Blue Moon

No brainer.  Sima.  Covered every blade of grass.  Beginning to look like a Rangers player.

That was a tenacious performance from us today.  Well done to all.  Clancy was a disgrace.

Same as Cammy F.  Big John.

Thank you DB.

Some positives to take from the game for me.  Cantwell playing a bit deeper last night was more like his old self in chasing the ball down.  He was all over the park and worked his socks off.  Cifuentes did better. I like the way he can nick the ball back without giving away too many fouls.  He has an eye for a pass too.  If we could do something about his pace we might have a player there. Sima's goal, Butland's saves and a workhorse performance from Lundstram were all key in the game.  We need a quality striker.  We will never know until we see Shankland in a blue jersey whether he has what it takes to play for us.  We need someone to take some of these chances we are creating and can't rely on Sima alone for the rest of the season.

I will give this one a miss.  A friendly in the depths of January holds no attraction whatsoever.

Normal service is resumed, Todd Cantwell for his all round play and 2 assists and his positive reaction from Thursday night.  Sima did well with the 2 goals but his overall play wasn't great.

I am so pleased to see Cantwell and Lawrence come onto a game today.  What a difference it makes to us.

I fear if we play with 10 men again today we will be lucky to scrape a draw.   I was willing to give Lammers a lot of time but he really is as bad as they come.  Utterly clueless.  The manager is in danger of staking his reputation on him.

No need to think hard about this.  Had to be JL.

2 hours ago, PoohBear said:

Not surprised by any, but unsure why Clement stuck with Dessers so long at the start. Doesn't seem to make sense to me that he got so many chances and now he's told to leave.

We were having that discussion last night.  Came to the conclusion he wants to go.

Hope there are more too come.

I've just read what the manager said but it would have been a moot point if he's moved him to his own position.

I believe he is playing as a 10.

He couldn't be any worse than Lammers when he plays in his own position.

Gutted by that tonight.  We really are so short of good players.  I am concerned that the manager keeps playing Lammers and hanging Cantwell out to dry.  I never want to see Lammers again.  Aside that, the manager has an impossible job to do currently.

Balogun is not in the squad so it is Davies or King.  I agree about Cantwell.

Wonderful.  Well deserved.

Went for Cifu for the same reason as others, best of a bad bunch.

Our afternoon and evening out had some of the shine taken off it with that woeful performance.  I can think of one plus, that we created lots of chances.  Cifuentes was probably our best player and even he wasn't that great.   He was good at breaking up play but did little in a creative sense.  As for the rest, it has all been said in previous posts.  I expected changes at half time and believe the manager was too slow to make them.  The game, particularly in the second half, was crying out for Dessers and we got Lammers.  I hoped he might go to 3 at the back because, as expected, they decided to hang onto their half time lead and dug in.  I still feel the same today as I did before the match, that was a must win game.

CJ Novo says it all.

I picked 10!  The one I missed was Gascoigne and went for Durrant.

McCoist for sure.  Hately, Boyd, Miller, Prso, Jelavic, Stein, Mols and Alfie were all quality players.  Prso was my hero so going for him.

Laudrup for me.  What a talent.