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I just bought the 94-96 top a month ago and will follow it with the '81 strip next month. Ahhhhh, 1981 - great strip, pish team

Unless Walter thinks he is worth it.......................

Great pics and I am about to buy that strip from TOFFS, I think, as it looks like the '81 home strip.

You been taking your internet-hardman pills this morning?

JJB get everything and give Rangers £3 million a year even if they don't sell a single Rangers item. If sales climb above a set target level, JJB then pay Rangers a % of that additional income.

All piss-poor.

8 goals in 33 games does not look so bad when the top scorer in Ligue 1 only scored 13 in the season and only Lyon averaged more than 1.5 goals per game. It is maybe Ligue 1 that sucks rather than our wee mystery man.

I think you have a good point. Whittaker would never make an out and out winger but could well develop into a solid right-sided midfielder. There's no doubt he is good going forward and he can tackle but his defensive positioning is what lets him down. Mind you, weren't most people saying the same about Hutton 6 months ago?

Not arguing with your conclusion and your opinion of Murray, which you are obviously entitled to , but you may want to read some general stuff to inform your view a wee bit. Share Issue JJB and Debt Some recent stats

Tis all Record bollocks. He can't sign with anyone until June 1st and I don't see Petrie agreeing to sell to anyone until all offers are in. Brown also has a lot more say in this than others are giving him. Petrie cannot force him to go anywhere he does not want to go as Petrie knows that after this window his value will start to drop.

Also, check the writer: it's our old friend Spiers, recently departed from the Herald. I do not believe for a second that he has any sources inside Ibrox. Which makes it more of a "My pal's uncle who works at Murray Park" story.

Checking a Hibs site about this last night, many of them are still convinced he is coming to us no matter what. One guy saying the tattoo he has on his leg says it all - the tattoo is "1873". Personally, him being a footballer, I reckon that's his way of remembering his PIN code........

Happy Birthday Coop. The avatar shows you all you need to know about skill.

I'm wondering if it is any coincidence that of the 9 people you can reasonably clearly see making these salutes, only 1 of them is wearing any Rangers colours? Not in any way suggesting they are not Bears but I remember a couple of not-so-welcome groups associated with the club in the 80s and 90s who never wore any colours either and were slowly but surely run out of Ibrox. Those muppets were right into the racist shite at the time, trying to stir stuff up.

The only decent thing coming out of this is that I am now certain we have signed a good wee player in Gow.

I would really like to see Burke on now, we have no pace at all on either wing. Everything is going down the middle through Ferguson.

Absolutely spot on. I am afraid both Adam and Novo in particular are absolute mince.

Always liked ACDC but Floyd are my number 1 band. There's great video of ACDC on Youtube performing in Scotland shirts but I can't find it. Should've saved to favourites As for the official flight to Israel...I bet they're glad it's not Ossie flying the plane As a member of the same Young family, believe it or not, we are all Bears, with the exception of my father who is a thistle supporter. Mind you, he started off a bear but changed allegiance to piss off his father.

Maybe a foul but no way should any goalkeeper be losing out in a tussle with Naysmith: he's only wee!

Did I see Burke muscle someone out of a tackle? :wacko: Things have changed.

He hasn't had much to do but he looks reasonably comfortable.

I apologise for the length of this, feel free to fall asleep halfway through but I needed to get it off my chest. I don't expect many to agree with the conclusion but please try to be constructive. After reading the Deloitte football report for 2005/06, watching developments in the TV market in the major European leagues, and living through the failed experiment of the Paul Le Guen era, I am left wondering whether Rangers FC have any future at the higher levels of club football. In 2005/06, whilst suffering an appalling domestic season, Rangers FC reached the last 16 of Europe's premier club competition - the Champion's League. This was our best performance on the international stage for 13 years and only our 2nd reasonably successful venture abroad since the 1970's. Thanks to the 2 teams seeded above us in the group stage suffering similar managerial chaos to our own, we came through a weak group with some dogged, if uninspiring, performances and reclaimed a little bit of pride and some undoubted financial reward. On the back of this little adventure on the continent Rangers FC generated turnover of £61.2 million and an operating profit of £4.4 million. The increased TV revenue, gate money and the sponsorship deal with JJB also reduced the club's debt from £23.1 million to £5.9 million. So far, so good. Now, however, the end of season 2005/06 and the first half of 2006/07 is where I begin to see it all going pear-shaped. Missing 2nd place in the SPL at the end of last season has realistically cost us £6 million - £10million in turnover and although we may see the lower of those 2 figures recouped from the JJB deal, it is likely that our turnover is going to drop below the £60 million pound mark again with the profits of the previous year unlikely to be repeated. I think at this point we need to recognise that without some sort of exceptional turn of events in Scottish football, our future turnover is likely to be limited to the £55 million - £70 million range each season. It is with this in mind that I believe SDM attempted the Paul Le Guen experiment. A manager who achieved success at both a domestic and European level on a budget not hugely superior to our own with a successful track record in developing youth and generating income through sound transfer dealings. I peronally believe that Murray was trying to create a football model similar to those at Lyon, Porto, PSV, Ajax and others where a big club in a fairly small pond could compete close to the highest level through youth development and successful transfer dealings despite being severely handicapped on TV income and wage structures. That the experiment failed is not in doubt but, whether you were pro- or anti-Le Guen, I think everyone should recognise that that failure may have far-reaching negative consequences for the future of Rangers FC if a similar plan cannot be successfully executed by another manager or without a radical shake-up in the structures of European football. Looking again at the likely turnover and profitability of our club in the coming seasons, let us compare these figures to those of the clubs in the heavyweight leagues. The Spanish, Italian, German and English leagues are the unchallenged leaders in generating income thanks to the size of the TV audiences they attract. Only 3 of the 20 highest earning clubs in the Deloitte report are from leagues outwith those 4: Rangers, Benfica and Lyon, all of whom are there due to good Champions League runs in 2005/06. The French and German leagues have both negotiated hugely improved TV deals for the next few years and will stretch further ahead of us, but the biggest threat to our standing in European football is undoubtedly the English. The increased revenue from TV, internet and mobile phone deals is expected to lead to at least half of the top 20 clubs in next years report coming from England. In 2005/06, Manchester United had a turnover of £167.8 million despite an early exit from the Champions League, only coming 2nd in the EPL, before the redevelopment of Old Trafford, with the old Vodafone sponsorship deal and taking into account that they only include NET income from their sponsorship deals and not GROSS income. In 2007/08 they will be playing at a stadium with a 20% larger capacity, they have a shirt sponsorship deal 50% higher than that with Vodafone, are unlikely to fail so badly in Europe, and will share in a £900 million TV pot that will reward the top club with £50 million and even the bottom club with £27 million. That last figure is the killer. Just imagine, in 2007/08 the club coming dead last in the EPL will earn TV revenues equal to almost 50% of our total income even if we win the league. We cannot compete with that in the SPL and because of this, we will struggle to attract the kind of players we wish to see playing for our club. I believe there are 2 roads open to us: 1 - A successful youth development policy that allows us to regularly win the SPL, generate income through transfers and gives us the occasional foray into warmer climes for a couple of months before Christmas. Taking into account the fact that no top European clubs have come racing to buy young Scottish talent since Liverpool bought Dalglish in 1977, this future vision is very much a case of maintaining the status quo and hoping Celtic cannot do any better. This is the nightmare scenario and would, I believe, ultimately lead to the demise of Rangers FC as many young Scots would choose to watch English teams on TV rather than go to Ibrox and watch second rate talent - this may, in fact, already be happening. 2 - We lobby to join G14 in the coming years and hope for a radical change in European football which sees us join a set-up of 2 or more European leagues. With our massive fan-base, excellent stadium and increased TV revenue, would we find ourselves being humbled by the likes of West Ham and Bolton? I don't think so. In short, in the future, if we wish our club to enjoy the standing around the world that it has enjoyed for much of the last 50 years, and we wish to see some of the best players in the world on the pitch at Ibrox, we need to leave Scottish football behind and join the march towards a European league. I never thought I would say it and I am sad to do so, but unfortunately TV money rules the sport now and I hate to see us being left behind. I would very much like to hear other opinions on where you think we are going.

Help is in your inbox. :pipeguy:

done :pipeguy:

We agreed not to use our midfield this season. <_<