08 Dec 2025 20:51:34
EHL you must be watching someone else if you think John souter would be a big miss he s a donkey.
08 Dec 2025 21:35:03
He's the best CB we have and unless we have plenty of cash to splash on 2 starters I'd be giving him a new contract.
08 Dec 2025 21:43:02
Scotty isn't good enough back up yes but not as a starting CB.
08 Dec 2025 21:49:28
If we are serious about winning trophies Souttar ain't good enough for Rangers ?.
08 Dec 2025 22:20:59
Feel we need a new defence and going to take a couple of windows, two commanding centre half's, one with experience and right and left back again with some experience.
Goalie also.
I'm hoping the January window might target the spine of the team first, right centre half, ball winning no 6, striker and possibly a winger as well.
08 Dec 2025 22:30:27
Florida problem is that until we do start winning trophies fans think no player is good enough no matter whether they have talent or not. those same fans who down rate Liam Scales, Anthony Ralston, Kieran Tierney, and Engels to name a few in the Celtic team.
yet that Celtic team still win every league trophy. so play the player in a team with good players and in the right position and style of play and he will play better. until now we haven't been entirely successful replacing him.
08 Dec 2025 22:35:08
And who are all these championship clubs we need to ward off by giving him a big pay rise? Where was any interest in him before? It's not like he'd have been that expensive before. Seems to me very much like Goldson, who was twice the player Souttar is, when he didn't sign a new deal until he realised no one actually wanted him.
Offer same at most or he'll have to tout himself about Turkey or Cyprus like the rest.
08 Dec 2025 23:18:14
Florida Bear, I am intrigued by some of your posts. You have clearly led an extremely interesting life. I would say you have lived 3 lifetimes in one life. As a fellow native of the village of Forth, I had previously asked you which street you stayed in?.
I myself am 68, my father like your father was a miner, my dad worked at Easton Colliery, Bathgate and we stayed in Learig and then Birniehall. If you don't mind me asking which pit did your dad work in. and which street did you stay? Happy days in the Forth then.
09 Dec 2025 00:01:09
Our fans don't need to down their players Angus as their own fans are doing that especially with Engels as a lot want moved on, he cost them 11 million, Ralston will drop out once Johnston is fit and O'Neil preferred the other left back to Tierney.
09 Dec 2025 04:49:59
That's your opinion Stew B. I think big soapy is our best centre half and is a good centre half and at 29 years old now, a new 2 year deal is the correct choice by the club and hope he stays ? He's had an up and down season at Rangers so far i grant you but a lot of that is to do with firstly him playing left centre half and beside Djiga and with him playing with different partners ? He's mostly been outstanding for his country ?I would definitely if possible, want us to keep John Souttar ?.
09 Dec 2025 07:27:52
I posted a few years ago that the haters would regret the day they put the hate on Big Goldson and said he was the problem at the back. Whilst I don't think Souttar is in the same bracket, he would still be a miss.
Why do I know? he's better than every other centre half we have signed over the last 7 years barring three - two of whom were very injury prone. That tells you the market we are shopping in.
09 Dec 2025 07:59:50
IMO he isn't Angus. I am quicker than him at 71.
My dad lived in Hailstonegreen and worked at Polkemmet. ?.
09 Dec 2025 08:17:37
Rosedale ball winning no 6. You saying Raskin and Barron ain't ball winning no 6s ?♂️?♂️.
09 Dec 2025 08:26:25
Florida. glad to hear you are managing (at 71) to beat Souttar's average match day speed of 28.47 k/ph.
Rosevale you are correct re their fans but tbh I am always more worried that our fans do the same to our team ?. the point is that they are winning the league with players we don't rate so fans aren't the best judges of these things. If Danny Rohl wants to keep JS then I am happy to accept that.
09 Dec 2025 09:58:18
Coops being our best CH doesn't take much and being good for Scotland is irrelevant when he is rotten for us which he has been for best part of 2 seasons at least.
09 Dec 2025 10:14:07
Maybe better the devil you know is better than the one you don't. Could end up replacing Souttar for a small fortune and ending up with Djiga 2.0. I think retraining Souttar is the smart option to give us a Skeleton back line from the get go next summer.
09 Dec 2025 11:26:46
If you think he is good enough Angus you are entitled to your opinion my friend. I am in the other boat and I think our defence is shocking. IMO we need better than Souttar to win the league title ?.
09 Dec 2025 11:29:39
Raskin isn't a 6 and Barron breaks up a lot of play, none of them dominate the ball and that's what I meant though didn't make it clear in my post.
09 Dec 2025 11:49:27
I thought Souttar would have been a better signing.
For me, he's not worth a new contract.
09 Dec 2025 11:53:18
Florida; it is all about opinions. Funny thing is our shocking defence has only let in 2 more goals than the best defence in the league and the same as the Hearts defence who fans are saying are decent. I think we need to learn to defend better as a team and manage to also balance that with our attack scoring enough goals.
Rosevale is correct in that none of our supposed number 6s dominate the ball and control the play sufficiently so our defence is constantly left exposed.
09 Dec 2025 12:24:06
Florida, I lived in the Polkemmet area of Whitburn before I emigrated to Australia, When back this year I couldn't believe the amount of houses built on the Old Mining Site.
Once a Ranger I'm sure there's another poster on here Mph he's also fae the Forth. ?????????.
09 Dec 2025 12:27:12
Are you happy with our defence Angus. Is this not a problem area you feel we need to strengthen? ?.
09 Dec 2025 12:41:14
It's not just the numbers tho Angus. It's the nature of the defending and the high amount of self inflicted errors we've seen on a regular basis the last few year not just under Martin. Thankfully Butland has bailed them out time and again as did Barron again at the weekend so the stats u like to u quote may not seem as bad as what we can see with our eyes.
A striker fluffing the chance you presented or a GK sparing your blushes doesn't make you a better defender just because of stats.
09 Dec 2025 12:51:28
Soutter is the least of our worries. We let him go then that's 4 CH we need. As the others at present are cutting it. As said on another page keep Soutter and bring another 2 CB. With Fernandez as another back up to see how he gets on.
09 Dec 2025 12:57:33
Small world Newman. I think that's called Heartlands now ? ?? ??.
09 Dec 2025 13:41:29
Florida, yes that's what it's called Soon Whitburn, Harthill and Fauldhouse will be joined up, But I have also heard that some houses have subsidence, Who would have thought that ?????????.
09 Dec 2025 14:52:27
Yeah no surprise there Newman ?.