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The one positive for me is that we don't have McCall going on about how great Rangers are and how we'd need to play well and hope they have an off day for us to get a result. Baraclough, at least talking to the media, is much more upbeat about putting on a performance against a hostile crowd. Like McManus said in his interview yesterday - if you don't look forward to occasions like this, maybe you need a different career.

He won 4, drew 2 and lost 3 of his last 9.

I expected him to say what he did, because it seems pretty clear he isn't sacking anyone. Time will tell if that is an accurate read.

Not at all. Your argument is that a million is not only a trivial amount, but secured by an asset worth much more. If that's the case, why did it take Boyle so long to find someone to buy the club? There should have been a queue of people (including people like yourself) ready to make such an investment based on the huge leverage opportunity. All that risk free return on investment - it's like printing your own currency. Or maybe (just maybe) you know nothing about business and were spouting bollocks.

So given the value of this asset, why didn't you borrow a million from the bank and lend it to the club? Presumably the bank would have been delighted with the security you were offering, and you could implement all your great ideas on how to run the club from top to bottom.

Then I'm guessing you don't remember how it felt the last time we were relegated.

Yes. The owner already has said as much.

Highly unlikely the police would allow that.

Wonder if all these fans will still be in their seats if we go 3 - 0 up on them by half time on Sunday.

Don't sweat it. The only people that care are NewRanger's fans. The rest of the footballing world will be joining us in laughing at their pathetic whining.

It was Jack Nicklaus that said he always loved to hear other golfers complaining about the condition of a golf course they were about to play, because he knew they were already making excuses in their head and wouldn't be challenging him that week. It's great to hear all this in the media, and McCall pushing the line of "we are tired because we've played extra games" because it means they are not as confident as some would believe. Let them keep moaning and let us use that as motivation to beat them.

Rangers player, still employed by Rangers, writing a pro-Rangers article in the Daily Ranger. Not even worth discussion.

Given the quality of the email that was accidentally sent out a while back, I'm not necessarily sure this one is a phishing attempt. However, it should be pretty easy to find out by checking the full header details (and, of course, calling the club).

Stuart McCall might still have the password he used to send out his club emails...

Couple of nice pieces from the Times.

You're not going to the the game then, presumably.

The more I read this thread the more it feels like a regular poster on the wind up. Well played, whoever it is.

That was the Old Rangers fans. The new club's supporters are completely different.

It's good to have guys like Pearson and Skippy in the team - guys who have what it takes to perform at Ibrox and love nothing more than to stick it up them. Hopefully that experience will rub off on the other players. But you're right, the league table doesn't lie and there have been many games where we just haven't turned up. If we lose this, we can't say we're one of those teams "too good to be relegated".

cricfree.tv is one site that works reliably for me in the US for all the BT Sport and Sky Sport streams. No installs required. I'm sure there are others too.

Well, let's pump them so we are guaranteed SPFL football next season. We all know the sudden league reconstruction won't keep them in the Championship.

The club can't evaluate every single request for a ticket on a case by case basis, though. When there are less tickets than there are fans, there isn't a fair approach. It's impossible to please everyone, and a few deserving cases will always be disappointed. Season tickets, however, at every club in the country (and probably the world) are sold on the basis that the holder is granted access to every home game. That's one of the selling points, and they are always advertised that way. You can argue if it's fair or not, but it's certainly clear.

I have some sympathy with the 4-4-2 dilemma. We have proved over the past few seasons that we are pretty useless at any formation that involved Higdon or Sutton as a lone striker, and Skippy doesn't really suit that role either. I don't think Baraclough underesitmated the level of football in the SPFL so much as not realising how poor we were. He likely thought a team that finished 2nd the prior season couldn't be that bad. The guy has had a lot to deal with, from being handed Black as an assistant to a complete restructuring of the club from top to bottom. Not to mention having to bring in a large number of players to integrate into the team with zero time. His hit rate there isn't too bad with Laing, Johnson, Pearson, Skippy and Grant (when he plays in centre mid) all having fitted in pretty quickly. Giving Dom Thomas and Erwin more playing time was also a bonus compared with McCall's attitude to blooding youngsters. Would love if it those 2 made a big impact in the play off.

It's lose - lose for the club though, because there just isn't a fair way to allocate such a limited number of tickets. It's not fair for people who can't travel to stand in line, and it wouldn't be fair for people who stand in line for 3 hours to lose out to someone who just picks up the phone and secures one.