Yorkie Bear

This all looks a bit odd. It's as if there is an orchestrated campaign to get Rangers back in the top league. Those that argue that Scottish football needs old firm matches to survive ignore the fact that at the present moment, Rangers do not have the squad to battle it out with Celtic and leave the others floundering, as used to be the case. Is it for the money that rangers will bring to other SPL clubs, directly or through TV? Is it that they want a weakened Rangers as they think we will struggle and it will make the others feel good? Or is it that they recognise that the SPL is struggling and the only thing they can think of is "let's have things the way they used to be, then every thing will be OK". Rangers have a business plan to get back to the top. While the possibility of reconstruction and fast tracking us may have been considered, I'm sure that our plan does not rely on this. Rather, our plan will be to make steady progress through the leagues, building as we go, so that when we reach the top league we are ready for it and can reassume our position as the top team. If this campaign to fast track us continues, the commentators need to explain how this will benefit Rangers as well as the rest. Top date all they seem to be saying that it will benefit everyone else without any consideration of us, the wronged party.

This hymn is certainly a religious song but can't be classed a "Protestant" song. While it was sung by the BB's who were linked to the Church of Scotland, I can't belie that any other faith would take exception to it. For those who were not in the BBs, here is the hymn: Will your anchor hold in the storms of life, When the clouds unfold their wings of strife? When the strong tides lift, and the cables strain, Will your anchor drift or firm remain? We have an anchor that keeps the soul Stedfast and sure while the billows roll, Fastened to the Rock which cannot move, Grounded firm and deep in the Savior's love. It is safely moored, 'twill the storm withstand, For 'tis well secured by the Savior's hand; And the cables passed from His heart to mine, Can defy the blast, through strength divine. It will firmly hold in the straits of fear, When the breakers have told the reef is near; Though the tempest rave and the wild winds blow, Not an angry wave shall our bark o'erflow. It will surely hold in the floods of death, When the waters cold chill our latest breath; On the rising tide it can never fail, While our hopes abide within the veil.

Ordered my ticket last friday. Still not received it. Phoned the hotline today and they said it had been sent 1st class last Saturday. Thing is, if I dont get it tomorrow, that's it as I'm coming up for Christmas. Has anyone else had any problems with their ticket or am I just the unlucky one?

I blame the government

Never liked Newcastle since the Fairs Cup semi final in 1969. After a pitch invasion, the police lined up along the wall and would not let anyone out, even when the bottles were raining down.

1-0 to Falkirk. Only kidding!

And we're now sitting pretty at the top of the league.

Like you I was brought up on World Cups and there was no problem with supporting Rangers and Scotland. There is one thing of giving pelters to a player of the oppostion when they are playing your team but another of giving abuse when that player is playing for Scotland. It is a sad reflection of where our game has gone that this is now a common occurence. I can understand the view on here that someone feels they could not go to a Scotland game and be beside someone who is booing a Rangers player. The easy answer to this is that you counter this abuse and question the person's motives. Easy to say but not all of us have the confidence to do this, nor do we want to run the risk of getting abused ourselves or thumped. Also now that we're seated, you cant walk away to another part of the ground. I dont know what the answer is. The SFA could come out strongly and condemn this behaviour but I fear that the events of the past months has taken us down a road that has polarised opinion. It's Rangers against the rest and while Rangers fans shun Scotland's team, Rangers fans will remain the minority at Scotland games and so things get worse and worse. The loudmouths and bigots who hate us so much are now in the ascendency. Sad times for Scotland's national team.

Hibs at Easter Road, January 1965. Got beat 1-0. Taken by my Uncle. New scarf for the occasion.

D Joining a SPL club at the moment is a tad risky, Who knows who will be left standing.

Peter, you thought I was your man but the truth's like this - I am in fact a double agent. I was hired to bring down the SPL and you have to agree I've made a pretty good job of that.

From the herald: After a few hours in the local hostelries, any relief the Rangers fans felt had turned to defiance. By kick-off that defiance was ear-splitting and incendiary as coloured smoke bombs greeted the Rangers team's appearance on the pitch and raucous broadsides against the SPL rang out from the packed away end – and not just the away end, either, as Rangers fans also lined the length of the famous hedge that runs down one side of Glebe Park. The new-look Rangers needed extra time before emerging victorious against the side now located a division above them. Relief was certainly the order of the day for the travelling fans. So, just another day in Scotland's lower leagues? Hardly – and the lower leagues had better get used to it.

That's right. Every game we play this season will be like a cup game.

Even in this hour of darkness, we can have a laugh.

Was looking at the Red Button to see if any news on our registration. Under the Teams in the SPL, choosing Rangers, the first 2 pages are about Ross County! and after that is old news.

Risky. The SFA will probaly switch it off and say they didn't get it.

In this test of brinkmanship, Rangers have the upper hand, but will they be prepared to bluff it out? We will be betting our existence as a team in the SFL against the financial collapse of scottish football. I expect that the longer it goews on the more severe the treats will become of stripping titles etc if we wont bow down. The business side of things, run by Green, will be keen to get us in the league and I suspect wont br too troubled by any sanctions that are not financial. What that will then mean, with Ally being so up front about not accepting stripping of titles, I dread to think.

Expect thisa to be added to the list of sanctions: "Any money received from the sale of players of the "Oldco" Rangers to be held on deposit to bale out the SPL."

Great performance. Here are the lyrics: I never felt like this before Try to hold it back and I feel it even more Sweat drips down my spine and my knees are weak I can not move, I can not speak But then you came and I held it together again I managed to stumble through Fifty thousand voices singing in the rain There's nothing that I wouldn't do Cause I'd move mountains if you asked me to I'd swim the seven seas I'll be the one to hold your torch again I'll do anything you ask of me Cause I'd move mountains if you asked me to I'd swim the seven seas I'll be the one to hold your torch again I'll do anything you ask of me I never knew how proud I would feel Just standing in the rain. These three words mean everything to me And I'd sing it again and again. Cause I'd move mountains if you asked me to I'd swim the seven seas I'll be the one to hold your torch again I'll do anything you ask of me Cause I'd move mountains if you asked me to I'd swim the seven seas I'll be the one to hold your torch again I'll do anything you ask of me Well the blue and the white of the flag shines bright And it's blowing there for me. With my hand on my heart, the honest truth There's nowhere I'd rather be. Cause I'd move mountains if you asked me to I'd swim the seven seas I'll be the one to hold your torch again I'll do anything you ask of me Cause I'd move mountains if you asked me to I'd swim the seven seas I'll be the one to hold your torch again I'll do anything you ask of me

What should count in our favour is fitness levels. I expect we will dominate towards the end of games.

Classic and original.

I agree. Green will see that it makes business sense to be in the SPL, even with sanctions, though how we will compete with a depleted squad and sanctions is worrying. Having said all that, I cant see the SPL admitting us back in. They had their chance and if they change their minds in little over a week they will be shown to be the incompetent lot they are and Reagan and Doncaster will surely have to resign.

But surely that would annoy the St Mirren fans

Classic!

As the SFA wanted us in Div1 so we would be back in the SPL after 1 year, they will not impose any sanctions which could delay our entry even more. Unless of course they reckon that we will walk Div3 so points penalty will make no difference. But what is the rationale for imposing a penalty on a club entering the lowest division?