Team Talk For Sunday

[JFK-1 1,671]

53 minutes ago, Gonzo79 said:

Like swinging a punch at an opposition player.

Really? You seriously think this is a pertinent remark in the context of this thread? It's the usual worthless talking to be talking while saying nothing with any worthwhile content I have come to expect from you. But go ahead, let me see the attempt to validate it before I point out the pointless inane nature of it.

[Gonzo79 13,589]

1 minute ago, JFK-1 said:

You seriously think this is a pertinent remark in the context of this thread?

I do.  You bemoan thuggery and yet celebrate it via your profile pic.

 

1 minute ago, JFK-1 said:

It's the usual worthless talking to be talking while saying nothing with any worthwhile content I have come to expect from you

Repetition is often worthless too.

[JFK-1 1,671]

1 hour ago, Gonzo79 said:

I do.  You bemoan thuggery and yet celebrate it via your profile pic.

 

Repetition is often worthless too.

You're clearly so far gone in this talk just to be talking contrary bubble you don't even know when you're doing it. Nor when it plumbs new levels of pointless absurdity.

We have an opposition manager openly talking about intending violent play in an upcoming match. What it amounts to is admitting an intention to be deliberately violent which will include a real risk of seriously injuring our players. Intentional risk. Instructions of the manager.

And you, contrarian genius that you are, equate that to a one off heat of the moment incident. Do we have a manager instructing players to go out there and punch opposition players? If we do they're miserably failing to follow instructions because it's a rare event.

And when the incident you're trying to equate with deliberate thuggery occured it was a response to deliberate thuggery. A response I myself may have carried out in the heat of the moment.

But not on instruction from the manager nor a preconceived personal plan. And a response the manager would have given me a dressing down for given the risk of being red carded. He would not have either instructed it nor praised it when it did happen. And neither would I. I have always complained about the retaliation of Alfie. And Kent too when he was red carded in France.

Is all that anything like the preconceived thuggery our players face? A preconceived thuggery not just condoned but actually ordered by opposition managers?  

What are you? A Manchurian candidate who would even suggest far less think that's anything like preconceived planned thuggery on the team you're supposed to be supporting? On the basis of a comedic avatar of a punch being thrown at an individual so many would like to punch but in no way suggests this should be a common event? Well it appears you actually are suggesting it.

Suggesting there's any similarity between the non stop fouling and attacks the opposition inflict on us weekly on their managers instructions? I could say unbelievable, but given the source I wont.

Now you go ahead and ramble some further pointless nonsense just to be talking and carrying on an obvious bizarre obsession to be contrary to me. In your contrary world there must be some weird creatures around here if you think avatars are to be considered the source of celebration.

[Gonzo79 13,589]

6 hours ago, JFK-1 said:

We have an opposition manager openly talking about intending violent play in an upcoming match.

Not really.  

 

[alexscottislegend 2,057]

16 hours ago, craig said:

Thought we were only 8 years old ?

Careful - I got roundly slaughtered for stating we founded in 1873 not 1872. Though I've subsequently found the reason for my assumption: it was stated in a book called "We Will Follow Rangers" by Hugh Taylor, 1961.

[alexscottislegend 2,057]

21 hours ago, craig said:

Not every team has the finances of Rangers and Celtic and, ergo, will attract certain types and standards of players.  They have a job to do which is to stay in the top division.  Nothing wrong with them playing to their own strengths, even though it isnt what we like to see ourselves.  I didnt see (m)any of us complain when parking the bus against Barcelona and holding on for a 0-0 draw.  

"Anti-football" they called it - proud that we invented it!

[alexscottislegend 2,057]

On 14/08/2020 at 09:40, JFK-1 said:

Not a mention of playing football. 

"getting in peoples faces"
"do the ugly side"
"they'll know they've been in a battle"

How many random people who saw those three comments but didn't know what they were referring to would guess it was a football match.

Do you not think he's using metaphorical language? Mark Selby played ugly snooker against O'Sullivan but no punches were thrown.

[Gonzo79 13,589]

5 minutes ago, alexscottislegend said:

Do you not think he's using metaphorical language

JFK omitted the "of the game" from Holt's "do the ugly side" comment and then stated he hadn't mentioned football.

 

Closer to home, was Jock Wallace's,"Got the battle fever on" comment a request for his team to assault the opposition?  Then we have several instances of another Rangers manager, Graeme Souness, actually assaulting the opposition (Hibs and Steau Bucharest spring to mind).  

 

The Scottish game is more physical than most other leagues. What we lack in footballing prowess, we replace with blood and guts - thus it has aye been.  

[compo 6,126]

24 minutes ago, alexscottislegend said:

Do you not think he's using metaphorical language? Mark Selby played ugly snooker against O'Sullivan but no punches were thrown.

Like the above mentioned snooker match the cream will always come to the top .

[Gonzo79 13,589]

6 minutes ago, compo said:

Like the above mentioned snooker match the cream will always come to the top .

Compo, how come you don't get a nine paragraph rant and a Greek philosophical quote when you contradict JFK?  ?