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Miller's still up for it though if you're not up for it.........you don't get picked

I think McColl picks players who are up for it

I can walk to Ibrox, Hampen, Nelwandsfield Rd. Cathkin (yes it's still there) 35 mins max 50 mins to Parkhead through Brig'ton

losing a goal at home is no different from losing a goal away

I didn't turn up I deserve to be scourged and given the jaggy bunnet Schubert and Mozart got me instead....mind you with all that Kyrie elieson and gloria in exelcis deo might just have you wondering what side of the dyke I've jumped fear not We'll go next time providing BH doesn't chib us ( felt guilty all night to be honest)...........more timism

SPFL Premiership Semi-final play-off Rangers v Hibernain Ibrox Stadium Wednesday 20 May, Kick-off 7.45pm Dear Season Ticket Holder Tickets for the above fixture are on general sale today and season-ticket holders can purchase their own seats and activate their smartcards until Monday, May 18 at 9pm. Tickets for this fixture will be £5 for all sales levels. Bar 72 and Section MLF season-ticket holders should note smartcards for this match will be activated as normal for all home first team fixtures. TICKET CENTRE AND HOTLINE OPENING HOURS FOR THE SEMI FINAL PLAY OFF TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE FROM THE FOLLOWING SALES CHANNELS: - online here* 24hrs a day - Ticket hotline 0871 702 1972* (calls cost 10ppm plus network extras) Monday to Sunday 9am – 9pm - Rangers Ticket Centre* Rangers Ticket Centre will be open Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 8am until 8pm and Thursday 9am until 6pm, Saturday 10am until 2pm and closed Sunday. *Booking fees apply. Important Information Due to the extremely constrictive time scales involved with ticket processing for the Hibernian home game on Wednesday 20 May, tickets purchased via the web site and ticket hotline between Sunday night and Monday until 3pm ONLY thereafter, all tickets will be held for collection only and associated restrictions on collection volumes will be in place.

We need a manager who gets teams playing good football. Someone who on a restricted budget coaches young players and brings them through. Step forward John Hughes

how can some of us have no interest ? We're challenging for promotion ! with 3 bounds we could be free......

Aye, why would he Pity were in such a shambles when he was with accies

He does make it clear he's there to do what the clubs tell him. The decisions are therefore not his to make. That's what he gets paid for.

I would take sponsorship from the Medellin Cartel to be honest.

yes...that's what I thought it was. It'll be on Iplayer. Same answers were trotted out to similar questions ps.....are you sure the STV reporter didn't just listen to BBC and copied it down. Reporters do that a lot

If that "kill all huns" photo was taken in N. Ireland then it's not referring to 'Gers supporters but to Protestants. It's banned there because it's a derogatory term used against people because of their religious beliefs.

It's a transcript of an interview on Sportsound Radio Scotland the other night. I heard it

there can be no reconstruction until after the third year of the SPFL unless 42 teams vote for it. No way those in the Championship will vote for it if we're there next season

like Alex Neil maybe ?

but the Telegraph article says this : Telegraph Sport can reveal that the SFA is now in possession of most of the documentation required and that the delay is not because of obstruction by King or the Rangers board – who are understood to have responded to all requests promptly and fully – but because evidence is still awaited from sources in South Africa, including the country’s Revenue Service (SARS).

If we get through, Hibs ticket allocation will be 950.

It suggests Ashley was in there early doors.

I think Darren McGregor's got the same sort of extension on his contract. It's dependent on a set number of appearances.

Ferguson and Streete

mine is 2010 of 5000 it was the year I escaped working for a living

main stand for us posh cunts

this was my limited edition present ........

IF McCall does somehow find a way of driving it over the finishing line and into next season’s top flight that it might suddenly come apart in a puff of smoke. 12 Shares Share Tweet +1 Rangers management team Kenny Black and Stuart McCall arrive at Palmerston for the crucial Play-off match with Queen of the South VIEW GALLERY IN the blur of battle, often it is easy to lose sight of reality. Yes, Rangers may have taken a step towards the top end of the Scottish game at Palmerston on Saturday and, understandably, Stuart McCall will have been pleased to make it back to the sanctuary of his own stadium with a narrow first-leg lead in the bag. In terms of micro-management and dealing only with what he can effect in the here and now of this frantic jostling for promotion, a slender 2-1 play-off victory will have come as an almighty relief. That Rangers made it in and out of Dodge without being visited by disaster was about as much as McCall had been hoping for. VIEW GALLERY But, even as Dean Shiels was heading home the second-half winner, a bigger picture was emerging down there, on that piece of plastic which nestles in Dumfries town centre – that this is the very level at which today’s Rangers actually belong. That the last three years of woeful ineptitude and obscene hubris – including more than an accumulative £18m blown on player wages over three stages of “the journey” – has bought and paid for a team which frankly does not look fit for purpose in Scotland’s Premiership. That if McCall does somehow find a way of driving it over the finishing line and into next season’s top flight that it might suddenly come apart in a puff of smoke, separated from its wheels. VIEW GALLERY And that – when the dust settles and these end-of-season wacky races are over – one thing above all else will be clear. For £6m a year, Rangers have assembled the most expensive clown’s car in football. How else is there to view it? This is a collection of players who have made such a habit of tripping up over their own incompetence that McCall can no longer trust them to stand on their own two feet. Rather, the manager feels compelled to protect them with a safety-first tactical philosophy even when up against a Queen of the South side assembled at a fraction of the cost. Nor is this meant as a slight on James Fowler and his players who should be congratulated on their own phenomenal efforts which, in any other season bar this one, might have seen them go straight up as champions of the Championship. Action ImagesDean Shiels celebrates scoring with with Kenny Miller and Robbie Crawford after making it 2-1Dean Shiels celebrates scoring with with Kenny Miller and Robbie Crawford after making it 2-1 But even Fowler would conceded Queen of the South should have no business making a fist of such an obvious catch-weight contest. With a wage bill of around £500k they ought to be hopelessly outgunned by McCall’s men and the fact that they are not is purely down to years of mismanagement and misappropriation at the highest levels inside Ibrox. The end result is now in clear view and it’s not a pretty sight. In fact, it would be hysterical were it not so desperately sad for a club which has been taken to the brink by all manner of abusers and self-servers over the last few years. To be clear, McCall cannot be blamed for adopting such a cautious approach at the weekend and nor should he feel remotely embarrassed about resorting to these measures. On the contrary his diligence has kept Rangers’ hopes alive beyond the expectancy of many observers. Indeed, the very nature of his short-term job necessitates a needs-must policy and this is largely because of the mess made by those who went before, including former manager Ally McCoist who continues to be paid a huge wage just to stay away from the place. McCoist’s exorbitant gardening leave is just another issue which needs to be resolved this summer and then there is the ongoing police investigation into all manner of wiggery-pokery which has gone on behind the scenes. For example, is anyone out there in cyberland really daft enough to think Strathclyde’s finest turned up on a whim at the HQ of Sports Direct the other week, looking for no more than a cup of tea and a custard cream? No, this swoop was serious stuff all right – sanctioned at the very highest level – and there is reason to believe the cops are close to feeling a few more collars as they probe the business of former owners Craig Whyte and Charles Green. It was not just McCoist and his players who were beneficiaries of outrageous generosity over that sustained period of profligacy. The many issues which remain to be resolved off the park continue to carry greater significance than what happens on it but, inevitably, the focus has shifted back to the football side of this business because of the urgency and drama of the play-offs. And the truth is, Rangers do not make a pretty sight. That’s another reality which will have to be confronted by the club’s new regime, irrespective of whether or not McCall can successfully plot a safe passage through another five qualification nail-biters. In other words, whatever should happen between now and the play-off final on May 31, the Rangers squad will have to be rebuilt almost entirely during the 30 days of June. On Saturday’s evidence, as many as six new regular starters will be required just to make the first team able to survive in another division never mind capable of mounting a challenge to win it. A manager, be it McCall or someone else, will have to be appointed on a full-time basis. Crucially, a long-term football strategy will have to be clearly defined in order that the mistakes of previous years are not repeated. Rangers have a second chance at a blank canvas this summer and this time something far more thoughtful and intelligent than the recruitment of Kevin Kyle, Seb Faure, Bilel Mohsni and Ian Black will be required. This is the true scale of the task which Dave King fought so hard to inherit when he bulldozed the previous board and the tightness of the timescales involved are also the reason he will be hoping to have his “fit and proper” status finally decided on by the SFA in the next few days. Sources on Hampden’s sixth floor insist they are not to blame for the hold up and emphasise they are still awaiting more submissions from King’s legal team. Yet, while the authorities are in no rush to handle this particular time bomb, King and right-hand man Paul Murray are up against the clock. They need an answer from the SFA before they can progress funding plans and explain how they hope to pay for all of this before asking season-ticket holders to dig into their own pockets once more. These play-offs then have offered Rangers some timely shelter and a bit of respite for the time being. A result against Queen of the South on Sunday will extend it deeper into May. But reality cannot be suspended indefinitely. One way or the other, Rangers have serious work ahead. http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/keith-jackson-rangers-miles-away-5675461