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Rangers travel to the Netherlands on Thursday to play Feyenoord in Rotterdam. Their name is now spelled Feyenoord but was originally Feijenoord. They updated their name from the old Feijenoord and took a modern English language plunge to Feyenoord in 1974 - pity really; changing your original historical name. For anyone who has been to the Feijenoord stadium, known as de Kuip (the bath tub), will know it is a mass of steel. I would rate it higher quality than tin city on the east side of Glasgow, though. During the war years the Germans wanted to demolish it for the scrap metal to turn the steel into weapons but the director of the stadium estimated a much lower tonnage of high class steel and the Germans decided it was not worth knocking down. Later the stadium was also used for pop concerts and my moment of fame was going to watch Pink Floyd playing there in 1988 which was unfortunately the last time the band toured Holland. As we all know Jaap Stam begun the season as manager. Jaap was probably one of the best defenders you could get but after a spell of managing Reading and PEC Zwolle he got a move to Feyenoord,. The team started off playing not great and quickly got worse. Defeat against Rangers, who a certain Dutch journalist called a nothing club, and a chanceless 4-0 defeat against Ajax saw Jaap fall on his sword. Since he left, players have come out and said he was unclear in his instructions. Why didn't they tell him that at the time seems a logical question for me? After his management performances up until now questions do have to be asked about his coaching ability and man management, I am afraid. After Stam departed, Rangers old boss Dick Advocaat took over as interim manager until the end of the season. Dick Advocaat will do one thing to the team: discipline. He is up to this point unbeaten but after Feyenoord drew 1-1 with Groningen at the weekend the same Dutch journalist stated on telly last night that even Dick Advocaat can't polish a jobby! The fact that Feyenoord had less possession than Groningen must set some alarm bells ringing in Rotterdam. In general though, Dutch Journalists expect Feyenoord to win and stated they could not name one player in the Rangers team. I would say that it is their lack of knowledge as Steven Davis missed a penalty against their national team just a few day's earlier. I have to say that one of the problems with Feyenoord is that they have really only one central striker in Nicolai Jorgensen and he is pretty much always injured. The only other specialist central striker they have is a seventeen year old kid who is still learning his trade. They have been trying many other permutations of wingers or attacking midfielders with Luis Sinisterra playing there recently as striker, but obviously a natural striker is a big part of the backbone to the team. At the back their big money defensive buy Argentinian Marcos Senasi has instead of being a rock in defence actually become a laughing stock amongst the media. They have have painted him as the big money defender who can't defend and can't pass a ball more than a few metres. Dick Advocaat defended him this week saying he will be money well spent, and to be honest he had a reasonable game against Groningen, so maybe he just had problems getting used to his different surroundings. It is my view that we cannot let Feyenoord play football. We have to be in their faces every minute of the game. Defensively they are weak and Morelos should be able to role their defenders. I would try to let them give the ball to Senasi and the put pressure on him to make a mistake. If we let them come at us then they do have players that can hurt us in Steven Berghuis, Luis Sinisterra and Sam Larsson. Obviously a forward line built for on the ground football and not for high balls into the area. With Jens Toonstra, Leroy Fer and Orkun Kökcü they have a decent midfield but certainly not world beaters. Rangers Rangers didn't play that great on Sunday but we got the three points. Playing bad and still getting the points, is the sign of a good team. If we defend as we did on Sunday though then Feyenoord could rip us apart. The Hamilton goal was a comedy of errors with our central defenders caught out of position and Barisic looking on like he had bought a ticket for the game. Thankfully our defending has been great in Europe so hopefully we can keep the clean sheet and get the win or draw that we need. One thing we can all be sure of is that Alfredo Morelos and Ryan Kent must, and barring injury, will play. Morelos' value to the team is of paramount importance and Sunday's game showed that Jermain Defoe when not scoring goals is a virtual passenger. Morelos can score and also hold up the ball to bring the midfield into play. I may be biased but in my eyes Steven Davis, Ryan Jack and Glen Kamara are certainties for the midfield and are good enough to dominate the Feyenoord midfield. I think Ojo will make up the wide right position. With the knowledge that Feyenoord have small, quick technical footballers and virtually no aerial threat, would it possibly be better to have Edmundson at the back other than Filip Helander? We all know Goldson won't be dropped but Edmundson certainly looks quicker than both. I doubt Gerrard will mess around with the defence to be honest. I think the Rangers team will be: A draw will probably take us through to the next round depending on the result between Young Boys v Porto. With a Porto win being the only result to stop that. One thing is certain: to be sure, two wins from the last two games would be just what the doctor ordered and give certain Dutch football pundits a remembrance of who the famous Glasgow Rangers are and our players names. C'mon the Gers.

Just hope we can keep Morelos past January. Unthinkable without him.

Brilliant that we are disappointed about 2-2 result away to Feyenoord, how far have we come!

The club must intervene, the banner MUST NOT BE DISPLAYED TONIGHT. Failing that, Rangers supporters must not allow that banner to be displayed. Further, Rangers must act on those travelling with the banner.

Your reluctance is not validated in any way and if you don't see the problem with this then you're part of the problem. What is it about this that you don't grasp is nothing but detrimental to the club? Because it wasn't unfurled it's not a problem? Are you for real or trolling? It's all over the internet and simply feeds the fire of the clubs alleged sectarianism which is not a trivial issue. And you don't comprehend that? Mind boggling.

I keep thinking back to that last gasp goal at Young Boys. If not for that we would already be qualified. Porto will beat Feyenoord at home, everybody does. So we need to avoid defeat against YB.

Stone wall penalty when the Feyenoord player was all over Morelos back, unbelievable it wasn't given

Actually the very fact it exists and is a potential million pound loss is reason for worry and not odd at all. The very fact these complete tits made this thing which is now circulating widely is maddening and it's not odd at all that people are pissed off about it.

Back where we belong - just wish we could get that right side sorted. IMO we haven't really replaced Candeias.

Also tonight makes him the first Rangers player ever to score in four consecutive European games.

Preferably but avoiding defeat guarantees qualification which has to be the priority.

No we need to win against the Young Boys and head the group.

Arfield has struggled to get up to speed

Tits, retards and morons? You should come to a match and put them in their place. ?

Agreed, but i hope both get to the top, have seen a bit of Gilmour and he looks promising.

Even if that banner never had the term ****** on it, and even if it wasn't likely to get the club in the shit, it would still be pathetic. It's Tim like behaviour to be bringing a flag about your rivals.

Agree. This is just bloody silly, as bad as anything the Green Brigade do.

Call themselves supporters? Fucking idiot Blue Tims.

Young players should be taking a lesson from the GOAT. Messi has shown that you'll gain more from staying up/bouncing up than going down willy-nilly.

I am wary of the accuracy of descriptions like ' a Club in chaos', as I watched one last night, and it held L'pool to a draw at Anfield, with a pretty impressive performance, particularly that of its defence. I don't expect Feyenoord to be other than a very competent Continental side, which we will do well to match. Of course, I hope that I am wrong, and they are a heap of shite, which we will dispose of readily.

And now you know why B.B.C. Scotland staff have a job.

To be brutally honest, Candeias was OK but far from flawless and while Ojo can indeed be a liability at times, if I was charged with finding replacement it sure as hell wouldn't be Candeias. It's worth reminding ourselves that Daniel Candeias wasn't sold, he chose to leave at a time when the club wasn't looking for a buyer for him.

That's it then, yellow card for a sneeze and a red card for a cough? Aaaarrrggghhh!

Should never have sold him. Ojo is awful

I wondered who Lawwell would choose.

Can you make this an open vote please?

Morelos’s headers were world class. I think hisbheading has come on in leaps and bounds.

as I said in the preview their defenders can't build from the back. That is where we have to get pressure on. We did it a few times and they were all over the place. They are pressurising us and it has to be the other way round.

I will tell the jokes!

Stranger things have happened. ?

Advocaat being vague about that.

Oh, one more thing....

The Dutch are lucky barsteeds, not having to suffer those purveyors of Prawg Rawk, Pink Floyd for 31 years.

Pity some candidate standing in the this election in Scotland didn't make it a point of his canvassing to say he or she would demand a police investigation into this club and their paedophile ex employees, a let's get it out once and for all who knew what and name the ones involved .

Sometimes I think it’s a waste of time commenting on these things while the gushing is still in full flow and any attempt to express a sense of balance will only be seen as disloyalty or troublemaking. But viewing Dave King as a loss would be wrong. At the time he took over, we needed someone like King who was strongly motivated by emotional conviction and personally willing to fund the turnaround. On the whole, he’s definitely been good for Rangers, vital even, but I cannot see serious investors being encouraged by his style of leadership and I believe King is smart enough to know that. He’s going because he knows he is or will become a barrier to progress. He’ll always be a key figure in the Rangers’ story but I suspect his chapter is over and the opening lines of the next are already being written. I’m excited. Let’s go!

some may not agree with the way he has went about certain things but i really dread to think where we would be today if he hadn’t stepped up when he did. we certainly wouldn’t be joint top of the premier league, be one win away from the knock-out stages of the europa league, in a league cup final, have a footballing icon as our manager and a squad full of top international players. to think it was only 4 years ago they took on a a challenge that saw a kenny mcdowall led team with the 5 newcastle loanees and a 6-1 aggregate drubbing from motherwell just around the corner. it’s remarkable the turnaround. thank you dave king.

Clearly not. Remember that this was the guy who went unpunished for saying that tax avoidance was as bad as child molesting. How can anyone vote for a scumbag who thinks that, never mind one who says it publicly and thinks he's right?!? And that's the current state of our political class?