To Be A Ranger

aye he's been reading this thread and just found out there are rules about joint ownership, shares etc. Watch out for another "exclusive"

Scottish refs are incompetent shits. Too many think they're more important than the game itself.

Ach there's only a 10 pager in there. No harm in spreading the news elsewhere. Thanks for the heads up though. I'll start checking out the transfer forum before posting long long old news here.

From the Liverpool Echo (and if already posted somewhere else too bad. Im not apologising for it). Jordan Rossiter will leave Liverpool this summer with the young midfielder set to sign for Rangers. The 19-year-old Academy graduate is out of contract at the end of the season and the Reds will receive just £250,000 in compensation. The Scottish outfit contacted Liverpool on Friday afternoon to inform them that they plan to officially approach the teenager over a move to Ibrox. Talks will take place over the coming days but Rossiter, who has been free to speak to non-English clubs since January 1, is understood to be keen on heading north of the border. Rangers’ head of recruitment Frank McParland, the former Liverpool Academy director, is a big admirer of the tough-tackling midfielder and provided a glowing endorsement to boss Mark Warburton. Leaving Liverpool will be a wrench for Rossiter, who joined the Academy at the age of six and grew up in Everton Valley. However, he believes it’s the right decision in order to further his career. The England Under-19s international has been forced to weigh up his options in recent months with no new contract on the table. The Reds did belatedly offer him an extension but that was largely to ensure that they would be able to claim a compensation fee if he left. Clearly not in Jurgen Klopp’s plans for next season, Rossiter decided it was time to move on. Liverpool would have taken it to a tribunal if Rossiter had wanted to sign for another English club but under FIFA rules he can join a club outside of England for just £250,000. Rangers, who will be back in the Scottish Premiership next season, will be able to offer Rossiter the first-team football which eluded him at Liverpool. There’s the attraction of playing in front of 50,000 at Ibrox each week and possibly European football too. It’s been an injury-plagued campaign for the teenager, who hasn’t featured for the Reds since he pulled his hamstring against FC Sion in the Europa League in December. That was the only appearance he made under Klopp. Rossiter had long since been touted as one of the most exciting talents to emerge from the Kirkby Academy prior to Brendan Rodgers handing him his debut in a League Cup tie against Middlesbrough at Anfield in September 2014. Just 17 at the time, he grasped the chance with both hands as he became the second youngest goal scorer in the club’s history. A Premier League bow followed against Arsenal back in August and there were starts against Bordeaux and FC Sion in the Europa League. However, with injuries hampering his progress he struggled to force his way into Klopp’s plans and the away game against Sion proved to be his fifth and final first-team outing.

I didn't get any emails and didn't get any feckin tickets either

http://www.live-footballontv.com/live-scottish-football-on-tv.html BBC One Scotland / BBC One Scotland HD / Sky Sports 1 / Sky Sports 1 HD

Yes seems closer than what I was thinking (we don't get 26000 per game as I stated). Down the club then if my 'contacts' don't come up the goods.

With 37000 ST holders I can't get a ticket in any of the ballots. With redevelopment and even more ST holders I might as well give up (or maybe just tick the right boxes when I renew)

aye but each ST only gets entered into 1 ballot. 26000 tickets per game gives 52000 over the semi and final. 37000 STs leaves 15000 for CCCS and those who ticked the semi/final boxes. I take it we have more than 15000 CCCS and ticked boxes which means some of us get nothing over both ballots

How does this ballot work? Surely with 52,000 tickets available to us over the 2 games, every ST holder should have got the chance to purchase at least 1 ticket. There seems to be an awful lot of us who haven't been successful in either ballot.

Shame. Here's a wee tune for the dirty arabs

Well done Lee. You've had a great season

We've lost the will to win games

Yasssss! Well in Holt.

All the games since we won the semi seem to have been meaningless going by our from. Getting used to a lazy way of playing makes it so much difficult to up their game again when they need to. The whole team needs to get a grip fast.

He's only playing like the rest of the team has since beating the scum. Every player has given the ball away needlessly today and Miller is almost back to his headless chicken days.

Shocking defending. Wtf Wes.

149 out of 150 ain't bad

Fuck me that's awful. Bring back Supertramp. Nothing beats the original.

Who cares. As long as there's a daily Templeton thread it stops us wondering 'who is/was that man'

That's great cause it means I'll get one but it's not fair. All ST holders should be entered into the ballot. No one should be left out just because they got a ticket for the scum game.

Think he was in our club after the game.

Building for the future. There's room for all bears

But can you print off 30,000 for the final