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That is a step in the right direction.

No-one is saying things are perfect but some are overly keen to point to any perceived negatives without being realistic about where we are in our recovery or balancing them against the positives. The Kilmarnock side that we played was under a caretaker manager who got them to put in a real shift within a shape that appeared reasonably organised and made them difficult to break down. They are a side who have drawn twice against Celtic this season, including a goalless game at Parkhead. They blow warm and cold, generally do better away from home and it was predictable they would put in a performance against us in the Cup. Equally predictable, was that MW would set-up in a more cautious formation than normal after seeing the hysterical reaction after the St.Johnstone result. The base objective on Saturady seemed to keep a clean sheet and we managed to do that, the fourth in a row. Perhaps those who have moved from the defence to the forward line regards their criticism could acknowledge that. We had chances, hit the woodwork twice and did enough to win the game, but couldn't put the ball in the net. Regards overall progress, the important thing is developing the football infrastructure as a whole and getting promoted. Anything in the Cups is a bonus but isn't the true barometer of our progress. Hibs (who we beat 4-2 with 10 men) have beaten various top tier sides this season but would swap league positions with us in an instant in return for their Cup victories. Patience, Promotion and Realism are required..............then we prepare for next season

That's a line that fits well with much of your views on 'the subject'. #ExaggeratedDQ

It's schoolboy logic that some are using.

We beat Kilmarnock 3-0 last season, were we then ready for the top tier ?...............NO Is the club slowly getting it's act together and trying to build solid foundations..............YES Will we have the same team in the top tier..................NO Did MW learn from the St.Johnstone game and set-up accordingly..................YES Are we out of the Cup......................NO

Att: 33,581 A really fantastic crowd !

The season that Sky hype the dug-out more than on the field ?

Frankly obscene and ridiculous for various reasons. Although English clubs seem to be quite good at spending huge amounts of money without relative reward. Interesting timing for this 'info' to come out as it is said that Man Utd are supposedly speaking with the agent(s) of Mourinho. Mourinho has picked up large pay-offs from both Real Madrid and Chelsea in his last two jobs. Both spell's ending in long drawn out protracted 'unpleasent affairs' . Mourinho no longer seems to be a guarrantee of success, is very high maintainence and Man Utd are desperate. More tears ? ps. Mon Leicester.......

A loss of form or longterm injury to Griffiths and Aberdeen have a real chance.

It was unanticipated because the strategy had previously been a 'holistic approach' which stated that there was no intention to pay-off the loan in the short to medium term.........and certainly unanticipated wrt cashflow. The club need to communicate in this way so as to let the fans know what is going on, countering some of the tiresome, often uninformed and repetitive reports/attacks coming from the media (traditional & social), some of which serve to agitate.

Events, comment, announcements etc at the time seem to have been arranged in such a way so as they could attempt firstly to avoid the initial SFA ruling and now what would appear somewhat desperately, attempt to overturn it. Looking back, it's interesting to see that the Rangers Chairman (David Somers) and then IIRC 'acting in an executive capacity' seemingly be part of the construction of a 'contingent defence' regards the circumstances behind the appointment of Llambias as a director. You could argue that there are grey areas as to whose interests he was working for in certain matters. What does become more apparent over time is the reasons behind certain actions, spoken words and wording of regulatory notices.

Credit Facility agreement as per public release http://www.iii.co.uk/research/LSE:RFC/news/item/1262042/credit-facility-2-million?context=LSE:RFC

Thanks GD ! Perhaps better in a seperate thread for later reference.

Sports Direct abandons legal case against Rangers Full article click on link below (it's worth it) http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/feb/03/sports-direct-abandons-legal-case-against-rangers

Ashely got a public mauling from this Judge and at a time when his 'image' and business interests are suffering from mucho negative publicity, I'm not surprised he'd be prepared to pay a price to try and prevent further damaging truths being laid bare. Justice Peter Smith had a handle on his real MO behind the action to put DK inside and in retrospect I'm surprised he didn't throw the towel in after the initial hearing in London.

Might be the price !... I'd imagine Rangers will make a short statement. Good sign and hopefully the beginning of a 'withdrawal'.

Given circumstances around the up and coming trial, I doubt the public (unless attendees at court) are going to know much detail of ongoing prceedings and are basically going to have to wait until the written judgement akin to War & Peace is made public (if this happens in criminal cases / not sure). The Crown made what I'd assume to be an unusual step of going public with a warning to social media users regards 'public/online prejudicial conversations' and I think the same thinking will be behind probable heavy reporting restrictions all the way through proceedings so as to lessen the risk......... Social media and it's easy access must make this difficult to police so anything that can be done to prevent is advisable. If you want to keep up to date you'll have to attend and I wonder if within the law/court regulations......... they'll want names and addresses to go with a warning about 'contempt'.

The 20,915 against Cowdenbeath was excellent if you look back over the last few years for SC games at Ibrox at a similar stage. It wasn't that long ago (Nov 2014) that we had a home SC tie against Kilmarnock on a Sunday and 14,412 attended. In 2015 we went out to Raith Rovers in front of 11,422. Even back in 2012 just before Admin, 17,822 were at the Dundee Utd SC tie. If we get anywhere near 25,000 it will be excellent but somewhere around 22K is more likely.

There are many things you could mention from back in the day but WS is still a 'big draw' for Rangers fans at a social event and there is obviously no bad feeling there. However it could be argued that Ally is to a degree temporarily toxic.

Was it not closer to the start rather than the "end" ? You'd expect a manager to react in a negative way to such a campaign,...regardless of it's merits. Then you add the political side with Sir Duped calling on him and a lot of others to come out and shout it down. As for "change", the situation today is very different from 2009.

Everything changes at some point and now is the time we have to. The important thing for me is the order of play. That the club changes (lays solid foundations) before the manager does.

Going by the thread title I thought it was dinner and a dance with Walter Smith for your 50 notes !

A Long and Winding Road..................................................

BM is the first player in the MW era to come into the category of..... Player due to negotiate future whilst producing outstanding performances = significant increase in 'value'. Agent will be looking to capitalise one way or tuther.

Halliday out and Ball in meant a bench without a defender. It seems as we have enough to cope with the absence of one defender but anymore and we either change formation, promote youth or make someone play way out of position. Any possible emergency option of bringing Gasparotto back has been nullified due to a fairly serious injury for the lad....although I guess there will be unattached players out there if the same happened to one of our first-team.