ian1964

Then it's time we used our own ?

Do we really need another 17 year old ?

Yip Chesney, that about sums you and the rest of the MOPES up !!

Yip, he didn't stay up as late as the Ibrox two

RANGERS Reserves impressive unbeaten run came to end this afternoon after they lost 2-0 to Motherwell at Creamery Park. Scott GallacherTommy Wilson's side put on a brave display in poor conditions but the Steelmen came out on top, a result which allows league leaders Celtic to put one hand on the SPL trophy. Celtic, who beat Inverness yesterday, are now ten points clear at the top of the league with both teams having four games remaining. The Light Blues suffered an early scare nine minutes in when Alan Lowing brought down Jamie Murphy in the box and the referee immediately pointed to the spot. Murphy dusted himself down before taking the penalty but Scott Gallacher was there to make a fine stop and get his side out of jail. Rangers got a lift from their keeper's heroics and the home side were to suffer another blow on 35 minutes when Cammy Murray had a nasty fall and had to be replaced following lengthy treatment to his ankle. This was to be a key moment in the game as Motherwell opened the scoring in the injury time added to the end of the first-half. Murphy made amends for his earlier miss with a good run down the right and his dangerous cross was coverted by Robert McHugh from eight yards. Andrew Little Gers came out fighting at the start of the second-half with Andrew Little, in particular, leading the frontline with distinction. The striker has clearly had a boost in confidence after making his senior international debut for Northern Ireland against Poland. Motherwell, however, doubled their advantage with 20 minutes remaining when Gers switched off allowing Murphy to run through on goal and slot the ball beyond Gallacher. Rangers continued to play well in the latter stages but could not get the goal that would have given them a chance of getting a point from this fixture. Gregg Wylde hit the side netting, Archie Campbell fizzed a shot across goal and Lennon and Little also came close but it was not to be. MOTHERWELL: Krysiak, Murray (McPake 30), Wilson, Page, Hutchinson, Malcolm, Meechan (Slane 77), Fitzpatrick, D Smith, Murphy, McHugh RANGERS: Gallacher; Lowing (Bagci 80), Perry, Webster, Wilson; Hutton, Stirling, Hemdani (Campbell 58), Wylde (Forbes 75); Lennon, Little

by Lindsay Herron KENNY MILLER will travel to London next week to seek specialist help to clear an aggravating hamstring problem. The Rangers striker has been troubled with the problem for some time now and it reached a stage last week where he could not continue playing and he missed out on the Falkirk game on Sunday. Two intense international matches probably did not help his case and it looks as though he could be missing for at least another two weeks. He is ruled out of tomorrow's game with St Mirren and will also sit out Saturday's home meeting with Motherwell. Lee McCullochBoss Walter Smith said today: "Kenny will go down to London next week to see a specialist and hopefully we can get to the bottom of the problem. "It's been an awkward one for him. He had been able to play but it got to the stage where it became more and more painful. "Hopefully once we get things diagnosed and be begins his treatment he won't be out for too long." Lee McCulloch and Kirk Broadfoot will also miss the St Mirren game and seem unlikely to be ready for Motherwell at the weekend. However, McCulloch, who has a calf problem, could be available for the trip to Easter Road on April 19. Maurice Edu has been lined up to come in to central midfield.

It's on the fishul site

Good, I thought he should have started against Falkirk and did reasonably well when he did get on, time for Edu to step up to the plate,along with all the other guys who have been sitting waiting on an opportunity to get involved

Aye, me to, things are just getting worse though

Right, I am now at the stage where all the hope/belief that Rangers will in the SPL has just about been sucked out of me !!, I really did think we were in with a great CHANCE, { not confident }, of winning the title before all this carry on with BF & Shagger. I was expecting some sort of reaction against Falkirk, I suppose in some ways we got a reaction......but it was a negative reaction that we got, albeit we got 3 points but it has to be one of the worst performances from Rangers in along time, IMO. Now I just feel like I am waiting for Rangers to get beat, maybe tomorrow night ?, I hope I am wrong of course but I don't expect us to put in a run of victories that is required to win back the SPL. Everything is against us to achieve this, however I can only try and keep some sort of belief that we can achieve it...........but it is very difficult to keep my motivation.............., Wish we could get something back from the players to get me back believing

Agreed, everybody has the right to do what they want

Just my feeling on it mate, I'm not saying fans should do anything, maybe I should have worded it better. I just think the amount of financial shit we are in will be made worse by not renewing, of course I could be wrong, never the less it is entirely up the individual what they do

What happens if we pick up another couple of injuries and suspensions ?, what chance is there of the likes of Hemdani coming back into the team ?,seems daft not to use him if we are struggling. You also have Gow who by all accounts has been doing well out on loan, or are these players mentioned never going to get a sniff ?

The thing is, as Cal has just said, the club needs our support more than ever, not renewing your season ticket will not help the club, unless financial circumstances dictate wether or not you can renew

RANGERS' Reserves will be looking to increase their recent impressive run when they take on Motherwell at Creamery Park in Bathgate this afternoon. Archie Campbell celebrates scoring with Gregg WyldeTommy Wilson's side have taken 16 points from their last six SPL games but still trail league leaders Celtic by nine points with 17 fixtures played. Last week's 1-0 win over Falkirk - courtesy of an Archie Campbell goal - was impressive considering there was five under-19 players in the starting eleven against an experienced side. And it is expected that youth will again be given the chance to shine at this level with injuries taking its toll for Walter Smith ahead of Wednesday night's crucial first-team clash against St. Mirren. Danny Wilson, Ross Perry, Gregg Wylde, Kyle Hutton and Archie Campbell are all likely to to be drafted in to face the Steelmen and other under-19 stars could join them in the squad. This afternoon's game will kick-off at 1pm

The video has been removed Frankie !!

Mmmmmmmmmm, I could always take him to the wee rangers club

We all get bored after a few minutes of watching Rangers

Would not surprise me in the least

Maybe the RST can ask these questions

The midfielder, who was suspended and stripped of his captaincy by the Gers for making obscene gestures while on international duty with Scotland, will make a ââ??¬3.3 million switch to the Russians this summer... 6 Apr 2009 09:45:20 Barry Ferguson - Scotland Photo Gallery Zoom Barry Ferguson - Scotland According to a report in the British tabloid The Daily Mirror, Rangers midfielder Barry Ferguson is set to leave the Scottish giants to join Russian club Zenit St. Petersburg at the end of the season. The 31-year-old was recently stripped of his captaincy and suspended by the Gers for his antics while on international duty with Scotland. Along with Rangers team-mate Allan McGregor, Ferguson was dropped for Scotland's World Cup qualifier against Iceland following an extended drinking session in Amsterdam after the 3-0 defeat to Holland. The pair have subsequently been told they will not play international football again after they were pictured making 'V' signs while on the substitutes bench for the match against Iceland. Ferguson's future with the Glasgow-based outfit, for whom he has scored 54 goals in 360 appearances during two spells, has since been called into question. It now appears that Zenit manager Dick Advocaat, who knows Ferguson from his time as manager of the Scottish giants between 1998-2002, is eager to sign him in a deal worth ââ??¬3.3 million (Ã?£3m). "I am sure everyone in Scotland knows what I think of Barry Ferguson," Advocaat is quoted as saying. "He's still a top player. Maybe he needs a fresh challenge elsewhere." Ricky Brooks, Goal.com http://www.goal.com/en/news/461/scotland/2009/04/06/1194407/barry-ferguson-to-depart-rangers-for-zenit-st-petersburg-report

Graham Spiers Barry Ferguson and Allan McGregor have been stupid and immature in their behaviour, and have received due public humiliation for their antics, but there is still only one word to describe Rangers’ treatment of them – draconian. I remain staggered by the ferocity of the punishment doled out to the pair by Walter Smith, the Rangers manager, and the club’s chief executive, Martin Bain. Last Friday, due to comments made both on and off the record by Smith to reporters, a degree of doubt still prevailed among supporters about Ferguson and McGregor’s future at Ibrox. But Smith, in his private comments, made it perfectly clear what Rangers’ position was. The club is finished with the two players. Neither will play for Rangers again. In the case of Ferguson it is a particularly swingeing penalty. The Rangers captain had made it repeatedly clear that, following his 18-month hiatus at Blackburn Rovers, he regretted ever having left Rangers in the first place and didn’t want to play anywhere else in the remainder of his career. In family terms, Ferguson also has a problem, in his dubious distinction of being married to someone who never wishes to stray more than 20 miles from the original family nest, to the extent that Ferguson has sacrificed aspects of his career for the sake of his loved ones. But Rangers haven’t given two figs about that. For some very unoriginal footballing crimes – getting drunk and giving V-signs to the crowd – Ferguson is being crucified by his club. It is an utterly heartless and callous reaction to the 31-year-old’s misbehaviour, and one that, while causing many in recent days to nod approvingly towards Ibrox, has still left me completely shocked. It can be invidious to simply list endless other incidents as a means of highlighting the double-standard being applied here. But in this case, football’s log of past misdemeanours shows just how ruthless Rangers are being with Ferguson and McGregor. Did Ally McCoist get flung out of Ibrox when he publicly rained blows down on Sandy Clark in a long-forgot-ten league match between Rangers and Heart of Midlothian at Ibrox in 1985? Wasn’t that an “undignified moment” for Rangers? Or what about Paul Gascoigne’s wife-beating episode at Gleneagles 11 years later? Such violence is a heinous crime – far, far worse than the mere effrontery of giving V-signs – yet was Gascoigne evicted from Ibrox as a consequence? These are rhetorical questions – of course neither player was. And so the list goes on and on, and not just at Rangers. How many public spats has Neil Lennon been involved in at Celtic – and don’t tell me he has been the innocent at every turn – yet was he ever punished like Ferguson and McGregor? There seems something almost faintly fascist in the way Rangers have turned on their captain and goalkeeper. Don’t think the irony of all this is lost on me – it isn’t. I knew the whole Paul Le Guen saga at Rangers inside out. I spoke to Le Guen at length about it for a book I wrote about the fallen Frenchman two years ago. One chapter is entitled “The Trouble With Barry Ferguson”. I met Le Guen for lunch in Paris and reprised again the whole scenario of how he believed Ferguson had been complicit in his downfall. “He [Ferguson] is the problem within,” Le Guen told me. “He causes adversity inside the club. He tries to have too much influence, he tries to undermine what you are doing. He made my job at Rangers harder and harder.” Having recognised from the outset what a fine coach Le Guen was, I was inclined to be sympathetic towards him, and distinctly unsympathetic towards Ferguson. I have no doubt Ferguson undermined Le Guen, which is why I have never been cited among the now-deposed Rangers captain’s apologists. But on this occasion Ferguson is the victim of a miscarriage of justice. He is being harshly – almost vindictively – treated. Football is littered with the sort of antics he and McGregor got up to, which have not ended in such summary punishments. Apart from the sheer severity of it, Rangers, in their action, are also ruling out any possibility of contrition or rehabilitation, which is just plain wrong. Yes, I see where Walter Smith is coming from. The incidents at Hampden Park last Wednesday night were a personal affront to the Rangers manager, who had spoken in private to Ferguson and McGregor two days earlier – ie, 24 hours after their allnight binge at the Scotland HQ – and told them to “take their medicine” from the SFA and get on with it. So when Smith then witnessed the pair offering their crude gestures from the Hampden substitutes bench, he knew they were riding roughshod not just over the SFA, but over him as well. Even so, even on such a point of principle, to end both players’ club careers at Ibrox like this is a punishment disproportionate to the crime. At 27, I have no doubt McGregor will find himself another club, but Ferguson’s situation is more complicated. At 31, and after three major operations, his future looks less certain. He is being cut down in his prime by the club he loves. I would love to see Ferguson play again in the Barclays Premier League, where he could absolutely hold his own, but his family circumstances make that scenario difficult. The actions of Ferguson and McGregor were stupid and childish, yet Rangers, in response, have been tyrannical. And another thing... So what did Smith do to deserve all this bashing? I noted the whole Ferguson and McGregor palaver was turned into yet another excuse for some Gordon Smith-bashing. Almost before the two players had downed their final drinks at Loch Lomond last week the word was: “Right... let’s somehow implicate Smudger.” Trying to shoot down the SFA chief executive, pictured right, has become one of the football clichÃ?©s of our age. For the record, last week’s saga went like this: Ferguson and McGregor had their binge on Sunday. On Monday, they were dropped by George Burley. On Tuesday, word leaked out to the press. On Wednesday, Gordon Smith said he would “review the situation” after the Iceland game. On Thursday, Smith was then part of the process that banned Ferguson and McGregor sine die from Scotland. Tell me: how in heaven’s name could any of this become a Smith-bashing exercise? What exactly was it that Smith got wrong? Last week was the final proof that, come hail or shine, regardless of circumstances, part of Smith’s remit is simply to take it in the neck. Destination unknown Will Paul Le Guen sign Barry Ferguson for Paris Saint-Germain? I have to doubt it. But Martin O’Neill might be interested in taking him to Aston Villa, and Ricky Sbragia, if he can last the course, would certainly take Ferguson to Sunderland. As for going to Dick Advocaat’s Zenit St Petersburg, Ferguson’s wife, Margaret, could hardly face uprooting herself to as far away as Armadale, let alone to the Gulf of Finland. So that, I guess, must be a long shot.

Aye..............but he plays for big bad Rangers

RANGERS' under-19s have kept the heat on title leaders Hibs by beating Falkirk 4-0 at Murray Park. Kane HemmingsBilly Kirkwood's kids are now five points behind in the title race but still have a game in-hand. Goals from Gordon Dick, Kane Hemmings (2) and Stephen Forbes gave the the Light Blues a crucial win with Hibs beating St. Mirren 3-1 the previous day. It was a confident and assured display from the club's young guns but Kirkwood would have been frustrated to see Hemmings receive a straight red card for a poor challenge in injury time. The 19s next match is against Motherwell on April 10th while Hibs have to take on Edinburgh rivals Hearts twice in the next two weeks.

Good decision by Walter, strip Barry of the captaincy, suspend the both of them for two weeks and fine them both, for being stupid and childish