colinstein

He wasn't in the side at the start of the season when we were passing our way through defences. If Arsenal are up on Sunday i agree, he'll play. if not, I reckon we'll start with Law or Sheils and he might come on around the hour mark

Paton's been found guilty on a reduced charge of assault. Fined £500. Guess they took the provocation into account

Apparently the 3 bears have said if necessary they will cover Green's costs. Also that Dave King is in town this week . Don't know if it's true

I was at that one this'll be the chap you're on about.......

to sell newspapers. As I said before "slow news day at the Record" and what is this "ink" thing you talk about ?

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/opinion/sport/keith-jackson-rangers-no-longer-6703468 Keith Jackson: Rangers are no longer a freakshow but it's gone too quiet.. it's time for Dave King to reveal his long-term financial plans for the club 06:00, 26 OCT 2015 OPINION BY KEITHJACKSON OUR man Keith reckons 234 days in the helm is long enough now and that the Ibrox chairman needs to address some big questions facing the club. 28 SHARES 1 COMMENT Daily RecordDave King IT’S now 234 days since Dave King successfully routed the previous Rangers regime and, in so doing, brought a measure of calm back to a boardroom which had been ravaged by unrelenting scandal. In that respect, on March 6, as King and his right hand men, Paul Murray and John Gilligan, stormed up the old staircase, they were liberating their football club. Freeing it from the clutches of those who had done it so much harm and caused it so much shame. And so, on that day, everything changed. A new board was installed and it was, in the main, accepted also that these men - each a lifelong Rangers fan - would act in the club’s best interests rather than indulge those of their own. They had arrived to save Rangers. To restore a club, not to pillage it. Of that there was never any reasonable doubt, even if King’s brusque manner and his raft of South African tax convictions made him a man of some mystery. Today, just shy of eight months on, the evidence is stacking up of delivery on all of these good intentions. A great deal of good work has been done. Rangers are, first and foremost, going about their business primarily as a football club once more not the grotesque freak show which it had become. Yesterday’s win at St Mirren, while hardly spectacular, was an 11th straight league victory for a team which is romping towards promotion. They have appointed a capable, contemporary manager in Mark Warburton and just recently they have furnished him with a head of recruitment in Frank McParland, and also an expert in analysis in Neil McIlhargey. Rangers Chairman Dave King (left) and manager Mark Warburton A managing director has been secured as well as a new commercial chief. It’s all fairly routine and standard stuff, granted, but none-the-less all of these appointments are indicative of a club which is being nurtured, healed and regrown from the inside. During this time Rangers have been quietly getting back to business just as King promised they would which will be a relief to those supporters who could no longer cope with the daily embarrassment their club had become. But here’s the thing. It’s actually gone all a little too quiet because there are some hugely significant questions - most of them money related - which remain unanswered and King’s low profile, long distance leadership has, in fact, created an information vacuum. And into this vacuum all manner of malicious and ill informed gossip is slowly being poured. There is noise now warning of another financial collapse before the end of the season, of Murray Park being padlocked and all manner of other apocalyptic forecasts. The truth of the matter is no-where near as dramatic. Yes, Rangers will need more money to get through the current campaign and that cash - probably something between £2m and £3m - will almost certainly come in the form of further soft loans from King and co-investors George Letham, Douglas Park, George Letham and George Taylor. But while this seems the most likely solution it’s up to King to provide the detail because his latest period of extended silence has left some well used question marks hanging over Ibrox again. They will remain there until that cash has been pledged because, without it, Rangers will be back on the brink. SNS GroupRangers Chairman Dave King speaks to the press at IbroxRangers chairman Dave King So King really ought to start coming up with some answers. Occasionally, throughout his time in charge, he has flown in from Johannesburg to launch sporadic bursts of PR but never once has he given a definitive on where this club stands financially and how it can continue to exist without raising some serious amounts of fresh capital. If anything, the figures have been brushed over or fudged. The rank and file, meanwhile, are simply expected to take this obfuscation in good faith which is what, in most parts, they have done. But 234 days in, surely even they can see the need for substance and clarity from behind those boardroom doors. On the eve of the big purge back in March, King came striding through the arrivals hall at Glasgow Airport and, as he spoke of his impending victory, he also made a promise to end the culture of cloak and dagger dishonesty which had become the way of things over these previous few years. He said: “It will be a long road but as long as we travel that road together I guarantee the fans absolute transparency and accountability. “If there’s one thing that’s been missing at Rangers over the last couple of years I believe it’s not just the ethos and the level of respect but I think transparency and accountability has been completely absent.” Of course, he was correct. Bang on the money. VIEW GALLERY So it must be asked then, where is his masterplan for Rangers? If former chief executive Graham Wallace was hounded for needing 120 days to compile a business review of this football club then how can it be that this new, vastly improved board have gone 234 days without cracking a light about their own medium to long term financial strategy? Of course, to cut them some slack, King and his directors are also having to deal with the extraordinary circumstances which are about to be played out in Edinburgh’s Court of Session, where the bogeymen of this club’s recent history will soon gather together again for the trial of the century. It could well be because of these proceedings that King’s plans have had to be stalled because, for as long as this case remains active, there is not the slightest hope of the club raising funds from offering new shares to the market. Which is why more loans from current directors will be required as working capital to keep the club ticking over at some point in the New Year, bridging the gap until the next wave of season ticket money starts washing into the bank account. Which does beg a couple of obvious questions. Just how deep are their pockets? And for how long will they be willing, able or required to dig deep into them? But that’s not all because King has also spoken about his desire to help Warburton tool up for re-entering the top flight and if he is being genuine about that and true to his word then the size of this next flurry of hand-outs will have to be significantly increased. Dave King, Paul Murray and John Gilligan celebrate after their boardroom takeover Long before he finally won his battle for control King also talked of his intentions for this club and with a hubristic flourish said he had set aside a sum of more than £30m of his children’s inheritance for the project. So far, 234 days in, he has signed a single cheque for £1.5m which went into the club’s coffers shortly after his coronation as chairman. So again, the question is, how much more is he actually prepared to invest? And, for that matter, what is the true scale of his ambition? Today’s Rangers are being run with diligence and prudence. One day soon this perennial basketcase may even be living within its means. But, on his last visit, King has spoke too about a need to ‘over-invest’ in the early stages of this rebuild by funding Warburton’s recruitment. He has been pilloried for the use of such bullish rhetoric and bold promises but if he was being serious then very soon, in the January sales, he will have to make good on his words. If, on the other hand, he has scaled down his grand plan then so-be-it. It would seem like no bad thing, after all, if Rangers adopted a more realistic approach to their spending. Either way the time has come for King and his men to deliver on those promises of transparency and accountability. One thing is certain, Rangers require money from somewhere. And soon. So how much of it is King really good for? And when does he plan on stumping it up? After 234 days at the helm, it’s time these questions were answered.

your post could be a mirror. ditto the lot.....even remembering the '64 game more than the '63 spooky

yet the goal line camera has been an improvement I think

DJ's wasn't really a bullet header...still brilliant and well placed

Pointless comparisons with the 60's and 70's. It's a different game now. I think our game against Livi sums up exactly what's wrong with our game and why we can't compete on a European or World stage

Agree with the above.....what has Nicky Clark produced time and time again ? I must have missed it !...My view is he'll be gone as soon as his contract's up.

does your chewing gum lose it's flavour on the bed post overnight

we had a few as well.........Hardie Aird Walsh Durrant was successful at Killie with the youth side as I remember

ah...hadn't read that... .I was wrong I'm the rocket

"As celtc fans as apt to comment, should one replace 'English' footballer with 'Jewish' or 'black' footballer, charges would certainly follow." Away yi go ya rocket ! ( sometimes I can't help myself) Apologies in advance

Burchill more or less admitted Gibbons should have been off but he took no responsibility for it himself Considering the number of fouls they committed, you wonder how they prepared for this game. I think the studs to ankle tackle on oduwa was deliberate and later on there was another go at the same ankle on the edge of the box. Perp was booked maybe but apart from that the ref was culpable of allowing this to happen The SFA got to intervene

Through balls from deep....Barry Ferguson was good at that

is the under 20's the same as the development league ?

So was last night's bizarre performance from Livi a one off ? Have they got previous ?

Foderingham is far better than Bell. I don't agree Bell is a better shot stopper at all. Foderingham commands the box and distributes from the back as well. Some of the crossfield passes Roussou was on about have actually come from him in kick outs. A few heart in mouth moments of Scorpion proportions earlier in the season and one last night mind you but as long as Fod. is here Bell will be number 2

He's done the business this season but I reckon he went out on loan because he just didn't cut the mustard before. Wasn't good enough...simple...don't blame McCoist at all for that

so have I. James Conolly was a good revolutionary socialist and deserves to be remembered as such.

Aye, hiz naebody telt you ahm no really colin stein Real name's Patrick Murphy by the way

hardly anybody gets an early bath here. You learn things in the discussions