Rangers Banter Archive December 23 2016

23 Dec 2016 21:34:13
Correct me if i'm wrong here. But can anyone remember another early kick off game on a saturday that's no been shown on either bt or sky sports. I know there's a split when it comes to games shown etc but i'm no sure I've seen rangers and them kick off the same time on a Saturday and us no being on the tele.

23 Dec 2016 22:19:34
Stream it mate.

23 Dec 2016 22:25:27
You got a stream?

23 Dec 2016 22:41:56
Vipleague. mobi

It usually streams the Rangers TV coverage.

23 Dec 2016 22:47:26
Sometimes it's a great stream, other times its pish but it's usually on.

24 Dec 2016 08:44:04
The game was originally going to be played at 3pm but both clubs asked to play early so fans can get home early for Christmas.

24 Dec 2016 10:09:58
If you have kodi frontrowsports. eu are normally reliable. Link is already up here's hoping it's a good one.

24 Dec 2016 11:16:27
Mamahd also pretty reliable.

23 Dec 2016 11:20:12
Although a lot is being said about signing defenders or midfield players, our goalscoring record isn't exactly great. We have Waghorn, Garner, Miller and Dodoo but still don't score many goals. Surely goalscoring has to also be a priority. I still say bring young Hardie back into the fold and play him with Garner up front in a 4-4-2 format. I'd love Jota to sign and a midfield with Jota, Rossiter, Holt and Windass sounds exciting!

23 Dec 2016 12:56:02
Doiger, scoring goals is the main priority but Hardie has only managed 3 in 15 this season with a team in a lower division so I don't see how he will be the difference?

Waghorn, who hasn't featured 12 times has scored 3 and a further 7 in 5 league cup appearances.

Your midfield selection looks good though. 👍.

23 Dec 2016 13:08:48
Fair point Rafbob about Hardie but again he is playing with players who are, with all respect, of a lower grade than Premier League players so will create fewer chances. As for Waggy, yes I hope his return with 2 goals last week will see him return to the goalscoring form of last season.

23 Dec 2016 13:17:13
Don't get me wrong, I hope the lad does well on loan and returns to us closer to the finished product but he should surely have a few more even with the standard of service?

Waghorn looked promising in that last game, hopefully he can come on to some long running form and continue from that performance.

23 Dec 2016 13:57:12
Hardies been playing as a left winger for St mirren a few times.

24 Dec 2016 08:22:15
Our defence always gets mentioned we'll look at the league stats we have conceded 18 goals in 18 game second fewest in league we had a terrible start to season at the back 5 of those goals were in one game against Celtic so our defence has started to play a lot better but if you look at our scoring record we have scored 22 goals fewer than Celtic and they have a game in hand so you don't have to be a rocket scientist to see where our problems are we need to start taking our chances need more goals from midfield but all in all we just need more goals.

24 Dec 2016 07:27:00
Point is most fans would have loved to have seen hardie get a proper chance, particularly last season in championship- as I said at time if not then, when?

24 Dec 2016 11:39:15
Maybe atakayi will get a chances this year.

23 Dec 2016 09:54:39
A few guys are right the 2 fullbacks don't help our centre halfs at all? Hodson has made a massive difference and knows how to defend! It really makes the Kieran and Wilson look silly as they have so much covering to do?

23 Dec 2016 11:27:50
Hodson has to stay in the team. He's a solid defender and also decent going forward. Tavernier is never a rb in a million years.

23 Dec 2016 13:57:35
He is a right back just an attacking one.

23 Dec 2016 14:13:29
Wallace generally escapes criticism but he is equally week defensively and gets drawn into the middle far too often. We need quality full backs, players in the mould of Caldow, Shearer, Jardine, Gary Stevens, Robinson, Porini etc., both Tavernier and Hodson are decent full backs but they are not in the same class as the aforementioned.

Wallace for me is not being challenged because we have no alternative at left back.

24 Dec 2016 09:20:37
TOMUSA

Who was Robinson?

23 Dec 2016 09:32:05
I'm no football scout and I don't play FIFA or football manager so don't have an in depth knowledge of what players are out there and are within Rangers budget but I think we should target the following areas:

1. Attacking midfielder
2. Defensive midfielder
3. Central defender

Any suggestions for these areas who could do a job, understand what playing for Rangers is all about and can hit the ground running?

23 Dec 2016 09:59:44
Henry Lansbury - good attacking midfielder and has a bit of bite about him

Ryan Tunnicliffe - CDM with a similar mild to rossiter (Think we'll be fine if Rossiter can stay fit! )

Sol Bamba - Looks like he's on the way out of his club, he's big and robust and scores goals from set pieces.

23 Dec 2016 10:15:19
Lansbury from Forrest, agree he would be ideal. Is he a realistic target for us? How much would he cost?
What about Conor Hourihane? I read we were after him, is he any good?

Totally forgot about Rossiter (understandably) when is he due to be first team fit?

23 Dec 2016 10:41:09
Lansbury is yet to sign a contract extension so would be available on a pre.

Hourihane would be good but he tends to play deeper if we're after an attacking midfielder. Going to have to beat celtic to him as well.

Who knows with Rossiter, could be a few weeks, could be a few months!

Think we might nab a few big signings on pre contracts, a free transfer in Jota and maybe a couple of loans in January.

23 Dec 2016 11:02:41
he was due back in the team 5 weeks ago and 3 weeks ago and now nobody knows.

23 Dec 2016 18:07:02
John souttar.

24 Dec 2016 06:53:53
Do you not think having only scored 25 goals in 18 league games that we need a striker?