Rangers Banter Archive January 20 2020

20 Jan 2020 20:55:56
{Ed's Note - Ed001 has posted a new podcast entitled, Ask The Ed

20 Jan 2020 22:13:52
Ed001, thanks for posting, very interesting even although although most of the questions came from the English club sites. Interested in your comment about SG’s pathway to being considered as genuine contender for position of Liverpool manager. On subject of forum sites can you tell us relative size (posters and posts) of the English club sites compared to Scottish. Would be curious to see relative side.

Thanks again Ed.

{Ed001's Note - there is not a lot of difference between size of sites, in terms of numbers of posters and traffic. Liverpool is the busiest and always has been but Rangers and Celtic regularly will be second busiest. With the other sites it depends on how the month has gone. Interestingly sites tend to get busiest when a team is doing badly rather than going well!}

21 Jan 2020 09:14:00
In that case the Tims site must've had more custom than the Christmas rush at Marks and Spencer!

21 Jan 2020 13:52:42
Brilliant coi 👍😂.

20 Jan 2020 16:00:15
Definitely think we should be signing Shankland. He is desperate to play for us. The DR are trying to tout him for celtic and according to the DR they have been scouting him. He is worth a punt and would not cost a lot. He looks a typical cheeky confident striker and has a good work rate and score tally - what's not to like?

20 Jan 2020 18:06:55
I wouldn’t like giving his club a brown penny, that’s all so no thanks.

Don’t doubt he might do a turn, like that he’s a bluenose etc but wouldn’t chuck Utd ten bob in the street let alone furnish them with in excess of a million or two.

20 Jan 2020 18:22:38
I don't doubt shankland is desperate to sign for us but he'd be 3rd choice striker. He's apparently got a £2m price tag (mad) why aren't More teams trying to sign him? I personally think we can do better than him come the summer.

20 Jan 2020 18:39:18
His lack of energy, his lack of pace, his failure to produce at any level higher than he is currently at - and imagine a Gers fan quoting a Rhecord article as a source for anything! Grow some ambition for the team, Shankland is just another name like Walker and Moult that people are getting hysterical about for no reason. I know we have officially scouted him 4 times and not once was a recommendation made. That's fine by me.

20 Jan 2020 19:18:02
Shankland has done far more than Moult or Walker ever did. Remember guys like Boyd and Dodds? Just out and out scorers but they did us a job in Scotland.

20 Jan 2020 19:36:52
No he's not swagman. Out of all his 100 and how ever many goals only 2 are v top flight opposition.

20 Jan 2020 20:30:24
Shankland is developing as a player as his stats prove.
If you look at Morelos stats before Rangers they do not show much, but he developed.

He was with Aberdeen as a teenager and was loaned to St Mirren, but did not do much at either club and was freed.

Going to Ayr Utd was the making of him, scoring 50 goals in two seasons, and 22 so far for Dundee Utd

If the lower divisions were so easy then it should be a goal fest for strikers.

Kenny Miller rates him as does Neil McCann - they know him better than any of us.

We all have to start somewhere. And we all develop at different speeds. If I remember correctly Ian Wright did not play in the top flight until he was 25, when Crystal Palace took a gamble on him, and then Arsenal and the rest is history.

20 Jan 2020 21:05:52
Don't show much? Scored 32 in 47 games after moving over 6000 miles at the age of twenty to develop his career. We were too good for moult two years ago and the team is a million times stronger than then but moult scored goals consistently in the top flight. So I don't see Shankland as any better or having done more. Didn't get offered/ move to scottish prem when leaving Ayr which means either he didn't have an offer or chased a wage to go to scumdee United. Either example isn't a plus point for someone we would want to sign.

20 Jan 2020 22:08:42
and Shankland has scored more goals

I doubt any poster on here has saw much of Shankland unless they are Ayr Utd or Dundee Utd supporters, which I doubt very much. So the only thing we can factually state is the number of goals a striker has scored. ALL players who develop positively go up the leagues - that is fact.

Transfermkt state he is worth £400 (k) - which is worth a gamble.

20 Jan 2020 23:14:53
Morelos stats were amazing before he came to us.

20 Jan 2020 23:24:48
SeeUjimmy, the old Wright fantasy trotted out again. He was actually 22. And he was one in a million, Shankland is not. Morelos already was banging in the goals at a higher level as a teenager before we got him. And McCann and Miller have great track records as managers, eh? I know we have done our due diligence on Shankland and four times the verdict from the scouts was No. If he is good enough for us, where are the big money English clubs in the hunt for him? Still, if that's your level of ambition, you should be glad our brilliant management team will surpass that.

20 Jan 2020 23:31:58
The Swagman, Boyd and Dodds were good strikers in the top league when we signed them. Indeed Dodds was an established international. Ridiculous comparison.

21 Jan 2020 07:01:44
Have to laugh at some of our fans 1 minute Alfie is worth 20 to 25 million yet we want to replace him potentially with Lawrence Shankland so we want mega money for our top striker but fans are desperate to sign a player from Championship absolutely terrifying.

21 Jan 2020 08:04:22
Covenater?

Keegan?

Vardy?

21 Jan 2020 10:54:33
Paul86 - genuinely have no idea what goes on in your head while watching football. The boy scores goals. The difference in level between the top two leagues, Old Firm aside, isn’t that much. Now if you are saying we should be aiming higher, fine I can see that point (though personally I think he’s a decent low risk gamble as a back up) . But how you can sit and question Shankland while bigging Martin Boyle up like he’s the second coming of Ronaldinho is beyond me 😂.

21 Jan 2020 11:28:59
See u Jimmy. Kenny miller rated Ryan Hardie.

21 Jan 2020 11:51:46
John 25 lol - and Sounness did not rate McCoist!

21 Jan 2020 13:03:44
Good shout jimmy, the lad does not interest me however, if we sign him I’ll support him.

21 Jan 2020 17:00:03
It kinda worries me that he is now 25 and has had a crack at the top flight before without success. That said, he has been impressive in the Championship and scored a good goal v Hibs when he had little or no service all game. The honest reply from me is I don't know how he would do. Is he worth a punt? Probably not as that shower he is with will want too much from us for him. And it would pain me to see them pick up any money at all for the lad.

20 Jan 2020 08:19:47
Rangers have been served with a notice of complaint because it is Monday!

20 Jan 2020 10:18:49
won't be delivered till just before kick off Wednesday! or until liewell gives the nod.

20 Jan 2020 10:42:25
😂😂😂.

20 Jan 2020 10:56:44
On a completely different topic
Does anyone know what date the POTY awards are this year and where they are being held.

20 Jan 2020 11:50:12
POTY awards are being held on St Patrick’s day at the Piggery, hosted by Sutton and Hartson!
Panel to pick the ‘best’ in each category are Stewart, Liewell, Boyd and McNamara! 😂.

20 Jan 2020 12:26:18
The snp are also holding indyREF 2 for referee of the year on that day.

20 Jan 2020 12:27:47
Rangers have been ordered to never celebrate a goal or winning a match again! as this can been deemed dangerous behaviour towards the sour face opposition fans that can't accept it!

20 Jan 2020 13:22:24
Mr pacman. , you beat me to it mate, also should add no player from rangers fc are invited to attend unless the wear there beads.

20 Jan 2020 13:30:43
Apparently it isn’t a ‘fix’ but Scott Brown is a cert for Young Player if the Year.
And Leigh Griffiths for Inspiration if the Year Award! 🤪.

20 Jan 2020 13:32:20
Good to see the patter back on the Gers site😀🇬🇧.

20 Jan 2020 13:39:45
Guys it all about Rangers. Why do u focus so much on them.

20 Jan 2020 13:51:53
John25, i have just notice we are as bad as them. We just can't stop talking about the MIGHTY GLASGOW RANGERS.

20 Jan 2020 14:00:45
Lol howauld.

20 Jan 2020 14:08:30
Howauld, We’re all guilty of that thankfully.

20 Jan 2020 14:26:13
The life time achievement award goes to Kevin Clancy as I've never seen a worse refereeing performance in my lifetime!

20 Jan 2020 23:23:11
I must say imagine the uproar if Andy Halliday flew the Union Jack amongst the bears at the piggery . Their player flys Irish flag at Ibrox and not one mention . it’s a farce . All we can do is win the league and leave the joke on them.

19 Jan 2020 23:34:10
Really think we need another winger in this window, Barker, ojo and co have shown on many occasions so far that they are not good enough even as a back up, think Martin Boyle at hivs could be worth a punt if he could stay fit.

20 Jan 2020 06:27:42
I think hibs wide man martin boyle is a decent shout and a good player mate. I don't wear this when some on here said he wasn't good enough for us! How do we know that, as under gerrard he might go to an even higher level of performance. Ryan jack and glen kamara, say no more.

20 Jan 2020 06:46:31
I think Boyle would be a good addition. Crazy how much he's came on since his days playing at montrose.

20 Jan 2020 19:04:53
Boyle is no better than we have. Another player who would be punted out on loan after 6 months.