Scottish Premier League News 2011/12

[sid]

Fcuking Cnuting Sheep Shaggers...

can u hear the ANIMALS sing .............noo,noooo,
can u hear the ANIMALS sing ................noooo,noooooo,can u hear the ANIMALS sing ,i cant hear a fcuking thing

RF come meet me uncle from bodenstown ................he would like to hear what u have to say about the RA

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[Rangerforever]

Hey Sidney - Let's bury the hachet so here's a wee xylophone presie for you.


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[Captain Shamrock]

Well........what a week for Rangers. Today's loss in front of 17 000 and change is probably the positive from the week.....McCoist knocked out of 4 cups already.......if there were more I'm sure it would be more. Still have a chance at the league, which is obviously the most important...........Meanwhile, Celtic role into the quarter-finals after a handy 2 - 0 win at ICT, which is always difficult.

Mark Walker
February 6 2012 12:01AM

Ally McCoist’s increasingly miserable first season as Rangers manager descended into full-scale crisis yesterday as Dundee United deservedly knocked the home side out of the William Hill Scottish Cup — their fourth cup exit this season.

After a week from hell for the Rangers manager where the Ibrox owner, Craig Whyte, had told McCoist he would have to challenge with the squad he had, despite the £5.5 million sale of Nikica Jelavic to Everton, United proved what most Rangers supporters — and probably McCoist himself — already knew. His present team isn’t good enough. And that was clinically exposed by an excellent United side yesterday.
Rangers will now have to fight it out for just the Clydesdale Bank Premier League title — where they already trail Celtic — if they are not to end the season empty-handed. McCoist has now led his side to defeats in the Champions League, Europa League and Scottish Communities League Cup — and now the Scottish Cup can be added to this roll of dishonour.

:rofpmlsl: STOP STOP I CAN'T TAKE IT!

Rangers were rank rotten yesterday and rarely at any stage threatened their very comfortable visitors from Tayside.
United were fantastic, though. They broke at speed, used the width of the pitch and counter-attacked superbly. It brought them two first-half goals from Gavin Gunning and Johnny Russell and, in truth, they could, and should, have won by more. This was no fluke, far from it. While all the attention will be on Rangers’ shortfalls, nothing should detract from the brilliant display of Peter Houston’s side.
United did have the ball in the net as early as the third minute, but Jon Daly, the captain, dangerously slid into Allan McGregor, the Rangers goalkeeper, and the referee, Willie Collum, had long since blown his whistle by the time Russell had tapped the ball into the empty goal. But the visiting side looked threatening in the opening stages and Daly and Russell twice went close before McGregor had to push a long-range Paul Dixon effort wide. Rangers should have taken note.
The warning signs were there for the hosts and it was no surprise when United took a sixteenth-minute lead. Rangers twice failed to clear crosses swung over and Gunning powered a header into the net from Gary Mackay-Steven’s excellent cross.
As you would expect, Rangers were stung by this and it took a fine save from Dusan Pernis to keep the Tannadice side ahead after a fine piece of play from Sone Aluko had bamboozled Gary Kenneth and the former Aberdeen player’s volley was well saved. The Slovakian did even better midway through the first half when he dived full length to push away an angled drive from David Healy.
But United continued to look a real threat on the counter-attack and their width was causing Rangers all sorts of problems as was perfectly illustrated when they doubled their advantage in the 35th minute. Dixon surged down the left, combined with Mackay-Steven before the full back threaded in Russell in far too much space. The highly-rated attacker — a target for both Old Firm clubs (or half of them

) — then showed just why as he clipped a super finish past the exposed McGregor.
Rangers were a shambles, demonstrated no cutting edge and were deservedly roundly booed off at the break from a less than half-full Ibrox crowd, who had been stunned at what they had just witnessed.

It wouldn’t get any better for them. McCoist acted at the break by hauling off the one player that Rangers did bring in during their miserable January transfer window, Mervan Celik, and replacing him with Salim Kerkar. Celik could have no complaints, though, as he was utterly ineffective on his first start for Rangers.

The home side wasted little time in launching an all-out attack on United with a couple of quick corners at the start of the second half, but United showed no sign of yielding. And that flurry soon petered out.
And worryingly for Rangers, United still looked a real threat on the break with a nervy looking Rangers defence struggling to cope with the likes of Russell and Mackay-Steven.
When Rangers did come forward, they found that United players swarmed around Aluko, their main threat, en masse which completely nullified his threat. So unimpressed was McCoist he hauled his main striker off after an hour and replaced Healy with Andrew Little.
Quote:

Tactical prowess there from FPLG - Hmmmm Aluko's getting no change out of united - better get that puddin' Healy off!

For all Rangers’ huff and puff, it was United who blew a great chance to seal the tie in the 65th minute when Kenneth found himself in time and space after a Daly header had spun up, but the giant defender headed straight at McGregor.
Then Daly himself nodded over from ten yards with Rangers in disarray. Their efforts were summed up when an increasingly frustrated Aluko ran out of ideas and thumped a shot from 30 yards that cleared the bar by about that distance too.
Kerkar did come close with a snapshot with 20 minutes left, but Rangers had long since run out of ideas and the only noise from a eerie Ibrox was from the visiting band of delighted United fans.
Those fans celebrated loudly at the final whistle and the few Rangers fans who stayed to the end had only remained to voice their outrage at the performance of their favourites.
For a team that prides themselves on their “No surrender” policy, a Jelavic-less Rangers appear to have indeed surrendered any hope of salvaging anything from what has turned into a desperate season.

 

[johnnybluenose]

"A Shambles" is an understatement.

 

[sid]

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[lll]

johnnybluenose;"A Shambles" is an understatement.[/QUOTE]

Celtic went through this before McCann stepped in to save them, although not to the same extent money wise. The most suprising thing to me is 17000 fans at home to a premier team in the cup. After beating Hibs 3-0 the week before without Jelavic I'd have thought the supporters would have been a bit more patient. If the fans bail now it will get a lot uglier.

 

[Rangerforever]

The most suprising thing to me is 17000 fans at home to a premier team in the cup.

That to me was the most embarrassing.
How the fcuk is it going to get better with that kind of attendance?
Tragic.

 

[heanjob]

That to me was the most embarrassing.
How the fcuk is it going to get better with that kind of attendance?
Tragic.

Agreed. Seems like the fans feel like Mr Whyte has sold the farm and is going to be the only one who prospers from Rangers tax troubles.

 

[Rangerforever]

WATP = Where Are The People?

 

[Captain Shamrock]

Celtic with a 4-0 pumping of the minis..........at Shitecastle.

 

[cside17]

Due to the eviction at Dale Farm the travellers have been offered an alternative site at car park of rangers football club. Furious at the thought of dirty, thieving, in-bred, illiterate tax dodgers living right on their doorstep, the travellers have turned it down

 

[Rangerforever]

With growing speculation over his position at Ibrox, Ally McCoist is considering a better paying job with Sky.
A spokesman for Ally said he may consider the offer, even though he has never put up a satellite dish before!

 

[Captain Shamrock]

Ah'm guessin' this is no' happnin'?


Monday January 7,2008
By Andy McInnes

RANGERS will become the first club in Britain to build a stadium boasting a retractable roof and hovering pitch.
The new Ibrox – which will cost £280million

– will be based on Japan’s Sapporo Dome, Holland’s Amsterdam ArenA and Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium and is part of a £750m village development earmarked for Govan.

When complete in 2012,

it will generate millions of pounds every season for the club to buy top players and be more competitive with Premiership clubs in the transfer market.

Supporters will virtually be able to “raise the roof” of the new project, as it will open and close depending on the weather and functions being held inside the auditorium.

The blueprint

allows for football and other sports to be played around the clock and with the pitch capable of being rotated in and out of the ground itself, rock concerts and other major events can be hosted without any damage to the grass.

Giant heaters and air conditioning units will ensure spectators will be in a constant comfort zone and matches will never again be cancelled because of under-foot conditions.

Talks are at an advanced stage and funding is in place

for the six-star

stadium, which would become the second-biggest club ground in the UK after Manchester United’s Old Trafford.

A capacity of around 70,000 is planned – 20,000 higher than the current full house, 10,000 more than at Celtic Park and 17,000 above the limit at Hampden.

Last night an Ibrox insider

revealed the project could start within 18 months

with a two-year build programme anticipated.

He said: “This is a very exciting and ambitious scheme which will totally revitalise the area.

Not only will it benefit the team, and the club in general, but the whole south side of the city will be transformed.’’

 

[Rangerforever]

Real sad today.

 

[johnnybluenose]

I'm no money man like you RF.

Has Whyte used Rangers as some sort of tax escape? I'm not fully at grips with the reality of what the Beeb and the papers are saying...

He essentially bought the team, by assuming Murray's debt and the risk on the tax case. Is he playing chicken with HMR&C and using Rangers Cultural Institution and Support base as leverage? Is that what he's at?!

 

[Rangerforever]

That, or he's gambler.
He's a corporate raider by profession I think.
He plays the stock market so I guess that does make him a gambler...

The debt to the tax man is estimated at over 50 million quid.
Much more than what anyone of us likely were expecting.

Maybe he took a flyer, it failed, and now the safe way out is to go into administration now.
Selling Jelavic at 5.5 when we could have got 7 (rumour) also shows a panic sale IMHO.
We take our hit now and possbly get to remain in the SPL next year?
Maybe if he waited, and say we we finish middle pack next year, then lose our points, we could go down to the 1st Division and that would have been a long road back for us?
What are the points deducted? 25?

Don't know what to think of all of this either...

 

[johnnybluenose]

10 points for going into admin.

honestly, not that I'm waffling on Rangers, but I've totally checked out of the SPL for a while now.

It's just utter pish from a football perspective, this is just insult to injury

 

[cascadesoccer]

I've never really followed the SPL enough to get into it, but from an outside view is there a point in having this league, when its just a constant battle for 3rd place? No one ever comes close to Rangers or Celtic.They're the only two teams to EVER win the league since its inception in 98. Just move them to the EPL already.

 

[johnnybluenose]

If they'd moved to the EPL they (Old Firm) wouldn't be in financial hardship from year to year, not that Celtic's hurting hust now, but they have in the past... Them moving to the EPL alone would kill the SPL and likely scottish football league structure full stop.

Just because it could save Rangers and make Celtic more money doesn't mean that it would be a good thing to do.

Plus a while back Gers and Celtic could've competed with the Prem teams, they'd be releagation battlers if they were just dropped in there now.

 

[johnnybluenose]

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