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Hello everyone and welcome to Heart and Hand Rangers podcast.

My name is Cammy Bell. I am your host, as always on Extra.

And it's our first extra of 2024.

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year.

And joining me and my merriment of all things to do with Rangers as we look forward to our Scottish Cup opener against Embarton Saturday,

but also to discuss what's been happening across this winter break

is my very, very good friend, Mr Simon Halloran.

Simon, thank you for coming on the show.

Are you at the stage? Are people still wishing you happy new year,

or are we thankfully by that stage?

Good to be on, yeah, thankfully by that.

I think they cut off usually about the 7th, so according to Larry Davis.

By law, it should be.

Yeah, so I go by Larry's's rules and yeah, that's it.

A good few weeks and nice wee break so far.

Yeah, absolutely.

Absolutely.

So listen, let's jump straight into it because although Rangers haven't been in competitive

action, Simon, there has been plenty to be able to talk about as obviously Rangers

have been away in warm weather

training. Thankfully we're not

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