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Bayer Leverkusen 2 - 4 Rangers FGS Morelos

I say include it, together with the subsequent quarter final etc.

Whatever happened to positive thinking? If out team go into Saturday's game with such low esteem, we're on a hiding to nothing. If we come out of Saturday's game as easy winners, I expect the mood will lift slightly. Bill's "hopeful but not optimistic" is probably nearer to what I am. In terms of team play, I'm looking forward to the season. I think we have in within us to be very good. The question to me is having the consistency.

Aberdeen 0 - 2 Rangers FGS Morelos

I'll always have fond memories of Morelos. He could be frustrating at times, particularly his discipline, but he was good to watch. He scored some great goal and had some great assists. He kept defenders busy all the time. We all knew it was a matter of time before he moved but It still comes as a shock when it actually happens. Good luck to him. I hope he goes to the very top.

I'm using Chrome but no luck.

I did that but after entering email address and password to login, I'm asked to redeem voucher but when I enter the code, it says it's already been used.

We were told back in June: Lastly, we have worked to achieve a temporary virtual solution for season ticket holders who are unable to access Ibrox due to Covid related restrictions. All 2020/21 Season Ticket holders will receive the following benefits until Ibrox is back at its full 50,000 capacity: Access to live coverage of all home Premiership matches (an individual access code will be provided to each season ticket holder) Enhanced RangersTV Live match coverage with a pre-match, half-time and post-match show, hosted by Rangers personalities and other special guests An exclusive match day preview video shared on each matchday ahead of the live show Complimentary RangersTV live coverage access for ALL Ibrox 20/21 pre-season matches (schedule to be announced in due course) Complimentary digital match programme provided ahead of each matchday (light version) so the friendlies at Ibrox should be available through RangersTV

Whatever happened to the idea that season ticket holders would be able to view pre season friendlies via Rangers TV?

So the Celtic directors will have the honour of toasting the Queen at the loving cup ceremony on 2/1

I don't think these clubs will have anything to fear. Yes, if Rangers or Celtic get promoted, it holds back these teams for a year but they will gain financially when Rangers and Celtic are in their league. The teams most likely to be against it are Premiership teams and as, presumably, 11 Premiership teams will have to support this proposal, it will most likely fail.

Should it be kept open until our European run is either completed or UEFA rule on it.

If next season is behind closed doors, it will be interesting to see if the perceived bias of Scottish referees changes in any way and whether the number of crunching tackles diminishes. https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2020/may/18/bundesligas-quiet-return-hints-at-a-silent-threat-to-home-advantage Eerie silence resounds as Germany ushers in football’s new abnormal Barney Ronay In the 224 Bundesliga games this season before the lockdown, referees awarded 151 more fouls against away teams and handed out 62 more yellow cards. On Saturday, however, that discrepancy vanished. Indeed, slightly more fouls and yellow cards were awarded against the home teams on average. We should expect this. As Ignacio Palacios-Huerta, who sat on the board of Athletic Bilbao from 2011 to 2018 and is also a professor of management, economics and strategy at the London School of Economics, points out, referees are unconsciously influenced by crowds. He and his fellow academics were the first to study how officials were affected by social pressure by looking at stoppage time in La Liga matches. Strikingly they found that when a home team was ahead by a single goal, the referee allowed almost 30% less additional time than average. However, if the home team was behind by one goal the referee allowed 35% more time than average. What’s more, when crowds were larger, the referees become more biased. There was something else too. When the visiting team scored after the end of the regulation 90 minutes, stoppage time went on 15% longer than when the home team scored. In other words, referees were quicker to end the game if the home team scores, thus giving the visitors less time to respond, than if the visitors score. In Spain, two teams particularly benefit from refereeing bias – Barcelona and Real Madrid. Though as Palacios-Huerta dryly notes, “most fans would not need an econometric regression to confirm this”. A Liverpool match against Leicester was examined by a group of referees with and without crowd noise to gauge differences in decisions. A subsequent study looked at what happened in Serie A in 2007 after several Italian clubs were forced to play behind closed doors following the death of a policeman in the Derby di Sicilia between Catania and Palermo. Again the results were significant. The authors found that the typical home advantage in terms of fouls, yellow cards and red cards awarded against the away side all declined dramatically – and that the same referee behaved very differently when officiating the same teams in the same stadium if there was no crowd. Notably, however, the researchers also found there was “no indication that the players are differently affected in games with and without spectators”. Another fascinating piece of research examined how 40 qualified referees judged 47 incidents from a match between Liverpool v Leicester. Half watched with crowd noise, while another group watched the action in silence. Those viewing the footage with noise awarded significantly fewer fouls (15.5%) against the home team compared with those watching in silence. Psychologists call this influence conformity. And you can see how it happens. If 70,000 fans are going to scream at you if you give a decision against their team, it can make referees subconsciously decide to keep the crowd off their backs. So it comes as no surprise that video evidence has helped reduce home advantage. Before the NFL brought in instant replays, for instance, home teams won 59.6% of matches. Afterwards it dropped to 55.6%. Last season it fell to 51.7% – the lowest mark since 1972. Meanwhile in Europe’s top five football leagues, home advantage has fallen from 49% to around 45% – probably because of a combination of better referees, video replays and less hostile crowds. Who knows how much further it will fall if sport is forced to continue behind closed doors until a vaccine is found? Either way, we will all be part of an unwanted clinical experiment into just how strange football is without fans – on and off the pitch – for the foreseeable future. https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2020/may/18/bundesligas-quiet-return-hints-at-a-silent-threat-to-home-advantage

It looks like the SPFL has made their mind up to terminate the season and award titles to the current leaders but they are hiding behind the UEFA angle to defer their decision until the lowere leagues are dealt with through the rule change and then a precedent will be set and it will be argued that it would be unreasonable to treat the lower leagues any differentlt to the Premiership. If there was true leadership, they would at least state their preferred option for the Premiership, subject to UEFA agreement. Restructuring to accommodate Hearts looks like the carve up that it is.

Rangers 1 - 0 Bayer Leverkusen FGS Morelos

Ross County 0 Rangers 2 FGS Morelos

Rangers 2 - 0 Hamilton FGS Morelos

The bird from the Bridge was Swedish but let's not split hairs in this happy time.

So it now falls on Rangers alone to raise the coefficient. For this added responsibility, we will receive all the TV money for Scotland and not need to split it with anyone. Seems like a good deal.

Hearts 0 - 2 Rangers FGS Aribo

Braga 1 - 1 Rangers FGS Kamberi

St Johnstone 0 - 2 Rangers FGS Morelos

Rangers 1 - 0 Braga FGS Morelos

off according to BBC website

Rangers 2 - 0 Livingston FGS Morelos