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1 minute ago, Franc Ergs said:

Aberdeen have just won the world cup 😂 .

Yeah, but there's celebrating ,.,.and celebrating like you've just won the world cup.

More or less secured 3rd place and European group stage football, while beating us. That's as good as it gets for them. 

8 minutes ago, Sutton_blows_goats said:

Hopefully Michael has this ready for the summer 

Kent, Morelos, Jack, Helander, Arfield, Davis and McGregor's contracts expire.
 

None should be renewed and that's a huge amount of money freed up to re-shape the team and bring in fresh blood. 

33 minutes ago, Bill said:

We had multiple chances to win ... but we didn't and that will forever be the legacy of this Rangers team.

Threat up front is still a big difference for me. They have natural goalscorers in those positions and we don’t. 

Raskin has been very good

Davies not close enough. McGregor should save it. 

The classic Hail Mary dive when a defender is in trouble

So many good performances. We lacked cutting edge as usual, and still scored 4. Cantwell is just a joy to watch. He’s just a totally different type of player to what we had before and exactly what we needed in this league. 

1 minute ago, Bill said:

Stats always tell us something useful but how much volume does it really speak to compare Kent to Kyoto, who spends his days parked in front of goal while Kent is asked to provide width.

There are 5 Celtic players in that list who play Kent’s position. The lowest score from those is 9. Kent’s is 22. 

1 hour ago, Rousseau said:

2021-22 & 2022-23 SPFL Premiership

Shots To Goals (Worst to Best)	Player	Shots / Goals
22.3	Ryan Kent	112 / 5
20	Conor McLellan	20 / 1
19.7	Glenn Middleton	59 / 3
18.5	Scott Wright	37 / 2
17.6	Tony Watt	88 / 5
15.3	Greg Kiltie	46 / 3
14.1	Curtis Main	113 / 8
13.7	Jonah Ayunga	41 / 3
13	Elie Youan	52 / 4
12.7	Alan Forrest	114 / 9
12.5	Barrie McKay	75 / 6
12	Matty Kennedy	24 / 2
11	Fashion Sakala	121 / 11
10.8	Stevie May	86 / 8
10.8	Steven Fletcher	54 / 5
9.8	Josh Ginelly	78 / 8
9.3	Joel Nouble	37 / 4
9	Jota	127 / 14
8.9	Nicky Clark	89 / 10
8.8	James Forrest	44 / 5
8.7	Alfredo Morelos	174 / 20
8	Jamie Murphy	40 / 5
8	Stephen Humphrys	24 / 3
7.4	Jordan White	81 / 11
6.8	Kevin Van Veen	130 / 19
6.6	Liel Abada	125 / 19
5.7	Vicente Besuijen	17 / 3
5.4	Antonio Colak	59 / 11
5.3	Sead Haksabanovic	16 / 3
4.8	Lawrence Shankland	82 / 17
4.5	Daizen Maeda	50 / 11
4.2	Duk	42 / 10
4.2	Bruce Anderson	67 / 16
3.9	Bojan Miovski	58 / 15
3.3	Kyogo	103 / 31

I just can’t get past this with Kent. Goals are  too important to just sacrifice in his position. 
 

It’s like settling for a defender with a lot of qualities but who’s poor in the air. It’s an Achilles heel, not something we can just accommodate for. 

32 minutes ago, Frankie said:

but how Kamara played the full 97mins is beyond me

Incredibly frustrating after the Hearts performance.

17 minutes ago, buster. said:

Real positive for me is Raskin.

He looks like a dynamic type, who can carry the ball and has the technical ability to do somthing useful with it.

I’m just hoping we can get Raskin, Cantwell and Tillman playing together. We’ll be so much better to watch. 

Loved that assist from Cantwell today. He’s exactly the kind of player we’ve been missing, a joy to watch. Tillman such a big player for us too, the combination of creativity and goal scoring is something we haven’t had in that position. 

2 hours ago, PoohBear said:

We play with one striker who isn’t a finisher or poacher. When he’s on his game he can do the other stuff well but his finishing is the weakest part of his game. Colak had pretty much equalled Morelos’ goal tally for the past 3 seasons prior to the break. I can understand why Beale is considering playing both.

Morelos had an xG of 0.98 today. Pretty poor not to score from that. 

Dont think we need Lundstram and Jack together for this game. 

Nothing wrong with the tweet. That kind if thing is just normal with footballers these days. More important is that he is serious about working hard. Big few months ahead for him. 

7 hours ago, onevision said:

Agree, the one thing that can't be aimed at him is laziness, he might look that way at times but it has more to do with his timing when picking his moment to nick the ball from an opponent which he does often.

I think it’s fair to say that he can improve his stamina though. This is his first season of real football so maybe it’s to be expected. 

Amazing to see Kamara finding his 20-21 form under Beale. I think something just wasn’t working in Gio’s system, and it’s maybe taken a bit of time for Beale to correct it. If he can continue like that he’ll be like a new signing. 

Well, the excitement is officially back!

Suddenly we have an entertaining team, packed with creativity and flair. 
 

Slowly but surely, the bench is starting to look stronger too. Jack, Colak, Cantwell and Lowry on the bench last night.

Raskin, Roofe, Hagi, Lawrence, Souttar/Helander and Yilmaz are all to be added to that. 
 

A run of three reasonably straightforward games now to bed in Raskin and Cantwell and to iron out the creases before the 26th!

34 minutes ago, compo said:

Wouldn’t worry my arse about height or lack of it proper football is played on the ground 

Aerial attack is the route every team in this league except Celtic take against us. They try to win set pieces and then just get it in the box. Aerial ability is very important, it’s our main vulnerability domestically by a mile. 

3 hours ago, Blue Moon said:

My main concern, apart from the financials, is the lack of height in the team in midfield and forward line coupled with our inability to deal with high balls in the penalty box

I agree with that. We are poor in the air and Raskin, Yilmaz and Cantwell coming in will actually make it worse. 

2 hours ago, Bill said:

I could never understand why Yilmaz didn't immediately take the LB slot. Maybe it was a settling in thing but nothing usually speeds up settling in than knowing you are first choice.

From memory, I think Barisic caught form at that time. He’s also top for assists this season and doing well in a range of stats.
Yilmaz impressed me though and I think he’ll improve us when he starts playing. 

5 minutes ago, Blue Moon said:

Beale said a few weeks ago that he wants to give Sands a run at DM

The stats I’ve seen on Sands as a DM are not promising. I do wonder if they erroneously included his games at centre back though, which would heavily skew the stats. But they basically showed that he is good defensively but has extremely low contribution creatively.