pete

lets just say it is not a thing i deem important as a football fan. I don't want Robots on the park and stats making players frightened to play football because it might upset their stats. George Best, Johan Cruijff or Maradonna didn't need stats.

I am not sure that Lafferty was Gerrards choice. I think that lies with mark Allen. Gerrard was not long in the door when the Lafferty deal was done. It was reported later that Gerrard was not happy with some of Allen's choices. There were even Rumours Gerrard was about to walk away. Whether that was rubbish or they had a good discussion about the signing policy I don't know,

Yes he has been caught with the ball in a good few games that led to a goal. Against Aberdeen probably his biggest.

These statistics mean nothing as it is a pinprick in a football game. If you take Kamara. He does 90% brilliant things but then makes the mistake that gets you gubbed. His stats look great but he lost a number of points and that is what the game is about.

I don't think Blair can be taken seriously again by a court and should definitely fall on his sword. If a judge can read through all the papers to make a decision then a team of lawyers should be able to do that as well. God knows they are paid high enough and are likely to come out of this as the only winners.

Funny how Goldson seems to have two camps with the spectrum pretty far apart. I personally I think Goldson is a bomb-scare and Katic is the best defender between the two. I will reserve judgement on the other two until I have seen them play more games. One thing both teams have luck with is that the first game is at Ibrox. Scotland is forecast with 27 degrees so at 8.00pm the temperature should be reasonable to play football in. In Luxembourg and all over the continent temperatures are ready to hit a record 40-41 degrees on Thursday. That would have probably been a game of last man standing. I know one thing I am staying indoors until it cools off at the weekend.

Do they need a referee?

It is Bullshit. Their only share could ever be on the profit and that will possibly be millions but not high in the millions. Well affordable to the club. The biggest crunch is we couldn't get Ashley off our backs.

Club 1872 tender to the board.

On Thursday Rangers get the chance to right a huge wrong when Prógres Niederkorn come to Ibrox. I don't need to tell anyone that they surprisingly put us out of the Europa league at the first Qualifying round two years ago. Prógres had never won a game in Europe and scored just one goal. Even although Rangers only managed a 1-0 win at Ibrox it was unthinkable that a team who had never won in Europe and had only ever scored one goal could put the mighty Glasgow Rangers out of Europe. Niederkorn soaked up Rangers early pressure and gradually started to insert themselves more and going into the second half looked more and more dangerous. Disaster struck for the Gers as Olivier Thill crossed for Francoise to finish at the near post. Shortly after that a Sebastian Thill free kick, crossed in at pace, managed to avoid everybody and the ball ended in the back of the net. Rangers had incarcerated what is judged as their worst ever European result. Pedro Caixinha the Rangers manager stood by a hedge telling Rangers supporters that things would improve but after our worst ever 1-5 home defeat against Celtic and losing to Aberdeen for the first time in 26 years his days were numbered and after more poor results he lasted a total 229 days in the job before he was sacked. He goes down in history as the Rangers manager to last the shortest ever time. This was the Rangers team that day. 1 Foderingham 9 Miller 2 Tavernier 4 Cardoso 8 Jack 18 Rossiter (Substituted for Herrera at 77') 5 Wallace 24 Bates 19 Kranjcar 20 Morelos (Substituted for Dálcio at 45') 21 Candeias (Substituted for Windass at 58') Substitutes 7 Dálcio 11 Windass 15 Herrera 23 Holt 25 Alnwick 33 Waghorn 40 McCrorie Looking at that team only Foderingham, Tavernier, Jack and Morelos are still at the club. Replacing Morelos with Dálcio at half time in retrospect is an "Oh my god" moment. Rangers are a completely different beast under Stevie Gerrard so dare I say we really should be strong favourites to win this tie at ease. Therein may lie the danger that even under Stevie G our biggest problem has been with teams soaking up pressure and hitting us with a sucker punch. While under Caixinha with Kranjcar in the team Rangers never ever looked fit and that is completely different to the team at the moment. Rangers look like a super fit high pressing dream machine. Surely with this team lightening cannot strike twice in the same place? Looking at the Prógres team that played against Cork they still have five players who were involved the last time round. The standout name is Sebastian Thill who scored their second goal that knocked the Gers out. Their goalkeeper Sebastian Flauss was injured in the first half the last time we played them but unfortunately we hardly made their substitute keeper make a save. I hate using the word revenge as it sounds as if you have to win at all costs for past performances. I think we should have that mindset in every game whether we lost to a team in the past or not. I am pretty sure Stevie G will have that mindset as well. European money has become a major player on how much you can improve your team and Dave King has stated in the past that we need to get through to the European play-off rounds on a regular basis to keep improving the team to get to the level we need to be at. We really can't let teams who can't even play in their own stadium get in our way. While I have already booked a hotel in Luxembourg for the return game I will be happy to go there with the tie already decided by an emphatic win at Ibrox. Picking a Rangers team is a nightmare at the moment as we have two players for every position. I think McGregor is making a lot of mistakes at the moment so I will go with: Foderingham Tavernier Goldson Katic Barisic Davis Jack Stewart Jones Arfield Morelos To be honest I am not a Goldson fan and would prefer Edmundson and Katic but I think you can set Goldson's name in stone to play. Come on the Gers, get intae them!

David Edgar said that he thought this was not over and could go on for years. All avenues have not been exhausted. Rangers are also suing SD for 3mil that they say they owe us.

We will be learning if anyone is coming or going to the two top leagues in England in the not too distant future.

The modern footballer has to be flexible these days. There is no such things as an old fashioned winger. They have to defend as well as attack, come inside as well as outside. As people say Candeias struggled against the 10 man defences. I think he still had a part to play but obviously Gerrard has given him a message that his game time will be reduced.

It's only words and words are all I have To take your heart away

Just remember he will be basking in the sun when our baws are freez'n off.

Yes I would rather of kept him but he seemingly wanted away himself. I guess that is why he was left out of the last Euro game. Oh well time to move on.

Is the footprint of the same size?

There is not a surge of people at one time. The reason Ibrox was built as it is was to get people on the the street as soon as possible without queuing and a build-up of people. An escalator would cause a build up of people and could start a crush. When Willie Waddel built the stadium at first he said there will never be the chance of another crush at Ibrox and designs since have been based on that fact.

I was impressed at Schalke where the biggest climb is outside the stadium with just a slow gradient up to the gates. after you are in the stadium you have to go up or down which meant far less of a climb,

Escalators would be murder and dangerous with so many people at once. At the end of a game you would have a queue for hours'Not an option in my eyes.

That guy from Eufa was murder at English, Gamea rounda Homea, Shocking for such a high ranked person. It is better than my German right enough and I have lived here 6 years.

61/2 hour 629km drive for me or 245euro's flight from Dusseldorf. Fancy doing the drive actually. I can do that on one tank so say 100 euro's on diesel. Anybody know what the roads are like in Denmark

4 FC Midtjylland (DEN) away first game.

Have you ever sat up the back at Dortmund it is twice as bad. You need an oxygen mask. Against Celtic in December last year I sat up the very top of the Club deck and can't really remember any issues except the climb. I am not sure if I could see the nearside touchline or not but i was too nervous and happy to worry about it.

I suppose the crusaders are the easiest followed by the Finns. AZ are always a technical team who can blow hot and cold. I really would want to dodge Wolves at this stage and possibly Warsaw but we should be OK with the rest.