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He does have a decent eye for a pass and we all love a trier, but I wouldn't class his performance today as outstanding, although that's obviously subjective. The issue I have with him is that he repeatedly (at least once in almost every single game) makes the type of mistakes which can cost us points or in some cases, even lose us a match. He made one mistake today which very nearly cost us dearly and he made another afterwards which he only just managed to recover and no more, but he's just too accident prone for my liking. He also has a habit of terrible positioning when we're under attack and if someone gets past him, he's got no chance because he's slow as hell.

Terrible article title with the unnecessary "before he joins the ranks of the unemployed" patter, as if Davie Weir will be down the Job Centre signing on.

Depends on your definition of ok mate.

Latest GPL round-up plus full results and standings following our very promising 0-2 win at Easter Road today... http://www.gersnetonline.co.uk/vb/showthread.php?69510-Predictions-for-Hibs-v-Rangers.........

That's my take on him too. Simply not good enough. Watching him trying to defend in just one game takes years off of your life.

Don't worry, I moved your posts about the match into the match thread and deleted the other thread identical to this which you had started earlier.

Green can feed off and take the two teletubbies from Greenock with him.

For future reference, you could have ordered it online just before leaving and had it delivered to your wee Mallorquine finca for £2.95 + £3.50 P&P. You should still be able to grab a copy when you get back mate.

Another excellent piece D'Art!

Only if they have Samaritans on speed dial!

Saturday, 21 March 2015 15:00 Positive Improvements Written by Alice Hedworth THE MESSAGE is simple from the manager – stay positive and keep improving. Stuart McCall is ready to sound a rallying call to his Rangers players ahead of tomorrow’s key fixture with Hibernian. He even admitted he may use some memories of Davie Cooper to inspire his team; Monday will be 20-years since Cooper tragically passed away. The manager is confident that second place is still a realistic target but only if he can find the winning formula. McCall said: “I’m looking forward to the game, they’re on a fantastic run and have won seven on the bounce and they’re playing with a lot of confidence. “If you look back at the game at Easter Road that was the first after Ally departed and I think there was a cloud over things. “In the recent game at Ibrox I thought Rangers deserved the draw and there wasn’t a lot in it. “If you look at the way Hibs are going currently, beating Livingston with a last minute goal and beating Alloa 1-0, so they’re getting wins whereas recently we’ve been drawing games. “We’ve just got to look to keep improving and that should happen naturally based on the progression over the last two games. “All I’m looking at is each game and we need to go out and be as positive as we can. “Somebody asked me how many points were we targeting and I haven’t even looked at that. “It has been a whirlwind and we have to start winning football matches and I know that. “All we do know is that Hearts are going to win the league and the rest is all to play for. “We know in the three games this season Hibs have had a massive advantage and if we’re going to succeed in our aim to get promoted, then there is no doubt that we will be meeting Hibs in a two legger at some stage.” The former Motherwell manager also took time in his media briefing to discuss the importance of captains in football. McCall says his current skipper Lee McCulloch will be vital over the next nine games but also stressed that his team and every other team need more than one leader on the pitch. He said: “Of course the captain is the leader but it shouldn’t just be the captain, we need more leaders. “I’ve said that for many a year that leadership in football and a real captain is a dying breed. “Harking back to the olden days when I played you had seven or eight captains on the pitch and that is dying in modern day football. “We all need to take responsibility but when you confidence is a bit damaged it’s hard for you to then go and look after your teammates if you’re not feeling it. “The best person I saw do that and I really learnt a lot from him, was Peter Reid. “I joined Everton and Peter had had a great career there and he struggled for six months and the crowd actually got on to him. “But he took so much responsibility on that park even when things were going wrong. “It is a difficult thing to do and that shows real character and he certainly did that.” http://www.rangers.co.uk/news/headlines/item/8859-positive-improvements

Half of the football fans in the country probably don't understand how this ridiculous play-off system works. I think McCall will know fine well though and he's purposely being confident because the squad needs an injection of positivity.

Sticking with the team captain in the position he's recently been getting played for your first two games in charge and after only 2 or 3 full training sessions leading up to our game on Tuesday there, was hardly what I'd call putting his managerial reputation on the line for Jig.

I think he will. McCall won't put his managerial reputation on the line for Jig.

Thanks for getting your match preview done mate. I was starting to think you'd forgotten again!

Don't forget to post your predictions for the Hibs game before the 12:45 kick-off tomorrow!! Do it here - Predictions for Hibs v Rangers - SPFL Championship match 29 (GPL game 40)

What a bloody shambles.

If ever there were a more appropriate cliche which could be dredged up from the dusty depths of the old cliche vaults than ‘patience is a virtue’ and applied to the situation our Club finds itself in, it really is a difficult task to think of one. It may well be tired and it may well be old, but that particular cliche fits our Club’s current circumstances to a tee - both on and off the pitch - at a time when some of our supporters are perhaps understandably becoming prematurely impatient. Off the pitch, the new regime has only been in place for two weeks since Dave King’s successful EGM and the virtually immediate boardroom takeover, while on the pitch, the newly appointed management team of Stuart McCall and Kenny Black have only been in place for one week. In fairness to any Bears starting to get slightly impatient or carried away here, there were clearly loud surges and spikes of ‘noise’ (a fitting word Dave King used recently), both in the mainstream media and in the online build-up to the EGM. Our support were subjected to PR propaganda and spin which would have made you dizzy if you weren’t grounded, jaded speculation and the usual blatantly biased commentary, not only from the mainstream media, but from PR agents and provocateurs trolling Rangers forums. We also had so-called ‘sources’ supposedly feeding a relentless stream of inside and/or classified information to those keen to inflate their blog hits along with their donation tally, but the important thing to remember is that it’s mostly just spin disguised as different colours of noise. Some of you might not know this, but noise (in a literal sonic sense) is actually commonly used as a form of psychological torture on prisoners and enemies by certain countries under certain circumstances. Could we be the prisoners or the enemies here? Take a step back from your mind and think about these things, even just for a fleeting or glancing listen and what do you hear? You might well hear banging on about this or bleating on about that, but it’s all just noise. We are where we are and it’s not a great place, but it’s a better place then we’ve been in for over 3 years, maybe not financially due to the catastrophic mess left behind for Dave King, his colleagues and the rest of us to sort out, but it’s a good place and we don’t need to listen to the noise, we can filter it out.

The LSE chat section for our PLC has more Celtic fans discussing us than actual investors mate. There's generally a mixture of Celtic supporting trolls, our own fans and a few crackpots who are hard to tell if they're fans from our own wee loony fringe or tims.

Friday, 20 March 2015 09:00 Gasparotto Gets International Call Written by Rangers Football Club RANGERS centre half Luca Gasparotto has been called up to the Canadian Men's National Team to be part of a training camp and two friendlies at the end of March. Gasparotto is currently on a Development Loan at Airdrieonians where he has played twenty-one times this season combining time at the Airdrie club with training at Murray Park and featuring for the under-20 side. Canada’s Men’s National Team will have 23-players in camp for a few days of training before two Men’s International Friendlies against Guatemala and Puerto Rico. The Canadian centre half has been involved with the main squad and youth squads for some time, playing at the Milk Cup in Northern Ireland in 2014 at youth level and recently against England. Gasparotto will be hoping that he remains in Benito Floro's squad for a summer of competitive action with both FIFA World Cup Qualifiers against Dominica or the British Virgin Islands in June and a CONCACAF Gold Cup campaign in July. The team will arrive into camp on Sunday 22 March in Orlando, Florida with training beginning the following day. They’ll train for three days before headingto Fort Lauderdale in advance of their first friendly of the camp against Guatemala, which will take place at Lockhart Stadium. After a day of recovery in Florida, they’ll head to San Juan, Puerto Rico on Sunday 29 March in advance of the game against Puerto Rico that takes place on Monday 30 March at the Estadio Juan Roman Loubriel in Bayamon, PUR. http://www.rangers.co.uk/news/academy-news/item/8857-gasparotto-gets-international-call

Another wee heads-up for you all, this time to say that WATP magazine Issue 9 came out last weekend and our regular double page Gersnet column in the magazine is in there again, this time with an excellent article from 26th of foot. Separate from the main Gersnet column, we also have an article in the mag by CammyF on behalf of his RSC, the Bo'ness True Blues, who'll be celebrating their Supporters Club's 70th anniversary next year. If you want to check the mag out, Issue 9 is available in shops and for sale on supporters buses, many Rangers pubs and also on matchdays. For those who want to order online and have it posted out you can order a single copy or as many copies as you like (as well as back issues) on the mag's website here - http://www.watpmagazine.co.uk/buy.html You can also purchase 10 issue subscriptions on the subscriptions section of their site here - http://www.watpmagazine.co.uk/subscriptions.html For info about magazine content and future issue release dates you can follow WATP magazine on twitter here - https://twitter.com/WATP_Magazine/with_replies

Quick heads-up to let you all know that the forum has a cool new feature for old match threads in the form of a new sub-forum called 'Match Thread Archive'. Over 460 old Rangers match threads have been moved into the new sub-forum so that any time you want to check back on an old match thread (or preview) it's reasonably quick and easy to find it without having to browse through pages and pages of thread titles or use the forum's search facility. New (ie current) match threads will still be posted here in the main Rangers Chat section and then moved into the Match Thread Archive once we're onto discussing the next game or say on a weekly basis. Moving the old threads was done quite carefully and selectively, but it's possible that one or two might have been moved which aren't really match threads, so if any of you find one which shouldn't be in there, then please let myself or another member of the admin know about it and we'll move it back into the main Rangers Chat forum section. Feel free to let us know what you think. All comments are welcome.

Don't forget to post your predictions for the Hibs game on Sunday. Do it here - Predictions for Hibs v Rangers - SPFL Championship match 29 (GPL game 40)

Cheers for clearing that up elfideldo. Well at least Durrant is playing his only left footed player on the left, eh...

I wasn't trying to justify our poor results at all mate, I was only trying to point out that the so-called part-time teams are giving other clubs tough games too, including clubs like Hibs who've been playing better football than us. That's why Hibs aren't miles ahead of us like Hearts are because Hibs have been dropping points too.