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Join in the fun,name your scorers:)

Chisholm & Dodds sacked as well now

Champions 3 Miller,Lafferty2 Motherwell 0 :spl:

Pete,I think you might be correct,however how come Shagger is the cheaper option of the other goalies mentioned?

It does merit it's own thread:)

http://www.gersnetonline.co.uk/vb/showthread.php?t=21254&page=6

A gifted goalkeeper now rated among the best in the business. But James Beattie fears it's only a matter of time before the cream of Europe are lining up with offers to end Allan McGregor's glove affair with Rangers. Manchester United see McGregor - who was sensational for Scotland in Tuesday's brave 3-2 defeat to Spain - as the ideal long-term replacement for the retiring Edwin van der Sar. But Beattie believes a host of top clubs will soon join Sir Alex Ferguson in the battle for his signature. He's just hoping Gers can keep hold of Gregsy's golden gloves for a while longer at least. The striker said: "I don't want him to go, but Allan could play anywhere. He is that sort of character. "He is very focused and he knows what he wants. He wants success and he has been carrying a couple of injuries for two months. "He plays through them because he wants to play, succeed and do really well. "That's a good start and then on top of that, he is a very talented keeper. I don't know what Allan's position is contractually.Everything gets looked at nowadays. "Allan is probably one of the top keepers in Europe. "If he keeps playing then he is going to get the attention. "Then it is up to Allan and the club to sort out what he wants to do. "It's the same as everything else, something is worth what others want to pay for it. "That's always the case - whether it's a house, a car or a footballer. "There's been eyebrows raised numerous times about players' transfer fees and why they have been so high or so low. But if someone is willing to pay the money, then a player can be worth whatever." Former England international Beatts believes McGregor is now regarded as Scotland's first-choice keeper. The 28-year-old's desire to win, coupled with his disgust at losing, has seen him rise above �£9million Sunderland ace Craig Gordon in the pecking order. McGregor has been through more than most in the quest to play for his country and last night Beattie paid tribute to his dedication. He said: "They are a different breed, really. They are all mental. "You obviously read about people and see them play on TV. "But when you see them every day, you get a clearer picture. "Allan has got to be one of the angriest goalies around. "He doesn't like people scoring against him in training. "When he gets out on the pitch, he is even worse. "If you look at every player, there is an edge to them. "With certain players, if you take that edge away then they are only half the player. It's up to the management team and the player to channel it in the right way. "I don't mean Allan is an angry person, just when he loses goals." Beattie, meanwhile, has his mind firmly set on scoring goals for Rangers. The former Everton star has yet to find the net for Walter Smith's side following his move north from Stoke City in the summer. But he knows the ankle injury to Nikica Jelavic has handed him the chance to kick-start his Ibrox career. Beattie said: "Jela came into the side and he did really well. "It was unfortunate that he got injured against Hearts. But it has given me a chance to get back into the team and establish myself. "Jela was in great form and he was establishing a good partnership with Kenny Miller. "He was taken out most cynically by one of the Hearts players and he's undergone an operation. I've spoken to him and he sounds upbeat but obviously disappointed. "You don't want to see dirty challenges. It is pretty unacceptable among the players and they shouldn't be doing that to each other. "UEFA make the rules and the referees follow the guidelines." Beattie is fully recovered from the thigh injury which kept him sidelined for five weeks. And he's desperate to get off the mark against Motherwell at Ibrox tomorrow. Speaking at Murray Park yesterday as the Rangers Charity Foundation announced the Prostate Cancer charity as its new National Partner for the season Beattie confessed: "The first four games went all right, probably because the team was winning. "My last competitive game had been back in December so I was surprised when the manager asked me to start in the first game of the season. "But I was delighted to do so. "We won the first four games and then I picked up an injury. "I've only been injured for two weeks but I've missed five games so from that point of view it's been frustrating. "I'd have got a lift in the first game and it would have been nice to hit the ground running. "But in the games I felt I was getting stronger and was contributing but a striker is judged on his goals. "I'll feel better when I score. It's not something I worry about massively, but it will be nice to get off the mark and go on a scoring run." Beattie hopes Gers can extend their unbeaten run against Well. He admitted: "It is a big game for us. Motherwell are sitting in third place in the table just now and a lot of the lads have been away on international duty. "We need to focus on the league again." Read more: http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/sport/spl/3181058/The-gloves-are-off.html#ixzz12PhxQOPq

Is it this Monday?? If you could go and ask a question what question would you ask??.

Veteran Brechin midfielder Charlie King got a rousing ovation when he took to the Glebe Park pitch on crutches to greet the Rangers XI for his testimonial match. City's longest-serving player, who joined the club in 2001, is likely to be sidelined for the rest of the season after breaking his right ankle, but the side sent from Ibrox featuring a number of first-team players marked the respect with which he is held in Scottish football. City got off to a cracking start and opened the scoring in five minutes when Craig Molloy knocked the ball in after it took a deflection off the kneecap of a defender. Two minutes later Calum Booth had a chance to double their lead after a great solo run down the left flank but his sharp-angled drive was well stopped by the Rangers keeper Grant Adam. The visitors levelled on 16 minutes when Rory Loy headed home from a John Fleck corner. Five minutes later Rory McAllister was given an opportunity to restore the home side's lead when he took a free-kick from the edge of the box but another great save from Adam thwarted him. Just after the half-hour City keeper Craig Nelson prevented the visitors going ahead when he blocked a Ross Perry header from a Sarin Kerkar corner. Rangers fought hard for the winner in the second half but the City defence proved unbreachable. City came close to breaking the deadlock in the last 10 minutes when Gary Fusco's cracking shot from 25 yards hit the outside of the far post. Attendance�619. Brechin�Nelson (Scott 46), McLean, Cook (White 46), McLauchlan (McKenna 46), Moyes (Johnson), Janczyk (Byres 46), Redman (Fotheringham), B Smith, McAllister (Millar 82), Molloy (Fusco 46), Booth (D Smith). Subs not used�Docherty. Rangers XI�Adam, McMillan, Wylde: Perry, Webster, Stirling (Naismith 81), Campbell (Wiktorski), Hutton, Loy, Fleck, Kerkar (Dick 81). Subs not used�Smith, Little. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/Sport/Football/article/6257/match-report-brechin-1-rangers-xi-1.html

LIVERPOOL supporters must be looking on in horror at the court room battles and legal wrangles surrounding the ownership of the club they support. However, in contrast to what Rangers fans have suffered, and continue to suffer regarding the sale of their club, the Scousers are getting an easy ride, with the Royal Bank of Scotland appearing to give the club greater support and understanding than seems to have been forthecoming for Rangers from Lloyds Maybe that has got something to do with the fact there are plenty of folk out there who are lining up to try to buy the Anfield outfit. Just as there was no shortage of interested parties when Manchester City went on the market. But, despite some big talking by some, which proved to be all hat and no cattle, and other shadowy and equally lacking in substance parties, nobody with the cash needed wants to buy Rangers. Which begs the question... WHY? For at the moment, with debts of around �£25M and falling, and with the way the market stands, Rangers could be bought for a knockdown price. Of course the revenue stream available to such as Liverpool, City, Aston Villa and the others in England, from massive Sky pay outs, plus megabucks via the Champions League, is not available to Rangers. Though, and even given the fact they suffer the problem of being a big club in a small country, Rangers remain a club with a massive tradition and they could provide a terrific platform for anyone who wished to own a big football club. Someone whose resources cannot compete with the Americans who are flooding into the market south of the border, or the others from various countries, but who, nevertheless, has substantial means. Indeed, right now Rangers represent a massive bargain. Almost a steal. So again the question must be posed. Two years after Sir David Murray first made it known Rangers were up for grabs, still no serious and acceptable bid has been made.... WHY? And the answer....... Well, Rangers, whether they like it or not, have an image problem. A difficulty brought on by Murray's refusal to take on those whose actions suggest they have nothing else on their journalistic agenda than wishing to damage Rangers. Nobody needs names spelled out here. Everybody knows who the leading light is... and who his wee handmaidens are. Would that this campaigner against Rangers was so dilligent in his day-today duties for his ailing paper - at least it is in Scotland - once known as the Thunderer, and once upon a time highly regarded as a paper of record. For instance, the day before Rangers played Manchester United, he was nowhere to be seen in the splendid Old Trafford, Europa Suite as the reporters from every other daily newspaper who had travelled south, sat down in what was a pre official UEFA press conference briefing to them from Walter Smith. Is there nobody among the ranks of his superiors in London - where the Scottish sports operation is run from - who know what a mug he is making of them? Or does the Scottish editor either not know, or not care? Or is he too busy lunching with Richard Holloway, a friend of both the editor and the anti Rangers sports writer? This man has consistently attacked Rangers supporters for some of the songs he says he hears them singing, while he has with equal consistency, failed to hear any of the offensive songs belted out by the followers of any other club. Now, not for a moment do I think all Rangers supporters are blameless for the plight their club is in, and I have the record of a column I wrote four years ago attacking them for getting the club into trouble over their singing of the "Billy Boys." In it, I told them to stop it and coined the slogan - ***-RIP. It appeared in the newspaper I worked for at the time. Maybe that was because it fell in with the ethos of that paper's owners, Trinity Mirror, whose flagship paper, the Daily Mirrior, once splashed with a TROOPS OUT! demand at the height of he IRA bombing campaign on the British mainland and in Northern Ireland. Therefore, my credentials of being balanced and objective are clearly established. Not so the man from the Times. Fortunately his influence wanes with every plunge in that paper's circulation in Scotland since he joined, just as the Herald's sales figures hit the skids when he was there. However, the damage he has done to Rangers remains, and that is part of the problem - though not, as I have said, all of it - Murray is encountering as he tries to find a credible buyer. Murray indeed is also part of the problem. During his period as chairman - and through the spell when he vacated the chair but remained the most influential figure in the boardroom - there were many inside Ibrox who wanted to pick a fight with those they saw as being fervently anti Rangers. My information is Murray often sat in his Charlotte Square office and listened to their plans, gave them the go-ahead, only to call to cancel that green light before whoever it was he had spoken to, had reached the Maybury Roundabout. You reap what you sow, the Bible tells us, and Murray, by failing to stop what appears as a systematic campaign aimed at the club he owns, now finds it hard to find the buyer he so wants to unearth. Eventually though someone will come forward. Someone with shrewd enough business acumen to spot the nature of the bargain which is Rangers. When that happens there are plenty of people within Ibrox who will be only too happy to point the new owner in the right direction when it comes to those who seem to harbour hatred for Rangers. The Bible will be proved right in then end. It always is. http://davidleggat-leggoland.blogspot.com/

You are correct Craig,it does make perfect sense,however I just think anything in I read in the papers is normally shite:)

Of course he will be attracting attention with his performances,however January is a long way off,if that's when he would move?, so why is it even up for discussion now so near to our visit to the BHEASTS??

There wouldn't be an OF game coming up by any chance would there ?

I believe every manager of every team has an obligation to do pre/post match interviews,I'm sure sky sports would have something to say about it if a manager continued to evade any questions from a reporter which is relevant to the game,as well as the relevant association,also the fans who want to here what he has to say.

MANCHESTER UNITED are eyeing �£5million-rated Rangers keeper Allan McGregor. Old Trafford superscout Martin Ferguson, brother of boss Sir Alex, watched the Scotland No1 at Hampden on Tuesday. McGregor, 28, pulled off a string of stunning saves in the Euro 2012 clash with world champions Spain. And he's now on the Old Trafford radar as Fergie seeks a long-term replacement for veteran Edwin van der Sar. SunSport understands United have also watched Ajax's Maarten Stekelenburg, Atletico Madrid's David de Gea and Manuel Neuer of Schalke. But all three keepers carry �£20m price tags and McGregor has emerged as a lower-cost alternative for a club saddled with debts of �£716m. McGregor's Ibrox contract runs until 2013 and Gers have offered him a new five-year deal to stay with the champs. The keeper is in the form of his life after Champions League clean sheets at Old Trafford and against Bursaspor. His heroics against Spain followed a world-class stop from Jan Polak in Scotland's loss in the Czech Republic on Friday. McGregor also produced a string of stunning saves in the 3-0 friendly defeat against Sweden in Stockholm in August. United are looking for a new No 1 with van der Sar, 40 this month, set to retire at the end of the season. Gers team-mate Steven Naismith says McGregor has taken over from �£9m Sunderland ace Gordon as Scotland's first-choice keeper. And he is shocked that no Premier League giants have already tried to nab McGregor from Ibrox. He said: "Allan is up there with the best in the game now. To be honest I'm surprised no other club has come in to try and buy him from Rangers. "He's been fantastic for us ever since I've been at the club. "En route to the UEFA Cup Final with Rangers some of his saves were absolutely tremendous. He's carried that on since then. "He's had his problems off the park, but he's learned from them. "He's now Scotland No1 and while big Craig is a top keeper too, it's roles reversed for the two of them now. "When you look at the likes of Arsenal needing a keeper it's unbelievable no one has come in for him. "I'm not complaining though. The longer Allan stays at Rangers the better it is for the club. "It's been great for the manager to call on Allan. Some of his saves in the Czech Republic were terrific and against Spain he was really good. "We have two good goalies here and that's great." Read more: http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/sport/spl/3179327/Fergie-set-to-swoop-for-Al.html#ixzz12KKxO0Ic

I don't think you will ever get a total boycott, there are too many fans who want to go and support Rangers no matter what the circumstances are. FWIW, I agree with the boycott,in fact it is long overdue IMO,but that's easy for me to say as I don't get to away games

Fair enough,however he is the obvious choice to replace Jig, unless Wattie goes with Hutton??

We have Edu as a direct replacement for Jig,lafferty to replace Jelavic

A tad unfair,IMO,he went for that and placed it,of course there was a bit of luck involved,as is with every attempt,but he went for it and nailed it........................he's still a TWAT though and I hope we don't go for him.

Shagger on his current form must be attracting interest from a lot of teams,can we hold onto him?,in January!!!

Aye,he needs to take lessons from oor Wattie:) [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG27qGTMXa4&feature=related]YouTube - THAT Walter Smith Interview[/ame]

HERE WE GO GUYS http://www.youtube.com/user/yerauldda2?feature=mhum#p/a/u/0/peFVb3KG7Ok

Stop asking me hard questions when I'm full of the CIDER:), I think I agree with regards to not caring enough to follow Scotland as I care more about the Rangers than I do Scotland..................fuxsake I need to stop now:onetoomany:

You can only earn respect mate

You forgot to add the :fish: