Rangers banter 3

22 Apr 2024 11:34:22
@ Tom the commentators also said they think he Silva dived
He thought the hearts player was coming in behind him and he gambled on the dive and made too look very silly
Wolves be lucky to get 5 million for him never mind 20+
I liked him when he came I thought he he would have been a great addition to the squad but he can forget it
We don't need nor want players like this at Glasgow Rangers absolute calamity all he had to do was side foot it into the net.

Butland made 2 outstanding saves yesterday one may have had the hearts player just off side but known our luck if he had scored it would have counted.

Souter had a couple errors in his game yesterday one which could have cost us.

what's the deal now with Goldson will we see him start another game? How will he himself be feeling now known he was officially dropped by the manager can he be man enough to come back into the team and play better if given the chance or will he now be looking for his exit?

Thought cantwell played well yesterday some decent runs and obviously the assists he had
Matondo a few wee good runs also at times

Sterling was solid very good utility player to have at the club.

Dessers couldn't fault 2 goals and should have had an assist for the diving Silva

Summer think we are all in agreement defence will need properly looked at along with midfield for me Lunny needs to go we need an upgrade for moving forward along with all the players previously mentioned across the forum that will be out of contract and the club looking to move a good few on

Think it will be hard to replace Butland in summer if he indeed does go for a big transfer

Said a few times already going to be a massive summer for us made easier if we somehow pull the league out the bag
if not, we'll maybe we shouldn't talk about if nots and think positively that we still have a chance and what a massive difference it will make for the club in a whole if we do it for moving us forward .

We all live in hope 🤞💙.

22 Apr 2024 12:24:22
In my view, Lundstram can leave. Especially with what he is demanding but more on his performances over his Rangers career.
I’d be quite happy with a youthful midfield of Raskin and Diomande.
Need a new striker - fingers crossed not Shankland as he failed his audition again in front of Clement.
He’s yet to impress me against Rangers.
I actually think a few of our players are needing a decent preseason without niggles and they might just do us a turn.

22 Apr 2024 12:27:30
Excellent post stigno. not worried about Butland . If he goes there
are loads of good keepers out there. more concerned about defence and a decent 6 yard box hitman. Dessers did the job yesterday and Ill judge him more against the our rivals
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22 Apr 2024 12:32:07
But Big Phil has already stated he has 4 good Centre Backs and Goldson was rested which he was going to do against Dundee if Balagon was available but he wasn’t.

22 Apr 2024 13:07:31
Sorry stig but Matondo was absolutely horrible yesterday, worse than a man down. First thing he did was run the ball out of play because he can’t control a ball properly, last thing he did was fall over on the ball looking for a non existent free kick. Everything in between was just as bad. The awful thing is we are left with a choice now between him and Silva on the left side of attack. Out of the two I’d almost have to go for Silva just now as although he is also horrendous he can actually just about control a ball, occasionally pass to others and does work back and help out cover his left back. Matondo doesn’t even do any of those things. We are really struggling in forward areas now if Sima is out again.

22 apr 2024 13:18:57
matondo was poor yesterday, but the midfield hardly ever put the ball into the wide open spaces in front of him, he couldn't get into a groove, shankland was head n shoulders above the rest of his fellow attackers, they weren't on his wavelength, all in all hearts will be very disappointed they didn't do much, rangers were comfortable winners.

22 apr 2024 13:41:57
stig, there isn't even a debate on silva cheating, instantly i knew he had, anyway, we need a seige mentallity now, , every game as many goals as possible, i hope pc gies fir it now, no point in pussyfooting around,

22 Apr 2024 13:54:33
You’re right Tom but Matondo needs to be able to offer more than the occasional run when in open space or his new found ability to cut in on his right and hit a shot. He’s useful as an impact player in the last 20mins or so when teams tire but if he’s going to start then he has to be able to offer more. He doesn’t track back well, he shirks out of 50/ 50’s, he can’t beat a man from a standing start (or is afraid to even try most of the time) . His crossing and passing is poor. Yesterday isn’t the first time he’s basically been like a man down.

22 Apr 2024 14:31:42
Matondo is usually poor let’s be honest he done well when he came on against Hibs and Celtic but that’s about it.

22 apr 2024 15:11:17
he disappointed me yesterday, i expected it to righ5 up his street, granted the midfeild couldn't play to his strengths, but very poor otherwise.

22 Apr 2024 15:11:39
Both wingers don’t produce the goods regularly. Apart from goals against Hibs/ Celtic Matondo either runs the ball out, falls over it or passes it back. As for McAusland don’t see anything in his game worthy of a place.

22 apr 2024 15:23:51
it appears so storm.

22 Apr 2024 15:41:44
Raskin isn't good enough to be first choice.

22 Apr 2024 15:50:17
Id sell matondo to anyone daft enough. A terrible footballer.

22 Apr 2024 18:18:08
Me2 big dado.

22 Apr 2024 06:40:17
It wasn't the best performance.
But after a horrendous couple of weeks the win is all that matters.
Another chance to win a trophy this season.
Something we've all moaned about. Not winning enough domestic trophies.
Yes, the league is the main one but if we aren't winning that we need to be picking up Cups.
Great to see Dessers get a couple.
I was critical of the resigning of Balogun. But to be fair he was solid at the back.
And tactically I thought Clement was back to his best. 🔴⚪️🔵.

22 Apr 2024 06:53:08
TBH i thought it was a good, comfortable performance by us yesterday 🤔From the very start i thought we had much more energy and urgency within our ranks before dropping off a wee bit after 25minutes 🤔We then picked it up again and ran out comfortable winners and big dessers could have scored 5 yesterday. Thought butland,
tav, sterling, balogun, dio, cantwell and dessers all played well yesterday, with cantwell my motm👌🇬🇧.

22 Apr 2024 07:22:24
Great result after the last two calamitous matches - we stifled Hearts but apart from a few Souttar wobbles we looked ok at back - only concern is our wing play which was again lacking - just shows how much Cortes is missed ( direct running with pace) - Matondo again looked caught in headlights on occasion and you could see that PC was annoyed with him not being direct when man was there to take on - no point having blistering pace and not using it! - got to say the boy has never played well when starting - gut feeling is he is an impact sub at most.

Even McCausland looked for easy passes rather than committing his man (but hopefully that's just down to his recent injury and lack of fitness) Its one area where Celtic give us headaches in pacey direct wing play and an area where we need improvement if we want to kill off teams.

Great to have a final to look forward to - but this is time to turn up and show than we CAN beat them👍.

22 Apr 2024 07:55:44
It was a better performance than what we have been delivering in the league, recently, but that wouldn't be hard. Balogun and Dessers were the standouts, with Diomonde playing his part.

Even though we won, the usual suspects do what they always do, and start to get carried away. A cup semi, at Hampden, against a team we regularly, and comfortably beat, is a total different ball game (pardon the pun) to playing them away in the league. Some can't help themselves!

22 Apr 2024 08:03:57
We certainly weren’t at our best but in the breath I never thought we were in danger of not winning.

I hope the squad take a bit of a confidence boost into the final league games and now the final.

22 Apr 2024 08:46:56
I agree with that SWS OBE.
I felt we controlled the match in the most part.
We can now concentrate on 5 cup finals in the league before the Scottish Cup Final.
The League’s a marathon and we’re entering the home straight faze so let’s kick the legs and hope that they blink next.

22 Apr 2024 09:00:22
I never thought we looked like losing because Hearts were terrible, Dado.

22 Apr 2024 09:39:11
I’m sure nobody’s getting carried away Raisetheroofe.
Nobody said winning the league was going to be easy from my recollection.
We never won 56 league titles loosing heart when the going got tough though.

22 Apr 2024 10:01:00
Yeah fair point MPH.

22 Apr 2024 10:14:33
CO2 i did, because the football we were playing was improving up until the start of February and never seen us only talking 2 points out of 9 the three previous league games, but if we can win the last six games we win the treble.

22 Apr 2024 10:41:09
Fair play, My Star, holding your hands up. Oh, and by the way, you weren't the only one.

22 Apr 2024 10:44:32
My star, 6 wins is a big ask. 2 of those wins need to be against a Celtic team we haven't beaten all season.

22 Apr 2024 10:53:11
We also need to improve our GD MyStar or we are relying on others talking more points off Celtic.
Can we do it?
Course we can. Until the table tells us differently.

22 Apr 2024 11:00:25
Yesterday showed me 2 wingers this summer and imo matondo won't do McCausland shows promise but needs to add more.

22 Apr 2024 11:44:56
Every goal we score against them in the league will count double.

22 Apr 2024 12:15:27
Fair enough my star.
I knew you were super confident but couldn’t recall you stating it would be easy which was my point.
I do admire your confidence though.

22 Apr 2024 12:25:59
Good point Seeker.
3-0 win and match their other results and we are Champions 🥳🔴⚪️🔵🥳
The Treble is on!

22 apr 2024 13:21:46
young ross was much much better than he has been recently imo.

22 Apr 2024 06:35:28
Well a good result yesterday after a very disappointing week and that's putting it mildly, let's hope we can kick on now and win all remaining games, I for one don't believe the leagues over just as I stated when beale left the club, will it be difficult? Absolutely but if we can put on a real show and beat them at Celtic park it will throw the cat amongst the pigeons and hopefully they panic, it's very disappointing that we have blew so many points of late, motherwell was bad but Dundee and Ross county was especially frustrating, but in all honesty we didn't deserve to win we were far too negative and lethargic, really need to get behind the team and hope they repay us with a winning run to glory, as big mar said " keep believing ".

22 Apr 2024 00:17:08
Diamonde comes back, we win. simples.

22 Apr 2024 07:53:13
He was playing against them a few weeks past and we never won. How do you explain that?

22 Apr 2024 09:50:55
Sorry I don't believe it's that simple I find it a strange post.

22 Apr 2024 12:20:38
First game against them can be a shock, I just mean we missed him.

22 apr 2024 13:23:09
if only, i felt he was quiet but had nice touches,

22 Apr 2024 09:16:06
Not buying this one, I'm sure he played in the Motherwell. The biggest difference was Balogun playing because he covered Soutter who was woeful again.

21 Apr 2024 21:43:14
A great result after a shocking week. Into another final, hopefully a huge confidence boost, goals for Dessers, a clean sheet with Balogun back in, a top performance from Todd. Not getting carried away but they are in no great shape either so hopefully a few more twists in the title race still to come and we can snatch things back.

21 apr 2024 22:07:33
anyone think silva should be chased back to wolves asap after that despicable attempt to cheat, he thought someone was right behind him and went down like a fairy falling off a xmas tree, after that i felt embarrassed that he is wearing a rangers jersey

anyone thinking otherwise, have another look, soon as it happened both my pals and i just stopped and looked at each other, none of us had ever seen a more embarrassing attempt to cheat, surely the club will chase him after that.

21 apr 2024 22:32:30
we shouldn't get carried away mate because we haven't beaten celtic in a meaningful game for a long time, today was a good result, not a great performance from either team, but we worked hard here and git the rewards, I'm still struggling with silvas pathetic dive so i havnt watched it all again, to me balogun and cantwell played well.

21 Apr 2024 22:41:04
To be fair to Silva I just thought he got his feet all wrong I don’t think there was any attempt to con the ref, just a stumble.

22 Apr 2024 00:06:44
Why dive two feet from an open goal, a think he fell over his own feet to be fair, am not wearing a dive.

22 apr 2024 00:16:22
never in a million years was that not a pathetic dive, rarely will you see someone catching they're studs and going diwn with their hands in the air and knees up

embarrassing and disgraceful, i had big hopes for him after b3nfica away

boys a cheat and i don't want him in a gers team.

22 Apr 2024 05:03:45
I would need to watch it again as I didn’t think it was a dive.

22 Apr 2024 06:07:06
Was never a dive he got his feet all wrong.

22 Apr 2024 06:22:51
Aye right, hold on I'll just dive n not let the ball hit off me for a goal, ! people never happy, the guy fell fcs.

22 Apr 2024 06:36:15
Ball was slightly behind him and tripped over his own feet trying to adjust.
We won. We move on.

22 Apr 2024 06:38:17
Sorry Tom, I ignored your comment when you posted it the first time, think you've got this one wrong.

22 Apr 2024 06:58:52
From my view in the west stand it honestly looked to me like silva got his feet all wrong and fell over because of it 🤔 Haven't watched it back on tv yet.

22 Apr 2024 07:38:54
Dive or not he's been a huge disappointment overall. Not worth whatever wolves want or massive wages he's bound to be on.

22 Apr 2024 07:47:50
As much as I think he is a cheat, that wasn't a dive yesterday, Tom. The ball was slightly behind him, but if he was any good, he would have still scored and not made an arse of himself.

22 Apr 2024 07:55:43
Didn’t hear complaints when he won the pen vs Celtic.

22 Apr 2024 08:51:42
Hes been awful. Bar 1 half decent showing v benfica.

22 Apr 2024 09:04:18
Gofor what has the Celtic one got to do with yesterday.

22 Apr 2024 09:03:35
I just watched it again and I 100% agree with Tom now he dived I thought his feet got tangled together but they didn’t it was a disgrace of a dive.

22 Apr 2024 10:06:37
Watched it back a few times, Tom is bang on the boy took a 100% dive.

22 Apr 2024 10:46:40
Thank God we couldn't afford to buy him.

22 Apr 2024 11:00:00
I was watching it on vipbox stream so not the best picture. I'll watch it again, and if I'm wrong, apologies Tom.

22 apr 2024 13:28:54
the worst attempt at cheating i thonk i ever saw

i didn't say that lightly, nobody trips over their feet and throws they're arms up in the air and throws themself firward

its beyond belief there's actually some folk here who think he didn't cheat, just unbelievable, like i said, worst i can ever remember myself

jfm, your titally wrong

moh, move on, is it ok just fir you to commemt then, and you couldn't be more wrong either.

22 apr 2024 13:34:10
thank you storm, bb it was pathetic,

gofir, yet more no sense, the old firm one was a penalty, even tho he was in the process of yet another dive.

22 apr 2024 13:43:51
and why not fork, alfie did.

21 Apr 2024 21:32:42
Guys given the midfield is so important when we play the other mob what's the diff between 433 they play and our 4231? Does our formation give up a man in the middle.

21 Apr 2024 22:34:47
433 midfield more forward 4321 midfield used more defence in my opinion.

21 Apr 2024 22:52:59
Get your point onewalter but for me shape etc goes for nothing without the right intensity and aggression. That's what we lack against them right in their faces first to every ball that's how you dominate the play. The team that wins the battle is the one who applies themselves properly. We need massive performance from everyone to get the win at the piggery we are capable but will we show that ferocity that's required.

22 Apr 2024 07:42:48
Jz - Correct- intensity for full match helps win games as was shown by Ross County against us - Killie and Motherwell too - work rate and effort is paramount for any team to win games and tbh there are good few matches where we have failed in this stat - if we do this at Parkhead we have a fighting chance - sit back and watch/ let teams play and we will be picked off - simple as that!

22 Apr 2024 07:51:39
We quite simply have to show high intensity and hunger being in their faces from the off at breezeblock boulevard or no league title, simple as fellow bears 🤔 Undoubtedly we're capable imo 🤔.

22 Apr 2024 07:57:06
Totally agree J-zer it’s all attitude for me the lazy approach to some games not being switched on from first second.

21 Apr 2024 21:11:17
Watched all the games today,
Pressure plays a part
Our game, hats off to PC to drop Goldson
Why was Balogun right, left footed
Souttar left, right footed
Magician or what, have to agree with KT Balogun motm old fashioned ch gets stuck in.
Observation, a while ago it was mentioned that Barasic and Goldson didn't get on seemed different today sitting next to each other talking away.
Feel more comfortable with the games ahead very strong squad.

21 apr 2024 22:10:21
some people become friends again mate,

just like on here.

21 Apr 2024 22:19:07
Balogun is right footed the same as Souttar.

21 Apr 2024 22:46:47
Maybe they have settled their differences.

22 Apr 2024 07:28:26
That was way back when Katie was still there eggs long time to get over it.

22 Apr 2024 11:48:11
I believe they had a problem a while ago, but has been settled for ages now. All good.