27 Aug 2016 20:22:51
Celtic thrash their nearest rivals 4-1 and lay down their marker. We fail to thrash what could easily now be seen as our nearest rivals in any of our opening games.
Felt good before these first few games and if I'm honest, confident that we would indeed be competing for honours this season. However, going by what I've seen in the opening 4 games, we will do well to attain a top 6 place if we keep playing like this. It better click and it better click quick.
We have south possession but is any of it any good? Lots of stuff around the box but with very little of it going in to the strikers. Far too slow going forward, McKay seems to wait for the opposing team to get back before his usual cut inside. He hit the byline yesterday for the first time on 61 minutes. That's not the sign of a good winger or even a winger in my books and maybe a tad unfair to single him out but I don't wish to write war and peace!
It just seems to embody what is wrong with us as a team, lots of possession with no end product.
27 Aug 2016 20:46:50
Think we would be better with Jimmy hill clint is terrible if forester could finish he would be some player can't see us getting anything against they **** at parkhead but hopefull I am wrong.
27 Aug 2016 21:34:25
Totally agree we have been poor since we won championship check results, in the SPL we have played teams who will finish in bottom six and struggled against them all this is the worst Rangers team in years what does Davy Weir do I thought he would have the defence watertight but we leak goals for fun can't score goals loads of possession but gets us nowhere we lack pace in the team and take to long to move the ball I'm not a big Warburton fan he only plays one way and when it doesn't work the game just grinds to an end I really hope I'm proved wrong here and they get it together but I think we will finish fourth.
28 Aug 2016 00:02:51
Weir can only work with the tools he has been given and it is a bit like giving someone a Glass hammer and telling them to hammer in nails. Hill should never have been brought to Ibrox. He is slow, can't tackle and was totally outclassed by a bunch of Kilmarnock kids and a pensioner! Kiernan is not much better and Wilson hasn't played a decent game since he left us for Liverpool! We have the young lad signed on loan from Raith Rovers and we might be able to resurrect Wilson's career if we can play him alongside a quality centre back. If we persevere with Hill and / or Kiernan then we will destroy what potential is left in Wilson!
28 Aug 2016 00:08:33
So we've went from a very exciting and attacking lookin team since dick advocat era. now were worst Rangers team in years. come on now lads get a grip, were no gona gel after a few games, as annoying as it is but its gona take us atleast 10 games to be a settled and gelled team.
28 Aug 2016 08:07:35
How many players started your Kilmarnock game that were brought in this season? 3/ 4 and one of those was joey ( I'm head and shoulders above every player in Scotland! 😅) Barton . Celtic started yesterdays game with a new manager, new gk, new center half, new midfielder and still ran out comfortable winners, so your excuse holds no water .
28 Aug 2016 20:32:22
Or you could say we've been poor and we're still second, think we can finish in the top four, Euro place.
27 Aug 2016 23:02:34
We need to get the width and pace back into the team.
28 Aug 2016 20:34:41
Nearest rivals? That would be us right now as Aberdeen have been single fish this season so far, wouldn't fear the trip there in a few weeks and that is not why I would usually feel.
28 Aug 2016 20:58:33
I agree. Most worrying is that the possession last season was quite refreshing as it was dominating, sharp, penetrative often especially early season, and tired out the opposition. This season the early signs are that it is none of these things.
28 Aug 2016 22:07:05
We need to get the width and pace back into the team.
28 Aug 2016 09:37:38
How many injuries do your team have though and also we had a guy taken off and a new starker pitched in right away, takes time even though we have hopes for him and you always have to be ready to come on and a centre half who not great was injured in the warm up and a worse one was pitched in right away, so although we can claim 'excuses' there is also some fact in them.
28 Aug 2016 09:48:02
If anything a new manager gives a team a lift, it happens to loads of teams, it happened to us at the start of last season also.