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The point I think Craig Mulholland made and I am making is that you want our players playing in a team who play the same style of football we play. And that being a style of football which actually gets the players on the ball and looking to break teams down. That way the experience and skills they gain are transferable to the 1st team at Rangers. It must be frustrating for the academy guys drilling a style of football into their players, only to watch them stuggle to get the ball passed to their feet when they go out on loan.

Stevie's since confirmed they didn't go to Denmark, the location is unknown. Olsen looks too pricey for us tbh but a bit gutted. Signing young prospects is what will pull us back above Celtic mid to long term.

Should caveat that I only saw RTV's highlights but I was impressed with the way HJK played and I wonder if the club are thinking of starting up an official or unofficial feeder club link with them. I think it was Craig Mulholland who said recently that our kids aren't getting the playing experience they need in the lower Scottish divisions because of the style of football and I'm sure he mentioned the possibility of playing in Scandinavia where they play much more on the deck. I watched some highlights of the kid we're linked with Skov Olsen and again you could see straight away that the sides in Denmark play a similar game to us playing primarily on the ground. It seems it would be very prudent for the the club to strike up a relationship or two with some Scandinavian clubs like Helsinki in order to get a first option on their young talent as well as getting our own guys better exprience than they'll get at Stenhousemuir getting clattered challenging for high balls all the time.

I've said it time and time again, he's such an important player due to his goalscoring ability. Very similar to Naismith in that he's such a natural finisher but scores from midfield.

This is a hugely exciting link. However I’m going to choose not to believe it until there’s more on it to avoid getting my hopes up.

Just watched the highlights and you could certainly tell it wasn’t a Scottish team we were playing! Refreshing to see a team pass the ball around so well despite being underdogs.

It seems the wage quoted for Defoe is totally untrue and we’re probably paying closer to 20-25k.

Yes but I think Stewart has proved that McInnes was at fault for that. I player like Stewart will look far better in one system than another and Clarke has shown McInnes how and where to get the best out of him. And yes it helps that they’ve taken the best player of the team one position above them. Gutted for Killie. They were on course to finish above Aberdeen.

Huge signing for Aberdeen. But I'm going to predict that McInnes fails to get out of him what Clarke did. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46925110

Two Championship clubs are battling it out for Rangers right back..........Lee Hodson ? https://the72.co.uk/123633/bolton-wanderers-ipswich-town-targeting-rangers-right-back/

No I agree with that. I was just saying if he wasn't our player we'd be taking notice of him and wondering if he should be a target. He has to do it consistently and hopefully he will.

Well if he wasn't a Rangers player we'd be saying who's this guy. 21 years old and 5 goals in 5 starts in the Premiership for a low scoring Livingstone side (and he's only played more than 75 minutes twice), and 4 of the goals coming against Hearts, Hibs and Aberdeen.

1 year extension for Hardie and at Livingstone for the rest of the season. The ideal outcome imo. Hopefully he keeps proving to Gerrard he can score goals at this level for the remainder of the season. https://rangers.co.uk/news/headlines/ryan-hardie-signs-new-contract/

McFadden said on Sportsound that we'd signed old players for an already ageing squad whereas Celtic have gone in the other direction. A very ignorant comment because our squad is not at all ageing. Gerrard has brought in experience for that very reason. I did a quick check on our starting line-up versus theirs in the last game and our average age was 26 and theirs 27.

Hope he is over his knee problems. He certainly looks like he has the quality to play for us and replace Tav.

Just checked FF and Stevie said it’s not Kamara. Polster most likely I think. I hope so, I was really impressed with the YouTube compilation of him. Very good on the ball.

St Johnstone? Weren't Kilmarnock were the only club to abstain from demoting us? I'm a pragmatist and building bridges with Scottish clubs benefits us, that's a fact we have to accept. That doesn't mean we should with every club of course but it's in our interest to with most. Our good relationship with Hamilton got us Docherty on the cheap when a Hibs or Aberdeen would have demanded triple the price if they dealt with us at all. This boy from Partick, just assuming he is a future Scottish international, a good relationship with the club could be the difference between signing him or not. I like the idea of loaning Rossiter, Hardie etc. to a Livingstone or Dundee (not United) because it disadvantages Celtic and advantages us when we play them. And when those clubs have a player we want it helps the negotations.

I didn't mean to indicate that there was any importance in the personal opinions of those sportsound. I just meant hopefully Rangers outperform Celtic for the rest of the season. Saying "hopefully their end of season select team will be very different" was just another way of saying that. Not that I really hope Michael Stewart changes his mind of Alfredo Morelos.

Agreed. Scapegoated too often by the fans. People never seem to forget a poor performance against Livi but he never gets credit when he performs well, on one occasion in Europe he performed far better than Goldson and bailed him out a couple of times but he wasn't given any credit for it.

You're reading into that comment too much. If they outperform Celtic's players over the next few months they will earn the status of being better than them, which would be reflected in a select team.

To be fair our players have won nothing and the gauntlet has been thrown down for them to justify the status of being better than Celtic's players by consistently performing over the next few months, including the away old firm game where you don't have the 12th man. Hopefully their end of season select will be very different.

Before the Old Firm game on Sportsound Michael Stewart conceded McGregor and Tav would make the select. We should be grateful for that.

No doubt about it. Both are stronger attacking than defending and have the potential to provide a steady flow of assists. I think the key to the wing backs getting space in a 3-5-2 is having as much creativity and threat as possible from the 3 centre mids. If you play centre mids who prefer to keep things simple it doesn't work. This would support playing Kent in front of maybe Davis and Jack because he loves a free role and would be a threat running into the channels and distracting full backs.

Defoe and Davis and coming in has even got me excited about a 3-5-2 so I hope we see it ? Against Cowdenbeath I think we'd be fine with Kent or Middleton on the left.

Dealt with very professionally by Steve Clarke as expected. He's above the constant digs at Rangers that so many other clubs and their fans engage in.