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Is that you Kevin? ?

She may have been but the current directors are his two sons.

His two sons seem to be the ones in charge in what is not a very profitable business. The partnership does, however, generate publicity, good and bad depending on your perspective.

I am less sure that bringing Kent onto the middle would be successful. Most of the teams we play are loaded in the middle and I am not sure that there would be the space for Kent to excel. Instead, I think he is more likely to be caught in possession and thus our attack will be stopped. On a number of occasions Kent does come in off the side to the centre but I tend to feel when he does this he is dribbling across the field and there is a lack of penetration. Where I do agree, is that later in games when teams are becoming stretched Kent has more space in the middle and can then run at defenders with more chance of going past them and not being stopped by another defender immediately behind the first defender. I think we can have some success if Kent is to the left of centre as long as he works in tandem with Barisic. I would like to see Barisic on occasion playing balls into the left channel for Kent to capitalise on.

Rangers 3 Hibs 1 FGS: Morelos

Rangers 2 Aberdeen 1 FGS: Morelos

Rangers 3 Ross County 1 FGS: Defoe

Although we played poorly I think some credit has to be given to how Hearts played. Unlike most teams we come against they did not use a defensive block. Against these sorts of teams we can dictate the tempo, establish some rhythm and have the bulk of possession. Hearts did not do that but instead they hassled our midfield and ensured they had little time on the ball. We thus got sucked into a scrappy game with the ball in the air a lot which does not suit our style. In addition, they had Clare playing down the wing which restricted Barisic (an exception was our goal) thus negating one of our strengths. On the other side Flanagan is not noted for his offensive qualities and thus the combination of these meant we were forced into a more restricted game. Upfront we missed Morelos who can occupy the centre backs much more than Defoe who doesn't have the same physicality and who is now lacking a bit of pace and therefore is not able to outrun defenders. As others have also noted hitting long balls into the box is not playing to Defoe's strength which is being a penalty box predator. Picking up on a point may much earlier by Rousseau our lack of movement at throw-ins is dire making it difficult for players to have the time to make a telling pass and spread the play. Instead, we tend to become hemmed into a small area and it needs some bit of skill or ingenuity to make something happen.

Hearts 1 Rangers 3 FGS: Defoe

Rangers 2 St. Mirren 0 FGS: Defoe

Rangers 4 Stranraer 0 FGS: Defoe

Celtic 2 Rangers 2 FGS: Morelos

Rangers 3 Kilmarnock 1 FGS: Defoe

I would hope that all of them are fit.

There has been quite a bit of information on the official website. We picked up a goalkeeper from Hibernian who seem to be imploding at the moment and have lost a number of players which is a cause for complaint on their forums. As Celtic are also gearing up it looks as though there might be some competition in the new season, between ourselves, Glasgow City and Celtic.

Hibs 1 Rangers 2 FGS: Arfield

Motherwell 1 Rangers 3 FGS: Morelos

SG perhaps needed to freshen up the midfield by bringing on fresh legs. The problem for him was when you look at the bench he did not have available any quality midfielders. Kent was busy but not having that much joy and therefore Ojo might well have been as his best choice. You could, however, argue that given Young Boys were mainly throwing long balls into the area SG might have put on another defender but even here we did not have that many good options on the bench.

Not sure I would agree, as Feyenoord looked the poorest team to me. Having said that, I don't think there is a lot between the four teams with no one (two teams) being dominant.

Mack1950, I think you are a bit harsh on Kamara who, along with Arfield, was industrious and part of the reason our midfield outplayed them. Having said that I believe we need someone with a bit more bite and pace than Arfield. Although Kent did not have his best game he was tightly marked by Celtic players which allowed others the space to operate. I agree, however, that it would be beneficial to see Kent do his work nearer the opponent's goal rather than meandering across the pitch 40 or so yards from the goal. Leaving aside the terrific shot from Jack, today's game also showed that we need players, other than Morelos, to be stepping up and scoring goals in the big games.

I agree with you about Barker but there were not many options on the subs bench.

I think we should take positives from this game. Yes, we lost but we outplayed Celtic and that stands us well for the league games against them. I only had a couple of reservations about the game. Instead of sending on Defoe I think Stewart should have been put on because he might have added that bit guile when we started to chase the game and started to send balls into the area with more hope than expectation. I just hope none of our players picked up injuries that rule them out of the game on Thursday. So, let's move on and look forward to winning on Thursday and advancing in the Europa league.

Rangers 2 Celtic 1 FGS: Morelos

I felt in the second half our back line was pressured a bit more and they didn't seem to be able to handle this which resulted in far too many aimless punts upfield. I also felt Davis was given a lot of time on the ball in the first half and was able to pick his pass but unfortunately in the second half his time on the ball was more limited. Having seen tonight's game I rather suspect Celtic will plan to put pressure on our back line knowing that there is a good possibility of a mistake being made.

Aberdeen 1 Rangers 2 FGS: Morelos