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Novo, Broadfoot and Papac, and to a lesser degree Mcgregor the only ones to do themselves justice. Quite agree. Novo best player, Broadfoot did well although were rarely tested first half. Rest were shambolic.

True, unfortunately we're not. And takes Cammy's thread onto a different arguement. The debate he initiated needs discussing too.

Glossed over this in my rant. Although to be fair, not much needs saying regarding this. It is clearly nonsense.

The pervading feeling of negativity is not merely a knee-jerk reaction to a quite shambolic early European exit. The humbling result allied to two woeful performances is merely confirmation of a many of my views. I wish there was a ââ?¬Å?first and foremostââ?¬Â, but there are that many pressing issues it is hard to know where to begin. I will merely discuss them as they come to me so apologies for a lack of structure or any incoherencies. Striking options So onto my biggest gripe, Kenny Miller, or perhaps to look at it another way Kris Boyd. One is our best striker, the other a footballing impostor who has swindled a living from a game he has no ability to play. One is lauded for his willing running and always giving his all, when many a more gifted player are derided for a similar attitude with cries of ââ?¬Å?any man in the stand could offer the sameââ?¬Â and possibly more. Miller is a more fancied Nacho Novo despite the former being an inferior player. The both give 100%, they both never stop running. But Novo benefits from being a luckier player and crucially, as a striker, providing a genuine goal threat. Be that scoring himself, as several important European strikes last year proved, or turning provider as he did tonight. Indeed contrast his performance tonight with Millerââ?¬â?¢s. Novo looked dangerous every time he got the ball, although all too infrequently considering the success he was having and set up Thomson for his strike. For his part, in the opening quarter, Miller was offside twice, missed a couple of chances but had a couple of nice touches. He then disappeared until about the last twenty when he had a nice run before putting a tame cross near the keeper. Millerââ?¬â?¢s inclusion ahead of Boyd is frankly baffling to me. In fact any other striker in the squad should be picked ahead of Miller. Those who support him and deride Boyd, including the manager, have it arse about face. They talk of Millerââ?¬â?¢s willing running to create chances for other players and Boydââ?¬â?¢s inability to do this. But their criticism is misplaced. Why do we insist on having goal-shy strikers to set up midfielders instead of the other way round. When did football become so ââ?¬Å?cleverââ?¬Â and complicated. In any case we donââ?¬â?¢t have any Gerrardââ?¬â?¢s or Scholesââ?¬â?¢ in our team to be the goal scoring midfielder. Why donââ?¬â?¢t we do something novel and have the other nine outfield players doing their job, and the goalscorer doing his? Since we donââ?¬â?¢t have the attacking midfield to feed off of Millerââ?¬â?¢s expert link play (no laughing at the back) how about we look at building a team to feed one of our few plus points in the game; an out and out goalscorer? (On a related note what is Pat Nevinââ?¬â?¢s agenda with the co-commentary virtual blowjob he was giving Miller. Why was he patronising the viewing public with ridiculous claims of an outstanding performance from the largely anonymous player? And this behaviour was not limited to Nevin, just best exemplified by him). An impotent midfield It is my experience that those fans who communicate on message boards do so to confirm their own misguided views on the game and then patronise the non-internet obsessed fan on his views because kingbilly1690 agrees with him. It is this kind of clique forming, mutual ass licking behaviour that lead the internet uber fans to come to the opinion that we are a better team without Barry Ferguson, albeit this is not so much a gripe with this website. To anyone else it is plainly obvious that when Barry plays, the team plays better, even if Barry is having a stinker. Often it is worth it playing the captain for his influence alone. However this leads us onto another issue. With Barry out 3-4 months who will we bring in, and with tonightââ?¬â?¢s disaster, can we bring anyone in? Of the rest of the midfield only Thomson is really worth keeping with maybe McCulloch and Adam as squad players, although this is Adamââ?¬â?¢s last season of good grace as a relative youngster. Christian Dailly Joint with Miller for first player I would like to see kicked out the door. Between the pair of them they pretty much cost us the tie. Daillyââ?¬â?¢s errors though were more glaring due to him playing further back. Continuously gave away silly fouls, can barely find a team mate and his laughable control gave away the corner for the second. When you consider it was his foul that lead to the freekick for the first itââ?¬â?¢s hard to see how he gets a game. And yet the management would have you believe heââ?¬â?¢s in the side for his experience. Donââ?¬â?¢t make me laugh, played like a youth player tonight. This idea of experience makes me laugh though. Being older does not necessarily make you a better player. If your extra experience is experience of being crap and costing your team regularly, what use is that? Walterââ?¬â?¢s Army The painfully bad sequel to Dadââ?¬â?¢s Army. Why this unbending loyalty to older players regardless of ability, particularly those from his time as Scotland manager, who routinely let him down. Miller and Dailly as discussed and to a far, far lesser degree; Weir. I actually have nothing to criticise Weir as of yet, although when I do, I know he will still be a first name on the team sheet for the manager. A regretful admission Iââ?¬â?¢m a student ,still, who works part time and am not well paid. I have to think long and hard about where I spend my money. When I turn up at Ibrox I do my best for Rangers, I join in the songs, I applaud the team, I will them on. I never boo a player, I never boo the team off the pitch. I try not to let a negative utterance leave my mouth at the game. Unfortunately with the growing costs of living and following football, I now have to really consider if I can attend when I cannot guarantee the stewards of the club do the same. Clearly Mr Murray does not appear to, but now I wonder if Walter Smith does. I can no longer afford a season ticket or the time off of work to make use of one anyway. But even if I could, or have the opportunity to attend individual games, can I justify Ã?£20-30 to watch Rangers when the manger wont even pick his best players available. Watching the laughable performances of Miller and Dailly just is not worth that amount of my money and I cannot see myself being at ibrox to watch these two jokers rip off the fans and the club. I actually find it painful to watch my team with these two on the field. If we get beat and play badly but have put out our best available XI then, yes, I'm not happy. But I can bear it. Right now I really, really struggle.

If it works i'll take it. With the way this game is balanced though one goal could be enough to send us through. Step forward one man......

No, I get no kind of pleasure from seeing Rangers beaten, especially not from Liverpool. Glad he recognised what an asset Boyd is, what we miss is the players behind him to help us win games.

Unfortunately the footballing impostor that is Kenny Miller will play most games, if not as a striker somewhere even more ridiculous like left wing. All thiss despite being the worst striker at the club.

Was working with Falkirk FC and had the pleasure of conducting some performance testing with Neil McCann and Russel Latapy. Perks of the job. Though Jackie McNamara was there. You win some you lose some. :devil:

Why does Jon get all the abuse re: Boyd, when there's another poster obsessed with disliking a Rangers player for very dubious reasons, who has very questionable ability to analyse the game? I would be far more concerned with that tbh. A very strange attitude to have on a player of such obvious talents.

Looks like a nice top, for a training top though.

Don't see any of them going for him either, just making the point that not being great on the ball did not necessarily bar you from playing for one of the bigger teams.

Writing off Cup final goals because they are against Dundee Utd? Fucking ridiculous. We have struggled like hell against them in recent seasons. This is a hard to beat outfit under levein and we only won the cups last season due to Boyd's interventions. Boyd scores goals, yet all his detractors want to write it off as if it's easy and anyone can do it when it's simply not true. How many people looked at performances from Cuellar in the SPL when they were raving about his defending and covering in defence and said och it was only St Mirren or Falkirk (Yes I know he also perfromed well in europe but that didn't stop the praise for an SPL performance against questionable opposition and Boyd was not really tested in Europe.). I wont take anyone seriously who so easily dismisses the plus points of his game when there is noone in our squad or possibly even the country who is anywhere close to his abilities.

Well what's his next target seeing as he completed that one a few seasons ago!

So is John Terry's forward play.

�£5.5 mil. How much did we pay for Miller and Lafferty again?

First off I'd try and flog Miller and Lafferty and buy a guy from France called Sebo, he has a decent record at international level. If we can't afford him i'd give a guy from the reserves a run. He's called Boyd but he seems to find the back of net when given a chance.

Too drunk to post my actual response, but in answer to one point in the original post; Who here would take Luca Toni at Ibrox (if it was a realistic option)? I ask because he is possibly the worst striker at the Euro's. One stat read 12 shots with 0 goals, more than any other player. How many chances did Super miss, or Robbie Fowler in his prime, or any other class poacher you care to name. The truth is that the number of "chances" Boyd "misses" is nowhere near as high as his detractors would like to suggest. Because Boyd is such a potent goalcscorer, many fans including his supporters consider what would normally not be considered a "chance" to be a "sitter" when it's Boyd. In this instance he is a cvictime of his own success. Of course he missess chances. But when it comes to the crunch, the only Ger I want on the end of a decetn opportunity is Special K. Ps. Read Craig's post above. If it's as correct as I believe it to be i'm gonna cry and start watching rugby instead.

My faith in Walter has taken a massive nose dive like no other inicident could have caused. How anyone can mistake this guy for a striker is simply baffling.

Very nice, wouldn't mind buying that.

Why out of interest? I assume France/Italy because of our qualifying. Why the Germans. I know everyone typically hates them but that's more an English thing. If it helps I believe Holland will beat France leaving them in deep trouble, but likely the winners of France v Italy will join them.

I think its more sinister than that. He just is not comfortable with the organisation full stop and the resignations leaving certain people in charge make it easier to discredit them.

There's far too much going on that we're just not being informed about and I think you're right, when we do find out we're not going to like what we're told.

I cannot see myself renewing. Whilst I have not really been actively involved I joined as the money, shares and a larger number of members would give the RST greater sway and more power. I liked what I heard about them before and was happy to support this as I beleived it benefited Rangers. As I say my involvement only stretched as far as paying the membership fee. I'm still at uni, working and have various other commitments meaning I could not contribute in any otehr meaningful way. However the fact that the trust have done next to nothing to tell members what is going on, allied to the fact that so many of the respected board members have resigned leads me to think that the RST is no longer the organisation I used to be so impressed by. A fantastic opportunity missed. Especially if there's any truth in that article regarding Murray having fans on the board (aye right).

Almost immediately after my post I thought, thats the first time I remember seeing Engelaar and I shouldn't judge him on one game. Whilst I was impressed by his performance, I think that it was a performance that clearly showed his flaws, if that makes sense. A good player, but it is easy to identify where he can improve. Whilst I would not describe Fergie as an out and out attacking midfielder, certainly not these days, that is clearly where Walter has asked him to play. (I am not one of those who believes BF plays where he wants and managers simply allow him to dictate to them). However I beleive whilst Engelaar is clearly a ball winning defensive midfielder (based on that game) Fergie would offer more going forward in terms of building an attack. In that Dutch team I agree they would fill a similar role, however we are not Holland and that is not a role that suits Barry. I was trying to consider the players in terms of Rangers and our formations/tactics.

If Miller signs and Boyd is sold/dropped further down the pecking order I will struggle to watch Rangers next eyar. Deep down I know I will. It's just the lack of ambition and a greater unwillingness to try and score goals and play attacking players will be extremely hard to swallow.