Nalla1959

Rangers man or not a Rangers man who cares, he appears to have all the attributes required for the post and that is good enough for me. As for being a Rangers man isn't jig a Rangers man who most people can't wait to see the back of.

Get rid of him he's past it.

He can experiment all he wants with players and systems and we as fans will have to deal with it even if it ends in draws and defeats, however come the play offs he must have the team ready to take us back to the top flight. It's then over to the money men to do what is required.

Better get him signed up as I believe his contract is up in the summer

Support will return when we are promoted and a decent team is on the park. I have faith in my fellow bears.

I don't have a point about your post other than its not certain that the snp will hold the balance of power after the election. You are not taking into account the other parties like lib dems, ukip, Ulster unionists who may well enter a loose coalition with the Tories. I would think the Tories will win more seats than labour individualy and may only need one of the other parties or indeed more if required.

Westminster Parliament" Unionists know it as the British Parliament or the UK Parliament. But separatists want to avoid describing it in those ways because that would remind listeners that it was elected by everyone who voted in the UK, and that it represents all British citizens. They want to avoid recalling to mind its Britishness. And they use this phrase because it subconsciously implies a geographical distance.

Think of our first team goalies of the past and then compare with bell.

It is not Westminster, it is The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,[3] commonly known as the UK Parliament or the British Parliament,

Thank fuck we can only see half of her, pure revolting.

So far we have established that the SNParty, labour and the lib dems are all Catholic parties. Now as Catholics in Scotland represent less than twenty percent of the population who do the Protestant majority vote for. Really is a weird country where the very few rule over the vast majority who do not appear to have a say in there own country, not to mention not having a party to vote for?

Got boxer Barry mcguigans autograph whilst out on street patrol in Ulster.

Is SNParty not the Catholic vote?

If available for N. Ireland then he should still make it for a few games prior to the play offs

More use of the young team sounds good to me

No chance of a new deal unless we're back to jobs for the boys culture.

That's your choice not mine.

The ladies team is fit

Imagine living in a nation so authoritarian you could be locked up simply for singing a song that the authorities disapproved of. Well, if youre one of spikeds many UK-based readers, you dont have to imagine it you already live there. Last week in Glasgow, a man was sentenced to four months in jail for the crime of singing a state-decreed offensive song. Yes, that thing us Brits love to be sniffy about when its done by the Saudis or Putin the cruel or unusual punishment of people just for saying something or singing something is now being done right here in the UK, in the twenty-first century. The man in question is Scott Lamont, a 24-year-old fan of Rangers FC, which draws most of its support from Scotlands Protestant communities. It has an infamous rivalry with Glasgows other globally recognisable football team, Celtic FC, most of whose fans come from Scotlands Catholic, Irish-tinged communities. On 1 February, when Rangers were playing Celtic at Hampden Park, Lamont sang one of the fanbases favourite songs as he walked along a street to the game. The song was The Billy Boys, an old sectarian loyalist ditty first sung by Glasgows razor gangs in the early twentieth century and later adopted by Rangers fans as a way of riling their Celtic rivals. The song starts Hello, hello, we are the Billy Boys, and contains the line Were up to our knees in Fenian blood. Simply for singing this lewd tune which for decades has formed part of the stadium-based, mostly harmless wind-ups between Rangers and Celtic fans, Lamont was jailed for four months. The sheriff who jailed him said he did so because a message has to be sent to those people who would choose to ruin football: This sort of behaviour will not be tolerated. So not only was Lamont deprived of his liberty for committing songcrimes he was also turned into a sacrificial national advert of what will become of anyone who mis-sings or utters something the authorities consider offensive. This was a showtrial, designed not merely to resolve a crime (some crime!) but to send a message to all Brits, especially that throng of uncouth Scottish football fans, about what it is acceptable to think, say and sing. And then the sheriff had the nerve to say Lamont let Glasgow down. It wasnt Lamont who temporarily turned Glasgow into a Taliban-style statelet banging people up for singing. How can judges in Scotland behave so tyrannically? Because of the Offensive Behaviour at Football Act, a repugnant law passed by the Scottish National Party in 2012. This act gives the authorities carte blanche to punish severely any football fan who says something they dont like. It outlaws sectarian chanting, singing and behaviour at football games, and also on the way to games or in pubs in which games are being shown. It criminalises the expression [of] religious hatred, wiping out, in one foul swoop, the traditional songs and chants of Rangers and Celtic, who have long mocked each other with scurrilous words. To this end, Celtic fans have been arrested, some in dawn raids, for singing pro-IRA songs, Rangers fans have been had up for loyalist chanting, and SNP officials have warned that even singing Rule, Britannia! can potentially be a crime, depending on the circumstances. In what circumstances could singing a patriotic song beloved of the British Navy land you in court? When youre a lowlife football fan whos singing it, in that alleged hotbed of hatred and volatility that is a football stadium. The focus on circumstances cuts to the rotten heart of this law. What it means is that football fans, especially Celtic and Rangers ones, can be punished for things others are still allowed to do. Because theyre presumed to be a lesser breed of human, not as rational as the rest of us, they can be prevented from singing silly or offensive songs and even from blessing themselves. Seriously. An SNP leader has warned that Celtic fans who bless themselves in an aggressive manner face arrest. This dread of the circumstances, which is really a dread of the mostly working-class men who make up the teeming crowds at Scotlands football games, was revealed in the words of the sheriff who imprisoned Lamont for songcrimes: he said Lamonts singing was inflammatory and could have led to horrendous violence. This reveals more about officials prejudiced mindset than it does about any real threat of football violence: they view fans as animals, basically, liable to be warped upon hearing certain words or orders, easily goaded to violence by the noises around them. This censorship, like so much censorship, is fuelled by an elitist fear of the blob and its unpredictability. But the only circumstances that matter are these: a football stadium is not real life. In that heated and, yes, fun moment of footballing rivalry, people shout and sing stuff they would never shout or sing in a Tescos on a Wednesday afternoon and they must be free to do so The Lamont case shows how twisted the category of incitement has become. Theres nothing inciting about The Billy Boys. It doesnt instruct anyone to kill Fenians, far less offer advice on how to do so; it simply makes colourful reference to long-gone clashes between Protestant and Catholic gangs. These days, those who brand certain words or images as inciting really mean that they find them super-offensive. Well, tough. They are also passing explicit judgement on the audiences to the things they dont like. The idea that a Rangers song could incite horrendous violence, or that Page 3 inflames rape culture, or that a Dapper Laughs gig could cause sexual assaults, is really a way of saying that the people who consume this stuff have less control than those who dont; theyre mentally inferior to people who dont watch football games or read the Sun or chortle at laddish comics. As with all censorship, the Offensive Behaviour at Football Act creates a stark, elitist divide between those who cannot be trusted to speak or sing freely Them and those who are so in-the-know that they must be charged with controlling public discourse Us. And so in Britain in 2015, on the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, with our leaders crowing about Britains great traditions of freedom, a man has been jailed for singing a song. Where is Amnesty, currently fighting to have a Saudi blogger released from jail but silent on Scott Lamont? Wheres Liberty? Index on Censorship? These self-styled warriors for free speech are happy to defend the rights of Russian punks or Belarusian playwrights but not Scottish football fans. Thats because, to them, a Rangers supporter a working bloke with a foul mouth is far more foreign, far more difficult to comprehend, than any overseas writer or Guardian-approved pussy punk band. They wont say it, but the rest of us should, regardless of whether we like the lyrics or not: Je Suis Billy Boy. Free Scott Lamont.

Good on them if they were singing our songs but maybe a breach of copyright.

Promotion this season at all costs another year in this league will further hamper our playing squad, our finances and our fan support.

It's not booing they need it is extra training sessions as well as tactical briefings. No rest days until earned. They have a job to get us back where we should be and have not delivered on this task. Hard work for the next few months may still get the job done. They have been lazy for long enough!

If and when we do go up we must be able to get second spot straight away, followed by an assault on first place. Knowing our support we will not accept being beaten by sheep shaggers, Dundee hibs, any the other teams involved in sporting integrity. We must spend enough in the first season to ensure this happens even if it means scaling the spending back in the next couple of seasons.

It will get better once McCall has a chance to settle in

he needs a chance under McCall before we can fully judge him.