Brian Graham
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Third time, yes.
Thank you very much.
Second biggest transfer yesterday was Shanklands after mine.
No, only joking.
It's a club I've known very well.
It's now going to be my third spell.
I'm looking forward to it.
I've obviously had a couple of bad years but I'm looking forward to going back up there and playing football and enjoying it again.
No I think when you get to my age people see your age but they don't see the stuff that goes on in the background like I've missed nine training sessions this year I've been available for every single game and when you look at the strikers that were at the club at Falk at the time I was the only fit striker for every single game over the course of the season so that's quite incredible at 38 years of age so
I still believe I've got it in the body, I want to go one more year, I want to go enjoy it, it's a club that I know really well, just going up there yesterday, seeing wee Suze and the Kit women and stuff like that, it was special when you walk back in and you can see your posters and with the time gone by with the teammates of previous years and it was nice, I took my daughter up with me yesterday, so we had a good wee road trip yesterday, it was all good.
I'm guessing that the fee was or the lack of fee that is the big one for me because like a good friend of mine is a Rangers fan and I was speaking to him about it and I says to him how much did they pay and he said oh no there was a clause in his contract so that kind of shocked me a little bit because obviously you see him signing a three year deal last year but you've got to remember Shanklin is now in his 30s
he's a boyhood Rangers fan an opportunity he waited so long last summer waiting on Rangers coming it didn't happen for whatever reason with the different people that were at the club now he's got his opportunity to go to Rangers it's a boyhood dream of his I wish him well but at the same time I think he'll bring the best out to Charmitty
I think he's been when he first came in a lot of people hit him with a stick but the big man showed that he can score goals and he scored some fantastic goals along the way and I just think Shanklin's cleverness because he's a very very clever footballer will bring out the best in that young lad and he'll improve him and if they do play the two up front that'll be a strike force to be
Oh 100% after 30 I've
playing with Ross County at the time playing in the Premier League I scored a few goals and then I came back down the road to Partick Thistle for family reason I went on and scored 100 goals for Partick Thistle so people see your age and they think oh you're 30 years of age and that's you over the hill people don't see the hard work and dedication that players put in nowadays and it's not
of yesteryear where people were fretting sports science and all that sort of stuff wasn't available players no disrespect to them back then but they liked the pub more than they liked the training pitch so things have changed over a number of years now and I think Lauren Shanklins will be a great hit for Rangers 01419511025 if you've got any thoughts on that or any of the other topics we've mentioned let's speak to Graham who is a Rangers fan in the East End how are you Graham?
Yes, thank you very much.
I don't know what's going on with the... Sorry for butting in here, Graham, but do you know if you should give them a wee bit of...
I agree with you.
And the thing for me is, I mentioned in the show a couple of months ago now that obviously when Danny Rose obviously no-one in the league, there was a lot of fans calling for his head.