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I'll have to be honest and say that I'm relatively new to this level of statistical analysis but I'm fairly open to learning new things about the game I love. I have found Joshua Barrie's contributions on the daily Rangers Review podcast very insightful and informative. That boy loves a good diagram.

I would just go and play our normal game...whatever that is🤣🤣

Apologies for snide comments. Just trying to lighten the thread up slightly.

I'll pass Rousseau. I'd rather wait and see how this season pans out with all the new recruits. Our failings from last season mean nothing. That's the past and I'm only interested in the present and how that effects our future. This team has played 3 games. Let's give them time. 4-0 vs Livingston with other chances created and missed is good enough for me at this stage of the season.

Livingston even managed to get over the half way line and fashion a few chances. Beale's head should be on the chopping block...

Wright helps fulfil the homegrown quota which is required by UEFA.

Hopefully Cifuentes will be that midfielder that actually shoots. Remember them? Lampard and Gerrard got bucket loads of goals for a reason. They were always willing to have a pop at goal when the opportunity arose.

I spent an hour or so the other night watching the highlights of our European games since Gerrard took charge. It was great viewing but what struck me was how we've competed against decent sides. Lech Poznan, Villareal, Spartak Moscow, Rapid Vienna, Porto, Feyernoord, Benfica, Legia Warsaw, Borussia Dortmund, Red Star, Braga, Standard Leige, Leipzig. What also struck is that Servette are not a patch on most of these teams from what I witnessed last week. Go out take the game to them and put this to bed Rangers.

Let's get started... With regards to possible line ups, I would play the same team that started the home leg with a view to introducing Cifuentes/Sima/Hagi if the game opens up. Just some housekeeping regarding our opponents. They drew 1-1 at home to St. Gallen on Saturday. Its worth noting that St. Gallen had 60% possession and completed over 400 passes compared to Servettes 280. St. Gallen also recorded 24 shots compared Servettes 13.

Servette Geneva 1 Rangers 2 FGS Tav

Man Utd will substantially higher wages so whether he plays or sits on the bench, it doesn't matter.

Agreed. I suspect some of the same fans gave headless chicken Philip Sebo a better reception because...he ran around a lot. We need to give Dessers time. I'm sure he missed many games at the end of last season so he's still getting up to speed.

I've got 7pts after two games. I think I got 6 pts over the whole season last year. I feel practically giddy.

Good shout.

Two of our most revered strikers from the last 30 odd years (McCoist and Hately) would never have had successful Rangers careers in this age of instant gratification and over the top analysis.

I almost think some fans are not happy unless we play the perfect game, IN EVERY GAME. We are a work in progress but 5 new players scored our last 5 goals. Some of the reaction at the start of this season has utterly ridiculous IMO. And some of the reactions today towards Dessers today were bewildering to say the least. Let's give the guy a chance FFS.

Wouldn't be surprised to see Balogun coming in for Goldson today. If Cifuentes starts, then I presume Jack would be rested with the midweek game in mind.

Every week? In the post I stated that I feel we would benefit from a well managed settled team over the next 3/4 weeks to mitigate for the CL qualification and the OF game. That would mean consistent groupings in defence, midfeld and atrack. These games will have a huge impact on our season.

I'm not talking about rinsing players over a season. I'm looking more at having a semi settled starting XI for the next month or so that will carefully managed. This is a tricky part of the season. There's literally no point getting to the OF game and then stating that Dessers/Danilo are not match sharp. They need games to do this, so just play them.

I'm not sure but if these players are going to gel they need consistency of selection IMO. The victory against Servette is all we can build from this season as at least there were signs of progress. Was it perfect? No where near but we can't keep juggling teams until we find the answer. We won on Wednesday and should have won by more. That's our springboard for the season. 3 points against Livi is the next step with that. Teams and managers that constantly tinker too much win FA in my opinion.

We're always going to have lots of games at this point of the season but IMO this is not the time to be making change after change in each game to allow for this. We need 3 pts on Saturday or we are putting ourselves under a mountain of pressure this early in the season. By all means give people game time vs Morton in the LC but for me it's the same XI that beat Servette. Put the game to bed then make the relevant changes. We need to stop playing like we are waiting for things to happen. Celtic put teams away in the first half and then have the luxury of being able to change formations/players etc. There's no reason why we shouldn't.

I think he was subbed on 65 mins. I'm not sure if he had a knock because there was a bad foul on him just prior to that (according to the BBC feed)

Same team as Wednesday for me. Consistency of selection will help this team gel IMO. (no shit Sherlock...) High tempo and on the front foot from the first whistle. No excuses. No sideways football. No subs until your first picks have put the game to bed. Easy.

Rangers 4 Livingston 0 FGS Danilo