Little General

There's more litigation at the High court of Justice on 1/2 December re Rangers Retail. (note 31 of report)

Key Figures:

Turnover £22.2m (2015 – £16.3m)

Earnings before Interest Tax and Depreciation (EBITDA) (£0.1m) (2015 – (£6.9m))

Loss for the year £3.3m (2015 – £7.7m)

Operating expenses £24.9m (2015 – £26.8m)

Average SPFL Home Attendances 44,359 (2015 – 34,556)

Season Ticket 37,481 (2015 – 26,515)

I got what i was hoping for, a start for MOH, Forrester, Garner and Windass. I think they all had a good game, if Windass's screamer had went in we would be saying we are on the right path to a good season. But it didn't and at 1-1 i was left frustrated tbh.

 

My biggest frustration tonight was playing the ball out from the back, it was dire, big Ford seams slow and ponderous with the ball at his feet, his distribution is terrible, add to that players constantly passing the ball back to him, not under any pressure i add, but just because they can. Result is our build play up is slow, ponderous to the point of negative.

 

I am not advocating long ball tactics, no one wants to go back to the dark days hit and hope, but we need to find a middle ground where we can get the ball moving forward at pace and stop the bloody unnecessary constant back passes to the goalie.

 

Did i say MOH, Forrester, garner and Windass were good tonight? They deserve another start on Saturday from that performance from them tonight.

IMO Forrester and Windass were average tonight.

Okay tonight has gone time to look to Saturday.

My team Gilks Tavernier Kiernan Hill Hodson Holt Halliday Forrester O'Halleron Garner Miller

Foderingham, Tavenier, Kiernan, Hill, Wallace, Holt, Halliday. MacKay. O'Halleron, Garner, Waghorn would be my team.

So he spent £3 million , celtic starting 11 against us cost £23 million , we are miles better off than we were 18 month s ago , we just need to keep our nerve

Judging by the comments and reaction by the fans tonight, there is no chance of the fans holding our nerve.

One thing I noticed tonight, we had at least 6 or 7 corners in the first half and every one was put straight into the box, one of which which we got a goal from.

Second half Miller seemed to want to take short corners, even MacKay when he came on was putting the ball in.

A change in thinking or will we revert back to type on Saturday?

Teams have now learned to press us higher up the field and put pressure on the back four playing the ball out. We are far too slow in our build up which then lets the opposition to get behind the ball.

St Johnstone were well drilled tonight and had the better chances in the second half to win the game,

We huffed and puffed and couldn't blow their house down.

Frustrating and disappointing.

Great day out and I enjoyed the pub afterwards.

100 now up:yay:

Should come through. But far from gimmies. Poland have improved over the years but Denmark are one of these teams who can win matches on any day.

 

I don't bet on international games now, I cant get accumulators here on them, only singles and correct scores etc. To get a decent win you need a good 6 or 7 teams during the qualifiers.

It did come up although Iceland scored two goals in injury time to beat Finland.

Well remembered.

 

I had forgotten the Cologne game was played on the Thursday night.

 

Reference the bad guys, Gregor Stevens was the Rangers News player of the year.

Just shows how bad we were then. Stevens was awful.

stuck a wee fiver on Croatia, Iceland, Serbia, Poland and Rumania.

three up waiting on two for £70.

There were some really bad buys as well, Gregor Stevens, Dave Mckinnon, Sandy Clark.

I'm going. giving a little bit back for those who gave so much to the club we all love.

I'm trying to bring my son along also.

It's a rewarding experience, after having done a couple before (William Dunlop and Sam Ricketts).

look forward to sharing a beer or two with you and Gordon.

On reflection, there was one important factor in the 78/79 season often forgotten. Quite simply, it was a truly horrendous winter. The snow fell thickly on Hogmanay and remained on the ground for the next ten weeks. There was a Partick Thistle/Albion Rovers Scottish Cup tie postponed in excess of twenty occasions. From the middle of March until early May, three fixtures a week was the norm, I think Rangers played a dozen games in the last four weeks, the Scottish Cup final took three games before Rangers vanquished Hibs 3-2. Further, I remember Rangers sending the reserve squad up to Pittodrie for two games on the one day. The first at 11am was the reserve League Cup final, the second at 2pm was a reserve league fixture.

 

Talking of snow, our European Cup second round game, second leg at PSV's grouns was late November. We had drawn the first leg at Ibrox 0-0. PSV had NEVER been defeated at home in Europe. They had a wonderful side, including the Van Der Kirkoff brothers. I attended the game on the open terrace amid snow flurries. It was 2-2 going into the last quarter, the play had lengthened, but PSV were slowly dominating. Tommy McLean won the ball in the center circle, looked up as PSV's defence closed up on the offside, a deep running Bobby Russell ran through the back four as Calemero released a 40 yard diagonal pass. It was a foot race between Bobby and the PSV keeper, the Ranger won and passed the ball into the net from 30 yards to make it 2-3. We saw the ball coming towards us on that terracing, and we danced in the snow before the ball crossed the line.

Talking of snow, the quarter final home tie against Cologne was postponed on the Wednesday and played on the Thursday, Rangers had asked for volunteers to clear the pitch.

awful news, thoughts to family,friends and fellow bears on bus.

sad day.

we lost?

not according to official site

http://rangers.co.uk/news/match-report/aberdeen-1-2-rangers-2/

a wee bump for this. I will be going to this on Saturday before the game.

Well done to Moonlighter and the rest of the team for putting this together.

Here's hoping of 100th goal against at the piggery.

According to Tom Miller yesterday, Kenny Miller now has 99 goals for Rangers. He will shortly go on an elite list of players.

McDonald still looked a mile offside.

Has there been any further comment on the Motherwell goal ? Looked a mile offside from where I sit in the SJ rear

Was in Copland front and he looked a mile offside.

Disagree. Shouldn't the ref have sent O'Dea off in the first half for a deliberate kick at Forrester?

All O'Dea got was a yellow. Should have been red IMO.

He should have given him a second yellow when he was late and high on Barton.

Amazing stuff. You guys are a credit to the Rangers support.:yay:

I bet Norsegod is champing at the bit to do the lettering:jump: