Reformation Bear

What price ambition from the Board in this special season of all seasons?   
A custard cream choice of unproven non-trophy winners who becomes the fall guy to blame if nothing is won?  Or a manager (and staff is needed) where winning is the absolute ethos and a sufficiently good track record to go with it?   
Its not a season for just making do and hoping that in 3 or 4 years trophy success will appear.  The need is this season.  The need is now. 
The need is for a manager that knows how to manage a big team with a huge support that demands success this season and every season.  A manager that get games won under any circumstances and who knows how to drill a squad to achieve that.   We'll presumably see what ambition the Board has and how capable it is in talking a top qualified winning mentality coach into taking the job.   
Does the Board want to go through this season with a materially increased risk of not winning a trophy and of it not being a successful season?   If not, then that shortlist Ross talks about had better be a list where each name is clearly outstanding and where each has enough know-how in leading teams to win trophies and not just aiming off to some unspecified time in the future.  
 

What price ambition from the Board in this special season of all seasons?   
A custard cream choice of unproven non-trophy winners who becomes the fall guy to blame if nothing is won?  Or a manager (and staff is needed) where winning is the absolute ethos and a sufficiently good track record to go with it?   
Its not a season for just making do and hoping that in 3 or 4 years trophy success will appear.  The need is this season.  The need is now. 
The need is for a manager that knows how to manage a big team with a huge support that demands success this season and every season.  A manager that get games won under any circumstances and who knows how to drill a squad to achieve that.   We'll presumably see what ambition the Board has and how capable it is in talking a top qualified winning mentality coach into taking the job.   
Does the Board want to go through this season with a materially increased risk of not winning a trophy and of it not being a successful season?   If not, then that shortlist Ross talks about had better be a list where each name is clearly outstanding and where each has enough know-how in leading teams to win trophies and not just aiming off to some unspecified time in the future.  
 

What price ambition from the Board in this special season of all seasons?   
A custard cream choice of unproven non-trophy winners who becomes the fall guy to blame if nothing is won?  Or a manager (and staff is needed) where winning is the absolute ethos and a sufficiently good track record to go with it?   
Its not a season for just making do and hoping that in 3 or 4 years trophy success will appear.  The need is this season.  The need is now. 
The need is for a manager that knows how to manage a big team with a huge support that demands success this season and every season.  A manager that get games won under any circumstances and who knows how to drill a squad to achieve that.   We'll presumably see what ambition the Board has and how capable it is in talking a top qualified winning mentality coach into taking the job.   
Does the Board want to go through this season with a materially increased risk of not winning a trophy and of it not being a successful season?   If not, then that shortlist Ross talks about had better be a list where each name is clearly outstanding and where each has enough know-how in leading teams to win trophies and not just aiming off to some unspecified time in the future.  
 

Champions!!  55 achieved in real and undefeated style.   Well done to the players, SG and the coaching staff and well done to the Board for backing them. 
Spare a thought for all the Bears who very sadly have passed away in recent times and were not able to witness this great day but who had to endure the years and suffering following our last title win.   They too would be so proud today.
Enjoy the party Bears.  Everyone deserves to party like never before.   

Champions!!  55 achieved in real and undefeated style.   Well done to the players, SG and the coaching staff and well done to the Board for backing them. 
Spare a thought for all the Bears who very sadly have passed away in recent times and were not able to witness this great day but who had to endure the years and suffering following our last title win.   They too would be so proud today.
Enjoy the party Bears.  Everyone deserves to party like never before.   

Champions!!  55 achieved in real and undefeated style.   Well done to the players, SG and the coaching staff and well done to the Board for backing them. 
Spare a thought for all the Bears who very sadly have passed away in recent times and were not able to witness this great day but who had to endure the years and suffering following our last title win.   They too would be so proud today.
Enjoy the party Bears.  Everyone deserves to party like never before.   

Champions!!  55 achieved in real and undefeated style.   Well done to the players, SG and the coaching staff and well done to the Board for backing them. 
Spare a thought for all the Bears who very sadly have passed away in recent times and were not able to witness this great day but who had to endure the years and suffering following our last title win.   They too would be so proud today.
Enjoy the party Bears.  Everyone deserves to party like never before.   

Sacking him might be a route they go down. 
But imo its not enough. 
To end the culture of racism in football, imo, need a thorough cancelling job done and for that to happen.   In my view that would mean either clubs themselves or national football authorities or Uefa to urgently change their mindsets and state that immediate lifetime bans will be applied and not just bans against playing but bans against any association whatsoever with coaching, managing or other roles in football.   Do that and it will most likely stop altogether or radically reduce.
Either that or cancel the elitist football authorities and offending clubs by dismantling them and starting again with leaders and officials who will not tolerate racism.   
Maybe a 'defund UEFA' campaign is needed.   If their flow of money stops or is materially reduced then maybe then we might see real and beneficial reform.  Short of that its a case of waiting for the next case, then the next, then the next.
 

Sacking him might be a route they go down. 
But imo its not enough. 
To end the culture of racism in football, imo, need a thorough cancelling job done and for that to happen.   In my view that would mean either clubs themselves or national football authorities or Uefa to urgently change their mindsets and state that immediate lifetime bans will be applied and not just bans against playing but bans against any association whatsoever with coaching, managing or other roles in football.   Do that and it will most likely stop altogether or radically reduce.
Either that or cancel the elitist football authorities and offending clubs by dismantling them and starting again with leaders and officials who will not tolerate racism.   
Maybe a 'defund UEFA' campaign is needed.   If their flow of money stops or is materially reduced then maybe then we might see real and beneficial reform.  Short of that its a case of waiting for the next case, then the next, then the next.
 

Does a 10 match ban act as a powerful enough deterrent to bring racism to a halt in football?  I doubt it.  I wonder if the majority of responsible decent folks in Europe would think that it is a powerful enough deterrent.   Being banned from the game - now that would be a lot more powerful as a deterrent. 
Sometimes you do need a sledgehammer to crack nuts.  Racism is arguably a case in point.   
If it were known that the punishment was complete removal from the game then I think the players, coaches, Boards etc would respond far more seriously to cancel the culture of racism.  As it stands a 10 match ban amounts to a form of catch and release.......release to offend again after a short holiday.    If offenders were removed from the game completely including banned from coaching or management or anything whatsoever to do with clubs and players ie entirely isolated from participating in the game then the racism problem would most likely be dramatically reduced.
Why does UEFA not do this?  Why is Rangers not pressing for that sort of sanction?  Why is the SFA silent on this?   Is it because in their worlds this is just another incident that has its time in the media spotlight and in the news cycle then as always it fades away until another incident happens.  And another.  And another.   How long before UEFA and national football authorities start to be accused of some form of supremacism for their failure to take sufficiently decisive corrective action to eliminate racism?     

Does a 10 match ban act as a powerful enough deterrent to bring racism to a halt in football?  I doubt it.  I wonder if the majority of responsible decent folks in Europe would think that it is a powerful enough deterrent.   Being banned from the game - now that would be a lot more powerful as a deterrent. 
Sometimes you do need a sledgehammer to crack nuts.  Racism is arguably a case in point.   
If it were known that the punishment was complete removal from the game then I think the players, coaches, Boards etc would respond far more seriously to cancel the culture of racism.  As it stands a 10 match ban amounts to a form of catch and release.......release to offend again after a short holiday.    If offenders were removed from the game completely including banned from coaching or management or anything whatsoever to do with clubs and players ie entirely isolated from participating in the game then the racism problem would most likely be dramatically reduced.
Why does UEFA not do this?  Why is Rangers not pressing for that sort of sanction?  Why is the SFA silent on this?   Is it because in their worlds this is just another incident that has its time in the media spotlight and in the news cycle then as always it fades away until another incident happens.  And another.  And another.   How long before UEFA and national football authorities start to be accused of some form of supremacism for their failure to take sufficiently decisive corrective action to eliminate racism?     

Does a 10 match ban act as a powerful enough deterrent to bring racism to a halt in football?  I doubt it.  I wonder if the majority of responsible decent folks in Europe would think that it is a powerful enough deterrent.   Being banned from the game - now that would be a lot more powerful as a deterrent. 
Sometimes you do need a sledgehammer to crack nuts.  Racism is arguably a case in point.   
If it were known that the punishment was complete removal from the game then I think the players, coaches, Boards etc would respond far more seriously to cancel the culture of racism.  As it stands a 10 match ban amounts to a form of catch and release.......release to offend again after a short holiday.    If offenders were removed from the game completely including banned from coaching or management or anything whatsoever to do with clubs and players ie entirely isolated from participating in the game then the racism problem would most likely be dramatically reduced.
Why does UEFA not do this?  Why is Rangers not pressing for that sort of sanction?  Why is the SFA silent on this?   Is it because in their worlds this is just another incident that has its time in the media spotlight and in the news cycle then as always it fades away until another incident happens.  And another.  And another.   How long before UEFA and national football authorities start to be accused of some form of supremacism for their failure to take sufficiently decisive corrective action to eliminate racism?     

Well wouldn’t you know .The SNP  under pressure from the Alex Salmond revelations ,jump on our club and support .The sheer hypocrisy of this abortion of a minister Sweeney, takes the fucking biscuit 

Aberdeen are fucked. Bunch of nobodies

Depends what Sportscene and the two muppets have to say, sheep can’t afford to lose anymore players so I guess it will a no from them.

You packed more into your 43 years than most of us combined put into a lifetime.
Even in illness, You lived your 43 years to the full.
You are a credit to your family.
You are a credit to The Rangers FC.
But most importantly.........
....... You are a credit to your Creator.

Gutted and heartbroken 
Guy was a leader and a fighter, don’t usually feel like this when it’s someone I don’t know but my heart sank.
Hope his family and daughter can get through this.
Thanks for everything Fernando, you will always be remembered by us.

Heartbroken.
Captained us to the best title win in my lifetime.
RIP

It'lll be interesting to see how all this shifts from ideas into reality......and how soon (bearing in mind 150th anniversary is on the near horizon and you'd think they's want some sort of landmark showcase for then...…….and of course some league titles / cups before then so that the reality of actually winning stuff is restored).
Money.    Where is the money for all of this coming from?
On artifacts for a museum from inside Ibrox and somebody hired to collate and catalogue stuff then presumably - more than that hopefully - his/her task is made easier because there must surely be an asset register maintained by the Club.   A lot of material (if not all of it) would presumably be insured so must already be registered.  If some of it is uninsurable because its so unique / valuable then you'd think its already catalogued.   Point being it should really be an easy enough task for whoever is doing this to identify material that could go into a museum.   Actually displaying it in an interesting way is another matter altogether and you'd think the Club would need to hire relevant expertise for that.  
On funding it I wonder if the Club will look to some sort of joint venture with (say) Club 1872 or maybe with corporate entities so that the costs and rewards are shared.     Or maybe King and other directors or wealthy former players might put in sizeable donations in return for some recognition of their contributions.   Point being to keep the actual costs for Rangers down as low as possible by seeking partners in the venture.    The current reality is - imo - that as much money as can be assembled is needed to get the right quality of player needed to actually start winning trophies again.   Dilution of available funds into wider 'projects' is just that......a dilution away from the increasing the opportunity to win trophies.
As much of the operation as possible should be contracted out with the market tested frequently to establish which outfits are best place to run the enterprise.   Oh wait...….Rangers and well structured, well competed, well run commercial contracts aren't exactly what this Board or its senior execs are anywhere near good at...….as all the court cases evidence.     
Nevertheless, will be interested to see what actually transpires, and when.    Talk by a Board is all well and good, as are leaks about plans, but its what is actually done, the quality of it, and when that really count 

Scottish football isn’t!!!🙈🙈🙈

I think Gerrard has just about stopped just short of calling a spade a fucking shit shovel.    His use of the word 'careless' (in relation to the treatment of Jack by the SFA) just stays this side of a damning outright accusation of blatant professional malpractice.     Then again maybe what he says is exactly that.  It's clear enough to me that he has zero acceptance or respect for the way that Clarke and his SFA coaches have gone about treating a top flight footballer.     The question that comes to mind after hearing Gerrard's seething condemnation is whether this really was just carelessness or was it wilful on the part of Clarke and the SFA coaches.  
Either way they clearly lack the competence needed to properly manage international football players.  They have manifestly failed to take all reasonable and proper duty of care when the player was under their management.   They should be punished accordingly.    I'm not buying into any excuses they come up with.  The damage - quite literally - is done.
You just knew that when it became known that Jack was withdrawn at Rangers request something very bad had happened during his stint with the Scotland squad.    
Gerrard has every right to be angry.    Would this sort of fucked-up training nonsense be happening in an England squad, or a Welsh squad, or an NI squad.   I doubt it.    But here in Scotland is looks like a bunch of SFA dinosaur training goons from are running a training asylum regime led by a manager who clearly knows fuck all about how to properly manage top athletes. 

I think Gerrard has just about stopped just short of calling a spade a fucking shit shovel.    His use of the word 'careless' (in relation to the treatment of Jack by the SFA) just stays this side of a damning outright accusation of blatant professional malpractice.     Then again maybe what he says is exactly that.  It's clear enough to me that he has zero acceptance or respect for the way that Clarke and his SFA coaches have gone about treating a top flight footballer.     The question that comes to mind after hearing Gerrard's seething condemnation is whether this really was just carelessness or was it wilful on the part of Clarke and the SFA coaches.  
Either way they clearly lack the competence needed to properly manage international football players.  They have manifestly failed to take all reasonable and proper duty of care when the player was under their management.   They should be punished accordingly.    I'm not buying into any excuses they come up with.  The damage - quite literally - is done.
You just knew that when it became known that Jack was withdrawn at Rangers request something very bad had happened during his stint with the Scotland squad.    
Gerrard has every right to be angry.    Would this sort of fucked-up training nonsense be happening in an England squad, or a Welsh squad, or an NI squad.   I doubt it.    But here in Scotland is looks like a bunch of SFA dinosaur training goons from are running a training asylum regime led by a manager who clearly knows fuck all about how to properly manage top athletes. 

I think Gerrard has just about stopped just short of calling a spade a fucking shit shovel.    His use of the word 'careless' (in relation to the treatment of Jack by the SFA) just stays this side of a damning outright accusation of blatant professional malpractice.     Then again maybe what he says is exactly that.  It's clear enough to me that he has zero acceptance or respect for the way that Clarke and his SFA coaches have gone about treating a top flight footballer.     The question that comes to mind after hearing Gerrard's seething condemnation is whether this really was just carelessness or was it wilful on the part of Clarke and the SFA coaches.  
Either way they clearly lack the competence needed to properly manage international football players.  They have manifestly failed to take all reasonable and proper duty of care when the player was under their management.   They should be punished accordingly.    I'm not buying into any excuses they come up with.  The damage - quite literally - is done.
You just knew that when it became known that Jack was withdrawn at Rangers request something very bad had happened during his stint with the Scotland squad.    
Gerrard has every right to be angry.    Would this sort of fucked-up training nonsense be happening in an England squad, or a Welsh squad, or an NI squad.   I doubt it.    But here in Scotland is looks like a bunch of SFA dinosaur training goons from are running a training asylum regime led by a manager who clearly knows fuck all about how to properly manage top athletes. 

Were players seriously doing 11k runs??? The players are fit this time of the season and  need conditioning.. absolute madness to do that. I can also guarantee you that Belgium werent doing 11k runs days before the game. They were more than likely working on a fucking game plan. SFA are absolute dinosaurs!

SG not best pleased with the SFA and rightly not holding back, shower of incompetent  bastards.