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Balls, this should be in the pre-season thread

STEVEN GERRARD could take his Rangersside to Plymouth this summer after new Home Park boss Ryan Lowe approached his friend over a pre-season fixture. Lowe was in charge of Bury last term as Gerrard made his Ibrox debut as a boss and saw the Light Blues clinch a 6-0 victory. Now he hopes to line-up another test against the Gers following his move to Argyle earlier this month as he replaced Derek Adams in the dugout. Rangers already have games with Oxford United, Marseille and Blackburn Rovers in the diary and will play their first competitive clash of the new term on Thursday, July 11 in the Europa League qualifiers. https://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/sport/17704072.amp/?__twitter_impression=true

You think we don't?

The challenge of Rovers is they will be pushing for promotion this season as they just missed out to Charlton. That brings a differebt kind if pressure, the pressure to win every week because it's expected (sound familiar) but in a league that's also "robust" and will teach him the tricks of his trade that he's still to learn through playing every week. He's too good to be playing reserve football & he won't get the challenge required at St Johnstone or the like where they're happy to tread water.

The biggest question must be .... are they keeping the portable tv in the changing room?

That wood panelling is indicative of the history & tradition that permeates the entire club. It echoes back to previous glories, as well as tragedies. It and the other features of our stadium are what makes RFC & it's stadium iconic in world football. To lose our history is to lose Rangers.

Got this from TO yesterday . There isnt enough space to move 4 of us together, currently 3 in BR and in Govan

Best solution for me is .. we extend Tav contract by one season so he's on the contract length, let him have one last tilt at 55 and trying for either (both) cups. At the end if this season, he'll be 28 which will still see us get full value in a transfer & him to get to a club at a reasonable level & very likely better pay.

Holy fuck, I'd love to watch you come up with a business idea that runs at cost & makes no money #Twat

We apparently signed the contracts "subject to stakeholder approval". It seems the stakeholders didn't approve & we are happy to pay genuine costs incurred but the company want much more. We can only be one of a few clubs who's fans jump on the club rather than the those bringing action against us, how about listening to both sides, not just the side you read in the paper that's written for clickbait.

We need to employ a "No win, no fee" legal team .. cheaper option these days 😂

The interesting part is our wage to turnover % sitting at 70odd% which is not great, of course based on turnover in our last accounts & not our improved T/O this year. However, conversely there is also this report ..

Don't care, their stadium their rules. Only thing, If they don't sell out & try to ask us to take them, we politely decline & leave the arrangements as they made them.

There'll be some wee arsehole bragging to his mates how he done an RFC player. Folk know who he is but if they won't put up someone who bottled a 10yr old boy on a supporters bus, they won't do it for this.

Got mine & it looks the part

This time last season Steven Gerrard and his team began to shape the squad for the season ahead. Most of us wanted a closer finish to the league winners, some of us dreamed of the ultimate prize. European dreams of group qualification and the riches that would bring were firmly at the forefront of everyone’s ambitions Domestic silverware and finally beating our nearest rivals was also firmly on the agenda. Along the way the management had to stop a team leaking goals at an alarming rate, bring the passion back to our jersey and recruit players capable of understanding just what was needed to play at our club week in week out https://fourladshadadream.blog/2019/05/22/as-season-18-19-comes-to-a-close-we-look-at-the-summer-ahead-targets-and-areas-to-improve/ Think the blog deserves the hits rather than posting it all here.

Rangersmenu Progress, pressure & the long road ahead - Steven Gerrard's first year at Rangers By Tom English BBC Scotland 8 hours ago From the sectionRangers Steven Gerrard during his unveiling at Ibrox last year History repeated on Sunday for Rangers. On the back of an emotional high of a win over celtic they went to Kilmarnock and lost, an echo of what happened in December and January when they beat their Old Firm rivals at Ibrox before falling 2-1 to Killie in their next match at Rugby Park. In a sense, the last week was like their league season in microcosm. A convincing performance that offered hope followed by a slump that reminded everyone of their essential vulnerability. Across all competitions they beat every team in the top flight, but equally they dropped points in 15 different league matches. Would the real Rangers please stand up. When Steven Gerrard was made Rangers manager the reaction was understandably intense, a split between those who felt he was going to prove the great redeemer and those who felt sure he would be eaten alive by the club's problems and by the incendiary nature of football in Glasgow. There was pressure and expectation. In the relative blink of an eye, Gerrard had to cull his squad and create a new one. He had money, but not lots of it. He had to duck and dive. The Rangers team that beat celtic 1-0 in December had five Gerrard signings in the starting line-up. The one that beat celtic 2-0 earlier this month had eight. As a journalist who thought Rangers were taking an unwarranted gamble on a manager who had only taken charge of a youth team at Liverpool, there has to be an admission that Gerrard has outperformed expectations. Way outperformed them. Gerrard has done well. No trophy, that's true, but he's made discernible progress. Those who shouted loudest about Rangers challenging celtic for the title might look a little silly, but there really weren't many of them. Most knew that the job he's trying to do at Rangers is not a thing you can put together in a single season. Numbers game adding up for Gerrard For Gerrard, most of the important numbers are heading in the right direction. From third in the league last season to second in the league this season. From 70 points a year ago to 78 points now. From 76 goals for and 50 goals against in 2017-18 to 82 goals for and 27 goals against in 2018-19. A season ago they played celtic five times, losing four and drawing one with an aggregate score of 14-2 against them. This time they won two and lost two against their greatest rivals with an aggregate score of 4-3 in their favour. They narrowed the gap between themselves and celtic from 12 points to nine. Baby steps, for sure, but steps none the less. celtic people might mock them for only reducing the deficit by a mere three points despite all the hype and hoopla surrounding the former Liverpool captain's arrival and all the money spent on creating virtually a brand new team, but nobody in their right mind seriously believed Gerrard was going to do much more in the league this time around. The problems he inherited and the rebuild that was required were never going to lead to Rangers picking off celtic in Gerrard's first season. At the beginning of the campaign there would have been short odds on Gerrard imploding under the pressure of a suffocating experience in Glasgow. There's only been occasional glimpses of the stress getting to him. Improvement but flakiness still exists in ranks Next season will be the true test of him. He has set the bar at 78 points and he needs to raise that to the high 80s if he's going to take celtic to the wire. For progress to be maintained he needs a pulsating title chase or a cup or both. That's the reality of it. Season one was all about bedding in, surveying the landscape and changing the team and the culture. Season two is about winning and nothing else. There are myriad issues for him. Can he talk Liverpool into giving him Ryan Kent on loan for another season? Can he get a settled left-back, another creative midfielder, another striker? If he's keeping Alfredo Morelos can he sort out the self-destructiveness in his game that cost Rangers dearly throughout the season? If he's selling him, how much is he getting and where is that money going? He's been busy already, of course. Jake Hastie and Jordan Jones are coming and it looks like Greg Stewart is coming, too. Jamie Murphy hasn't played since August and Graham Dorrans hasn't played since September and they'll be like new signings if they can get themselves right for the start of the season. Gerrard has got better performances out of his Rangers team, but there still exists a flakiness in the ranks, a tendency to throw in a turkey when it looks like they might be gathering momentum. On the run-in, celtic showed their capacity to grind out results even when they were nowhere near their best. Some of those wins late in the season were uninspiring to the point of ugliness, but they were critical and most champion teams have that knack of digging deep on difficult days. Rangers have a long way to go before they can be trusted to bang out three-pointers under pressure week after week. Gerrard has taken the team forward, but the road ahead remains a fiendishly long one. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48338269

It's not like glass. There are 2 options .. translucent or opalescent, the latter being less "see through"

Hmmm 🤔

I do wonder of the driver behind this is cash (it always is!). 44 games means more games which means they could arguably increase their ST costs while also increasing their gate takings with little increase in additional costs to themselves I.e. running costs don't really increase but turnover does. Also, RFC & CFC both confirmed they will play for the privilege of colt team access. Will fans turn out for more games, will they accept higher ST costs though?

I wouldn't take my seat until after it finished.