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Juancornetto

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  1. OK I did get the wrong end of the stick. :blush:

     

    However, who's to say that the attitude and performance of the Malmo players hasn't improved? You go through ruts during a season, you hit the highs and the lows. Every team is the same, well most anyway.

     

    This is also true, I'm not into the whole summer football bleating but if you equate it with us going into a Euro qualifier in October after playing 7 or 8 games at home (including an Old Firm) you can see what kind of advantage it gives "summer" teams. Against Maribor we were just pish.

  2. What a ridiculous comment. If we won two more games 4 seasons ago we' have won the league. If we never lost to Killie at Ibrox in 1998 we'd have won 10IAR. If Brewster never scored against us in the 1994 Scottish Cup Final we might've won the treble for a 2nd successive season. If Hearts never scored against us on the opening game of the season we'd have won.

     

    As others have hinted I think you've got the wrong end of the stick here, I was referring to the change in attitude and performance between then and now. I wasn't doing an ifs and buts routine.

  3. Not from what I have experienced first hand from my local Bundesliga team. 2 hours morning session, 2 hours in the afternoon and off with their BMWs et al.

     

    IMHO people simply over-react on here. They usually hardly have a clue about our training, yet lambast players and management about it. They trained well enough for 3IAR, no questions asked. They trained well enough for all our European games in the CL, no questions asked. Had they scored a couple or more without reply last night, no-one on here would raise a fitness or tactical problem issue. And no-one will raise that question if we wrap up No. 55 in May.

     

    That's a bit of a moot point mate to be honest, if we had won and progressed you are correct nobody would mention coaching or tactics but defeats show up the problems more than successes and it wouldn't have changed the fact that the Slovenian champions only required one clear chance to score and we needed dozens.

     

    Same with Malmo, were they better than us? No, but they weren't far off our level and they made their chances count and we couldn't. Lennon is experiencing the same thing with his mob as well. It's the same domestically we are wasteful with the ball and with chances maybe because we are guaranteed to get 6 or 7 good chances in a game. If we were to be restricted to 2 or 3 per game like Maribor or Malmo were every game we would soon improve the ratio.

  4. I grew up in the 9IAR years as well and winning the league was a minimum to enable access to Europe. Now the small minded view is "as long as we do better than them" but to be honest I couldn't give a monkeys about them other than in Old Firm games. I've always had the impression that they are more interested in us than we are in them but lately I think it's pretty 50/50 which is strange because domestically they have always been and will continue to be in our shadow.

  5. The Scottish game has not progressed in the last 20 years, and by that I mean the style and technique that is coached and bought by our clubs. The game last night highlighted the lack of touch these players have, they have to take two or three touches on the ball before making a pass, meanwhile the opposition seem to be able to zip the ball about between them at will. The number of times we lost the ball in the final 3rd only to watch the ball move effortlessly between their players up the park was frightening, and they are a mediocre team.

     

    Championship sides in England have better quality players with better technique and the vast majority of them are British so it's not a problem that crosses the border. The blood and thunder approach to football in this country will only die out if we coach kids better from an early age.

  6. A lot of people need to be honest with themselves before they can "stand shoulder to shoulder" with other fans (like me) who simply have no interest in Loyalism or Unionism but have every interest in Rangers Football Club. We have a disease on our doorstep and an aggressive one at that so, what do we do? We lower ourselves to their tactics and we play right into their hands. A paradigm shift has to take place where we unite behind one thing and that is the football.

     

    Dress it up any way you like but Unionism, Loyalism and the politics of Northern Ireland are baggage, baggage that we need to drop to move forward and distance ourselves from the conflicted zombies that blight our society. If people are honest with themselves they might accept that their motivation for being ultra proud and ultra defiant are simply to "get up timmy" that is a well trodden path and is clearly not helping the club or the wider society to progress. Like any addiction, the first step in kicking it is to admit it exists.

     

    Over and out

  7. I would have been really pissed off if we had let Wylde slip away for a pittance, the guy has everything it takes to be a proper attacking full back or in front of Wallace/Papac as a more attacking option. I don't see where his final ball is a problem? Do folk expect him to whip a perfect ball in every time?

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