Alex MacLeod

Have rangers raised the bus fare yet?

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Where does 31st March come from. My understanding is that if a club is in admin at close of season they cannot compete.

I can see an opposite to whats been suggested happening. I can see similarities to Motherwell where all the higher earners are made redundant and the younger lower earners thrown in to the mix.

There's a lot of spin in the press and coming from Ibrox. They all emphasis the fact that HMRC have taken action for a £9 million claim for the last financial year. HMRC are not letting go on all the other tax dodging antics. They have to present a winnable case to the courts to force administration and that was the winnable part. Dont anyone be kidded into thinking the rest has been dropped. Whatever monies become available, and whatever deals are struck with the debtors you can be sure that HMRC will get the lions share and all others, including many struggling small business's, will get peanuts if they're lucky. Rangers will then come out of administration, albeit left with no more than a small squad of youngsters. They will have a ticket at least two european games. They will spend two or three seasons in the lower to mid half of the league then they'll stick the fingures up at those who've lost out and start to challenge again, possibly with someone coming in and buying a debt free club.

Dougal, I believe the size of Supporters Trust bus depends on the uptake of seats. Anything from A seventeen seater to a forty eight seat coach. The Supporters Club bus is always a coach. The experience of the travel is what you make it. Not staying in Inverness I generally dont use either, though I have been picked up at Perth on the odd occassion. Oh! and I dont think there's cake served every time on the SC bus.

We do actually have one of the better youth set-ups, run by one of the better groups of youth coaches in the league. It must be very frustrating for our coaches when they have to oversea the release of players because we simply cant afford to keep them all. We cant pay a full U-19 squad so we try and supplement them with younger players who are mere schoolkids. DD had a valid question and Oddquine answered as she sees things. DD's points were also very valid as he see's them. CD chips in with more very valid points. We can all put our tuppenceworth in based on what we know and see and none of us are wrong. I do support the point that if there was more information available regarding how things are with the youth and U-19 setups there would be little need to enter into this type of debate. The bottom line in all this is that if we want to stay in this league in the current economic climate we need to make sacrifices.

There are a lot of good points in what you say CD. I have'nt been an ST holder before due to work but, because I retire this year, I will likely go for one next season and I'd happily suffer the weather to stand in that area. I also think that a noisey north wing could generate a better atmosphere around the rest of the stadium. It may well be that many people who can afford a North stand ST cannot afford to go the bit extra to help fund this, and many others who cant justify a ST against the number of games they can attend, so I'd be inclined to suggest that, if the club agree in principle, we have some fund raising events, perhaps organised through the Supporters Trust and Club. Could we fund and fill two hundred seats in this area? I'd also suggest that, as a trade off for the funds raised, the club give the fans the wall that traverses the area for flags and banners. A red and blue brigade area to rival the evil twins as it were.

Latest News Rangers FC are in talks with Heart of Midlothian FC about a possible merger. Sources have indicated that the new club will have an even longer name than Inverness Caledonian Thistle. This new club will be registered as Heart of Midlothian Rangers Club (HMRC)

A week or two ago I suggested that Rangers would choose there time to go into administration. They are being very clever in this. Clever in the timing and clever in the expected outcome. There will not be a Son of Rangers club simply because Rangers will not die. Rangers held of to see where they would be in the cup competitions, they held of to build a decent lead on those below them. They have decided they probably wont win the league. They now have a few months to get their house in order and their debts reduced. I think Rangers believe that administration will put them in a position to compete in europe next season without having to pay all of their debt. The administrators will negotiate deals to reduce the debt. Players may be sold off as may some assets like Murray park to bring in the additional funds needed to clear that reduced debt. Come next season they will be out of debt and in a position to build again, with euro money to look forward to. Then they will either buy big and get into more debt or they will bring in people who will slowly build a new competitive team. And Whyte will walk away with his pockets filled.

Course he is......he invented the chocolate orange did he not?

Nine times out of ten if the attacker jumped over the leg of the defender he'd likely be in a position to score aka Jimmy Johnstone. As it is the attacker has usually made an erse of himself by losing control of the ball and feels the need to redeem himself by kissing the grass. Many players are extremely good at it but its still cheating and I would re-iterate what others have said in that it would put me of supporting my team. A team that feels they always need penalties to win games shouldn't be playing anyway.

For christ sake dougal dry your eyes. Its not a stadium that makes a team. Its not a stadium that gels players and fans. Its not a stadium that brings success. Its a heart and its a soul. This has to be the first time in all the forums, reports and blogs that I've ever read where a stupid playground debate like this one has come up. A classic case of na na na na my stadiums better than yours.

Grant Munro has gone. There are a number of reasons why. Reasons that all party's would probably like put behind them. The bottom line is Grant and ICT parted company and have both moved forward since then. Thats the way it is and the way it will always be and nothing can be done to change that. Terry Butcher is a professional and I'm quite sure, if it is merited, he will speak very positively about Grant as he would about any good performance. Its time some of the fans of our club stopped dwelling on what has been, could have been, may have been and looked to the future.

4 + two crossbars

Think we may struggle to make top six but I think we can take 15 before the split. Dunfermline Aberdeen Kilmarnock and Hibs all brought in a few players but there isnt enough time left for them to fully gel so I feel we can be above three of these. Kilmarnock seem to be foundering so maybe we can get above them as well. St Mirren blow hot and cold so hard to predict where they'll be. Dunfermline in my opinion will not move of the bottom.

Magic off!!!!!!!

Was that not sung by a group of school children a few years ago at the stadium

Pardon my ignorance donjo but why would you want to be saying no surrender Jonny Tuffey?

I would be surpries if Butcher was offered the job. I'd be even more surprised if he were to take it. Terry is nobody's 'yes' man so I doubt very much that he'd be able to work with the old school tie brigade that are the FA.

Well now they've got an excuse for Euro failure. Goes to show that the old school brigade that run the FA are still as thick as they've always been. Terry is innocent till proven guilty yet they punish him by stripping him of the captaincy. Capello speaks out. The FA hold talks and Capello 'resigns'.

Yes but how do you know you'll get that extra thousand bums? And the more people you have the more the cost to police them. Does it really though? Can we not just stay with the same numbers of police, if we are talking about lower half of the league teams. There have been police free SPL games this season, one involving us I think away to Motherwell? So we don't really need them at all! I dont think I've ever been to a game where there hasn't been some sort of police presence but its not so much the guys in chequered hats I'm referring to but the whole security and crowd control. I'm led to believe that there is a laid down ratio of stewards to crowd at any venue.

I've never heard a more ridiculous reason for sacking a manager. So it seems Livi have no ambition to progress up the leagues any further. They appear to think thaat they can sit where they are and operate a conveyor belt of youngsters that will make them loads of dosh. The big failing in all that is that the kids have to be good enough to generate the cash. Falkirk made some cash out of one or two youngsters. How many did they reject to find those. Hibs have also made money from bringing through a few players but some of them had actually been through the Newcastle system prior to reaching Hibs so between those two clubs they learned from a few top players and managers. Livi have no chance of employing the standard of coach needed to find and then develop the youngsters. At the end of the day if it was so easy to do I'd have thought that it would be happening for teams like us. Livingstone your aims will be your downfall.

Oh I live in the real world dougal. I have many friends and work aquaintances who are Rangers fans and who abhor the antics of the a certain faction within them. I've even been a guest at Ibrox and sat among those who are exactly like our own main stand brigade. Sit quiet and watch the game without noise. Blue tinted specs....No. I was brought up in Fort William as a Celtic fan. I was Celtic daft but had never been to Parkhead. Indeed the first time I ever had the chance to go there was as an ICT fan. As a teenager in the Fort I would go with some mates to watch Thistle from time to time and always followed their results while I was at sea and then after when I moved to central belt. While living in the Falkirk area I used to take my lad to Brockville. I spent many years of my life around bigots of both persuasions, especially during the years of extreme violence and know a hell of a lot more than you, someone who doesn't know me, seem to think I know.

If anyone knows your job Tug then they're bound to understand the committments you have to make in life mate. I dont think anyone could say you were any less of a fan of our club. Besides did you not parade the Caley Jags colours in front of the Regimental colours in Basra. Up until, and including our relegated season, I would be at a home game every time I wasn't away. Sadly, price increases and no wage rises dictate that I can no longer do that. Am I any less of a fan?