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Please don't go Artur

We all know that Davie :spl:

A rumour on another forum saying he has heard Bain has been handed his notice ????,

I remember it mate,just wanted to refresh my memory

I've searched for a video of that,but I can't find it

If we lose them though ?.

I don't think it's a tough one,if Weir had been showing any signs of '' getting on a bit '' then fair enough but if there is one thing he's proved already this season is his fitness, the man has been a rock for Rangers,doesn't miss games through injury and it's not as if he gets exposed by any player in the SPL, so for me if he is playing like this at 39, then he could easily play on next season 40, now having said all that I hope Wilson and Bougherra are still here next season.Contender for POTY.

Is it ?, what does that actually tell us about Rangers FC ?

I'm unsure of this guy as well,however it may just trigger interest from other parties??, I can't see his bid being successful if all he wants to do is demolish Ibrox or MP, he may of course be interested in the surrounding area ??

What's the chances of you,Monkeyheid, staying at the piggery beyond the summer ?, I do hope you stay though

It's all pure luck mate as you know

Personally I'd get rid of him at the end of the season and concentrate on the like of Fleck, Wylde ect

Killie 0 Champions 2 Boyd for the two goals :spl: P.S., Remember there is another game on tomorrow and games at the weekend for the BBC predictor

Start producing the form you showed in December until the end of the season and you may just get your wish

Millwall fan Stuwall has a problem with his ticket,follow his posts, hilarious http://www.hof.org.uk/showthread.php?t=2403

Mmmm, not sure if the thread title is pc correct!!, is it safe to have the Bairns in the same stadium as the BHEASTS Anyway, I can see Falkirk get a wee draw today

There's some here http://splwatch.blogspot.com/ but there is more recent ones that could be produced

Rangers' under 19 squad today faced rivals Celtic and came out on top of a close encounter victorious with a 2:1 win. Billy Kirkwoods team faced Celtic at Barrowfield today and two youngsters who are very much on form at the minute in Kane Hemmings and Archie Campbell grabbed the goals that sealed the victory. Rangers raced to a two goal advantage before succumbing to a late goal which set the tie up for a close and nerve-wracked finish for the boys from Murray Park. Rangers are now within a point of the top of the league with a game in hand. The game that Rangers have in hand is against Hibs and a victory would secure top spot in the league. Rangers lined up as follows: Adam, Cole, Scott, Durie, Wylde, Hutton, Witorski, McCabe, Naismith, Hemmings, Campbell (Dick).

ANDREW Ellis, the London-based property developer, is expected to make a formal offer for Rangers this week. No bid has been tabled as yet – the club would have had to announce it to the Stock Exchange if there had been – but Ellis is considered a live prospect at this point. The sale figure, rumoured though not confirmed, is in the region of Ã?£33m. There would appear be to a second interested party having a "nibble", as it was described by one source last night. A Far East consortium, from China and Singapore, is believed to have expressed an interest in the club, but Ellis would appear to be ADVERTISEMENT the front-runner right now. There doesn't seem to be much doubt within Ibrox about his financial wherewithal to take the club on. Rangers have been presenting themselves as a cheap entry into football, the argument being that they win trophies, play to full houses and get into Europe, be it the Champions League or, more realistically in the future, the Europa League. There is fun to be had at Ibrox, has been the gist of their message. The alternative is to spend countless millions more in buying an English Premiership team, probably a struggler already heavily burdened by debt, with no prospect of winning anything bar a relegation battle. "Where," a Rangers source said, "is the glory in that?" The Ibrox club are a more attractive proposition now than they were a year ago, even six months ago. It's a leaner operation since Donald Muir, the turnaround specialist, was put on the board to watch over spending. Rangers' operating costs fell by Ã?£3.6m in the half-year to November while they reported a profit of Ã?£13m in the same period, due to their Champions League involvement. The debt has come down from Ã?£31m in November to around Ã?£27m now with that figure set to fall further if Rangers secure the SPL championship and the Ã?£10-Ã?£12m of Champions League money that goes with it. Soon, Rangers' level of indebtedness to Lloyds Banking Group could be in the teens rather than the twenties, a scenario that seems to have struck a chord with the two realistic parties taking an interest in them. Rangers issued a statement yesterday, an indication that, perhaps, they're entering the end-game in this tortured affair. "The board of directors of the Rangers Football Club plc is aware of the recent takeover speculation in the media and refers shareholders and supporters to a previous statement issued in October 2009," it began. "The club's board has been advised by its principal shareholder, Murray International Holdings Limited, that it is considering options regarding its shareholding in the club and this may or may not lead to MIH disposing of some or all of its stake in the club to a third party. The directors of the club will keep shareholders advised of key developments but the board is unable to comment further at this time." Ellis is clearly a man they respect, but there is, however, a long way to go before a deal can be done. Nobody at Rangers is assuming this is going to sail through. If Ellis makes his bid then he will be entitled to a period of exclusivity during which time he can pore over the books without anybody else making a play for the club. It's interesting to note that Ellis also had a three-week period of exclusivity when attempting to buy QPR in 2001, but he withdrew his offer on the back of major supporter and local council opposition to his plan to move the club close to Heathrow airport. There was also a suggestion that he was struggling to find sufficient financial backing to execute his vision. Ellis had another go at football in late 2002 when he took over as chairman of Northampton Town in the December, but then departed in controversy in February of the following year. To add to the layer of caution, it should be remembered also that, in 2007, Sir David Murray came within hours of selling Rangers only to pull the plug on the deal at the last minute. "We were all ready to go," Murray told Scotland on Sunday in August, 2008. "Donald (Wilson, his right-hand man] had negotiated it for months with complete confidentiality. Everything was pretty much agreed and then I said, 'Look, gentleman, before we do this, can you tell me how you're going to run this club?' I'm sitting there with all the legal documents in front of me and they outline their plans, 'We'll carve this up and we'll sell that off' and after a while I said 'Enough, we're not doing the deal'. We got up and walked out. We took our papers and went out the door. It wasn't for Rangers. In my opinion they did not want to take the club forward in a football way. They saw property angles. That's the closest I've come to selling; a few hours last year in a nice London hotel." Until he sees Ellis's plans in detail, there is always the prospect that Murray – he will make the decision to sell, not Lloyds – will back away again. He's always stated that he will only sell to somebody who can take the club forward. How all of this might impact on Walter Smith is impossible to know. Of course, Smith may well have made up his mind to leave in the summer no matter what happens. It's fanciful to expect Ellis to come in – if the deal ever gets done – and release a fortune to the manager to sign players. But it would probably require substantial new resources to make Smith have second thoughts. Kris Boyd's future is also up for grabs. For that reason alone, Rangers fans will be hoping that Ellis is the real deal and that the striker will want to stay. It's suggested that if things runs smoothly, the transfer of ownership could be done in three months. But when have these things ever run smoothly? http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/sport/Rangers-offer-is-expected-within.6130415.jp

Maybe so,but I'd go for Danny Wilson, of course I may be a bit bias

Crackin post MF, and I agree with you 100%,Walter Smith is a percentage type manager which makes him a tad boring in his team selections sometimes, but nobody can deny the man what he has achieved in football, not just with Rangers, and I like many others am glad he is the Rangers manager just now, he is a Rangers fan and does hurt along with the rest of us when we get beat, he plays a cautious game but by fuck he knows how to get a team bonding and winning which his record proves, I wonder what kind of results/performances we would be getting if someone else was in charge just in these trying times for Rangers FC ???. The man is a true Rangers legend

You would think he would just be concentrating on beating Falkirk??

Some good clips there, but I'm sure there are other/better ones as well

RANGERS were at the centre of a dramatic bidding war last night with TWO offers on the table for the debt-ridden club. A group of London-based tycoons are putting together a bid but face a rival Far East consortium in the battle - with the deal expected to top �£60MILLION. Ex-chairman Sir David Murray - who owns a 92 per cent stakeholding - has consistently said he will only sell to people he believes can take Rangers forward. Last night a source admitted: "Rangers is definitely on the table and the big-money men are beginning to circle." The London group of property high-flyers, backed by a Guernsey-based finance house, have already held talks with bankers Lloyds about taking on the club's �£30million debt. And they have tabled an offer to take over the Ibrox club to the bank's representative on the board, Donald Muir If it's accepted they will then make a bid for Sir David's stakeholding. Last night the source told The Scottish Sun: "Whoever wants Gers had better realise it's going to cost them �£60million. "It remains to be seen if either of these bids will be successful." Both the London group and the Far Eastern consortium have said they will clear the club's debt. This effectively blows an �£18million bid by Rangers director Dave King and Scots motor tycoon Douglas Park out the water. South Africa-based businessman King and Park offered to clear just 60p in each pound of the club's debts four months ago, but their scheme never got off the ground. Sir David stepped down as chairman last August. It remains to be seen if this offer will meet with his approval. Sir David bought the club, managed by Walter Smith, for �£6million in 1988. http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/2881226/Tycoons-bidding-war-for-Rangers.html