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What's with all this moaning about the team? I'm sitting Top of the Pops. Let me enjoy it while I can.

I never will or have boo'd my team. If, like yesterday, the performance was not to my liking then i don't applaud them off the park but up to each individual how they show their displeasure.

I always think a growing injury list is synonymous with players chucking it under a manager.

What concerned me yesterday was the players seemed bemused by the tactics/game plan if there was one. Matondo being replaced by Souttar was incredible

We’ve had too many managers. That’s a big part of the problem

I wouldn't boo a manager either. I find the atmosphere a bit toxic at Ibrox at the moment. The fans are nervous and angry and a mass groan at every mistake doesn't help anything. I am not blaming anyone just stating the obvious. I didn't want Beale and think this was an inevitable outcome of his appointment. I feel for him on a human level but he just doesn't have the experience to manage this club. What an utter mess.

That seems to be the general opinion right enough 😄

Their players and coaches can be signed up without us becoming part of the franchise.

Yes it does - otherwise it's not effective.

You can pull off Roy Keane if it pleases you. It's a free country 🤣

The footballs to drab to negative in fact it’s downright boring players are playing to whatever system he’s thought up and honestly I don’t think any of them have a clue Rangers teams should be driving forward all the time this lot seem content in knocking the ball square and backwards I imagine if most fans hadn’t prepaid their season tickets they would probably give Ibrox a miss .

Just watching Sportscene and Aberdeen running riot against Ross County. Wonder what it feels like to watch your team running riot?

We’ve only got three fit first team MF players at the moment - Lundstrum, Cifuentes & Jack. And 16 year old Bailey Rice. Let that sink in.

Pace and unpredictability would certainly offer alternatives to what's currently on display.

Keep it in the corner at home to Motherwell with 5 minutes to go..... and the frightening thing is I was shouting at them to do it too. That's when you know this MB Rangers side has gone. Times up. We want our Rangers back

Go defensive at home to a Celtc side missing their two central defenders. Go defensive at home to Motherwell to hold on to a one goal lead. Not the signs of a winning mentality.

If only we had a magic two footed Romanian midfielder to take his place. 🤔

Makes you wonder what's the point of relying on cross balls when we almost never score from them and no longer have the forwards who can make something of them. Just another one of Beale's many mysteries.

Barisic was getting a lot of joy down the left in the first half, and fired in multiple good crosses without so much as a challenge at the other end. Lammers and Dessers need to be making more of an effort there.

We have been for the majority of the last dozen years and there's been one constant and it's not Michael Beale.

I don't think that's what RANGERRAB said. He said we are allowing ourselves to be convinced things are worse than they really are. We aren't playing well - but currently out season isn't finished, or close to being finished. Some Rangets fans are attempting to down play a 1-0 EL victory of a Spanish team - our first victory against a Spanish team since 1985. We've won our last 3 games without conceding a goal, which must be an achievement since we're told our defence is terrible- Tavs shit, Borna is a shitbag, Davies is honking etc etc Even good rangers teams with players like Gazza, Laudrup, Goudhurst, Ally et al sometimes struggled to beat Motherwell at times

This 100% - we have become the most negative support in Europe.

I'm not being pedantic, you said the players were booed off twice in 4 days

In the mad, mad world of Michael Beale this is progress...... Dessers for Colak = £5m for Worse Danilo for Sakala = £6.3m for Worse Lammers for Hagi = £3.5m for no better Cifuentes for Kamara = £1.4m for no better Sima for Kent = No better but possibly cheaper Dowell, Sterling, Balogun all disappeared from sight

I'm not prone to displays of emotion at football matches and like others above I would never dream of booing anyone who wasn't an official or a Celtic player. Even then I'd probably do it under my breath while maintaining due decorum. For the comfort of others I've also never been one to sing outside the privacy of my car and I find that damn drum and incessant racket from one end of the ground to be broadly intolerable. That said, I would not be so self-righteous as to criticise any Rangers supporter who did voice their disgust at that pathetic display yesterday.

I've never booed the team, just for the record.

I think it is appropriate to put you under the iron curtain from now on.

Still without a club. He did well at New York Red Bulls; won back-to-back doubles at Red Bull Salzburg; bombed at RB Leipzig; prematurely sacked at Leeds, IMO, but wasn’t brilliant. He has the right CV, but I would have question marks about him being an option for us.

I think it's kind of crazy that the team were booed after winning the game. I get it, we didn't play well but we just came off the back of a win against Real Betis. I kind of feel like if another manager came in and lost a game then they'd get booed too. We are a bit of a shitshow of a job to take on in all honesty.

Butland. Lundstram played fairly well across the piece but was still a bit slack a bit too often for my liking. Lammers did largely fine, as did Goldson and Davies but the rest of the team were very disappointing. Not sure if it was a lack of effort at times but we were absolutely appalling later in the second half. Wright and Jack were particularly poor and seemed to have no idea what or where they were supposed to be playing.

Toss up between Butland and Lundstram but went for Lundstram.

Bring in Conte! He'll kill them!

It did. It was quite clear.

Well, in the cold light of day, we managed similar dire results for decades, even with the likes of Gazza and Co.. I would assume the pubs in Scotland after the game were similarly downbeat. What I can't tell - for obvious reasons - is whether we managed to perform as dire as the results suggest, which I doubt for most cases. In that same cold light of the day after, having acquired so many IMHO quality players, it was still a crime to let both Hagi and Lowry leave on loan with but one creative player left, and most of the other attackers un-tried in the Premiership. As per usual, that one creative player got hacked down (by a Yahoo at that) and soon after, Raskin followed, who is probably the most prominent one of our midfielders who can do a part-time job in that department. Roofe has been what we expect him to be, a top penalty box predator. Let's hope he stays fit for the best part of the season. Dessers is more that Hateley type of a robust striker, and I would combine these two from now on up top. Lammers is more the Laudrup type, but like Cantwell, the "always thinks forward" and ain't shy to have a shot. He would be my central creative player behind the strikers, at least in the absence of Cantwell. Sima, Matondo, and Wright should be used as wingers (sided-attackers) and told to stay there too. For what we see is people running about with seemingly no cohesion whatsoever, flanks left unoccupied, so defenders have it not that difficult to get out of trouble that way. I was hopeful that, going back to a 3-at-the-back, we'd throw on more attackers to put the nail in Motherwell's coffin for that game. Obviously, I forgot that for one reason or another, Beale will never sub Tavernier and hardly ever Borna (unless injured), which saw us playing with de facto 5 defenders. People will argue that both are more WINGbacks than fullbacks, but TBH, while Borna whips in most crosses (unless he plays the ball back) with success, Tavernier was rather terrible yesterday. And once we switch to 3ATB, we don't need a "right midfielder" who can't do anything useful with the ball. Once people have a bad day, sub them. Not least when we needed width. Too bad we don't have a right-sided Ridvan. The ultimate shock came around the 70 min mark, as Beale decided to go into the shell and essentially defend a 1-goal lead at home. 5 defenders, 2 DMs, 1 CM and but 2 attackers. While it was brutal before, it was shocking thereafter. We are closing in on the end of September, and while MD 10 is some weeks away, this does not augur well for the next few months. I am not sure whether Beale can get his players to work in a decent manner, especially tactic- and position-wise. Well, well ...

At least Butland did his job 😉

A photo from your Banking days?

Yet again the ‘keeper is rightly leading the field in a team that actually contrived to win. Shows the state of affairs.

The team have only played 3 games though

Good point, but given how unsuccessful we've been since 2012 - I think most fans would want success over "exciting" football. It would be great to have both tho.

If Beale goes, how many managers will it be that Tavernier has seen off? Asking purely out of interest. Honestly.

Our cat would improve this Rangers team.

I do think there’s been a bit of an overreaction to today’s 1-0 win. Let’s see how we get on in the next 2 home games this week against Livingston then Aberdeen

Spot on, it is proud achievement to have to so few managers over 150 years. I want every manager to succeed and turn it around when we have bad spells, but beale is not getting the best out of them and I agree the rot and dissent might have been sowed after the Celtic game maybe before, and if so he will not turn it around once the players have made their minds up the manager is done unless he has outstanding youth players to fill their spots he will have to hope the players will do their job and stick by his ideas.

I voted to get rid of him but I genuinely wish he could turn it around - mainly for the sake of Rangers of course but also for his own sake. I'm sure he wants to be successful and I'm sure he's working hard to achieve success. No one should want to see him suffer on a personal level, whatever the state of the team. However, the reason I can't change my mind about sacking him is I'm convinced he now leads a deeply divided camp and when that rot sets in at a football club there is only ever one conclusion. Whatever anyone thinks of Beale's selection today or the way he set out his team, it should be clear to everyone the players are confused, demotivated and as close to downing tools as makes no difference. They've largely switched off and just seem to be going through the motions. The longer this is allowed to continue, the deeper the hole we will eventually have to climb out of. The players desperately need someone who can close ranks and inspire some confidence, not someone who devotes his energies talking far too much to the outside world.

We might have been pish today but we still got the three points

Magic? When was Hagi "magic"? He was bog standard for most of his time here. Kent, Aribo, Morelos and many others contributed much more than Hagi.

I've changed my mind and think we should stick with Beale. His tactics and substitutions today kept Motherwell at bay and things are starting to click up front. Just kidding. GTF Beale.