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PC is rightly protective of Sterling, and has openly said Igamane is building up to the physical standard required at this level. Game was won anyway, and tbh we should have scored more once those changes were made.

He does. He’s a footballer. Some observers were too quick to judgement.

I’d suggest though that looking back in hindsight the Rangers board regret the GvB sacking then throwing 10’s of millions to a rookie like Beale

"Woeful, absolutely woeful defending by Nice". At half time last evening, the score was Nice 0 Rangers 3. Immediately, I switched over to BBC Radio Scotland and host in the PQ studio, Big Dick Gordon took over from commentator, Al Lamont and began, "woeful, absolutely woeful defending by Nice". To reinforce his comment, he chuckled. When Rangers are defeated by Aberdeen, Killie or, whoever the PQ Gang Hut are always anxious to credit the victors. Quite correctly, Rangers problems are given less emphasis, all kudos should be awarded to the celebrating side. However, when Rangers(a Scottish club) achieve another notable result in Euro competition, the Euro team's failings are long discussed. Remember, BBC Scotland supports all Scottish sides in Europe. Rangers appear to be most fortunate in Europe, we always face poor sides. I guess it is a phenomenon coined by the Scotsman's Glenn Gibbons back in the day, "the Rangers bounce". Glenn was a big Sellik man, beloved and regularly lionised by Graham Spiers. "The Rangers bounce" was his comfort blanket. Let's all do the Bouncy.

Only saw the goals but delighted with the win. Igamane was a breath of fresh air and Cerny keeps doing it.

Possibly with a better pass although the defender was quick to close him down. Cerny was always the better option with Igamane being used as decoy.

Great game last night. Big Phil deserves some credit for the performance, as do the players.

UEL projections via https://x.com/fmeetsdata (Rousseau keeps their magazines and spreadsheets hidden in his bedroom)

Am i alone in nearly tearing the TV of the wall when Bajrami passed to Igamane instead of Cerny when match was at 0...0?

St J 0 Rangers 5 FGS Propper

Ah you're going to keep us in suspense compo, i like it.

Doing the spade work for the manky mob

If you think Cerny's recent form means he is any good then you are quick to judge.

Rangers fans quick to judge? That doesn't seem right...

Apparently the GB (they hate it abbreviated to this) have been kicked about Glagow twice this week. Once by UBs and then by Brugge. Not that I condone violence, but had a little chuckle when I heard this.

Had the misfortune to hear Richard Gordon and even Neil 'Two Hats' McCann* downplay last night's fine win on BBC Sportsound last night. Isn't it amazing how many poor teams we've played in the last five years in Europe? Just good luck it seems delivering this ranking for Scottish football (H/T https://x.com/swissfootdata) Triple click the image to see it full size. * I've noticed quite often that Neil wears a very different BBC Shortbread hat compared to his RTV one. He is a decent pundit IMO and I'd much rather such people were objective but there's a difference between rightly calling Nice awful (let's face it they were) and not also really giving us the credit for what was a performance full of hard work and physical strength.

Hes getting sacked today supposedly.

Why take off IGmane and replace him with the dud that is Dessers likewise with Sterling to be replaced with another dud in Tavernier if it's not for an injury then i think it shows the manager doesn't know a winning team when he see's it .

I'll second that with Cammy. Not getting a full season was criminal. He was on a total bad patch that nobody will deny that but its been backwards since.

Various people could easily have got it but has to be Igamane for getting right in about them and not allowing the early missed chance to affect his play. His second goal really was sublime.

I don't recall Sebo being a cult hero, any hero status was a bit of a piss take, he was shite. Shankland is a reasonable SPFL level striker who takes Kris Boyd-esque levels of time to get fit after injury, so one we should avoid. An assist and a double for Igamane is superb to see, he's a long way to go yet, but at least (along with Danilo looking decent recently) the big dunky up front has some competition. Edit - and we need to be signing Cerny permanently IMO.

A gifted chance is still a chance. I'm not getting carried away with the win, though: Nice were all over the place at the back.

The Diamonde goal was superb ,almost as good as the Carter-Vickers one from last night.

Tbh, i thought you were just waiting to see if Dessers was starting .

I can’t imagine we could afford Cerny for what we’d get if we managed to offload some of the duds ,who’s daft enough to buy them apart from us .

Young was a magician. Alex Scott scored. Wullie didn’t. I was in the second month of my apprenticeship on £25 a month so couldn’t afford the bus.

Perhaps out of Ibrox he's like the mild mannered Bruce Banner, but when he dons the famous jersey he becomes the Incredible Hulk and bursts out of his socks.

I like McCann as a pundit, and never listen to BBC so can't comment on his comments whilst he is commentating with them. As for Nice, I think we can all see how poor they were especially in defence and think the crowd testifies to how serious (or not) they are taking this compition. I'd say they were one of the poorest teams we've face's in recent years. However that shouldn't detract from the performance, result and our continued great European success.

Got to agree with the names already mentioned but I also liked Sterling's performance. Gave a security that we haven't had for a while. Souttar also had a really good game. Overall though it's toss up between Igamane and Raskin and I'm going for Raskin.

As far as Dessers coming on, and Cerny comin off goes Big Phil is being canny with his squad of players. It is no surprise that we have perhaps a third of the amount of injured players under Big Phil that we did when GVB was fighting, albeit with some success in europe. I am happy to let the manager manage the squad so we never have to get to a point where a young lad (King) and an on loan midfielder (Sands) are our central defensive paring in a european tie. Still with Phil

Nice haven't lost a game at home all season. Manure's new man, Amorim - when Braga manager, only lost 2 games, both against us. Both of these came from my fitba stato work colleague this morning, so if they're wrong, it's his fault.

I'd agree, however surely Muscat and McInnes are lazy journalism rather than any actual serious factual information.

Thanks! I don't know why that happened. The thread title was right.

And I'd agree with that 100%

Cos we got pumped in every CL game we played in?

Agree regarding the defending in the opening minutes as it was vital to get through those without conceding. I feared the worst when the Referee went to the screen for the penalty decision as I hadn't realised he'd given the penalty "on-field". Fair play to the officials for (eventually) getting the correct 3 decisions 😀 I thought the ref had a decent game last night.

Tonight is a prime reason why the board are very reluctant to sack PC. They want a manager who can get results in Europe because it brings in much more revenue than winning the domestic competitions.

As my son says schizophrenic thursday

2nd January is a Thursday, just saying.....

... as was Jefte, and even Ridvan late on. We need to get Danilo and Igamane on, fit and raring to go. Dessers scores his goals, but he's not exactly a prime centre-forward to drag you out of every game. And like every striker, he has his "downtime". Still, nothing I would sleep about. We have the players, we just need to get them played correctly for every game.

Top two candidates for MOTM withdrawn. Time for a Dessers hatrick to steal the award 😀

Igamaradona!!

Who cares? The BBC wouldn't be so analytical about the merits of the opposition if it was another Scottish team. Or their beloved Celtic.

At the beginning teams in the English league had to get permission from their FA I think Chelsea got stopped from entering.