Colonel Mustard

Well it was made clear by Lawwell today that that is the party line.

I remember Tosh McKinlay resigning from his job after erroneously stating that celtic had a £15m war chest. The journos who have done the same thing with Rangers should follow suit.

That neglecting OAPs is not a crime.

Dingwall's been tangoed then?

There's a thread on the OT forum saying that his account is suspended. It doesn't say what for though.

More of a quip than a quote... Super Ally was being dominated by a centre half during one game, and nothing was coming off for him. He tried a wee trick to get past the defender at one point, which the CH easily dealt with, and laughed at McCoist saying, "I've seen you daein' that too many times on the telly, wee man...". Two minutes later, Super eventually gets a chance and buries it. As he runs past the defender on the way to the re-start, Ally shouts, "Ye'll have seen me doing that a few times on the telly as well, big man!"

Old people should be allowed to refer to the past if they want. It's one of the few benefits of nearly being dead.

In 1972 a rookie manger had just been promoted, and inherited a side which had just won a European trophy. He then proceeds to get rid of arguably our 2 best players at the start of the season, 2 legends no less (Bud and Colin Stein), and replaces them with an unknown winger (Quinton Young) and a raw teenager to play centre forward (Parlane) on the back of about 10 previous first team games. In addition to this, he continues to play our best striker at centre half, and in year 2 he signs as forward support Ally Scott, who gave headless chickens a bad name. To top it all, he tries to bring experience into the team (unsuccessfully) by signing an ageing Joe Mason from Morton, before abandoning that experiment rather quickly. What the hell would RM have made of the 1972 and 1973 signings going into the new seasons? It surely makes Ally's signings this summer look like a spending spree of Mancini proportions.

You're absolutely correct, but I was giving him the benefit of setting aside the previous debacles, to try and move forward.

I don't understand your second sentence, but on the first, it'll be the Last Chance Saloon with the fans if his next month or two is as disastrous as the last one. Whether he deserves time or not, won't come into it...the fans won't stand for us struggling in the League (IMO).

The previous 4 times, Ally probably wasn't drinking in the Last Chance Saloon.

What is this?

You need to get a few things straight in your head before we go any further. Whether your squad is skinny because of financial restraints which were already in place before the transfer window, or because you couldn't get us past two duff teams in the Euro qualifiers, you've made your own bed and need to lie in it. If you play McCulloch and Edu together, you'll end up getting the sack. If you continue to move players out of their best positions to adjust for injuries and suspensions, you'll end up getting the sack. If you don't become more tactically aware, you'll end up getting the sack. So in short, you need to get your arse into gear, and start being your own man, and come up with a philosophy of how we should play to get us 4IAR. You've got the tools, and you BELIEVE you've got the tools (or you would have been screaming from the rooftops that you were not being supported), so get on with it and let's see a Rangers team going flat out to pump all who are put in front of us. No excuses. No prisoners. And No Surrender.

Some people seem to have missed that, apart from anything else, he was excellent coming on as a sub when we needed someone to help keep posession, to close out a game. He often did that very well, and I'd have him here again. Who knows, he might even have an Indian summer in pursuit of more winners medals. I'd bet a small wager on him doing that.

Anyone else think that this jury's verdict might be used as an example that Scotland has a sectarian problem? ie...Such an open and shut case could only have been thrown out if the jury themselves had sectarian tendencies.

What makes it obvious?

Thick tarrier cow talking about how the field trips won't help her kids at school. Aye, learning about nature never helped anyone you midden. The English guy says the trip was successful because he has now discovered the most poisonous creature on the planet...the tarrier bint. You don't know the half of it mate. Try living up here.

This TV show has the format that 2 families go on holiday together, with both getting to choose what kind of holiday they go on for a week each. Usually they pair an educated family with a shower of common scum to get a bit of conflict, and today is no different. A tarrier family complete with them all the green and grey trimmings take another family to Turkey on a bevvyfest in the Irish bars until the early hours of the morning. Swallying while the weans sleep in the boozer is compulsory. I don't think they are going to like the other family's choice of a bug collecting trip to the rainforest. Scum getting shown up for the scum they are. Maybe they might get some education right enough.

5 Pence Or perpaps twelvepence.

Being out of Europe at this point IS disastrous. Davie White was sacked while we were top of the League, after we got pumped in Europe (I don't advocate that kind of reaction again, btw...I'm just saying).

I consider Ally's start as our manager to be a bit of a disaster so far, mainly due to the European results, but also because I'm not encouraged by the way he has us playing. However, the jungle fighter himself also had a pretty inauspicious start to his reign, so there is always hope as long as we are patient. Jock's first season started badly. After the early League Cup games, we managed to lose three times in the League before September was finished, to Ayr, the tarriers and Killie. During this time, Wallace dropped our 2 talismen Colin Stein and Bud Johnston, both of whom were about to be controversially sold on. In a bold move, the manager had decided to go with a teenage rookie at centre forward, first using 18 year old DJ, then going with 19 year old newly born King of Ibrox Park Derek Parlane. He also brought in Cutty for Bud, but we were struggling for consistency. October was not too much better than the previous month, as we managed to lose to Stenhousemuir at Ibrox (in the 2nd leg of a LC tie), and drop more title points with a couple of draws. The inconsistent form then continued through Novemeber as we tumbled out of the LC to Hibs, before we started December with a League another loss to Hearts. Thankfully this proved to be a turning point, and we then went unbeaten for the rest of the season, winning 23 games (including the famous Scottish Cup final victory) and drawing 3. Unfortunately though, the bad first few months was to cost us the title as we finished second, a single point behind Celtic. Sadly, the euphoria of the 1973 Cup win quickly wore off, and we had to endure another tough season the next year, winning nothing and not even being 2nd best in the League. It was not until after this 2 year roller coaster ride that Big Jock finally brought home the bacon and replaced Celtic's dominance with a stranglehold of our own for a few years, and cemented his place as a Legend at Ibrox. I'd say that this goes to prove that a bad start doesn't always tell us a whole lot about how good a manager is going to be, and also that patience is often needed when it's not started well. So, maybe we should learn the lessons and be patient with Ally, no matter how the next few months go...although I know fine well how sore it is while we do the waiting.

Getting a lift was your birthright. I wouldn't like to lift some of today's fat weans over right enough. I was getting a lift until I was about 14, and starting to get a bit big for it. Once the guys in the queue started taking the piss by saying "you could gie me a lift son", it was time to start paying in.

You can just see the admission price on this 1959 picture of Firhill. Two and a tanner for a league game, so six bob a few years later for a glamour game might be about right...although it would have been knocking the arse out of it a bit.

Maybe a Championship team then? Or a lower EPL side. First picks for Rangers should be well sought after for these teams.

This could ease the wage bill, and let both guys show that they have what it takes to play in the SPL. Anyone agree that this could be a good move if someone like Motherwell or Saint Mirren came in to give them a chance of showing their worth in a good passing side?