ascender
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I still think bringing Hemdani in would have been worth a go this season as our defence has been well shaky since day one and we've given away some very slack goals. Giving them more protection might have helped, even though it would have meant us playing a bit more of a negative formation even in the SPL. As for Beasley, I thought he had potential to do a job for us and still do, but there's no doubt he's gone off the boil. He was never the finished article, but I thought once he settled and had a run in the team he'd give us some pace & width.
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I don't understand having someone like Hemdani in the squad and not using him as the guy is obviously talented. He could have come in as a direct replacement for Thomson when he got injured but unfortunately Ferguson came back then and that was that. I also don't understand not giving Beasley a run on the left. I thought he did fairly well for us last season before getting injured and while many have said he's too lightweight, I thought the exact opposite. He got stuck in and looked much more determined than many wingers I've seen recently, not to say he wasn't afraid of having a pop at goal. Where did it all go wrong for him? Its strange when you see the list of players WS has signed and how few are actually regulars for us. Scary when you see just how much they've cost as well. If a few of them were for the future then why weren't they loaned back to the clubs we signed them from or put out on loan elsewhere for example?
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The whole Gow thing has just been baffling, even moreso now that he's obviously impressed during his loan spell and still isn't deemed good enough for us. I could understand it if we were 12 points clear at the top and cruising, but we're not. Oh well, good luck to the lad.
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I don't have anything personal against Ferguson, he was one of my favourite players before he left, but he's just not playing well enough or showing the leadership we should get from our captain. Regardless of his part in the PLG affair, I don't think its right that he walked straight back in to the team, particularly as he wasn't playing well before he was injured.
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Newcastle prepare �£4.5m offer for Rangers defender Bougherra
ascender replied to johnnyk's topic in Rangers Chat
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Not David Healy again.... I expect us to be linked with Robbie Fowler within the day.
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So we paid 1M for this guy, he looked good in pre-season and now he's disappeared from our plans. How on earth can WS justify that kind of waste of money time and time again? The old boys act with SDM and WS looks like getting us in to all sorts of trouble.
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Rangers put �£7.5million price tag on keeper McGregor
ascender replied to johnnyk's topic in Rangers Chat
What a load of nonsense. We might have got that for him last season but at the moment he's worth about half of that going on his current form! -
The Guardian reckon Newcastle are interested in him.
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Don't get me wrong, I wasn't having a go at him whatsoever. He just got the best deal possible for him. That's the thing, a few of us commented on that at the time, but this just seems to be further proof that we're now going back to paying over the odds for players wages. And given JCD's track record, I can't believe we had to pay him a lot to come here in the first place.
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I HATE the transfer window. I wish I could just ignore all press and websites until its closed again but curiosity gets the better of me. We've been linked with Neilson for years now. The guy seems to be pretty inconsistent, but I suppose he's an experienced SPL player and more importantly, it would be good to have an actual RB playing at RB. As for Miller, no thanks. I don't think I need to explain why
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How on earth can the medial team not pick up on a player being ill? Surely their normal (and hopefully daily) monitoring of players fitness would have picked this up? Or at least a sign of it like his resting heart rate being higher than normal? Ridiculous. Someone's at it.
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Another one from the Evening Times. What I find strange in all of this is that you've got an experienced manager, who's an older man, who let this situation get out of control instead of dealing with it at the time. He then behaved very immaturely and childishly with many of his comments to the media (as did his assistant), so you could only assume that they didn't give a stuff about Boyd. At the time it was also pointed out that his reasons for not playing Boyd were completely unfounded as there were many others on the park who had played for their teams less than Boyd had done for us. Meanwhile Boyd has been playing very well for us and has made marked improvements in all aspects of his game. Over at Hampden Park, the national side are still dropping points. Suddenly you have Butcher and now Burley talking about a return for Boyd. But it seems that even now they can't be the bigger men and put things behind them as both have made comments which aren't quite the olive branch they might seem at first. Butcher says that Boyd must first apologise while Burley now comes out and has obviously told the Herald that Boyd needs to improve his attitude. So basically they still think they're blameless in all of this. I'd love to see Boyd playing for Scotland again, but to be honest, I wouldn't blame him if he told them to stick it.
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And are we still living outwith our means while chasing impossible dreams? Look at what JCD has to say about his time here. Maybe its just me, but I find it very worrying that we paid a player like him so much cash. I thought we had our wage budget under control after Bain sorted it out a few years ago. If we are still paying big money on wages, should I be unduly worried about our overall financial stability? The latest figures made for depressing reading and given the lack of success on the park, does this not just confirm that the club is being run in a very risky way again? Did SDM not learn anything from what happened when DA was here?
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Happy New Year all!
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Like others have said, that just makes him an ideal signing for us.
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Has Webster been playing on loan or has he been injured again?
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But that "article" is only a one-line thing, I don't understand how it justifies calling the guy an idiot, that's all, let alone knowing what context the line was said in. Two names which spring to mind are Daniel Cousin and Nacho Novo. Cousin did his best to put us out of the UEFA Cup, then did the same thing against Dundee United a few weeks later, not to mention the fact he couldn't get away from here quick enough. Also while I rate Novo, he's got a real petulant streak in him and has been prone to blatant diving, some awful tackles and again, when we were chasing the title against Aberdeen, got sent off needlessly. There's two guys who can do no wrong in some supporters eyes while players like Adam attract stick no matter what they do.
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I think we all said on here during the summer that WS seemed to be signing the wrong players in terms of the positions we needed cover for. Its depressing to see so many players being played out of position with many more simply not being given a chance to show what they can do at all.
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Just trying to stay positive I just think calling him an idiot isn't right, that's all. As far as Adam goes, I think he's one of a number of payers just now where there's more going on than we know about. We don't know how he's doing in training, how he's applying himself etc. Besides, the "story" was a one sentence quote with no context whatsoever which is why i think its harsh to call the guy an idiot. Especially as he's one of our players. Other players have done far worse than that on the pitch for us recently and seem to be immune to criticism.
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Nothing wrong with that statement imo, at least he wants to be here and is talking positively.
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Deportivo are now being linked with him.
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I thought that too. While I've never been that impressed by Black and he picks up his fair share of bookings, at least it would give us a terrier (I hate that word but you know what I mean) sort of player in the midfield, snapping at players ankles and playing with a bit of urgency. As for the Shiels thing, its been doing the rounds for a while, but most people reckoned it was just agent talk.
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So taking Adam as an example, where did it all go wrong? Is he just not applying himself in training? Not taking his diet and extra fitness training seriously? Is he not getting the coaching he needs to bring him on to the next level? Its just that he clearly has talent, but seems to have gone backwards over the last while rather than improving to the point where he can't even get the basics right. The same could be said of Whittaker who looked like one of the best young players in the SPL before he joined us.
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He's someone else I'd like to see at Ibrox, but like you say, maybe he's been out of the game for too long now.