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we seem to be having success in these kinds of tournaments from all the age groups coming through. Hopefully only a matter of time before some break through from the academy and nail down a place in the side.

I personally would just rather see us stick with Goldson and Katic as the first choice pairing, unless someone who will be a drastic improvement on either of them is available in our price range. However we will need cover so who do you get that is going to be good enough but happy to play second fiddle?

I think you have to give the more technically gifted players a chance to climatise to the physical nature of the game up here. Yes the results are the most important thing but I couldn't stomach the thought of a team full of players with the technical ability of Andy Halliday just because they throw themselves about a bit more. Theres a balance to be struck and at times this season I don't think Barasic has been helped by the fact that Kent gives him very little help on the left hand side.

More chance of Yara and Theon Greyjoy...

very few millionaire businessmen have 100% clean records...

Just because they will add to their squad doesn't mean it will make them better. Teams tend to have more failures than successes when it comes to transfers and they will have lots of outgoing players as well. All we can do is improve our own position and see what business they come up with. But as I said they could buy 100 million worth of talent and there is no guarantee they will play well with one another or adjust well to the scottish league.

I don't think any Rangers fan is happy with winning nothing for so long. However I do believe some fans have ridiculous expectations built up from having lived in an era of vast spending and incredible success. The current board are by no means perfect, money has been wasted and mistakes have been made. However, unless someone with serious financial backing comes in and throws money at it, then we will probably just need to suck it up and hope to continue improving. I know personally I would rather have the club in existence for the long term rather than throw the kitchen sink in an attempt to stop the 10, which results in the demise of our club because we simply spent what we didnt have.

Are people forgetting the fact that they will have quite a huge change in personnel for next season? They have at least 8 first teamers out of contract/end of loan. The new manager might not like the players he is left with and want to ship more out. There are no guarantees the players they sign will be any better than what they had. So its actually pretty difficult to make a statement on what we will need to challenge. The only thing that remains true is that they were there for the taking this season and we blew it by being inconsistent.

He is truly dreadful. Can''t even fucking get the players names right.

Dunno Ajax are already selling/about to sell players who aren't even 20 yet for £70million plus per player... De Ligt is only 19 and yet is competing for them in the latter stages of the Champions League. Ultimately if you are good enough, you are old enough. So maybe our youth players aren't quite going to achieve the similar levels of the players at Ajax's youth academy or our club/fans have a complete lack of faith in the youth to actually come in and prosper.

If we get him on loan for another season or permanently (highly doubtful) then I can actually see him pushing on and improving further. He still has moments that frustrate but he is only 22 and with each game gets better and more influential on the park.

People also have this notion that because we got him for free we can't ask for a big fee. Lots of players move on at the end of their contracts in other leagues and are then subsequently sold on at daft prices.

I cant understand why we would be tempted to let a player go for £3m when it will cost more than that to replace him and with no guarentees they will be as good. I know eventually everyone has to move on at some point but unless the offer is £5m++ which may or may not be realistic (nothing to a Premiership club) then I can't see him being sold. Then again maybe Gerrard/Mark Allen have a shit hot prospect lined up to take his place in the team already but I doubt it.

I never said he sanctioned the wages or not... the point still stands that a "player" (and I use that word loosely) of Ian Black's Quality should never have been offered those wages.

I am not debating whether or not 3m is a fair price for a player of his age etc... Like I said before he might be worth 3m but if you cant find an upgrade on him for that price then you may as well keep him. The most likely scenario is you sell him for 3m, buy some retard from down south who has an inflated price tag who gives you nowhere near as much on the park.

I suppose you can say 3m for a player at 30 (turning 31 soon) who we got on a free would be decent business. But If you can't replace his contribution for that fee then in my opinion we would be better to reject it and keep him. Do we honestly think there is a surefire replacement out there who will hit the ground running for less than 3million?

The best paid Painter & Decorator in Scotland, 10k a week or thereabouts? Shocking

I work away for 6 months of the year so don't bother with a season ticket as I'm guaranteed to miss half the games. But its difficult as fuck to get tickets for games when I am actually here and able to go...

Wasn't the Leigh Griffiths incident a racist song he was singing? I wonder why they choose to call it "offensive" rather that use the word Racist.

Even if MoH was a shit hot player who was destroying teams, I would have still got fucking shot of him the second he was found to be sitting in the stands at Parkhead cheering that lot on.

Not all Scottish Catholics are celtic supporters. I think its safe to say though that we should not be signing anyone who's had any allegiance to celtic..

I think a major problem for us is that a lot of our fans are still valuing players as if this is back in 2002. When a club like Aberdeen are refusing to sell what I regard as a mediocre CB in McKenna for 5-10million (depending which paper you read), then I can't understand why some of our own fans think getting 7m for Morelos or 5m for Tavernier is an acceptable deal. We won't grow or be able to afford the calibre of players we need/want unless we start to hold out for the fair value of our players given what others are going for.

Collapse league two. Now instead of 4 divisions comprising of 12, 10, 10 and 10. Have 3 divisions of 14. I havent entirely worked out how many fixtures per season and all the other guff. I just dont think we need 4 divisions in our country. The likes of Dunfermline, Falkirk, Dundee Utd etc...are all of a good enough stature to feature in the top flight.

I wouldn't really say hes struggling or at least thats my opinion. We are in 2nd place which albeit not where we ultimately want to be is better than previous years. Some of the results have been poor yes. However look back at previous seasons when we were conceding 5 goals against Hibs for example, we don't concede like this anymore. There is still some fragility at the back which does need to be addressed as we simply do not keep enough clean sheets to win a title. The major issue is that we arent scoring as much as we were last season. If i remember correctly we were the leagues top scorers last season. A few "correct" additions and I think we could really go for it.

I get your point, however the point I was trying to make is that I thought he would have more chance of doing it than the others we have available.