CammyF

Won't make any difference in the title run in. Their biggest challange is to move players on.

Silva was brought in to score goals, and was a player our management / footballing team knew and assumed trusted. It hasn't worked out, mainly due to Clement playing Silva wide more often than not. Sima and Dessers have decent numbers for the season, Sima's injury derailed his season and same.can be said for Danilo.

It could happen, but what options are available? Sterling for Tav is the most obvious but many think Sterling is better deployed in midfield. So if not Sterling, who plays right back? The options to replace Goldson (and Souttar) are Balogun, Davies or King. Neither of those 3 have shown anything to suggest they'd improve our defence. At left back, Borna has checked out, Yilmaz appears to still be injured (again), so that leaves Yfeko. Lundstrum has carried our midfield for the majority of the season but is struggling at the moment. It appears that Clement doesn't rate Raskin. Jack is permanently injured, Diomande is currently injured and Sterling is filling in for the entire back four 😀 Whilst we have a huge squad on paper, it's stretched due to injuries and loss of form.

Reading the thread it would appear that we are in agreement that we have defenders who can't defend, midfielders who can't midfield and strikers who can't strike and I'd argue that recently we have a keeper who can't keep and a manager who can't manage.......But apart from that, we're fine...... And to think a few short weeks ago we were in Europe, in pole position in the league and looking forward to a treble.

I didn't say we needed to rebuild the entire squad but I think we do. It's been said by a few we need to replace Tav, Goldson and Lundstram as a matter of urgency. Only one is out of contract in the summer. So how do we get rid or Tav and Goldson? If nobody wants to buy them, can we afford to have two of our highest earners warming the bench? We certainly can't afford to "pay them off" . The situation we are currently in is a direct result of us standing still after winning 55. It appears to be a heavy price to pay.

We have won only 2 of our last 7 games - honeymoon period is well and truly over. Hardly the form of a team fighting for a league title.

So the manager is to blame as he didn't bring in the correct loan players?

They might, but that doesn't help us replace them.

This argument baffles me - it's a deflection away from what the real issue is. All OF defeats and lack off success is down to a select few players? Or is it a collective failure?

But we have- Sterling, Diomande, Raskin, Yimaz Davies, Balogun name a few. Maybe the players bought to replace them haven't been good enough (I'd argue they haven't been)

He would / might have, but how would we have paid for him? We didn't have the money to buy Shankland in January

And we got one on loan.

What do you think out transfer budget will be in the summer? Seriously, how much money will Clement have to rebuild the entire defence and forward line?

But who do you replace them with? Take the back 4 as an example - none of them up to the job. Would a back 4 of Sterling, King, Balogun and Yfeko win you the league?

The question remains, how could we have addressed it in January when we had no money to spend? We brought in loans, some with options / obligations to buy in the summer.

It's a cycle that needs broken and SG did break the cycle (took him 3 seasons) but what he did was improve us in Europe (generated much need income) and found a way, very quickly to beat Celtic on a regular basis. When we won 55, the board patted themselves on the back and failed to back the manager. That should have been a springboard, it's now just a distant memory. We have very limited disposable income (even Beales spree last pre-season was circa £6M net spend) and not getting to CL limits us further. Not having a good player trading model is also killing us. It's not up to you, me or the wider Rangers support to come up with solutions, that's up to the board and the footballing people employed by the club.

Correct - Gio and Beale also delivered a decent honeymoon period then we reverted to type. We appear to be doing the same under Clement.

No, but we should be able to rely on our defence (and keeper) to stop Ross County from scoring 3 goals. Let's not kid ourselves, Ross County got in as good as, or better positions today (and missed) than we did today.

Hahaha - what striker at our club has the goals and assists of Tav? He was poor today, but so was every other player (who started or brought on). So given your thinking, if any other player took the penalty today, it would have been indulgence?

As well us being unable to defeat Celtic, we have dropped 11 points to teams who have finished in the bottom 6. Let's be brutally honest, we were only in the title race as Celtic have regressed. We have the same failings under Clement as we did under Gio and a Beale. I'm not writing Clement off but we can't deny that recently, his team selections and tactics have been baffling and have cost us dearly. We need a huge change in mindset right through the club. The honeymoon periods are over.

Those would have been sufficient for the three points if we could have defended properly.

Hahaha - here's another simple fact. Without the odd assist and penalty, we'd be further behind than we are now.

We look incapable of beating anyone right now.

1st time we've lost to Ross County - couldn't have came at a worse time. Anyway, said at halftime last week, it's the hope that kills you. We've stumbled along since losing to Motherwell but today feels like the final nail in this seasons League challange. Roll on next season.

Hahaha - so when he's had a bad game he's not allowed to take a penalty - mental