19 Oct 2025 11:59:51
Someone had posted that RM was allowing players lots of breaks during training. Maybe philosophy breaks.
I think this was very evident on the 55th minute. A lot of the players looked dead on their feet.
19 Oct 2025 12:10:36
You would think professional footballers would keep themselves fit.
19 Oct 2025 12:18:16
White horse agreed mate, can see a lot of players aren't close too full fitness, players can only train under orders from management, another thing Martin's made an arse of.
19 Oct 2025 12:28:25
I'll repeat this again. TAV IS NOT A DEFENDER. Never has been never will be. For every great goal he's scored he's sold one. A right back taking corners from the left wing? Gimme a break. Further more he's not a captain. I'm an old man and Tav is worst right back (apart from one who I won't name) I have ever seen. Oh for a Gary Stevens.
19 Oct 2025 12:35:12
Clement said he would get them fit, and didn't, and it seems fitness was the last thing on Martin's mind, atrocious way to run a professional club, but it's obvious to see when you watch them !
19 Oct 2025 12:41:51
White horse a club like ours and there knackered after 55 minutes how bad can it get players have a responsibility to there fitness as well, hopefully things will improve.
19 Oct 2025 13:09:29
The players have been conditioned to meet the requirements that Martin set the fitness team.
This is based on slow controlled possession, with strategic 'explosive' spells throughout the game.
The conditioning required for this is completely different from what is required to play with the level of intensity we did in the first half.
Outside of the energy drop off, the lack of character on the pitch was the bigger concern for me.
19 Oct 2025 13:12:44
White horse this is a Rangers thing.
Smith says he had four sessions before yesterday
They were Thursday and Friday both weeks.
After Falkirk game players off Monday Tuesday Wednesday trained Thursday Friday then off for five days.
Back Thursday and Friday. That's why they can't run 90 minutes.
19 Oct 2025 13:21:45
I remember reading that on here white horse - I think the poster stated that if players tried anything in training and lost possession, Martin would stop the session and gather them all round to look at numerous alternatives where possession could have been kept.
19 Oct 2025 13:35:39
Ive mentioned a couple of times that billy dodds said his inverness players were fitter than us when he assisted barry, so its been an issue before rm came along, and totally unacceptable for Rangers.
19 Oct 2025 13:40:10
I think the new manager will have to use his 5 subs earlier and more to try and keep that energy.
19 Oct 2025 13:44:01
We were never a fitter team in recent years to when Steven Gerrard was our manager ?We were the fittest team in Scotland bar none under gerrard and undoubtedly one of the fittest team's in Britain ?I think we'll be very fit under Kevin Muscat ???.
19 Oct 2025 14:41:35
I spoke to couple off managers when we played Dunbarton. We spoke about lack off game time our loan players were getting, answer was they r so unfit, our part time players r fitter
When Lowry and others went south the struggled badly re fitness, I know off one our ex players went on loan, could not complete a three mile run alongside part time players.