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The magic hat is fully committed to stopping ten?

Update. I was wrong when I said we had never played Millwall Just stumbled across this Millwall Athletic 5, Rangers 1 1st April 1899 RGS Jimmy Oswald Att, 7000 The match appears to be part of a wee tour of England, we beat Liverpool and Southampton either side of the Millwall game.

Same old movie. Waited until the last ten minutes to show a bit of urgency. Failure to win these games is why we have won nothing and will continue to win nothing under Gerrard. Hes turning into Warburton mark II - plan B is to make plan A slightly better or not as is the case most of the time

Wasn't until injury time we decided to up the pace of the game or even go a bit more direct which seemed to work once or twice. Before that continual slow passes between the centre backs and the midfield pivots does not break a low block. When will the manager learn the lesson we need to sacrifice one of Jack or Kamara in these games. He talks about the players being brave on the ball, he needs to be brave in selection.

Terrible performance, hope the players get a good boot up the arse from the manager for their woeful attitude today

The Hollicom Pool of Talent? Where to begin? Wednesday has 3 SPFL fixtures, Rangers are at home against St Johnstone so PQ sat Billy Dodds on the naughty step to watch Rangers TV. DrStu' was at pains to tell us all that Clive Tyldesley had a fifty a day habit of mentioning England's 1966 World Cup win during each commentary. Billy did not confirm, in fact said very little other than to offer brief half-time and full time reports. Pat Bonner was at a loss, used to talking exclusively Sellik, he was sent to Fir Park. The question of ra Sellik possibly fielding an illegible player at Rugby Park was NEVER going to be aired on PQ, so Pat had no Hollicom provided script. He observed the faceless cardboard cut-outs in the Fir Park stands and decided they were away fans and they outnumbered the home supporters? Big Dick had to intervene, of course he had made a complete cunt of the faceless cut-outs at the weekend, he thought they were representative of dead folk . Motherwell have entered into an agreement with a mental health charity and agreed to the faceless effigies to represent those folk in sufferance who go missing each and every year. Maybe PQ should consider replacing both Pat and Big Dick with faceless cardboard cut-outs? You would think Pat would be comfortable with closed stands, he was working for BBC Scotland during Ronnie Deila's tenure at ra Stade de Gadd. Wednesday night's Sportscene also drew on the Hollicom pool of talent. The two guests were Stephen McGinn, grandson of former Sellik Chair, Jack McGinn and James McFadden. Last night's Sportscene had Julie Fleeting rawking the big white sannies. Clearly, Sellik's TV's Michael Stewart had paddled across the Olympic size pool in the sannies and provided Julie with the necessary flotation. Tune in to tonight's show to find out who is replete in the perfectly balanced Hollicom provided footwear? If you read back on this thread, a big part of it was the weekly media review on PQ, involving DrStu' and Dr Eamonn O'Neill. A decade of no balance saw the show moved off the national megaphone, and on to Talk Media Podcast. Friday had Angela Haggerty on with ra twa' nationalists, ooooohhh all warm and fuzzy. They discussed John Swinney and the SQA, and all arrived at the conclusion that John should not resign, should not face a vote of no confidence, because the people of Scotland don't really want it. The tartan trio are imbued with such arrogance that they speak for the common weal. Angela's Twitter feed is excellent, everyday we see another Sellik minded type stepping soaking wet out of the Hollicom pool. As well as Cosgrove and O'Neill being bigged up by Angela, she reveals her new born son, Francis has former Sellik View Editor, Kevin McKenna as his Godfather. Of course, Kevin was allowed to resign that particular designation, in light of the revelation he thought the IRA bombing of the Enniskillen cenotaph was, "a legitimate act of war". Recently, a number of photographs have surfaced of Kevin happily posing with a number of Sellik Boys' club officials, currently in the jail. Further, the benefits of swimming in the Hollicom pool has seen both DrStu' and Kevin pitch up as columnists on the National. Yesterday's Off the Ball had Davie Farrell as the guest, today's show has Connie McLaughlin as the contributor. Even when Sellik are not playing, you have to establish your Sellik supporting credentials to have an opportunity at a PQ standard of life. Michael Stewart appeared on Sportsound on Saturday, he banged on about the unfair nature of the SPFL's dealings with the Aberdeen Eight and Bolingoli. Why were Hearts told to cease training? Further, why was Hull City training at the same facility in Edinburgh allowed to continue training? Well, he would NOT be allowed to voice off on such matters on Sellik TV. Actually, on PQ no one listened. Finally, a wee bon mot from yesterday. Jason Leitch was on for 40 minutes again, I don't know if he's dropped the Professor bit or maybe the SQA have downgraded him? However, he provided the Scottish Government guidelines across the spectrum. The question not asked by DrStu', was asked by Big Dick right at the end of his contribution. He wanted to know if anything was stopping Hearts moving to Hull to continue their training? A stuttering Jason offered, "the First Minister wouldn't like it". Anyways, ra Sellik are back on CL qualifying duty during midweek. The Blarney Bhoys will be reunited at ra Stade de Gadd and no one will deviate from the Hollicom provided script. The Icelanders will also be told not to even think about raising the question of ineligibility of players. The precedence set by ra Sellik against both Legia Warsaw and Sion must not be recalled. The Hollicom pool surface must always remain calm.

Today's game (and games of this ilk) are all about tempo for me. My team talk would focus on going for it from the first whistle and winning the game by half time. No more probing with sideways passing and let's see what happens. Go for the jugular from the off with quick passing from Hagi, Kent and Aribo. There is nothing more disheartening than going in 0-0 at HT away to Livingston. You just know the 2nd half will be a frought affair with our players playing under unnecessary pressure. Games like today have been our downfall over the last few seasons so let's get out there and make a marker while the mhanks are on the naughty step.

Livi's argument would be that they are not paid to entertain us - they are paid to get results

Kamara is just too slow. There was a point where he was on the left wing with Borna infront of him ready to run on, and he just hesitates for half a second before passing by which point the moment has gone - that half a second is what lets Borna get forward and put a cross in. We are always wasting half a second before passing, all over the park, but Kamara is particularly guilty of it. It's extremely frustrating. Passing to feet slowly isn't going to break anyone down.

Must admit I never witnessed any of this “intentionally encouraging violent play” which was stated. Wonder if Gary Holt got the message ? Livvy player within the confines of the game and I can’t say I saw even one foul from them that would constitute violent play, let along intentional violent play. Maybe JFK’s crystal ball needs some cleaning ?

Yep, but we also knew that is what we were going to be up against. We knew we would have to break down a low block with virtually the full team in that low block. We waited too long to change things. But even then we had a couple of chances that on another day would have been taken. Bad day at the office but nothing lost. Just disappointing to not apply pressure to Celtic.

As someone who has "liked" Chelsea since early 80's and who has always had a warm welcome whenever I've visited / attended Chelsea games, historically, if Rangers have a relationship with an English (or London club) it's undoubtedly with Arsenal!

What would call a person who continuously doubles down on failed tactics? A genius? A premier tactician? Quality? How many times you watched this same game over the past three years? How many times has it been the EXACT same thing? And guess what...the result we got last year...we're gonna get again. Rangers fans need to stop lovin the car...and start lookin at the performance.

It's kind of disappointing that we are squandering this opportunity to put pressure on Celtic so early. In fact it's very disappointing but it feels very inevitable.

God Almighty this is awful.

Hagi has been very disappointing. He's clearly a talented lad but absolutely nothing is coming off for him. In saying that, at least he has put pressure on the opposition after goving away the ball, he's trying but it's just not working.

The Cricket has been more exciting, and that's been rained off for the last three days.

Simply not good enough

Oh-- it's Crocker and Walker... Mute!

Didn’t realise that Celtic’s next match is away to Dundee Utd. As much as I dislike Dundee Utd they have started very well on their return to the top flight and that won’t be an easy game for Celtic. All the more important that we win our next two games, put the points on the board, and apply as much pressure as humanly possible to them.

Aribo has a “slight knock”

Guardiola's fault then. There's no chance UEFA will retain the one leg knock out. The CL is run by the big clubs in the big leagues and this would only lessen their chances of continually getting to the latter stages.

What do people think of this "knock out" format? I know it was a compromise born out of Covid, but I have enjoyed all 4 ties immensely. Just wonder if it destroys some of the negativity of the two leg approach??

I watched it with six other Rangers supporters and three of them were screaming at the TV. I'm beyond that. I just look on thinking, 'I expected that.'. Livvy played exactly as I expected. Rangers played exactly as I expected.

The number of times you are screaming (at the TV ) give it now and give it there. it takes about a minute longer and three passes later to get to where the fecking thing should of went in the first place. I think what is more annoying for me is, we watched this a year ago and, probably two years ago and the same things happen week after week after week

No solutions that were used ... up till the last mins of extra time. We know what will unfold, so why not pack the attack and midfield. I do not know what SG expected from Livi today, but after 30 mins it was clear that nothing was the answer. We should have removed one DM from the fray early doors, send on a winger and/or striker. Likewise, Arfield brought no threat whatsoever, why keep him or actually play him? Of course, you do expect a fight from Livi, but there was none forthcoming. I dare not to hear his comments on the game, for I reckon they will be the same as ever after such games. Which makes it even more frustrating. The only consolation is that they will make it equally hard to the Scum.

Are you okay?

Opportunity missed today, but it’s just not football on that surface which mimics something between hot tar and ice, absolutely abysmal. I think it’s best to put that behind us, I’m certainly not going to judge the potential of our players or season on that game on that surface.

I'm starting to think we'll never win the league if we perservere with Jack and Kamara in midfield. It's just too slow for me. There were so many times we could play quick balls but Jack/Kamara are happy to just saunter and it kills any tempo

Unfortunately, that wasn't possible. The match did remind me a wee bit of the first 15 minutes of Saving Private Ryan due to the sheer scale of violence aimed at our players. It was Hellish in there and I'm surprised there were no fatalities.

Forget the three wins this looks more like a continuation of the second half of last seasons league performances a bit like that movie Groundhog day .

The players were poor. But, I must say, I have to blame the manager and coaches too: what were we trying to do today? We created nothing, and didn't look like creating anything. It's the same issue. Come on? One positive, which doesn't count for much, was I thought we defended very well.

They're so terrified of doing anything. We get in behind, then Kent keeps hold of it for another half and hour, letting them get set, then loses it by trying to beat everyone. I'd say get Kent off, but I've got him as fgs.

Of course, its always been like that at Livingston, so expecting anything different from them is hopeless. BTW, you WOULD hope that when Kamara and Jack get forward, the actually try a shot themselves.

We have to inject tempo, we must get in behind, we must go in where it hurts. We are not drawing fouls in and around the Livi' box. Let's run at them, draw tackles, we have not worked their keeper. We have been here before, drawing zero-zero at half-time in Livi' is most dispiriting. We need a player to grip the situation.

We have had 78% possession, but have threatened Livingston's goal about as much as Livingston has threatened ours. And that, my friends, is pish.

In games like this we need 2 up front where we’ve got so much possession.

Plan A again ... failing again.

It’s amateurish to have 25% of top flight pitches being plastic. No wonder people laugh at Scottish football

Mon The Rangers! ??

Possibly a minor problem, but one not to be risked on that abortion of a playing surface?

I was wondering the same thing. Odd leaving him out entirely if he's not.

Someone's started early...

City looked a bit off the boil and Guardiola made a bit of an arse of it with his tactics (the game was lost in midfield). The thought of PSG vs RB Leipzig in a European Cup semi final is a bit grim. I think it'll be an all-German final.

Is it wise to risk Helander on that pitch after he has just returned from injury? maybe Edmundson should start?

Poor choice of words on my part. I wasnt intending to infer the 4 were not trying, clearly they were, but the game died away with the changes we made and instead of racking up a few more goals, we really saw the game out, which disappointed me and I am sure quite a lot of fellow Bears as well. I still put a lot of the dips in tempo down mainly to the empty stadiums and lack of atmosphere. This is something we have to find a way of overcoming. We are not the only side struggling to find a way round this of course, simply the only one I care about.

Gary Holt is a trained professional soldier. His conditioning was provided by a much under valued area of military endeavour. A product of the Army Catering Corps depot at Aldershot, that flaming urns cap badge and regimental motto, 'we sustain'. They are instructed in producing culinary triumphs such as : Pilchard Pizza, All In Stew, and Turkey Curry; whilst replete in a battle bowler. Vicious bastards, the lot of them. If you meet one, put two rapid into him, you won't regret it. In my time, those Army Catering Corps types attached to the Parachute Regiment, all arrived with appropriate nicknames, 'Socks Simpson', 'Boots Hughes', Clattie Shaw', and 'Wullie the Heid'. Such monikers filled you with confidence in terms of food preparation.

We played 8 friendlies in season 2006/7 and Millwall wasn't amongst them ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006–07_Rangers_F.C._season#Friendlies ... unless, maybe, it was a closed-doors bounce game against a Rangers XI at Murray Park or the like.