Norris Cole

I can't believe more hasn't been said about Millers horrendous miss of the open goal that would probably got us a point. A lot said about Waggy & Forrester going for greed over a simple pass to play a teammate in for a tap-in, and while those were both scandalous wasted opportunities, Miller is 3 yards out with the simplest of finishes and somehow contrives to hit the post with the whole goal to aim for.

 

Captain calamity strikes again, how much longer must we put up with his constant failures?

"Captain calamity"

I hate to throw sand at your blatant agenda, but Kenny Miller is not the problem.

Loan signings aren't supposed to be leaders. But if you have gaps in your team that need filled for six months or so they can be worth their weight in gold. From memory, Weiss won us a couple of tough away games where we were struggling to make a breakthrough. And Bartley, we'll agree to disagree on him because I thought he was solid when called upon. Scott Brown must still be picking bits of Kyle's studs out his legs.

Re. Loan signings, I'm all for it personally. Walter was a master at it - Weiss, Bartley etc., guys that can bring that something to a team to get it over the line.

Kiernan was going absolutely mental at him after the goal, he had no doubt who was to blame.

Tavernier has qualities he can bring to the team. But he has become a liability and is in dire need of a spell on the sidelines and a boot up the arse.

Take 50,000 people at random from any society, anywhere in the world, and you will have a few bellends. Non story.

Oh and at the risk of repeating myself, can Tavernier PLEASE just spend a month on the training ground and learn his trade again.

Both result and performance was better than I expected pre-match.

 

Thirty minutes in, we are one up and Broonaldo has been booked and put a couple of passes out of the park. They equalised, and for the next thirty-five minutes, we fell off a cliff. It happened on Wednesday night in Perth, and it happened last season a few times, notably to Falkirk away. It's an oft' recurring theme with this Rangers side, we can quickly deflate. In saying that, we had two great opportunities to draw level, the inside of the post and Forrester's indecision cost us our unbeaten Ibrox run. I should add a huge thanks to our Keeper for ensuring that window of opportunity remained open, going into the last ten minutes.

 

We should fess up to the physical superiority of ra Sellik. Dembele is a big unit with fast feet. In the last five minutes, he took the ball into feet at each corner flag and ragdolled our defenders, two receiving cautions attempting to out muscle him on the bye-lines. Further, he took his goal particularly well. Playing quickly around the more physical side is the way to go, and I thought Barrie McKay showed the way. His turn inside, leading to a pass to Halliday for Miller's equaliser attempt, was quite exquisite. Again,, Brenda showed gamesmanship by ensuring Barrie was passed on, in turn for heavy and hands-on challenges.

 

McKay was a genuine threat today, and I wonder if when Garner went down if our Manager considered O'Halloren's pace on the right when substituting?

Good post, I agree with pretty much everything.

However I'll just throw this out there: O'Halloran is looking more and more like a dud for me. Yes, you can point to the fact that he isn't getting regular football under Warburton, but when he does get an opportunity he just strikes me as a player of limited quality. Pace is only worthwhile if you know what to do with the ball.

2.3 million on O'Halloran and Garner. Just saying.

If we loose 2 more times to them(very possible)

If we go out the scottish early(very possible)

If we dont finish second(slightly possible)

His feet wont touch the fucking ground.Sorry for being blunt.

Aye, and then we start all over again with Derek f*cking McInnes. Oh, and still no money.

To add injury to insult, the Thumb is pictured tying a scum scarf to the goalposts. Cretin.

Maybe it's age, but they have to do a bit more than that to wind me up these days. I'm sure his fans thought it was 'pyoor mental n'at'.

Perhaps but I think he has earned the right to try again with some signings in January.

 

The board will probably let him try again in the summer too.

The board need to give Warburton a fair go at this thing by opening their wallet. And if they can't, then they should make way for a board that can.

We could have Pep or Jose and still go nowhere under these conditions.

Sorry last reply was muddled under the effects of seething rage.

 

We will be, unless we have three at parkhead. Warburton was shocked that we have Hearts, Aberdeen and the unmentionables all away twice and home once before the split, given that after the split we will have one or more of them away again after it.

It just makes it look like a Mickey Mouse league, as much as rbr's point stands. I can't remember meeting anyone who is a fan of the current set-up.

Does anyone know if we are considered a bottom six or top six side, for the purpose of the post-split matches?

Bearing the race for second place in mind, we could be looking at a third trip to Pittodrie and/or Tynecastle if the SPL have deemed us a bottom six seed on account of being newly promoted.

See these 'big jobs' Warburton is occasionally linked with? Nobody is going to offer him employment until he proves he can build a defence worth the name.

What would we do without Kenny Miller.

Honestly, who else but him against them?

Is it just with me or is the Rangers homepage really down right now?

Yeah it's down. Hope to god it's fixed soon.

You have a YouTube of the Archie Knox thing ? Sounds hilarious

Afraid not, I just remember it from the old VHS and it's stuck with me. There may be extracts on YouTube though.

Walter and Archie would have scared the bejesus out of me in their prime.

Distinct shades of Aluko getting done for "simulation" a few years back after the usual media outcry.

Or the UEFA sanctions after not singing TBB v PSV in 2011.

Or...you know, fuck it, take your pick.

What a country.

Sorry wall to wall darts here. This afternoon was out of this world with Anderson v Chisnill(?)

 

30 180's in 8 sets. If tonight is near as good it will also be fantastic.

 

Get back into the football in a few hours.

Oh come on, that's a bawhair away from watching snooker in your pants with a big bag of Doritos.

Listen Frankie don't take any cheek on this thread - big Davie Weir was stoating through the Celtic team at 40.

Happy birthday mate, here's to three points tomorrow:drum:

Bridges, Jesus wept. When were Celtic ever interested in building bridges? They're simply an outlet for bigotry and hatred with, let's face it, minimal interest in sport.

It's irrelevant what has happened in the past in this instance, at the game at the piggery they took their sectarian hatred too far, Club1872 released a statement calling for a ban on them attending Ibrox, the club bottled it!, they should have been banned, even if it was for only one match.

Couldn't agree more, and you begin to wonder just what it is the club are scared of.

I'll throw in a Devil's Advocate thought grenade here:

Henrik Larsson?

I file him with Gascoigne, in that while not a world class player per se, he was capable of world class performances. You don't come off the bench for Barcelona in a Champions League final and turn the game on its head without being top drawer. I'd have called him world class for maybe two seasons in his prime.

From the modern era:

1. Laudrup

2. Larsson

3. Gascoigne

In that order. I get a little cheesed off when Moravcik is mentioned in such discussions. He did nothing in his career before having a Davie Weir-style Indian summer. Albertz was a better player. If for propriety's sake I need to add another Celtic player to the above list (again, from the modern era) I'd say Petrov. But now we're straying a long way from world class.

If Baxter was on a list with Puskas, that's good enough for me. Baxter was before my time, I never saw him play, but it has always struck me that he was 'world class'.

Not all would agree, but for me, Brian Laudrup was world class. And without becoming obsessed with 'criteria', I simply ask myself: did he regularly produce performances Zinedine Zidane would have been satisfied with? I have to say yes.

Gascoigne was capable of world class displays, rather than being a world class player per se.

Side note 1: Anyone remember the Laudrup video from back in the day? Archie Knox throwing himself about the training ground trying to get the ball off Laudrup before having some sort of breakdown: "You fuckin try then, ah cannae get the fuckin thing aff him!"

Side note 2: If I had the option of signing Diego Maradona in his prime, or Zidane in his, I'd pick Zidane. Maradona would not have been the same player in the modern era IMO.

Side note 3: I do wonder what the great players of the 90s make of the team/club today. Guys like Amoruso, Mols, Gough etc. are regulars at Ibrox, I just wonder what goes through their heads at times. I mean what did Laudrup make of Sandaza and Kyle?

The Record, eh?

*Leaves thread*

Understand sentiments regarding Dodoo but this is too big a game for him,IMO,even to be on bench.

If we feel a player might be prone to Theo Snelders Syndrome, we shouldn't be signing them.