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Not at all I like him but I think Baricic is a better player.

I did. Very enlightening.

You are rewriting history mate. I never mentioned Flannigin. I was talking about Barisic. You are maybe talking about 30 minutes before the game I was meaning the whole trajectory since Baracic came in.

I have full trust when Halliday plays at left back and if the boss picks him then great. I don't think he is near good enough now for the midfield. If Halliday keeps up his sharpshooting from 20+ yards then it will be difficult to drop him.

It is a discussion forum mate. It would be horrible if we all agreed.

Ian how can you say Halliday has been consistent? Before the Celtic game people were slaging him off as not good enough. He had a cracking game against Celtic and reasonable game tonight against a lower league team. Barisic has looked different class when he has played

I know he scored tonight but Barasici's general play is of a far higher standard as Halliday's.

The thing with assists is that you can give a perfect ball that should be a goal and the player misses a sitter. No assist. Then you can fall over your laces and the ball trickles through and you get an assist. It is a stat that doesen't really tell the whole story.

I love Halliday but Barisic is a far better player. Funny enough the pitch was probably better last time round as tonight. Every chance the opposition get are Rangers manufactured. Hand-ball was a stonewall penalty. Davis penalty claim I can get as the other player clearly got the ball. I thought Katic claimed his place as first team CH. Second half was very poor and I would say I don't think any of the fringe players put up an argument for a first team start.

I am calling it off. 10cm of snow around my house. Too dangerous for a supporter

I can see the corner flag!!!

I agree with you Bill but Morelos himself has sort of always said that he is at Rangers for the step up. It all depends on how happy he is. the last thing we need is a disgruntled player in the dressing room.

i am not a fan of the 4-4-2 diamond as against Kilmarnock we were hitting our heads off the strongest part of their team with 3 midfielders. i prefer to have the wings filled in.

Is that calling it right or not. Just a pity I didn't know Goldson was still injured. Hopefully that is now our default team.

I agree but then I said the Rangers tax\Whyte\Green couldn't have been a conspiracy. Conspiracy might also not be the right word. SFA Celtic choosing the soft feathers would not surprise me in the least. After all what about Rangers getting fined 6000 pound by the CO for talking out about a referee and Celtic getting a meeting and hee haw fine.

I have no idea but they do say a computer will only come up with the result of the commands that have been typed in. I agree with the guy's though, leaving Rangers with so many home games at the run-in would be a huge risk.

To bring it back to Rangers it would be fantastic if we could get one of them to do the military day again.

I thought Harry was just going to be an idiot when he was young but doing 2 tours of Afghanistan certainly changed my mind. i don't think he will get near the throne but he would certainly bring it up to date. Just one thing. Anybody at 96 years of age should not be driving a car.

Just my opinion mate and I agree with Mack 1950 below. The monarchy needs to be brought up to date and the best choice would be Harry to give it a modern image. You are right the family tree will decide but that doesn't always make it the best choice.

I am locking this before it turns into another political ravel.

Better watch DB is on spelling watch.

He has clearance he has just to round his personal things up and join up.

Just sloppy and not checking mate thanks for pointing it out.

Remember that feeling of joy as a kid when it was your birthday party and the house was full of balloons. Throwing a balloon in the air and hitting it with your hand keeping it up in the air and then trying to head it. As it came down again it was time to try and nose it back into the air. Then as you were projecting your nose forward that nasty cousin that always seemed to pest you, burst the balloon in your face. That is the feeling I had on Wednesday night after Rangers 2-1 defeat against Kilmarnock at Rugby park. After the win against Celtic on the 29th of December we have been floating on air. We probably could have reproduced a copy of Nina's big hit 99 red balloons calling it 55 red white and blue balloons. That is how high our hopes had risen, That floating on air feeling grew further when on the 12th minute Jermain Defoe gave us a deserved lead as we were all over Killie. Minutes later Alfredo Morelos crashed a header off the post that should have put us 2-0 up. Higher and higher we were flying. Then on 22 minutes, “ BAAAAMMMM” Joe Worrall got the ball in the last man position with acres of space and looked and waited, And waited. And waited, Then panic. He realised Eamon Brophy was only a few yards away and tried to turn back to the keeper. Too late, Brophy had picked his pocket and proceeded to plant the ball past McGregor into the net. Brophy had pricked the Rangers Balloon which created a huge vacuum amongst the players and the support. It must have been a helium balloon as it had the Kilmarnock fans killing themselves laughing to the end of the game. This changed the game completely and let Kilmarnock play their park the bus and hit on the break game.It just had to be Jordan Jones who clinched it for Killie. Due to signing a pre-contract for Rangers people said his heart would not be in the game. Unfortunately he showed more heart than the Rangers players. It looks like all those balloons were indeed red balloons. One with an extremely red face. Now is time for that old Cliche, 'We have to pick ourselves up and dust ourselves down and move on'. On Sunday we travel to Livingston and go from red balloons to black rubber balls. Yes again we are playing on that infamous plastic pitch which throws up more rubber in one kick than a Chinese condom factory does in a year. I will get my rant over for this preview. These pitches should not be in football at this level. There that feels better. Stevie Gerrard has been criticised that he got his tactics wrong for the Killie game. After beating Celtic many thought he should have went with the same team but he decided to go with the four man diamond and play his two new signings Jermain Defoe and Steven Davis. Personally I think he did get it wrong as I am a big Ross McCrorie fan and I think he is the best ball winner we have. Ryan Jack also seems to lift his game with the knowledge that McCrorie is next to him. Davis and Defoe are obviously not match fit. I question whether we have the speed at the back to play that diamond shape. For that you need your backs creating the width and with McAuley, where a taxiing Boeing 777 turns quicker, we leave ourselves open to the counter attack behind the backs as Jorden Jones showed on Wednesday. Livingston will have the exact same tactics as they always do and it is virtually the same as Kilmarnock's in letting the back four pass the ball to each other and press the midfield and attacking players and wait for a mistake. This is the tactics that seem to get us time and time again. Personally I believe the best way to beat this is by using the wings so I certainly wouldn't be contemplating going with the midfield diamond shape. It would seem if you drop Candeias then you are also cutting out most of the danger Tavernier creates. I find it very difficult to find a place for Defoe and Morelos simply because we do not have the speed at the back to go to a 3-5-2 so for me it is a 4-2-3-1. McGregor Tavernier Goldson Katic Barisic McCrorie Jack Candeias Arfield Kent Morelos I really hate dropping Andy Halliday but I think Barisic will bring more to the team. I will also need to see Davis earning his starting place and not just being gifted it There is no more room for error we really have to start winning games as falling further behind Celtic will probably be the end of our title hopes. C'mon the Gers!!!