stewarty

Anything is surely better than the B team playing endless friendlies. The cynic in me thinks this will go nowhere though

Nah, i sold it in Ebay to some Ukrainian fellow.

Lol... I'll eat my hat if that is even remotely true.

Rangers 3 - 1 St J FGS Dessers

Hearts 1 -2 Rangers FGS - Cerny

I might update my CV but one thing Rangers need is a strong internal audit function. I wrote a piece for Gersnet in our then regular column in the Seventy2 magazine about 10 years ago making this point. I'm sad to say that it is never more relevant. Ironically around 2 years after that, I got approached by a recruiter for the position as Head of Audit for Celtic! I politely declined, for obvious reasons, but it simply underlined just how far behind we were a decade ago in terms of good governance. As a for example, one thing I heard about the Copland Rd project is that at least one significant and local contractor, who are known club supporters, declined to tender for the work because the timescales that were required were unachievable. It seems the club/project team went and found a contractor who promised otherwise. A good internal auditor involved in monitoring the project would have challenged the decisions made by management and at the very least, shone a light on what was happening to the Board to enable the likes of Bennett to properly scrutinise what was going on, well before we got to the situation we are in now.

I'd say two, in fairness. 😁

It is, but there's not a lot to be optimistic about.

Prefer it to the home kit, though I'll wait till i've seen both in person

You never know, but I suspect it will be cut-price deals and pay-offs to get some of them off the books.

The thing with players under contract who haven't lived up to expectations, is that other teams can see this too. It affects both the price we can charge to move them on, and potentially the wages they can attract when they do. In short, we need to wait till the end of the transfer window before assessing the squad fully. That said, this pre-season I've deliberately avoided getting too invested in any of the new signings. I wish them all well, but it wont be until we see how they perform and handle the expectation/standards the fans will demand till we can form an accurate judgement. Lammers would seem to be the case in point here - arguably one of our most exciting signings last summer, showed up well in pre-season, but he just couldn't manage to string his laces, never mind consistent performance levels together. At least until he moved home to a club where he was under far less pressure.

Still no word that I've seen about the value of this addition to the TV deal. Suspect they've sold this for buttons.

I thought it was Viaplay too, but maybe Premier Sports is the better and more sellable brand.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c4nn7729q53o An additional 20 Scottish Premiership matches will be shown live on subscription television from next season. Premier Sports, who already show live Scottish Cup and League Cup games, have bought the package of 20 games for five years. They will share live rights with Sky Sports, who currently show up to 60 games a season on a deal until 2029. The BBC has a contract to show Scottish Championship and League 1 games on free-to-air platforms, as well as live radio and Premiership highlights rights. SPFL chief executive Neil Doncaster described the move as "tremendous news for SPFL clubs and supporters alike". "Up to 80 Premiership matches will be broadcast live next season across Sky Sports and Premier Sports," he said. "This will be the highest number of live matches ever broadcast from the Scottish Premiership." I'm loathe to give Doncaster any credit, but this sounds positive, even if the extra revenue I assume is generated hasn't been disclosed in this article.

Cantwell.

Agreed. I immediately discounted the idea myself for that reason. Felt exploitative.

My first thought when I heard this news was that Bisgrove probably wanted to leave last year but was persuaded to stay because Robertson was being moved out. Counter-offers have a really poor long term success rate in general terms. We'll miss his ability to attract commercial deals and it seems like he was trying to do the right things with regards to fan communication in particular, but beyond that I'm not sure this will be a great loss. We move on, though stability is desperately needed in all of the club's key roles, on and off the pitch.

Yeah surely Monday would have been a better time to announce? Welcome nonetheless!

What commission did they pay an agency to find this new sponsor? What was it - 20-25% commission they paid last time for the Cinch deal?

The real question is whether Eric had Dale's consent?

I'm sceptical. They're still trying to figure out how to use email

Yep. My thoughts also.

I think at Lundstram's age we would surely just be looking at a one or two year extension only? That seemed to be the model for Arfield, Jack, McGregor and one or two others in recent years. Saying that, I could well see that he wants to secure a long term deal and that might mean him moving on.

Hibs have a cheek to complain with the way the kettle away supporters and delay entrance to Easter road. There’s a serious accident waiting to happen there. I’m only surprised it hasn’t already happened.

Silva here too. Just thought he was the difference when it came to the goals, he was a constant threat and did a mountain of running.