Tannochsidebear

I thought this was an easy one, big Souttar was immense, don’t think he lost a duel all day and the block near the end saved 2 points. He was everything that Goldson was not. Yilmaz contributed well but still defended poorly at times, Butland had yet another good game, Lundstrum was pick of midfield and Dessers probably had his best game for us. Despite it being a terrible game, I felt we had a few good individual performances.

St Mirren 0 Rangers 3 fgs Silva

hibs 1 rangers 2 fgs Tav

I think that sums it up perfectly.

Dumbarton 0 Rangers 4 fgs Dessers

Glad the game is on, looking forward to it. Hopefully we come out the traps all guns blazing after the winter break. We have had a few seasons ruined by the winter break in the last few years, cannot afford to slip up this time with so much to play for.

Yet more evidence that pre-season or mid-season friendlies should all be behind closed doors with no tv pictures. They are there for fitness and essentially to break up the boredom of a training camp. Couldn’t care a jot about the result or performance, I just want to know that we didn’t pick up any injuries. The proof of a good pre or mid season is how well you do when the real action restarts.

Absolutely, but I think the exact same of paying £38,000 a week to Goldson. That makes me sick. It is completely reckless for a club of our income to be blowing £2M a year on a centre half. I'd love the person who sanctioned that to be fired but I guess they are long gone. Surely with our income stream there should be nobody on more than £25Kpw?

Good news. Now lets move on to getting the rest of Beale's duds moved on, plus the always crocked lot that offer us no future as well, and make room and wages for some players that will contribute towards celebrating a treble in May.

It shouldn’t be hard to section off a turnstile/toilet etc. if it costs a few quid so be it, it would be worth it to keep opposing fans from being seen and heard. Stick the UB up there too come to think of it!

I have said this for years, all away fans should be in the furthest corner of the stadium (i.e. the worst seats) harder to be on the tv or be heard. This is in line with what we find all over Europe when we travel to away games and I have never understood why we give visiting supporters a prime viewing location.

Dont normally take much for granted in these threads, all of the names that get mentioned for weeks and from all sorts of sources, then in come Silva with nobody mentioning it until it was done. I am delighted we have now gone back to not leaking all these things and just getting on with it and getting our work done. Although I am trying not to get too excited by reading that Yilmaz and Lammers might be leaving, but that would be fantastic. Any rumours of offers for Goldson? A bear can live in hope you know. What a treble that would be for January!

I wouldn't place a penny on them adhering to the flags down during play. Having been in about them on several occasions at away games and asked them to put the flags down during play, all you get back is abuse and ignored. Then they want everyone to join in on a sit down jump up moment and get annoyed when you wont reciprocate. But what atmosphere are they generating. All I hear is that bloody drum, and some infantile made up songs about players who have done nothing in the Rangers careers to date to merit such adulation. To me it doesnt add anything to the atmosphere, just some background noise. Atmosphere at the games is generated when the team is playing well and the crowd join in and sometimes when the referee is cheating and the crowd rise in defiance/annoyance. At very big games it can sometimes work the other way around. I would suggest it has very little to do with that corner. Trying to respect the other fans who want to watch the game instead of filming themselves would be a good start.

haha I wouldnt go that far! I understand many want wee donner boy to come good (me included) but just focusing on a couple of decent forward runs and ignoring his actual role in the team (to defend against wingers) is stretching things too far. Add in his constant giving away the ball in his own half (usually 3 times in first 10 mins, but again improvements have shown it was 18 mins at the Piggery and only 2 on the first 10 v Killie!) and i am not the slightest bit convinced we have a player here worth keeping. Just my thoughts and I would still have him before Goldson!

Pleased for the disabled section and additional seating. Long overdue and a good start, not a finish, to what is required. Absolutely disgusted that they are bringing the nedsRus section into the Copland. The corner of the Broomie isnt even far enough away for that goddam awful drum and their silly wee songs. For their dreadful disruptive and agressive behaviour they are being rewarded with some of the best seats in the house. A total waste as most of the wee neds dont even watch the game, they watch themselves and film bits on their phones. I have been near enough to them on plenty of away games to make these observations. I dont see how waving a flag is encouraging the team to play while the ball is in play. All it is doing is obstructing the view of Rangers fans who actually want to watch the team play. Incredible capitulation by the club. Its almost as if they think the great atmosphere at the big Euro games was down to them and not the other 49,000 supporters who made the noise on those occasions. If it was all down to them then surely the atmosphere would be good every week? Newsflash, it isnt. It is just an irritable drumbeat throughout the game adding nothing to the atmosphere. Thankfully im halfway up the Rear section in the Copland stand so apart from that feckin drum and being able to hear more of their monotone chants, I shouldnt be too affected by it, but I pity anyone in the Copland front who wants to see the game.

While I agree that going forward, small donner had his best match, but defensively he was terrible. I was watching him closely in the first half and 4 times he wasn’t one v one with the Killie winger and he failed every time with 3 good crosses coming into our box and the other the man went by him but was stopped by another defender. Nowhere near good enough, hope the rumours of some Turkish lira being bid to take him home are true. Butland for me, the one crucial save at 0-0 when Killie were on top prevented what could have been points dropped as I couldn’t see us getting anything if they scored first. A few players had half-decent performances in patches (the 3 goalscorers in particular) but Killie always make the beautiful game look ugly so I’m just happy we got the 3 points and don’t need to play them again for a while.

Rangers 2 Kilmarnock 0 fgs Tav (is there anyone else looking like scoring these days?)

Bheasts 1 Bears 2 fgs Sima

So is this guy a proper goal scoring centre forward or a wide forward like Sima? Whats his goals/assists numbers like? If we are paying a loan fee plus full wages for a guy that cost 35M it’s going to be a very expensive loan.

What a great picture that is, it shows it perfectly. Get that in front of Kettlewell and ask for his apology. McFadden, Sutton etc too.

Really disappointing for the game to be off. Wanted to be top of the league for New Year! Another fixture to catch up on now later in the year. This is always the problem with a good Euro run, you end up having to cram in games at the business end of the season, and that never ends well. I see the moon-howlers are claiming conspiracy online, to give us more time to prepare for the OF game. We really do have them worried about this, we must come out the traps all guns blazing and put them away on Saturday. It could lead to another Shark-gate meltdown, which would be fun!

Balogun an easy pick for me but impressive performances by Cantwell, Dowell, & Sterling. Good to have a few to pick from.

Just about to leave for the match. We must keep the momentum going and get the 3 points today. Not sure who is fit to play but Well are not in great form so hopefully we score early and see it out.

Motherwell 0 Rangers 2 fgs Sima

2-1 Rangers fgs Tavernier