12 Dec 2016 15:13:19
Don't think we can get carried away with the last two results tbh. It's been encouraging to say the least to see us mix it up a bit and warbs has eventually started seeing sense with taking tav out of our defence.
I have been at both games and we have had the better of both games but we got away with an Aberdeen glaring header which should have been converted at 0-0 and also got a disallowed goal chopped off at 0-0 in the hearts game. Luck was with us both days thankfully but the margins were still closer than I would like. Especially in the Aberdeen game.
Lots of positives to take from the games garner, McKay, hodson in particular and feel we are starting to show the progress that most fans probably expected at the start of the season. Onwards and upwards from here hopefully.
12 Dec 2016 15:34:50
No Rangers fan is getting carried away with the two results. There is a difference between being carried away and being glad your team has actually started to click, and against two of the most difficult teams in the league (apart from them) .
Have heard a lot of this mix it up, plan B stuff. He's moved Tavernier into midfield against Hearts and Miller into midfield against Aberdeen.
Windass, Rossiter, Crooks, Kranjcar all have acquired some sort of injury which made the rotation a must.
But he hasn't changed his system or moved to a plan B. He's moved players into different positions and still played 4-3-3. And it has worked.
A glaring header Aberdeen missed. Forrester missed an absolute sitter against Aberdeen and we could have had five or six against Hearts.
We played well on the day. Both games. We also had a goal chopped off against Hearts and had a chance headered off the line. Every team gets their fair share of fortune throughout a season.
12 Dec 2016 15:37:39
You need a bit of luck in football. It's starting to go our way now, how many times have we been "unlucky" if it wasn't for those "unlucky" games we'd be ahead of Celtic. We played very well the past 2 games and fully deserved the 6 points. The main thing now is continuing that over the next 3 games before we play Celtic.
12 Dec 2016 16:03:08
thorn the tactics and formation are not the same and we did show a change of tactics with trying long balls coming fron Wilson a lot and kicked the ball up the park at times.
I do agree with you thorn we where deserved winners and yes other teams will have chances that doesn't mean we rode our luck even in most of the games we have drew this season we have had loads more chances than the opposing team.
chances mean nothing unless converted.
I hope this can be the confidence boost the team needs and gets the doubters to stay quiet for a while.
12 Dec 2016 16:53:45
We played both teams off the park, what not to celebrate?
12 Dec 2016 16:54:46
Agree James.
But TBH Wilson is one of the few who will do that almost every game anyway, whether it's a tactic or not, not too sure.
But I agree the long ball works, only with Garner up top though. No striker like him in the league.
The Ross County home game was one of the most one sided games this season and it finished 0-0. So yes, need to convert chances and the were converted the last two games.
Think we all doubt the team after a game unless it's anything other than a convincing win though mate.
Some fans just think, "we're back in the top flight, we must be top of the top flight". Isn't as simple as that and think most fans are starting to grasp that fact.
12 Dec 2016 21:21:44
Don't think anybody expected to be top thorn mate. Think we rightly deserved to expect better than we were being served up! While I still honestly don't think Warburton the man to take us forward the fact he's at least mixed it up a bit last 2 games has done him no harm with the support so he deserves some credit for that! Happy we at last look in a better place hope we can go on the wee run the fans deserve it's been a hard slog to get to here.
13 Dec 2016 14:21:27
Agreed, bigblue Ayr.
And your right fans expected better from the team at this point and to be a little closer to the top.
But what we couldn't predict was an entire midfield being injured, Barton being Barton, Senderos playing about two games since he joined, Hill being the best signing of the lot, Hill and Garner the only players who start regularly that weren't here last season and essentially playing most games with the team that won us the championship.
It's a hard slog but I think most expected the last two games to go the other way or draws at most.
MW has given the support belief again thanks to a couple of important results.
Add consistent performances and a good January window. That should give us strong foundations to go confidently into next season.
13 Dec 2016 19:25:22
Onlyshow by your logic if u wernt "unlucky u would be ahead of Celtic".
After I stopped laffing do u even realise we have only dropped 2 points which would meanif you wernt unlucky u would need to have won EVERY game.
I don't think even the most ardent Rangers supporter would agree u deserved to have won every game if wasn't for bad luck.
13 Dec 2016 19:45:06
Missed chances are part of football but if your counting we could have scored 10 against Hertz on Saturday!
13 Dec 2016 20:02:49
I don't know how we could be lucky that they scored an offside goal.
14 Dec 2016 09:31:27
Rayman, at the time of me writing that comment Celtic were on 40 points and Rangers 32. What I was referring to when I said games we've been unlucky are the 5 we have drawn and the Aberdeen game that we lost. 4 of the drawn games we were unlucky not to have won, however scrappy they may have been. The Aberdeen game we should have walked away with a point, possibly all 3 if the referee done his job right. if "luck" had been on our side we would be on 41 points, ahead of Celtic. Again, in football you need luck.
14 Dec 2016 20:30:58
Got to disagree only show, we've not played anywhere near well enough for that! Where we should be right now no way we've played well enough to win all our games a couple of those draws could easily have been defeats n we clung on at Dundee after a great first 45 mins they pumped us 2nd half! Good going to be 2nd when we've not really been at it hopefully kick on n gee tims a game at ibrox.
14 Dec 2016 20:22:46
Thorn76,both your above posts are spot on mate and i've been saying pretty much the same as yourself, continually for weeks now. We have far too many tunnel visioned fans, who think its either black or white and never care to look at the in between!
Especially what our full football club has come through over the last 4 years you would think they'd understand but no, not them, they think we should just flick a switch and we'll be back to the pinnacle of scottish football! Wish it did but my message to them is get real, it doesn't work like that! Show a little patience and understanding to the TOTAL rebuilding job of our institution and what its going to take! Its the same on here for example with young barrie mckay. He's this, he's that etc! He needed to be dropped as he'd lost form for god's sake, that's all, it happens to every player!
He's still only 21 years old and young players are inconsistent, especially wingers in my experience of watching over the years. Barrie mckay imo can be anything he wants to be in football. He has absolutely all the talent in the world to go to the very top in football. He doesn't realise how talented and how good he actually is! The only thing that can stop young mckay reaching the top in football is barrie mckay himself (confidence in himself, because he possesses all the talent in the world)!
Its frightening to think, that mckay is still 7 years away from in footballing terms, his peak years! Some of our fans are needing to deeply think about these sort of things, instead of wanting to maul a young player of ours who only lost form. The same when they maul our club and manager as well! Yes form is temporary and class is permanent and i've certainly no doubt that young barrie mckay is CLASS!
15 Dec 2016 12:00:02
Have you ever thought of writing a romantic novel starring you and Barry McKay. with maybe a guest appearence from MOH?