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Rangers 2 - 0 St Mirren FGS Morelos

Maybe Ange was sounding them out about buying Aribo in January

Rangers 2 - 0 Dundee Utd FGS Morelos

Good point about conserving energy. When we are playing 2 games a week, it's understandable that the intensity falls off in the second half. That's why an early goal makes life so much easier and that's why other teams play so deep to frustrate us. Though having said all that, it would be nice to have a 3 goal margin before we begin to play out the game. At the moment we just don't look like being beaten. Celtic are hanging on by their fingertips. One slip and they are gone.

Rangers 3 - 0 St Johnstone FGS Morelos

It’s interesting that, so far, under GvB we’ve become more consistent in our performances. Previously we could be very poor one game and outstanding in the next game. I think this is down to the defence being much better. Goldson now seems to be commanding again and Barasic is defending well. Between them they seem to be looking after Bassey, who is improving in his role. A few weeks back there were calls for McGregor to be dropped. Now he seems back to his best. Not having Tavernier and Barasic so high up so often makes the defence more compact . The team just seems more balanced and playing with confidence. It could be down to who we have been playing. The Dundee game aside, all the games have been potentially tricky so we’ve not been going gung-ho so there has been more emphasis on having the defence functioning well. I don’t begin to fully understand the subtle changes in our tactics but I like what I see.

Hearts 0 - 2 Rangers FGS Morelos

Lyon 1 - 1 Rangers FGS. Roofe

Rangers 3 - 0 Dundee FGS Sakala

Hibernian 0 - 2 Rangers FGS Morelos

Livingston 0 - 1 Rangers FGS Morelos

Rangers 1 - 0 Sparta Prague FGS Aribo

I’m going to stick my neck out here. From what I’ve read to date, I do not expect anyone to agree with me😊. I do not think that yesterday’s result was inevitable. A few weeks ago it was being said that our performance against Motherwell was the most complete performance of the year. Against Ross County, we played well and won easily. I know these are hardly world beating teams we were playing against but neither are Hibs. Because we are so inconsistent, it’s hit and miss whether we’ll get a good performance or not so talk of inevitability of being beaten by Hibs side… well I just don’t agree. From past performances, the most likely outcome was to not play particularly well but to eventually come out on top. That’s how we are top of the league. Because of the inconsistency, we could just as easily have blown Hibs away or, as turned out, gifted them the game. If (big if!) we can address the inconsistency, we will have little to fear. Glass half-full Loyal

Forget hoodoos. Forget bogey sides. Modern football is all about facing what is coming and not looking to the past. While a semi is a semi and anything can happen on the day, the present Rangers team has nothing to fear from Hibs. A big day for Tavernier to show his captain's credentials and lead the team to victory.

Rangers 4 - 1 Hibernian FGS Kent

I hope the players are as delighted as we are. As they are now playing to impress him, I expect a dazzling display on Sunday.

Rangers 3 - 0 Ross County FGS Hagi

Brondby 0 Rangers 2 FGS Morelos

From "choose the least bad" on Wednesday to spoilt for choice on Sunday. As hat tricks don't come often, I'll go for Sakala.

Even more reason to pummel teams in the first half. When 3 up at half time, understudies can then be given the opportunity to show what they can do.

I fear your stay in Edinburgh was ill served if you were not educated into the vernacular. Or it may be that you are simply too young to be aware of the custom?. Poor-oots were a regular occurrence in my youth in the 60s. It helped that I live opposite the church. Anyway, from the Scots Language Centre website, here is the definitive explanation poor oot n. the throwing of coins of for children to catch prior to a wedding. In the tenements of Edinburgh, as the bride was leaving her home for the last time with her father, small children would gather round the limousine or horse and carriage and chant "poor oot! poor oot!". The father, who had possibly been collecting coins for some considerable time, would throw this money into the crowd of waiting children. The earliest example in the Scottish National Dictionary (SND) comes from J H A MacDonald's Life Jottings, where he bemoans the passing of this custom : "I also remember the shower of silver which was thrown to the crowd as the bride and bridegroom drove away, a custom no longer in use. The cry of "pooer oot" is no more heard in the land. A "pooer" of rice or pasteboard confetti does not draw as did the shower of coins." (1840). However, the custom did continue long after this date. The Scots Magazine number 392 of April 1894 quotes the following: "A marriage was about to take place in a private house in Bristo Street, Edinburgh. Crowds of children round the door assailed the guests as they arrived with the well-known cry of "Poor oot!". Indeed, it continued into the twentieth century as shown here from the Scottish Daily Mail of 25th July 1959: "The bride laughed as her architect-trained husband leaned from their bridal car for the "poor-oot" the old Scots custom of throwing coppers and silver for children lining the pavement." Nowadays, the custom seems to have died out but is still remembered as part of popular culture as shown in this example from Scotland on Sunday (2002): "Like any wedding poor-oot or scramble - the ancient custom of brides and grooms distributing coins to waiting urchins - plenty people were willing to accept the largesse, no questions asked." : https://www.scotslanguage.com/articles/view/id/4538

On Walter's death, The first Minister showed respect to Walter. Celtic, as a club, showed respect to Walter. Managers and players throughout Scotland (and afar) showed respect to Walter. The Aberdeen fans at Ibrox showed respect to Walter. But the Green, look at us we're notorious, Brigade stepped forward and basked in their own ignorance. In recent times, when there has been minutes' silence at Ibrox at Rangers V Celtic matches the silence has been honoured, so why did they choose now to behave as they did? Would they have done this it it had been played at Parkhead, when there would have been more media coverage? I don't know, but it shows a nasty, spiteful side to Scottish football. It goes beyond "banter". It is sickening.

Motherwell 0 - 2 Rangers FGS Morelos

or a poor-oot as we called it in Embra.

Rangers 3 - 0 Aberdeen FGS Morelos