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I think Gerrard wants the front 3 to be pretty fluid. In as much they can play in all 3 positions during the game. Roofe would offer that with his versatility alongside Kent and Hagi.

Numan was injured when we signed him lucky if he played 20 games in his first season with us.

Flanagan not a great player but played in position was always solid backup in my opinion. Never hid in games and ran himself into the ground.

I'd guess there would be a clause or amendment to the contract to ensure that.

i'll always remember Charlie Millers cross for Laudrup.

Entirely on players I've seen. Goram. Stevens. Numan. Gough. Butcher. McCall Steven (1st time) Gascoigne. Laudrup Hateley McCoist. Could give lots of honourable mentions to different midfielders we had under Advocaat but would only start second guessing myself.

The people that say we've been figured out are not seeing the big picture. We've been figured out from day one. It's not difficult to see how we play. Gerrard needs to address why we don't consistently apply the press. Braga to Hearts was night and day. In effective and non effective use of it. Agree. It isn't the formation. It's the attitude of the players which then leads on to Gerrard and his management team persisting with them. Which brings bigger questions on squad depth.

As much as I like Tav. We've not had a great captain in a long time. Weir was probably the last great one. In terms of our 4-3-3. It really comes across if we have urgency in our play and the press we employ. We function as a unit pretty well. If we don't have that then we really struggle. We've not been doing that domestically recently. We seem content to let teams sit deep, which just puts pressure on our forward players to find a chance. Where in theory if we press when they're so deep and they lose possession. We should be right on top of them posing a significant threat.

No, perhaps from the bench. I'd start with Kamberi and Defoe up front.

At a glance Rotherham look like they're playing well. They're sitting 2nd in League 1. I've no idea however, if that was expected at the start of the season or not. Nor how much influence (if any) Hastie has had in that.

Merry Christmas folks. Here's hoping our best of 2019 is our worst of 2020.

It's completely unacceptable. What if the pie burnt Tavernier? Or got in his eye? Rangers should call it out.

Pretty much this. Any of the other talk. I'll believe it, when I see it.

Getting him is a quite a coup for the club.

I think Tavernier's contributions to the team, far outweighs his occasional errors. I believe on our day we're better than Young Boys and think we'll beat them at home.

It was a 30 yarder all the way.

Really got to the point where I couldn't care less when Scotland are playing. The last 2 Scottish games I went to. Wasn't to see Scotland it was to see Hazard and Ronaldo (who didn't play). I only watched last night because I had a bet on Belgium and I switched off when it came up.

I thought St Mirren would come out when we scored. But didn't. From where I was sitting. I got the impression Gerrard wanted Kamara or Jack to overload the centre and have Barasic and Tavernier overlap on the wings. We didn't do that in the first half possibly because of the sun as Helander seemed to have difficulty with high balls he had to attack. But when we did it at the start of the second half it led to the goal.

I think if we qualify for the Europa League we may well get Kent and another striker. If we don't, I don't see Kent happening.

Barasic is an enigma. He hardly (if ever) goes past the last man to cross the ball and he just pings the same diagonal ball in over and over again. It's frustrating as he's clearly a player, from watching him play for Osijek or Croatia.

I like Lafferty if he can screw the nut. We clearly thought he'd turned a corner but he admits in the interview he let himself down and some of the other stupidity he got up to when he re-signed is why he is gone.

As am i. But (and tinfoil hat time) i'm concerned that some of the statements from fan groups are coming via the board adding to the confusion.

On the face of it this seems pretty serious and looks like it could be very costly for us. I'm not sure it is quite as catastrophic as some outlets are implying but all the same. I'm getting concerned some our fans groups seem to be going down the fake news route and everything is gravy. The board need to be straight with the fans.

I love this video of Defoe from his time in MLS. He clearly wanted to take the free kick and was pissed off he didn't get to take it. Gilberto then fires it in and Defoe's reaction is priceless.