04 Sep 2024 20:54:43
I'll just bring something up which should be fairly obvious to most, when judging players ability/ potential and judging new signings etc it's very hard to show anything playing in a poor team. Until we are playing decent football and playing with confidence then it's hard for players to show their worth. Time for Clement and coaching staff to make it happen, hard work on the training ground will hopefully pay off.
04 Sep 2024 22:25:24
agree J-zer. I think the work on training ground seems to be getting done. we have been improving this year whilst bedding in new players and those who didn't play regularly last year. However once they scored the first goal we lost confidence so we need to get on a run of games where we win and that confidence will come.
05 Sep 2024 01:28:17
The coaching is the key to getting better because we don’t have 50 million to buy quality. Gerrard and his team coached it into players, might have taken 3 years but you could see it developing. The worry I have with Clement is I don’t see it. Since last season through pres season and this season we have no structure and teams can see our weaknesses. Even in the games we’ve won this year teams have cut right through us (Ross County and St Johnstone both had great chances) . My only hope is that there are enough players to come in (Cortes, Yilmaz, Raskin, Nana, Bajrami, Igamane) that they will make a difference and the team start to gel. Clement said they will by Oct/ Nov so he’s put a timeline on it.
05 Sep 2024 06:44:44
Quality players should stand out regardless, sounds like another excuse if I'm honest. I have not seen any improvement since last year, infact we are worse. We have not won any of the big games so far this season. We are sitting 4th and 5 points behind already, improvement?
05 Sep 2024 07:03:51
Agree not saw much improvement.
And the poster mentioned work on the training ground being done, I don’t believe the system suits the players at our disposal, set pieces are as poor as I can remember, we don’t look a threat at corners like we used to, in fact on Sunday when we had a corner me and my brother picked up the lack of movement in the box to create space from a corner.
Lacking a bit of Steele in there, we are a bit to nice and easy to play against.
05 Sep 2024 07:10:58
Surely our players are quality when compared to the rest of the SPL? If not what are we doing here?
05 Sep 2024 08:17:11
We are a shambles all over the pitch, I've not felt so despondent with a Rangers team for along while, I'm not convinced they try anything other than a 4,2,3,1 formation at training either.
05 Sep 2024 08:23:23
we don't have the same sort of quality as we did in the late 80s and 90s so we are buying younger who have the potential to develop into those quality players. this needs time both on the coaching pitch as well as patience from the fans. I think the RC game was the best I've seen us play in years; and before you see the negative and say it was only RC Aberdeen in 2nd only beat them int he 8th minute of injury time. So there has been some improvement but there will be more to come. They probably have more quality than rest of SPL except for Celtic at the moment. We have a younger squad who will develop.
all teams get chances in a game but like us on Sunday they don't always score them., we had 3 or 4 great chances but got beaten 3-0. do you think Celtic fans are complaining about those chances we got.
we are 4 games into the season and there are 34 to go so there is time. what is it about people these days that they want instant success without the hard work.
05 Sep 2024 08:34:05
Rayger - have to agree clement has been there a year next month and I understand turnover in players was a big priority but everybody should still be able to see what his ideas are and what the manager is trying to implement but nobody does a part from punt to dessers and pray it sticks. It’s very worrying that we are so open defensively also can say some players aren’t good enough but there better that 95% of the spl still but main issue is I don’t think they know what clement is wanting to do in terms of passages of play and defensive structure.
05 Sep 2024 08:41:46
i am suprised noone can see his ideas, whilst i agree the players aren't playing it well when it works its effective. its when we lose the ball and tracking back we aren't doing well which must improve.
05 Sep 2024 09:22:00
It is only Ross County! We couldn't beat Hearts, Kiev or Celtic and you think playing well against Ross County is an improvement. C'mon let's get real!
05 Sep 2024 09:37:29
I'm not buying this "better players" around him rubbish. That, I'm afraid, is just the flimsiest of flimsiest excuse, and is embarrassing. Class, no matter who else is in the team, stands out, period.
05 Sep 2024 11:18:16
Playing against the rest of the SPl our formation and style of play will work well as when we lose the ball they are not good enough to break with numbers and pick us off, Europe and Celtic games we should have another plan as we are not competent enough to leave our defence exposed if they play through us or win the ball off us.