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see that Frankie guy he doesn't look anything like the photo in his posts

yep. turn up Sandy Loan to the carp park on the cliffs. the beach sweeps round in white sand and blue water. Go right, past the first headland.....another beach, and another....all the way to North Berwick they disapprove of running on the dunes now. It destabilises them and alters the eco system

got to command your box that's what's needed

Miller hasn't been up front for ages Clark's powderpuff the boy Irvine galloped through on to early balls.................I liked that

I saw Law in one good game against Hearts otherwise.........think his future involves new challenges elsewhere

it's disgraceful we are not in the top tier sadly, that's down to us a multi £million squad couldn't get promoted I still can't believe it

EDIT by craig : Please refrain from derogatory terms

"Clearly, when it comes to Wilson, you are a "glass half empty" kind of person." not at all He's a solid pro like Kenny what's not to like ? PS that guy Eustace looks the same type

Lee Wallace is involved in grass roots training of youngsters. He sees the bigger picture. Not surprised Lee would have mentored this guy

I'm trying to remember Danny Wilson's career. He was a tim that we brought through the ranks showed such good progress that we sold him to Liverpool for £2million to help fund the Jelavic deal didn't get first team football on Merseyside and came back to join Hearts Professional in the Kenny Miller mould I think

Think the manager explained the position in that interview

came across very well I thought..... avoided answering questions about individual targets, sounded really positive on the way forward. we'll see........

This is what it's about........! and the thought of wee wullie on the right and Davy Wilson on the left.......

What does it say on the gravestone ?

Templeton's pish. Get rid of asap

Spence, Golum, Cosgrove, Speirs........all haters guy's who edited McCoist obviously took their cue from Orgreave Spence was hauled over the coals but their sports pundits are out of control

Can't see him coming. Frankly he's too good for us. The only thing happening for us was him and Foster on that wing. 3 markers or more stifled their effectiveness. If we could have threatened elsewhere, opponents would have to spread their defence more thinly. With better teamwork and players, Vuckic would be a great asset. however now that he's fitter, I reckon a Championship side will snap him up.

Knee injury. Had an op recently but should be fit for the start so I read.

I don't think so. The object of the fixtures will be to create as much interest as possible early in the season. We might find it difficult as the new players and coaching staff will require time to bed in but it's a marathon, not a sprint so I'm sure we'll prevail given the resources and a manager who's got a clue. ps. I don't think the draw was random either but I think the reasons are given above.

Breakaway club FC United open new football stadium 36 minutes ago The official opening of a new football stadium tonight is timely with the scandal engulfing FIFA. The story of FC United of Manchester is about fans who got fed up with big money in the game. Jayne McCubbin reports. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32926506 food for thought. Fan owned club. We need to aim for this. It can be the only way forward

Rallying call from Mark Dingwall. Traditionally the Retail Division was the only part of Rangers which made money year in and year out. Whatever the ups and downs of ticket income or money from European competitions the Retail money was the cash cow we could always rely on. Then David Murray’s management of the club necessitated a selling off of the family silver to bail him out with the JJB deal. We were told at the time that changing sales patterns meant that the partnership with JJB would give us a guaranteed income no matter what and a bonus in those years Retail performed particularly well. We lost control of our brand then and when JJB had it’s problems we were chained to their fortunes - it meant the stock was not there on time or only in certain sizes and you could forget finding anything in overseas stockists. Northampton Loyalist gave his take on it in this article - http://www.followfollow.com/news/tmnw/the_jjb_deal_dissected_from_necessity_to_calamity_458723/index.shtml In the glory years we had 64 page catalogues, strips provided by Adidas and Nike, a vast range of goods, our own healthy network of Rangers shops and a push to maximise revenue via the Rangers Direct mail order operation. From memory our best sales years was 463,000 sales of the first team shirts which meant we were only second to Manchester United. We now find ourselves in a new reality. The deal done between Charles Green and his merry men was not good for Rangers - I had my open views of it here - http://www.followfollow.com/news/tmnw/rangers_about_to_enter_a_new_dark_age_844715/index.shtml and I don’t believe Charlie and Co ever intended to stay around long enough to have to face the music on this deal. I suspect that the current Board will have been focussing on the period between Green’s takeover and the conversion of loans from Green and his backers into shares and looking for a trail regarding the retail operation and who did what and why. We had snippets of the Retail deal in the RIFC prospectus - worryingly enough were the 49/51 split in profits with the deal-breaker clause - and now we find the notice period for termination of the contract is seven years. Common sense tells you Mike Ashley is in the retail business and he wants to sell shirts - his problem is his past association with the Green regime and the terrible deal (for Rangers) he did with him. Our support is now so interested in this aspect of the club that the current directors will have an almost impossible task of selling any renegotiated deal to the support unless the bottom line for the club is substantially improved. The bad news angle of this deal would have a normal company rushing to the negotiating table - it’s a horror show for Sports Direct - the split, the percentages, the removal of Llambias and Leach, the trouncing of their allies at the EGM. The problem is Ashley has such a large operation he’s gambling no-one will care about Rangers and our little local difficulty and the rest of Sports Direct will easily cope despite the sideshow in Scotland. And he didn’t get so rich getting many of his guess incorrect. Ashley’s always played the hardest of hard balls - and calling an EGM despite the recent negotiations is typical. But this time he is up against a man of a similar stature and intelligence - the response of the Board under Dave King was clever - an escalation to reveal the operation of the deal in terms of the level and timing of payments for one thing. The Rangers EGM threatens to run out of Ashley’s control in a manner similar to the appearance of the SD Chairman Keith Halliwell before the House of Commons committee where he and his company were publicly filleted - it was a horror show. Ashley runs Sports Direct and has his own investment arm. For both of these their relationships with football clubs are crucial - Sports Direct has become cancerous at Ibrox - and the cancer is starting to spread with Newcastle fans beginning to turn against him, with fans of the other clubs he has relationships with in England (he’s got a new business model which involves a combination fo shirt sponsorship and control of retail operations) - and Ashley does have his own shareholders to consider. Those Sports Direct shareholders have with their interventions cause Ashley major problems in the last few years in seeking to curtail his running of the company and the renumeration packages to key staff. The operations of the company are now under major scrutiny regarding employment practises and exploitation and he needs more bad publicity like a hole in the head. Common sense tells you a renegotiated contract makes sense all round - Ashley has a route to market which Rangers would take years to build for themselves and Rangers need retail income - no income kills the goose that lays the golden egg for both parties. The other factor which has changed is that the club is now mostly owned by Rangers fans and the the Board is only composed of Rangers fans. Those Rangers fans may have large or small shareholdings but they united to trounce Ashley’s allies at the EGM - and if the Board provides coherent leadership the fans will be a great factor in this. We’re as united as we ever have been or ever will be. Which Rangers director at the EGM if asked a direct question about the Sports Direct deal will either lie or hide? Not one. We need to back our Board 100% in this fight and take our lead from them. http://www.followfollow.com/news/tmnw/the_sports_direct_deal_and_the_coming_showdown_862803/index.shtml

"impressed by his form for Rangers this year" !!!

Obviously not following a full curriculum. No way can they be sitting Highers at the end of it.

well they did. the previous Nomad was one Paul Shackleton whose fly by night reputation made him impossible to retain. He took our account from one company to another ending up at WH Ireland. Did you not listen to any of Tom Wnnifirth's podcasts ?

It was Cantor Fitzgerald according to Prior who said Paul Murray had told him that