Oddquine

I think that's me paid my two.

Think that's my two paid.

I've just paid for two via paypal.........at least I hope I have.

Nothing to do with having a leaning towards Rangers, Sneckboy...but I have always had a lot of time for Ally McCoist as a Scotland player, and have always thought he was a decent enough bloke...though I have no opinion on whether he was a good, bad or indifferent team manager. While I think wages in the top of the top divisions, world-wide, for players and management, are beyond ridiculous, Ally McCoist can hardly be blamed for a Rangers Board which appears to use Danny Alexander's calculator to work out club income and expenditure, and fail abysmally to balance both sides of the equation. I am horrified, but not at all surprised, that the Ranger's Board, from what I have read, saw fit to talk publicly about his wage for his notice year only, without mentioning his no-wage and short pay wage periods...it obviously suited them to make Ally look worse than he was.so they could pretend to be less bad than they are. Given the continuing spending levels at the club, the administration experience has, so far, not taught the Rangers board, and many of the fans, that you can't buy success forever. Too many Rangers supporters are more interested in maintaining their "biggest, best and most important club in Scotland because we are the most heavily indebted" tag, and feel they are entitled to always win games without giving any credit to the ability and application of the "diddy" teams.....and can't quite get the heads round the fact that the "diddy" teams haven't quite bought into their "we just have to turn up on the pitch to win, because we are Rangers" mantra. At some stage the Rangers will have to learn to cut their clothes according to their cloth.or they will be facing administration #2...and maybe then the SFA will actually do their job properly without doing a Westminster-style exercise of producing laws/rules/loopholes off the top of their heads on the spur of the immediate situation. Rules/Laws produced after the event tend to be knee-jerk, not properly considered and open to future abuse. The fact that Westminster, and time to time the Scottish Government does stupid doesn't make stupid the only way to go. (and I don't do Christmas Sherry.but will admit to a bottle of Fleurie!)

Not that I'm by any means a Rangers fan, and am happy to be contradicted,,,,,,,,but didn't Ally work, when the club was in administration for nothing, and then took a pay cut from his contracted wage for some time to help the finances? He will, in that case have spent a relatively small proportion of his time as manager receiving the wage to which he was contractually entitled. Seems to me that over the piece, if that was the case, Rangers did quite well out of him. Hardly his fault that the players, who were being paid, didn't do their jobs against "lesser" teams.

Punching above our weight, then, without England doing it on our behalf!

Just paid 2, I think, via the link in the reminder email. Let me know if I haven't, so I can find out where it went.

I logged into my paypal, clicked on send money and put in the email address provided....and the amount......sent it as to friend/family so I bear the transaction cost. at the end of the continue/pay bit, you get to the email notification to go to the punter and I put Flag donation from Oddquine on that. And now my fingers are crossed that I did it right! (works when I send money to USA)

£20.00 sent .

I'll add a tenner to my already promised one.

I'm in if I can donate via Paypal.

Thought I'd missed this. Put me down for two. I'll pay by paypal as soon as I find my wee notebook with my logins....I'm not inclined to do it tonight, but will dig it out tomorrow,

Welfare football is welfare football. I would have thought any ban would only be applicable if he was to want to play in welfare football in the next two years. Usually it is the team who plays an ineligible player who get penalised, anyway...if he was ineligible at the time of playing in the first place. But happy to be corrected if I have it wrong.. It is really hard to work out in which Scottish Football pies the SFA have their fingers, and how they all connect together and how each league affects the one above or below them anyway. I'd have thought that until a contract with a Highland League team had been accepted by the SFA, the player could play anywhere as a trialist....but maybe not.

Isn't that a shade racist? What is wrong with the bowels of the Scottish/Irish/Welsh League system.... or do you have no faith in the ability of Scottish/Irish/Welsh youth coaches to come across decent players that their own managements think are crap.....or are you just running with the fact that it looks rather as if Marsella only looks for players in English leagues so English players are the only option?

Don't see a link for donations from those who can't attend...though to be fair I didn't read to the bottom of your Facebook page. Do you have one this year?