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I've always thought that if we can get a paper version of the petition organised. Get people to fill in their details, then someone takes that information and fills in the ePetition for them ... the only request being they check their email for the confirmation mail that the petition requires you complete before your signature is confirmed.

Holy hell, that is what you call a statement. It's a line in the sand, cross it and see what happens !!

It's not the wages, it's the length of the contract on offer, he wants minimum 2 yrs, only been offered 1. Although, I do find the £10k/wk salary ridiculous, for this level we're playing at.

Basically, if you're in a building, you should, arguably, seek permission to film/photograph. If your in a public place I.e. street then no-one can stop you, unless you're committing a separate illegal act.

They don't take 8% of your original bet ie £1 + 8% = £1.08 you pay for a possible losing bet, so if you lose then you lose what you bet. Seems pretty fair to me, if you don't like it then don't bet with them, they are a company, you are a customer ... It's your choice !

So ex-players shouldn't give any opinion unless its completely positive. This club had enough of yes men in past seasons, we need honest criticism as long as its constructive.

Black has been taking a kicking all season, tackles he has been making always seem to draw a word from the referee or a caution yet when he's on the receiving end, often little is said or done. However, I do prefer my players to do thier talking on the pitch and Black can show his peers the player he was by getting on with it. Black, himself, has already said that its tougher in the lower divisions and the you get less time on the ball with players snapping at your heels as soon as you gain possession, if that's so then shut up & get on with it.

LEE WALLACE took the Rangers armband for 90 minutes and led his side to victory at Annan. And David Templeton reckons his former Hearts team-mate can be a long-term successor to Ibrox skipper Lee McCulloch. McCulloch was injured for the 3-1 win at Galabank that made it 11 wins on the spin for Ally McCoist’s runaway Third Division leaders. Full-back Wallace stepped up and turned in a man-of-the-match display. And Templeton, who netted twice in the win, said: “Lee is fantastic, one of the best players I’ve played with. “I’m sure going forward he could be a Rangers captain with his leadership qualities. “I’m not sure how long Lee McCulloch will keep playing. He’s a massive player for us and a great captain so hopefully he’ll go on for a while. “But when he’s not there Lee will be there to take the captaincy and will do a good job. He was captain on Wednesday and is one of those players who will take it in his stride. Nothing fazes him and he talks a lot as well, which helps all the boys. “Hopefully he’ll get back into the Scotland set-up because he’s a fantastic footballer who can go higher. “We were at Hearts together and he’s helped me a lot. When I came into the team it was good because he knows how I play and vice versa. “It’s good when we’re on the same side because we can link up with each other. Any time I play on the left side it’s great to have him behind me. “If I get the ball I know he’s going to make runs for me so he’s helped me massively, especially on the pitch but also off the park when I first moved to Rangers. He was good at helping me to settle in. “He’s brilliant going forward, he’s so fit and boys can’t track him. “If you play him in you know he’s going to create something or get a chance for himself. He’ll always get forward.” Templeton hopes another experienced Ibrox player, Neil Alexander, can sort out his future with talks over a contract extension dragging on. The club have offer him a one-year deal but the keeper wants longer. Temps said: “Neil has been brilliant. He’s kept important clean sheets, including a few penalty saves when we’ve needed it. “He makes great saves at important times and commands his area. I’d love him to sign a new deal and I’m sure the gaffer is trying to get it sorted. “Neil was one who stood by the club when they dropped down the divisions. That’s the kind of players you want at the club. “The likes of Neil, Lee McCulloch and Lee Wallace helped the new boys settle in and encourage everyone.” http://www.<No links to this website>/sport/football/football-news/rangers-ace-david-templeton-tips-1517450

RYAN McGOWAN will bank a tax-free 1.2million US dollars for 10 months in China – and could return to Scotland as a Rangers player later this year. Record Sport has been given details of the whopping short-term contract which McGowan will sign to become a Shandong Luneng player in the next 24 hours. And we understand the deal will leave the Australian international free to clinch another big money move to Ibrox after the club’s transfer embargo is lifted in September. The 23-year-old left Hearts on Wednesday after the stricken Gorgie outfit accepted a bid worth almost £500,000 from the big spending Chinese. He was on his way to Asia yesterday and should complete the paperwork later today which will make him an overnight millionaire. McGowan will bank the sum – which amounts to around £750,000 net – for accepting a short-term deal with the Super League club which runs until the end of the Chinese season in November. He will also be handed the keys to a plush apartment in Shandong province which will be paid for by the club and he will receive extra bonus payments to bump up his pay packet still further. The deal dwarfs anything which was on offer to McGowan from clubs in England’s Championship. It’s understood the full-back’s top line down south would have been around £4,000-a-week before tax. But he’ll bring home closer to £20,000-a-week tax free during his time in China. And McGowan’s camp are hopeful their man will be snapped up by Rangers boss Ally McCoist as soon as he becomes a free agent. McCoist tried and failed to lure McGowan across the M8 in August and Record Sport understands Rangers have been involved in fresh discussions with the player’s representatives in the last week. They have been told McGowan could be quickly up for grabs again and will fancy their chances of persuading him to sign up. http://www.<No links to this website>/sport/football/football-transfer-news/hearts-defender-ryan-mcgowan-in-rangers-1517593

I forgot about Kyle.

Just read the Hearts forum too .... & I thought the scum were bitter & twisted !!! H*n thus & Sevco that ... F'kin hell, they can't handle that we are still the bigger club even being in a lower division. Also, they don't seem to understand transfer bans. Complaining that we are breaking the ban by signing some on a pre-contract, even though we can't actually play him until September (outwith the trialists rules)

That would be the 4th player from Hearts, if it happens. SFL3 feeder team !!

Even if its then talking about us, making it actually about us & therefore Bears Den applicable

Football alone could not contain the Rangers story. The events and consequences of Rangers Football Club plc falling into administration reached into law, accountancy, media, even politics. The impact was on an institution of Scottish life, but it was best understood by how it affected individuals, how priorities and perspectives altered. Some issues even now remain unresolved. It began on Valentine's Day, when Craig Whyte stood on the steps outside the main entrance of Ibrox and read out a statement revealing that he had called in administrators. The moment was resonant, but also indicative. Whyte, after all, did not need to face the resentment of the Rangers fans in public. In many ways, he was a significant part of the saga. He lied, almost from the outset, and his purchase of the club – using money borrowed from London-based firm Ticketus against future season ticket sales – then his refusal to pay Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) the PAYE that they were due, was the work of a man living by his wits and old habits. Yet at no stage were the football authorities able, or willing, to intervene. Who was protecting Rangers – or indeed any club – from the harm caused by an unsuitable owner? That inadequacy remains unaddressed, so that the traumas Rangers faced could still be visited on any other club. Similarly, politicians tended to steer clear of the situation, particularly since the tax aspect made it a less appealing case. Yet we consider football clubs, and the Old Firm in particular, to be social, cultural and community institutions, and in turn they deserve proper political support. There has always been a tendency to try to frame what happened to Rangers as part of an overarching conspiracy, that each of the critical decisions was linked. In truth, though, it was individual misjudgments, greed, opportunism, and panic that worked together on the fate of the club. Rangers were victims, in a sense, of Sir David Murray's willingness to drive up the clubs's debt, and use the Employee Benefit Trusts tax avoidance scheme to such an extent that it prompted HMRC to serve a tax bill of £24 million, and so left the club in limbo until the case was resolved by the First Tier Tribunal – in Murray's favour – last month. By then it was too late. Those circumstances drove away potential buyers, leaving only Whyte in May 2011. It was Rangers fans, as well as the players and staff, who suffered, though, along with the creditors who lost out when Whyte's actions led to administration. They had all benefited, materially and emotionally, from the largesse of Murray's ownership – the hefty salaries, the success, the glory – so the painful consequences had to be borne. But Whyte's recklessness, and the descent into insolvency, was more abrupt and more traumatic than the price of Murray's bombast. The financial crisis gripped the support – they turned up in vast numbers for matches but were raw and emotional – and left us to reflect on what constitutes a football club. Since it was the loyalty and commitment of the fans and the staff that kept Rangers afloat, there is a strong argument to acknowledge that a club is what those who follow it want it to be. Rival supporters claim that Rangers died when the plc failed to achieve a Company Voluntary Arrangement, and the business and assets were sold to a consortium fronted by Charles Green. Yet many clubs have changed ownership and ownership structure during their histories, and have remained the same entity. Once the Scottish Football Association transferred Rangers' original licence to Green's consortium, it was recognised by the governing body, UEFA, and more recently the European Club Association, as the same Rangers: 140 years old. There were already broken relationships in Scottish football, but the demands placed on clubs and administrators to deal with Rangers' situation caused further estrangement. Scottish Football League clubs did not appreciate being dictated to by Scottish Premier League chairmen, who voted not to transfer Rangers Football Club plc's share to Green's consortium, and so consigned the club to the lower leagues. In a plan devised by Stewart Regan, the SFA chief executive, Neil Doncaster, the SPL chief executive, and David Longmuir, the SFL chief executive, the Ibrox side would have been accommodated in the First Division, and so in all likelihood would have returned to the top-flight within a year, protecting the SPL's television and commercial deals. Yet the SFL clubs – and the vast majority of Rangers fans and staff – did not want to accept this compromise. Now, as talks continue over league reconstruction, the wounds of last summer have not yet healed enough to allow agreements to be reached. Rangers are slowly rebuilding, and last week's £22.2m share issue will allow the club to invest in its future, but the game itself has yet to recover. Last summer, the SPL demanded that Rangers accept the stripping of five championships won during the years that EBTs were in use, in return for being granted their SFA licence, even though Rangers had not been found guilty of registration breaches in the way they administered the tax avoidance scheme. That was a prejudicial stance, and an independent commission established by the SPL will sit in judgment in January. There were lessons for all clubs to learn, though, since fan power became a significant issue during the summer. A "No To Newco" campaign rose among activist fans of clubs such as Celtic, Aberdeen and United to compel their club chairmen to vote against transferring the SPL share to Green's consortium. Now Rangers have said they will not accept their ticket allocation for Tannadice in February because fans don't want to go, and will donate their half of the cup gate receipts to charity. Supporters, for so long disenfranchised, now hold sway over their clubs. Decisions might be less measured or ameliorative, but in many ways they will be more democratic. It is, after all, fans who hold their club together during a time of crisis, as the Rangers supporters showed. Questions have been raised about the way Duff and Phelps handled the administration process, and legal challenges abounded as Rangers received a registration embargo and Green fought the club's corner vigorously after taking over. However, the media, perhaps, has been one of the areas most affected. No aspect of the story held for newspapers, so social media moved to the forefront of coverage. As did bloggers, in particular the Rangers Tax Case (RTC) site that began as a source of pertinent information but became swallowed up by its own self-regard and ultimately called the outcome of the case wrongly. A new wave of bloggers has emerged, particular among Rangers fans, who now discuss and write about the clubs's roots, culture and social history more than ever. That is liberating but as with RTC – and the venomous spite that is evident online around contentious subjects – it is unrestrained. Newspapers once broke the stories, but as the Rangers saga showed, they are now better placed to analyse them, to provide perspective, reason and commentary. There was a time when most people, blithely and wrongly, assumed that an institution such as Rangers would never fall so far. In falling, the club has found a way to adjust and revive itself, but so too must the others touched by this story. http://www.heraldscotland.com/mobile/news/home-news/2012-review-rangers.19790197?_=45bff28aa4de3125dc190c5292ee66ea6fba25b2

When it's about OUR club, then yes

Unbelievable !!

Ok then, I'm one of the masses then, highlight, in your opinion, what Jackson actually wrote that's incorrect or just his opinion (we are all entitled to an opinion !)

Fly grassing, no ... it's owning what you do. If you want to sing that song, then accept the reputation & punishments that come with it, the reputation goes to the support, the punishment to the club we all claim to love. They say you only hurt the ones you love, I would rather we didn't do it on purpose.

Believe me, the F*nian blood line was sung !! The reason we can't sing it is because of the above, that line is inexorably tied to the song, it will never be removed and therefore should just be stopped from being sung at all b

The add-ons do the club no favours and this song will NEVER be sung without them.

Nope, always security there to make sure you're a shopper. Dependant on which way you come in, head for the TA halls at Carmunnock Rd, you will find parking about there and it's about a 15 min walk.

BR3 and it can be not bad sometimes but I put that down to enthusiasm via osmosis from BF1

It will be interesting to hear reports from this event, I'm quite sure he will have awkward questions to answer regarding his previous stance on CG and other comments/ascertions made by him prior to CG taking over ie not buying season tickets, gang related accusations etc.

@rfc_dickson: Not sure where the 31k away tickets sold chat came from yesterday, just checked with the tickets office there and we've sold just over 25k ---xx--- Andrew Dickson just posted this on twitter.

Wrong, the first report from STV was earlier today, I read it on my phone via link from @STVNews. They have since updated their report to include the response from Celtic.