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Conspiracy against Gribz?:D

 

C'mon Craigy, I thought you were on my side.

 

Pete, Sub Craig off, Fraser on. :thup:

 

Pete doesnt know what day it is let alone who is playing. He is probably sitting on the sidelines snoring his head off.....

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MO EDU played his first game since the title triumph at Tannadice in May this afternoon as a mixed Rangers reserve side lost 2-1 to Partick Thistle.

 

The American midfielder played 80 minutes against a strong Jags team in the bounce fixture at Murray Park.

 

Edu has been out since he suffered a serious knee injury in a collision with Darren Dods as Gers beat Dundee United 3-0 on May 24 to become SPL champions.

 

And after coming through his comeback match, manager Walter Smith could consider including him in his squad for Sunday's trip to face Hibernian in Edinburgh.

 

Kirk Broadfoot recently came back into the team after nine months out and just 45 minutes playing for the second string.

 

In the time since, he has completed three full games against St Johnstone, United and Motherwell and suffered no ill effects.

 

Logic would suggest Edu, who has trained alongside Broadfoot throughout his rehab, is likely to be considered fit to come back into the first-team group now.

 

He settled into the team well against Thistle and will take plenty of confidence from getting a match under his belt again.

 

Several top-team players appeared for Tommy Wilson's team today as Smith used the match to give those on the fringes of his side some much-needed action.

 

Steven Whittaker, Danny Wilson, Stevie Smith, John Fleck, Steven Naismith and Kyle Lafferty all started.

 

But it was Steven Lennon who got the sole Gers goal, netting after half an hour in what was a worthwhile exercise.

 

RANGERS: Gallacher, Whittaker (Cole), Little, Wilson, Smith (Wylde), Lennon, Edu (Emslie), Ness (Hutton), Fleck, Naismith (Shinnie), Lafferty (Loy).

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RANGERS: Gallacher, Whittaker (Cole), Little, Wilson, Smith (Wylde), Lennon, Edu (Emslie), Ness (Hutton), Fleck, Naismith (Shinnie), Lafferty (Loy).

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Little being played in central defense now? FFS! :whistle:

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Little might have been playing RB with Whittaker playing CB :thup:

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I doubt it mate. Whittaker will come back in at RB should Kirk need a rest, so you'd expect Whittaker to be getting practice there, while Walter has stated that they're still trying to find Little's best position, so it wouldn't be a surprise if he was played at CB in a bounce game.

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Little might have been playing RB with Whittaker playing CB :thup:

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Not ruling out that possibility btw, but Whittaker was taken off & replaced by Cole, who as I mentioned a couple of weeks ago is one of our RB prospects...

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