buster.

We had our awful games under SG as well, but we did tend to learn and take on board lessons. Also fair to say that SG never had to play against elite clubs in the CL like Liverpool and this Napoli team. However, what is damming is the failure to take on board lessons from the Parkhead debacle of a first half in Feburary and apply them in September. Not only not take on board, but actually get worse. Then Gio says he told them prior to the game. The players not applying thse instructions says a lot. Next reference for taking on board lessons will be Napoli (away).

No need to pour over them, you supply numerous opportunities that I only occasionally point out. If I did them all, I'd have to give up my 'day job'. Maybe I'm Oh CD ! Oh there is another Contradiction and if I mention it, the Deflection follows (last couple have included GIF) That process is on repeat. If you didn't give a damn, you would ignore, instead of deflect.

I know, I spent 12 months over there on two tours (West Belfast and the Easterly Border). Like any such conflict, it is mostly about perception, loyalty/patriotism and the ability to block out the uncomfortable detail. The article posted earlier today brings into sharp focus the horrors and attrocities of what the IRA actually did, just as any such list that comes from conflicts. It reminded me of the Iraq cables published by wikileaks.

Got that one right 👍

If he is the real deal, he won't be with us for long enough to do much with us. Barring injury, I'm fairly sure he'll have a stellar career in the game.

We have previous for it. Morelos eventually broke and was out for months.

Good news is that Lowry is to play part of a B team game today ! 🎉

Yilmaz next ? Do these young foreign players no fancy the Weegie burdz ?

Injured or loss of form, he shouldn't play tomorrow.

I'd say it is perfectly normal to want back what somebody else took from you. The next part (IRA) is really a point of view (terrorist or freedom fighter) and partly to do with where you come from (or don't). The positive is that these days it tends to be things like singing songs that causes a stooshie opposed to actual carnage,withthe odd exception. The other thing that has changed of late is the need to video everything and share it on the web, often without the engagement of a brain. An ex Rangers employee did the same last week, when he was employed by the club.

I agree, but what I referred to wasn't a legacy contract. It was a new agreement that was signed up to by the then board, with King at the head.

I'd disagree but that said, he has also made his mistakes. The first statement (league getting called early) that came out on a Saturday made claims that were difficult to fully justify (perception) and hence easier for SPFL executive to bat away. Too much too soon.

Yes, the US angle is simply a known unknown for us punters. Any agreement(s) will probably have an NDA attached, so the mystery may stay that way. Regards Dave King, there was a couple of false dawn's regards the attempted uncoupling of the SD legacy issue. It looks to me as if he relished the challenge of taking on Ashely / SD and got his (our) fingers burnt. The new contract we signed with Ashley didn't do what we announced it would do. Ultimately, taking on the expensive Ashely legal juggernaut wasn't wise. Even when we had a good morning in court (Justice Smith/London), King bigged it up with journalists at the lunchtime and the first thing Justice Smith said in the afternoon session was that King had been too hasty.

Not many of our Academy players are bald.

We have to increase revenue medium to long term. That requires investment. Not allocating more money to the Playing budget has consequences but the board need to look further ahead, as well as the present.

Generally, we have been prolific with bullish statements but it hasn't often finished well. The Ashely episode being a long term example that loosely mirrored the 90 minutes last week against Liverpool.

Aye, but "perfect opportunity", only if you can adequately replace him.

It is all about timing. Regardless of the past, when the red flags wave, you shouldn't ignore them. ie. look very carefully at situation, projections of where this is going and consider options. Accross the City when they imploded from the inside, Lawwell said that they kept Lennon because of loyalty and past success. It was a mistake that played into our hands. Regardless of the past, he was taking them no-where. Five years ago in October 2017, Pedro left the building and we were left in semi limbo until the following summer. Graeme Murty came in as caretaker and was replaced before the end of the season. Going back further to the end of 2005, Eck was struggling badly and at the sametime qualified us for the KO stage of the CL !! Sir Duped announced his support for him in December, Boyd was signed and Lovenkrands started a goalscoring run that improved things until the faultlines were exposed in a 0-3 tanking from Hibs in the Scottish Cup. The support were unhappy and Sir Duped told them Eck would be gone at the end of the season. Two very different replacements Steven Gerrard and Paul Le Guen. One with multiple League winning experience and the other a rookie manager.

Looking forward to it. ps. Can admin @Rousseau change the spelling in the title, it is doing my nut in 😀

I remember reading somewhere that VAR improves the percentage of correct calls on the areas it has influence over from low 90's to high 90's. I can't remember if the data used was from only England or a larger group of countries. The general incompetence of too many Scottish officials will surely simply extend in to the VAR environment. I very much doubt they'll have as many camera angles to look at as say, the EPL. But, it should mean the blatant stuff gets picked up. Statos get ready for penalty and red card trends 😃 The media will be geared up to jump on whatever VAR events go down this weekend. Will VAR be geared up to see Kyogo (or whatever his name is) taking a dive ? Will it settle down and work function to a reasonable degree after initial chaos ? I don't think Scottish football is really geared up to let it.

I'd sacrifice the League Cup on Wednesday if we brought in a decent new manager on the back of it. Although I'm not sure decent managerial candidates will be forming a queue to take this side to Naples.

Has slipped by without much apparent attention. I guess, not many know many details of what has actually been going on. Somebody might ask a question at the AGM. Any comment ? @forlanssister

Le Guen was the only Rangers manager who recognised what Adam could bring and used it.

GvB can't afford another severe doing. Whether playing Tav actually helps his cause is debatable. If the Georgian winger plays then I would prefer someone who was fit. Not to mention that the more Tav plays, the worse any injury will get.

Andrew Shinnie came through at about the same time as Craig Halket. The brother of Graeme has had a reasonable career. Both have been called up to the Scotland squad. Andrew actually started a match against Luxembourg. Ross McCormick had a few appearances for Ranges and even scored an important Champions League group stage goal, but we released him around 2006. He would go on to cost eight figure transfer fees twice.