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I'd a great day out yesterday. Well done our guys on a thoroughly deserved victory.

Rab - in 2014/15 their wage bill was £37.8 million and that was down 3 million from the previous year.

An article from 2012 about Desmonds financial jiggery-pokery - https://footballtaxhavens.wordpress.com/2012/10/31/dermot-desmonds-contribution-to-the-gfc/

MW is quoted today as saying Waghorn will not be fit for the game against the scum. No chance he'll make this one if that's true Ian.

Do you know that I didn't even know there was a "main site" ? I thought this bit was the only one available.

"Thirty years ago today Graeme Souness was paraded as manager of Rangers – an appointment that transformed Scottish football and helped trigger a revolution in the game in England, the reverberations of which can still be felt today. In fact, Rangers’ narrow victory over Dumbarton on Tuesday night, which secured their promotion to the Scottish Premiership, completed a cycle of three decades which commenced when Souness arrived at Ibrox. Not that such a prospect seemed likely on April 8, 1986, although Souness seemed a logical appointment for Rangers, who had not won the Scottish title since 1978 and had fallen behind their arch-rivals, Celtic. They had also been overtaken by the upstarts of Aberdeen and Dundee United, the so-called New Firm of the Scottish game. Rangers, moreover, were mired in an outmoded style personified by Jock Wallace, who had been manager in the 1970s and had only been given the job again in 1983 because the Ibrox board failed to prise Alex Ferguson from Aberdeen and Jim McLean from Dundee United. By the spring of 1986 intense fan disenchantment with Wallace, once a favourite, forced the board’s hand and he resigned. As a dynamic captain of Scotland and previously Liverpool, the capture of Souness was a major coup for the Ibrox directors and, in particular, David Holmes, who had learned from this correspondent that Souness wanted to take over at Ibrox. Souness told me in September 1985, during an interview for a BBC documentary series on Scottish football: “I can earn a great deal more money by playing football outside Scotland than I could in Scotland, but I’d still like to be player-manager of Rangers one day. “I’ll settle for manager. Jock Wallace – watch out!” The TV series was about to be screened when Souness succeeded Wallace and the footage had been cut from the final edit, only to be restored frantically by the producers in time for the press launch. By then it had been widely noted that Souness had never played in the Scottish leagues. Such talk was a matter of supreme indifference to Souness, who had an altogether more expansive vision in mind, aided by the fact that English clubs had been banned from Europe in the wake of the Heysel Disaster in 1985. When he took up his position at Ibrox full time in July 1986, Souness began a sweep of England internationals, starting with Chris Woods and Terry Butcher. By the time he had finished, Souness had added Trevor Francis, Mark Hateley, Trevor Steven, Gary Stevens and Ray Wilkins to his roster, not to mention seasoned English league players like Mark Falco, Trevor Hurlock and Graham Roberts. The traditionally restrictive pay policy at Ibrox had been discarded, an act which was clearly ominous for Aberdeen and which was a factor in persuading Ferguson to move to Old Trafford in November 1986. At that stage Rangers, partly fuelled by the biggest club pools operation in the UK, had a greater turnover than the relatively moribund Manchester United. In September 1988, Souness joined the Rangers board, having upped the ante by persuading David Murray to buy the club for £6 million. His most sensational and influential signing was completed the following summer – that of Maurice Johnston, a former Celtic striker and, far more significantly, a Roman Catholic. Johnston was on the verge of a return to the Parkhead club from Nantes when Souness intervened to divert him to Ibrox in the summer of 1989. At a stroke, Souness had done away with the sectarian signing policy practised at Ibrox for the better part of a century. In 1989, too, Rangers’ position as the best provided club in Britain was assured by another calamity for English football, the Hillsborough Disaster. Having rebuilt their stadium comprehensively after the 1971 Ibrox Disaster, Rangers were hardly affected by the Taylor Report into Hillsborough and the provisions which forced a wholesale reconstruction of English grounds, a civic engineering project comparable to that of the Channel Tunnel. In Scotland Celtic would be driven to the verge of bankruptcy by the need to overhaul Parkhead, which had the largest standing terracings of any British ground. In England, it was immediately clear that such colossal expenditure could not be financed by traditional revenue streams. In response, English first division clubs resigned en masse from the Football League to form the Premier League, which was launched in 1992, underwritten by a broadcast rights deal with Rupert Murdoch’s BSkyB. Rangers, though, were still top dogs in Britain, as they demonstrated by beating Leeds United home and away in the inaugural Champions League. By that time Souness was manager of Liverpool, having taken over on April 16, 1991 – 25 years ago next Thursday. At Ibrox, though, Walter Smith extended his legacy, taking Rangers to nine successive championships and equalling Celtic’s record under Jock Stein, but the wealth available to English clubs had swung the pendulum. Murray tried to keep Rangers on parity and allowed Smith’s successor, Dick Advocaat, to spend close to £80 million on signings. Murray’s endeavours to match salaries paid outside Scotland led him to the ill-fated Employment Benefit Trust (EBT) scheme and a consequent challenge by HMRC. That issue – still be to be resolved prompted Lloyds Bank to order Murray to sell Rangers to Craig Whyte for £1 in 2011. The following summer, Whyte’s holding company had been liquidated and the team was forced to resume activity in the third division of the former Scottish Football League. Tuesday’s win over Dumbarton means that next season the top flight of Scottish football will feature Rangers once again. “The profile of the Premier League in Scotland has been diminished,” said Souness of his former club’s absence. “It’s not as interesting to people outside of Scotland as it was when Rangers were there.” Nor, he might have added, have Rangers ever been as interesting to people outside Scotland as when he was in charge at Ibrox." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/04/08/how-graeme-souness-triggered-an-english-and-scottish-revolution/

Will t shirts be available to buy Frankie ?

They went up by 5% last season. I'd suspect more this time.

The club was struggling for money, leading to deals being made with the fat Cockney **** at the same time as McCoist was sitting in the house drawing an astronomical salary for doing nothing. The goals he scored, for which he received great praise and was paid handsomely, have nothing to do with his later actions.

If McCoist hands back everything he took out of Rangers after Green took over he should be invited. There's nothing to stop him buying a ticket like the rest of us.

I think that first photo was in the Rangers The New Era book. My copy is up in the loft but I'm certain I've seen it before.

Posting garbage like the subject should be encouraged and derided. There is another concerted campaign against us ongoing at this moment and it's gathering pace. We ignore these buffoons at our peril. We tried that before and it didn't work.

He better roar loudly next season because nobody in Scotland will be able to hear him. He'll be back home and unemployed.

Big money transfers leaving the scumhut is what has kept them going for the past few years. Had we failed to go up this year they would have been in bother. Many of the manks who said they wouldn't buy season tickets will now do so simply to watch us playing against them. Delilah has messed up their overloaded squad and they won't be that difficult to catch.

It's a bit early to be on the drink, is it not buddy ?

Save your money from the bookies bears. We're a goal down before kick off. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35974857

Can anyone remember the last time that utter dumpling said anything worthwhile ?

A win over Hivs away is one I want to see. The cup final and cup game against the scum take care of themselves. But I'd love us to shut Stubbs gub up.

I 've just got home. Another great night. Only one team in it. Well done the Rangers.

I've two mates who flat out refuse to buy season tickets due to games being moved to Friday/Tuesday/ whatever nights or Saturday/ Sunday 1230 kick offs. Older bears were brought up on 3pm Saturday kick offs with the opportunity to sink a few beers and relax pre-match.

"LIVINGSTON have hit out at the SPFL after their end of the season clash with Raith Rovers was moved to a Sunday lunchtime kick-off due to TV rules. Championship leaders Rangers' match with St Mirren has been selected for TV coverage and SPFL rules dictate that all matches on the final day of the season must kick-off at the same time. It means that Livingston's match will also kick-off at 12.30pm on Sunday May 1 and a post made by the club's official Twitter account blasted the decision. The tweet was in reply to a fan who asked was the decision made so Rangers' last game will be on TV and said: "Naturally. 2 tier rules to suit The Rangers #farce." The match could be vital to Livingston's chances of surviving in the Championship, with the West Lothian outfit currently sitting in the relegation play-off spot. In 2014, Livingston chairman Gordon McDougall issued an apology after the club's match programme referred to Rangers as a new club and have since deleted the tweet from earlier tonight saying that it isn't the club's view and was intended for the person's private account." http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/livingston-blast-spfl-decision-switch-7689453? The rules are there. Everybody knows what they are. But some simpleton decides there's a conspiracy at work ?

QUOTE=pete;616592]Almost 70.000 Rangers and Celtic fans being released in Edinburgh. I am not sure that is a good idea. Commuting them all alone would be massive and no segregation in trains would always be a danger. To say nothing of, in over 60 years every time visited or passed through Edinburgh it's been raining. My wife has banned me from ever going there if that's where she's heading.

Every man to his own taste Bear, Personally I love the song.Yes it has nothing to with football and is recent in our history But there was a time when the West Ham fans found themselves singing a new song.

The day of the Petro cup final is my daughters birthday. My stupid wife has invited half the family over and promised them I'll be serving one of my specials. I hope they all like crisps and nuts.

Yes, I've seen that way of working things before. The next thing we knew was there were a dozen separate campaigns on the go looking to have us thrown out of football, have titles stripped and so on. Burying heads and ignoring what they have to say is the worst thing to do. It didn't work last time. My post quoting him shows the title-stripping mantra is about to gather pace again. Search around online and you'll see that.