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24 Jan 2025 07:39:40
{Ed's Note - gdog55 has posted a new article entitled, Rangers Players Review v Manchester United
1.) 24 Jan 2025 08:32:14
Good assessment bud??.
2.) 24 Jan 2025 10:24:24
Pretty much agree with everything here.
05 Jan 2025 14:07:54
I intimated it on Thursday but it wasn't the time to go any deeper given the performance that papered over a whole load of cracks.
Cracks reopened. Gaping chasms more like.
Clement isn't good enough over the course of a season. Neither are most of our players. This isn't in doubt at this stage. Individual results successful teams don't make, successful teams are a result of the series of results and I'm afraid over a series of results, over 2 seasons, with his own players and without, Clement can't inspire the level of consistency/ quality we need.
Igamane has talent, we won't keep him long. Raskin can be excused today as I genuinely think it's his first bad game since he came back in. Some are just not at the required level though.
Diomande isn't the answer. 1 decent game in 10 is nowhere near what we need. Bajrami the same. Proper too. At this stage it's absolutely clear for these players a good game is the exception, being bang average is their rule.
Unfortunately I don't think sacking Clement makes much of a difference given the deficiency in the playing staff. I don't think they'll do it anyway.
Going to be a long second half of the season. Strap in.
1.) 05 Jan 2025 14:16:50
Koppen needs to earn his crust big time.
We desperately need defenders in the door.
Nobody could have seen the injury crisis at the back but that defensive display for horrifying.
2.) 05 Jan 2025 14:57:27
When we went two up I thought this could be anything we want it to be then we fell back and started the to you to me carry on between cbs. we will need to get at least one cb in this window but I won’t hold my breath.
3.) 05 Jan 2025 16:15:53
the good news then is gdog that we will easily beat Celtic to the league once we improve on the players you think are all rubbish. my logic is that if the players we have can beat Celtic so easily then surely anyone we replace them with will be much better.
I would suggest that consistency is the most precious commodity in football and we haven't managed to achieve that yet for whatever reason we had 1 of our 1st starting back 5 today so they need to be cut a bit of slack. it has been said all season we need to improve the squad and it is an actual rebuild of the club from top to bottom yet it is forgotten every time a bad result turns up.
02 Jan 2025 17:10:16
Very, very pleasant surprise.
I have to say, I have been a critic of Raskin, softening to him over the last few months given his massive increase in performance.
Today, he was every bit what I want a Rangers captain to be in an Old Firm game. He led by example, winning the battle and his team jumped on board and went with him.
I can't believe I'm going to say this, but for many people, including our current club captain, that armband is heavy. Only one game and one swallow a summer does not make, but it didn't look in any way too heavy for Raskin.
He won't keep it. But he's given a right good audition there for everything we want in a skipper.
Fair play to him.
Nod to RIdvan as well, not an easy thing to do but that's arguably the best right back performance in a derby we've seen in years.
Not a failure on the pitch though, fair play to everyone.
Papers over some pretty big cracks, but today isn't the day for that, let's enjoy this Xmas miracle first :D.
1.) 02 Jan 2025 17:36:59
Best right back performance in an old firm game since Balogun a few years ago! ?.
2.) 02 Jan 2025 17:39:21
Bang on with every word ??????????.
3.) 02 Jan 2025 17:40:49
The pride in Raskins face was clear to see. Thoroughly deserved his Man of the match.
4.) 02 Jan 2025 17:55:34
Agreed Alloa?.
02 Jan 2025 16:07:02
Very good first half. For once we've won the fight then tried to play. They've been really, really poor but we can only play what's in front of us. Ridvan has been better against Maeda than Taverner ever has, Raskin has been great again (looks like a proper captain in the fixture and the team is taking his lead) and delighted for Hagi. Have always thought he was one of our best players and he's been showing it since he came back in.
Only downside due me has been the booking for Raskin at the end there. I don't generally buy into conspiracy theories, but how can Robertson book one of the players involved and not the other? Either you book them both and McGregor is off or you book neither (my preference) . What he's doing is disadvantage one side there.
They have to improve second half, so a big 45 incoming, but given my expectation going into this game the first half was a very pleasant surprise.
30 Dec 2024 13:18:25
gdog55 has written an article entitled, Are Glasgow Rangers Progressing Under Philippe Clement
1.) 30 Dec 2024 13:35:34
Great post Gdog.
2.) 30 Dec 2024 14:07:14
Cannot disagree with a single point you make.
3.) 30 Dec 2024 14:32:47
Great post gdog and he can’t have both ways you are correct on that.
4.) 30 Dec 2024 14:35:20
Well said Gdog, his times up.
5.) 30 Dec 2024 14:37:38
Gdog a well thought out post.
02 Aug 2024 15:33:51
Jefte was far from fine defensively. A more experienced left back and Cortes not tracking his runner is much less of a problem. He's only young so understandable, but let's not understate his defensive naivety and put too much pressure on him too soon.
29 Jul 2024 17:22:17
Clement has already covered this, there's no space for him in the first team if he doesn't want to be here. You can't put on a training session with 30 players. He's in the B team because having him with the first team, knowing he doesn't want to be here, impacts on first team training.
Pretty standard stuff. He's not there as a punishment . He's there for logistics.
29 Jul 2024 12:08:12
The thing that concerns me with McKenna is that the manager clearly wants to play the high, aggressive press in most games and that means the CB's pushing a high line. The risk in that is then the ball in behind. Teams who play that way really need CB's that have a decent amount of pace, particularly on the turn.
I think this is the issue Souttar struggles with. I think McKenna is another in a similar mould in those attributes.
I think McKenna is a decent big Centre half when defending a box, defending long balls and generally solid enough, but I don't think he's the type who would suit playing with a high line.
I think that's why he was replaced at Forest, it's not one of his strengths.
This, for me, is one of the big reasons Balogun is currently our best CB. Yes, he's probably a little weaker in other areas than Souttar (distribution) and McKenna (general defending) but his ability on the turn and his mobility means he's better equipped to defend the defensive transition from a high press being broken or bypassed.
25 Jul 2024 08:02:05
Baldy:
Our toxic hand are right good if they can influence a player at 2 clubs before he joins us! ?
Cantwell had the same issues at both Norwich and Bournemouth before us and was removed from first team duties at Norwich too.
At some point he might realise that the one constant in all his problems is him and screw the nut. But he's 26 now, not a kid anymore, so hugely unlikely.
There are many legitimate concerns around our fanbase and being overly critical of players, but I'm afraid that doesn't apply to Cantwell. As someone who follows Norwich I can tell you he was a banger long before he turned up at Ibrox. As I say, this is the same outcome he's had at EVERY club he's ever played for.
24 Jul 2024 23:49:16
Called it when he joined from Norwich, but said at the time I hoped I was wrong. I've seen this movie before with him. Same issues that saw him leave Carrow Road and Bournemouth then decline their option.
Waste of talent. His mentality will never let him fulfil his potential.
06 Feb 2025 13:22:44
Kelly
Tavernier
Jefte
Souttar
Nsiala
Raskin
Diomande
Cerny
Igamane
Hagi
Dessers
Butland
Sterling (50/ 50 on him or Tav)
Proper
Barron
Rice
Cortes
Danillo
There are some in this I'd still like to move on and others not in this I don't think deserve to be there.
I know I'll get flak for Kelly over Butland, but I genuinely don't think there's much between them on Butland's form this season. I would have no issue replacing him in the summer. This isn't me saying kelly is good, it's me saying I've seen enough of Butland giving away cheap goals, they make all his good saves fairly pointless.
24 Jan 2025 10:16:12
A top quality goalkeeper makes saves AND doesn't cost us a goal in most big games. Being capable of making good saves but always having these mistakes in you (which he does) isn't the mark of a good goalkeeper.
Butland is a decent keeper, certainly the best that we have at the moment, but he's nowhere near a high calibre keeper the likes that we've seen in the past. He's not in the same league as the keeper he came in to replace and he's nowhere near as good as the keepers on the other side of Glasgow over the 2 seasons he's been here.
We need to stop over hyping our players. We have much bigger issues than GK so he'll do for now and I doubt we'd get anywhere near what our fans think he's worth anyway if we decided to sell him, but he's a decent goalkeeper, no more, no less.
20 Jan 2025 11:30:13
Dessers is a fine back up striker. Dessers is not a main striker in a team that wants to win titles. Dessers doesn't want to be a backup striker. This equation cannot be resolved.
I like the big man. He's a good teammates (as I've said before watching him run past the likes of Lawrence and Cantwell to work for his out of position teammates), but unfortunately he misses too many chances in games where chances are not plentiful to ever be the main striker.
Is Igamane any better in this regard? Time will tell fully, but in the games he's played yes he has scored important goals from limited chances when it mattered, more often than not.
One of the biggest differences between them and us is that Kyogo in big games will score the one chance he's presented with and up to now, Dessers hasn't and doesn't look capable of ever being that guy.
I've no issue with keeping him as part of the squad and I agree he'd likely score 20 a season playing in games like yesterday spelling the main striker. But I don't think he wants that, which is fair enough, he's done nothing to make me think we should be awkward with him if he wants to play. But at the same time, he has to accept that he hasn't shown he has what we need for that to be as a main striker with us.
Good guy, decent player, good teammate, but not the answer for us as our 9 going forward.
05 Jan 2025 14:32:56
I didn't ruin it was a penalty, but I can understand why it was given.
Slightly different ask from me for you all though. Watch it again. Firstly, Diomande plays a stupid pass to give the ball away under zero pressure before Bajrami is soft in the challenge when that ball comes to him. Campbell then runs off Bajrami who he's standing beside and he just let's him go. Hagi notices and tries to get back in.
We can argue over whether it was or wasn't, but as a coach I'd be looking at what we could do to stop it getting there. Diomande is first fault, then Bajrami makes 2, then Hafi. Bajrami had e best opportunity to stop it once the ball was given away IMO but he switched off. Hagi is probably a little too high with his starting position but in his desire to get back, desire Bajrami showed zero of, he gives the ref a call to make.
Have a watch, see what you think.
05 Jan 2025 14:21:31
1 good game in 2 is about 5 times better than Bajrami, Diomande, Cortes, Propper, Dessers, Dowell and a whole host of the rest of our squad.
We're lucky to get one good game in 10 from most of them.