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Tribalism or Sectarianism? PQ's weekend starred T800 Model 101 aka Stuart Cosgrove aka DrStu' aka a cybernetic android disguised as a human. DrStu' leveled the pump action shotgun at one target after another. Thursday's media review had him opining, "I am a BBC License Fee payer and I am a Scot". I have heard this expression before, usually disgusted Rangers fans are uttering the statement. DrStu' ended a discussion on BBC Scotland's new second TV channel by applauding and encouraging a deeper Scots slant on news. His cri de coeur evokes a sense of entitlement. I know it does not work for Rangers supporters, we just receive apologies. DrStu's finger was on the trigger, the left hand worked the action and a round was chambered in the Mossberg 500 weapon. Next up was a discussion on Michael Jackson's music being withdrawn from the public air waves because of mounting evidence of child rape? The Glitter/Saville/Harris analogies were raised by others on the panel, DrStu' was not happy, his rage found comfort in boom-boom time, "I will not support banning or withdrawing Jackson's music. A lot of his songs were collaborations with the likes of Quincy Jones. There were four other vocalists in the Jackson 5, why should they be punished"? You see, DrStu' has just finished his trilogy on the history of soul music, he knows more on the subject than anyone. It's very Donaldesque, he is a denizen of Trumpton. It's twelve O'Clock on the Bandstand and the Trumpton Cyborg's leaden boot steps shudder to a halt on Saturday afternoon's Off the Ball. Rangers skipper, James Tarvenier being confronted by an exuberant Hibby was not helpful. In fact, coin throwing, confrontations, and broken seats were all interference. Despite his co-host, Tam Cowan voicing concern on concealed weapons being carried on to the pitch, DrStu' was having none of it. This was all tribalism and it was masking the real problem raised by Steve Clarke's speech on sectarianism. The 12 gauge was fully loaded and DrStu' became the clinical android as he worked the action and squeezed the trigger : BOOM - on Clyde player Declan Fitzpatrick playing two games unregistered and the club being docked four points, "the SFA saw the name and decided to issue a draconian punishment, where's Chick Young and his comments on catholic education now"? BOOM - Reinforcing his fourth mention of Clarke's sectarian speech, "this the real problem, it highlights a decades old problem in Scottish football. We've had local authorities letting housing on a sectarian basis". BOOM - Steve Clarke being the target of sectarian chanting does not equate with coin throwing, "anyways, we've already seen a linesman having his head bandaged this season, did that stop sectarianism"? BOOM - "Sectarianism needs to be followed up". BOOM - you know we could go on, the Terminator had an itchy finger. The targets will fall when hit, but do they? The scatter gun approach lacks penetration. We have chorused this before, entering into a debate or discussion with an opponent insisting on strict adherence to his/her preferred parameter on use of language; is NOT a debate, it's a diktat. DrStu' has banned whataboutery and he insists Rangers supporters must move on, we should forget about the Rangers Tax Case Blog. DrStu'. like Steve Clarke does not mention Kris Boyd being the subject of sectarian abuse and of course, it weakens both of their arguments. Sectarianism is very much a two way street. Further, Boyd was specifically abused with the word, 'orange' and it's very mention draws light to DrStu's own print statement that Rangers supporters were, "h-u-ns and typical orange wa-nkers". Imagine being lectured on sectarianism by someone who is a perpetrator, whilst said perpetrator is holding a shot gun? Remember, DrStu' constantly tells us that lack of balance and injustice keeps him awake at night. Constant insomnia awaits because the show's guests were James Grady, Chris Sweeney, and Hugh MacDonald. BOOM, BOOM, BOOM. James Grady tells of being pelted by paper aeroplanes at Ibrox, Sweeney wants to plug his book on Thomas Graverson, ..................................... etc. The rapid fire approach is the quickest way of turning live rounds into empty cases and by the end of an hour, DrStu' was reduced to sharing an indulgent joke with Big Dick reference Morelos' mother being a mattress. If tribalism is running interference on a specific interpretation of sectarianism, it is also running interference on events less than a fortnight old. Remember Valencia, several thousand Yahoos leave a trail of arson, wrecking bars, fighting police, and stabbings. Where is the follow up on BBC Scotland? DrStu' has a much used favoured phrase, "new, modern Scotland", and he is quick to tell all of us what will be acceptable and not acceptable in this fabled land. I hope he is counting his rounds because a change is gonna come.

Massive own goal by the UBs tonight. Put themselves before the team by refusing to sing in the first half and then disrupting the start of the second half when the team came out,pumped up and ready to start the game, they ended up having to clear away that mess created. Poor show and one that will do them no favours.

Funny you should say that Frankie as Aberdeen played with 5 in midfield and were particularly effective in breaking up play and condensing the space in the first half. So not really conceding the midfield at all is it? My opinion is that going with the two defensive type midfielders Jack, Kamara and one attacking midfielder in Scott Arfield at the head of the triangle is never going to return the type of play we require to break teams like Aberdeen down when they come to Ibrox as their game plan is to stack midfield and defence defend deep and hit on the counter. If SG is going to persist with the 4-3-3 in its many guises then he needs another quality attacking midfielder in there along with Arfield. Our two wide players were particularly poor tonight. Candeias final ball was astonishing for most of the game and Kent did as he has done most of the season, other than the odd game here and there, which is run across the field from left to right and vice versa and lose control of the ball eventually. All it takes for that to happen as a defender/ midfielder is a little nudge on him or get a little nick on the ball. Its not new stuff I'm saying here as you guys have heard me say it often when we're recording pods. We're far too predictable with a single game plan that more often than not doesn't succeed against these types of teams because we simply dont have the quality.

You're right but I hope the players don't think like that. They need to keep pushing on and ensure a respectable finish in the league.

McCrorie wasn't needed tonight. Aberdeen pretty much conceded the midfield to us. It was pace, imagination and a final ball we lacked.

MW and PC got slaughtered and had worse players at hand. One day SG will have to learn that 4-3-3 won't work against teams who sit in and are able to hit you on the counter. Like it or not, Hibs and Aberdeen have sussed us out and did what was necessary, while we never improved on Plan A. Time left still, but seeing that I have my doubts ...

What does it say about the Scottish legal system when the Birmingham guy gets sentenced the following day and the Hibs guy has to wait until next month for sentencing?

Man. City - respectful, unshrinking and courageous in their actions, finally. Celtic - shameful, secretive and showing cowardice which is a trait wherein fear and excessive self-concern override doing or saying what is right, good, and of help to others or oneself in a time of need—it is the opposite of courage. As a label, "cowardice" indicates a failure of character in the face of a challenge.

Rangers and Aberdeen will play each other for the sixth time this season when they meet in their Scottish Cup quarter-final replay on Tuesday. However, it will be only the second time they have played at Ibrox, with Aberdeen winning 1-0 in their Scottish Premiership meeting there in December. Rangers manager Steven Gerrard said: "Any game against Aberdeen is always huge. The message from me is forget the semi-final. We have a big, tough challenge smacking us in the face and we need to go and perform at a level that is capable of getting us the right result. "I think it would be very naive of the players to think about Hampden. We have a job to do at Ibrox first and foremost." Aberdeen have won two of their encounters against Rangers this season, but manager Derek McInnes does not think those other fixtures will have a bearing on Tuesday's game. He said: "We won there the year before last as well. We went down there after the split and won a game that helped us get second spot again and we've had some decent results against Rangers this season, but I don't think it counts for much what's happened previously. "The perception for maybe being seen to be more equipped or more resilient to deal with games in Glasgow from the press there may be something in that, but we've always felt we can take on teams home and away. I think each game's different and what's happened in the past I don't think has much bearing on tomorrow night." Team news Rangers will be without Gareth McAuley as he continues to recover from a hamstring problem but Borna Barisic is available having had an illness. Aberdeen's top scorer Sam Cosgrove, who has 18 goals for the season, is suspended. Gary Mackay-Steven and Niall McGinn will be assessed ahead of the game. https://www.skysports.com/football/rangers-vs-aberdeen/406406

I do understand what you are saying. Kent is all over the place and more often than not IMO is in the wrong place to where he should be from the shape the team is supposed to be. Anyway I'm done for the night thats skunnered me.

Hmm, I wouldn’t say Kent stays wide at all he drifts all over. It’s a matter of definition, I count them as AMs because they have minimal defensive duties and are considered as part of a front 3 by most. In any case, with two holding midfielders a big part of their responsibility is scoring and creating and they very often don’t do it when they are up against half decent opposition.

I’m referring to Kent, Arfield and Candeias (4-2-3-1)

Among other things we need a skilled, creative, attacking midfielder. I suspect that could help the team to start moving the ball quicker.

Given up with a whimper.Sorry to say this but I didn’t see any difference tonight from some of the stuff last year. It has been like that a few times.

Hard to understand why Kamara would play the ball across the D like that. It's a shame as it's about the first mistake he has made. If Steven Gerrard doesn't figure out how to break down teams like Aberdeen then he will leave as a failure.

We make it was for teams who park the bus by playing just one striker.

Season over now

If Kent isn't on his game then we have nothing as Tav has been poor for a while now.

Is that all☹️

Simply too easy for half-decent defences to sit in against us. We ask for too much from Morelos and not enough other players want to take responsibility to win us games. Yes, we dominate possession but when you give away soft goals as well, then you're always going to be fighting an uphill battle. Killie will do the same this coming Saturday Will our manager and players do something different?

Yep, we've nothing to offer here unfortunately. Far too predictable and that's been the story for too long now.

Why is Tavernier still taking free kicks he hasn't hit a decent one in years.

Candeias is having a nightmare with his final ball.

RANGERS supporters worldwide can follow live audio commentary of Tuesday’s Scottish Cup replay with Aberdeen on RangersTV. https://rangers.co.uk/news/rangers-tv/live-audio-of-replay-on-rtv/

Sorry Craig it was just general I wasn't meaning to put it onto you.

Don't get all preachy about what posters can and can't discuss on threads about the Celtc FC and their worldwide reputation as a charitable institute and the ethically magnificent intentions of the Green Brigade.

I wasn't commenting on Scottish football, but on the legal system. You may think a month is neither here or there but when the whole furore has died down it will make it easier to slip through a slap on the wrist and 20 hours community service, as after all, it was only a Rangers player....

He did get it right but his view was poor and players on both teams stopped playing because the linesman kept his flag up. We were lucky not to concede because of it and double lucky as we scored on the counter as Hibs also seemed to be unsure of what was happening. It was poor refereeing.

I actually he got that right mate? He looked onside in the replay. If it had happened to us we would be praising the ref.

Replay Coverage On RTV https://rangers.co.uk/news/rangers-tv/live-audio-of-replay-on-rtv/

When John Wilson confronted Neil Lennon at Tynecastle it was immediately classified by all the usual suspects as a sectarian attack. So loud was the clamour, he was charged accordingly. However, they couldn't get the sectarian part to stick in a court of law. It didn't deter or stop the usual suspects from promoting an agenda. Nor can you say sectarianism doesn't exist but when they use only one eye to look at the problem, the usual suspects should lose credibility, However they still get their lofty platform to preach from.

Getting picked ahead of Carlos Bacca shows how he is rated by the Colombian management team. He now needs to go out there and take his chance. His previous call-up came from the previous manager. The fact that the new manager has also called him up is encouraging for his future. Unfortunately, the long trip isn't the best preperation for the Celtic game. There always seems to be something that has us going into that fixture at less than 100%.

Ian, Could you re-post the above in PQ Musings? It's important reference the time-line. Thank-you.

Yes it's a valid point, however leading with that headline is the most negative thing about his call up

The Daily Record have a point.

Maybe McLeish should have talked to the Compliance Officer.

Let’s hope the others follow suit? I’m glad he made the right choice.

Well done Compliance Officer ??

Great win for the Arsenal. To think if Auba had put that pen away against Spurs last week they would be above them in third now, when a few weeks ago Spurs had a chance to go 2 behind the leaders - a big collapse at Spurs. Spurs still have to go to Anfield and City but Arsenal dont have to play another team in the top 6, they should be favorites for top 4 now. Utd still have City and Chelsea to play. Chelsea still have Liverpool and Utd away. I think prediction of the week goes to yours truly Southampton 2-1 Tottenham ? But a good shout from Compo on Newcastle. I was glad to see them come back as Pickford shouldnt have been on the pitch when he saved the penalty.

I hope this is going to be a regular service. I hope we get to the stage soon where we have no need for any of the BBC services, despite the fact we pay for them. Nice one RTV!