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A foul or not a foul? Who cares? The game should have been over by then. I cannot stand this focus on one decision. It's not the Rangers way and reeks of Septic's paranoid masses.

Sorry JFK. I live here and certainly don't subscribe to this sick nation nonsense. Take football out of the equation and I don't see it. Even comparing Scotland to whatever is happening in NI is something I don't get. Religion of the Christian variety is dying in Scotland and will be non existent in 2/3 generations IMO. Outwith football can you please provide examples of the sectarianism that is all around? I'm not being arsey but I just don't see it

C'mon. Let's put things in perspective. Dehumanising of Jews? FFS. Do you realise that the majority of people in Scotland didn't even know that Rangers and Aberdeen were playing yesterday? Let's not turn the actions of a minority into the "State of the Nation". Not only are Rangers troubles irrelevant to most people in this country, football in general means nothing.

I still have faith in the manager as we need to give him time with the new set of players but I'll be honest I'm kind of slowly edging that way myself after today. After where we have come from over the last 3/4 years, I admire the possession game we are trying to adopt but it needs more bite in the final third. For the amount of ball retention we have, we create very little in terms of out and out chances in a lot of games rarely trouble the opposition keeper. I can't blame the strikers as I feel they are getting very little in the way of service. It would be a different story if we created chance after chance and our strikers were firing blanks but they're not even getting the chances IMO. I know we created a few today but to quote Advocaat from back in the day, they were not 100% chances. They were half chances and "moments". I still feel we need that player that can play in the lines between midfield and our strikers.

I still have faith in the manager as we need to give him time with the new set of players but I'll be honest I'm kind of slowly edging that way myself after today. After where we have come from over the last 3/4 years, I admire the possession game we are trying to adopt but it needs more bite in the final third. For the amount of ball retention we have, we create very little in terms of out and out chances in a lot of games rarely trouble the opposition keeper. I can't blame the strikers as I feel they are getting very little in the way of service. It would be a different story if we created chance after chance and our strikers were firing blanks but they're not even getting the chances IMO. I know we created a few today but to quote Advocaat from back in the day, they were not 100% chances. They were half chances and "moments". I still feel we need that player that can play in the lines between midfield and our strikers.

I don't think he did much wrong tbh but I'm not sure what he added by coming on. McKay was far more wasteful with the ball IMO

I think Garner is unfairly being singled out by some. He's a new striker coming into a somewhat disfunctional team. Our problems don't centre around a guy that's played 4/5 games and has had very limited service IMO. Give him time

That was harder pil to swallow than the OF game. Aberdeen are a very poor team IMO.

We didn't create that many IMO. We had half chances and created "moments" but not as much as we should have created, considering the posession.

I disagree. We lost the game because we created very little considering how much ball we had. That for me is a big worry. No point passing the ball to death and retaining posession only to do nowt with it.

Can't believe we are going to lose to such a poor team.

How many times has McKay given the ball away with loose passes?

I just hope he keeps a level head... Call me an eternal optimist but I have a good feeling about this game. A 3-1/4-1 kind of feeling. I just think with Waggy and Holt back, our play has more purpose. We are going to click sooner than later and IMO it will come against a team that comes at us. I just hope our defence is up to it on sunday...

Sounds about right Ian.

Honestly...what are the professional requirements to be a sports journalist in Scotland?

I am big fan of Forrester but this is the kind of game he could see a red card IMO. I'd swap him for O'Halloran

Sutton is an arrogant blowhard who is crudely trying to fashion a career as a "controversial" pundit. Even his recent MOTD appearances were cringeworthy and awkward. The guy is a weirdo. Always has been tbh

My team would be: Foderingham Tavernier Hill Wilson Hodson Halliday Holt Windass O'Halloran Waghorn Garner

So this week we've had The Herald/Evening Times apologise, now the DR. What about the BBC for the utterly misleading headline from earlier in the week?

Not a chance in hell of that happening mate

How was that not a red card? On so many levels

Am I missing something? His wife is attacked and abused and his reaction becomes the story? No word of the attackers? Or was that not part of the hitlist when studying the CCTV?

At what stage can you start converting this catalogue lies into a legal case? Apologies are pointless as the stories are already out and have caused the damage they set out to create. Oh and who were the 6% that would still buy the Record?

Agree 100%. Rodgers is flavour of the month with the Scottish mhedia. He got a free ride from mostly everyone after the 7-0 drubbing from Barca because "they do that to everyone"... em, no they don't. Even the points dropped at ICT were glossed over because the "performance" was good. I didn't see much mention of Celtic leaky defence having just shipped 7 goals in 5 games. The general consensus was Celtic played well in a game they dominated whereas Rangers on the other hand toiled and dropped vital points in a game they dominated.

Let's hope they use the same language (yob, caged, thug) when condemning the Hibs yobs (when sentenced) that attacked our players and hurled sectarian abuse. I won't hold my breath...I can see words like overexuberant, high spirits. etc.