02 Dec 2025 08:03:55
Rangers are in danger of losing Bailey Rice for free, with Aston Villa and Sunderland tracking the 19-year-old midfielder's progress, while West Bromwich Albion and Cardiff City are preparing pre-contract offers for him in January amid no indication that the Ibrox club are discussing a new contract. (Daily Mail, print edition)

Feels like we've really missed a trick with this lad.

02 Dec 2025 08:47:50
He's done nothing to suggest that's the case. Doesn't look like he has the required attitude to make it at a big club.

02 Dec 2025 09:07:09
Don't think he'll be a massive loss, had high hopes for him but he's never really seemed to take any of the chances he got, Both Clement and Ferguson said he was a bit behind and Rohl hasn't used him once so can't really be showing much in training.

02 Dec 2025 09:32:27
Yo, Bailey Rice has stood still since he joined the Gers unfortunately ✌️🇬🇧.

02 Dec 2025 09:39:43
Quite simply he has never shown enough to be a first team player. The lad has talent there is no doubt, but he never seems to push himself. Personally I would be looking at a new contract for him, get him out on loan to see what he can do at a decent level. However if he goes I won't lose any sleep.

02 Dec 2025 09:45:08
Sorry to say but he has never looked comfortable playing at first team level with any chance he has had. Good luck to him all the same.

02 Dec 2025 10:01:41
I don't think we have to be honest. Physically he just hasn't developed to where we need him to be. He just isn't ready for first team right now and I doubt he wants to stay in Scotland, he will have access to a higher standard of coaching and facilities down south, which is just the sad state of Scottish football.

02 Dec 2025 10:17:19
I think it's more us that wanted him to succeed than himself, probably better for the lad to move on. Had more chances than most but never came to much, will have seen the progression Lennon millar has had and want some of that.
Just another in the long line of not producing our own talent for the first team, it's a shame.

02 Dec 2025 11:36:00
Yo jumbo, lad wants away, not interested in a new contract

Ehl wrote an excellent post last season on how rice has not developed physically and that he would not be a first team regular.

02 Dec 2025 12:20:12
I think somebody on here has said that he knocked back a contract extension so that he would leave on a free. To be fair to the club both Clement and Ferguson tried to get him involved last season but apart from a wee cameo at Old Trafford a couple of seasons ago, he has never really impressed. This season he got injured in the Alloa game and has just picked up a bad one in training so that's why he has not featured this season.


I would like to see him sign and see if Rohl can get anything out of him when he's fit, however if he feels he needs to leave then he won't be a great loss. I still say Lowry was more talented and where has he ended up?

02 Dec 2025 14:26:56
We need better.
A huge amount of players need to go.

02 Dec 2025 14:38:16
Rice came in with a huge hype but has done nothing to justify it! I can't recall à game where he had shown that he'll be a loss.

02 Dec 2025 15:40:02
My feeling with rice isn't about ability it's about athleticism he looks slow moving around the pitch, brilliant at youth level because technically he was miles ahead of everyone.
There will be far technically worse players than rice that have better careers.

02 Dec 2025 19:28:50
He was outstanding for national team right through the levels and a stand out in games for club. Miles ahead of Miller who he played with. Hindsight and all that but Bailey should have stayed at Motherwell and racked up early first team minutes.

His development has been stifled at Rangers and I hope he can kick on and fulfill his potential when he moves on. He's lost his way and his swagger.

02 Dec 2025 20:15:20
Scotty you may be right but first team football may not have helped him at all. 4lads at the start of this season also spoken about how Rice constantly pick up injuries, That he didn't quite have the Athleticism to play in the centre of the park and he doesn't have the build to play CB. this happens all the time its happened to much better players than Rice.

Rangers can't help his physical development.

02 Dec 2025 22:17:51
The lads only 19 for petes sake. Yes OK he's not developed as we may have hoped but how many 19 Yr olds are regulars at clubs like ours especially without any reserve football to play. Would prefer him to sign a new deal then go on loan for a couple of seasons and see how he cuts it. Give the lad a chance.

02 Dec 2025 22:55:53
This is all on Rangers failure to develop their youngsters, call it poor coaching, bad management. Never really given Bailey Rice much motivation/chance especially when our midfield is currently dire.

Players need played which usually gives them confidence, get match fit and move forward/get better with game time.

Another player ruined by Rangers, and numerous managers/head coaches.

03 Dec 2025 08:18:05
Bailey Rice was an outstanding 8 at youth level, who the club tried to develop into a 6 as it became apparent that he wouldn't be able to develop physically in to an 8 at first team level.

Like so many of our young players, one of the biggest reasons for the stagnation of his development is the lack of experienced professionals in his role to learn from.

This was the same issue with McAusland, who's understanding of the game and role increased ten fold when Cerny signed.

03 Dec 2025 08:35:56
if he was good enough he would be playing. which manager would keep a talent out of the team simply because he was a youngster?

03 Dec 2025 12:40:13
I'd bring back McAusland in January if we could, even if Antman wasn't injured, he is far more of a threat and a team player on the right wing and his 6 months abroad should have helped him.

03 Dec 2025 18:12:29
Why are our youth not 'buddied' with 1st team players for mentoring EHL?

Seems like a no brainer considering the youth set up here.

03 Dec 2025 18:47:11
GDog, because we seriously lack players with the quality to and personalities to do it.

For example before Cerny, what other right winger did we have that could genuinely mentor a young McCausland?

Balogun was excellent with Nsiala, and Dessers equally as good with Igamane - however who in our current squad would you identify as a seasoned pro who can mentor young players?

01 Dec 2025 11:38:17
I see the club has announced that Jonathan Hunter-Barrett will not be starting as Academy Director.

01 Dec 2025 11:55:14
Sco, no surprise there. More to followb.

01 Dec 2025 11:58:20
Yep as expected, I think one thing is pretty clear. The Americans know that they made a huge error and are going to be paying for it financially so pretty sure that they'll be way more thorough going forward.

01 Dec 2025 12:52:24
I have a suspicion we might look to dissolve the academy.

01 Dec 2025 13:16:58
Are we expecting other departures John or was there more incoming in the pipeline that are getting called off?

01 Dec 2025 13:47:56
Burt there will be more non players leaving.

Ehl, why would we dissolve the academy, we need to produce players with support of better coaches, not the poor coaches we have had at academy level last ten years.

How would u get a squad off 25 with no academy.

01 Dec 2025 13:55:08
Dissolve, EHL?
As in no longer have any teams at any age group apart from first team?
If so how does that fit into the business model of bringing through our own or from other clubs?

01 Dec 2025 14:17:34
Yet the club announcement said the polar opposite EHL so would be a bad idea for them to try that after stating otherwise and also how else would we even attempt to produce home grown talent if they did that.

01 Dec 2025 14:33:42
Was Hunter-Barrett a Thelwell/Stewart acquisition? If so it kinda of makes sense that he ain't coming.

01 Dec 2025 14:38:26
Dissolve the academy, hope not, I understand we haven't produced much but whose fault is that.

There is no pathway for youth to fight for 1st team football, and no reserve league to impress the head coach for a call up to the senior squad.

01 Dec 2025 14:46:06
Big blue, absolutely we are not dissolving our academy.

01 Dec 2025 15:02:43
John, in 2016 Brentford closed their academy and kept a small tail of under 19's and 21's age groups that operated as a B team.

It took around 7 years for them to plan and deliver a full academy restructure that launched at Category 4 level and has gradually improved to Category 2 level.

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if we looked to do something similar, as it may actually prove to be a quicker more cost effective way to address the current issues.

The reason Brentford done it was that they were spending a lot of resources developing kids who would move to the other bigger London academies, so they never got the benefit of the time the spent developing them.

That's the exact situation we find ourselves in at the moment with our talented players leaving to head down south.

01 Dec 2025 15:09:54
Honestly I don't see the point in the academy the boys can't play at a decent level to develop they shout let us into league 2 if possible would be great for the player's development.

01 Dec 2025 17:33:42
Ehl because Brentford done it does not men we will.

Ehl we only need to look at our academy coaches to see we don't spend much.

01 Dec 2025 18:08:30
I remember talk of that on here last year.

John did u not say that we may dissolve the academy mate?
If not sorry.

I can't see that happening it makes us look like a poor club if we don't have youth and womans teams.

01 Dec 2025 18:51:41
Was just pointing out that it's been done before, and I know from my time at the club it's something we were looking at.

01 Dec 2025 20:00:43
Surely one of the key factors in having a successful academy would be the quality and calibre of the coaches employed there. From your time at Ibrox what would be your evaluation of the average calibre of the academy coaches employed by Rangers. The only one I ever say being interviewed was McCallum when he was in charge of first team for Semi final against Hibs.

To me he seemed a very decent fella, but showed zero leadership qualities imo. I had very little confidence in him and thought he was uninspiring.

02 Dec 2025 12:33:11
As long as they are qualified we should be filling Academy posts with ex Rangers players to drill into the boys what it is to play for Rangers. We should also be involving more ex players in our scouting network. I understand the new way of doing things based on stats but nothing beats having someone look at a player actually playing to get a feel of what he can bring.

The big example of this is how John Brown spotted Carlos Cuellar and even more recently Barry Ferguson telling the new regime what players we should sign closer to home. He was ignored but we call all see now that he was right.

02 Dec 2025 14:37:33
Wsl we should have a scout in every country taking in 3-5 games a week if possible.

I mean every country within reason, for smalls country's employ one per region of country's.

We have Albertz and Berlinger in Germany kilos as an ex keeper

Holland we have watterrous, numan konterman Mols and the de boers

We could go on around the world.

We definitely should be utilising all this.

02 Dec 2025 19:42:23
Spoke to Jonathan last week and he says he is starts full time in January. He was up for 3 days on full club travel account, maybe something changed during his visit.

01 Dec 2025 00:28:04
Transfer rumour

Rangers rumoured to be interested in Slovenian CB, Vanja Drkusic. He's keen to get away from Russian league due to lack of EU football.

01 Dec 2025 00:38:07
I really Like the Eastern European centre half's.

01 Dec 2025 06:46:49
We know Stevie mate 😂.

01 Dec 2025 09:46:40
😂haha ye got it mate lol 👍🏻.

01 Dec 2025 10:17:03
6 ft 2too small for a cb.

01 Dec 2025 10:39:48
We could do with a hard as nails CH.
As long as he isn't cut from the same cloth as Barisic who was one of the softest Eastern European defenders I've ever seen!

01 Dec 2025 11:09:26
Eastern Europe must have a few gems. And hopefully not a zigzag cornrow in sight. And yes had to look up what that Barnet was called.
My name for it would undoubtedly be censored and get me a two year sentence in the Scottish gulag for hurty words.

01 Dec 2025 13:26:28
Barisic was an exceptional LB offensively and a wand of a left foot.

01 Dec 2025 14:08:37
Shame he had a heart the size of a mouse and sha* it everytime we played them!

01 Dec 2025 14:15:46
he certainly was at one time copland.

01 Dec 2025 14:30:44
6ft2 is plenty big enough for a CB.

01 Dec 2025 20:20:44
EHL the reason fans, especially us older fans sometimes make comments on the level of appointment you mention. It is truly not opinion as speaking for myself, I generally know nothing about the staff being appointment. Our negative comments are due to concern and suspicion that they will turn out to be a young Martin type who were told was the best coach Thelwell had worked with.

So a lot of these trendy young highly regarded types give us the concern that their abilities won't match the hype surrounding them. Unfortunately this had been the case too often.

29 Nov 2025 12:49:49
Good friends with a fella who knows Billy Davies. Not saying he will get the gig by any means but he has been spoken to regarding it.

29 Nov 2025 13:36:05
What gig?

29 Nov 2025 13:38:29
I don't have any sources that are close to the club and I can tell you right now Blantyre that's 100% not true.

29 Nov 2025 13:54:38
Billy Davies🤣
Hasn't he got enough to do, running around with Tommy Sheridan and his wife and getting up to "mischief"👀.

29 Nov 2025 14:26:40
Ffs 🙈🙈🙈🤣🤣🤣.

29 Nov 2025 15:51:38
What "gig"?! The gimp in the cage at the local swingers club?! Tommy Sheridan's fluffer?! You can probably see where I'm going with this.

Either your mate is ripping it out of you. Or more likely, you're trying to rip it out of us on here. Whatever the reason, that's a beauty!

29 Nov 2025 16:14:45
Does Tommys cum face have a suntan?

29 Nov 2025 17:06:12
I think this guy is talking about Morton job.

29 Nov 2025 18:10:29
George mcneilage is that u?

29 Nov 2025 18:15:11
Jesus Christ, is it old firm weekend again?

29 Nov 2025 18:41:11
There is no way this can be the DOF at Rangers … not a chance in hell is BD getting that 😂.

29 Nov 2025 18:47:46
Davi's is not allowed inside Ibrox,

30 Nov 2025 06:21:56
That should say not welcome. Sorry.

30 Nov 2025 07:37:34
Hi Ed was wondering if my posts are getting posted Tf2.

{Ed033's Note - Go to this page and you can see lots of your previous posts.

30 Nov 2025 08:30:37
Have I missed something, I've never seen Billy at one of Tommy's parties unless he's the fella swinging from the roof swing, dressed up like Liberace.
Got some moves on him the fella.

30 Nov 2025 09:25:26
Where is Tommy's next party. Asking for a friend 😁.

30 Nov 2025 10:12:05
Sorry Walter, it's quite an exclusive guest list, only the best are welcome, last month was outrageous, wee sturgeon riding one of those bucking bronco machines dressed up like elvis, susan Boyle belting out billy ocean songs, mad on the Charlie.


Tommy in a bow tie breakdancing in the buff, had to double take when he was doing a windmill, nearly took my eye out, Neil Lennon even showed up dressed as a nun and eating a kebab, what a night. 😛.

30 Nov 2025 11:22:40
Is this bucking bronco machine you talk about, Shota, a simile for wee nippy's "friend" from the French embassy? I hope she was "strapped on" safely?! 😉😁.

30 Nov 2025 13:32:20
How is billy not welcome John?

30 Nov 2025 19:39:02
Bunster his past with ts, king declined him access to Ibrox.

01 Dec 2025 11:06:05
Shota. SB is a raving loony, She once got barred from Blackburn Health Centre before she got famous, Because she had the hots for one off the male doctors, She would turn up wearing a see through top Imagine looking at that Also her moustache 🇦🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿.

29 Nov 2025 01:05:49
Heard this evening we are speaking to Rodolfo Borrell for the DOF role. Honestly never heard of him but looked him up got a good CV.

29 Nov 2025 03:48:19
Very very experienced man and has a stellar track record. No idea as to why he is now working in the US but could be how our board would know of him.

29 Nov 2025 05:08:56
Probably end up with Johnny borrell at this rate. Can't seem to get any recruitment right.

29 Nov 2025 07:23:22
What a coup this would be.

This would be a serious bit of business for the club if we manage to entice him to take up the role
Very exciting if we got him.

29 Nov 2025 10:12:15
Hope not franco, bound to stumble and fall mate 😉.

29 Nov 2025 11:29:18
Borrell was assistant to Pep at Man City for years and has a massive reputation, this would be a great appointment if true and a real statement by the owners.

29 Nov 2025 13:10:50
So, is this for the Sporting Director role or are we appointing a Director of Football before we appoint someone who would be his boss? That seems a bit risky to me.

29 Nov 2025 17:58:33
Hope they get the right man ruffian. Before I fall too pieces 😂.

29 Nov 2025 22:10:02
All my life, owners from america

Al see myself out pal lol.

30 Nov 2025 08:26:16
Franco, I've been Up All Night thinking about this, looking at his record Borrell does seem to have the Golden Touch 🤦🏼‍♂️.

30 Nov 2025 11:52:18
Nice one lads 😂😂.