SteveC

Well done, cooponthewing - pretty perfect.

FT. Goodnight all. A good night. Team were up for it.

Nemane on for Windass

Yes, that's the feeling They just got a corner for kicking the ball past our post. (not kidding) Herrera on for Morelos

3-0 pal. Two by Pena from Tav crosses and then Dorrans

Dorrans was really going all out to score after his joke of a booking. Morelos scythed down in the move that led to the goal, btw

3-0 Dorrans! Ripped them apart

Pena subbed - standing ovation - McCrorie on

Stunning Dorrans drive cracks off the bar

Dorrans booked for being attacked

TWO! Tav cross and Pena finish = AGAIN

Agreed, though it felt like 555 corners.

Quite amazing that they get a red for two yellows when they've escaped so many.

Ah, McQuade. What a memory. He of the revolving kneecaps and unco-ordinated legs.

For something that at least three of their players did earlier

Excellent cross though it was, I doubt anyone else on the pitch could have finished that. Certainly not with the same aplomb.

RANGERS: Foderingham; Tavernier, Alves, Cardoso, John; Candeias, Pena, Holt, Dorrans, Windass; Morelos. SUBS: Alnwick, Dalcio, Herrera, Nemane, McCrorie, Hodson, Barjonas.

Seems to have struck a nerve: "ST JOHNSTONE boss Tommy Wright has hit back at “paranoid” Pedro Caixinha following claims his side were leaked team information last season. The Rangers manager alleged on Wednesday that Wright had been fed team news from his camp ahead of the final game of the season, which supposedly led to a delayed training session specifically designed to counter Gers’ threats. However, Wright reacted forcefully to those claims, accusing Caixinha of “not showing respect” after wholeheartedly denying he had an insider in the Rangers set-up. “What he’s talking about in terms of us getting their team last season, is just someone that’s paranoid,” the Saints boss said. “I didn’t get his team last season, it surprises me that he says I did. “We didn’t change our training regime, we didn’t wait for them to finish training to get the team. It just didn’t happen, so I now know what ‘fake news’ means, because it didn’t happen. “He obviously has problems, he says there’s a spy in the camp, and it looks like he has a spy in our camp to be able to say we changed training, but that’s duff information because it never happened. “We tried to second guess their team, which all managers do, but under no circumstances was I given the team or change training the day before the game because I do the same preparation, and it didn’t happen. “The comments are wrong and untrue about another manager at another club, and maybe someone should look into that because he has no proof.” The teams face each other on Friday night in what is quickly becoming a grudge match, while the two sides remain neck-and-neck in the Scottish Premiership table. Just one win in their last five games has seen Saints’ promising start to the season falter, leaving them level on 14 points with Rangers who lie third in the table, and Wright suggested the Portuguese manager was wasting his time making comments in the media ahead of the game. He said: “His mind games are working. He’s enrolled in some university course in Portugal so they must be telling him that’s how they deal with things. “I think his focus should be chasing Celtic and making sure they don’t get 10 in a row, rather than trying to play mind games and not showing respect to another manager. “Because when you tell untruths about another manager, that’s not showing respect and really that should be his focus.” He added: “My team don’t need silly comments to motivate them. Our motivation has always been to win the game.”" https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/tommy-wright-labels-rangers-boss-pedro-caixinhas-claims-that-st-johnstone-were-fed-team-information-fake-news/

Smartphones and Xboxes exist in other countries, too.

Lets see = Spain were smallest and the winners Portugal were third smallest. Inbetween them was Scotland, so, of the three smallest teams - two did rather well Also how genetically different are Northern Ireland's players? Plus - Archie Gemmill Billy Bremner Willie Johnstone Willie Henderson etc. Maradona Messi Iniesta Xavi etc.

I'm not sure it is irrational. I used to go to every Scotland home game, went to Wembley often and went to France in 98. I want them to lose now, though. Scottish football hates Rangers and all but killed us but needed us just alive for £££. Makes it ahrd to support any SFA team, far less one run by Strachan whom I detest as a person (and not just because of his "Rangers are not the kind of club I could ever manage" back in the day but for many other reasons) and with Mulgrew, Brown, the racist and so forth. Plus with Slovenia now winning, a home nation is guaranteed 2nd place unless things change. A team in green and white, to be sure, but with many Bears in their support.

Surely they would only do because they already had received a lobotomy?

I remember him saying something similar on the radio re the Villareal game - or is that just my aged memory playing tricks?

Great stuff. Many thanks.

Something awry with our home and away attendances v Falkirk here, I presume: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968%E2%80%9369_Rangers_F.C._season I remember being near crushed to death twice at Brockville but I'd no idea there were that many of us in Pity the games v them weren't such big draws back in the day. I'm spending too long trying to work out which attendances should be where.