Rangers Banter Archive December 26 2018

26 Dec 2018 22:48:14
I’m getting fed up of the keyboard coaches on Facebook and there are a few on here as well. Slating the players for not being good enough yet failing to realise that we do not have the budget to sign better players. Ask yourself honestly how many of our players would get into celtics side? Then ask yourself honestly how many of their best XI could we afford to buy and not their wages?

The biggest problem with our football club is the level of expectation. There is no problem with the effort of the players or the management we simply expect them to be better than they are. Our support needs a reality check. Until we can compete with Celtic off the park we can’t match them on it. Like it or lump it, we need to be realistic and get behind the players we have who in my opinion have exceeded realistic expectations so far this season.

26 Dec 2018 23:11:29
So your saying we need to spend millions to beat the likes of Hibs, Aberdeen, Kilmarnock, Dundee, Livingstone? Reality check is, we have far more money than any of those clubs and they are taking points from us regularly, another thing it should not be above our club and our clubs supporters expectations to beat such teams.

With the budget we have it's embarrassing to be getting so many poor results regardless of how far behind THEM we are, we have only played them once, it's other teams that have done the damage to us, teams with a fraction of our budget. So when you say get a reality check, practice what you preach because we are a poor side and that's because we have some poor players and a rookie manager. We can't keep changing managers and i don't want us to but we need to get more out of these players, they are getting Rangers wages but not producing Rangers quality.

26 Dec 2018 23:12:28
Fans are just expressing their opinions as every fan from ever team does both good and bad.

26 Dec 2018 23:21:16
It's the sense of entitlement "The People" have. Great stuff.

26 Dec 2018 23:33:35
I guess that comes with being the worlds most successful club.

27 Dec 2018 10:49:11
". the worlds most successful club. "

Could we give this a break. It's getting embarrassing and makes us look like idiots.

In all my travels, I've never met anyone apart from us who cares about it or believes we are more successful than Real Madrid.

28 Dec 2018 11:27:23
Jordy, you are spot on there mate .

I cannot think on a solution under our circumstances to get us going properly. As I said on a previous post (that I got hammered for) we are slipping back into the poor defending pre Stevie era.

How many times already this season have we been in front only to end up with a draw in the last 30 mins or so?

26 Dec 2018 22:43:07
Did we not learn from Aberdeen not to make subs so late. Get them on at 60 70 mins. Coulaby was done. At least if we go behind we have plenty of time to come back. The squad are running on empty and the Celtic game is one to far. Pretty much all of celtics attacking players are in form and we're down to a exhausted skeleton squad. It could be an uncomfortable afternoon for us. let's hope our medical team work some magic over the next few days and we get a bit of luck.

26 Dec 2018 20:47:45
Its tough to watch this at times brothers . We look a bit lost and tired. Hope we have the heart to get right into this mob Saturday. I feel we have the legs, let's not lose faith bears. That mob today were as good as we come up against without giving the ginger fanny credit. 3-1 against the people and make men of this mob. We show up and beat them it's 55.

26 Dec 2018 23:23:38
Going to be a bad head in the morning for Nose Blue.

26 Dec 2018 19:52:34
Wright if we do not play lafferty and morales on Saturday and play a 4-4-2 we will get hammered and for Goldson coming on in the second half limping that was a joke.

26 Dec 2018 20:12:13
We played morelos and lafferty together at celtic park in the first league game and it was a very comfortable 1-0 win for them! We must make it very difficult for them in midfield, to play through us! If we open up in this game or go light in midfield, we will get done in, simple as that!

26 Dec 2018 21:13:08
I've read all the previous posts, some saying we are no better than last year. The league is more open this year with Celtic slipping up. let's be positive, we can win this league, we better as I've got 9/1.

26 Dec 2018 22:01:32
supercoop we can not just flood midfield and sit in against them it is so frustrating to watch and is not getting us results as we are currently doing this every game.
Things have to chance so why not give them something to think about and have a go at them Celtic ain't Barcelona there defence can be got at bout time we had a go least fans will appreciate us giving a go.

26 Dec 2018 22:31:40
Tbh the leauges is close cause celtic been poor need more than loan players from clubs that they have no chance of ever playing for in first place we can't compete with even smaller clubs in England for a decent loan player.

27 Dec 2018 08:16:08
Craigs8688,if we don't least match their personel count in midfield, we'll get over run in there, simple as that! They've got a much stronger midfield than ours at present and we have to nulify that. If we go open and leave spaces in there, they will pound us. We have to compensate and i believe we have to have more bodies in midfield, thus closing down the space at every turn! We have to keep ourselves in the game, frustrate them and then maybe have a chance of getting the 3 points!

26 Dec 2018 19:31:47
Has the time come for Pena to be given a chance seen as we can't create anything? Also, how long are we as fans going to continue to use the excuse of "where we've came from".

26 Dec 2018 19:53:16
I think he should be given a chance.

26 Dec 2018 20:37:27
Don't think he should be back near a rangers shirt, I'll be disgusted if he is. wiping his nose on our crest is sometching I won't forgive. Remember the outrage when griffiths done it? This guy was our own player and did it, between that and his drunken antics out on loan we should have sacked him, pretty sure we had grounds.

26 Dec 2018 18:25:33
In the last 16 games our form is W6 D6 L4 that is terrible 24 points from 48. We ate all kidding ourselves if we think we will win the league and SG needs to get better himself as well as the players, it's already torrid watching us I just hope it doesn't get worse.

26 Dec 2018 18:39:40
The last 2 months have been really bad to watch but that's part of being a fan been there when its good and bad times.
For me its like the players just are not performing for gerrard or its his defensive minded tactics that are effecting our players.
We need get more support for morelos am positive if we tain a more attacking approach to our games you would find that points tally above would have been a lot better and players would be be playing with confidence not fear like they are now.

26 Dec 2018 18:45:41
I'm another frustrated bear tonight,
just like the majority of you, after watching our laboured performance against hibs at ibrox today. A game is always won or lost, dependant on who dominates the midfield area. We had 3 defensive midfielders playing in our midfield today, ie. jack who's our best defensive midfielder,
mccrorie and coulibaly, who should be dropped as he's offering nothing and has been like that for weeks now. We have no creativity in our midfield and apart from possibly playing 2 defensive midfielders against celtic
ie. jack and mccrorie, we should only be playing 1 defensive midfielder, against all the other teams! There's absolutely no need whatsoever, to legislate, playing 3 defensive midfielders in a game against hibs. We need different styled mids not all the same type! Hope arfield is fit for saturday, its a must!

26 Dec 2018 18:57:08
Jordy, we could have 1 point from our last 48 but we’re still only 3 points off the top with a massive game on Saturday! I know it’s frustrating but let’s get the win on saturday then add a few attacking players in January!
I wouldn’t be going to Ibrox or reading this site if I didn’t think we could win the league!

26 Dec 2018 19:03:21
Totally agree Supercoop. Our midfield, with the exception of Ryan Jack, is just not good enough. Jack has been fantastic, and in my opinion, should be our captain. We have no creativity going forward. We have no one who can thread a pass through the opposition defence. We have no one prepared to shoot from distance.

26 Dec 2018 19:10:10
Once again the delivery into the box from Candeias and Tavernier was shocking. As you say Supercooper 3 defensive midfielders is unacceptable at home to Hibs. Another laboured performance against a team who were there for the taking. Play as badly as that on Saturday and it will be another doing.

26 Dec 2018 19:53:54
Thought Hibs deserved their point today - they played well second half. A number of disappointing points about us, some already mentioned - first 4 crosses went directly out the park, Rangers corners - Hibs leave 2 up on half way line, Hibs corner - Rangers have no-one near the half way line. But the one thing that got me was the lack of urgency when Hibs scored. No one ran for the ball, all heads went down, no drive. I understand the disappointment amongst the players but there was still at least 6 minutes left. Once we kicked off - only McGregor looked really up for the fight.

26 Dec 2018 19:54:15
If you look at most teams who play this formation the have people who score from the wings there centre mids chip in with goals.
currently our players are not chipping in with goals that's why we are struggling hopefully this can be sorted in jan with few new additions
Would fellow fans take out our current wingers if we could find ones that score goals.

26 Dec 2018 19:56:47
Nice to know your just a glory hunter 87. Everyone of us want to win the league, but I wouldn't stop supporting my team if I don't think they could.

26 Dec 2018 21:00:17
If anyone thinks we can win the league they are completely deluded. I feel like I’m having one of those dreams where you can’t find your voice. How many of our players would get in their side? Two, maybe three. I’m sick of saying it but until we can close the financial gap we have little chance of closing the gap on the park but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t get behind the players we have.

26 Dec 2018 22:46:05
Your right Jordy most of us are kidding ourselves if we think we can win the league.
Looks to me we will be 9 points behind the bhoys by Jan window. Yes I am still behind Stevie and he should be given time to get his act together. Remember last season we were in third spot second if bhoys had not helped the sheep to spite us.

That being said, opposition teams seam to have sussed us out and wait till we are knackered in the last 15 or so mins before pouncing on our hopeless defence.

26 Dec 2018 22:49:42
Gloryhunter! 😂 every home and away ground coming through the leagues, every home game since my dad bought me my first season ticket!

I ALWAYS think we can win the league, that’s what I was getting at!
Apologies if I confused your Marco.

26 Dec 2018 15:21:35
Is anybody else having problems with the live chat page during games? Just got a blank screen, even when type anything in and send it. I've contacted the page to report it but wondered if anybody else had this problem.

{Ed033's Note - There was an error with it but i think it is fixed now ( for the next game)

26 Dec 2018 22:45:01
Been same for last 2 ganes.

26 Dec 2018 17:24:59
for me our team are so disappointing they can not string a run of wins together.
I think this because of our managers negative tactics he seems to think we can defend a 1 nill lead and then hit on the counter.
we are simply not good enough to do this and he should see this but he doesn't its like he is blind to the fact and keeps playing same way its not working.
If the players there are not performing for him then its time he signed players who will or give the younger players a chance hibs have done it and it ain't made them worse.
Our midfield is that poor we may as well miss them out and go 2 strikers and give morelos some support warburton Pedro murty now gerrard have all played this formation its not working.

26 Dec 2018 17:22:46
why is live chat not working?

{Ed033's Note - i've may have fixed it now, thanks.

26 Dec 2018 17:16:20
sick of our players failing to take chances despite lots of posession. . seems like every keeper plays out of their skin and we continue to drop points. gutted AGAIN.

26 Dec 2018 17:20:47
We didn’t deserve anything more than a draw and tbh I didn’t think their keeper made any saves he shouldn’t have made. We were awful today again.

26 Dec 2018 17:13:20
came to the conclusion gerrard is an absolute dumpling, takes middleton and cpulibally off and brings on rossiter and lafferty, what was the purpose could easily have seen the game out with six minutes to go, don't want to be a jonah lads but there is no way he will win us the league with decisions like that, and a final note get shot of tav in january that guy should hang his head in shame after that performance today.

26 Dec 2018 17:22:20
Truebluesotrue, . are you awright son? Bit disappointed r u? Gerrard is a dumpling? . Sit doon and eat your selection boxes. do u actually know anything about football or do u just spout nonsense as a pastime?

26 Dec 2018 17:43:14
aye dutchy see who spouts nonsense after saturday if we get pumped playing the same team as today, still say stevie boy is naive when it comes to making changes

26 Dec 2018 18:11:01
I agree truebluesoblue is probably feeling a bit emotional in his post but he has a point that was a poor judgement call by Gerrard putting 2 players in cold for the last 7 or 8 minutes while we’re in a winning position is stupid and we paid for it, now they may have scored anyway we’ll never know but that’s 2 points dropped on the back of a double substitution so it definitely can't go down as a good decision. All that said I still believe in Gerrard #letsgo.

26 Dec 2018 20:41:01
Thought rossiter was a good change today . ok so it didn’t happen for us this time . we will just have to try harder but the bullet and stop expecting to have any divine rights at this time if our evolution . hibs dans know they got out of jail . they celebrated like a win . it will come good . desperately missing Arfield and Barisic. it will come tho.

26 Dec 2018 17:07:36
Once again we were the better team and we couldn't take all 3 points, it's not good enough and it's happening too often. We should have battered hibs last week and we should have beat them again today, we can only defend these results for so long. So we are now 3 points behind THEM, probably won't beat THEM on Saturday and I am sorry but if anyone is confident of a win on Saturday that can only be hope upon hope. By the time they play their game in hand we could be out of it these results aren't good enough.

26 Dec 2018 17:03:12
You HAVE to finish your chances in this league. Right now Morelos is the only one who can put the ball in the net. One goal is not enough! You can play 90 minutes of possession but it only take one bounce. We have been dropping points all season long because of this. So frustrating! Hibs were awful. Didn't deserve a point. Coulibaly was terrible this game. He's a got players making runs and multiple times he plays the ball behind them. He neutralized Tav and Candeias for this game. As people have said last week, if we play like this against Celtic we are going to get pumped.

26 Dec 2018 17:00:31
Im absolutely sick of the same football being played we can't even string a couple of victories together celtic could easily be away into the sunset if they beat us then win their game in hand.

26 Dec 2018 17:06:37
Totally agree, if we play like we have been recently then Celtic will get 3 points of us again. We don't look a threat, Warroll is mince as is Tav. Are we much better off than previous years.

26 Dec 2018 17:37:15
To be honest goalie i think we might just be slightly better than we have previously been but its still no good formation has been found out and were not taking chances.

26 Dec 2018 15:19:56
15 Minutes in. The passing by both team has been shocking. Can't believe this is supposed to be professional football.

26 Dec 2018 13:34:44
Maybe controversial but i'd rest Tav and Morelos the day, cannot afford any injuries, suspensions pending the aul firm. I realise the wee man has been our top man this season but I think the gazelle is finally coming onto his best form again after a period of inconsistency and offield personal issues.

Yet to really have a look. at Flanagan in his natural position, which baffles me, Gerrard rotates almost every other position apart from tavs and in my opinion has been to the dettremamt of the side.

Allow Flannagan to take up that role and we may even see Tav pushing further forward to where I think he is best utilised.

I'd go With a line up of

Mgregor
Flannagan
Mcauley
Goldson
Halliday
Mcrorie
Candeias
Middleton
Kent
Grezda
Lafferty.

26 Dec 2018 15:56:33
Simple and honest answer, we rely on Morelos and can't afford to rest him.

26 Dec 2018 16:59:26
I rest my case. Tavernier is an absolute liability who does nothing for our side.

26 Dec 2018 17:51:07
No really a case. We were brutal again but don't think your idea of playing with 4 wingers and only one cm would have worked any better.

26 Dec 2018 06:26:40
What do you think of morelos if he keeps up current form i don't see him here after the summmer i don't see him leaving in jan but if he gets 30 + goals this season plus europa league added into that then if i was another club i would slap 15M on him to test the water with Rangers i'm guessing if all ends up well for morelos he goes for 15M -18M in the summer no chance we could refuse that .

26 Dec 2018 09:12:57
Gers fan first time poster - I do think if we got a bid of 15 million I think we would sell but I believe this be a mistake I think he is only get better as he matures so we try and hold onto him.

I do believe he needs some help and some more strikers to add pressure so There is a couple of strikers that might be worth considering - Jordan Rhodes Stephen fletcher as they would be quite cheap to get and i think if the gaffer got a hold of them he would knock them into shape.

26 Dec 2018 09:30:29
You're spot on Bigbear1.As much as i want morelos to stay at rangers,
forever if you like, i'm realistic and money does talk! I do like you,
believe alfredo will not leave in january, but i think there's a very strong possibility, that a big bid will come in for him in the summer and unfortunately we can't turn a massive offer and he'll be off to pastures new! I would hope he'd stay with us, at least another season,
after this one, but just can't see it! We bought him for £1million and i really do think, we'll get at least x 15 that for him, when he's sold!

26 Dec 2018 11:08:32
Big bear

As much as I rate El Buffalo there ain't exactly numerous clubs sniffing around him for this window anyway. Have to say glad about it but maybe his temperament big turn off to larger clubs and even probable transfer value.

26 Dec 2018 11:17:44
I am not really up to speed on the transfer system but get the impression transfer deals are made and rescinded by consultation between players, their clubs, and the players managers.

Probably wrong but feel the players wishes are the main deciding factor on transfers.

26 Dec 2018 00:42:15
Saw a post on twitter from a guy who met the full squad tonight after their team meeting. He said he spoke to Ryan jack and he’s fit so I wonder if he will go in the squad tomorrow or be saved for Saturday.