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Sadly for me I only saw guys like McCoist, Durrant and Goram when they played for Kilmarnock and Motherwell.

So far as I know, they stopped and a few years later another club was formed, who were just known as Carlisle loyal. They met in the Masonic club on Portland square. I actually went to a couple of their events about ten years ago. I've asked around people I know and it turns out that I know the guy who owns the Milbourne, the building mind, he doesn't run the pub. He's a Rangers fan too, so is his son whom I went to school with. That'll explain why it's now a Rangers pub! I've been away from Carlisle for a while now, it's funny the things you miss. And unfortunately the tarriers do have a slip house now. You remember the Golden Lion on London Road? It's now a tacky Irish Traveller dive called Gallagher's. Proper shithole, makes the Roadhouse look classy.

Yeah he definitely seems quite bitter against us at times for some reason. I can only think it's playing for Motherwell that's done it. The point I was making that given his background I'd be surprised if he really did hate us and it's not a bit "for show" for his media work.

Reliably informed that he's a Glentoran fan. I'd be surprised if he hated us, but ten years of playing for Motherwell has maybe warped his mind!

Yeah I think that's right. I often wondered what Davie Weir's role was in it all. Seemed like he didn't do a lot. I always kind of expected the defenders to improve under him, but they just didn't.

Coach and horses in Kingstown used to be a pretty decent Rangers pub back in the day. Supporters buses used to pick up/drop off there. Haven't been in there for about ten years so no idea what it's like now. And I had no idea about the Milbourne!

Warburton is obviously a good coach, but probably never going to be a good manager. Someone you'd put in charge of the youths, or have as an assistant manager.

2-1 win in October 09, he started at right back as unbelievable as that sounds! Remember he miss-kicked the ball the only time it came to him and then he went off injured after ten minutes. Looked like a rabbit in headlights that day.

Has anyone called Aidan ever had a worthwhile opinion about Rangers?

A waste of a perfectly good EBT.

It's none of Lennon's business anyway.

We're always going to have to have an eye on the academy from now on regardless of how many players we sign. We're ultimately going to be a selling club and developing our own talent to sell on to clubs in a bigger and better league is going to be a big part of our strategy going forward. I don't think it means that Pedro is not getting money to spend, or is not going to bring a good few players in to improve the squad to challenge for the title. It's just realism. We can't just think in the short term imo, it's the same thing we've always done.

You're not allowed to draw parallels between incidents, apparently it's point-scoring...

Foderingham - 8 Hodson - 7 Hill - 8 Wilson - 6 Wallace - 6 Tavernier - 6 Holt - 5 Hyndman - 6 McKay - 4 Waghorn - 6 Miller - 7

It was a good performance, almost spoiled. We were much more direct and the interchanging between the front three was good. Emerson Hyndman was great. Our final ball and finishing let us down as per. Yet had we a defence we could rely on we would've won that comfortably. Even at 2-0 the game never felt safe due to our defence and sure enough they almost ruined it, though Toral is to blame at their first goal. We do deserve credit for pushing for a winner after Saints equalised, obviously it was exciting and a great way to win a game. I'd say this type of performance, doing basics, scoring two or three goals minus stupid defensive errors, should be default and the least we expect from a Rangers team. That's the level we need to be at every week at least. In fairness to the OP, it's a sign of how our season has gone that he felt last night was "almost brilliant." Last night was a nice moment for Murty, but hopefully that is the last game he is in charge for.

I thought that as well. Damned for turning up, damned if we don't.

You mean the midfielders he couldn't get in the team ahead of last season?

Not so much forgot him, but I was shocked that Billy Dodds was with us until 2003. Thought he'd left us years before that. Mind you, you'd never think he'd played for us if you listen to him now.

Agree with this. He was a decent finisher in the lower leagues but he had no all round game at all. His NI caps were based on the fact that he played for us and had potential. Fact he hasn't had a cap since 2013 speaks volumes. He's an Irish league standard player, he should get on the blower to David Healy and see if Linfield will take him.

I'd probably say no, but I'm sure he'll get in at some point. As for Weir, he's probably the only player of the last ten years I'd have no bother with including in the HOF. He captained us to three league titles. Guys a legend imo. Easily Smith's most important signing of his second spell.

Gael Bigirimana

I don't doubt you've read the rules, but the referee has applied them differently to you in this case, and all I'm saying is I can see why he did. I just felt you were looking in to it all a bit further than the situation really called for. There is an argument to be made that in going off the pitch and coming back on, he's gained an unfair advantage accidentally through losing his marker in doing so. I think there were reasonable grounds to disallow the goal. There were reasonable grounds to allow it as you've highlighted, but in this case I guess we're lucky it went our way. The Dodoo offside goal was another one that depending on your interpretation of the offside rule and interfering with play, could easily have gone our way on a different day.

There's pedantry and then there's that! If the referee saw him go off the pitch and come back on, then there were reasonable grounds to disallow the goal under the rule highlighted above. We could argue about the semantics of it as you point out, was Cowie intentionally trying to gain an advantage by leaving the park? But I think it's understandable if the ref/linesman thought he did. It's not inconceivable you could say...

The point is, he went off the field so therefore should have been out of the game for that passage of play. It doesn't matter if he was inside or not, he wasn't allowed back on the pitch. Otherwise he was gaining an unfair advantage.

Danny Wilson and Kenny Miller might have a chance of being in the 09/10 double winning team...