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Dave King needen't worry. The Sevco have already spent, spent, spent, to romp 'Div3 and Div2'. In some respects I understand what they did. Big club dies in liquidation, and their new clone club attempts to look and act just like the dead one - so not much in the way of humility, learning from old mistakes, or assembling a team on a budget more suited to the new club's actual situation. No Siree - the new club acts like they're still big shots... You can see the thought process in every director/manager/spiv's head... Must. Act. Like. Rangers... Must. Keep. Up. Appearances... Must. Get. It. Up. Celtic... Fcuk. The. Lot. Of. You... Which brings me to the part I do understand. Signing guys like Daly, Kyle, Shields and Law etc. Undoubted 'SPL' players to play in Fizzy Pop 3? It was the only way to get 50,000 bums on seats, and my God, haven't the spivs needed to rape that 50,000 for their cash. The spivs would never have sold STs in the numbers needed if they'd signed (with all due respect) Gareth Wardlaw or Paddy Cregg types - who, allied to their old heads and kids would still have won Fizzy 3 mind you, but that wasn't Rangers style, so it sure as hell won't be The Sevco's style either. Anyway, bit harsh to have a pop at the Sevco when Gretna did exactly the same thing - threw cash at certainly Div1 standard players, and a couple of SPL standard players to rape the arse out of part time postmen and shop workers on their rampage through the leagues. Look how that ended up for Gretna though, eh Sevco? So, aye, I understand their thinking on that front - need to fill Ibrox or it is game over without even passing 'Go' and collecting £200 - but the rest of it? The manager's truly astounding salary? The spiv's truly astounding salaries? The hotel stays, the rest of it? Were there actually any staff compulsory redundancies anywhere in the organisation? Happy to stand corrected if there were. The spivs are ripping the pish out of it. It really is tough on those decent, genuine Sevconians who supported the dead team, and are slapping on their make-up every day and cheering for the newbies like they're the old club. These guys actually DO deserve better - unfortunately, their idea of the 'better' they deserve is signing 12 million Tore Andre Flo's, signing Laudrups and Gascoignes, getting it up Celtic and rogering Barcelona in the Champions League. They will never learn. It's not in their nature. Gretna Mk2 or whatever you want to call it. It's inevitable unless in reaching the top flight, some utter madman buys into them in a Vincent Tan style and they can go off on one all over again. Tick Tock!

As tender as your arse once Ally's finished with you.

A couple courtesy of @jailender and @Groundtastic 1987 v 2013 1990

Subbuteo stadium of every young boy's dreams...

Yes, it was a good line. He also opened the door for me to talk about my favourite subject. It actually represents progress for him. Last week he was calling me a c**t and meaning it, for the heinous crime of quoting a newspaper article in a discussion of Dean Shiels' wages. He's also right of course. I am indeed frequently bewildered by everything in this entire saga. If Bendarroch has a firm handle on it all, then I'm not only impressed, but once more bewildered not only by how he manages it, but also by how convincingly he conceals it.

Never a Scottish League ground, but an interesting story from Edinburgh. In Victorian times there was a gasworks between the Royal Mile and Calton Hill. It closed and on the site a football ground was built - notably used by Edinburgh Emmet Juniors. Big crowds were attracted, courtesy its city centre location. In 1926 it was compulsory purchased and turned into the corporation bus garage, latterly the Waverley underground carpark. A few years ago this was demolished, and after much legal wrangling is to be used for the 'Caltongate' development. Today the site is bordered by: the Royal Mile (S); Council HQ beside Waverley station (W); East Coast Mainline (N); and Canongate kirkyard (E). 'Tight' fans used to watch for free from the curve of Regent Terrace on Calton Hill. In those less PC times, it was known as the "Jews Gallery". Incidentally the Motherwell? team bus which got jammed under a railbridge recently did so at the foot of New Street, between the gapsite and the council HQ building. Edinburgh Emmet were successful Juniors averaging 2000 in the years before they lost Bathgate Park (named after a bailie - councillor - who helped them obtain the gasworks site).

I realise there may be a few reasonables like yourself TK but the majority lapped up Whyte, grovelled for Green and were completely hypnotised by Ally and Walter whenever they were wheeled out to rally the troops. There was simply no avenue to have someone like Wallace (assuming he is what you think he is and I am reserving judgement on that) installed. Why? Because the old cheaty club, spawned a brand new equally cheaty club. The SFA and SPL did contortions to please and accommodate anything that wore blue and whistled the appropriate tune. They should have stepped in, they should never have allowed, Whyte or Green anywhere near Scottish Football, for our sake and yours. The only disgrace bigger than the death of the old club is how the new club were accommodated. Just mind boggling. It looks like this will come back to haunt them. Same old ludicrous spending, same old ultra-arrogant "sink us or we'll sink you" attitude, same old out of control bigotted fans. The opportunity to have a shiny new club, well behaved, contrite, enjoyable for you ordinary blokes and a positive influence in the game up here missed. By miles. So if and when the wheels properly fall off again it'll be you and the band of decent rangers fans (said through gritted teeth) that suffer. But in terms of collateral damage I am afraid the numbers mean it is well worth it. Sorry pal. Blame Murray, blame Whyte, blame Green, blame Ally, blame Walter, blame the sycophantic idiot majority of your fans. But save a healthy chunk of bile for Reagan, Cockwomble and co. They totally shafted you, by not totally shafting the old/new/borrowed blue mess that appeared post CVA rejection. The best thing they could have done was suspend the club for a year. Cowards.

Tom English is very-much one of the good guys and writes intelligently and articulately abut rugby too. Sure, some Rangers fans have issues with him (but then some Rangers fans have issues with everyone) but I think he writes well and cogently. Tom (seeing as you're bound to have an account here) take a trip to Buckinghamshire and allow me to buy you a pint.

Same here actually, not being a resident of the finest city on the north east they used to be a fairly regular sight, down my way. But they are like wasps in October now. Only the really grumpy, big, fat ones left, for some reason still buzzing about, lost and just waiting to be put out of their misery

Fats Domino - Ain't That a Shame

Austerity measures? Where? Carnoustie hotel? In his previous appearance, did he not attack the over-spending? That guy really is just an attention seeking pillock. I really hope he does eventually tale over, guaranteed to be a fun ride.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Saw the Glen Sannox correction of Dave.J, wasn't sure, googled it and now has a wee patronising joke type post IMO.

I don't think there's anything that could give you an intellectual boost.

It's ok the folk on the roof were all sitting down. If they stood up the stewards would have been all over them.

That view of Arthur's Seat in the background is class. Edinburgh is tremendous.

I suppose that if his beloved RFC go bust again, McCoist now has the option of committing suicide by jumping off his wallet.

McCoist: 'But it's my job to give our players the best opportunity to perform': resign then you fat useless f**k! Incidentally Rangers were staying in the same hotel when I got married there. What a bunch of thick fucks that Dutch contingent was. Bert Konterman couldn't work the ice machine and Fernando Ricksen couldn't work out which way the patio doors opened. I asked Mols if he was up for an autograph - his face was a picture when I then signed my name and handed it to him. My best man even got it into his speech. Thick fucks then, thick fucks now, thick fucks forever!

hotels 4 u 'anything for you cupcake' advert.

Robin Trower - Shame Of The Devil

When do we start to panic? I know we're only out the playoff position by goal difference at the moment but we could realistically find ourselves down in 8th place if results go against us this weekend. It's all very annoying when you consider how good we were at the start of the season and we did have a decent gap between ourselves and teams below us. I appreciate that Murray and the board are not wanting to go all gung ho with transfers and that there are probably players on the radar but the lack of activity is a bit of a worry. The return of Watson and McGurn may just allow us to finish in a more respectable position. On a more positive note I see we've shifted 1400 tix for the Hibs game. No bad going when you consider our average home support so far this season.

Do it! I'd watch it. Imagine if it went viral and you got a job out of it. Make it like "Thomson's holidays to Barcelona (picture of Barcelona), New York (picture of New York) and now... Kirkcaldy! (Video of you dressed in mascot outfit on cold, miserable day on rubbish-strewn Kirkcaldy sea front, striking a pose, with your thumbs up.) "There's lots to see and do!" (You dressed as the mascot on one of those little mechanical car things that they have for kids outside supermarkets) "Locals famed for their friendly nature!"(You hold out ice cream to wee boy who promptly starts greeting) "Experience the local culture" (You dressed as mascot standing outside job centre with your thumbs up) "Architecture to rival Rome" (You dressed as mascot in front of those big flats with the creepy drawings on the side. With your thumbs up of course.) "And a staggering nightlife, that'll BLOW you off your feet" (Striking a pose next to a tramp who is eating a chippy under the soft glow of the orange streetlights. He tells you to f**k off.) Ends with "Kirkcaldy - Europe's number 1 destination. Book now so you don't miss out... See you there amigos!" (You in front of Starks park doing a stupid pose with your thumbs up. In the background is a disgruntled looking family who are all dressed on holiday clothes - sombreros, beach balls, vibrant shorts and flip-flops and that - as the video ends they can loudly be heard proclaiming 'well this is fucking shit')

It was the White City stadium. The other one was The Albion dog track. St Anthony's junior ground is also in the photo to the left of the gasometer. Tinto Park (Benburb) was close by but not in this photo I'm sure. Prob out of shot to the left.

Aye? How tender? FFS

remember, i did say, "...putting the cart before the horse..." i have, yes.

Not seen them anywhere either. Although you must say that in recent history there has been a pretty robust system of quickly silencing charlotte and removing inconvenient tweets. The threat and weight of the meedya hoose seems to be ever present. Notice a lot of fuss and bother down south regarding offensive tweets at Stan Collymore. Seems easy enough to bring the might of the world down on an anyone not aligning with the communication strategy of cheatco. Saying you are going to murder a guy coz he is black, not so easy to deal with apparently. I agree that the immediate vanishing of anything charlotte puts up is a pretty good indicator that it is credible. I mean if it was all just bullshit you could hold it up for ridicule like legoland and the great Speirs buying ruski twitter followers bullshit from Chris Graham. What a sad, sad state of affairs he is. Nonsense usually manages to discredit itself.

You think I read every tedious offering on this constant stream of shite? I'll quite happily read it if you point it out to me - I simply haven't read the email/s you refer to.

This became apparent sometime around, oh, shall we say August 2012? FYI, email is a form of electronic communication, widely used by the younger generation to replace traditional pen-and-paper letters, which they wittily refer to as "snail-mail" in a reference to its slower speed. HTH.

What email? I don't know wtf you're talking about.

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Correct. And I'll keep posting this as its the funniest of the art since they died

I say we keep playing our youth and see where it takes us this season. Players like Laidlaw, Callachan, Vaughan and Donaldson can all improve together with game time. These players mixed with the likes of Cardle, moon, Elliot and Anderson should have the basis of a solid outfit. Us as Rovers fans just need to be patient. Falkirk did it with their youth players, let's get right behind ours.

Today marks the 30th anniversary of working here in this job.. I don't know whether to smile or cry...

Forget it Jake; it's Chinatown.

It's inevitable IF you get the tribute act back to the top table and to the outside world it looks like 'Rangers'. I simply do not believe that a Sevco Franchise cabaret act poncing around in five kiddy-on starred shirts will do anything less than vastly out-spend sensibly run diddy clubs with the tab being picked up by Carol Vorderman and Ocean Finance. This will comfortably see the 'OF' cartel in one-two positions for another 25 years, with the tribute act doing a bloody good impersonation of the dead club. That's IF the Barron Knights of Scottish football actually make it back to the donkeymaster's corrupt ring. Reaching the top table is not so clear cut at present. It's one thing paying mercenary SPFL whores a relative fortune to brush aside part-time posties and mechanics, with a two-faced useless cnut of a manager's failings hidden behind the relative strength of the Sevco squad in comparison to wee rivals... Won't be quite so easy from now on in, not with cuts being demanded and further speculation about the Franchise's ability to keep the operation going with all the five-star pretence... Hotel stays that is, not kiddy-on shirt embroidery. So aye, I fear for what the Ibrox Impact Globetrotters XI would become back in the top flight... But I'm not so sure the road to that top flight doesn't have some juicy insolvency and implosion events lurking tantalisingly around the corner from Mar Hall's luxury spa. Tick tock, etc.

When pundits, commentators etc. say stuff like "The Zidane's, Suarez's and Messi's in this world...." Using their names as plural makes no funking sense

In league matches, which is all that matters now: Chris Higgins 6 (and will now miss the Livingston away match) Paul Burns 4 Kevin Holt 4 Stephen McKenna 4 Mark Durnan 3 Derek Lyle 3 Iain Russell 3 Ryan McGuffie 2 Derek Young 2 Danny Carmichael 1 Kevin Dzierzawski 1 Ian McShane 1 Chris Mitchell 1 Michael Paton 1 6 bookings = 1 match suspension.

He might be a bit of a beast and a weirdo but he deserves kudos for his invention of a time machine. #respect

Who is your manager, david brent??

It was a nothing story. Given that Gascoigne was friendly with Keith Houliston and stayed at the Nith a few times and we then had Goram it was easy to put two and two together when nobody had even considered adding them up at the time. What probably happened is somebody said "I wonder if Gazza would consider finishing his career here" and it grew arms and legs. Certainly I've pretty sure nobody ever actually spoke to Gazza about moving here and we didn't "miss out" on him.

He was signed for us. He was a registered amateur at the time but Brannigan didnt sign him is the point.

Well as recently mentioned in the thread, Rob Lee is the obvious one. He was spoken to about a possible move by Iain Scott and did come to training one night but it didn't go any further. Can't recall if he then signed somewhere else or just retired. I may have forgotten someone but I'm genuinely not conscious of any major signings that we got close to but didn't make. McCall tried to sign Carl Finnigan from Newcastle but he went to Falkirk instead and had a half decent career in Scotland. He was still with Dundee last season wasn't he? No idea where he is now. There was a Newcastle winger Iain Scott nearly got in on loan too but he ended up going to Carlisle instead and had a few years at a decent level. Name escapes me at the moment though. We also nearly signed Ian Harty at some point. I think that might also have been Iain Scott's time. It was before he went to Hamilton. I suspect that was a lucky escape though.

Nowhere near it. Gavin signed for us the first time in September 2007 as a 14 year old after leaving Rangers youth set up. He left to join Carlisle about a year later but re-signed for the youth set up in March 2009 at 16 when Gordon Chisholm was manager, though he had nothing to do with the youth set up. It was Andy Irving who brought him back in I think. He's been with us ever since, though he was loaned to Gretna for most of the 2010/11 season which was Brannigan's full season in charge. It was MacPherson who first signed him to a full time first team contract, though he had previously made his first team debut under Brannigan before that loan spell at Gretna.

1. Brian McLaughlin (freedom of contract from St Johnstone) 2. Chris Scott (free agent from Sunderland) 3. Tommy English (free agent from Partick Thistle) 4. David McNiven (freedom of contract from Leigh RMI) 5. Craig Samson (Loan from Kilmarnock) 6. Paul Hilland (free agent from Berwick Rangers) 7. 8. Billy McDonald (free agent from Stranraer) 9. David Craig (free transfer from Ayr United) - A "joker" signing back when you could only sign two "jokers" per season outwith the windows in their first year of existence. Anyone remember that rule? 10. Derek Lyle (Dunfermline Athletic) - The 2nd "joker" 11. Richie Barnard (free agent from Aldershot) 12. Steven Bell (free transfer Dundee United) 13. Alex Williams (Loan from Morton) 14. Stuart Lovell (free agent from Livingston) 15. Chris Carr (free agent from Sheffield Wednesday) 16. John O'Neill (St Mirren) 17.

Ok, next challenge. Iain Scott was appointed Queens manager on 4th May 2004. He was relieved of his duties on 31st October 2005. In between the two he made just 17 signings for the club. Can you name then? Ground rules These are "new" signings only. It does not include persuading existing players to re-sign. However, if a player left the club for a period and then came back then they would be counted. Scott's total includes (I think) two players who didn't actually play a game for us, although he gave them professional contracts. It also includes two loan signings. So 15 actual signings and two loan players. Fire away.............