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8 hours ago, SykseyBear said:

He was, so the last 10 years doesn't include "all of the worst managers in our entire history", and what I wrote was incorrect. Sorry for editing your post.

Fixed that for you. 😁

1 hour ago, SykseyBear said:

Fixed that for you. 

Surely PLG was a worse manager than GVB and SG?

On a note related to the OP, Thursday's result took our 10 year coefficient above the Dhims. (even though, for us, that period includes 3 blank years and Pedro).

https://kassiesa.net/uefa/data/method5/trank10-2024.html

6 minutes ago, Blue Moon said:

So, is it straight knockout?

No, it's much dafter than that:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024–25_UEFA_Champions_League

5 minutes ago, Blue Moon said:

That was a stupid question.  I do not have a clue how this is going to work.  Is there only one European competition?

No, they've just changed the format of the CL. One big league with contrived fixtures instead of the group stages

14 hours ago, yuddie said:

 

 

 

 

Wouldn't it be good if those top two pots fucked off to their superleague? We'd be number one seed!

44 minutes ago, the gunslinger said:

I am getting a tingly feeling. 

Is it in your left arm?

6 minutes ago, Sutton_blows_goats said:

It does but we need to get rid of this stage fright we get when they drop points. 
 

We had made some progress on the goal difference but then Aberdeen gave them a big help at parkhead a few weeks back..

Take Aberdeen results out of the equation and we'd be top on GD with a game in hand. Annoyingly.

9 hours ago, RANGERRAB said:

Looks like Angeball is bust. Yet another Spurs defeat.Will he last much longer?

I don't watch much of the Premiership, but check the results. What's the story? Have opposing coaches got wise to his gung-ho tactics, or is it a case of luck evening itself up?

49 minutes ago, Scott7 said:

Sunderland, currently 9th in the Championship have sacked Tony Mowbray. 
He’s been doubtful about the policy of their Director of Football to bring in young players from round the world, develop them and sell at profit. Reported to have warned the Board that they won’t get promotion that way.

Tabloid suggestions that Beale or Muscat may be his replacement or @SykseyBear favourite, Alex Rae. Shows the kind of drivel tabloids come up with.

No doubt Mowbray will take it on the chin.

I initially misread that as SykseyBear being one of the favourites. Yet another opportunity missed by the disgraceful Rangers board, I thought to myself disgustedly.

We should probably redirect discussions on the existence of JuJu and other supernatural nonsense to the Lounge thread.

1 hour ago, alexscottislegend said:

Would it be anti-semitic of me to say that Israel should not be in EUFA as they are not in Europe?

No, not anti-Semitic, but it would be anacronymistic (to invent a word) - which is almost as severe a crime to some on this forum!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't Israel in UEFA because of the anti-Semitism of many of their AFC neighbours?

16 minutes ago, CammyF said:

That I briefly worked with his daughter-in-law!!! 

 

Nothing more, nothing less other than she was a lovely person. 

4 minutes ago, Bluedell said:

DJ is a lucky bastard, going out with her while she was straight.

Maybe it's his fault!

If there was ever anything in this, the attraction of joining the Rooney revolution must be fading fast.

2 minutes ago, Bill said:

I've felt for a long time that the dressing room suffers from a malign influence and suspect the removal of a couple of individuals could go a long way to solving the problem.

We shouldn't underestimate the gap that Gerrard left either. He was a hero to the players; a leader capable of inspiring the dressing room and instilling team spirit.

He always seemed able to get the players to give a bit extra.

12 minutes ago, 26th of foot said:

Compo is like the First Halfwit, Humza a former pupil of Hutchesons' Grammar School for Boys'. Strictly two and a tanner men, three bob if an egg banjo was included.

I had to Google "egg banjo". I thought (read, hoped) it was going to be something kinky.

I'd be sad to see him go, but every player has their price.

35 minutes ago, RANGERRAB said:

Im no great lover of the Scotland team and it’s support but I thought they were hard done by getting that goal chopped off last night 

Once again VAR the culprit. It was brought in to reduce wrong decisions but seems more and more to be creating wrong decisions 

VAR has done very little to improve the consistency of decision making, that's for sure.

The officials seem to be influenced by the enormity of the decision, and spend more time forensically examining a call by a referee if it's a pivotal one in the game (or season). The result being that big decisions are more likely to get overturned on technicalities that are routinely overlooked the rest of the time.

If I remember rightly the story was that Windass had "unbelievable techers" on the training ground, but was crippled by an unfortunately high level of dozyness.

I'd like to express doubt over both so that if either one turns out badly Ill be able to act wise after the event.

(Which is to say, I don't have a Scooby.)

11 minutes ago, Bill said:

We'll be telling him he can have £5m for new signings in January. Al-Shabab will be telling him he can have £250m.

We're going to have accept that Saudi teams will be hoovering up talent for the foreseeable future.

They're well on the way to buying out European football.

57 minutes ago, BlackSocksRedTops said:

I think Muscat is worth waiting for tbh. I was already keen on him but after listening to a podcast with a Japanese football expert I'm 100% sold. He sounds like the perfect antidote to aimless and passionless rubbish we've had to endure. I also get the feeling that we don't get him someone else will.

It's a tough one.

I'd argue that Muscat's loyalty to his current club is a positive trait. And there are great value signings to be had in the Asian market, so his knowledge in that area could be a real positive.

What do we do for the next few months though? There's too much at stake for us to have a rookie caretaker manager over that period.

4 minutes ago, Gonzo79 said:

Hopefully Davis doesn't get that long.

 

Is there a man on this Earth that can get this squad motoring?  I have my doubts.  They're like a bunch of lost wee lambs.

I'm sure the right manager can do it.

Think of the turnaround from Pedro to Gerrard. Tav and Alfie, for example, went from the abject display in Luxembourg, to top performers in the Europa League.

It won't be easy to replicate that, but we've seen that it can be done.