Norris Cole

Perhaps I saw a slightly better performance last night than others, but different opinions are the beauty of forums like these.

Yes, it was 2-1 away to Hamilton, but in my opinion that was our best performance of the season. Against Aberdeen and Hearts we were very good, yet still seemed to make things a little more laborious than they should have been. Albeit last night wasn't a full 90-minute performance, but there were long periods in that second half where I just sat there and thought, 'this team is clicking'. The passing, movement, and speed of play were a joy to watch at times - I found myself thinking back to the McCoist era and contemplating how far we've come. You just knew when Hamilton resorted to hideous lunges all over the park that we were on to something.

We have depth on the bench now for the first time in what seems like ages, particularly up front. I've said previously that Waggy doesn't have the quality for this level. He does.

Areas for improvement: Finishing and defensive concentration.

The fans were just sensational.

And if we're going to criticise refs when they're pisspoor, then it's only fair to point out that Alan Muir had a great game last night. Very un-Scottish in the way he let the game flow, and I can't recall him getting a decision wrong all night. More like him please.

Have Hamilton touched the ball this half?

2-0, Waghorn double.

Dare I say it, we're looking good.

On Rangers TV they did a wee HT thing on the players and management's visit to the sick kids hospital. Have to say our players and the gaffer come across as thoroughly decent human beings with the way they spoke.

Guess we'll just have to make more noise...

So, for some, presumably a small minority going by FF comments, fluctuations in quality and buffering do happen.

Oh they do. I missed the goal

Expat Bears - is it just me, or does the quality of Rangers TV vary from game to game? I mean image quality and the amount of buffering.

As "good" as he has been, it is nice to see Miller dropped and Waghorn getting a game -- although it is a surprise with the plastic surface. It must be the first time there has been 2 defenders on the bench.

Yeah, I can't say I quite understand having two centre halfs on the bench.

Had a shitty week so Friday night with the Rangers is most welcome. If we get beat, something's getting broken.

Not sure about that, but it's at least more believable than Van Persie.

Mixed messages again from the judicial system, no doubt we are the only sectarian perpetrators.

Did you not read the other thread? Celtic are a "humorous" club.

I don't really understand that. What is the difference between Queen's Park and any other amateur club? The players all have employment elsewhere -they're playing football for enjoyment.

No; but, to a man, woman, and child, we are are dour, humourless, serious minded Calvinists, our dancing feet tied by Jno Knox; of course, per Baron (sic) Reid of Cardowan, we are hypocritical to boot (I know, I know),

Maybe it's just me, but it's being unfashionable that is one of things that draws me towards being a Rangers supporter. I certainly have no need for us to be loved by anyone other than Rangers fans.

Sounds like a valuable member of society. Thank god I don't pay tax in the UK anymore.

Thing is though, the SFA are terrified, and I mean terrified, of lateral thinking.

"We're a humorous brand" Indeed, as witnessed by your reaction to all forms of banter from other fans.

"Effectively we're a global club" Just

A serious point: could anyone imagine reading a piece like this on Rangers?

QPR back for Clint Hill Queens Park Rangers are ready to offer Clint Hill a return to Loftus Road only six months after he left the London club to join Rangers. Hill has been one of the more consistent performers in Mark Warburton’s side this season but is out of contract at the end of the season. (Daily Record)

 

That actually says quite a bit about Hill's form of late.

The position itself is pointless anyway, what good exactly did McClair do other than probably a few good presentations in the warmth of a nice Hampden office. The game needs overhauled from top to bottom with more footballing people involved, and it means restructuring the top flight and less divisions, perhaps summer football so the fans see better quality and the players can improve on better pitches and conditions - also the clubs will bee up and running domestically so are in better shape for Euro qualification.

 

When McKay was a manager I thought he was actually decent and didn't do to bad a job.

I only became a fan of summer football after moving to Sweden, so I'm aware this could be seen as hypocritical, but really, summer football is the only way to go and the traditionalists (as I was not too long ago) will just have to suck it up. Look at what it did to the Irish League - it is no coincidence they still have a team in Europe in December.

Agree - and they wonder why the UEFA cup and Cup Winners Cup died. Had the runners up in the domestic leagues went straight into the UEFA cup you would still have the massive games of Real Madrid v Arsenal.

 

The Europa league has ruined European football for teams not in the CL. The amount of teams is laughable. They should do something with that, but the preference would be to bring the Cup winners Cup back and have 3 tournaments again. They should also move the Europa to Wednesday nights and the CL could be Tues and Thurs. Then nobody would complain. The teams playing in the CL mostly play on a Sunday domestically anyway for TV rights in England and in Spain / Italy they mostly play on Sunday anyway so a Thursday night game wouldn't make much changes and have the affects it does on the likes of Southampton, Spurs etc who just cant adapt to Thurs / Sun.

Agreed. They would have been as well binning the UEFA Cup along with the CWC instead of letting it die its current slow death.

It's hugely frustrating the way money has ruined European football, because they actually had the perfect formula in place: European Cup for champions, CWC for cup Winners, and UEFA Cup for 2nd/3rd/4th.

Take the example of Chelsea. When they won the Europa League it was so convoluted - dropping out of the Champions League, playing their second string to focus on the PL, and then by the time they won it they'd become such a financially bloated club that nobody really cared. Compare that to when they won the CWC in 1998 (or even Arsenal a few years previous) - an appropriate number of games against some weird and wonderful teams (remember them getting beat in Tromso, 350km into the Arctic Circle, with Chelsea fans being interviewed and asked their opinions on how the 'reindeer sticks' tasted, as the snow blew sideways) and some top class teams. And then when they won it it was a huge thing - memories of Johnny Vaughan on Big Breakfast the day after, just back from the game and still drunk.

If these other big name clubs are sniffing around, they obviously see potential in lad. Therefore, I would like to think that the club are doing all they can to "educate" him that at this stage of his career, there are more important things than money ie. Game time, and that if he stays @ RFC, he is more likely to get that.

That, and roll off the hundreds of Scottish players who have left too early in search of the limelight. Danny Wilson going to Liverpool being the first to come to mind.

Remember the national uproar over how "racist" the famine song was. And here we have the SFA handing a genuine racist a top job.

And they wonder why we are still a footballing minnow. I have to laugh every time I see the Tennent's 'This Time' adverts.

If we were like them, which thank the Lord we're not, Sir, we would be keeping a record, kind of Domesday Book, of all the things that they have said, written, and done, which made us puke, or splutter, or laugh, or shake our heads in incredulity, or throw up our hands in bewilderment, or sometimes just shrug. It would not be a short volume.

You mean a record like their official statistics, which include goals scored during WWII, but not goals conceded?

The Ross County one was a cracker. Me and 4 mates got a train down to Greenock and were in the Jimmy Watt pubs beer garden when a like-minded guy pissing himself laughing came out and updated us on the score.

 

 

The game that gave us this woman:

Of course we can, if we're up for it.