I’m told that Sevco were deadly from the penalty spot today against St Mirren.
Indeed, match reports indicate that the home side really unlucky not to score more.
Undoubtedly Mr Gerrard will be happy that his team can create such clear cut chances from 12 yards.
It bodes well for the title run in that they can call on such creativity when it is needed.
Mr Gerrard will be happy that he did not lose his star striker Alfredo Morelos during the recent transfer window.
However, despite the breathless coverage in the mainstream media, there was, in the end, no offer to turn down.
Of course, we’ve been here before.
Now a cynical person might conclude that this knicker wetting stenography during January was designed to elicit a bid for the cash strapped club, but I couldn’t possibly comment.
My information was that there was “a conversation” between a lower end EPL club and Sevco about the player.
However, a loan deal with an option to buy would not have gone down well with the Ibrox klanbase.
Moreover, a proposed fee of £3.5m rising to £5m was well short of the fantasy price tag that had been fed to The People.
One player who did leave the premises was Jordan Rossiter, on loan to Bury.
No harm to the kid, but he was weighed down from the start by the hype when he arrived at Sevco.
Although much was expected of him, little journalistic scrutiny was applied to his injury profile at Liverpool.
he was even gushed about in the Glasgow media as “the new Steven Gerrard” when he arrived at Sevco.
There are other players who Mr Gerrard clearly does not rate and they are still there on substantial wages.
I would be difficult to overstate how distraught some members of the Sevco High Command are at the fact that Morelos is still on the payroll in February.
Had he departed then the acquisition of Defoe on a lengthy loan could have diverted the attention of the Ibrox klanbase.
Now the bloated wage bill is substantially bigger and Mr Gerard has to accommodate two strikers into a formation that usually only has room for one.
Given the current tensions between the new and the old at Murray Park, I would not be surprised if a new WhatsApp Group emerges.
As for acquisitions, as opposed to loan deals, Jordan Jones and Glen Kamara do hint at preparedness for future austerity.
This is certainly a novel idea for the current regime in the Blue Room.
Moreover, it might be required if General Ashley patiently awaits his moment until the season ticket money starts to flow into the Ibrox coffers.
That would be a particularly awkward time if he were to launch his legal divisions to attack the Sevco car boot sale operation.
In the aftermath of the heroic triumph of the tribute act today it is worth recalling what happened to the original Rangers.
Despite having friends in low places Rangers still self-destructed.
The lesson from their death in 2012 is that a hubristic sense of entitlement can be a fatal disorder.
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Until our Club stands up and challenges this rigged game ….Scottish football will be rotten to the core. Steve Clarke is to be applauded for his comments… but until Celtic FC does likewise….we deserve everything we get………….someone needs to grow a pair.
Stand by for the usual suspects crawling from their dark holes to throw their full support behind Son Of Dallas.
The Lanarkshire Referee Association will be out in force, past and present, to hail one of Fleming’s love children’s performance.
Following Beaton’s horror show, which anywhere else in the football sphere would have seen him sacked in disgrace, Dallas does his best to pump up the goal difference.
Such is the panic to stop 8 IAR that these decisions are being made in broad daylight with absolutely no chance of the culprits facing any consequences.
Instead, like Beaton, they are lauded in their Rangers pubs and the ludges.
I fully expect the 6 point gap to return today thanks to the efforts of Brendan and the team by taking the refs decisions out of the equation but there will be other games down the road which are tight and the result could hinge on an officials decision, or non decision in Beaton’s case.
I wonder whose got the gig for Pittodrie on Wednesday night?
Madden has the Dons game on Wednesday night.
Waiting with bated breath to see Sportscene’s analysis of the Ibrox penalty kicks yesterday.
Thought the tackle on Christie was a stick on pen and in the incident where Edouard was hurt that would have been a 100% free kick anywhere else on the park.
Also in the same melee watch as Christie is kicked across his chest by a Saints defender, again missed or ignored by Collum.
How is it possible that after years under Fleming’s tutelage not one single competent referee has come through the system?
Maxwell really should be clearing out the nest of vipers at Hampden if he was his own man but those who thought that have very quickly realised that it’s same old, same old.
Interesting that GDC with a floating charge over the stadium want a say in how it’s run and the SFA plan to buy Hampden is at risk because the SFA know best when it comes to the welfare of Scottish football and they are not prepared to let anyone else in on their magic circle.
Bobby Madden ex ibrox season ticket holder.
Are the photos of Mr Dallas junior celebrating his achievement in his local (loyal) pub available yet?
Sevco 2012 – they DO love to set a new record.
The ‘ stattos’ out there May know better but apparently this is the first time the same team has been ‘awarded?’ 4 penalties in the same match in Scotland’s top league.
Still no sign of Mr Collum anywhere near a Sevco match …. not since ‘ra club’ said “there were underlying issues” and the SFA fined them 3 days of Penas wages and told them “their referee roster would not be influenced”.
I said on the day of the ‘statement’ that we would not see Collum officiate (not in the middle anyway) at another Sevco game this season.
So far I’m spot on – instead he’s got Celtic at St Johnstone today…..
As for Mr Beaton being kept away from future Celtic matches ? I very much doubt it.
It actually probably doesn’t matter who officiates at any matches now. The agenda has clearly been spelled out to them all….
Pro Sevco decisions and anti Celtic decisions ( errr sorry honest mistakes) will be the Modus Operandi for the rest of the season.
This will apply to cup games also.. the SFA may have given the hot and cold balls a miss so far… (well it was rather obvious) but they know they have much more powerful medicine when it comes to subversion.
Now I wonder who will be reffing the Cup game at Rugby Park? MrDallas Junior must be a cert.
I see and hear the usual ‘clubs must do something’ clamour …
‘Time to stand up!’
‘Boards must act for fans ‘
‘Things must change’
Etc etc… and all valid of course.
I will expect absolutely nothing.
And now today Celtic get the incompetent ‘Slick’ Willey Collum with the whistle and Right Wing Tory MP Douglas ‘Red Card…Red Card’ Ross on the line!!! By the minute it becomes more and more of a joke!!!
Andrew Dallas was the referee I believe. As they say, the apple never falls far from the tree.
Or the orange
Rotten apples especially
This is proof positive,if it were needed,that ‘Operation Stop The Ten’ is already well underway.
This tactic also gives that lot hope of European football,so it’s not only to stop the ten,it’s a way of keeping the lights on and limping onto season 2019/20.
The LRA are a closed club,to undesirables,if you’re a CFC🍀 fan.
In ‘Anyone But Celtic’ it states that,for admission to this invitation only club,you really need to be a ‘brother’ and if you’re also in the O.O.,well,that’s an added bonus too.
Think on this,would a closed club of referees,say All chelsea followers,well,do you think that for a nanosecond that they would be permitted to officiate over ALL games in the English Football League,far less All games in the epl.Of course that would never happen,this is only permitted in Scotland,and the fact that it has been going on so long that fans have come to expect it!! NO CHANCE NO MORE…
This is just farcical that Our Own Beloved Club is effectively sanctioning these disgusting habits and barefaced cheating to persist by continually doing NOTHING ABOUT THE FARCE.
Said it before and I’m saying it again,the fans of all clubs have to make their respective clubs sit up,listen and then do the right thing.This has been going on way too long and HAS TO CHANGE.
It is well beyond a CFC🍀 and sevco thing,as All clubs will suffer to a lesser or greater degree.
They should be rooting for CFC🍀 and change as they All picked up a decent wee bonus due to the windfall awarded due to last seasons CFC🍀 European exploits.But that’s easily forgotten when you’ve blue tinted lenses on,faulty blue tinted lenses.
Thanks Phil,I saw the first penalty,or non-penalty would be a better description.Saw what way it was going and ignored the whisper of commentary from my phone.It was sevco tv commentators…
Again thank you for your insight,the collective We would be that bit less well informed if it weren’t for you and I thank you for that,HH🍀
Andrew Dallas is on track to have a rangers supporters club named after him.
Rest assured he’s never bought a round of drinks in his pub ever!
Always nice to see family traditions continue.
Daddy Hugh will be ever so proud of his boy today 😙
Today was a travesty, not just for St Mirren but the whole of Scottish football and neither the ref or Slippy had the dignity to blush. HH
Apparently the ref ‘supervisors’ in the Ibrox stand were pissing themselves laughing as Dallas pointed to the penalty spot time and again.
No doubt a top marks report for Son Of Dallas will be on Fleming’s desk on Monday morning.
He and Beaton will be vying for the Scottish Cup Final gig, no doubt.
Please, please Specsavers, pull your sponsorship now. The SFA is dragging you through their muck.
It’s no longer funny, nor ironic, that a company that punts eye ware sponsors the men in black, most of whom appear to have eyesight problems on a recurring basis.
What about contacting Messrs Maxwell and Fleming and get the officials in one by one to test their eyesight competency.
If they all pass eye tests with flying colours then at least we have eliminated one of the possible reasons for their incompetence and we can tick that off the list and look further afield to identify why they get it so wrong, so often.
Brings memories of the fud Barry getting two penalties in three minutes 🙊🙉🙈 ☘️HH