buster.

Frank could slot in nicely at Chelsea and given it is still the first half of January, could go for the record of how many times you can get sacked in a calendar year. Or he could team up with Gerrard and see if together, they can do it in the EPL 😄

What happened to 1zip ?

He has the talent, he needs to show he has the mentality and work his butt off wherever he spends the next few months.

I don't disagree wrt which I would rather have, if it were a straight choice. Disclaimer - I don't know much about either but am looking at profile / type of signings.

Is there a hidden message in that post ? That Cantwell would have the Cho Cho chap on toast ? 😆

The way it should be IMO. - the club (any club) obviously have to hope that they have the right manager in. - given average player contract length and average manager longevity it comes with obvious danger - At Rangers there is huge pressure on results so most managers won't side with youth development, even though they may initially talk about it. Some fans want it both ways but until we produce top class players or have no money, it will play a secondary role. When we produce top class youngsters, they are poached....just as we poach from the rungs below us. I agree, Bassey is a great example but those stars will probably align once in a while. I don't think there is any doubt that it was his physique aligned to attitude that were the main drivers. We provided the coaching and opportunity. Patterson was also a big and powerful lad who had real belief. Size and power seem to matter. Beale talks a good game and that has had a positive effect on our determination to eek out results, often in the second half of games. However, I wouldn't put much weight on soundbites in press conferences (he was big on loyalty at QPR, until he wasn't). The proof will simply be in the pudding and that will come soon enough. Fingers crossed because we don't need more non-producing large salaries, eg. Matondo.

The club will have to develop fit and hungry players and add the value. It might mean a fallow year or so but at least it might go somewhere. Rather than sign guys with your fingers crossed who might have once been a player or is a player when you can keep him fit. The road to a repetitive nowhere.

My memory isn't what it once was. Gerrard built a squad in his first year or two but since then....some individuals have been good but collectively ?

Hence the interest. Recruitment this year had better be excellent or we'll be getting nowhere fast. Can't remember the last decent window we have had.

Haven't a scooby about the player but if the above is true that three different managers got fed up with him and jettisoned him, then the gambling odds become longer. I have droned on about bringing in too many players on long odds gambles, whether it be for injury history, attitude or whatever. It's akin to punters doing football accumulators. It has been the plan to bridge the financial gap. ie. (ex)quality on the relative cheap, hoping to keep them fit or provide the right motivation. Personally, I don't think it is the way to go. Developing mostly hungry, fit and motivated young players has to be the way forward. It will be very interesting to see what the squad looks like come the end of the summer transfer window.

Also worth noting that he has already been called out for his attitude this season by the first team manager.

I tend to agree. However, there is an element of backing your manager's judgement. Cost wise, the agents of TD and NC have a good negotiating base (initial pressure on club to give new manager what he has gone public about) and the salaries would likely be relatively high.

Aye, generally the issue seems more to do with the hand ball rule / interpretation, than it is with VAR.

We have the answer to our goalkeeping problem already in the building 😁

If he were more mobile, I wouldn't have a problem with his build. He used to be more mobile. We improved more down to a general increase in urgency and tempo. The style of Morelos suited our game, more than an ineffective, injured and not matchfit Colak.

You see a lot of players with his current build and mobility in non league football. Probably in the Scottish lower leagues as well.

Morelos checked out long ago and needs shifted. He looks like a decent Sunday Pub League player who has won a competition to be centre forward for Rangers. If we could at least free up his wage, we could look to bring in a replacement because we can't go with only Colak and Roofe, for obvious reasons. We are starting games badly and whilst we have been able to come back from behind and win against diddy clubs (Hibs and Aberdeen), we couldn't eek out the win against better opposition. Beale has made a positive difference but this team would still suffer heavy defeats if they had midweek CL games to contend with. A work-in-progress that needs two stellar transfer windows, but with limited funds.

Dundee Utd 1 Rangers 2 Colak

According to Scottish Legal News, it was ...due to the complainer’s lack of confidence in the judiciary’s ability to deal with the complaint properly. David Grier, 61, had lodged a complaint against Sheriff Lindsay Wood with the Judicial Office in May. The sheriff was accused of a “glaring judicial conflict of interest” A decade on, I laughed at the irony of David Grier accusing someone of a conflict of interest. If I had known then, this is how things would turn out for him (and others similar too him), I would have cried. https://www.scottishlegal.com/articles/complaint-against-sheriff-lindsay-wood-withdrawn-over-lack-of-confidence-in-scottish-judiciarys-impartiality

I'm confident that we will manage to fcuk it up.

What !! No communication about our new Communications man 😁 Maybe taking time to translate it from Gaelic.

VAR is going no-where unless one day it was the financial cost of it that couldn't be supported.

Partly it will be to appease their support. Partly to make a noise and influence refs. I recall, when the combative war criminal John Reid was their hands-on chairman, they sent a video to the SFA regards decisions they were unhappy about. I think it may have been in Feburary 2010 when we were winning the league under Walter Smith.....Under the surface the crowds at Parkheid were significantly down and they decided on Mission Conflict to get the support onside. The extension of that was the springtime appointment of Neil Lennon. Followed by a summer tour of various supporters clubs by Lennon and Lawwell, where they told the hordes that conflict would be stepped up if they didn't get their way.......Later in the same year there was DougieGate. Full blown warfare, rallying the hordes. Crowds increased significantly. They completely forgot to mention bad decisions that benefitted them in a previous season that they had won the league. It was one after another, I recall an late Aberdeen equaliser at the Midden being ruled out for nothing and an opening goal for them against Falkirk (IIRC) punched into the net, etc. etc. Edit Might have years mixed up but points stand. https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/scottish/referee-admits-blunder-in-ruling-out-aberdeen-goal-813899.html The referee Iain Brines has admitted he wrongly disallowed the goal that could have finished Celtic's title challenge. Brines penalised Aberdeen's Zander Diamond for handball seconds before the defender fired the ball into the top corner of the net for what he thought was a last-gasp equaliser at Celtic Park on Saturday. Instead Celtic moved top of the Scottish Premier League with a 1-0 victory.

No, he wasn't but the wording in the AGM doesn't suggest it relevant. Another thing re. AGM's In 2019, DK said he'd been given numbers by Ross Wilson wrt squad value, current and projected. In 2022, RW distances himself from them. Relevant excerpts

If CFC go to the SFA (as per press headline) without a handball to stand on......can we get to see the correspondence 😁