Bearman

Defending a poor Selik by having a go at Rangers won't wash....come to think of it, washing is a bypass for that obscene outfit.

Have you not got one of those CD players in the car mate? Do you drive a Vauxhall Chevette?

I'm laughing my arse off with you interfering in this respectable forum, talking about 'forcing' Ashley and 'his rights' is ridiculous and you know it so why type it? The badge is ours and is not up for negotiation. The 26% - 74% is for 7 years and there's nothing to be done about it. As for the boycott of all things SD. The 'Fat Man' doesn't get his bank account filled even more from us Rangers fans. Simples.

Knowing you, you would revel in that.

No deciphering of codes required on there Pete, just plain and easy to work out. As Rab said, why would you want to listen to a station dedicated to Rangers hating yahoos?

It's quite amazing the history of this club...it is before my time admittedly, but as a kid growing up the 2-2 game against Moscow Dynamo was talked about on the terraces a lot by the 'Auld Guys' even before we met them in the '72 CWCF.

Rangers, playing in their narrow blue and white hooped Butchers shirt away kit, drew 2-2 with Moscow Dynamo at Ibrox in 1945 John Brown, once a vociferous dissident, has become a public face of Rangers after accepting a mission to Russia on Sunday to represent the club at the 70th anniversary celebrations of Moscow Dynamo’s famous tour of the UK. The passionate defender from the nine-in-a-row era was a regular dissenter of the Charles Green and Easdale regimes, famously standing in the Ibrox doorway in 2012 demanding fans go to war with Green and then describing the Easdales as stooges at last year’s annual general meeting. A crowd of 92,000 crammed into Ibrox for the visit of Dynamo Now he has become an ambassador which is another sign of the complete change in the governance of Rangers since the Dave King takeover nine months ago. He will attend a gala dinner on Sunday celebrating the Moscow Dynamo tour, which included an historic encounter at Ibrox on 28 November, 1945, and will be a VIP guest at the local derby with Lokomotiv the following night. Russian Consul General Andrey Pritsepov from the Russian embassy will also make a special presentation to Rangers ahead of Saturday’s Petrofac Training Cup semi-final with St Mirren, which is the exact anniversary of the Ibrox game with Dynamo. Brown said: “I know the history of the Moscow Dynamo game so when the opportunity came up I was delighted to accept it. Being a Rangers fan I am aware of the importance of the visit of the Russians at that time so it’s an honour to be asked to represent the club. “Of course the fact that they were the opponents in 1972 when the club won the Cup Winners’ Cup just adds to the whole thing. “I travelled to many places during my days with Rangers but I have never been to Moscow so I’m really looking forward to it. “As well as the 70th anniversary dinner I will also be able to see Moscow Dynamo playing Lokomotiv so that’s great. “Nothing was really known about the Russians when they came over in 1945 but they certainly opened the eyes of the teams they faced as well as the fans who were there. “Since the new board has gone in they have asked me to do a few things which has been good and it’s a great pleasure to be asked to go to Moscow on Sunday.” As the world embraced peace-time following the end of the Second World War in August 1945, the Soviet Union’s most famous football side embarked on a four-match trip which captivated the nation. They were literally hanging from the rafters at Stamford Bridge as 74,000 watched Chelsea draw 3-3 with the Muscovites on 13 November. Four days later 45,000 attended Ninian Park to watch Cardiff City being destroyed 10-1. Then on 21 November the Soviets took on an Arsenal select side that included England legends Stanley Matthews and Stan Mortenson as well as future Rangers goalkeeper and Scotland manager Bobby Brown. A crowd of 55,000 was there at White Hart Lane – Highbury had been closed for the duration of the War – and Moscow, playing their “Passovotchka” style of fluid, passing football, won 4-3 in foggy conditions. However, all of these attendances were dwarfed in Glasgow on 28 November, 1945 when 92,000 crammed into Ibrox to take a peek at the mysterious foreigners which was all the more remarkable given the game was played at 2.15pm on a Wednesday. The Russians had been unhappy that Arsenal had fielded so many guests and they stopped Rangers from fielding left winger Jimmy Caskie, who had just been signed from Everton. Rangers, playing in their narrow blue and white hooped “Butcher’s shirt” away kit, were outplayed for much of the match and trailed 2-1 at half-time after battering ram striker Jimmy Smith had pulled a goal back. Willie Waddell missed a penalty – saved by Moscow’s famous keeper Tiger Khomich but George Young was successful from the spot late in the game to secure a creditable 2-2 draw. Remarkably, 27 years later Waddell led Rangers to European Cup Winners’ Cup glory against a Moscow Dynamo side managed by Konstantin Beskov, one of his opponents in 1945. Brown will also attend Friday’s AGM where the King-led board had hoped to nullify Mike Ashley’s voting rights in the continuing dispute with Sports Direct but the Newcastle owner was granted an interim interdict to prevent shareholders from doing so. It is another indication of the many remaining issues that face the new regime since their takeover success in February. Brown added: “The good news is that we managed to get rid of the previous regime, although it was terrible that it took so long to do it. “We haven’t reached the end yet because there are still many things for the new board to sort out and that will take time. But the right people are running the club.” l Tickets for Rangers v St Mirren are priced £15 for adults, £10 for concessions and £5 for juveniles and are available from: http://www.rangers.co.uk, calling 0871 702 1972 or from the Rangers Ticket Centre up until the 12.15pm kick-off. http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/teams/rangers/john-brown-is-rangers-envoy-for-moscow-dynamo-celebration-1-3957723?

Hardly winning ugly as opposed to scraping through. If you think a 7 game winning run against the dross in this league is the mark of champions then each to their own I guess. Their win in that run against Rangers was totally undeserved as Rangers dominated without finding the target...that's football...it bites you in the arse occasionally as you well know. Mark of champions? Honestly? You're having a laugh Pete.

Reminds me of great song....

He should concentrate on getting poor old Bolton off the bottom of the Championship.

Hibs aren't exactly setting the heather on fire in their current run, yes they are grinding out results like the weekends 1-0 vs Alloa and the previous 2-1 against Livi not forgetting they were lucky to take all points at home to us. If you look at their 7 match winning run 5 of them are by the odd goal. If they were hammering the opposition I might be very concerned but they aren't...if Hibs don't drop points before we play them again I'll be monkey's uncle.

58 goals in 20 games suggest otherwise...

Veterans may help Rangers return to form http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/teams/livingston/four-takeaways-veterans-may-help-rangers-return-to-form-1-3957144? Mark Warburton has made it very clear that Rangers will not be changing their football philosophy even if the Ibrox club have come back to earth somewhat since their rip-roaring start to the season. Before it was not a question of if, but of how many goals Rangers would defeat the opposition by. Against Livingston at the Tony Macaroni Arena they only carved open three truly clear-cut chances, taking one of them when Jason Holt fired the visitors in front. It used to be that they’d score five and lament not making it ten, so there’s certainly been a drop-off. Warburton rightly observed that teams will put everyone behind the ball against the title favourites and that it’s hard to break down. This is undoubtedly true, but Rangers have faced against such opposition since August, when everyone realised this was a very different animal than the one neglected by a succession of uninspiring carers last season. There was no problem getting through the defensive wall then. Something has changed. Warburton insists it’s a case of showing true quality in the final third. It’s also been caused by opposition teams knowing what’s going to come at them, particularly the full-time sides who have the resources and extra hours through the week to study film and learn how to deal with the seemingly infinite number of attackers flying at them. To face up to such relentlessness, opponents still have to scrap, fight and work themselves into the ground to even get a point, which is what Livingston did on Saturday. The undoubted superior talents of Holt, Nathan Oduwa, Gedion Zelalem and Barrie McKay meant Rangers still had much more of the ball in midfield, but there was often a lack of urgency and perhaps even a lack of fight when compared to the home side. Warburton introduced Dean Shiels and Kenny Miller as the match went on, and he may wish to bring those players into the starting XI with increasing regularity as the winter months roll on. They may not possess the skill or finesse of an Oduwa or Zelalem, but they have experience, a bit of dig and can be assets for the team in games where it’s less about quality and more about winning the war of attrition, which will happen when the pitches get bogged down more by the weather. Nicky Law is another option in the centre who could provide something different and a bit of balance to the centre midfield duo, which can lack variety when it’s Holt and Zelalem as both like to dictate the flow of Rangers’ passing. I tend to agree with this view...get Shiels, Miller and Law back in as first picks.

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Teams wouldn't be parking the bus against us if they thought we weren't that good.

http://news.stv.tv/west-central/1333550-celtic-purchase-lennoxtown-not-corrupt-or-fraudulent-watchdog-says/ A watchdog has found no evidence of corruption or fraud in relation to Celtic's purchase of its Lennoxtown training ground. Financial watchdog Audit Scotland did, however, highlight a number of concerns over weaknesses in the processes used to monitor finances by public bodies involved in the sale of the land in Dunbartonshire to Celtic and by the club itself. A probe was launched by the body in March into payments made between a number of public bodies and Celtic Football Club plc over its training ground. The Parkhead club's Lennoxtown facility was built in 2007 and cost 8.5m. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, who owned the land, East Dunbartonshire Council, and the Lennoxtown Initiative (LI), a charity set up set up by the council and the NHS to regenerate the area in 2002, were at the centre of the investigation along with Celtic itself. Audit Scotland became involved after receiving a number of complaints about value-for-money public spending. The training complex was built on the site of the former Lennox Castle Hospital to replace the clubs dilapidated Barrowfield training ground near Celtic Park in the east end of the city. The club paid NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde nearly 493,000 for the land in June 2006. The report states: "We have not identified any evidence that the purchase of the Lennoxtown site or the transfer of funds from LI to Celtic was either fraudulent or corrupt. "However, there are a number of weaknesses in the SLA itself, and a lack of monitoring arrangements by the LI and the public bodies of the services provided, that make it difficult to demonstrate the links between the fees paid and the value or quantities of service provided. "This creates an environment in which accusations of fraud or corruption are more easily made and are more difficult to rebut."

There's not that much wrong with the squad we have atm imo, get young Hardie in now, he's lethal and if you're good enough you're old enough. Big DJ scored the winner in a cup final at 16 and look what he went on to achieve with us.

The state of the game in Scotland since Rangers were banished to the depths by the haters has bombed big time. The most consistent side in the earlier part of the season throughout the SPFL were Rangers who chalked up 11 straight victories in the 2nd tier, now it's Hivs who are showing similar form with their current run. Take a look 'upstairs' and the top league shows no side with any form at all and we are approaching Xmas. Hertz had a decent start then collapsed, the sheep were being pushed by the media as the 'saviours' of the game yet find themselves behind Hertz never mind challenging for the title. The Bheasts have shown just how good they are with shocking defeats in Europe's lesser competition against Norway's finest and another dismal 0-0 draw at home in front of a very poor attendance to cannon fodder Kilmarnock. I can see a copy next season in the top league of what's happening right now in the championship...Rangers and Hivs battling it out for the title with Delia already sacked and Robbie Neilson plying his trade in the English championship. This has nothing at all to do with the thread, but I thought I'd just get it off my chest in here. The game really is suffering

The reason is obvious I think mate, the player who has leadership qualities has to be a very good footballer in the first place. I don't believe those types are freely available in mid-season, though I could be wrong.

The young players like Oduwa and Zelalum have probably witnessed very early in their career real leaders - men of substance...as I said...we are way lacking that, these youngsters might be realising this and it's affecting their development and more importantly ours?

I don't expect instant leaders after all we've been through over the course of the last 4 years, but the lack of someone taking the bull by the horns in our side is my worry right now and I can't see anyone in our current squad taking up that mantle. That's a real problem for us there isn't a leader in our side the guy who kicks ass on the pitch. I'm not talking about the captain, there are many fine players in Rangers history who weren't captain but could give team mates a right rollicking when due. John Brown was a fine example of what I'm getting at. Hopefully we can bring in such a player (not in January) who will fill that void in the coming season.

Give him absolutely nothing, until he f--ks off.

Agreed...we'll just have to settle for a 3-1 victory as opposed to 4-0.

I never listen to that show man, but I thoroughly enjoy your updates on it

When was the last time Motherwell finished with more points than Rangers in a league season?