well fan for life

Rangers fans piling out of the Cooper stand as Ainsworth's goal went in to make it 5-1 on aggregate made the whole thing even better than it already was.

What a great big laugh that is.

We've obviously struggled through a lot of this season but even when we won under Alexander it was horrendous. I hated watching us throughout that time. The worst football I've ever seen us play.

Honestly good question at this point. He was never very good but has barely kicked a ball in 18 months or so now. Got on for us in September for about 10 minutes, went to Thistle where he never played a minute. Honestly I kind of assumed he was chucking fitba all together.

I would imagine there's slim-to-no chance we'll ever get to see the data behind the responses but I do agree with you. What's the split here between active members who are contributing vs historical members who joined at the beginning but have stopped paying. And, as you point out, I've seen folk buying their newborn kids a Junior Steel membership which obviously rules them out of voting.

Surely that's the sensible option that's won there. It's not binding, we're not about to sell out to some dodgy owner who will asset strip us. The vote purely says that it would be considered. It's fanciful to suggest that some multibillionaire would just chuck us a load of cash without asking for anything in return.

For all he gets a lot of stick I thought SOD was class last night. A few really brilliant crosses into the box and he had one defensive header in the second half that was outstanding. He's not got the legs he had a few years ago but he's still a solid player.

That's a lovely cross and header. Fitba looks dead easy sometimes.

Aye. I wish there was more glare.

Casey's fucking hopeless. Incapable of following the player he's meant to be marking every single week. Kelly with another bit of shit goalkeeping too.

Looking at this team and listening to his pre match interview I can't help but think Kettlewell's hugely overthinking this.

I mean it probably would have been better if we didn't piss money up the wall on a video to do this but I get your point.

100%. The obvious compare is Lewis Ferguson at Bologna. When they were both coming through I would have said Turnbull was the superior player, but watching Ferguson strolling round Serie A these days is tremendous. Also Bologna's a fucking brilliant city. This video is also excellent on the Scotland YouTube channel:

So we're all looking forward to him absolutely cantering it in the Serie A?

I have totally forgotten where this came from but honestly I felt like I was being gaslit by a football forum.

I think the main issue is that he always lets the game pass him by. He can't hold the ball up to drag us up the pitch, he doesn't offer anything (regardless of opposition) to drag us up the pitch by his work rate. Do I have a personal vandetta against him? No. Do I think he's a complete waste of a shirt? Absolutely.

The 5 sub rule only benefits teams with the budget to fill a bench with quality players. With us filling the bench with either kids or terrible footballers it actively makes us worse if we use all 5 subs. I understood it during covid & just after but we should stick it in the bin now.

Me hearing people are ready to mentally check out of this season:

We had a good first XI on the park today but everything that came off the bench was fucking rotten. Butcher's looking like he's done for good, SOD doesn't have the legs to play RWB and Oliver Shaw is one of the worst signings we've ever made. Vale's work rate was a huge part of why we were so successful in the first half to go from that to Shaw who is both terrible at football and a lazy b*****d meant we had nothing that could drag us up the park late on. So we just sat deeper and deeper right at the end. A great idea for a team who, famously, are watertight at the back.

Wait til the cheque for the crematorium hits their bank account though.

Have we considered he has told us but it was lost in the 487 hours of interviews he's given.

The funniest thing that could happen here is Sam North buys the club.

f**k knows. So there's questions over the appointment of a CEO before investment, but there's questions as to whether investment would mean they appoint their own CEO. Clear as mud.