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"it gets tiresome, Rangers supporters saying Stuart is a Rangers hater". The above was said last Saturday by Tam Cowan. It's January 11th, and we are midway through the show when a contrived link is utilised to prove DrStu' does not hate Rangers. Rene Guttuso's name is raised and we are informed both Tam and DrStu' met Rene in the Hilton after signing for Rangers. DrStu' remembers getting Guttuso to hold up his St Johnstone scarf, having fun, and liking the young lad! In it's twenty-sixth year, Off the Ball is indulging in some revisionism. Gennaro played for Rangers for eighteen months in 1997 and '98, he made thirty-odd appearances, scoring three goals. He was a popular figure among the Rangers support. Off the Ball had been going for 3-4 years at that period and habitually referred to both Rangers and Rangers supporters as "H-u-ns". It was the common currency of the show then. They commissioned weekly sketches from BBC Scotland's Comedy Unit, and Gattuso appeared regularly as, "the little hairy monkey". He was portrayed as a stupid monkey continually at odds with modern life. No hesitation in BBC Scotland exercising an already existing stereotype. DrStu' gets excited and when he does he becomes garrulous. He cannot help himself, and in particular he offered, "if Gattuso was in any way a decent prospect as a player, he wouldn't be at Rangers". You can file that one under knowing three separate Rangers supporting season ticket holders who no longer attend Ibrox because they do not believe it's the same club. Gattuso in his career won 73 caps for Italy, securing both the World Cup and Euro championship. Further, at club level he won the Champions League twice and several domestic honours. I can only imagine this latest piece of theatrical revisionism has came about because DrStu' has come into contact with Gennaro's Glasgow born wife, Monica? Keep up the Scare! The beginning of last week's football broadcast from the PQ Gang Hut was DrStu' and Tam reminding the listenership of events from a fortnight before. The first words were, "does Scottish football need saved by Steven Gerrard"? We had five minutes describing the gesticulations of Morelos and Kent at ra Sellik Park. Both DrStu' and Tam pleaded for Rangers supporters to consider these players reactions in reverse, what if Sellik supporters had cut their throats and shot off imaginary guns in front of Rangers supporters? Remember, Lennon was demanding a scrapping of Liam Christie's two match ban and a full apology. Why was this not discussed; as opposed to a number of PQ employees questioning Derek McInnes, Ian McCall, and Robbie Neilson as to their need for saving? Knowing what we know today, I am becoming more convinced DrStu' knew what was coming to both Kent and Morelos last week, and it was all about preparation, a fortnight after the event. DrStu' enjoys being on the establishment side. The Man in the Know. The other man in the know by proxy inside PQ these days, is Michael Stewart. Regularly, he is indulged and allowed to batter Craig Levein. More regularly, he has a waiting expectant audience enjoying his, "I don't like the way Rangers do things as a club". He spent fifteen minutes demanding answers to Ryan Christie's citing by the Compliance Officer. He wanted to know who, why, and when cited. No answer from both Daryll Broadfoot and a recently retired Ref'(didn't catch his name) was enough. He talked, then shouted over both adversaries; even pulling both up short for their usage of English. Given his own power of communication is such, I was surprised with his concluding, "if Ryan Christies grabbing out for balance is a red, then the game is a bogey". To bring this up to date, today we have heard nothing of Morelos or Kent. No one is being saved and the Gattuso guff was just a big lie. There is a price to pay for defeating the favoured establishment club in their own midden. The Gang Hut will take as long as it takes to collect the toll.

Football, in general, is over-analysed nowadays. It was a cup game. We fielded a weakened team and won, with a bit of huffing and puffing. That's about it.

4th official?? Or more likely give Separate Entity FC time to go through the whole match again then instruct the ref to act!

I disagree with a lot of what you say here but this is a good post and helps discuss the other side of the argument. We have players who are expected to be able to come in and replace others in our system. Most of those who did come in last night failed to show they have what it takes. Where we differ is that I think that does deserve criticism but I understand your perspective. If these players cannot break down the brick wall of Stranraer, how can they be expected to break down the walls of Aberdeen, Hibs, Killie, St Mirren, etc? Also, I understand why people think that two strikers is more attacking than one, but it really isn't. Our 4-3-3 or 4-3-2-1 is one of the most attacking setups I've ever seen so that's not the problem. The problem is that we don't have enough quality in the likes of Jones, Ojo, Halliday to make the most of our tactics. If ever there was a reminder of just how fragile our team is, it was last night. If we lose Kent, or Morelos, or Tav, or Barisic, or two or more of our midfielders, we are in big trouble. If Gerrard decides to cash in on Barker, Jones, and Halliday, or if he sends Ojo back, I'll not be bothered in the slightest. There's no point in having backups if they can't perform when required. As you all know, I was against Patterson coming in but once again it shows that the management team know what they're doing. He came in and performed so there can be no excuse from the fringe players about lack of game time or match sharpness. He did it because he committed. The others either didn't commit or don't make have the quality. Either way that means their days with us should be numbered. Ojo in particular frustrates me. Like Ejaria, he has all the skill but lacks the mentality to be at a club like ours. I am continually reminded (normally because the manager proves me wrong) that he knows what he's doing and I trust him. I am also reminded on nights like last night just how much work he still has to do to create a championship winning squad. We have a championship winning team but we are quite some way off having a squad capable of challenging in all competitions.

Tough call between this and Kent's goal at the Piggery. Both similar in their rapid, fluid execution.

Nice to see Gerrard not mincing his words about those senior players who didn't step up. The bar for entry into the first team has been seriously ratcheted up this season and I think the likes of Barker and Ojo will be looking for a new club before too long. They simply aren't good enough for where Gerrard wants Rangers to go and it sounds like he's not afraid to cut the dead wood from our squad if he knows there are better options available. If we want sustained success this is the only way to go.

I will give this some thought

Find it hard to believe we would spend that money on a player who has played all his senior career in the second tier of French football. Scored 22 goals in 107 appearances according to Wikipedia.

What price a league title? I can't wait to find out.

I don’t think so ever saw a title-winning Rangers team that’s didn’t occasionally turn in the sort of display we saw yesterday. I think we’re in danger of over-analysing our situation and reaching too many final conclusions about certain players - the same sort of conclusions we were only recently reaching about Barisic and Katic.

Hopefully that statement truly is just a placeholder. The statement next week had better be far, far better. Weve done well of late with our statements hitting the mark, hopefully this one does too. Still would have liked to have seen us ban The Sun for their xenophobic columnist

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I'd be happy to be one of your proposers, Stevie.

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As per title, we played a closed doors game against Queen of the South, winning 4-1 From the snippets out there: Line up McGregor - Flanagan, Goldson, Mayo, Barisic - Kamara, Barjonas, Polster, Ojo - Kent Morelos Goals: Morelos 2, Kent & Ojo

I'd like to hear what Lee Wallace has to say about his Rangers career, particularly what happened after that match at Hampden. Beyond that, I find football players' tales about their careers to be generic, tick-box exercises. Some of my favourite players have turned out to be opportunists, with little interest in anything but prolonging the milking process.

I think the difference between Negri and Sebo ,was that Negri scored for fun ,but looked like he wanted to be anywhere else ,..whereas Sebo absolutely loved being at Rangers , but couldn't score.

I've just watched the Celtic game back and have a question. What powers are open to a referee and how do they come to a decision like yellow carding Morelos for his 'gesture'? The reason I ask this is because it's clear that the referee didn't react at all at the time. So, when did he yellow card him? Can a referee yellow card him an hour after the game when he's been influenced, or does it need to be done at the time? I really don't understand this. I can understand how the SFA can (and will) use its powers, but how can Morelos be given a third yellow card for that incident? It seems utterly bizarre to me.

To be fair to Jones though, he was playing very well prior to injury. He’s easing himself back to fitness. Id be looking to get rid of Barker and Ojo in the first instance. Ojo has something but doesn’t produce it often enough. Barker offers virtually nothing. I was more impressed by Kennedy in his 10 minute cameo than I was with Barker

I read it here: https://twitter.com/CoplandRoadOrg/status/1218248831835549696?s=20

Have to love their honesty ?

Straight to the point - can't wait for the further statement. Let's Go for the jugular here Rangers

Let's just close this one down. @Briton, for some reason you re-opened a dying thread with a response to a post which was made over two weeks ago. @Gonzo79 then replied with an attempt at humour. You may not have laughed but it didn't warrant your response in my opinion. I think this has been done to death now. Clancy has given a statement about it. I agree with his version of events, but even if anyone doesn't, it's in the past so let's move on. We've got an important sequence of league games coming up and they're more worthy of our debate now. I know I'd rather read about all of your opinions on that.

It is worrying that the manager says such stuff. Getting a bit of perspective here : - We totally dominated a game against 10 defence-minded players. Games we have had similar performances before, by our starting brigade. 33-0 shot, 10-0 on target, 12-0 corners. We seemingly moan on a high level here. - The gaffer deemed it worthwhile to stick to his one-striker line up against this. We all know what was coming, so did he. Was it adjusted? Nope. - He threw in Halliday and Barker from essentially no-where, assuming that they gel. Same with Jones after months out with injury. BTW, in case people missed it before, Jones and Barker are not skill-wizards, they work with space, pace and their directness. How much of that did they get? Against Tashkent Jones got space and was far more effective. - Credit is being heaped on Patterson, who did well. But he was essentially not tested and was thus given quite bit of freedom to bomb forward. Dunno, but it doesn't sit well with me when we hardly ever give the "fringe" players any real chance to shine, then throw them in against the ultimate brick wall and expect them to ran them down and over (in a way that the first row usually doesn't do either). And then, straight after the match, come up with these remarks? When the bucket should also stop with those selecting players for every game and tactics for every game at hand. Out of my head I can remember but one or two games where we adjusted the formation according to the opposition at hand and cast the "4-3-3" aside. Obviously, as Stewart was out injured, a second striker was not to be, even though we could have played Aribo or even Jones there.

Yes; they've been good in the Euro and now their form seems to have picked up domestically.

They won at Wolves and drew at home after being 3-1 down at half-time.

Tedious affair to watch partly because there was a total lack of urgency to the play but I suppose we might expect that in a case like this. No refection on Stranraer for that they were never in it and in fact I don't recall them registering a single shot even off target nor even a corner. They did nothing with their possession superiority. ? It played out almost entirely in their half with an air of inevitability that the ball had to go into their net at some point which it ultimately did, twice. Then it was over. Thankfully. Stranraer get their money we move on to the real business on Wednesday.

The BBC have rigged the possession stats for the last two league home games. 50-50 when Rangers dominated all other metrics.

But far the best exponent of the 30 yard thunderbolt I ever saw was actually John Greig, who I must have seen bury a dozen or more.

Utterly pathetic by the bias, corrupt, incompetent @ScottishFA , no wonder Scottish football is the laughing stock of world football #pennstatejustice for decades of paedophile ring at Separate Entity FC 100+ victims

And that is exactly the defence to be used on 6th Feb. Our behaviour was no more than getting a little excited after our first win at the midden of our rivals in many years. Remind me how much Hibs got fined after the SC final, or how much the bheasts got fined after every victory against us when they can help themselves but shove it in our faces? We should get exactly the same fine as that.

But when Neil Lennon, Leigh Griffiths or Scott Brown do it...…. ?

He sure can, but so too can I. I would suspect that neither of us is of the required standard. We do have Flanagan and Polster though. (NB: That's sarcastic mode, BTW.)

Character building