'll more than likely continue to react to events/firefight, rather than setting agendas/better controlling narratives. Wrt media, the best 'weapon' we have is not to consume it. To demand statements after clicking on links is a little hypocritical.

Try genuinely reading what I actually wrote.

IMO they are putting an overly negative spin on problems that do exist.

This is opportunism, in that yahoos see a complicated and difficult situation for Rangers/Dave King and are looking to squeeze as much out of it as they can. The blogging angle is about pushing their own name forward, alongside their donations button. The only way to really effectivelly put this type of thing to bed is to sort out our problems.

Better to stay silent unless you have something meaningful to say and that can be backed up. As for strategy, it's a joined-up strategy that has been missing and is a lot to do with providing vacums for yahoos to fill.