RANGERS

Rangers had a total of 9 figures released in the SFL Collection ,second in amount only to bitter rivals Celtic.

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We were again treated to many first time sculpts, in fact only Gascoigne was a repaint, the rest were brand new figures and all except for Brian Laudrup have never been released again by Corinthian.

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The line up for this release is Richard Gough, Paul Gascoige, Brian Laudrup, Stuart McCall, David Robertson, Ian Durrant, Trevor Steven, Gordon Durie and Ian Ferguson.

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Gascoigne, Laudrup, McCall and Durrant were released in February 1996, with Gough coming out in June, while the other 4 of Robertson, Steven, Durie and Ferguson being released in June.

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There was something very unusual about this set and that is the squad numbers, Both Gascoigne and Durrant were released with number 8 on the back of their shirt, while it was not unheard of for Corinthian to change squad numbers during a series release, they did this a few times in a bid to keep the figures up to date, however these two figures were released at the same time in February 1996 during the same season of course so i am at a loss as to why two players were released with the same squad number, what is more perplexing is that Durrant wore the number 12 shirt for the 1995/96 season and changed it to 14 for the 1996/97 season, so it leaves me to believe Durrant wearing number was simply a production error.

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There was another number discrepancy in this set, both Stuart McCall and Trevor Steven were released wearing the number 7 shirt. McCall was released first in February 1996 with Steven a little while later in June of that year. McCall wore the number 5 shirt for the 1995/96 season and then changed to number 7 for the 1996/97 season, while from the information i have it looks as though Steven wore the number 22 shirt while at Rangers, so again i can only chalk this up to a production error.

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It can be a little tricky to pick up Durie, Ferguson and Gough, their blisters can be relatively scarce, as can both versions of the 4 pack.

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All 9 were released as single blisters with collector card and information file, with 2 different versions of a 4 figure pack also being released, with the initial release date for the 4 packs being October of 1996.