DeeBairn

What was the cost breakdown between the academy and the dev team, not seeing/seen that anywhere?

Maybe I am Hartley? Nah, not really. By the time he was shitcanned I was as done with him as anyone else.

Hiya buddy.

I think the point was made to let people know that although players that came through the academy were sold for money, most of that money was used to pay for the academy. Second place or ninth is the same with regards to getting up in this league. We'd all rather be second, don't get me wrong, but it still didn't get us up. Morton haven't been paid anything, the compo was for the hairy tramp.

Clandestine, aye? How do you know that it wasn't your own chairman that let it slip and he's now feverishly back pedaling to cover his arse. Or someone else at the club that called us? And is it actually illegal for an employee of a club to discuss the contract he has signed, unless there is some sort of non disclosure agreement around it? You simply don't know what happened. None of us do, and the silence from Cappielow is becoming deafening.

I'll happily call bollocks on the whole thing until Peat names names. This is press distraction from all the ex Rangers players that are away to get reamed from the taxman. It's a random fucking thing for anyone to suddenly give a shit about, unless there's an agenda behind it.

To be fair, Branch Ton would wind himself up in an empty room. I know, I'm one to talk. #headsgone.

We'll let it go when you all stop on about the potato famine. And the other lit forget about the boyne.

We had a great plan, then for some reason the board left it in the hands of this fella and fucked off for the summer. Unconfirmed rumours that Ray has been seen running around with a pair of pants on his head and pencils up his nose.

Left back incoming!

We could get an entire defence out of that list. Shame we can't to them as a swap deal MacDonald would be a great signing. We'd get 60 Minutes out him then bring on Froxylias for the last half hour.

I'll take every one of them. Which is a sad I dictment of our recruitment.

I reckon we should replace the entire board with a tombola machine full of random management ideas. At the end of each season, we pull out enough balls to make a mission statement, and that is what we go with the next 12 months. We might end up replacing all match day staff with squirrels and only playing players older than 40. But it's a more coherent vision than we are likely to get.

We'll, to be fair, 352 is a 532 with a slightly different set up. A 4321 is a slightly different 4231 or 451. Point still stands, if you've tried both of those, and played around with them, then you've tried at least 6 different formations and set ups. So if it's not the formations and the players are OK..?

If you've tried all the formations, then it's not the formation that's the issue.

Currently being applied at Rangers, apparently.

Don't be bringing rational statements in here, this is a football forum. Thank for actually bringing a sensible answer in, not that it will deter any Morton fan. Rae has probably shut up after taking legal advice. Or he's realised he made an utter fanny of himself.

It's probably not, given that your chairman has publicly stated what he thinks the outcome will be. Given the public statements he's made, any competent lawyer would get a case tossed before it made it to a judge.

There's nothing else happening in their part of the world. It's really that simple. It's been implied, if not outright stated in regards to Sammut being at Chelsea. He's not going to play in the first team, so he's surely just filling a jersey, yes? And the boy that's gone to Rangers. Until such time as he's in someone's first team, we don't know what he's doing. He may or may not have a great future. I said that he may well have been in the reserve team to fill a jersey because of injuries, instead of merit. I got shot down for it, but I've yet to see anyone prove the contrary.

That's is a priceless statement from you. Really is. Bizarre that youth coaches responsible for coaching a player would feel that he was a great player. Really is. Wouldn't at all be putting the boot into the club that binned them.

Silly me, keep forgetting that every academy in the land is only filled with players of the highest caliber. Nobody gets released and there's never any wastage or players hanging around riding out contracts. We've never moved players around to fill a jersey, and neither has anyone else. Thanks for clearing that up.

Good for you. Not say g it was a great decision. But it's done now. Was poo ting out that the hooha over him playing a reserve game has been blown way out of proportion. Christ, even when we had a good academy squad, half the players who played reserve football were average at best. Yeah. Again, was my point. Look at our current mess. We should be chasing them over the state of the first team, not distracting ourselves over what an academy player may or may not achieve.

Of course they do. Are you suggesting they run with an academy of 14 players and drop reserve players down to make up the numbers?

Your chairman has what evidence that we induced Ray to break his contract? To get compensation from Falkirk, that will have to be proven. Even then, there won't be points deducted. You're pretty much becoming a fixture here. Nobody wants you here though. A bit like the Morton thread. And every other thread. And no, I'm neither angry nor raging. My heads not gone either. You however, are tedious beyond words.

Nice bit of whataboutery there. Was does that prove? How many academy players do clubs the size of Rangers have? They need a set number of players to fill out squads, training sessions and the like. The fact he is an academy player means they feel he might have promise. Can't believe after everyone saying that Sammut is a jersey filler at Chelsea, we've now gone the other way and are saying this guy is great because he's got a jersey at the Rangers academy and has played a reserve game. If he makes a lot of appearances, and gets on the bench for a league game or goes out on loan, u til then there's literally nothing to see other than a club signing a young player to fill a roster spot in a youth team. Has it occurred to anyone that he was likely filling a jersey due to injury or similar, or are we just off on another f**k the board rampage.?