Match Thread [FT] Rangers 1 (Tavernier 76) - 0 Aberdeen

[Frankie 8,151]

4 hours ago, SykseyBear said:

A game which should be a gimme is no longer. The days of Rangers FC steamrollering into cup finals and making trophies their own are over. This time we are all going with trepidation, pessimism, fear, pressure, knowing that Barry f*cking Robson has yet another Rangers managers number. Aberdeen are favourites. No 2 ways about it. Being favourites, being confident, being expectant and demanding with these Rangers players only leads one way and it isn't to success. Sad times. Sooner the place is gutted the better. All your wee favourites need to go. 

Some of my favourite moments as a Rangers fan came in the late 80s and early 90s where often we'd come up against Aberdeen.  Although their own hey-days of European finals were long gone, rarely did we steamroll them in finals or anywhere else despite having Gazza, Laudrup and other better players than we have now at our disposal. 

 

I'm all for realism and understand positivity rightly isn't for everyone but as much as some of your posts have merit, the stuff in bold tends to make me think you're at the lash.

 

Continue with the unreasonable and unfounded negativity and your future here also leads just one way.

[Bill 13,717]

6 hours ago, SykseyBear said:

A game which should be a gimme is no longer. The days of Rangers FC steamrollering into cup finals and making trophies their own are over. This time we are all going with trepidation, pessimism, fear, pressure, knowing that Barry f*cking Robson has yet another Rangers managers number. Aberdeen are favourites. No 2 ways about it. Being favourites, being confident, being expectant and demanding with these Rangers players only leads one way and it isn't to success. Sad times. Sooner the place is gutted the better. All your wee favourites need to go. 

At first reading I was sure this was an exercise in sarcasm but in the end it became clear you were simply spreading negativity where none belongs. Are you sure you're in the right place?

 

I approach this game full of confidence and I think we'll look back on the draw at Pittodrie as a major motivator for our success.

[Graeme Ro55 649]

10 hours ago, SykseyBear said:

A game which should be a gimme is no longer. The days of Rangers FC steamrollering into cup finals and making trophies their own are over. This time we are all going with trepidation, pessimism, fear, pressure, knowing that Barry f*cking Robson has yet another Rangers managers number. Aberdeen are favourites. No 2 ways about it. Being favourites, being confident, being expectant and demanding with these Rangers players only leads one way and it isn't to success. Sad times. Sooner the place is gutted the better. All your wee favourites need to go. 

I think we do need a serious clear out of those players who continue to let us down when it matters, but @Scott7 is correct, there are some decent players among them. As for Clement, surely it's unfair to judge him on the form of players who have let down a few managers now. 

Edited November 30, 2023 by Graeme Ro55

[Scott7 5,170]

There’s not a lot Clement can do. He has to pick from the signed squad. Lack of money will prevent the acquisition of good quality replacements in January.

[Gonzo79 13,632]

1 hour ago, SykseyBear said:

It's really not. 

It definitely is.  I fully expect us to win at Hampden and so does every Rangers fan I've spoken to.  

 

Some of aren't being drama queens because we drew a game we played well enough to win a few days ago.

[Graeme Ro55 649]

41 minutes ago, SykseyBear said:

A squad that costs us more in wages than any other squad in our entire history is good enough to beat this Aberdeen team. No one will ever convince me otherwise. And yet.....and yet.....here i am lacking belief in a cup final against them. That's now on Clement and the favourites he is relying on every week. It's gutting. 

I dont think I've ever completey agreed with any managers team selections, even when we had great managers/players. Clement can only pee with the c**k he has until our crazy injury problems are dealt with, and he gets money to change out the duds. Until then he is left with little/no right choices imo.

[26th of foot 5,836]

"I was brought up to absolutely hate Rangers".

 

Above is the opening line spoken by Richard Gordon in his BBC Radio Scotland biopic' first broadcast nearly two decades past. Richard has spent the last twenty years flashing those very credentials. Last season he was appointed Cove Rangers PRO, moved back to his native Aberdeen and, took up a weekly column in the Aberdeen Press and Journal. We know he writes exclusively for a group of fans when visiting Sellik Park sing, 'we hate Rangers more than you' and the separated brethren show their appraisal by applauding. Today's column for the P and J is part of the League Cup final build up.

 

Less than a fortnight to go and both clubs have played another two games, one in Euro' competition and a League fixture each. Aberdeen drew 2-2 in Helsinki and lost 2-0 at Easter Road whereas, Rangers drew 1-1 with Limassol and defeated St Mirren 2-0. The great Masonic conspiracy failed us again, no penalty awarded in either game. It is good to know the Grand Wizard like Barry Robson is continually obsessed with the aesthetics of the Scottish game.

 

Further, a glance at the current league table would add greatly to the charge Aberdeen only raise their game against Rangers. The Dandies are three points ahead of bottom club, Livi'; their four points gained from two games against us keep them from the base. Of course, the difference at the top between ourselves and ra green'ngrey hooped horrors is effectively five points and that is the number we have surrendered to the Dons. There is considerable scope in this information for an interested columnist.

 

The cup final is approaching fast and with hatred in his heart, the Cove Rangers PRO decided to go with, 'Penalty Rangers'. Big Dick has accrued his own empirical evidence, applied kai squared analysis and, t-test for fit. His conclusion is Rangers are beneficiaries of a bias or, I suppose it was so much easier when Wullie Miller refereed all Aberdeen games. Bias is a most strong word but do not expect Richard to name the officials affected by it. Similarly, since the penalties awarded stats prove Sellik to be the greater beneficiaries, penalties conceded is this week's and next week's trend. 

 

Richard expresses disbelief that Rangers have survived a league season without conceding a penalty, "not a single Rangers player committed a foul inside their own eighteen yard box". He lists the penalties awarded against us in Euro' games and deems those an expected stat' those conceded in domestic cup games are not all specified because they run a bit of interference on his preferred narrative. The one stat not mentioned is that another Scottish club has survived an entire season without conceding a penalty and, Sellik have achieved that stat' twice. Still, it is a bit awkward to type whilst Peter is stuffing  his dick down your thorax.

 

Dick's bias is to place firm pressure on the final officials and in doing so he deliberately omitted the most relevant stat' ie in this year's league cup, Rangers have played three games and conceded penalties in two of them, against Morton and Hearts.

[Gonzo79 13,632]

Gordon dresses like a tramp.

 

 

[Scott7 5,170]

12 minutes ago, Gonzo79 said:

Gordon dresses like a tramp.

Hasn’t aged well. There comes a time when dressing young no longer helps. The features sabotage your efforts.

[onevision 1,447]

Remind me how the Jilted John chorus go again?

Edited December 4, 2023 by onevision