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For me, it was a penalty. The defender moves his arm towards the ball to block it.

No, we were under a UEFA season long ban (after ECWC win 72). Hence, UEFA don't recognise the first Super Cup between us and Ajax. According to Wikipedia we had scored 601 European goals prior to the game last night but that included the 3 goals we scored in the Super Cup.

Well done !! A real Thursday night performance. Very good for goal difference. The wagon still has four wheels and rolls onto St.Mirren at Ibrox. I think we (Cerny's first) might have scored our 600th goal in official European club competition* tonight. * Super Cup '73 games against Ajax weren't official.

Thursday nights have motivated most of the players since Gerrard took over. I'd expect we'll start with urgency. Where that takes us, not a clue. No idea about FCSB.

I guess you would know, given that you are on here more than anyone. Self appointed Thread Polis was your calling 😂

Good reply !! 😂 The emotive factor around football (support/ownership) provides mitigation but.....

Is there a collective common sense based intelligence within our support or are we self entitled idiots ?

We could go for a different approach. Get managers in on a 6 month contract and change every six months. Go for a neverending steady new manager bounce. I'll phone John Gilligan and chuck my hat in for the CEO gig.

Better measure will be the points totals after 2 rounds of fixtures (22 games). It will have to get a whole load worse before Clement is sacked. The support have to remember that generally, we pledged patience and that to repeat the annual sacking would only set us back further, #omnishambles² Get used to the fact that we aren't winning the league this season and give it a chance. This season was never going to be pretty. The expectation and pressure that comes from that are only hindering any possible improvement.

23rd September newspaper article Q&A What it the timescale for appointing a new CEO? JG: “We are well on. We have quite a number of people around it who we can pick up with again. We are moving quickly on it.” Do you have plans to bring in more football board members, like a sporting director? Or is the focus fully on the new CEO? JG: "It will be full focus on the chief executive because in turn, if we bring in people, we'd really like to think we [he/she] would be part of that. https://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/football/24604353.full-q-interim-rangers-chairman-john-gilligan/ ---------__---------- https://youtu.be/30ZdB35fKMg?si=Nd8JtuMe2s1_vYug So when JG came in. he said that the CEO appointment was the most important and that we already had a list of candidates that a recruitment agency would add to. Fast forward over 3 weeks and he tells us "..our recruitment consultants have already produced short lists of very strong and experienced candidates..." Maybe we are already interviewing candidates and he just doesn't want to say anything until we have something over the line.

I seem to recall John Gilligan saying that Rangers would be or were revisiting candidates that were in 'a short-list' from which "guy from St.Mirren" was selected. As an aside, why do you think he knocked us back? I presume he'd happily entered a process that included interview(s).

IMO the CEO appointment is the most urgent issue. Bisgrove leaving was made public about 140 days ago. "...our recruitment consultants have already produced short lists of very strong and experienced candidates..." Congratulations John !

All sounds good. Would be a move towards a sustainable, modern football club. Would need a lot of patience and a shift in short to medium term expectation levels. Lets see how the next three months pan out. On and off field.

Would be scarier if we gave him a 5 year extension 😂

Too late, just have him enjoy a video of Sandy Jardine playing at right back. Tav will be 33 soon. Jardine won Scottish Player of the year when he was 38.

My mind immediately turns to their left back, Mark Wilson. Cousin just ignored the challenge as an irrelevance on his way through to score the first in a 2-4 win.

It's relative. McLean didn't get the headlines at Rangers. It was more about Greig, Stein, Johnston, Johnstone, Jardine, Parlane, etc. He stood out more at Kilmarnock, where he won his Scotland caps and was part of a provincial title winning side. Russell arrived with Cooper and a free goal scoring Gordon Smith. He played alongside an even more prolific Derek Johnstone. The singing was about these players, not Bobby Russell. Appreciated, but relatively unsung.

Tommy McLean was the assist king when Derek Johnstone was taking the plaudits for his goal tally. Bobby Russell was an excellent midfielder and footballer picked up for 200 pounds from the juniors when Cooper was the headline signing. Russell and Jardine on the right were very effective.

There was significant division in the beginning. Before his tanks rolled up, the PR battleground of social media reflected this, with the general difference of opinion between Rangers Media and Follow Follow. Although, those who had saw the light, were fairly loud in their protests and it wasn't long until it was the many. Not forgetting that Ashely first arrived on the scene somewhere close to the beginning. 2012 or possibly before, Green&Co giving Sports Direct the deal of the century. ----+----- Memory lane I can recall on FF asking you accounting questions by PM, about the numbers being produced from the retail deal 😂 Then, my FF thread being picked up by The Herald to run an article on that retail deal. More than a decade on and we are still not free of the fall out.

The current board don't want anyone or group, who are looking for a controlling shareholding. So, as it stands I don't think that we are in immediate danger of falling into the hands of spivs. Back in the day, it took an owner, Sir Duped, who was desperate to sell who in turn found a dodgy geezer, Whyte. Who saw the opportunity of a pre packed administration event from the get-go. That was down to our finances allied to the EBT case. However, the direction of travel isn't encouraging and some of our main shareholders aren't young men. John Bennett was correct about what is first needed. A solid, secure and viable business that doesn't spend a lot more than it makes every year. However, it is one thing saying it and quite another, to change the habit of decades.

Klaxon, then mouthpiece for Sir Duped/Toxic Jack (TJ), switched sides and went in to bat for 'the good guys' over the spiv years. Other outlets, eg. 'The Scottish Sun' and BBC Scotland (mainly Chris McLaughlin) were used by TJ on behalf of Green&Co, Easdales, etc. Ashley actually possessed 'wealth off the radar' and was initially welcomed by some of the support. Another important error. All you had to do was research his M.O. in business, especially at Newcastle United. Lesson is not to blindly follow follow mainstream narratives without digging deeper. But unfortunately, we are world record holders for Gullibility. Our supporter groups take Be Divided and Be Conquered, to new levels. Any prospective spiv group currently looking at Rangers as a potential project will see a support that will be easily bent over. Just as well that our current custodians are very aware of such dangers. They may be having difficulty in running the club but you can't doubt their motives.

Craig Whyte, then Charles Green & Co. That is to say the vast majority of the support weren't just fooled once, but twice, in short order. I don't have any doubts that the vast majority would willingly buy into more of similar spinning bullshit.

It'd cost more than a pound coin this time. Hasn't it been said that (some) current board members aren't keen on the idea of one person coming in and taking a controlling stake? If someone did want a controlling stake, he/she would need to make a big outlay to buy up the requisite amount of shares and I think, would also need to make an offer to buy the shares of the others. Can't see a long queue of investors keen to throw their money down what is our longstanding black hole of a business model. That would leave those with emotional attachment. Some of those have already had enough. I think Dave King coined a phrase, "investor fatigue". The only way that I can see us becoming attractive to investors is if there was a European league restructuring where we increased revenue streams markedly. ... As it stands, not happening in the short to medium term.

It is a moniker I gave to Jack Irvine during his time serving/advising/instructing various heid yins at Ibrox, eg. Murray, Green, Easdale, etc. Another was 'the continuity bridge of bullshit'. The 'Toxic' moniker stuck and was widely used throughout Rangers message board land. It made the mainstream on the odd occasion as well.

Toxic Jack and his buddies ? Seriously, it is a good question. Not so much the name, but the type. How much of a quantum would they require to buy the shares and then invest into the club?