SteveC

Least of our worries just now, TB! Not a worry at all in fact

it was something like 4-0 in 12 minutes to them either side of HT. Just horrendous. Going back over the last three years - the names on the shirts change but that's about all. Doesn't seem to matter one hoot if they are "Rangers men" or not.

Bring him on to misbehave with impunity as he always does.

I think I'm going to have to switch it off. Feeling very ill.

Can't see these players fighting at the sheep or HIVs, can you? they get brushed off the ball with ease. (Admittedly if they tackle back they get booked) And our home record is pish. So - winning any of the three will almost be a surprise. Can't be bothered with that just now - just hoping for non-record score today.

I'm sitting here terrified that it's going to be seven or more today...and about how off-putting it is to any potential new manager

I'm watching it on a delay - I paused it in the build up and can't jump forwards - it's still 0-0 for me. Should I just quit now?

No, but there weren't many choices, really. In defence I mean which is what is scaring me most.

Yes, I'm beginning to feel the same. It's probably some sort of mass delusion but hey, ho....we're all punch drunk after the last six years.

We don't have the players for that.

Ta. And so it was leaked once again. Disgraceful. Also that defence is so weak that we surely have to attack for as much of the game as possible.

I seem to recall one called something like "Kaiserbear" who posted many hundreds of times before slipping up by ending one with: "right I'm off to Parkhead to get my season ticket..." What a way to spend your 'life'!

And pissing himself laughing in the lego-eater's face when that moron attempted "the stare" as Coker lovingly calls it.

The lead-up to a potentially crushing Old Firm derby – and likely an extravagant Celtic title party – is an opportune time for Rangers fans to hear the name of Steven Gerrard connected with their team, albeit as an untried management candidate. Telegraph Sport can confirm that the Ibrox directors have been in touch with representatives of the Liverpool youth coach. The scar tissue sustained in the battering by Celtic in the William Hill Scottish Cup semi-finals remains livid and, although the Rangers die-hards will do their best to present a defiant face at Parkhead on Sunday, there is a ravenous appetite for any evidence to suggest that the Ibrox board has some form of viable plan to create a credible challenge to their arch-foes. Brendan Rodgers, in his singular fashion, has brought Celtic to the brink of the unprecedented feat of a second successive clean sweep of the Scottish honours. He is unbeaten in 10 Old Firm derbies and has supervised four-goal winning margins in three, including a record 5-1 victory at Ibrox last season – the first time ever that the Hoops had scored as many goals on the other side of Glasgow. Three successive Rangers managers have now been on the wrong end of these humiliations. Mark Warburton’s first taste of Old Firm intensity was a 5-1 drubbing at Celtic Park and his successor, the hapless Pedro Caixinha, was in charge when Celtic repeated the trick in Govan a year ago. Between times, Graeme Murty supervised a 1-1 draw at Parkhead in his first stint as Rangers’ interim boss and also quarried a goalless draw from the same location in December. Murty could even make a decent claim to have come close to interrupting Rodgers’ domination at Ibrox last month, when Rangers lost 3-2 to a Celtic side reduced to 10 men in the closing stages, but who were also fortunate that Alfredo Morelos extended his record of missing gilt-edged chances on such occasions. Celtic have been dominant under Brendan Rodgers CREDIT: GETTY IMAGES The Scottish Cup debacle and its aftermath – a dressing room row which ended with veterans Lee Wallace and Kenny Miller suspended by the club – effectively took Murty out of the running for the position in the longer term, despite his record of decent results away to Celtic plus wins away to Aberdeen and Hibernian, the teams immediately behind Rangers in the Scottish Premiership table. Despite a recovery of sorts with a 2-1 victory over Hearts on Sunday, the Rangers support remained angry, brandishing a set of banners that included the barbed message, ‘Incompetent on & off the pitch’. Since then, Allan McGregor and Scott Arfield have been identified as summer arrivals by the Ibrox director of football, Mark Allen. At the same time, other managerial candidates to pique the interest of Rangers’ head hunters have included Graham Potter, the Englishman in charge of Ostersunds in Sweden, Cardiff City’s Neil Warnock, Alex Neil of Preston and Steve Clarke, whose Kilmarnock side have beaten Rangers twice and beaten and drawn with Celtic. Gerrard is the latest to top the bookies’ rankings. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2018/04/26/rangers-contact-liverpool-steven-gerrards-availability-manager/

You'd probably guess the source for this one. The National! I didn't know that their sister paper was the Evening timz...the word re finances came from a "source".....unnamed, obviously. STEVEN Gerrard could become the next Rangers manager if certain financial assurances are offered by the Ibrox board. The Evening Times understands that Rangers’ delegates, headed by director of football Mark Allen, met with Gerrard in Liverpool last Thursday in order to present a formal proposal to the former Anfield captain. He is currently mulling over the offer. A source revealed to The National's sister paper that Gerrard wants to ascertain exactly what money is on the table for immediate investment purposes and until that is confirmed he will not make a decision on the post vacated by Pedro Caixinha in October last year. Rangers chairman Dave King was at Anfield on Tuesday night as Liverpool beat Roma 5-2 in the opening leg of their UEFA Champions League semi-final, while Gerrard was in the Ibrox director’s box last month as Brendan Rodgers’s side came from behind to beat Rangers 3-2. The ball is believed to be firmly in Gerrard’s court now with Rangers keen to bring the coach to Ibrox. Gerrard, who played under Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers at Liverpool, retired in 2016 and was appointed manager of Liverpool’s under-18 squad last summer. Graeme Murty has assumed the position in the short-term but is expected to move on at the end of the season. http://www.thenational.scot/news/16186798.Gerrard_to_decide_on_Rangers_job_offer_____but_has_questions_over_finances/

This is enough to make anyone hope he does become manager: Humza Yousaf‏Verified account @HumzaYousaf Spoiler alert - Gerrard won't be Rangers Manager https://twitter.com/HumzaYousaf/status/989414399428431875

Yes, but no-one's talking about him now and headlines like the following make it sound like a done deal: http://www.insidefutbol.com/2018/04/26/didnt-see-steven-gerrard-becoming-rangers-manager-coming-former-ger-admits/373710/

I'm slightly confused. Both STV and BBC are reporting that Steve G is just one name on a shortlist yet we (and others) seem to be talking about it as though he's the only contender.

Little things can make huge differences. Neil Lennon's managerial career, such as it was, was saved by a referee giving a foul for a dive at Kilmarnock when they were three down. He'd been a joke up until that comeback and, contrary to re-written history, it had nothing to do with his managerial input. They had shown no sign of playing any better after halftime and it was that decision that turned the game and allowed them to catch up. Even then, Killie should have scored in the last minute. We threw away three points that same weekend, scandalously, and the world then went completely upside down and Evil has stalked the Land e'er since.

STV are merely saying that he is one of those on a short-list, the "he'll be named before Sunday" press may have jumped the gun in the effort to produce a screaming headline and boost sales.

Hard to tell in internet days and any story with Gerard's name is going to be picked up and spread even if only emanating from Scottish Gutter Press to begin with. So, it's "everywhere" by now, as you can see by looking at the links listed on the site below http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/Sport/Football/SPFL/Rangers

Agreed, but our chance to do that was after our illegally enforced demise and when we were working our way back. We've gone about it "arse over tit" and left ourselves boxed in with very few avenues of escape from a dire predicament.

Fair point, I don't think I've ever used that, though . Hell, I still think of it as the first division! I think "going on a run in the Europa league" is just about possible in my lifetime if we get lucky in the qualifiers and then meet teams with no interest in the competition. I'm 60 this year though and they'll soon make qualifying harder, so it is a long shot.

If you are looking for someone who can "do anything in Europe" then you are limiting the search to..........no-one. It's the SPL we play in. Europe's long gone unless the whole make-up of European football changes. Getting through the qualifying rounds is now going to get as rare as reaching finals used to be and will probably get harder with each successive change to the rules. The Europa league's champ's league place means that big clubs are starting to take it seriously a couple of rounds earlier than they used to do though there is always the chance - if we could ever get past the qualifiers - of meeting a few teams who play their reserves/try to lose to get out of the tournament in the opening rounds.

This one has gone from left-field to seeming to being so much a front-runner as appearing to be "imminent" to some. He was a wonderful player though I could never take his endless late runs, if Liverpool weren't winning, into the penalty area to fall over and get a penalty or, failing that, free kicks on the edge. Then, after the game, say :"Everybody knows I'm not that type of player, I don't dive, me" This is what Wenger was referring to when he said the papers always go on about foreigners diving but the leading exponent at that time was English. It's modern football, of course, and the likes of Drogba took it so far as to be even more ludicrous. And it shows a will to win at all costs, I suppose. I guess no-club has players who don't do this. I see little of them but Sinclair seems to base his game around it, and we've had them, too. Along with feigning injury, it's the main thing that's put me off football. Anyway - as manager = hell of a gamble but if it paid off it'd be looked back on a masterstroke. He'd bring an interest from a media that is not inherently and irredeemably biased against us (so far!) too. He's certainly got lots of people he can call for advice. Daglish, for one , but really he will have people whose counsel would be at the end of a phone.