CammyF

Thank The Lord Ally McCoist and Mark Hateley weren't written off so quickly by fans...... oh wait a minute.....

Down to the position he was playing IMO - also, he's young and inexperienced, always going to have poor games. Even the great players like Davie Cooper had poor games.

Our league season so far: 29 Games Unbeaten 25 Wins 100% Record at Ibrox 69 Goals Scored 8 Goals Against 22 Clean Sheets 16 Goalscorers Unbelievable stats

But it's the officials that wrongly ruled out a good goal and denied us a stone wall penalty - so that's 2 goals they denied us - that would have made the game 3-0 before half-time. Didn't see us try to walk ball into her yesterday. Kent had a great effort brilliant saved, then set up Aribo with a tap in that he contrives to miss. It happens, players miss chances, players performances drop at times.

Kent didn't cut it? We must have been watching a different game. He brought a wonderful save from their keeper and set Aribo up with a sitter and was involved in some of our best passages of play. Aribo didn't have a great game but he always struggles when he is in midfield 3, needs to be played further forward - said as much during the match

Yeah agreed - said during the match yesterday that Alfie occupies the 3 central defenders. His game is based on physicality, battling and more often than not, bullying defenders. He also knows when to drop deep or wide which then opens space for our "impact players" to play in and create. Roofe is a different type of forward, he is cute and clever and exploits the time and space created by an Alfredo type. Itten is different again as he seems happier coming from wide positions against smaller and less physical full backs. All offer something different but Alfie is the only one who can do the "bulldozer" role and he does it brilliantly

Thats why I've started to re-watch games as I tend to "forget" incidents and chances during a game. For the record, havent watched yeterdays game back but off top of my head we did create 100% chances ; Tav scored a goal that was ruled out. During the game I thought he was just offside, but not seen an angle that shows for definite if he was or wasn't offside. Tav then got brought down in the act of shooting (you'd have backed him to score) and it was 100% a penalty. Ryan Kent at start of 2nd half had a fantastic shot that brought out a brilliant save from the Killie keeper. Around the 80th minute mark, we had a brilliant breakaway and Kent lays a 100% chance on a plate for Aribo who contrives to miss. There's 4 x 100% chances off the top of my head from yesterday so on another day we win the game 4 or 5 nil and everyone is purring over the performance.

Can Wright play on Thursday? Don't think he's in the named squad? What have you seen in Wright in the 70 odd games he's played in his career at Aberdeen and Dundee to believe he can significantly improve our team, not only domestically but in Europe? Don't get me wrong, think he is an exciting prospect and over time will be a decent player for us. What players didn't cut it yesterday? We've been unable to play a settled team recently (so we've had changes) due to injuries and suspensions to key players.

Drops in performance, as well as dropped points are inevitable in any league campaign, it's the reaction to these situations both from the team and fans that is interesting. Anytime we have encountered a dip in form, or a "bad" result, the players and management team have ensured it has been a "one-off" and followed up with a run of victories (some playing well, others just scraping by). If this is the scale / reaction to us not hitting the highest standards we've set this season and winning (or drawing), I hate to imagine what hysteria will ensue when (God Forbid) we actually lose a game of football in the league (it'll be along the lines of "told you so", "it was on the cards" - course it was, that's football, you can't win every game). In days gone by, finding ways to win "ugly", grind out results, rack up points was said to be the sign of champions and of a great team. Now, a bad performance or two sees fans wanting players publicly flogged, management team to drop a successful system, even after winning a game that takes us a step closer to the end goal. Off course it would be better watching if we were to win 5-0 every week, but again, it's impossible to do so.

Has it tho? We totally controlled the game yesterday and only inept officiating stopped us winning by a healthy margin. How do you know we won't continue to keep winning playing the system that has got us so close to the ultimate prize, we've done alright thus far? In a league campaign there will always be times when the performance levels dip and all you can ask is that the team find away to keep racking up the points, some thing we have done this far. At this stage of any season, its simply all about getting victories and was long as we continue to win, I don't care how we win, what type of performance we give, who plays and who doesn't. The end result is ALL that matters.

Why would you want to tweak a formation that is unbeaten both in the league and in the EL? That has seen us win every home league game thus far and leaves us 4 victories from securing the title? Why change a winning formula that is tried and tested, that the players have bought into 100% and are delivering to more times than not? What would you be hoping to achieve by tweaking tactics or personal? Changing a winning formula to what end?

Honestly mate, I don't care how we get over the line, as long as we do and as soon as possible ? If we do and I'm celebrating and eradicating 10 years of hurt and anger, I certainly won't be thinking back to certain games and thinking, "well it's all well and good winning the league, but remember that game in February against Killie that we won 1-0, we should have played better". I'll be too busy setting of fire works, smoke bombs, flying flags (joking obviously ???), all social distanced and respecting whatever rules that are in place.....

If Tavs goal had been allowed to stand, if we had gotten a legitimate penalty when Tav was tripped in the box, and if Aribo had scored we wouldn't be having this conversation. Oh and Balagun "foul" was outside the box...... You want to talk about improvement? Fine. Let's talk about improvement. Qualified top of a very difficult EL group whilst not losing a game. Sit top of the league, yet to lose a game in the league. Conceded one goal at home in the league thus far whilst scoring 40 goals and dropping 0 points. Now compare and contrast to last season - no improvement? One domestic defeat all season and 4 wins away from claiming our 1st title in 10 years after being hours away from not being able to field a team away to Brechin in those dark days. The journey struggling against the likes of Alloa, Peterhead, Berwick Rangers et al. Struggling to get out of the championship and being humiliated by Motherwell in that play off. Losing to Raith in the Mickey Mouse Cup Final at Easter Road. Still not seeing any improvement? Best unbeaten run in the club's history after eclipsing Walter Smith's record (what a team that was), 1 game away from breaking the clean sheet record. Still not seeing any improvement? Some Rangers fans need to remember where we've came from, remember last season, remember we have no devine right to win any game of football nevermind winning it 4 or 5-0, this has to be earned and this season, the team have (THUS FAR) stood 99% of the time and delivered. They just need to deliver another 4 times this season to become immortals. If that isn't improvement then I'm the leader of The Green Brigade.

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These stats are utterly ridiculous - 1 goal, yes 1 single goal conceded at home in the league so far this season, whilst we've scored 40. Let those stats sink in. They say a lot about the change in mentality from last season. Our away form is also very impressive, but home record is ridiculous.

Yeah the state of the pitch is a concern and has an obvious impact on our ability to play our preferred style. Spent plenty money on it recently and was hoping it would stand up to the test this season.

Nah, total misunderstanding of football, football games and how / what you need to win championships.

Another one ticked off, a win, another clean sheet, still unbeaten and most importantly, 3 points closer to the prize. Job done, onto next game.

This is torture....

Hope that doesn't come back and bite us in the arse - what a chance

It's gotten a bit meh again

Starting to create more opportunities, hopefully take one soon.

Superb save from Killie keeper

A little bit better in early stages of 2nd half.