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Judging by these quotes, John Guidetti may just be the most excited footballer on the planet right now:

“I’m just going to work my socks off…. do my absolute very best…. give 100%.

“The one thing I hate more than anything is losing. I can’t stand it.

“For 90 minutes I am always giving everything.

“You can always expect 100% from your players and I’m going to give that [note the repetition of this assertion].

“I promise I’ll do my very best to do even a little bit of what [Henrik] did.

“Football without fans is nothing, it’s not worth it for me.”

There is a common theme across a few players who joined this summer, they have something to prove.  Guidetti, Mubarak and Tonev each had a difficult time last season, for varying reasons.  They need to hit the mark, whether it’s through form (Tonev), fitness (Guidetti) or simply being able to play in an environment which is remotely normal (Mubarak).

Scepovic is different.  He arrives with the wind at his back, but the prevailing attitude at Lennoxtown should be one of hunger. I suspect this contrasts starkly with last year’s arrivals.

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  1. tully57 on

    proudbhoy,

     

     

    I envy you my bhoy….

     

     

    SanFran is a beautiful city.

     

     

    Try John’s Grill….not far from Union Sq…great grub and famous for being a setting in The Maltese Falcon.

     

     

    Enjoy!

  9. Margaret McGill on

    What is the Stars

     

     

    01:02 on 6 September, 2014

     

    Me neither. Its astonishing no? Whats more astonishing is that Ogilvie is still SFA president.

     

    A CQN’r ..marakesh..forgive me..cannot remember his name summed up the whole malaise earlier this evening with a historical perspective pre Lawrence Malborough.

  10. Billy Bhoy on

    squire danaher

     

     

    correct – there are “those and such as those”!

     

     

    I know 3 people who have never NOT got a ticket for ANY game home or away.

     

     

    Fair enough, if you go all the time that seems fair, I suppose.

     

     

    It;’ just the “illusion” of “ballots” that gets to me.

     

     

    We all know that it’s crap!

  12. squire danaher on

    What is the stars

     

     

    Succulent lamb!!!!

     

     

    not a link but I have the article. A Daily Record special.

     

     

    November 19, 1998

     

     

    SECRET FEAR THAT DRIVES ME TO WIN;

     

    10 IN A ROW: Rangers chairman David Murray opens up on the

     

    highs and lows of his decade in charge of Rangers and

     

    promises that the best is still to come

     

    Exclusive James Traynor

     

     

     

    RANGERS owner David Murray doesn’t often allow his true

     

    feelings to surface, but currently he is finding it difficult to

     

    disguise a pain which has been gnawing away inside since the

     

    end of last season.

     

    After a period of almost total dominance of Scottish football

     

    during which Rangers racked up 17 trophies the club met with

     

    failure.

     

    Celtic won the championship and the League Cup and Hearts

     

    beat Rangers in the Tennents Scottish Cup final, leaving Murray

     

    with nothing to show for a massive investment in time and

     

    money.

     

    Even now he winces when he thinks of that season, but it is the

     

    vivid memory, and the pain of defeat with which he now suffers,

     

    that combine to drive him on.

     

    Last night as he looked back on a decade as Rangers’ owner –

     

    come this Sunday, the 22nd, it will be 10 years since he paid

     

    Lawrence Marlborough pounds 6million for the club – Murray’s

     

    desire to avoid the miseries of another barren season could not

     

    be disputed.

     

    To hear him speak was to listen to a man who believes himself

     

    to be charged with some kind of great and mighty mission.

     

    Murray, who chose to talk only to the Record about his dreams

     

    and ambitions for Rangers, said: “No one should doubt that

     

    Rangers are the biggest club in the country, but I know that talk is

     

    cheap in this business and that we will have to prove just how

     

    big we are.

     

    “That doesn’t really bother me because as long as I am able to

     

    influence this club we will be the biggest and we will be the best.

     

    “I have spent 10 years of my life, and I know that sometimes I

     

    gave up too much of myself to Rangers, but I am not about to

     

    give up now.

     

    “Neither am I willing to stand aside and allow another club to

     

    overtake Rangers. The failure of last season hurt me a lot and

     

    that pain was something I didn’t need nor want.

     

    “It is also a pain which I never want to suffer again, but by God

     

    that sort of thing just makes me even more determined to

     

    succeed. I am still as driven, still as enthusiastic and I will

     

    welcome the challenge of anyone out there.”

     

    Murray was referring not only to the Kenny Dalglish/Jim Kerr

     

    consortium who are stalking Celtic, but also the as yet

     

    uncovered groups who are bound to make bids to buy out

     

    Fergus McCann.

     

    If the past 10 years have taught Murray, who is one of Britain’s

     

    wealthiest individuals, anything it is how to win and he believes

     

    Rangers will continue to grow and prosper.

     

    “I look upon these last 10 years as a having been a great era, but

     

    it is over and Rangers are about to head on into a new era,” he

     

    said over a glass of the finest red.

     

    He was about to take in another mouthful of the most succulent

     

    lamb – anyone who knows Murray shouldn’t be surprised to learn

     

    he is a full-blooded, unashamed red meat eater – when he put

     

    down his knife and fork.

     

    It was like a statement of intent and looking directly across the

     

    table to make sure I hadn’t yet succumbed to the wine, he said:

     

    “Bring on the next 10 years, there’s more to come for Rangers.

     

    “Understand that I care passionately about what I’m doing with

     

    Rangers and believe that in 10 years time we will still be setting

     

    the pace.

     

    “Too many of us have put too much into this club and we won’t let

     

    someone come along and take it all away.

     

    “What I’m saying here is that no matter who buys Celtic from

     

    Fergus, they will need to have the deepest of pockets

     

    imaginable.

     

    “The fresh challenge would be good for the Scottish game and

     

    lift the profile, but Celtic’s new owners had better be prepared to

     

    spend.

     

    “In the past, Celtic’s people maybe just haven’t fancied trying to

     

    take Rangers on financially, but if I have to go in deeper to keep

     

    my club up there then I will. I have done it too many times to be

     

    frightened now.”

     

    From anyone else such talk could be dismissed as no more

     

    than empty rhetoric, but with Murray you just feel it is more than

     

    bluster and besides, he does have a track record as a spender.

     

    There have been times in his 10 years when he has taken

     

    Rangers somewhere between pounds 15m and pounds 20m

     

    into debt and he knows that if this season goes belly up like the

     

    last one he could be looking at a potential debt of pounds 20m.

     

    However, having taken the value of Rangers from pounds 6m to

     

    approximately pounds 186m in 10 years he knows how far he

     

    can gamble in pursuit of success.

     

    This season alone he has allowed his new manager Dick

     

    Advocaat to spend almost pounds 30m, but he refuses to lose

     

    any sleep over it.

     

    He said: “I don’t because I consider spending as much as

     

    pounds 5million on someone like Andrei Kanchelskis as a

     

    necessity. If a club like ours doesn’t do that then we fall by the

     

    wayside.

     

    “Look, I have many other businesses so I could find many other

     

    things to worry about, but I love sport and I want Rangers to be

     

    successful. I know this won’t be accepted by some people but

     

    this isn’t about making money.

     

    “pounds 56m has been invested in the stadium and in my time

     

    pounds 200m has been turned over and after interest our trading

     

    profit is minimal. Perhaps as much as pounds 60m has been

     

    spent on players and I have even paid in about pounds 1m in

     

    hospitality but never taken a salary from the place.

     

    “I get six complimentary tickets the same as everyone else and if

     

    I want extra I have to pay for them the same as everyone else.

     

    “There are no free lunches for David Murray at Ibrox and I have

     

    never taken part or been at the centre of any of the numerous

     

    victory celebrations we have had.”

     

    Murray disappears to celebrate success with a small group of

     

    close friends, leaving the roar of the crowd to wash over the

     

    players and management.

     

    “Supporters don’t want chairmen hanging around, even though

     

    they look to people like me to provide some kind of direction and

     

    the new ways to keep moving the club on,” he said.

     

    “I hope I can say that in my 10 years so far I’ve been fairly good at

     

    that, but the day I run out of ideas is the day I’ll know it’s over. I’m

     

    sure someone will tell me because I have good people around

     

    me, I always have.

     

    “But I’m not ready yet to step back and I see enough fresh

     

    challenges, staying ahead at home and winning a place at the

     

    European table, ahead in the next 10 years to keep my own

     

    adrenaline flowing.”

     

    He knows roughly how much it will cost him and he’s heard the

     

    rumours that ENIC, who have invested pounds 40m in Rangers,

     

    are uneasy at the club’s spending policies but Murray claims

     

    these backers have always been supportive of his methods.

     

    He said: “They could kick up a fuss but they don’t. Besides, I am

     

    the owner of the club and so far most people seem to like what

     

    I’ve done.”

  13. Margaret McGill on

    ryecatcher

     

     

    01:13 on 6 September, 2014

     

     

    Bopsie waddy waddy

     

    Shake your money

     

    Bopsie waddy waddy

     

    Shake your money

     

    Bopsie waddy waddy

     

    Shake your money

     

    Bopsie waddy waddy

     

    Save your money

  19. Gordon64 on

    Blazing Saddles

     

    There is a great scene in the film

     

    when Hedley Lamarr (Alistair Darling) recruits

     

    cutthroats and bandits to attack Rockridge.

     

    It’s akin to the NO campaign.

     

    Darling recruiting Tories, UKIP and the OO to defeat Scotland.

     

    An alliance of ill principled, mercenaries.

  20. Margaret McGill on

    Gordon64

     

     

    01:04 on 6 September, 2014

     

     

    The thing that keeps the vulture zombies going is the 40k bottom feeders that keep showing up to Queen of the South debacles etc

  21. What is the Stars on

    Gordon64

     

    Blazing saddles

     

    What about the scene “we’ll take the blacks and the chinks but we dont want the Irish”

  31. Margaret McGill on

    “You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.”

  35. Delaneys Dunky on

    Sipsini

     

     

    Had mair nurses than hoat dinners was the chant fae the 16 year old virgins in clattys. :)))

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