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The idea of putting more non Europeans in is ridiculous. Europe and South America are the bedrock of world football. Europe is hugely underrepresented at the World Cup and the only reason the Africans get their ridiculous amount of places is due to political pandering to win FIFA votes and Asia get their places due to the money flowing in and the potential media interest. North And Central America have steady but unspectacular teams. Oceania is basically New Zealand and a few little islands that are so weak that an Isle of Cumbrae select would give them a tanking. CONCACAF (North & Central America) have a history of corruption and woeful mismanagement and the United States and Mexico along with the stronger Central American sides would be likely to benefit from regular contact with South American teams and Mexican teams already compete in the Copa Libertadores, the South American version of the Champions League. Oceania Football Confederation basically has New Zealand and nothing else and taking the Asian route as Australia have with success would be a good idea in my opinion. The remaining OFC teams could compete in Asian pre qualifying and would likely be gone before the business end. My personal preference would be for the Americas to be combined and for the OFC to merge into the Asian AFC. I don't think America and Mexico would be happy to give up almost automatic World Cup places to slug it out with the likes of Paraguay and Ecuador for the lower qualifying slots and being way off the likes of Argentina, Brazil and Colombia in a combined Americas instead of generally strolling to a comfortable berth ahead of Costa Rica and usually another Latin team or occasionally a Caribbean side. New Zealand might not want to risk their regular Confederations Cup and Club World Cup spots either. Assuming the current regions continue I'd divide them like this... Europe 30 South America 7 North and Central America 5 Africa 3 Asia 3 - OFC team (NZ barring some strange happenings) enters later in qualifying I can't honestly believe UEFA seem to be happy that they'll only get 16 places in a 48 team tournament. FIFA seems to have a huge pro African bias despite most of their federations being riddled with corruption and government interference. The ramshackle stadiums and sub standard facilities outside South Africa and some of the North African nations really should have an impact on their their voting rights and number of entrants in World Cups. There are suggestions that Africa could have 8 automatic places and a potential playoff slot for the World Cup. The FIFA ranking system is a joke too as teams outside Europe and South America seem to play a lot of internationals and beat up on small nations regularly inflating their rankings. I'd have to argue that of the 48 best nations in world football judged on ability and footballing resources Europe would have over 30. The Americas would supply most of the rest. I'm not opposed to other nations taking part but an overhaul of the voting system to heavily favour Europe is needed.

At the time Green seemed to be a million times better than Whyte but turned out nearly as bad. King is just sitting around doing nothing more than paying the basic bills but compared to the damage done by the past couple of regimes, he is just letting the club stagnate rather than driving it towards Armageddon. We really need another takeover to be properly competitive in Europe again but I can't see many takers for a club with virtually no commercial income and a TV deal worth a fraction of what the club deserves. The only decent money we have coming in are gate receipts and it is only because the fans have been loyal to a team among the worst ever to wear the blue shirts that there are any prospects for the future. And you can't really blame a team of lower league English players for being in a poor second place. As for Walter Smith, he clearly had good intentions by getting involved and his disagreement with what was going on during that era helped make it clear that another takeover was vital as they were selling the family heirloom china at the time with the abysmal merchandise deals and the likes. Walter has nothing to be ashamed for an he may have saved the club in the long term by making it clear Green was a problem.

Pretty sure the figures that were being knocked around in 2008 stated that we made around £18-20m for our UEFA Cup run to the final. The money must be higher for a tournament 10 years on.

The green in Penny Arcade is obviously the same shade as the green grassy slopes of the Boyne. Of course...

The funny part is that there were players coming from Real Madrid, Lyon, Cruziero and AEK Athens along with several Premiership players in that group. I think Siena were still in Serie A at the time too. You'd actually think that was a decent group of players if you didn't know otherwise.

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Someone mentioned a 5XL shirt. Must have been a Kevin Kyle shirt that shrunk in the wash.

Back on Championship Manager (before it became Football Manager) in 2002/3 version on Xbox, I was playing as HJK Helsinki and won a close Finnish league title race because of a striker called Miika Ilo from Telstar in the Netherlands. He was a Finn and I signed him and managed to get a team together with a lot of pace down the wings and a solid centre. I remember playing another game on the same game where during Rosenborg's long consecutive league run I decided to try to continue it. Signed a few decent players including Lorenzo Amoruso but ended up in EIGHTH place! Played well in the cups and was doing fairly well until about two thirds of the way through the season when a mixture of tiredness and injuries left Rosenberg threadbare and weak. A few old guys just totally broke down to be honest.

I was playing as an English team in the mobile version and noticed Rangers lost to Edinburgh City in the same tournament! EEK! Surely we're not THAT bad.

I'm kinda split over Ibrox. It would take a lot of money to get it to a level that would be totally acceptable but we don't have hundreds of millions for a complete renovation. The ground is in Govan which is bad news as it probably renders the land at a low level on top of this so selling the existing ground and getting land for a new stadium and making a tidy profit is highly unlikely. A half hearted patch up job is all we're likely to get for now. We've no TV deal of note, we've only Europa League to look forward to next season in all likelihood and and virtually no commercial income. We're living on the meagre income of only 40 odd thousand ticket sales per home match. I want to see Ibrox or a new state of the art ground with 80,000+ fans but we neither have the funding or success for that for now. Fixing the basic features of the ground is a necessity. At least planning for the next stage is also vital. Ibrox in any level of dilapidation a few years ago would have been unthinkable. There were all sorts of stories about casinos and expansions to 61,000 - 71,000 and hotels and whatnot. Now it is a ground which is probably second only to Murrayfield in Scotland but no longer compares favourably to England's top grounds. It was the best ground in Britain in the 80s and 90s but seems to be stuck in the 90s sadly.

Do Rangers have the biggest indigenous fan base in Britain? I'd imagine we have about 3 or 4 million fans in the UK at least. Only other team around that level would be Arsenal I'd think.

So Matt Crooks is going then? Damn, thought he was worth £60m+

We would be World Premier League champions.

The money should be used to buy Rob Kiernan for Celtic! We'll win the league this season if that muppet plays for them!

I'd be quite happy to have a mostly green away kit. Green with a light blue diagonal section on the top. The green would be decorated by dead Jacobites and King Billy would be charging up the slopes of the Boyne! What? What other green would we use but the green grassy slopes?

Our goalies tended to wear yellow or red actually. Tended to be yellow way back when yellow and green were the standard colours but red was used a lot too at times. Personally I prefer darker colours but there is an argument for both bright and dark colours as defenders can see the goalie more clearly in a ruckus but the strikers can too so there are problems and advantages in both. I tend to think it is better for the striker not to be able to pick the goalie out easily and I tended to wear black, grey or purple in goal when I played rather than yellow or other bright colours. Light blue was about the only exception I ever made.

I'm inclined to think that with our current team and level of income we're equivalent to a League 1 side from England. We have big gates but virtually merchandise income. We used to have the second biggest merchandise income in the UK behind Man U. Besides the TV income in Scotland is comical. What is frustrating is that the other shower are no better than a mid table Championship team down south. Hearts and Aberdeen are League 2 and the rest are National League or National League North or South in level. Scottish football is pathetic. If Rangers don't get their act together the entire Scottish League will be as crap as Ireland's in ten years. Our fans will eventually drift downwards in number if we aren't competitive. We turn out in numbers if there is hope but if we stay in decline and are miles behind every season the fans will eventually lose their patience. The board need to raise further revenue.

They've never played against a Scottish team... ?

Surprised he didn't go for McCoist as they were one of the best forward lines in the world at their best.

It does. (Looks in an eastern direction) but we need to spend to ensure bringing the title back to Ibrox and the board we've got are chancers that won't come up with £30m-£50m for players or at least big wage Bosmans. Lower league guys from England aren't the answer. Trying to make them play in a system used by Ajax just makes it more embarrassing.

Win or bust for Warburton and Weir? Sadly I'm getting a vision of Samantha Fox. Before the first Old Firm game of the season I was ranting and raving that we'd tear them limb from limb off the back of the Scottish Cup game and I thought we'd actually strengthened the team with quality. The team have taken a step backwards and I don't think Warburton's 4-3-3 (4-5-1 in all truth) is doing anything and he seems incapable of changing the shape when required. For a supposed attacking lineup, his teams can't get goals. The defence is about as watertight as a sieve. I don't think Warburton is up to the job but what would we end up with? Derek McInnes... if we're lucky! The board won't part with cash for anyone and I honestly think if Aberdeen turned round and asked for a moderately low compensation figure, the board would offer about a third of a fair figure then muck about for ages, eventually upping it to about half, then taking on some duffer from down south because he got fired from Rochdale and would not cost a compensation fee. What we really need is a manager from Germany or the Netherlands with a knowledge of decent players from that part of the world that could form a technically proficient and physically adept unit that could bully and outplay anyone in Scotland. We don't need some £300m wonder team but the board are kidding themselves on if they think we'll get any success without spending at least £30m on players but there is no way that bunch of chancers will even come up with £10m. It isn't impossible to get good Bosmans but the wages need to be available and that means parting with £40k-£60k a week for players and probably our ceiling for an exceptional signing is south of £20k. I heard suggestions that Barton was on £35k but I would imagine it was more like £20k.

None of them have been good enough. I grew up watching the likes of Gough, Butcher, Gascogne, Laudrup, McCoist and Hateley, not some lower league crap players that didn't make anything of themselves in the English league. The only two players in the squad that are anywhere near our level are Wallace and McKay and they need good players around them to amount to anything themselves.

What are you talking about? There were fans that were talking about it being UK #1 and it only got to #31. I hardly think that makes me one of the potato brigade to be annoyed and why would I be annoyed at the Radio 1 presenter for mentioning Barton instead of Garner if I was one of them? It was apparently second favourite at one point with the bookies.

It only got to #31! I was listening to the end of the charts when it reached the top ten and the presenter mentioned songs related to charities or other causes and the Rangers link to the song Glad All Over was mentioned but the presenter mistakenly claimed it was in tribute to Joey Barton! For it to reach such an embarrassingly low position then for that to be said was a kick in the teeth.

Not impossible he might be Rangers inclined as he is Presbyterian, his mother was Scottish and he has spent time here in regard to his golf courses and other deals.