WeeJim

£50,000 fine and a suspended ban (should they do it again) is what I expect. Banned from competing in next years competition and a large fine should be the absolute minimum punishment doled out.

The clues in the name "The Goalie". Kennedy and McCloy is as far back as I go seeing them in the flesh rather than film but from watching loads of black and white clips of old games I'm strongly of the opinion that old football was shite. Modern boots and balls, better surfaces and better tactics and, on average, fitter players to me means faster balls coming to the keepers. I might be talking shite but to me that's one of the reasons Goram has no equals from previous era's.

Seen it happen in two different places I've worked, both of them now out of business. All you need is applicants with a base level qualification for the job, in her case her HND, and a hiring manager from the "same background" and a workplace can go to the dogs within a year or two. The good workers get pissed off and leave and the replacements get hired based on background rather than ability. The real question should not be why was she sacked or was it right to do it, it should be why was she hired?

Fuck Stubbs, I hope his team rot in the lower leagues for years to come. Ideal scenario for me is Falkirk, QoS or any other team in the league outside Raith Rovers & St Mirren to turn it on in the play offs, keeps HIV's down and send Motherwell to join them with Dundee Hibs getting automatic relegation. Next season another couple of the usual first division clubs to go up and another two of the scum clubs to go down. That and us turning over the unwashed is my dream, fuck them all.

This. Plus the departing loans. I think Law will get a new contract if he's not greedy, Shiels maybe, Clark, Templeton will go along with Ball, Zelalem, King and probably Forrester. Couple of the younger guys might go too like Walsh and Murdoch. Squad won't get bigger but will hopefully get a lot better, with the two pre-contracts already signed I think he's looking at 4 on top of that and maybe another depending who goes and who stays, I won't be surprised if a couple coming in are loans. I'm not expecting big money to be spent and I don't really think we need to spend it. It's a continuous development thing

We had enough to win before this window. On the face of it, even though they've signed 4 or 5 players and punted 1, are HIV's really that much stronger than they were? After all they are the only real threat. I don't think they are. The terrorist supporter will bust a gut to fuck us over through sheer hatred and I'd expect him to pick up some goals but it's not like they've signed Messi. On to us, up to the signing of O'Halloran I don't think our signings have been better than what we had in the first team already but have been decent signings to give us better cover off the bench. I'm not convinced Forrester will be good enough to stay beyond this season but he's well worth a punt and is effectively a sub replacement for Templeton, with possibly McLeod being a longer term thought for that. King is probably a sub replacement for Clarke, who I'd expect to get even less game time now, or Oduwa. O'Halloran is really the only player we've signed who I think will be a regular starter so our front three will come from McKay, Miller, Waghorn and O'Halloran as first picks with one getting dropped according to form, injury or whoever Warburton thinks will do the best job against whoever we're playing, the rest of the team will stay the same if everyone is available. In my opinion between Forrester and King we probably don't need one of them so I'm guessing King's here in case O'Halloran didn't make it. I don't think we're greatly improved either but we have better cover so we are stronger, in terms of difference between us and HIV's there's little change but if anything I think we have done a little better than them. Real shame we couldn't pick up a good defensive midfielder as I think that would have completely killed off any threat there was and given us a better chance in the cup but considering most of the games we play will be against packed defences the extra depth we've got up front now should comfortably see us over the line in the league.

He should never have been allowed back in and this time we need to stick with it, he was given a second chance and he chose to abuse it. I take it this ban is the same as the last time, the individual rather than the corporation, so if they choose not to send anyone else ..... good. Their choice and suits us just fine.

I think it's the nature of being a wing player in those days that you were kind of a 1 in 3 player, plus when you had the ability he had you made a rod for you're own back as you were the one everybody was looking to. If the team was on song it's set up for players like that to shine like a beacon but if it's one of those games that's a bit of a dirge or the conditions are poor that's the position that's most likely to suffer. It amplified any quiet games you had, if someone else dropped 20% in performance they'd get away with it largely unnoticed but if you're the skill in the team, if you're Cooper, it's more noticeable.

Interesting that no-one at all has picked Zelalem, what with him being the guy touted to have a big future. Totally agree, I wouldn't pick him either. Wouldn't pick any of the new guys either until I had seen what they could do and they've had time to train and get with the program, we don't even know if the manager has bought them as first picks or as potential to phase in if things go right. The only slot I feel is wide open right now is one wide player.

Do journalists, and I use that term loosely, expect someone to just gift us multi-million pounds? King and the three bears included. Fact is we will be surviving on smallish drip fed loans until we can get to a position where a big share issue can get a lot of shares to the people the board want the shares to go to to bring in bigger money. In the present form these loans are not that big a deal as no-ones expecting anything other than shares as repayment and I could be wrong but as it stands right now don't the board only have power to issue a certain amount of shares? All loans are not created equal and the fuckwits in the press know this, they just choose to ignore it. I'm not expecting a fuck ton of money to go into the club before next season and I'm not expecting crazy money to be spent on new players, in my opinion those that are heavy touting the need for it are just playing a long game setting up excuses to keep slagging off the board or the club. Last year we were talking about realistically taking 3-4-5 years to be properly challenging the unwashed and I think we're a bit ahead of that. It won't take that much to be ahead of the diddy clubs next year but it might be a rougher road through the season to finish there than we'd like. Season after we'll be looking for another jump and hopefully by then a lot of the background court shit and dodgy deals will be sorted out. It's a long hard road and we're making our way down it well so there's no point kidding ourselves on it'll be anything other than that if we want to get back there in a sustainable way.

He played an hour in the first two games and was a late sub in the third and has been broken since. Looking at that as pure stats then he scored one goal in something around 140 minutes of play, look at that another way though and he was the weakest player on the park in both the first games then got dropped because he was shit then bruised an eyelash and hasn't kicked a ball since. Every time he comes back from one of his many many injuries there's some calls to give him a chance because he has potential to be a good player and every time the same thing happens, he gets a game or two as a sub to try and bring him up to fitness, he looks weak and out of it but occasionally scores a goal then he gets a broken flask and is out again. You can blame Ally for some of that as the full squad looked weak and out of it but at the end of the day we're carrying him and we can't afford to do that.

These threads can keep going on and on but when it comes to the crunch we're going to keep the words we've used for years..... for the most part. Some folk will sing a variety of other words or nothing at all for that line but most won't change. If you've got the police next to you sing something else or cover your mouth but next time we play the paedo harbourers at home can you even imagine anything else getting used by the majority? Not going to happen.

Bang on summary. Wank club. Cheated to get a man sent off today and got a result last week through bad sportsmanship at a drop ball. My dream end to the season is Falkirk pumping Hiv's and Motherwell in the play offs and Dundee Hibs going straight down.

If they hadn't cheated us down to ten men we'd have really pumped these spoon burning cunts.

Trying to think of a way to articulate my thoughts on this without becoming a target for FoCUS Maybe just leave it.

He started with basically fuck all due to prior mismanagement, did a good job to buy in a team in one window that's still sitting, albeit not by much, at the top of the league. I don't think it's realistic to ask for much more so far given that scatter gun buying rarely if ever gives you a success with every signing. I reckon he hoped we'd get through the season with the business he did at the start but he's now had half a season to watch what he bought and what he inherited and to find out strengths and weaknesses. Some of the youth he hoped to bring through have probably not shown enough in training so far to make him think they can cope without help. The team he bought have probably needed the game time they've had to prove to him whether they were up to the job or not and what they've shown is they're not good enough to carry the youth he hoped to introduce. Realistically for the job he's had to do he's done fantastically well, what he does now will tell us how good he really is and how much backing he's really got from the board. He's been saying he needs to bring in experience, solid players, that's what I think will actually give the youth more of a chance rather than putting them further down the pecking order. In my opinion we need a decent striker who can cover the left or a decent left wing type player who can provide a goal threat and we need a solid, experienced defence minded midfielder who can, if we're lucky enough to find one, cover for right back. He still gets his lean squad but we have enough quality and experience to actually use the youth as competition for some places.

Foderingham Tavernier Kiernan Ball Wallace Law Holt Halliday McKay Waghorn Miller Zelalem, even if fit, should have no more than a bench spot and Oduwa the same. Neither seem capable of playing with the kind of urgency we need and either try the glory pass too often or just piss about with no end product. If Law gets fucked then sub for Zelalem. Tavernier needs better in front of him than Wallace, because Wallace is a better player and Tavernier's been toiling pretty much since McKay got swapped to the left so I'd play McKay right and Miller left and tell Miller to work his balls off and plan on lasting 60 mins max, give Oduwa or Sheils the last half hour depending on the score. If we play to our ability we'll beat the junkie cunts but we need to stop pissing around passing balls in the centre on the edge of the 18 yard box and we need to have a thought to what happens if a pass gets intercepted. Too often right now we'll try those passes or run straight into blocks and make the other teams defensive job too easy for them.

I used to work in a printers doing artwork to get printed on clothing and we also dealt with embroidery. Wasn't a huge company so they were not exactly buying in bulk either but they could buy stock, pay overheads like half a dozen staff wages and the rent on an industrial unit with offices plus equipment and consumables and punt out decent quality Polo Shirts and T-shirts under a tenner and still make a profit. Granted they did it to order so didn't have to worry about unsold stock but I still think a tenner costs on a t-shirt to sell at twenty quid sounds a bit high. Also the cash isn't going to the club, it's going towards buying shares which they control through their members votes. You're not giving money to the club by buying this stuff you're giving money to the RST to buy a bit more say in how the club is run, if they use the money how they say they will. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that and if you're happy with that then fill your boots but it is quite an important distinction. If the club make enough shares available to them they'll buy from the club and the money will filter through, but if the club is limited in how many shares they can sell them due to just being able to offer new shares to each existing shareholder on a percentage basis then they'll have to buy shares elsewhere when they become available. In that scenario nothing goes to the club. It's all too open to the possibility of abuse with no real way of knowing exactly what the club gets from it. I just think it's not anywhere near as altruistic as it's made out to be, If they were saying buy this gear and we'll show audited figures to prove profits and then we'll gift these profits to the club then I'd struggle to see a reason not to back them. As it is though... No.... not for me.

He decided what his part in our clubs history would be so fuck him. None of them deserve the honour of playing for us ever again, least of all him as he was the one that owed us the most. Every one of them would have moved on for a fee had they signed over, he saw a legal way to get out quick and make himself a few quid and he can live with it. To be honest, knowing how the majority of the support feels about him I'd be amazed if he ever actually wanted to come back.

This. I think it's been about ten years since I last bought a paper, before that it was every day on my way to work the same as most folk. It just got to a point though that you're reading it and knowing that it's all pish so whats the point. Newspapers are not for reading news they're for reading someones opinion on the news or for reading little stories they've made up because they have nothing else to write about or are trying to engineer something to write about for the next few weeks to keep themselves busy without having to do any real work. They're for giving yourself something to be angry about. Fact is there's not that much to write about, not enough to fill a paper on a daily basis, so if they stuck to actual news and acted like proper journalists only a fraction of them would be in a job and you'd only get a paper once or twice a week when they could collate enough stuff that actually happened. People however want to buy a paper every day and they take that as people wanting to pay for their opinion, that their opinion is valued and they're fighting the good fight. They use that false impression to feed their own ego and the idea of their own self importance just grows the longer they get away with it. Journalism at the standard level is no different from the likes of the Digger or the shitty women's mags with the Jeremy Kyle type shite passing for stories. It's always been poor but with social media, bloggers etc widely distributing actual news almost instantly print media is more and more having to rely on sensation or engineered stories to have a place in the world. So no, it's not a witch hunt it's them knowing that everyone wants to read something that is in some way connected to Rangers so engineer something to write about and they've filled their week, throw a negative slant on it and they'll either provoke a reaction to write/talk about or if not at least there's something to sell papers to the haters. It's low but as they're basically shit at their jobs and lazy it's all they're capable of.

Why now? It's not an anniversary, there's nothing to add to an old story that's been covered a thousand times. I could understand if he was approaching it from a new angle or telling some unwritten side to the story or had an interview with someone new as a backbone to the piece. But no, nothing like that, basically just a pointless cut and paste job by a pointless waste of space. Amazes me anyone would want to pay him money for his "work".

That would be a real shame if it turned out that way. I wouldn't be overly surprised about Murdoch if I'm honest, when he went out on loan I figured he'd need to really impress to make Warburton want to keep him as there's other guys his age doing better in the squad but I really liked the look of Walsh and would love to see him get a bit of game time.

When he was at his best earlier in the season McKay was playing a lot more on that side and I think that's making a difference.

Great to see him getting some game time. Anyone been watching how Murdoch has been playing at Cowdenbeath? Be interesting to see what happens when his loan is over. Does Warburton feel he can progress both of them?