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Probably be Ryan Tent.

Best move of the match.

That was that for 2018/19. Another 4-3-3, another failure ... after what, 40odd games? All hail the Scottenaccio as another team escapes with a point from Ibrox. Scottish football is well and truly doomed, kicking, fouling, complaining ... Over the course of the season we have never been able to counter that effectively, always set up with too few attackers against a host of defenders, only change today was that Davis and not our centre-halfs were given the job to spray passes. The Scum will sure win tomorrow and even if we beat them twice will they hold their guts laughing ...

I've been thinking Halliday's 'midfield mentality' comes to the fore when he's playing inside like he is. He's maybe trying to add layer of protection against their counter. He's very much playing inside, almost as a back-three. It's not really Barasic's strength, to play inside.

You can appeal if it is for simulation

For the Record. On Tuesday night, BBC Radio Scotland's coverage consisted of Big Dick, Wullie Miller, and Neil McCann sat in a PQ studio watching a screen. A triumphalistic Big Dick flashed his usual credentials, "eight Aberdeen players were cautioned, on another day, another referee, at another venue might have booked three or four less. Eventually, the referee cautioned three Rangers players". For the first time this season, an opposition manager was interviewed after the game, Derek McInnes damned Rangers with faint praise, "Rangers are a good team, they've spent a small fortune assembling this side". Big Dick's last two questions were concerning the outrageous eight cautions. I wonder if Steve Clarke will be interviewed post-match tomorrow? Sportscene saw Dandy Don, Jonathon Sutherland shoot the messenger. When Steven Thomson and James McFadden cued the behind the goal camera angle for the Morelos booking for diving/penalty incident involving Consedine, Sutherland's comment was, "ah, the x-ray camera". Jonathon offered no comment, moved swiftly on when Thommo and Faddy declared the incident a penalty and a red card for the Aberdeen defender. Neither Sportsound nor Sportscene mentioned the sectarian and offensive chanting emanating from the Aberdeen fans. Yesterday, BBC Radio Scotland's lunch time news had the sectarian chanting as the headline, by Five O'Clock, it had disappeared from the news lines. It appeared on BBC Scotland's Ceefax service under the headline, 'police look into sectarian singing'. I suspect other news outlets reporting the issue has forced BBC Scotland into brief box ticking mentions. Certainly, no phone-ins, media review discussions, no in depth interviews, ...... etc. Steve Clarke's sensitivity is far more important, or maybe songs about the Ibrox Disaster, Durrant, Gerrard, ..... etc do not fit the PQ agenda?

It's been a long, long working week for Rangers fans. Last weekend was a write-off before it even really got started with a dreadful draw after dominating at Easter Road - made worse by Celtic dropping points the following day at home to Aberdeen. It was to get worse, however, just a few days later as Rangers yet again didn't learn anything from that game - nor previous matches against the Dons in Glasgow - as we completely failed to breach their defensive block at Ibrox on Tuesday night. Understandably the reaction from our support has been extremely negative. Everyone from key players, to the manager, to the scouting team, right through to Mark Allen and Dave King have been the focus of the fans' frustration. Not enough quality, not enough character, not enough tactical awareness, poor signings, reliance on Bosmans and not enough investment from directors means one can take their pick for another two poor results as our inconsistency in 2019 perhaps cost us any chance of a trophy this season. In that sense, no-one can argue the listed points are wrong. We do lack quality in the squad and we only need a few players to not be on their game (or nullified by the opposition) to effectively be impotent. We do lack character as well throughout the team: yes, we've shown we can compete in most games (nay dominate them) but lose a goal or miss a few chances then heads go down and the lack of belief is obvious. Tactical awareness is also key: I doubt many fans would have started the last two games with a different team or system but if the manager's preferred 4-3-3 isn't working (or has been countered) then he has to be prepared to change it quicker than he does. The same goes if certain players are not playing well - why wait until the 70th minute before making a change? With that in mind, is this delay down to a lack of faith in the manager's squad and, if so, who is responsible for that. Is it Gerrard himself, lead scout Andy Scoulding or Mark Allen who supposedly oversees all recruitment? And if that Director of Football system is failing, what responsibility do the board of directors and chairman take therein? Ultimately though we do need to retain a sense of perspective. Yes, of course all the problems above are worthy of discussing and to ignore them would be daft. Yet, at the same time, we've all seen the good performances this season: those periods of games where our football has actually been outstanding and only that oft-seen lack of clinicality has cost us too many lost points. It seems a long while ago now but our performances in Europe had us all very positive and generally showed our 4-3-3 to be very useful in many situations. Ergo, in this commentator's opinion, progress has been made this season under Steven Gerrard. We must remember this is the manager's first job and the raft of changes to accommodate his ideas and that of Mark Allen were always going to necessitate a bedding-in period. This also means more patience from the supporters - hard to find when being beaten by Aberdeen in Glasgow, in all three competitions for the first time - but I see few other alternatives to speed up the process of bringing back success. Gerrard has only had two windows and, whilst the jury is out on how successful these windows have been, one year isn't enough for any manager to instil his vision on a club. Are we to change manager every year and give them just a few months to overtake Celtic? Progress made then? Yes, so far at least, we have improved. I've seen stats offered up by critics that we're no better off than under Warburton or Caixinha/Murty and I find that difficult to reconcile. There are definitely similarities in our weaknesses but we need only look at the league table to see we're better off. I'd also consider the Premiership to be as competitive as it's been in 30 years so whilst the Old Firm's budgets should mean a cushion between us and the rest, we dismiss well-drilled teams like Aberdeen, Kilmarnock and Hearts with wily, experienced managers at our peril. Indeed, defeats like we witnessed the other night should allow us all to refocus. Derek McInnes may well have turned down the Rangers job last year and his teams are hardly Man City-like in style but he's not daft either and deserves respect. The same goes for Stevie Clarke, Craig Levein and, dare I say it, Neil Lennon. All played the game to a decent level and can clearly coach well too. Gerrard may have blown them all away as a player but he's a mere infant by way of comparison in the dugout. Fortunately, our manager is someone that doesn't usually shirk a challenge nor hide from criticism. He'll be as aware as you or I as to his and his team's faults. And it will be interesting to see how he reacts to waters as stormy as he'll have faced in several years. Of course he'll be wanting new signings to help but, to maximise any summer budget, he'll need to demonstrate further worth over the next 6-8 weeks. Realistically the eight point gap to Celtic is unlikely to be breached, but we have the same lead over Aberdeen and Killie so securing second place via a strong finish in the league is the least fans will expect. With that in mind, and with us facing both Killie and Celtic over the next fortnight, the manager will require to provide points from these matches. Kilmarnock will likely look to mimic Aberdeen's well-organised resistance tomorrow so Gerrard has had a few days to come up with a different tactical plan to get around their low block and physical midfield. Meanwhile, at Celtic Park on the last day of March, the usual 4-3-3 might be best as we look to match what we did to Lennon's men three months ago at Ibrox. Being able to move between different systems and formations isn't something we've done all that well this season - at least from losing positions - so doing so over the rest of this campaign will allay some of the fears over the manager. Tactical flexibility and pragmatism was something that Walter Smith excelled at, as well as getting the best out of many ordinary players, so if Gerrard wants sage advice, then he need only pick up the phone. All things considered I think this will mean a formation change tomorrow with two players up front. Quite simply the responsibility forced on Alfredo Morelos each week is unrealistic and why sign Jermain Defoe for 18 months if you're not going to use him properly? As such, whether it's the diamond or even the glimpse and you'll miss it 3-5-2 we've seen a couple of times this season, one will be deployed this weekend. It will also be interesting to see if there are any personnel changes within that with several players in obvious need of being rotated out and rested. I'd expect to see Ross McCrorie and Steven Davis back in the starting XI along with someone like Eros Grezda from the bench. No matter the selection, three points need to be ground out and the players also need to show some mental strength and adaptability in front of what will always be an unreasonably expectant home crowd. In that regard, it's hard to blame the fans for often being so demanding. As a dominant Celtic: be it football wise, in finance terms or politically off the field, retain a stranglehold on their way to breaking all records, our fans become ever more concerned about the future. I wholly share in that concern but stamping our feet every time we lose a game won't bring success back any quicker. Of course we're absolutely right to criticise and our, quite frankly, incredible loyalty since the frauds of 2012 means we're entitled to expect more but any criticism must be realistic, fair and in proportion. It's often lazy and cliched to refer to Bill Struth when writing about Rangers but his words have never been more relevant for modern day Rangers fans: "Never fear, inevitably we shall have our years of failure, and when they arrive, we must reveal tolerance and sanity." Approaching a decade on on from the disgraces of David Murray and the cheats of Craig Whyte, Charles Green and the Easdales, the virtues mentioned become harder to come by but prevail we must. No matter how long it takes...

Just watched Wolves game won 2-1 totally deserved.

We simply need to get players in midfield who can play a ball through a defence or are brave enough to try it . We also need a midfielder who can hit a ball from 30 yards or so , it stops teams from sitting in as someone needs to break out to close that type of player down , today was brutal again .

I can't believe that Davis didn't shoot from 6 yards.

It is currently: HT Swansea City 2 - 0 Man City. (Barrie McKay on the bench--could we get him back?)

Season is completely unraveling. Squad seem tired and bereft of confidence.

And the Frenchman Guy Rope.

Ach--we'll beat Celtic next week... then lose to Hearts.

No I didn't really get the Davis vibes either to be honest. As you say What the heck was McGregor doing at their goal. Also Goldson should have walked with that tackle at the end.

Not sure I agree with Davis? I don’t think he’s up to much and Kamara was MOTM for me but Killie just sat in. Who knows what shagger doing at their goal? We were poor in quality again and were lucky to get a point as we have no penetration. Alfie got us out of jail with a bit of magic. I suspect Halliday has done his hamstring and that’s why he was subbed at HT? Anyway, another toiling and arduous afternoon!

Oh you dirty thing.

FT, 1-1. We huffed and puffed -- I can't fault the effort -- but the quality is lacking; our confidence is so low too. I thought Davis was fantastic. Grezda looks to be a good option, if we can get him back fit. It was just one moment of complacent stupidity. It happens far too often.

Hullaw.

Sorry @DMAA -- Kent has gone back to wide Left, Grezda wide right. Hehehe...

Won't be seeing Defoe and Lafferty together then.

Kent on the right, Grezda left, I think?

We are not going to get anywhere then - just a repeat of Tuesday night.

I don’t understand why he hasn’t ever switched Kent.

The problem is that they are not that kind of player, none of them are offensive enough.

We have three midfielders who are behind the ball all the time. One or two of them must make runs into the box to open things up.

Several. No one closes down their CB; Goldson is caught under the ball; Katic is not covering closely enough; and McGregor totally commits himself for nothing.

Davis and Kent have started lively here. They're both moving the ball quickly which is great to see.

I feel like our attacking structure looks like this: Morelos Kent - Davis - Coulibaly - Candeias - Tavernier Kamara Halliday - Katic - Goldson However, Kent has a tendency to drift about too much. I think if he kept his discipline out wide, we'd be able to create some good 1-on-1's for him.

Counter from Killie sums us up. Their long ball hits off Brophy's arse and actually helps them work a chance. Brophy pulls up taking the shot, which hit the side-netting. McAleny comes on to replace Brophy.

I doubt it unfortunately: Norwich have been consistently effective.

I just hope both of them finish above Norwich.

Fixed that for you.

Looks like someone is happy at least.

Will our fans be unloaded at full time or have to risk life and limb leaving this midden

NACHO NOVO has accused the SFA of 'destroying the game' in an X-rated rant. He wrote on Instagram: "Right how am I going to start here. "If three guys on a panel say that was a dive then listen it's time to stop drinking. I said before all of you at the SFA need to stop that yous are killing the game. "We ask for no favours but this is getting out of control. "I'm a Rangers fan and I'm proud to be but f*** me wake up. You are destroying the game ???????" https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/football/4003017/nacho-novo-sfa-destroying-the-game-rangers-x-rated-rant/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1552676191

If he spent a week at the piggery he' d have it down to a fine art.

Which leads a person to think on the question - Is the CO system corrupt?

Once again a bizarre decision. Morelos was clearly impeded and whilst he may well have made the most of the contact, it was a foul and certainly not a dive. Have to admit, I don't understand how anyone - retired referee or not, can think anything else.

Charles, with your petition you’ve got a big choir singing a great anthem but only the choristers are there to listen. When you reckon you’ve got as many signatures as you’re going to get, email the Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee at the SP, summarise Dornan’s blatant behaviour and tell them you’ve got whatever number of online backing. Issue a press release. Get a decent journo if you can find one to help with the wording because they know what people will read. Keep control of it yourself, though. Better still, stand in his constituency at the next election. I’d have to move house but I’d vote for you. Anti Maggot Party sounds good.