Official Rangers FC Thread

TheRangersFan wrote:I wonder if they'll move the final to a bigger ground if we get to it.

TheRangersFan wrote:The away kit is quite nice too.

Jelavić7|EFC wrote:Why do you even post articles like that? It's quite evident who they're coming from. Websites that your fans forums use as your bible. Will I start posting articles from Rangers blogs etc? The biased bile is clear for everyone to see, stop kidding yourself. Everybody knows the truth.

Your fans are so obsessive, you should start taking note of your own team.

PS. In that link to UEFA that you posted ... we're still 13 co-efficient places above you.

Mal wrote:If they're a different club then why do you Celtic fans post in here for a reaction?! They have nothing to do with Celtic if you see it that way.. You're contradicting yourselves, unless you constantly go on East Stirling forums and remind them about their club..

The Maestro wrote:I only remind them they're dead because they pretend to everyone they're the same club and haven't been liquidated. They're desperate for it to appear as if nothing has happened and it's ridiculous that we have to prove to them that they've been liquidated

TheRangersFan wrote:

The Maestro wrote:I only remind them they're dead because they pretend to everyone they're the same club and haven't been liquidated. They're desperate for it to appear as if nothing has happened and it's ridiculous that we have to prove to them that they've been liquidated

Good point man, well made.

TheRangersFan wrote:
Sky Sports understands Rangers are eyeing a move for Birmingham midfielder Morgaro Gomis.

Rangers are believed to be in the market for a new midfielder and Gomis is thought to be on Ally McCoist's wanted list.

Gomis is currently on the first-team fringes at St Andrew's with his only appearance coming as a late substitute in the Capital One Cup win over Barnet.

The 27-year-old made his name in Scotland after a successful spell with Dundee United between 2007-11, helping them win the Scottish Cup in 2010 before joining Blues on a free transfer last summer.

McCoist is thought to be a fan of Gomis and sees him as a key addition to his side as he looks to rebuild his squad after a number of departures this summer.

Blues boss Lee Clark could be willing to let Gomis leave for the right fee as it would free up funds for him to strengthen the squad elsewhere.

Jelavić7|EFC wrote:

New 3rd kit

SFA chief Stewart Regan has revealed that league reconstruction is still being planned for next season — in a move which could see Rangers fast-tracked to the second tier of Scottish football a year ahead of schedule.
Regan will kick-start plans to revitalise the professional game on Thursday when a working group, featuring representatives from the SPL and SFL and headed by an independent chairman, are tasked with devising a new structure.
The exact model is yet to be determined but the starting point for discussions will be proposals for a 16-team Premier League, with two divisions below, which would give the Ibrox club a quicker route back to the top flight should they navigate their way out of the Third Division as expected.

This plan, which included play-offs and a fairer distribution of income among the leagues, was overwhelmingly rejected 25-5 by SFL clubs last month as part of Regan’s botched bid to parachute newco Rangers into the First Division.
The SFA confirmed at the time they would push on with a reform agenda, amid widespread scepticism that it would ever see the light of day. But Regan insisted on Wednesday that a new league system will ‘ideally’ be in place by the start of season 2013/14.
He said: ‘We have a meeting on Thursday and the plan is to put a working party in place to come up with reconstruction proposals that can be implemented ideally from next season.
‘The joint proposal put forward (in July) was not something the SFL wanted to take forward but reconstruction remains part of the agenda for Scottish football.
‘The (SFL rejection) was accepted because it’s a democratic process and now we move forward.
‘The SPL and the SFL will take new proposals back to their respective members and it will require a 75 per cent vote from the SFL and an 11-1 vote by the SPL to vote change through.’
Meanwhile, Regan would not be drawn on whether Rangers owner Charles Green will face fresh disciplinary action following his latest outburst towards the SFA, in which he accused them of persecuting the club.

But he called on the outspoken Yorkshireman to draw a line under his ongoing war of words with the governing body and suggested they were purely designed to sell season tickets.
Green is up before the SFA next week after suggesting bigotry was at the heart of his club’s banishment from the SPL, while manager Ally McCoist also faces a charge relating to comments about the organisation’s judicial panel in April. ‘Charles Green has his own reasons why he’s making the comments he is,’ said Regan. ‘But it’s clear Rangers have galvanised their fans behind the club and sold a huge amount of season tickets.
‘They’ve used the situation to get the fans behind them but it’s important for Scottish football that we move on now and restore focus on the football itself and look forward to league reconstruction and helping produce good young talent.’
Regan also admitted the Scottish game was in a ‘better place’ than he feared when he famously claimed that Rangers’ demotion to the Third Division would lead to the ‘slow, lingering death of Scottish football’.
But he did not regret the rhetoric which prompted calls for his head.
‘I think we have to move forward,’ said Regan. ‘We are in a better place than could have been imagined in terms of the negotiations between the SPL and its commercial partners.

'I’m not sure the contracts have been signed yet but the feedback about those renegotiations have been positive. We will have to wait and see but everyone is doing their best to move on and try to build a stronger game.
‘Do I regret some of the language? I think at the time, the information put forward by everyone was based on knowledge we had of the get-out clauses that existed in contracts for commercial partners.
‘What was done at the time was to draw attention to potential consequences for the game and that has now been progressed to a stage where those contracts are in a slightly better place.
‘But we don’t know what the consequences will be until they play out in the coming months.
‘The greatest opportunity for the game right now, in terms of revenue, are discussions with UEFA to secure income for international matches between 2014 and 2018.
‘All 53 nations have given UEFA a mandate to negotiate centrally for the sale of television rights across Europe.
‘If that can be delivered successfully, that will give us a substantial boost of tens of millions of pounds over a four-year period and we’re confident that will happen.
‘That money would help underpin the infrastructure of the game and the development of young players.’