Bill

The more I reflect on this season, the less importance I attach to specific players or managers and the more apparent it seems that we simply still have a way to travel on our journey back to recovery. The current playing squad is really just another iteration of the progression of players engaged by the club since the darkest days of 2012. It's still basically the squad that Gerrard assembled - some of the names have changed of course but not the calibre of player and many of them are played out, at the end of their shelf life and hence the wall we've hit in terms of progress. The question for me is whether or not the club now has the means to move up another level, whether in terms of transfer resources or squad management and coaching, or both of course - and how big a step up we can realistically expect. I see no possibility of a better future without at least changing a great many players, some of which need to be at a whole new level of ability. It seems unlikely we can we do everything in one summer. The team management has been a very rocky ride these last 12 years. Almost without exception we've mirrored the playing staff by engaging managers with little or no experience and been quick to release them as we moved up the recovery ladder - and that's still where we find ourselves today. Is Beale a genuine step up from Gerrard and GvB? How far can he take us? The greatest surprises have been winning 55 and Seville. I still don't really understand how we did that but in any case, as we've seen only too clearly, they were only aberrations on an otherwise more gradual upslope of recovering football and financial performances. I think what I take from this season is that we are still a distance (a few seasons?) away from where we would like to be - winning trophies with regularity and dominating OF results. With so many players out of contract, we have a real opportunity to take another step this summer but I wouldn't go expecting to move from here to the promised land in one leap.

I can't bring myself to watch it again but I thought at the time it was Barisic who should have attacked the ball. But even having stood around like spectators while Celtic crossed the ball, there's no way our goalkeeper and pretendy right back should have abandoned Jota to head the ball while smoking a cigar and juggling five Big Macs.

Two stepovers, drops his shoulder, burst of speed ......... but forgets to take the ball with him 🤣 I'm 100% confident that, like our back four, pedantry is a poor a defence.

They're out there but most will be condemned out of hand as "not good enough for Rangers".

Everything posted on this forum is someones opinion, it goes without saying. But still, can you back up your 100% correct opinion with some facts? You don't teach professional footballers to play to the whistle. That's something you teach ten year olds. If you think that's what good top-tier coaches should be spending time on then we might as well close the doors now.

We really are in deep trouble if we're assessing possible signings on the basis of what Norwich fans say about them.

God knows we've seen plenty Ibrox flops go on to be successes elsewhere.

Give me one iota of evidence of "100% correct". I think all anyone can really say is it might be a contributing factor ... or it might not. It might also be down to better or worse, more or less motivated, players being more or less capable of absorbing and delivering what they're coached. If you're going to make condemnations like this, can you quantify better coaching? Give me some metrics that objectively demonstrate better or worse coaching. You might also want to explain how you coach players who have long since thrown in the towel and are marking time until they can leave. Silk purses and sows' ears come to mind. I'm not saying our coaching is the best it could be but I doubt it's the main cause of our failures either and anyone jumping on this bandwagon really needs to substantiate the accusation.

First time I’ve voted for Lundstram in months … but he was by far and away our best player yesterday.

Sakala's decision making is woeful.

Everyone accepts there is a crucial rebuild ahead of us this summer but I dispute the sense in building a new house on shaky foundations. There's an opportunity of course to see the back of Kent, Morelos, Kamara, McGregor among others out of contract but that won't be enough. Tillman needs to go, Sakala, Barisic and probably Tavernier too. But whether our current captain stays or goes, I earnestly hope to see someone else wearing the armband next season.

What's the deal with Tillman? Super creative against dross that park the bus against us but a waste of space and time against any better teams. I hope that's the last we see of him

I'm always correct 😇

Whatever Beale brings next season there's nothing he can do for now but play the cards he was dealt.

It's not a complex equation. We have too many players who either lack application or are of insufficient quality to win trophies. Until we remove and replace them with better players we will continue to be also-rans in a two horse race. Defenders who can't defend, forwards who can't score, a team that turns up at halftime when the game is lost - it's not much of a foundation to build success upon. Let the clearout begin.

It will take a full blown miracle to get anything out of this game. The worry is how many we might concede.

It's like a broken record but YET ANOTHER back post goal lost because fukking Tavernier can't get within six yards of the goalscorer. It's pathetic. At least the script is consistent from this team of losers. Five minutes of effort evaporates because they can't make the simplest passes and give away possession like the ball is red hot. Kent & Morelos and both fullbacks are not at the races and hopefully there will be no more nonsense about paying £5m for Malik Tillman. We look exactly like what we are - a tired team of has beens who're terrified of the football.

Two fullbacks who can neither defend the box nor stop crosses and central defenders whose Rangers careers are littered with costly mistakes ... the prospect of effective defence is probably beyond reasonable expectation. We go into every game with hope but I can no longer translate that into expectation with these players. I hope I'm wrong today.

Probably as good a team as we could have fielded but even so we'll need a considerable amount of luck to come through this challenge.

No, that's not what I meant and it wouldn't be sustainable anyway. I was thinking about how much it might cost to rid the site of adverts and still cover current operating costs. How many active members are there - visitors and participants?

To be clear, what sort of money would be required to make a significant difference?

..... or maybe we could occasionally bypass their penalty area altogether, like Ryan Jack did against Hearts in last season's cup final. That might work.

We need to find some other way of delivering possession in their box other than relying only on endless long crosses from fullbacks.

I'm not sure a report on Russia's destruction of the pipeline has much relevance to Rangers.

Perhaps that's true and we should have cashed in when the going was good. On the other hand, it was reasonable to try to use his talent to further our recovery and I don't think anyone could reasonably have foreseen how suddenly and precipitously his contribution was going to fall. By the time it became clear it wasn't a temporary dip in form, the damage was done and the opportunity lost. In the end we got neither the player nor the treasure.