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Contrast is stark - we concede and you know its going to be a slog to get an equaliser, nevermind a winner. They concede and you know for certain they will score not just an equaliser, but a winner. Conceding seems to spur them on whilst it knocks the stuffing out of us.

Well that was underwhelming to say the least. Long, hard remainder to the season. If you were a betting man, you'd bet it'll end trophyless.

A very familiar Rangers performance. Lots of possession, a couple of good missed chances, opportunities to shoot declined, run out of ideas, start to give it away cheaply, powderpuff in the challenge and retreat into our shell. Yes, injuries and all that but has to be better.

Morelos is 100% finished.

When we attack I keep thinking, 'where are our attackers - they must be all sitting behind the ball to cover?', but then when St Mirren venture forward I'm wondering, 'where are our defenders?' That can't be good.

We can't get Morelos into the game, but when we do he's got a touch like an elephant.

I'd say two of our best chances have come from individual moments (Tillman's nutmeg and Wright's dribble). Our team play consists of wing-play where the objective is to cross it into the box. Other than a good Wright header - and good save by the 'keeper - nothing has really come from this strategy.

Davies out again looks like another user of training ground medical revolving door.

Why do you have to bring realism into it? leave me alone in my beautiful positive clinging-on world where I could say we clearly focused on Europe last Spring and left the league as a secondary target (wrongly IMO but hey-ho) and while Paedo's havent been dropping points this season YET they are not a great side and have struggled to get over the line quite a few times, and their luck may not last a whole campaign, especially with VAR continuing to get under their skin, slowing them down and denying them illegal goals. Their fat Aussie chancer may well get found out sooner rather than later. I will leave you with the immortal words of the legendary Marvin Andrews - KEEP BELIEVING!! Now im off to Paisley and if we dont win im going to come back and erase this post and replace it with Gio must go!

Not impossible but highly unlikely. Most of the injured players aren't due back well into the New Year and GvB did worse with a better squad during the second half of last season. Paedo FC aren't dropping points against other teams and our record against them since Gerrard left is awful. The 2022/23 league is done, in my opinion. The remainder of the season should be about trying to win the cups and preparing for next season. Oh and St Mirren can't compete against a club with our spending capability, so today's game should be an easy win*. *sarcasm

Taking away the finacial aspect, given the relatively short time Gio has been manager, what the board do during the winter-break is crucial for our medium-term future. No matter If they truly believe Gio is the man to take us forward, or they decide ti sack him, they need to significantly back whoever is in charge during the January transfer window. Waiting until the end of the season to make the cull (on and off the pitch) will render next season pointless as well. However, sticking or twisting now is a major gamble either way. What we need is stability, not changing the manager every 12 - 18 months. Huge decisions for the board, but are they capable of making them? For me, they'll sit tight and hope and pray Gio can turn it around with little or no funding.

And, in rather unladylike manner, spat.

Clancy exposed by VAR

The results are finally catching up with the performances. I've been so deflated by our style - if you can call it that - since last season.

Whilst you are not wrong, that is just simple basics - that's not coaching, that's just a player reacting like a rabbit caught in headlights.

This is chronic,Morelos is a man short

Agree, he's morphed from El Bufalo to El Efant

Connor Gallagher was clearly tugging his shirt there, wee prick that he is.

Bread and butter for Scottish defences. Are the St Mirren fans just going to claim for everything today?

Be careful what you ask for: when the drums stop, the bass solo starts

Huge pressure on Kamara and Lundstram to protect our central defence today. Sorry but neither inspire me with confidence in that role.

It will be a struggle today. 4 youth players on the bench. Then again I doubt they can do any worse than the regulars.

Yeah... My mind must have drifted to Josh Windass...

sums up our current predicament though

Looks like Graham Potter might be available soon 🤷‍♂️😀 Shows changing the manager doesn't always guarantee an upturn in fortunes.

I couldn't believe how bad Lundstrum,Tav and Morelos were today. What chance do we have when this happens?

I don't think that's an issue when you're talking about one of the most influential coaches in world football. (However, I do get the sense that he can speak adequately and that the translator is just for press conferences etc., like Pochettino.)

I feel bad, Gio is a lovely guy, but watching him here is awful. But it's just not good enough. He looks and sounds defeated.

Ross--Get Marcelo on the phone. Pronto. Or Ralph Hassenhuttl. (I wanted Daniel Farke after SG left, but he's at 'Gladbach now and doing very well (they beat Dortmund 4-2 last night).)

As depressing as it is to admit, I agree...

No conflict there, the conflict is between me celebrating a goal and wanting us to push for the win but at the back of my mind I have the sinking feeling that it will prolong Gio's stay

So does fucking Walker. Ergo, it must be.

I think that's a penalty.

In their current form, yes. I still think they're better than what they are showing, though. We spent £1m and 50k on Morelos and Kamara, so I'd expect to recoup that easily enough.

Indeed, and a wrong result here maybe a blessing in disguise. I just can't stand watching this anymore. The players on the pitch should be performing much better and that is down to one man.

He has to go or this season is going to be a shocker.

Been like this for a long time now 😪

One shot on target is really not good enough, can't wait for the World cup break!

The reality is it needlessly gave away possession and achieved nothing.

Poor end to the half. We're getting dragged down to the oppositions level.

Wonderful feet from Kent. Kamara should have taken a shot - although it was a tight angle, especially from a man allergic to shooting!

King and Sands as the central defence doesn't fill me with confidence. Hopefully Morelos has his shooting boots on and Kamara shows a bit more effort than he has in recent appearances. Mon The Rangers! 🇬🇧 🟥⬜🟦

Honestly, I don't actually think the Rangers job is all that attractive. Extremely limited budget, if you don't win the league you fail. It's a really tough job and I think it can ruin a managers rep quite easily, of course it can build it too.

I suspect his defence will be "but it can't be sectarian cause I'm a Proddy too". I've some sympathy for the posters who are neither offended by the phrase nor see much point in escalating the tit for tat 'I'm pure offended' that often dominates online discourse. Like all words the person using them and the tone in which they are delivered makes a huge difference to that word's meaning, whether intended or not. As Ascender says up thread being called a 'hun' by a friend or acquaintance in a friendly conversation rarely causes any offence and neither is it meant too. However a complete stranger shouting Kill All Huns at you on a dark night might elicit a different response, and again I suspect that would be deliberate. I imagine this Aberdeen fan's defence will be along the lines that he feels 'hun' has no sectarian meaning, to him it's simply a derogatory term for Rangers supporters. I also suspect he'll be able to show numerous examples of this, maybe he'll ask Stuart Cosgrove to give evidence in his defence, it's a term he's used a bit in the past after all. It'll be an interesting defence and assumes that bringing a banner saying 'kill all Rangers fans' to a ground holding nearly 50,000 Rangers fans is otherwise perfectly acceptable behaviour of course. From a personal perspective, like all of us, I've been called a hun on numerous occasions. Often it was jocular and delivered by someone I knew, no offence was meant and none was taken. On others I was fairly sure the person was intending to insult or intimidate me, it was meant aggressively. Sometimes it was said in my company by someone who forgot I was there and their reaction when they realised I'd heard was often telling as to their intention and meaning. I'd a girlfriend many years ago who described me as a 'practicing hun' to members of her family when the subject of football inevitably came up. That relationship wasn't destined to last. The meaning of words changes. That's simply a fact about the English language. No matter how much we might wish it otherwise, the meaning behind how we say something, or these days type something, isn't always the meaning that someone reading it will take. On a return trip to Belfast a few years ago I noticed the term 'KAH' sprayed close an intersection where Unionist and Nationalist areas joined. Graffiti and murals have long been used in Belfast to designate territory and I found them a very helpful navigation aid when I first moved there. For those unaware KAH stands for 'Kill All Huns', and it was sprayed as a territorial marker, letting everyone know what area you were entering. Do we think the person responsible meant 'Rangers supporters' when they left that mark? We can only speculate, but personally I'm in no doubt at all that in that context it meant 'Protestant' or at the very least 'Unionist', although those terms are often interchangeable. Whatever that Aberdeen fan's intention, it's naive in the extreme to think that some people who use that word don't see it as a derogatory catch all term for Protestants. Like a number of other words that were once fairly commonly used it's probably advisable to avoid using it at all now.

For all the frustration stemming from his tactics, I can't help hoping his last press conference of the season sees GvB surrounded by silverware. Nothing would give me more pleasure than to see him fight through this challenging period and come out the other end wiser and successful.