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Kyle does have ability and potential. Not sure if he'll ever fulfil it for us though. If a bid comes in for him, as has been rumoured, I think we'd have to take it especially if our financial situation stays as it is at the moment.

aye, he was not wearing any colours. he was standing at the roundabout in a suit with 3 other men. Is he a casual?

Sad news. RIP.

I've not watched the replays but I noticed the flag went up quickly so it may well have been against Thomas.

A bar in Barcelona. We won. Don't think I was the most popular person there as I reckon a lot of the other punters and even the staff didn't share my allegiances.

strachan was a player but wouldnt have said Hay was in the same class as any of the others .. I'd say they were very good players - and Murdoch is another one in the same category. But not absolutely out of the top drawer and surely not as good as the likes of Mackay and probably White. Astonishing statistic about White, who was sadly killed by lightning aged only 27. He played in a great Spurs team who won the English Double (when that was very rare) and were the first British team to win a European trophy namely the Cup-Winners Cup. But, of the 15 games White missed in his time there, that great Spurs team won only one.

BLUEDIGNITY, I totally agree with you, however I can assure you, as I know the family, that Lorraine Kelly,is a Blue Nose! OK we all know she supports Dundee Utd, thats because of her husband but I do not know of any bigger Rangers Fans than her dad and uncles. Lorraine has said she used to go to Ibrox with her father. But she took up supporting DU because it's her husband's team. Tyical wummin!

would like to get jimenez might also be worth a gamble but wahts Dan petrescu up to right now? Managing in Russia.

I sincerely hope Walter doesn't go as I doubt we'll get another maanger of the same calibre. Certainly it's doubtful we'll get someone who knows how to manage Rangers so well. I'd take Hodgson but I doubt if he'd want to leave Fulham for the SPL/we could afford him. Billy Davies? Maybe he could step up, I'm not sure. The other option is Coisty. Lack of experience is the obvious concern.

Henderson was a tremendous player who has perhaps been overshadowed by the hype about Jimmy Johnstone (who was also a fine player). They have a limited selection. As usual they don't go too far back in time but other nominees from a similar time-frame could have included Dave Mackay, John White, Willie Johnston, Davie Wilson, Asa Hartford, Archie Gemmill....

Scan:

Well done the young lads. Young Archie is a cracking player at that level. Hope he can make the step up to the first team.

From the Sunday Herald: All seems a bit pie-in-the-sky to me. But time will tell....

Cracking goal by Diogo for Zaragoza to be fair.

Zaragoza 0 Valencia 0 so far. Looked like Zaragoza should have had a penalty. But f*ck 'em.

Mallorca are giving a good account of themselves but it's still 1-0 Barca.

Zenith Data systems Cup.

Classy.

Never heard the "too small" thing about either McGeady or McCarthy. Leaving aside the claims that they "always wanted to play for the ROI", part of the problem with McGeady was that Celtic stopped their young players playing for their school teams which made them ineligible for Scotland Schools and it was at this stage that McGeady started playing for the ROI (though he had already played for Scotland Schools before he joined Celtic - he was with Queens Park boys' teams). He was named in a Scotland youth squad when he was 15 or 16 but knocked back efforts to persuade him to represent Scotland. As for live football Zenit v Spartak Moscow is on ESPN now, Spartak winning 1-0.

Semi-final draw: Inter/CSKA Moscow v Arsenal/Barcelona Bayern/Man United v Lyon/Bordeaux

It was raining in Cleveland, Ohio yesterday, just as it was in parts of Glasgow and the west of Scotland. So when Alastair Johnston, the Rangers chairman, looked out at the drizzle from his International Management Group office window, his thoughts were easily carried to events 3,000 miles away at home in Scotland. In particular, Johnston is absorbed by events at his beloved Rangers Football Club. Andrew Ellis, an intriguing and most certainly not supremely wealthy Londoner, is attempting to reach a deal with Sir David Murray for the club’s ownership, and Johnston’s fate as the chairman is inextricably bound up with that negotiation. Johnston, like Martin Bain, the Ibrox chief executive, could find himself at the whim of any Rangers buyer. At most clubs, new owners want their own men “in place”. But it is not this possibility that concerns Johnston the most. On the contrary, from speaking with the Rangers chairman yesterday, the long-term good of the Ibrox club remains his greatest concern. “Any deal that is done to buy Rangers is very important to me and the club’s directors, because our role is to protect the club’s future,” Johnston said. “As directors we are not involved in the negotiations — these are between the Murray Group and the potential buyer. “But Rangers is still our asset — we are the club’s guardians. We are not privy to what goes on between the Murray Group and the bank and any new owner, but what is an issue for us is this: what is best for Rangers?” Johnston admitted that, in the present transaction between Murray and a new buyer, the Rangers board’s power was diluted, but that what power they had would be strongly enforced. “We cannot start or stop a deal, but we can strongly recommend,” he said. “Our role is to recommend an acceptance or a rejection of any deal. The viability of Rangers under any new owner is of supreme importance to us. When any such deal like that is reaching the agreement stage, then it is ‘game on’ as far as we are concerned. Then we will have some extensive questions to ask.” This 61-year-old Glaswegian rose to prominence at IMG, the world’s leading sports management group, after meeting the late Mark McCormack, IMG’s founder, and wooing him with a canny instinct for business that has been the gift of many emigré Scots. Having risen to be an IMG vicechairman, and dealt with Tiger Woods on numerous occasions, nothing at Rangers fazes Johnston. He and his fellow directors, he said, will be quite blunt in what they ask Ellis, or anyone else who wants to buy the club. “As a chairman I will be asking the same questions of any new potential Rangers owner,” Johnston said. “Such as: what are your plans for Rangers? How much money do you intend to put in? How committed are you? How verifiable is the money that you have for the club? And what are your plans for Ibrox Stadium? “We would also want to ask any buyer: how do you propose to finance your deal for Rangers? Because what we don’t want is any Glazers/Manchester United situation at Ibrox. “If a deal is being struck, we would want to ask any new owner a whole slate of questions. Any deal for Rangers might not be brokered by us, but we will not be short of opinions. If a deal looks like being done, we’ll have plenty to say about it.” Johnston, who remains on good terms with Murray, nonetheless admitted that what might be good for the Murray Group in terms of selling Rangers may not necessarily be the best thing for the club in the eyes of the Ibrox directors. “We could not abdicate our responsibility to examine any deal and say whether we thought it was good or not for Rangers,” he said. “David, quite rightly, has his own business interests to look after at the Murray Group, and he will do that. But, equally, we have to ensure that the best possible future is provided for Rangers. “In saying that, David has consistently said that he only wants what is best for Rangers in any sale, and I believe him. But the club will have to be upheld, so to speak, so the questions asked by the directors will be very extensive.” Excluded, however, from these sessions by a sub-committee of the Rangers board to examine any future owner, would be Donald Muir and Mike McGill, two recent arrivals on the Ibrox board who have incurred the wrath of many Rangers fans. Johnston said that Muir and McGill, by definition, could not participate in the process. “The roles of Donald Muir and Mike McGill are different from the other Rangers directors. They [Muir and McGill] are there for their employer, which is the seller [Murray]. So they cannot be a part of a group examining any deal, because there is an obvious conflict of interest there.” Meanwhile, what of the chairman himself in any sale of Rangers? Might Johnston not be expendable in a new arrangement, especially one involving Ellis? It is not a thought that causes Johnston much anxiety. “I’m not in this for myself, I’m in this, I hope, for the good of Rangers,” he says. “I don’t work for David Murray, I don’t work for the bank, I’m not involved here to be a potential buyer for the club. I keep saying it, I’m here to facilitate, not to participate. “I may be the chairman of this club for years to come, or I may just be here for a few more weeks. It is not a condition or even necessarily an ambition of mine that I am with Rangers for a long time. “If it works out that way, then fine, I’ll be happy, but I’ve left my briefcase by the door. “My role at Rangers will be for as long as I find it helpful or enjoyable. But I’ll make it plain, I’m here for the club, not for myself. I’ve got tons of other things going on in my life. If I have to leave Rangers, that will be fine. It is the club that is my ultimate concern in this role.” http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/article7063246.ece

Hope it's OK to post this link to a report: http://rfcyouths.wordpress.com/2010/03/13/first-half-double-secures-points/

Sounds a bit of a dodgy character. (Allegedly! ) Probably nothing in the story anyway.