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Really? I think they would first have to work out what it was before any further calculation on the meaning could occur.

It's obviously serious enough that they appear to have effectively given him a weeks suspension. If it were just a flare up which can happen anytime then in general just saying to a player you go home today and cool off and come back tomorrow should be sufficient.

I know what you mean, it's a kaleidoscope of frankly vacuous ned babble with an occasional meaningful post lost in the babble. I would go further and say it paints a bad picture of Rangers fans in general because as an example I looked at a Ross County forum discussing our upcoming game with them where one of them has posted this. He posted a link to Rangers media to qualify what he was saying.

I'm apparently banned for life from Rangers media. When you don't typically call other posters fanny or fudd they find you suspicious and even more suspicious if you raise objections to such dazzling literacy.

JOEY BARTON’S Rangers career could be in doubt after the veteran was banished from the Rangers training ground by manager Mark Warburton. Record Sport understands Barton was told to go home after a blazing row with team mates and coaching staff earlier this week, following Saturday’s derby thrashing at Celtic Park. Barton has not been back at the club’s training complex for the last 48 hours and is not expected to return until next week - after Rangers have taken on Ross County without him at Ibrox on Saturday. http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/rangers-star-joey-barton-banished-8843460

Leicester win their first ever Champions league match with a 3-0 victory away at Brugge and typical Leicester they had only 38% of the possession.

Anybody in particular we hope he punched?

I had never watched that before. It's extremely painful to watch and instills in me an even greater disgust for the freaks who make fun of it.

I noticed the link posted to the Ibrox disaster documentary titled Stairway 13 doesn't work anymore so I have inserted a new link below.

Which may be a factor in how some of them report better than average performance.

How many matches?

What about Senderos?

I don't know where you're from but where I came from in Central Scotland only Catholic kids were allowed into the Catholic schools and as you say it may have changed since I was at school in the 60's and 70's but even if that were so it still does create this them and us mentality. I would make a guess that an insignificant number of kids in these schools are non Catholic and you yourself pointed out that your son is from a family where at least one parent is Catholic. And there is still also the issue of why the public purse should support it. I have been atheist since I was round 12 years old and to me you may as well say we're a Zeus based school as Catholic or anything else religious for all the sense it makes to me. It pans out into an effective apartheid in Scotland. Take this as well for an example. What else would you call it when " the Scottish Catholic Church even considered unprecedented legal action against North Lanarkshire Council to stop another 'shared campus' being built"? Isn't that the very definition of apartheid? They don't even want to share a space even when they can still separate out into their own classes. I have seen them refuse to even have a shared entrance to the school grounds.

And that may gain further credence if they're thrashed by Borussia Monchengladbach who were just 4th in the German league and I would say there's a distinct possibility they will indeed be comfortably beaten by them home and away.

There was another guy in our year at school who was estimated to be at least as good as Bett if not even better. They both played in the same Scotland schoolboys team against England at Wembley one year but this other guy ended up playing Junior football. An aside of that was that our math teacher who also ran the school football team was also the manger of Scotland schoolboys at the time. His name was Jimmy Maxwell. I think both he and Bett were actually signed by Airdrie and I later heard but couldn't confirm this that the other guy was caught stealing boots or something for which Airdrie fired him and from there he never got back into the pro game. I don't know if that's true, it may be the case that he had the skills but simply lacked something else because there's more to it than just having the ball skills.

Isn't there already genuine blood on the streets? The greatest thing they could do to change it is stop financing with public money the apartheid schools run by the Catholic church. If they absolutely must maintain their apartheid then they can pay for it because I don't want to.

This was always going to happen to them which made Rodgers comments beforehand about not going there to "be passengers" all the more comical though to be fair he had to say something like that. He could hardly say they're going to thrash us but they always were. They were beaten away by the postmen of Gibraltar then played off the park away in Israel so anyone who thought anything else was going to happen away to Barca was fantasising. There is a very strong possibility that they're going to come out of it with not a single point and a record goals against tally. This is also funny. The only difference between the first half and the second was that they were luckier in the first half. It could easily have been 6-0 at the break.

Name dropping? I was at school with Jim Bett. Among other things he once almost stabbed himself in the hand with a chisel in the woodwork class by throwing it up in the air in a twirling motion then trying to catch it on the way back down which he didn't because he instinctively pulled his hand away from the attempted catch as the chisel came down. That got him belted because the teacher saw it. Also he was a cheating b@#$%$#* who gave me the only winding I have ever had in my life with a two footed tackle from behind. Though I expect what he did was legitimate at that time in the early 1970's

Interesting, none of the statistics sites I checked for it show a 1960's tie. http://www.rosscounty-mad.co.uk/head_to_head/ross_county/vs/rangers/index.shtml One site does make brief mention of a game in 1966 but aside from saying there was a game gives nothing else about it such as date, score, or even competition which is why I left it out. After reading it I felt that since they were saying little about it that it might have been a friendly or testimonial. http://www.rosscounty.tv/50-years-celebrations.html

Only to be expected, probably being thrashed 7-0 takes a lot out of you as does winning 5-1, wisdom courtesy of Brenda. Which means everybody aside from maybe those who draw are having a lot taken out of them in every game?

Following the disappointment of last weekend next up is Ross County at Ibrox which is as good a match as any to get back on track for a variety of reasons not least of which is that County could leapfrog us in the table if they were to pull off a win. Put that alongside the fact that Hearts lying in second are playing a tough away match at St Johnston where they could realistically be beaten a result in this match could push us back into second spot. One unique feature is that Ross County made their first appearance in the SPL in our very first season out of it so this will be the first ever league meeting between the two clubs. There have only ever been two prior meetings between the clubs neither of which was a league match and neither of which were at Ibrox. Season 2000/2001 Sun 18 Feb: Ross County 2 - Rangers 3, Scottish F.A. Cup Season 2001/2002 Wed 28 Nov: Ross County 1 - Rangers 2, Scottish League Cup Thus Rangers and County have never before met at Ibrox in any competition. County currently sit just 1 point behind us lying fourth in the table and this is as good a chance as any to put some early space between us and what is arguably one of the most likely sides to be top 6 at the end of the season we have met so far. That is of course aside from last weeks opposition who shall be placed in a category with Voldermort, they who must not be named. Comparing the rest of our previous league opposition to this point with that of County throws up some interesting and perhaps encouraging statistics. County were beaten 3-1 at Dingwall by Dundee in their first match of the league season who themselves were beaten 2-1 by us at Dens park in our second league match of the season. Then, in their most recent two games, County again faced opposition we have already played with a 1-1 draw at home to Motherwell last week and in their previous match beaten 1-0 away to Hamilton before the international break. Motherwell were of course beaten by us in both the league cup on their own patch and in the league at Ibrox while Hamilton despite being outplayed overall snatched a 1-1 draw at Ibrox on the opening day of the season. All in all while the defence is still in a state of flux with Wilson injured and Senderos suspended after his recent sending off that may be compensated for to some degree by others such as Holt, Waghorn, perhaps Rossiter and most recently the impressive looking Windass coming into contention alongside a first outing at Ibrox for Joe Garner following a goal in his first full competitive 90 minutes for us. It may even be argued that this match is in a sense more important to take a good result from than the last since it's crucial to begin a pattern of winning our home games consistently and convincingly. Given recent events both the players and the management team need to begin turning in the type of displays we know they are capable of and this would appear to be an ideal opportunity to do so. During a home match in which we can field a side with the qualities required to turn in an attacking display that could pin County back from the off. So let's hope for a return of the menacing Rangers we witnessed so often last term to shake off the blues of our first defeat of the season and to bolster confidence before a visit to Pittodrie where an away win at what is expected to be a top 3 contender could put us back in the groove of where we expect Rangers to be.

OK so when Barca come to Glasgow they will be on a smaller pitch than they're used to and colder temperatures so will be thrashed 7-0 Right?

Cool, a bit of luck and it could have been a close run 7-1 or 7-2

A game they won 5-1 the last 15 minutes of it against 10 men and no CB's and boasted about how easy it was took a lot out of them? Peculiar.

That surprises me. I always thought they were doing it for Ireland and Palestine.