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1 minute ago, yuddie said:

As in we shouldn't be slamming this Rangers team because they're pish?

Lol. Typo. 

We should be hammering teams like this.

12 minutes ago, Sutton_blows_goats said:

He is dreadful 

It’s never a good sign when even YouTube doesn’t make it look like they have good technique. I’m hoping he can do a Sakala and come up with goals despite his limitations but the early signs haven’t been there. 

6 minutes ago, RANGERRAB said:

Can’t help feeling we’d have been better getting a naturally wide player instead of Sima. Disappointing again when he came on tonight. 

I’ve no idea how Sima fits in. Seems like we just signed him because Beale knew of him, and he was highly rated a few years ago. Why was he seen as a good fit for our system? 

It all feels a bit pointless because we aren’t going to beat PSV are we

I had a feeling we would live to regret being so wasteful. A bizarre handball from Dessers. This is a bog standard team though and we should be putting them away tonight. 

They’re not going to need much encouragement to go down are they

Happy enough with the selection tonight though. Jack brings a bit of control and balance that we wouldn’t have if we started someone like Dowell in there. And it’s great to see Danilo start. 

All that money spent and yet in the most important position on the park, an ageing and unreliable Jack starts. I’m a Jack fan but he's declining and I'm concerned that we haven't recruited a more defence minded midfielder to support Raskin, especially for Europe. 

19 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

@BlackSocksRedTops @Graeme Ro55

 

The graph is a passing network.

 

The bigger circles mean those players have more of the ball. 

 

Basically, we're passing it about the defence (big circles) and not getting the ball to our forwards (small circles). 

 

It's just showing what we've seen with our eyes. 

Worth noting that Dessers’ stats from previous clubs showed that he doesn’t touch the ball much anyway. A bit of a Kris Boyd type of striker. Danilo obviously is different. 

10 hours ago, RANGERRAB said:

McInnes had Beale’s number today

Not for the first time either. Happened a number of times when he was assistant. 

7 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

I think a quality centre mid would just be asked to do the same things so nothing would change. 

I agree to an extent but I don’t think we have an answer to Calum McGregor. Our centre mids aren’t at that level. 

Well the warning signs have been there all preseason. There are no excuses for that.
 

Hot take - I think a quality centre mid would change this team more than a quality centre back. 

On 01/08/2023 at 15:57, Bluedell said:

My own view is that any budget we had has disappeared due to the spend elsewhere and we'll try and pick up one cheaply or on loan near the end of the window.

My view is that we’ve already done that, and the rumours that we are in for Trusty or Panzo predate Balogun signing. Would like to be wrong, but I don’t think there are any signs that we are spending big money on a centre back without one leaving. 

32 minutes ago, Bluedell said:

I thought we'd put in a bid for Trusty?

According to who? Ibrox noise? I didn't see a reliable source. Beale signed Balogun and has poured cold water on the idea of signed a centre back in recent weeks. And he's been open about the positions he wants to strengthen and never listed centre back as one of them. 

It’s been a pretty much heretical opinion this pre-season, but I don’t think Beale is actually pursuing a centre back. There have been no signals and plenty that we aren’t. I think it's a case of wait and see if anyone comes in for Davies, but there's absolutely no sign of that either. 

2 hours ago, Bill said:

Is there a bionic store where we can get whatever spare parts are required to keep Ryan Jack fit and available. Because we're twice the team when he plays.

Unfortunately, we badly lack stability when he doesn’t play. The defence is far better protected when he plays. I think our defence has been hung out to dry a bit in preseason by the tactics and player selection in midfield. They’ve offered no protection to the defence. 

I was a Lammers skeptic but he’s impressed 

Well Ryan Jack has changed the game. Great cross from Yilmaz in the build up there. Looks a star that boy 😛

The goal is created by….Ryan Jack

Totally simplistic to blame Yilmaz alone. There was a man wide open in the 6 yard box. Maybe he should have been marked? There was a whole build up where our centre mid were invisible and they got the ball out to a man on the edge of our box with ease. There's a lot going wrong. 

Bizarre for Tav to just stop playing there

Lammers showing some good skill

1 hour ago, Rousseau said:

I think he has looked good in pre-season. 

Not so much today

Just now, Rousseau said:

I'm pleased to see Yfeko. 

I think it would be a miracle if he was anywhere near good enough to play for us this season. Lots of posters on FF watched the B team regularly last season and all said he didn’t impress at all.