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centre half today

Perry and cribari both injured apparently

RANGERS: Alexander; Argyriou, Hegarty, McCulloch, Wallace; Crawford, Black, Macleod, McKay; Shiels, Little. SUBS: Gallacher, Aird, Naismith, Hutton, Wiktorski.

Charles Green speaks well but I was a wee bit uneasy about Craig Whyte being involved in Imran Ahmed speaking to Duff & Phelps initially and having had 'numerous meetings' with Whyte. Charles also said he had met 4 times with Whyte when previously said had only met him once or twice. Any mention of Whyte having any influence in Zeus becoming involved concerns me a wee bit. Or maybe Whyte having some amount of say was a necessity and I'm being a bit paranoid. Other than that his plans for our future sounds exciting.

Mikel Arteta

Blog: Sign Of The Times His signing from Hearts was undoubtedly the most significant piece of business conducted between Scottish clubs before the transfer window shut and also indicated the strength of Ally McCoist’s desire to field the strongest team he possibly can. The manager not only wants to win the Third Division, he has aspirations of success in the major cup competitions and he has a duty to entertain the Rangers supporters by producing the best team he possibly can. Equally, he has to be ready if predicted changes are made to the structure of the Scottish game which may expedite Rangers’ return to the top level of the game. So there are many compelling reasons for paying decent money for Templeton to follow the astute acquisitions of Ian Black, Dean Shiels and Fran Sandaza. However, it seems that the signing of Templeton has not gone down well with some pundits, pressmen and supporters of other clubs. They carp that the 23-year-old has only gone to Rangers for the money and it’s a sad day for the game that he has chosen to go to the Third Division. How dare he join Rangers? What on earth does he think he is doing? The same type of mud was slung at Black and Shiels and you really have to wonder why. There was one caller on Radio Scotland’s football phone-in show yesterday who was trying to explain to the host, Jim Traynor, and his guest, the former Motherwell centre back Stephen Craigan, why Templeton had chosen Ibrox to ply his trade. However, neither man seemed to like what he was hearing and shouted him down. There have been equally condemnatory articles in some newspapers over the weekend and McCoist must just laugh. Indeed, at one newspaper in particular, The Scotsman, the columnists are at odds with each other over McCoist’s signing policy, yet critical at the same time. On the one hand, Glenn Gibbons describes Ally McCoist’s transfer dealings as “shopping in football’s equivalent of a charity shop”. On the other, Tom English berates Templeton for daring to sign for Rangers and says it’s a sad state of affairs while also casting aspersions about the manager’s abilities. So Ally McCoist is damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t but either way he’s getting it in the neck. It’s the type of scenario Rangers fans have become used to in the last six months.

It was the legal mastermind John 'robbo' Robertson. A fat

Preseason friendlies are arranged so players can get fit, get used to playing with each other etc. we didn't have a preseason. We will improve as the games keep coming. Not excusing the displays of broadfoot and Goian though!

Charlie Adam keeking thru the fence there.

Ive just sent a complaint in about McLean too. His commentary has been a disgrace.

BBC still have us listed in div 3 under our company name. Now we've got our license should our name on their website not be changed to Rangers again - no other team listed in div 3 have FC after their name?

CG might try and get a couple of signings in that get people talking to boost ticket sales etc. speculate to accumulate?

they are two excellent signings for the next couple.of seasons.

The upside is that we seem to be just about there now to start the process of rebuilding the club and maybe focusing on actually signing players and worrying about football! That sounds like a plan

We can sign players for the next several weeks. The previous embargo would have kicked in straight away.I think we've got plenty of time to build a decent enough squad.