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Hopefully he will be like Barrie McKay and given a clean sheet to prove himself with the new manager. It is a strange affair he is not getting a chance. Even after he scored 2 goals he was dropped for the next game. Has he actually played since?

Yes but now they dominate the SFA. You just have to look at Hibs being allowed to bring in 2 loan players while McGregor is only suspended. How can you get an emergency loan when you have a player suspended? Why do teams have development teams if they cannot even bring in one player for cover. I can see it with a goalkeeper but this is a corrupt and wrong decision.. Is it Gray the full? back I am sure has played CH in the past. I cannot say for sure but I am almost certain if Rangers had asked for this we would of had it rejected.

As I look out of the window the sun is scorching down. The weather forecast has told me that it can reach 15 degrees today. What a difference in how I feel after days and days of wind, rain and grey sky's. It is a bit like supporting Rangers really. Wednesday night's game against St Johnstone was like a ray of sunshine after weeks of dark skies and depressions. You can also feel a completely different mood on the Rangers websites. At last there was a glimmer of footballing sunshine. A sign that this team could actually fight for a win. That they could score a goal before the opposition had sunk one into the back of our onion bag. It was not all scorching sun and nobody is running for the factor 20 just yet, but there were few signs that spring and better things could be in the air With all the rumours that a new manager or coach will be appointed soon I actually feel a bit sorry for Graham Murty. If the rumours are true this will be his last game as caretaker manager. I had a feeling he was actually starting to get things turned in a positive direction. Don't get me wrong I don't think he could all of a sudden turn this team into a team of world beaters but I actually think he had spotted the biggest flaws in this team. It looked like he had spotted that Martin Waghorn was our best striker and certainly our most prolific goal scorer over the last 2 seasons. Why Mark Warburton thought that sticking his best scorer constantly out on the right wing was a good idea beats me to be honest. Then when Waghorn failed to hit the heights out on the wing, or at least he only sporadically hit the heights, he was benched rather than moved to his preferred position as central striker. In the middle we had Kenny Miller or Joe Garner who mostly were not scoring on a regular basis. Yes Miller was getting the odd goal but Garner's hit rate was like waiting for civilisation to appear on route 50 across Nevada in America. The road is called the loneliest road in America. I like Garners style but his goals were very few and far apart. A striker has to be scoring or at least having an overload on assists to keep his place in a team. In the midfield we have been sadly missing a defensive midfielder. Halliday has been more of handicap as a help of late and Warburton's loyalty to him( or only option) possibly also played a part in Warburton's downfall. One wonders how Joey Barton may have progressed in that position if Warburton did not have a meltdown with him. He seems to be doing reasonably well at Burnley. I actually often asked if a defensive midfielder could actually make that much difference to a team but you only have to look at N`Golo Cante of Chelsea and look at the difference he has made to the Chelsea team and also look where Leicester City are this season to say it is probably the most important position on the park. After unsuccessfully trying Hyndman and Halliday together in a deeper role against Inverness, on Wednesday against the Saints he put Toral into that role. While supporters opinions differ on his performance I personally thought that after a few slack, almost deadly passes, he actually came on to a reasonable game. Hyndman certainly benefited from playing in that more advanced role and was superb in taking deservedly the Man of the Match award. Probably the most pleasing thing on the night was we showed a bit of fight and grit that had been missing for weeks. We only really saw that fighting spirit against Aberdeen and Hearts at Ibrox earlier in the season after being beaten by them in our away games. One thing is for sure when we take to the field on Saturday at 12,30pm against Hamilton Accademicals in the Scottish cup we will need to show we are up for a battle. Hamiltons whole game is built on sitting deep and fighting for every ball hoping to get that breakaway goal. I watched them beat Aberdeen on Friday night and Aberdeen were hitting them with everything they could. Aberdeen even finished the game with four attackers but still could not break down the resolute Hamilton defence. The Hamilton players were throwing their bodies in front of the ball. The match statistics showed that Aberdeen had 70% of the play. They had 21corners with 11 shots off target and only 3 on target Hamilton had 1 shot on target and 1 shot off target. The one statistic that was on Hamilton's side was inevitably the most important one. Hamilton goals scored 1 with Aberdeen goals scored 0. The old one blow sucker punch. I don't think Hamilton will or even can change their tactics. They will be looking to do the same to us as they did to Aberdeen. While we will dominate possession Hamilton will be looking for that same sucker punch. Lets face it, over the last few seasons we have regularly been a sitting duck for the old sucker punch so let us hope that we are alert to it. We have the technical ability to score a barrow-load against them but games are not only won by technical ability. We have to also match them with grit and determination. I am not saying we should get embroiled in a slogging match as that will be in their favour,but we have to box clever and show passion and the will to win. If we do that, and carry that bit of luck that has sometimes deserted us we should advance to the Scottish cup Semi-final that could throw up another meeting with Celtic or Hibs to copy last years semi-final win against Celtic or revenge our Cup final defeat by Hibs. Let us hope both but we have to beat Hamilton first. I think Murty will keep the same team as Wednesday with the exception of Wilson coming in for the banned Kiernen who was shown a red card on Wednesday for a stupid late lunge. That will be. Foderingham Tavernier Wilson Hill Wallace. Holt Toral Hyndman McKay Waghorn Miller Hopefully the sun keeps his Rangers cap on for a while yet, and milder, brighter times are on the way. Thanks Graham!

Cheers mate I will try and get something done before 12 for tomorrow's game.

Thankfully his name is spelt with a Y in it because Pride he certainly can't have much of that.

Was the foul on Waghorn in the area as I thought it was just outside?

Goalkeepers make shite managers generally.

I heard Miller saying tonight that Waghorn has scored 45 goals in only 50 games. Maybe he should just have been in his proper position to get 25 goals.

I actually thought Toral started poor but actually improved to be quite decent. I was watching Hamilton v Aberdeen yesterday and Hamilton were throwing their bodies in front of the ball. We have Rob Kiernen and what does he do at their first goal is stand and watch and then turned his back when the guy shot. He will not be missed on Saturday. Any Saturday.

Using a tablet that I am not used to.Sorry. Frig'n spelling keeps changing what I type.

Waghorn 2-0!!!!

I agree with that but Waghorn has been good as well. McKay is far better when he's allowed to roam but it does leave Foster room to get forward.

Great shot from Holt great save by the keeper.Rangers have played well tonight.

Waghorn just made and missed a good chance. Rangers all of a sudden gained some momentum again

Yes finally the first goal. McKay.

Good shot from McKay but straight at the keeper.

Aberdeen loss should give us some fight. Thanks for doing the preview Norris.

Frankie are you wanting to do the Celtic game?

As you have seen Coop we are struggling to get people to write so I will put your name down for it.

Just a reminder, Norris will you manage to get a preview up for the St Johnstone game? Any takers for the Celtic game or any of the other games coming up. Cheers. March 2017 Wed 1 Mar 19:45 SPFL Rangers VS St. Johnstone (Norris Cole) Sat 11 Mar 15:00 SPFL Celtic VS Rangers (????) Sat 18 Mar 15:00 SPFL Rangers VS Hamilton (Cooperonthewing) April 2017 Sat 1 Apr 15:00 SPFL Rangers VS Motherwell (????) Wed 5 Apr 19:45 SPFL Kilmarnock VS Rangers (????) Sat 8 Apr 15:00 SPFL Aberdeen VS Rangers (26th of foot) Sat 15 Apr 15:00 SPFL Rangers VS Partick (Cooponthewing)

60 games too many for Ferguson.:devil:

One thing it did was cut out all the pulling and pushing on the referee as he just pointed to his watch and said look it gave on that the ball had crossed the line.

I heard later that there is in fact only one in the Netherlands. The first half of the season it was placed in the Amsterdam Arena (Ajax) and in the second part of the season ït is in the Kuip (Feynoord) No other ground has it yet. It seemingly costs 350.000 euro's and tens of thousands operating costs every time it is used. There are 14 cameras hanging spread over the two halves and they make a 360 degree photo of the goals.