Rangers Banter Archive November 08 2018

 

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08 Nov 2018 22:06:30
surprised at Katic, Flannigan and Coulibaly being in the team, Thought Worrall was a better bet just for tonight as he has been in the team for several games, Flannigan and Coulibaly have been rotten recently, and lastly once again Moralos booked for back chat, does ANYBODY understand him, and if not, does HE understand what Gerrard says about discipline? He might score goals but he is STILL a liability given the fact we always seem to have too many out injured.



09 Nov 2018 00:04:07
Honestly? Is that all you have to say? Katic is better than Worall hands down. Coulibaly is easily the best midfielder we've had in years at what he does and on the subject of Alfredo. Yes he has a temper and yes he sometimes makes the wrong decisions with the attitude. But the guy is a class act. Already top goalscorer this season by a mile and was last season as well.

Dispite the fact celtic steamrolled the league and we finished 3rd. Morelos is not a liability. He's our greatest asset. Anyone who can't see that is blind. Where would we be without him this season? I bet your one of those fans who expects £20 mil for him but still says that he's rotten? You can't have it both ways mate. Morelos will become a superstar in 2 or 3 years and we can profit from it. He was a steal at £1 mil. Let's just enjoy him while we can and stop criticising our best players.



09 Nov 2018 01:37:54
Coulibaly has been awful recently and to say he has been the best midfielder at what he does in years is laughable.



09 Nov 2018 06:03:08
Dunoonbear, as far as i'm concerned,
ryan jack should ALWAYS be in our midfield! Coulibaly i like, but since coming back from injury he's been well off the pace and on his current form, should be dropped! Flanagan gets caught a lot because he's a right back, trying to do a job,
playing left back! Regarding last night, we can blame tactics 'till we're blue in the face, but when players CAN'T carry out, basic defending, then the manager isn't to blame! The only way gerrard would be to blame, is if these defenders continued this poor performance and he didn't do something about it in january! Still right behind stevie G and he'll get the job done!



09 Nov 2018 06:12:34
All these players getting singled out as having a bad game., when McGregor apart (again) the second half was terrible from all.



09 Nov 2018 06:34:17
Your post was tongue in cheek am I right dunoon?



09 Nov 2018 07:35:45
To be fair in the recent past he has deserved the booking he has got, I think the one he got last night was soft he only turned and threw his hand in the air. Last night is simple if you concede 4 goals you don't deserve anything from the game.



09 Nov 2018 08:36:32
Katic had a nightmare last night👍.



09 Nov 2018 08:47:53
Thought Coulibaly was terrific up until his injury but hasn’t been great since, don’t think he has been awful though. There’s too much rotation and too many inconsistent players right now, no one can say our definite best 11 and until we find it, and they perform to it consistently we will continue to struggle to put a run together.



09 Nov 2018 10:56:13
Supercooper

I just don’t know why you thick Jack is so good? For me he is at best average. I feel he slows the play up and doesn’t get the ball forward quick enough. He has no creativity and can’t score goals. He wouldn’t get anywhere near the Celtic squad so why do you think he is good enough for us?



09 Nov 2018 15:55:26
Jack probably reminds him of ian ferguson arthur😂🙃👍.



09 Nov 2018 20:28:00
A, very young, Ian Ferguson! Let's have a poll 😂😂😂.



10 Nov 2018 16:23:03
Morelos is our best outfield player by a mile.



08 Nov 2018 21:23:41
Bad result tonight. No doubt at all. Should of had it won plenty of times during the game. We were let down by the officials yet again though. Morelos clearly onside for the 4th and I think we would of went on to win if that goal had stood. No excuses though (we're not celtic) we should have got a draw minimum, on the bright side we are still well in with a shout in the group, a win against villareal and we are looking good. Be positive bears. Just be glad we are talking about qualifying from a European group stage rather than being put out in the first round. Onwards and upwards!



08 Nov 2018 22:12:31
We missed the boat at ibrox where we should have beaten spartak, tonight the defending was awful and the midfield were terrible I don't know what Arfield actually does and Flanigan is absolutely shocking. I don't see us beating Villareal a draw maybe and must beat Rapid away on the last day, I don't see it.



09 Nov 2018 12:54:57
Dunoon, I'd love to hear your definition of an excuse as you blamed the referee but said that there are no excuses.



08 Nov 2018 21:05:31
How frustrating was that tonight. I like gerrard and we have to expect him to make mistakes but hopefully learn from them and giving time will do well for us we have improved but some off his decisions I can't understand why he dropped Katic when he was playing well then brings him back tonight when it was clear against Hamilton he's lost confidence young Kent was looking tired in the 2 games prior to his injury so I wasn't surprised he done his hamstring Coulibaly hasn't played well since his injury but keeps getting a game while young mccrorie can't get a chance our defending was horrendous the night we have 2 centre half's 3 midfielders on the bench yet doesn't make a sub till 80 mins he's brought in 6 defenders yet we can't keep a clean sheet when it matters and that's with mcgregor in goals who's been different class.



10 Nov 2018 16:16:33
Keep believing it’s looking like your not believing . we were incredibly unlucky. keep the faith, keep believing.



08 Nov 2018 20:36:02
Why do we take so long to change things? Crying out for a change after the fourth goal and we wait till the last ten minutes again, still we should have pummelled that team as they were Lillian Gish (says a lot about us)
Last season we were scoring 3 and 4 in the league and on occasion conceding the same or more as pointed out by Stevie G and things are not that much better. Just letting off steam guys as I am totally frustrated after watching us hit the post, have a good goal wrongly disallowed and fail to push up more and make them make mistakes at the back. but still we follow on.



08 Nov 2018 22:14:59
Yeah poor russian teams can beat them but we can't, not good. Could have been different if that Morelos goal stood but only have ourselves to blame.



08 Nov 2018 20:10:22
Arfield is a 25k a week empty shirt
Gerrard and Gary Mac who were class midfielders must see this guiser.
How he played for Burnley I don't know.
Arfield is Accies level and no more.



08 Nov 2018 22:23:35
I doubt TRFC are paying anyone £25K a week. Maybe in total?



09 Nov 2018 00:08:33
Shouldn’t you be away celebrating the knewco’s win tonight? Nah. You’d rather sit on Rangers pages.

You let your club lie.



08 Nov 2018 20:04:59
Katic and Goodson looked pretty good early on in the season, however we've tinkered with Worral and now we have a centre defence that are hopeless, tavs always even a liability but Flanagan is a joke, how he earns his cash as a defender I will never know. Alfies goal was wrongly ruled offside, and could have had a huge bearing on the outcome. in the whole, a poor performance, we should have taken 6 points from them. f@cking sick.



08 Nov 2018 21:50:34
I admire SG for getying us to the group stages, he still has a lot to learn, 1st thing is to get a settled back 4, stop bloody changing the defence, it has to be the mainstay of the team . Were 20 games into the season and he is still mixing it up .



10 Nov 2018 16:17:52
Mixing it up thru necessity. Katic got injured . Wirral cane in two good games two bad . Katic back in bad game . Worrall given another chance another two bad games then Katic tonight . it will come good again.



08 Nov 2018 19:57:23
Rangers did not deserve to win, didn't look like scoring after they equalised then went ahead. Again our away record is poor. Should of beat this team who has started poorly in their league. Still, we are still in this competition so its up to you Steven Gerrard, ne positive!



08 Nov 2018 19:56:05
Honestly hard one to chew Its the way we lost this one that has been the most annoying part!

Feel for McGregor That piece of defending is a piece of nonsense! Terrible terrible stuff! That whole back four need a reality check no doubt about it!

These guys don't deserve to wear that Rangers jersey on that showing!



10 Nov 2018 16:18:10
For sure tav should have attacked that third goal instead of watching the opposition head the ball. oh well. Europe away is Always going to be hard? we have done well.



08 Nov 2018 19:49:26
The lack of confidence to play a forward pass at times is frustrating. The number of times we work the ball back to the keeper from a decent position is annoying. They are rank rotten but we've been worse. The defending has been frightening, katic has been a bombscare. Too many stray passes and touches. Completely thrown it away.



08 Nov 2018 20:03:21
That was abysmal, back to last season with the defence. Goldson too casual, and we need to buy two full backs in January. their manager has obviously spotted that a high ball over the defence, out to the wing and we have no-one there to stop them, which we constantly saw last year. only Greegs gets pass marks for me. he must wonder what is going on in front of him. It might have been a different story if morelos' goal had stood. but we cannot keep sitting off teams and playing that deep, inviting them on, its suicidal. rant over.



08 Nov 2018 20:09:00
Flanagan isn’t the answer at left back. He had a shocker and the others at the back should have learned a lesson after throwing away first few cheap goals! 3 goals scored away from home and losing is a bitter pill to swallow.



08 Nov 2018 20:18:59
Bad display tonight doing best to stay cool but half that team did not turn up chill.



08 Nov 2018 23:04:31
We were unlucky with the morelos goal which would have changed the game but they should have had a penalty for katic's ridiculous clumsy tackle. I'm not convinced the goldson tackle at the end was a dive either, if it was he shouldn't be lunging in like that although someone should have stopped the guy long before that.



10 Nov 2018 16:12:41
Disappointing, yeah we were very very close in making history. Morelos called on instead of off and we are there

That’s football but it shows you how far we’ve come when we are so disappointed in taking 3 points way in Europe. heads up bears.



08 Nov 2018 19:45:42
Katie and Goldoni defending has been simply terrible!



08 Nov 2018 20:19:25
Never heard of them. Goldson been solid with the exception of tonight.



08 Nov 2018 21:25:21
They were mince tonite but will come good again need to play together again for a few games Flanagan has been worse terrible every game rather play haliday left back.



09 Nov 2018 01:41:37
Sharpshooter

Goldson wasn’t solid against Motherwell and has looked poor in a few games. Very slow and gives the ball away easily.



08 Nov 2018 19:37:01
Never seen a Team gift a Game that should have already been won by halftime, simply schocking I am absolutely pissed!



08 Nov 2018 19:56:36
I'm so angry. Contrived to lose to a very poor team. Our defending as a whole doesn't seem to have improved from last year as we concede top often and too easily. Teams tend to score with their only chances.



08 Nov 2018 20:22:50
Gifted by a wrong offside call that would have put us 4-2 up at half time. Who scores 3 goals in Russia and loses? We can’t be too hard on the team but the goals we lost were avoidable. Big shout out to Greegs.



08 Nov 2018 20:24:09
Aye steeming.



08 Nov 2018 18:55:58
cmon bears this mob are there for the beating great counter attacking football but have to keep it tight at the back i have aged about 10 years watching this c'mon the sons of william.



08 Nov 2018 19:14:45
Defending is a joke. Do we have any defenders in this game?



10 Nov 2018 16:11:22
This is the most frustrating gers team ive watched in all my years of watching them - garbage and as for gerrard, he's just not got it man katic has been crap to be honest. surely we can get better players than tav as well goldson been crap culibaly been rubbish for weeks its the usual.



08 Nov 2018 17:03:16
Katic returns to team tonight. Also Coulibaly plays at expense of Jack, and Middleton replaces Kent.



08 Nov 2018 17:25:55
Very limited attacking options from bench.



08 Nov 2018 17:32:24
Bankie. I'm slightly disappointed that Jack has been dropped to the bench in favour of out-of-form Coulibaly. Good to see Middleton getting a start though. Come on lads grab all three points tonight!



08 Nov 2018 15:17:05
What do you all think about the possibility, or otherwise, of a Hybrid pitch being layed in the summer. Will be interesting to hear from those that hate plastc pitches. Think Hearts are doing the same.



08 Nov 2018 15:48:37
Hybrid pitches and plastic are different things.

A plastic pitch is the rubbish we see at Killle, Hamilton and Livingston etc
A hybrid pitch is a mix of real grass and synthetic fibres.

When we install a hybrid pitch you will see a state of the art football pitch that acts and plays like normal grass. All the biggest clubs in the world currently use a hybrid pitch. The days of muddy corner flags and bald 6 yard areas will be gone.



08 Nov 2018 16:10:02
Hybrid pitch doesn't mean its plastic.



08 Nov 2018 16:33:50
Blue toon not even close to being the same as plastic absolute state of the art surface.



08 Nov 2018 17:13:52
I'm aware that they are completely different and that the hybrid surface is widely used. However the hate plastic contibutors to this site say that grass is the only surface that should be played on. I wanted see what their opinion on Hybrid is.



08 Nov 2018 17:18:08
Spot on 87shenderson! You have to educate people on here from time to time! The hybrid surface is superb to play on and the modern way to go!



08 Nov 2018 20:37:26
you still don't get it blue toon hello is there anybody there hybrid is a type of grass sameltic installed this surface already.



10 Nov 2018 16:07:25
Bluetoon it is not a plastic pitch. All the top teams now have hybrid piches.



10 Nov 2018 16:13:24
Scotland’s champions leading the way again lads! Like henderson87 said, all the big clubs have them! If u need to know anything else about how big clubs go about there business Feel free to ask lads Haha!



08 Nov 2018 14:55:10
If we win tonight, do we qualify for the last 32? If we have 8 pts and it is head to head after all six games, I think we are through.



08 Nov 2018 15:26:23
No. It only means that Spartak cannot finish 2nd.

Even after tonight, Rapid can still get 9 pts.

That said if we win then we would nearly be there.



10 Nov 2018 16:08:29
Nope. Villarreal and Vienna could still finish above us.



08 Nov 2018 12:03:15
So who we think will play tonight bears? For me it would be.
Mcgregor
Tav
Goldson
Katic
Halliday
Jack
Arfield coulibaly
Candeias
Morelos
Middleton

Would prefer to see Halliday then Flanagan at left back as I think Flanagan gives the ball away too much playing at left back, and as Kent is out Middleton over Grezda you know what to expect of Middleton, out of curiousity does anyone have any info in lee Wallace and his injury status? Anyway good luck to gerrard and the lads tonight I'll go 2-1 rangers 🇬🇧🔴⚪️🔵🇬🇧.



08 Nov 2018 12:12:55
I think we will go with:

McGregor
Tav / Worrall / Goldson / Flanagan
Jack / Ejaria / Arfield
Candeias / Morelos / Grezda

Personally I’d rather Katic got the nod and the midfield 3 are not producing enough just now but Coulibaly has probably been the poorest recently so he deserves the bench for this one!



08 Nov 2018 13:23:00
Agree with Katic wee_bear specially as he’s our own player, true with coulibaly a lot of the midfield have been off the boil, creative player needed in jan.



08 Nov 2018 14:41:44
Arfield could replace Kent on left side allow us to keep coulibaly Jack and ejaria in middle of park.



10 Nov 2018 16:03:27
Mcgregor
Tav, goldston, worrall Flanagan
Candaes jack coulibally Arfield Halliday
Morelos.



08 Nov 2018 11:05:55
I read this somewhere, recently, so not my idea and I originally dismissed it but hmmm been thinking since. Play Morelos as a number 10 he already has a lot of assists and play one of our youngsters or Lafferty up front. Not convinced myself but definitely got me thinking.



08 Nov 2018 11:42:46
Like young Hardie who was never given a chance. A bit foolish I think to let him go out on loan when we are short of strikers. I don't rate Lafferty as a regular starter and would rather see a youngster given a chance, e. g. Dallas.



08 Nov 2018 13:36:35
Still on about Hardie, DOIGER? I've said it many times before, I watched this lad several times and he was nowhere near getting a start even under Murty. Unless this boy is your son, your nephew or your love child, it really is time to let it go, mate.



08 Nov 2018 14:04:40
He's not even getting a game for Livingston?!



08 Nov 2018 14:14:51
I have thought that myself, Morelos has good qualities for link up and hold up play, he finds himself out wide a lot holding it up so having lafferty up there still gives you a striker in the box as well as Morelos still being able to get in to the box. Too often Morelos ends up out wide and we don't have anyone in the box also he would probably have shots from outside the box unlike the rest of our midfield.



08 Nov 2018 14:42:29
Hardie not good enough.



08 Nov 2018 16:36:58
Morelos isn't a number 10, our whole performance and the way we set up, especially in Europe, revolves around morelos up top on his own.



08 Nov 2018 16:38:55
Hardie plays before lafferty🙃😂👍.



10 Nov 2018 16:00:58
@bluepete - I don’t think Lafferty travelled. Muscle strain?



10 Nov 2018 16:02:13
Doiger I know hardie very well, he did have chicest, never took them, mostly injured since may, can't get a game with Livingston.
He has fell behind ridden and Dallas.
Wherever he goes when contract up I hope he kicks on, a cracking lad.



08 Nov 2018 10:40:29
Rangers lose appeal against candieas second yellow card for sending off against st Mirren that is a disgrace how inept are the sfa bunch of useless c*@ts couldn't run a f*@king bath.



08 Nov 2018 11:00:31
Don't think we lost the appeal - -there isn't a process to make one under the circumstances, is the point we are now making!



08 Nov 2018 11:55:51
I thought you could only appeal straight reds?



08 Nov 2018 12:08:41
Well it's on ssn that we had failed with our appeal that the sfa had came to their decision yesterday but waited till today to announce the decision bit strange if you ask me.



08 Nov 2018 16:41:55
Like bar 72 said we didn't lone the appeal as such. The only way to appeal a yellow is simulation or mistaken identity, whigh it wasn't there's no appeal process for a referee howler. The appeal was basically lost on a technicality sfa surely knew it was a mistake, there was just no grounds under the rules to rescind it.



10 Nov 2018 16:01:52
The only yellow card I believe you can appeal is mistaken identity?
Since it was only Candeias and Ferdinand in the vicinity, Collum must have thought he ‘saw ‘ something to justify the card. Or he’s just inept like the majority of referees in Scotland 👍.



10 Nov 2018 16:09:03
Love Rangers statement re Collum.



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07 Nov 2018 23:10:49
Has anyone seen Dapi Mebude play? I see he is with the squad for Moscow. Seems to be good reports about the young lad. Good to see youngsters getting chance to be with the squad to experience it. Can only be good for his confidence.



08 Nov 2018 02:08:12
All of the youth squad is in Moscow.



10 Nov 2018 16:04:21
All of the youth squad are in Moscow, but he has been included in the 1st team squad for tonight.



 
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