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On 28/05/2022 at 18:01, JohnMc said:

UEFA and FIFA prefer teams to wear all one colour where possible and for one to be in 'light' and the other to be in 'dark' colours. You're seeing it more and more in international football these days as well. There's some science behind it where they've proved it's easier for officials and spectators to distinguish if a team is in all one colour apparently. The dark/light colours is connected to colour blindness believe it or not. Apparently 1 in 12 men are colour blind (I'd no idea it was that common), and so if a team is in all red and another in all blue for example a person with colour blindness can't tell them apart. So Frankfurt decided to play in all white and us in all blue giving the light/dark contrast. I only read about this recently, that's the only reason I know. 

As a member of the 1 in 12, that makes sense. The most common form of colour blindness is red-green and I know from experience that it is difficult for us coloured blind folk to tell the difference between a dark red and a dark green, particularly from a distance.

I suspect that it may be for the benefit of the officials, more than for the players or spectators, that the two teams are distinguishable by dark/light kits. Maybe Scottish linesmen are not incompetent in offside calls, maybe they are just colour blind

Tavernier for me for being consistently good over the season. Others shone at particular times - Bassey and Lundstram in the second half of the season, Aribo in the first half. 

4 hours ago, Rousseau said:

You had 2-0 initially, didn't you?  

No. It's usually my default score but as it was the last game of the season I went for 4 - 0 from the start.

Ah well, there's always next year.

Well done (through gritted teeth).

Third last year. Second this year. I see a trend emerging.

Thanks for all your work.

So near... It's like getting beat on penalties.

6 hours ago, CammyF said:

Gilmour is entering the last year of his contract - so a 1 year loan would be ideal and would see him able to sign a pre-contract in January 2023. 

In which case he will want to play this year as much as possible. We could probably give him that but I'm sure other English teams would be keen to have him. If it were down to him as to where he goes next season, I wonder if he would prefer potential glory with us or more money with an English side.

I'm also wary of bringing in a loan player unless we also get a buy clause for a reasonable amount (which we wont get with Gilmour). If we dont manage to buy the players we have targetted, then a loan deal at the close of the window may make sense to plug any gaps we have. 

12 minutes ago, Thinker said:

It's actually two qualifying rounds, plus a play-off round. If we win the first qualifier we're guaranteed group stage football of some sort.

 

The "League Path" (as opposed to the "Champions' Path") to the Champions' League Group Stages is actually extremely tough, mainly because there are only two group stage spots up for grabs. The final play-off round will almost certainly see us up against a team of the quality of PSV, Benfica or Marseille. We're capable of beating these teams, but by no means can we expect to do so. If we make the CL group stages next year it will be a big achievement.

The 3rd qualifying round, which we go into, is followed by the play off round.  Draw for the 3rd qualifying round is 18 July with games played 2/3 August and 9 August.  Looking forward to next season already. Oh, and the final is in Istanbul.☺️

2 hours ago, Gonzo79 said:

Two qualifying rounds.

Which means we are guaranteed group stage football, at worst case Conference League.

1 hour ago, Gonzo79 said:

Well, that was tough to take.

 

I don't think we deserved to win the match but we could have and penalties is always a bit of a lottery, although probably not as much when the opposition are German.

 

Definitely lots of one-off Rangers fans at the match and that, combined with the rather poor situation with refreshments after a day drinking in the sun, resulted in us being totally showed up by the Frankfurt support.  One guy near me spent most of extra time looking at his phone... Unf*ckingbelievable!

 

Sitting at a bus stop in Albufeira from 3.30-7.10am hasn't helped me - strange the things you see and people you encounter at that time in the morning.  Sitting in Faro airport just now and can't wait to get home.

 

We had better win on Saturday!  No excuses.

Keep the faith. I'm sure that the support on Saturday will not play second fiddle to the Hearts fans. Let's finish the season on a high.

Rangers 4 - 0 Hearts

FGS Aribo

I was feeling relaxed about the game until I heard Eck reeling off Frankfurt's achievements in the Europa League this year. Does beating Dortmund away trump beating Barcelona away?  Probably, so I'll try and calm down a bit. 

Eintracht Frankfurt 0 - 2 Rangers

FGS Aribo

Hearts 0 - 2 Rangers 

FGS Itten

Scott Wright. Never stopped running.

Rangers 2 - 0 Ross County

FGS Sakala

Rangers 2 - 0 Dundee Utd

FGS Wright

Rangers 2 - 0 Leipzig

FGS Aribo

Celtic 0 - 1 Rangers

FGS Aribo

RB Leipzig 1 - 1 Rangers

FGS Aribo

Wright for me. Good all round play.

"Free the Ibrox 1" - new Castore top out soon.

Motherwell 0 - 2 Rangers

FGS Sakala

When VAR has been used at our European games, the reaction of the fans is interesting, particularly when the VAR decision goes against us.

Take the disallowed Roofe goal against Braga. We were ecstatic when the goal went in. Then it dawned on us that it was being questioned, Then the ref went to the touchline and we knew it would be ruled out. Then it was ruled out. It didn't take that long for all this to happen and the change in emotions was stark, but the decision was accepted by the crowd and the game moved on. Maybe the reason for this is that there is a greater willingness to accept referees decisions in Europe. While referees do not always get things right, the level of competence is seen as greater than domestically and the question of bias is non existent.

Would this be the same in a domestic game? Time will tell, but the accusations of bias by referees in Scotland will not be overcome by VAR. It may help in blatant offsides being identified, but I suspect that the majority of penalties will go the way the referee sees it. VAR does not overrule referees judgement so dodgy penalties will continue.  There will be much scrutiny of the VAR referees and I see that very quickly we will be saying "What's the point of VAR?" when decisions are scrutinised at length and found wanting.