BrahimHemdani

I would agree with that 100%. I thought he had an outstanding game and with the new manager watching surely will now get a run in the team. To be fair to Tavs he added balance on the right and taking him out of defence is an added bonus.

As everyone knows. Jim Stewart is our current goalkeeping coach and we have a position called Head of Performance and Preparation, Craig Flannagan, which I guess in most people's language would be a fitness coach? https://rangers.co.uk/teams/staff/

I read somewhere an assistant, a fitness coach and a goalkeeping coach.

No, No you are correct, I just thought I would illustrate our ex bull-fighting head coach but it wasn't meant to imply anything at all about him or bull-fighting. Edit: Original post with picture now deleted. I leave it up to you as to whether or not you wish to retain your post with the picture.

Uilleam, please delete your post with my picture, the original post of which I will now delete.

No argument with any of that, just trying to illustrate our new manager. Happy to delete the picture if folk find it offensive. Edit: I take the point and will delete the picture, apologies to you and anyone else who was offended.

Rangers fans celebrate Hill's equaliser.

Pre match panorama.

To be fair to the police they always come out to the corners when a goal is scored by either team in an old firm game and for a brief moment it did look as if some fans were about to jump the fence. They were also quick to stop numerous Celtic fans who tried to pass up the London Road in front of the walk up for Rangers fans before the match and I saw them move very quickly in some force to intercept a lone Celtic fan intent on breaching the police line at the top of Springfield Rd and another at the side of the Emirates Stadium after the match.

Thought we put up a very courageous and disciplined performance and I felt were a bit unlucky to go in one down at half time as Celtic hadn't really troubled Rangers defence and Waghorn missed when clean through on Gordon. Celtic dominated the first 30 minutes of the second half but only had a couple shots wide and one great save from Fotheringham. When Murty took off the ineffective McKay we powered forward in the last 10 minutes and deservedly equalised. I think bringing on Forrester to let Windlass move inside was the decisive move. Tactical substitutions rather than subs just for the sake of it. Hill was immense not just his tackling and distribution but guiding all around him. A captain's performance in all but name. Instead of blaming the referee Rogers should look at some poor performances from Celtic's big players especially Dembele and Sinclair. If Pedro wasn't bringing his own guys I would have thought Murty was worth a shout as his assistant. At least he can say he took the team to Parkhead and came back undefeated.

His agent Pedro Mendes behind him? Remembering his goal here in the 4-2 game maybe he'll bring us luck.

Heavy presence of stewards in the toilets and they say that only 30 fans are allowed in at a time. Good luck with that.

It's clear some amount of thought has gone into this formation which looks like 4-4-2 or 4-4-1-1 or even 4-5-1? Holt and Hyndman should be a good engine room but very surprised that Toral is omitted altogether as I thought he did a good job collecting and distributing forward last week. Surprised that Halliday isn't even on the bench he must be gutted unless he's injured.

I can only reiterate that any inconsistency on the part of the referee perceived or otherwise is not a mitigating factor for Kiernan's offence, which will be judged on its merits, and there can be only one outcome.

This is actually a very fair point . Not only only does the doomed appeal mean uncertainty as to the CB pairing for possibly our most difficult match of the season; but it also runs the risk of the sentence being increased.

Hopefully he taps up Garner and Tavernier for Forest in League 1 where they belong.

The challenge is indefensible. If the same challenge had been made on a Rangers player, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't be saying that; and that seems to be Rangers point; albeit it is one with which I do not agree.

The tackles on McKay are NOT mitigating circumstances for Kiernan's reckless challenge. If Rangers want to highlight any perception about unfair or poor standard of refereeing then this is not the way to do it. They should look at the season as a whole and if they can find examples of Rangers players being punished for tackles that others are not then they could make a case and that might influence future events; but tacking that on to a lost cause in the case of Kiernan is counter productive in my view.

I still say he slid in two footed inasmuch as he slides along the ground with both legs, albeit I agree and so stated in the other thread that he only made contact with one foot. If you look at the video again, would you not agree that he is actually in the act of straightening his left leg at the point of impact, rather than bending it. In any event what he does with his left leg isn't important other than perhaps a judgement on the amount of force used and the impact; we are agreed it's a straight red. I also agree that it's a stupid tackle because the opponent is facing away from our goal in no man's land, so no danger to us whatsoever. Therefore it's not only stupid but reckless and Rangers should have said so, never mind a worthless appeal, that will mean uncertainty up to the 2 days before the Celtic match.

The Appeal is not only doomed to failure bad very bad from a timing perspective. If the 2 game ban had been accepted then whoever has to step into the breach would play v Hamilton and then Celtic; however with an appeal next Thursday, one assumes Kiernan will play against Hamilton and then there will be uncertainty all next week until the result is known, meaning that whoever is coaching will need to plan the team for either outcome. Hardly the best preparation for what will already be a very difficult fixture. Rangers should think again and withdraw the appeal.

It's about as blatant a red card as your likely to see. He slides in 2-footed and takes the StJ player on the back of the ankle.

To me he's slid in 2-footed and his right foot clearly takes the St Johnstone player on the back of the ankle. A straight red no argument. Whatever fouls were perpetrated on McKay are totally irrelevant. Personally I'd be thankful it rules him out of the Celtic game, he'll cost us there again for sure, he's no match for Dembele. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-4275306/Rangers-set-appeal-Rob-Kiernan-s-red-card.html PS: Sorry about the added thumbnail, no idea how that got there.

For what little it might be worth the same source that told me McLeish and Rae were in the frame, told me they rejected the temporary gig; and that Pedro Caixinha will be announced as the new manager in the morning. Time will tell. To me his record is a little underwhelming, but the big attraction might be if he could bring a few Mexicans or Portuguese who will not be on high wages and who could add a bit of the quality that we need.

Apparently he's a trained bullfighter, albeit the bulls they fight in Mexico are a bit smaller and mostly for the tourists...... http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/rangers-contender-pedro-caixinha-portuguese-9945882

Tommy was the Manager of Dundee, the night I was (in)famously (accidentally!?) locked in Firhill after I refereed his team in a friendly against Bertie Auld's Partick Thistle. That as they say is another story, perhaps I'll tell it at the dinner this year; suffice for now to say that one James Scotland Symon, then General Manager of the Jags, phoned me to apologise the next day. RIP Tommy, a nice man, from a different era of football as has been said.