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I think we'll get a crazy number of goals this season in the last half hour.

These guys just don't have the fitness levels. Some of them were night shift last night!

Yup.. Under Big Jock Wallace..we won many matches in the last 20 minutes. Fitness.

Nobody encapsulated that school of management better than the late Jock Wallace, one of Rangers' greatest managers. Wallace was a chillingly hard man with a granite face, an even stronger will, and a voice that rarely softened from its default growl. His army background shaped so much of his management. Wallace was stationed in Northern Ireland and the Malay peninsula in the 1950s, engaged in jungle warfare and surviving by eating what he called "monkey steaks".

Wallace's militarism was such that his dressing room might have been a scene from the film Full Metal Jacket. Gary Lineker recalls a reserve game at Leicester when, at half time, Wallace threw him against a wall. Leicester were 2-0 up. Lineker had scored them both.

His most famous act at Leicester was to introduce a gloriously sadistic form of pre-season training. During his time at Rangers, while having a picnic with his wife, Wallace stumbled across the sand dunes of Gullane, jauntily entitled "Murder Hill". He made his players run up and down the hill until they could run no more – and then he made them do it again.

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I think we'll get a crazy number of goals this season in the last half hour.

These guys just don't have the fitness levels. Some of them were night shift last night!

Yup that's a good point actually. I expect most of these teams will come roaring out of the paddock as their adrenalin levels will be pumping, but eventually fitness levels should tell and we should get ten ... Ok Four or five will do ;)

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Matthew Lindsay ‏@MattLindsayET

Banner unveiled by the Union Bears at Ibrox. It reads: "Welcome to our world Ian Black. No one likes us we don't care." #rangers

Was just reading the replies to that post- all Celtic fans.

It's actually laughable.

Cracking banner though.

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