Tannochsidebear

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

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2-1 Rangers

fgs Tavernier

Interesting line up. Surely last chance saloon for Lammers. Irrespective of result I want to see a good shape and a proper fighting spirit right to the end. 

Rangers 4 Dundee 0

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I was £55.60 for 8 pints of lager at the Hydro last Friday for the Madness gig, £6.95 each in a horrible paper cup.

Rangers 3 st Mirren 0

fgs Lawrence

Rangers 3 Limassol 1

fgs Danilo

Really looking forward to seeing a defensive partnership which is minus Goldson, as for me he is still the weakest link in our line-up. Although I'm hoping our central defenders have a fairly easy night, and we score early and book our place in the knock-out rounds with a comfortable win.

Big game for Cifuentes today getting his opportunity due to Jack getting injured with Scotland again. Happy that Dessers & Lammers miss out, it’s good to start with 11 men. Let’s get this done early and send out the message that we are definitely going to challenge for the title. 

Dolly 1 Rangers 3

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3 hours ago, Gribz said:

It just shows how brilliant Richard Gough was. When you think after Butcher left he practically got a new centre half partner every season and had to adapt. My count is Kuznetzov, John Brown, Big Slim McPherson, Alan McLaren, Gordon Petric and Jocky Bjorkland. Have I left any out? Even Amoruso was signed in 97 for Gough' last season but didnt kick a ball. 

 

 

Basil Boli?

It was not my intention to make out that if this period didnt go well I would be calling for Clement's head. Absolutely not, I like what I have seen and heard so far. Clement himself has quoted this upcoming block of games in such a short period being really important. Many other managers break down the season into blocks between international breaks, or running up to a winter break.

I wanted to just point out that if this period goes well, we will go into the second half of the season with massive optimism, and if it doesnt, our season will essentially be over and the rebuilding will begin, again, but at least this time with an experienced top class manager to back and decent, attacking football to watch. I dont think it is possible for there to be much of a middle ground in this, we either gain ground on the tims and beat them at the piggery, in whcih case it is very much game on, but if we get to the break and the gap has got bigger, the league will be over.

This next block of games between Pittodrie on Sunday and Kilmarnock on 2nd January there are 12 games in 37 days in 3 different competitions. The League Cup final v Dolly will surely see us welcome back the old trophy we have won more than anyone else, while the 2 Europa fixtures will hopefully see us confirm post-Xmas Euro football to look forward to, but it is of course the 9 league fixtures where our season will be defined when the dust settles.

Aberdeen A

St Mirren H

Hearts A

Dundee H

St Johnstone H

Motherwell A

Ross County H

Bheasts A

Kilmarnock H

The 5 home games should be straight forward victories, so it is the 4 away games that will probably let us see if we have a shot at this title or not. A successful period will have us top or certainly close to it, anything less and it’s probably done. 
 

Thoughts?

Like most, it has to be Super Ally plus one. What a difficult choice. Hateley the obvious one and will probably win the vote but the start and end of his Rangers career were both dismal, so i'm going to go for Morelos. On top form he bullied defenders, linked up, could score from anywhere and while he didnt have a great record in OF games, (much like Boyd who I nearly went for) his European record was phenomenal.

McCoist & Morelos

As a footnote, this is the only player of this Century that gets my pick. 23 years into the 21st Century, which is more years than I went to see Rangers in the 20th Century (15), but with the way the TV money is king in football now, the quality of player we can attract and/or develop/keep has gone down and down.

God himself, Brian Laudrup. End of debate. 

22 minutes ago, Scott7 said:

I refer the Honourable Member to Rangers: The Complete Record (Ferrier and McElroy) page 313:

 

”He (Greig) was originally an inside forward but Rangers moved him back and his great days were as a defensive wing-half, supporting Ronnie McKinnon ….. Indeed the Greig-McKinnon-Jim Baxter half back line …. could be compared with any other in the club’s history.”

 

JG played just about every position, sometimes in the same game but as the quoted authors say, he was primarily a wing-half. His position in the Gersnet side is perfect for him. Up alongside the CF, back heading the ball away from under the bar, deterring the opposition midfield - that’s JG.

Thank you sir.

I have been reading your contributions to this thread with some awe and also some sadness. To think it may be true that the best players to have played in each of the positions came from an era where there was not much by way of coaching, terrible playing conditions and equipment, and that we havent managed to better those players as a club within the last 50 years or so? Or is it (hopefully) just your personal preference, nostalgia and sentiment? I would be fairly heart-broken if I felt I would not see a player in the next 20 years or so that could be judged better than those from the NIAR or Advocaat era or indeed those names coming up in this exercise. Do you really believe you have not seen a better player in any of those positions to date than what you grew up with? 

In his first spell at the club, Barry Ferguson was a fantastic attacking-midfielder, IMO certainly better than Durrant who was fairly inconsistent I felt and never really reached his potential. Ferguson scored 20+ goals a season plus as many assists under Advocaat. Does Ronald De Boer fit this position? if so one of the best i've ever seen, even though he was past his best and didnt stay too long. Gazza was a genius of course, and was a joy to watch on most occasions but had that ill-discipline and often failed to turn it on in Europe where he should have shone, and didnt even stay 3 seasons.

But overall, i just cannot see past him, so my vote goes to Gascoigne. 

(I was tempted to not participate anymore, Greig in midfield? WTF? Cmon guys, just because he couldnt win the RB vote you guys shoe-horn him in somewhere else? How many games did Greig play in midfield, a handful at most? I didnt see him play but he was a full back and a full back only. Lets not bastardise the process by picking guys in positions they were not the best at. Do you think this is just for fun?

I’ll add my votes to Gough & Butcher, with Weir not far behind with big Amo, Cuellar.

In the summer of 1998 there was a wonderful world cup in France, and when it came round to the latter stages and the journos and pundits start discussing their best XI of all the players at the world cup, there was really only 2 left backs getting any discussion time, and that was Roberto Carlos, the Brazilian who could hit free kicks round corners, and the soon to be our very own Arthur Numan. The fact we signed one of the 2 best left backs in the world that summer absolutely amazed me, and watching him play it was easy to see why. Total class act.

I loved Munro who was so under-rated, I believe at one point he was the only player in our team without a full international cap and that was very harsh on him. Robertson, Papac, Wallace, Barasic all get honourable mentions but it is Numan for me.

I'm usually very much in the bah humbug category, but that was excellent!

Livingston 0 Rangers 3

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