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Great reports as usual. Thanks as usual, for letting us know how youngsters are playing.

It shows the Aye Ready as opposed to Ready, so it settles the argument. People like me have always known it as Aye Ready

It shows the Aye Ready as opposed to Ready, so it settles the argument. People like me have always known it as Aye Ready

I honestly think you are, I can only say you are a disgrace to Bellshill. My old man went to the Noble School about 100 years ago. Wnet down the pit on a Saturday morning and walked to Ibrox lots of times. He brought up 4 sons who have all been bears, but one thing. WE HAVE NEVER IN OUR LIFE SAID A THING AGAINST THE RANGERS. YOU SON HAVE LOTS TO LEARN.

I just logged on to News Now and saw the headline which had has name on it. I had seen it before, but never read anything by him. Same today, but my thoughts were who is this person, because you just need to read the headline and you know he is anti Rangers. He may be an non-entity, but still people believe him. I admire you for making your thoughts known to him, and I am sure all bears feel the same. As to a reply from him, I think you will wait a long time.

I am all in favour of that. As someone who watched his great teams, and how they presented themselves and Rangers, it was a wonderful era.

Great report as usual. Thank you

Bobby Brown; Andy Goram; George Niven

I was actually wondering where him and Neil Smith were, as Dickson has been the one appearing on RTV during pre-season. Neil Smith did interview with Craig Mather after he got CEO job. Lindsay has been at Rangers for about 13 years and worked with the Express before us. His old man Alan Herron was with the Sunday Mail if I remember correctly. If he is going/ gone it is strange as we will be paying Traynor a lot more than him.

A friend of mine has supported Wigan since Non-League days and is heart broken at them being relegated. I feel sorry for him, but as I told him. I hope they keep playing football and not end up being a long ball team.

This is just as Queen of South were saying. You can win the league without paying massive salaries. Good luck to Yeovil for not throwing money at promotion. Yeovil Town face Brentford in the npower League One play-off final this Sunday. And a win for the tiny club, that has an annual wage bill of just £800,000 and has only paid a fee for one of its players, will put a smile on the faces of a town that would be the smallest in the Championship by some distance. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2325723/Yeovil-Town-preparing-face-Brentford-play-final.html

EXCLUSIVE: Nicky Clark set to sign three-year deal at Rangers Bert MitchellSports Writer GOAL machine Nicky Clark today revealed he is set to sign a three-year deal with boyhood heroes Rangers next week.Nicky Clark says he has verbal agreement with Ally McCoistNicky Clark says he has verbal agreement with Ally McCoistThe 21-year-old, voted PFA Division Two player of the year after scoring 41 goals in all competitions for Queen of the South, has reached a verbal agreement with Ally McCoist on his dream move to Ibrox.And Clark, son of former Gers star Sandy, believes he can better this term's record strike tally. He said: "I have met Ally already and we talked over his plans and it's exciting to be in them. I am hoping to meet with him again at Ibrox next week and hopefully get the deal signed and realise my dream of becoming a Rangers player for the next few seasons."It is something I have always dreamed of and to have met Ally in the first instance was just really flattering, but it was hard to take in that he wanted me to come to the club I have supported all my life."I have had a great season at Queen of the South and, at 21, I never stopped hoping that maybe I had done enough to get on Ally's radar."To have actually spoken to him and heard his plans was massive, but I it will only really sink in when I sign on the dotted line."I may have scored over 40 goals for Queens this season, but I believe I could score even more for Rangers with the quality of the players they have in the side."My ambition is to play in the SPL and to do it with Rangers one day would be as good as it gets."Clark will be following in the footsteps of dad Sandy, who scored 21 goals in 62 appearances for Gers between 1983/84 and the young striker admits that makes his move to Ibrox even more emotional.He said: "I wasn't around when my dad played for Rangers and seeing him play for them in his prime is something I would have loved."But if everything goes through, and hopefully I do get the chance to pull on the jersey, I would like to think it will be a special moment for him."A move to Ibrox will see the prolific striker once more tread the boards in the Scottish Second Division, but Clark doesn't care about the prospect of marking time as long as it is in the red, white and blue.He said: "It is a bit of a funny one, in that I have won the Second Division championship as a Queen of the South player and scored an awful lot of goals in the process, and yet I will be staying in the league."But none of that matters when you are talking about becoming a Rangers player."

David Leggat - giving it to you straight Friday, 17 May 2013 RANGERS MUST MOVE FOR DAVE KING....NOW! IMRAN AHMAD has claimed he will help Rangers man Dave King to sweep up the shares he needs to put him in a strong position to run Rangers. That was the message which Ahmad sent me. And he sent it to me directly. I have the electronic proof of the shamed former Rangers commercial director's pledge to back Dave King. And in a stunning claim, Ahmad also insisted to me that 60 per cent of Rangers shareholders want to bail out and are eager to sell, as they believe, what Ahmad referred to as "Craig Whyte's mental(sic) disturbed rants.' In the same email - a copy of which is now stored in a safe place - Ahmad who was booted out of Ibrox for leaking sensitive confidential Rangers business information to a website, also insisted that he has nothing to do with the moves to call an Emergency General Meeting. In his own words, Ahmad wrote to me, 'I have nothing to do with calling the EGM my good friend. The Easdales are grown men and not anybody's pawns.' Ahmad says that should Dave King wish to buy a majority stake in Rangers he will facilitate the King efforts, subject to London Stock Exchange rules. The Ahmad email, which came directly from him, dropped into my in box a mere three minutes into Thursday morning, after I revealed the bid to call an EGM and bulldoze one of the controversial Easdale brothers, along with slash and burn Cockney costcutter Chris Morgan, into the Blue Room as directors. It now remains to be seen if Imran Ahmad is as good as his word, his word which I have the irrefutable proof he has given However, there is no need to wait until Dave King has bought up a strong percentage of the Rangers shares before inviting King to join the board. In fact, such is the danger to Rangers, so perilously poised is the club, that the future of the club could depend on some of the men inside the Blue Room making a bold move. And making it now. For Rangers are in dire and desperate need of a strong man inside the Blue Room and it would be much better for the club if that strong man was a Rangers man with dough, rather than someone such as Chris Morgan, someone many believe would wreak havoc and damage the Rangers hopes of a march back to the top. And that man is surely Dave King! Walter Smith is the only man on the board who knows Dave King and understands just what a good Rangers man he is and what a stout and staunch ally he would if he was sitting with Smith around the Boardroom table. Which is why the time is ripe for Smith to move that Dave King be invited to join the board. Now! My information is that any such motion, proposed by Smith, would be seconded with alacrity by acting chief executive Craig Mather, whose £1M stake in Rangers means that he is the only director who has coughed up mega-money for his shareholding. That would then smoke out those who have dilly-dallied, swinging in the wind, first one way and then the other. It seems certain that any such motion, proposed by Smith, the only man on the board all Rangers supporters trust completely, and seconded by Mather, would soon be supported by financial director, Brian Stockbridge, who has also shelled out his own cash for a stake in Rangers, buying his shares at the going rate. Leaving non executive director and lifelong Rangers supporter, Ian Hart, with a big decision to make. There have been many mixed messages sent to me from a variety of sources regarding Hart. But now, for him, it is make your mind up time. Time for Ian Hart to pick a side. Leading on to chairman Malcolm Murray, the main target for those who want an EGM. Muray has not performed well. But now is his last shot at glory. His last chance to focus fully, to concentrate his mind, to stop vacillating and hiding behind corporate mumbo jumbo. It is chairman Malcolm Murray's last chance to speak for Rangers. And vote for Dave King. Such a move would go a long way to restoring Murray's tarnished reputation and pave the way for some sort of amicable agreement with him to be struck. That would leave Charles Green, who is due to leave the board in a fortnight and Phillip Cartmell and Bryan Smart out on a limb. I have no idea which way Smart would jump, but Cartmell is in the same boat as Murray as being targeted by the men who want an EGM. They want him out. And Cartmell is already under pressure inside the Blue Room for what some directors see as his dereliction of duty as a Rangers director. London based Cartmell has not even bothered to travel to Glasgow to sit around the boardroom table , preferring to just join in by conference call link. It is an entirely unsatisfactory state of affairs. And something which I am pretty sure will not meet with Walter Smith's approval. He is a man who likes to look you in the eye. Which can be an unnerving experience if he thinks you are trying to con him. But the bottom line is that if Ian Hart and chairman Murray man up and get behind any Walter Smith proposal, seconded by Craig Mather and backed by Brian Stockbridge, to invite Dave King, a man with proven Rangers credentials, an extremely wealthy man, a man committed to the cause and someone who is well able to handle any rough and tumble tactics the controversial Easdales or in-for-a-fast-buck Cockney costcutter Chris Morgan could throw at him, into the Blue Room, Rangers will be in better shape. At a stroke. While all the while King can sweep up the shares from the 60per cent of the Rangers shareholders who Imran Ahmad has told me are eager to sell. With, of course, the help of Imran Ahmad, which I have proof he has promised. http://www.davidleggat-leggoland.blogspot.co.uk/

Mr Struth was far superior to our ex centre. For one reason alone: He was a gentleman!!! He was a pleasure to speak to, and did not look done his nose at us punters. Our ex centre has maybe been like that in his latter years, but previously he was full of contempt for us bears. I have loved watching some of his Man U teams playing football, but Mr Struth would have beaten anything he put on the park. Reason being he got players playing for him, not for money.

Oleg, This Ranger along with lots of others used to catch the 'specials' from Central Station to Ibrox. I knew him through my brother who played with him and against him. Met him when we played at home, when he caught the train. I also met him lots of times in later years, but he was one of us and a gentleman Willie Findlay, 79, was a former Rangers and Albion Rovers player. Born in Motherwell, Willie played for the local Dalzell steelworks team while an apprentice before signing for Albion Rovers. His play at Cliftonhill made an impression on the then Rangers manager, Bill Struth, for in April 1947 a #7500 transfer fee took him to Ibrox. Such a figure at that time was regarded as record-breaking. Although far from a physical player, and by no means the fastest, Findlay was fearless in the challenge and served his wingers well. The son of a former Motherwell goalkeeper, Willie inherited the nickname of ''Banana'' from his father - derived from his occupation of selling fruit and vegetables from a barrow in the steel town. A Ranger for seven years, Willie played a total of 129 competitive games, with a healthy goalscoring tally of 76. He marked his Ibrox debut with two goals in a League Cup tie with Third Lanark before 20,000 spectators on September 6, 1947, in a 3-0 home win. Before the month was out, he had found the net in his Old Firm debut (a 2-0 win) and helped Rangers to a Glasgow Cup success over Third Lanark, again scoring in a 4-1 triumph at Hampden before a 47,000 crowd. That gives some indication of the importance of the competition in the immediate post-war era. For older Rangers followers, memories of ''Banana'' Findlay revolve around his cup-final goal and of nine goals in 14 games against Celtic, including a 30-yard winner at Parkhead on August 21, 1948. Many to this day can recall a winter's afternoon at Tynecastle when 47,600 spectators packed the Gorgie ground to witness a vital championship clash on a bitterly cold day of snow and ice. Late in the proceedings Hearts led 2-0, when Willie scored twice in three minutes - the second and equalising goal coming as he lay flat on his back facing away from the target, flicking the ball over his head into the net. Season 1949-50 was unquestionably Willie Findlay's finest in the blue of Rangers. He gained League Championship and Scottish Cup winners' medals, to which can be added two Glasgow Cups and one Charity Cup. Ispoke to him in later years and always called him 'Banana' a real gentleman

This was my response to a query elsewhere. Believe me to be a Rangers supporter is the most wonderful thing in life. My headstone will read" Once a Bear always a Bear". I will always say Mr Struth was the best. I travelled on a special train from Glasgow to Methil as a young man with my eldest brother, who is now 86. At Bayview we were there when the Rangers bus turned up, and he made sure all the players signed autographs for everyone. He spoke to everyone and thanked them for supporting Rangers

He was a gentleman, I knew quite well, as he was my manager at the Hi Hi. He only played as long because the greatest centre half ever. Willie Woodburn was suspended sine die. Funnily enough due to a slight argument against Stirling Albion. Woodburn also played against the great John Charles at Ibrox against The British Army and gave him a few Woodburn specials, We had some great defenders then. Now??????

I am still working and will do as long as I am able. The thing that keeps me strong is being a bear. At school we used to make lots of little arrows on the paper, showing 'we arra people'. That will never change.

In 1954 Scottish Cup semi the dons beat us 6-1 a big guy called Joe Oneil scored a hat trick. He had a head injury and it was all bandaged up. Our defence were scared to go near him. I was there with my old man on one of my older brothers in an over 100,000 crowd. It was a terrible day for all us bears, even now at 75 I still cannot forget it.

Oleg I think lots of us rely on you for the truth, as you tell it as you see it. I am old and a supporter from 1947. So rely on people like you to keep us in the loop. I know you will not tell us lies, and that is all we can ask for. I know we will come out the other side of this a stronger and more unified support.

As always Boss your the man!! Thanks for giving us the real facts!!!

I wonder if we will see any headlines about these two chairmen being threatened? Or will it be buried away in a three line piece in the would be press? Or will they accuse us on BBC and say we intimidated them before the vote?

Thank you for all your information. To me you are all about what it is to be a bear. When I was young and we had reserve matches, with players who had been with us for years, we always knew about everybody. Now we rely on you!!! Once again thank you

As a 75 year old pensioner and having first watch Rangers in 1947. I resent this post. I don't and never will buy another Scottish paper. I remember when we had real reporters, now we only have people from the dark side using anything that can denigrate us. However, at the end of the day. truth will prevail and we will triumph!!

I cannot believe that people are taken in by all this anti - Rangers crap. We are being assailed from all sides, and we continually take it in. My message is, we are THE RANGERS and we will never SURRENDER to any of them!!!