Tannochsidebear

Nice words but needs to do it on the park, not in the papers. Really underwhelmed by this signing. A pacy counter-attack player with no real quality at taking men on bar out-running them. Another Michael O'Halloran, completely unsuited to our style of play, we dont get the luxury of counter-attacking at pace in the vast majority of our games. Will be moved on next summer is my guess. Hope i'm wrong!

While the story is more than likely nonsense, it is important our club allows positive high priced stories to make their way into publication. However nonsensical to believe, clubs to follow what is being said in the papers, and the numbers being quoted around Morelos in the high teens approaching £20M are helpful to us to ensure we get a very high price for our asset. The tims have been masters at this for years, and also they give out false info about what they have sold their players for in the hope that the next club that comes along for one of their players knows the sort of numbers they will accept. See the Ki sale to Cardiff/Swansea (cant remember which) The tims told the Scottish media they sold him for £5M, and this was the figure commonly published, although the official price, as always, undisclosed. 2 days later the Welsh club bought another player and announced it was for a club record £4.5M, thus proving the £5M price was grossly overrated. For too long we have allowed negative stories to come out which give much lower values for our players than we could/should have got, and subsequently when proper bids come in they are lower as a result. We all know there is no way on earth Ashley will buy any players from us, far less for a proper price, but as long as the story has a big price in it, it doesnt do us any harm.

I know its early in the silly season, and the window isnt even open yet but I have been entirely underwhelmed with the names being linked, and indeed signings made as I dont see any of them being first team players or any better squad players than we already have. Jones, Hastie, Stewart (seems to be happening but hope it hits a snag), are not going to win us the title. Same for guys like this latest Liverpool kid who cant set up or score goals despite looking good in the tricks department, no thanks. I trust the management team to get us to where we need to be by the time we play our absolutely vital Euro qualifiers in about 7 weeks time, I just wish all these guys we keep getting linked with would get the juices flowing a bit better. I see in this thread we are linked with Andre Gray. Another inconsistent sort who would make Morelos look like Messi. Gray, on top form, is a good striker. However he rarely hits top form, seems to be often injured, and is reportedly on a wage that has completely spoiled his hunger and desire. I desperately hope we dont waste a huge chunk of our wage budget on an imposter of this scale. I really dont want us even looking in the over-rated, over-priced English market. We can get much better value in other markets with good contacts and scouting, which has improved at the club enormously in the last year or so.

Thats just utter nonsense DB, to choose that one error when referring errors like on Sunday, Easter Road (twice), and player errors like Worrell at kilmarnock in jan which took all our momentum away are much more responsible than that. Given what Tav has provided at the other end, to pick out that one costly error (and it is not as if it was an open goal from that moment, we had other opportunities to prevent that error becoming a goal) is being overly critical.

It’s the double standards in play that offends from a SSB angle. If it was us in that position, their moral compass would be forgotten to be replaced with calls for us to be thrown out of football for good. And they would be right. A pedo ring found out and covered up, boys club renamed to try to avoid compo claims, threatening behaviour to anyone wanting to discuss it, and lots more are the actions of a club that deserve to be shut down.

Needs to work on his pitch positioning awareness and tackling. Has other decent attributes and gave his all, which wasn’t good enough under our microscope. Hope he goes on to have a decent career.

No probs coop, we all see it different. As long as we all see through blue tinted specs it doesn’t matter if some need a dog & stick to help them!!

I can make an argument for McGregor, Tav, Goldson and Morelos. Anyone voting for anyone outside these 4 clearly haven’t watched us all season.

Unless I missed it somewhere, there has been nothing official from the CO office to say they did review the Defoe incident and didnt think it was bad enough to warrant a case? Only speculation that this happened?

The Daily Rhebel is annoyed at us standing up for ourselves and outing a clear and obvious bias from the CO. That works for me. The Rhebel has clearly bought into, hook line and sinker, the official celtic line of "know your place hun scum" where we are not allowed to stand up for ourselves, or accuse celtic (and their players) of any misconduct, but just continue to accept the corruption, cheating, and bias that comes through from referees, compliance officers, et al. I have said this repeatedly, the Daily Rhebel should have no press access to Auchenhowie, Ibrox, any of our players or coaching/management team. Any players talking to the Rhebel get a maximum fine. We should put up on the big screens at every home game the message that this organisation is not for Bears. If I ever manage to win a big jackpot in the Euromillions and buy a big stake in our club, this would be in place in the first week. The message it sends out to the rest is very clear, be fair or lose readers/access.

As an extra point about the game on Sunday, the match day program was a fantastic read. Full interviews over several pages with SG, Robertson, Mulholland as a sort of review of the season, and lots of other smashing bits and pieces. I bought the electronic season ticket last July, so I get an electronic version of the program to download through my Rangers program app usually the day before the game, so can read it while on the way to the game or like this week, while watching soccer Saturday and seeing my coupon get beat as usual! IIRC it was £50 for the season or thereabouts and I would thoroughly recommend it, especially for those bears who can’t get along to Ibrox for whatever reason. You can buy game by game as well but the ST was great value. I will certainly be renewing that ST come the new season.

Who is Andy Scoulding? Cant be that much of a high profile player if he got a tour from someone this low down. If it was a first team player, surely he would get the tour from SG/GMcA/MB etc.

Just watching the second goal again, watch it from 62:32 on Sky clock, loose ball on halfway line comes to Broon, who under pressure gets his simple 3 yard pass intercepted by Arfield who plays a simple 5 yard square pass to Kamara, who plays a neat 1-2 with Kent, sells a dummy to Burke and plays a 1-2 with Flanagan, he feels Broon coming in and feigns to go one way and goes the other leaving the most overrated player in Scottish football history for dead, drives forward with Broon still wondering where he went, and plays a ball into feet for Defoe who has the new Caesar tight on him, so Defoe (I’m guessing after a shout from Arfield) let’s it run through his legs and into the box where Arfield runs past the despairing wonder kid Ajer and coolly slots it in the corner to seal the win. A simply stunning goal.

Delighted with the win and performance today, although we must be more clinical. We have made 2 mistakes all game and it very nearly cost us. If Clancy sees Flanagan’s push on Brown, or if it happens once corner is taken, we are playing a man short and they have a penalty. Given Clancy refereed as the Celtic fan that he is, I’m absolutely astonished he missed the chance to get his team back into the game. Then in with under 10 mins to go Flanagan (again) gets caught in a bad area and a few seconds later Burke has a tap in that he sclaffs to allow Wes to make a fine save. Flanagan aside, our team were excellent, but safe to say the bheasts played it like a meaningless end of season rubber and were not up for the fight. I noticed and commented to my mate as they broke out their huddle there wasn’t the usual chest thumping and aggression from them, they just went to their positions to await kick off. I fancied us to win even more at that point! 6 wins on the spin has come too late in the season to matter much, but given it is so long since we found this level of consistency, I am absolutely delighted that perhaps the penny is finally dropping amongst the players and coaches of what it means to represent our club. Make it 7 to end the season next week and we can try to take the momentum into next season. The Killie game will be tough as Killie have everything to play for and we are going to make changes (per SG post-match interview) so squad players will get their chance to prove they are worthy of being included next season. Finally, has nobody made the gif yet of Kampala selling the scumbag the dummy to set up the second goal! What a goal that was!

Personally, I hope he reminds them of the tims, and Brown in particular's antics, at the last game and makes sure that every single time one of our players gets near Brown while he has the ball that they absolutely destroy him. If this cheat walks off the pitch untouched on Sunday I will be massively disappointed, no matter the score.

As a fan vlog that would be excellent, add in that it is for a squad player who has hardly had a sniff in 4 months and the enthusiasm and passion Mrs P has for our club is amazing. Thoroughly entertaining 15 mins, not even all about us with some interesting stuff from Budapest thrown in as well as she tours with her family. Loved her comment at Stamford Bridge, "this is no Ibrox"!

I am absolutely certain Morelos will not go to France. Either Spain or England would be my bet, and for not a penny less than £20M, not France which is such an uncompetitive league with PSG (having lost 3 out of its last 5 games and still 16 clear at the top) the only show in town. I dont like the tone of that Ibroxnoise article either, calling this a circus and a soap opera. Its hardly anything of the sort, just a prize asset attracting some attention like is happening at many clubs around Europe at this time of year.

Absolutely delighted to have missed out on this nonentity. He will be back playing for a Dolly/Hibs etc within 18 months, hainvg failed to make a regular impact at Derby, even more especially so if Derby get promoted.

If we can get 2 wins out our last 2 games, we end up on 81 points. We got 70 last season. A goal difference this season of +54 compared to +19 last season shows a huge improvement too. We havent actually scored too many more goals (3 more to date) but we conceded 50 goals last season compared to 25 so far this season. We made our biggest progress in Europe. After the Progres embarrassment, this year was a magnificent achievement, and was on the verge of being even better. Matching this run next year is vitally important. I wont listen to those who try to claim our Euro adventure affected our league chances. We were level on points at the split, a few weeks after being eliminated, so our failure to win the title is in the Euro-free second half of the season. We simply didnt strengthen properly in January. We brought in a striker and didnt play him, and a midfielder who was miles off the pace and has only started to play once the title had long gone. We didnt bring in the attacking midfielder we have been crying out for since well before SG came in, and our hopes of breaking stubborn teams down died with that decision. The domestic cups is where the SG report card has its big red marks on it. Losing twice to Dolly, one at Ibrox no less, was simply unacceptable. The two performances were abysmal, and this always lands at the gaffers door. To lose once to Dolly in the LCSF was bad enough, to lose at Ibrox in a QF replay is simply awful, the worst result of the season and a real blow to us all. It is in this area that SG must improve next season. OF games can be a 50/50, so if we lose to the tims in either/both cups next season, that can happen, but what must not happen is to lose to anyone else in a cup-tie next season. I will be looking forward to our transfer market activity this summer, there are 4 key positions I want to see strengthened, in addition to replacing anyone we lose to good bids. Left-back (although if todays story that Barisic is up for it and SG/him have no beef then that would be fine for me), a CH to cover to Goldson/Katic, a creative midfielder, and a striker on the basis we pretty much know Morelos is away. If we can improve other first 11 players then great but we simply must get these positions sorted first and foremost.

Clancy is a Rangers-hating bellend, and I think I predicted this after his stitching up of us in the cup v Dolly. We should go full Willie Collum on this cheat. We will have to be so much better than them on Sunday to take anything with this cheat in charge.

You might be right, cant recall if it was a 3 or 4 year deal. If only a year left we might not get as much but should still be a 7 figure sum which can be better spent on areas we need improving.

Spot on. I normally have little interest in end of season bounce games, which our post-split games have pretty much been, but this year they are so important as a sign of ambition for a real title push next year. SG has had the fans backing this year despite a lot of mistakes, if we have a similar season next year to this, there will be calls for him to go. Next seasons work has already started and these last few games must be used as a springboard to 19-20.

Of course it’s conjecture, that’s why I said IMO, i’d Love to see all our players succeed, however after 2 years and a handful of appearances there are several others ahead of him in a position we have lots of cover for.

He is just a windup merchant, best ignored. But on the off-chance someone at our club even contemplated doing this, I would genuinely and seriously have to consider my ST renewal. Under no circumstances should we ever do this for that shower of scum, and I wouldn’t ever want them to do it for us either.

While there is officially nothing at stake, we have to prove, to ourselves as well as others, that we can put a consistent winning run together, and make the final points gap a respectable one. We have the chance to make the final gap 6 points, as the bheasts will beat Hearts in the last game, by winning our last 3 games and extending our winning run into next season. We cannot ease up, and if we have nothing at stake our opponents have even less, so no excuses on that score.