Rangers Banter Archive March 18 2019

18 Mar 2019 19:04:20
Oh my, I have taken my time before posting anything over the past few days, as all I have read is Gerard is no good, and Morelos is petulant.

We really ALL need a reality check - Gerard IS the man for the job, and Morelos IS petulant when PROVOKED!

SG signed a three year deal and IMHO is doing a good job, having to come in and build a completely new team.

Rangers like every other team in our league go out each week and ply their trade hoping that every game is a win, but it is not a given, it must be earned. We are in second place, 8 points above Aberdeen.

It is unfortunate that teams, like Aberdeen, Hibs, Celtic and now Kilmarnock, play against us as though their very lives depend upon it, but that is life and we must use that as our motivation.

Morelos is a marvellous player and sadly we may never see the best of him until he goes down south, and is played in a partnership up front. Other managers now use his petulance against him and target him, they will never admit to this but we ALL know that this is the truth. It is up to him how he deals with this and the referees job to protect him.

It is now obvious to everyone that we need a strong, solid, robust CB - Gough would do very well, so he would, but he is long gone, and Katic says he is being mentored by him, but now is the time to bring back young McCrorie, our future captain, IMHO, and let him build his future and ours together with him being the motivator and focal point at the back.

The money we get from Morelos in the summer should be used to bring in a top class striker.

Finally, I do not see OUR Rangers future as being dismal and bleak but see it as a challenge, a challenge that WE ALL should embrace and look forward to not with trepidation but with desire and pride - The BBC, the media, and most premiership teams want us to fail, but we ALL know that we will NEVER SURRENDER!

God Bless.

18 Mar 2019 19:23:04
Good post true blue! For the record mate, steven gerrard signed a 4 year deal, as rangers manager, back in may last year.

18 Mar 2019 19:25:57
Mcrorie is NEVER a centre hslf mate, change the record. He's a holding midfielder sll day long.

18 Mar 2019 20:18:03
At best he may be able to play in a back 3, but not as a pair.

18 Mar 2019 20:20:01
Stevie g needs to up his game 👍.

18 Mar 2019 20:25:09
Frustrated - All about opinions

You stay frustrated and I will stay positive.

18 Mar 2019 21:37:16
You do Coldo much much more than Stevie does.

18 Mar 2019 22:04:21
Not really sure how to respond to that molsgoals 😂👍.

18 Mar 2019 22:15:34
I agree with the need for a strong dominant CB but mccrorie isn't the answer. Katic is young and still learning but given time and patience could be a strong CB. Possible part of a back 3. Him goldson and strong dominant CB in between them. Like gough or butcher type. Would have mccrorie, kamara and jack as a central midfield 3 just leaves wingers and strike options.

18 Mar 2019 22:30:04
Coldo, you sure you are not from the dark side and are one of the unwashed. You sure sound like. Get a grip and get behind your team and the manager.

19 Mar 2019 00:09:09
Typical response doiger👍.

19 Mar 2019 00:33:35
When you've even got gerrard just in the door saying his career could have been ruined by playing him at cb true blue, that will do for me.

19 Mar 2019 15:54:01
And they say paranoia is a Celtic disease.

19 Mar 2019 16:00:18
What are all the thumbs about Coldo.
Every post has a thumb in it are you really Leigh Griffiths. 👍👍👍👍👍👍.

19 Mar 2019 18:29:08
If Coop can have his commas, I can have my 👍😉👍.

19 Mar 2019 22:38:45
Coldo, you are most definitely obsessed with me pal! If you or anyone else on here thinks different, you just need to check how many times you actually mention me on here. You're infatuated mate, no getting away from it.

20 Mar 2019 00:15:52
It was actually just a bit of fun coop. To be fair a lot of people mention you👍.

18 Mar 2019 18:18:30
Was reading today that nikola katic is being mentored by our legendary 9 in a row centre half, big richard (the Lionheart) gough. If katic can become a quarter of the defender big goughie was, that will do for me. I just wonder with the over inflated transfer fees of the present, what big gough's transfer fee would be today? Fellow bears what do you reckon gough's value would be in the transfer market of today? What a centre half he was! IMHO he was the greatest rangers centre half, i've seen, in my 40 odd years of going to watch rangers. He just shades our greatest centre half, over big terry butcher, for me guys. I remember the famous juventus manager marcello lippi saying after we played juventus, that he would love to have gough at juve. They actually were interested in him and spoke to rangers, but gough didn't want to go to italian football, at the time.

18 Mar 2019 18:34:40
Coop, i remember Juventus mentioning an interest in Gough. I think it was his allegedly dark interests at the time that stopped that move.

18 Mar 2019 18:46:24
Aw well, we can right off katic👍.

18 Mar 2019 19:26:58
😂😂😂.

18 Mar 2019 22:18:08
I personally liked butcher better. Both would probably be rated same as john terry in his prime.

19 Mar 2019 06:11:06
All about opinions bellshilllad83.
Both richard gough and terry butcher were fantastic centre halfs and there's not much between them, but for me goughie just shades it.

18 Mar 2019 14:30:42
Guys, I wasn't having a go at Alfie in my post about a potential ban, I was saying that his is the incident that the photograph depicts, not Broadfoot. I agree that their will probably be nothing in it, but, he takes the shine off his other work by his petulance, don't forget though it's anything up here to shaft us.

18 Mar 2019 15:07:36
Morelos is a target man now. I've watched plenty of games when I've seen a rash tackle then no card, then i think if that was Morelos he would be carded. I realise he doesn't help himself though.

18 Mar 2019 16:12:58
If any action is to be taken it will be against Broadfoot, a player we had for a while as well.

18 Mar 2019 16:52:30
No action should or will be taken. On subject of Morelos hearing he blames and holds referees responsible for his extremely poor disciplinary record. What a pity he can’t accept responsibility for his own actions.

18 Mar 2019 17:46:31
If anyone stood on my achiles they'd have a sore face, I'm sure most of you would do the same, being a pro-footballer we'd all act differently but pushing the idiot away is imo a minimal reaction.

19 Mar 2019 00:36:05
He has to rise above it. The reason folk end him up is because he's certain to react.

19 Mar 2019 08:14:52
For broadfoot to be a ex gers man, he certainly tries his best to hide it.

Last year he got Jack sent off standing on his toes.

Not his first incident either.

18 Mar 2019 11:51:21
Lots of people slagging stats regarding improvement. Finishing 2nd and Europa League are improvements. If we had won the league cup and finish 3rd or 4th is that an improvement? 9 million for 1 player to beat Dundee 1-0 win league and then 4 qualifiying rounds. Times have changed.

Wait until next year.

18 Mar 2019 12:25:48
20 million rated player to draw 1.1 with hibs, lose 2.0 to Aberdeen draw 1.1 with the bunnets. he shall not be there next season.
no silverware again. Times have changed

wait until next year.

18 Mar 2019 17:51:10
Lance mate. Thanks for coming over for a chat. I do love how instead of saying a 1 million pound player to draw with Hibs you say a 20 million rated player. He has scored more than your 9 million man. You and I both know Lawell ain't spending feck all next season in case its Europa league again.

Happy to wait and see.

18 Mar 2019 08:28:17
Looking at the ET this morning, it looks like Alfie will more than likely get a ban for the Broadfoot incident which will see him miss the Celtic game. I don't think he will ever change which is sad because it takes away from the skill he has. The battle for second place is well and truly on, do we have the bottle to win enough points to stay in second, what do you think folks?

18 Mar 2019 08:44:59
Good post irvger. I am beginning to wonder is team has the bottle to stay in 2nd place. For me, the team for the next Old Firm game should be:

McGregor; Tavernier, Katic, Worrall, Barisic; Arfield, Jack, Halliday, Kent; Morelos, Lafferty.

Halliday and Lafferty will give their all against them. We need to restore pride. We won't win the league now anyway but we don't want to end up 20 points behind them.

18 Mar 2019 10:28:54
a ban for what? pushing him in the chest? get a grip there's nothing in it.

18 Mar 2019 14:04:32
Why should he be criticised for pushing that idiot when he clearly raked his studs down the back of his leg? Get a grip.

18 Mar 2019 16:07:08
Doubt it this time irv, plain for all to see that broadfoot deliberately snagged Morelos's heel and it's he who could face disciplinary action.

18 Mar 2019 16:09:18
A ban all day long. Can't do that in any game and Morelos is just a walking time bomb. He will never curb his attitude or his violent temper. If you can't see that then you shouldn't follow football.

18 Mar 2019 17:20:20
One would hope the manager has more than one eye on next season
So we have already got Jones and Camara and it sounds like Davis will be back next season and our loanees
To come, back and the buffalo future
Could drag on all summer that is the
One player we will have real difficulty replacing.