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Garbage. When we need a goal and SG brings Ojo on, I always feel like that's game over. We've now dropped 9 points against Hearts and Aberdeen.

We could have played till tomorrow and never scored, it was obvious that changes had to be made and made long before they were. Ojo on at 60 mins. Who would think that would be beneficial? Hagi on at 75 mins, why not 30 mins before that. Kamberi after that. Our manager is showing his inexperience/stubbornness/poor judgement whatever. The 2 new signings should have been on at half time.

Absolute bottling bastards, that's the league over for another season!.

Breach of the Peace? Thirty odd years past, I was temporarily posted to Shrewsbury. The local blat carried a story of a couple of incidents occurring in folks driveways, Immediately after parking their cars, they heard noises outside, on looking out they noted a chap half underneath, at the back of their cars. On reopening the main door, said chap jumped up and ran off. Both cars were Volkswagen Golf GTIs. Later in the month, a just parked Golf GTI attracted the attention of a chap behaving similarly. A female in her flat across from the parked car called the Police. Two beat Cops around the corner nabbed and arrested the guy. He was charged with Breach of the Peace. He appeared in court a few weeks later, and it came out in the proceedings. The lad had a fetish for hot exhausts and a blistered dick. It was explained the Polis and CPS could not find a specific charge, thus Breach is a cover all. I think a Lamborghini has four exhaust pipes?

That is a damning statistic. He has scored some important goals but continues to take men on then do nothing. I hope SG is asking the squad what the Hell is up with them!? I'm almost thinking Celtc beating us before the Winter break might be a good thing. That's twice we've beaten them and come back a team of half-arsed, gutless wonders.

If it wasn't for our goalie they could be celebrating a win today

I asked me wee niece what she thought of it? She said they "looked tired and couldn't be bother with it". That's from an 11 year old which tells you everything.

Awful performance from start to finish. When you see ojo coming on to save you it makes you ill.

A huge blow, and I am inclined to think, a possibly mortal blow.

The late Jock Wallace is often characterised as the archetypal old school manager; gruff, authoritarian, intimidating, bellowing orders and ruling through fear. Some of that might be true, but it’s also true of many football managers of that era. What’s so often overlooked about Wallace was his subtle use of psychology. Wallace was faced with a daunting task when he assumed the mantel of Rangers manager. Not only was he in direct competition with Jock Stein, a manager of incredible ability, but also a Celtic side containing hugely talented and experienced players who knew how to win the league. Wallace’s first season in charge saw Rangers finish 5 points behind the champions and one point behind second place Hibs. Wallace knew that Rangers had good players, we’d won the Cup Winners Cup only a couple of years before, and any squad that contained Greig, Jardine, McLean, MacDonald and Johnstone was as good as any in the league. Wallace understood that what was missing was belief and a mental toughness. Wallace needed something that made his players believe they were unbeatable, something that gave them a psychological edge over their opposition. Wallace found the answer on a beach overlooking the Firth of Forth close to where he was raised. Murder Hill, as it came to be known, is simply a long, steep sand dune. Wallace knew about it from his childhood, local sports clubs, including Hearts, had trained on the Gullane sands for years before Wallace took his Rangers side there. But most of the Rangers players didn’t know about it. The squad were made to run up and down it, sometimes carrying medicine balls, sometimes teammates. The mix of the coastal wind and the sand made the players thirsty, the sand would get everywhere making them uncomfortable and the gruelling nature of the training exhausted this band of fit young men, as all pre-season training does. Wallace was able to convince his players that this pre-season work had made them fitter than they had ever been before. He convinced them they were now the fittest team in the league, that no other side could live with their strength. His final masterstroke was telling the press about it. Not only did the Rangers players believe it but so did the support and, importantly, the opposition too. We welcome, if that’s the right word, Aberdeen to Ibrox this Saturday. Unusually for a match between the clubs it takes place at 3pm on a Saturday. Aberdeen arrive in poor form with only one win in their last four, a scrappy 1-0 over Dumbarton in the cup. Their support are restless, the turgid, pragmatic football Derek McInnes sets his side up to play can be tolerated when it brings victories but finds you friendless when it doesn’t. It’s almost surreal to think 24 months ago we were still smarting from being unable to prise him from Aberdeen’s grasp. As Ross Bennett on the Gersnet Podcast quipped it’s the greatest bullet dodge since The Matrix. I expect Aberdeen to bring a defensive mindset, giving us the ball until the final third, then filling it with bodies and closing the space. They’ll aim to frustrate our players and perhaps our support. Prepare for a physical match, lots of niggles, off the ball stuff and gamesmanship. We enter the match still missing our captain and first choice right back and our most influential midfielder in Jack along with Helander and Defoe. At the time of writing we look to be signing Hagi and possibly one or two others. I wouldn’t expect any of them to start though our bench might contain some new faces. Polster should retain his place, personally I think anyone looks good when compared to Flanagan, but in the case of Polster he does seem to bring something to the team. Aberdeen will be a test of his attacking ability, he’ll spend most of the match in their half, so his passing and crossing will be vital. I expect Arfield will also retain his place in midfield, along with Davis and Kamara. Whether Ojo has done enough to keep a starting spot is harder to guess, I suspect not and think Aribo with start along with Kent. Defoe’s absence is lessened by the return of Morelos. Morelos will be targeted by the Aberdeen players and probably their support. A support who think nothing of singing about the 66 football supporters who tragically died whilst at the site of that disaster are almost beyond redemption. I suspect Ian Durrant will get a mention too. Morelos has more reason than most to be fearful of opposition supporters. Already this week police are investigating an incident with his car and intruder close to his home and a man called Sean Baillie appeared in court charged in relation with throwing a cup of scalding liquid at Morelos during a recent Motherwell match. Morelos has to face this whilst living thousands of miles from home and with his wife expecting their first child. Gerrard has played down the incidents and their affect on Morelos, as is Gerrard’s style, but I’m not sure if I believe him. The hatred Morelos faces has long ago crossed the line from supporter rivalry and into something altogether more sinister. The man in court this week is 30 years old, he’s not some daft teenager. For me this is the culmination of years of public demonisation of Rangers. The neanderthal narrative some love to peddle stops being banter and turns into something much darker when it fuels the kind of incidents we’re seeing now. That we face Aberdeen this weekend, one of the more enthusiastic participants in the denigration of our club and our support, is fitting. That they went to the bother of creating a banner, in Spanish, aimed squarely at Morelos tells you all you need to know about the mindset of some of their support. This act by their support was ignored by the SPFL and the police, but hey, it’s only the funny wee foreign lad after all. It’s been open season on the league’s top scorer for a while now, players, managers, referees, supporters and the media have all been complicit in this. As for the match itself we should win comfortably. But then we should have won our last encounter with Aberdeen comfortably too. Throwing away a 2 goal league was very disappointing, particularly after having dominated the match. We were mentally weak that night, unable to match Aberdeen’s rise in tempo and direct style. That weakness was evident again last weekend at Tynecastle. This will be our third league match in 7 days, surely we’re now over any rustiness that set in after the winter break. The clever thing about Murder Hill of course is that you don’t actually get any fitter running up and down sand dunes than you would running on a treadmill or round a track; you just think you do. Wallace understood this, he knew the dunes helped the side’s mental strength far more than its collective stamina. Gerrard needs to find his Murder Hill, the thing that galvanises the squad and makes them fully believe they are unbeatable. Saturday would be the perfect day discover it.

If Hagi was deemed fit enough for 12 mins he should have been on at 60 mins instead of Ojo.

Ojo’s confidence has gone. Bringing him on expecting him to do something was madness

We lack a cutting edge up front. And our MF simply don’t get enough goals. They constantly go from side to side & backwards. The only positive from today I thought was when we had two up front for the final 15 minutes we looked better. Their defence had to work harder. Had we done that earlier I think we’d have won

I don't like to be too critical of him at the match now. When I see him coming on though I assume we are conceding the match.

That Ojo should have been booked for a lunge after the game was stopped (for a different foul and booking). The ref was practically standing over the incident.

Decent window - some dead wood shifted, all our top players still here (Some on extended contracts) and two players in.

That’ll be what he means. A lot of people felt we should have already had 3 as Stewart isn’t a natural striker. In our financial position I think 3 is fine. You can attract a higher calibre of player when they aren’t coming to be 4th choice too.

We don't know how fit Hagi and Kamberi are, so I'll give SG the benefit of the doubt there. Ojo, however...I hold Gerrard responsible for making that same mistake repeatedly.

Complete lack of composure in front of goal. Dreadful delivery into the box. The waste of set pieces was a hallmark of a confused and feckless team. Very very disappointing, nowhere near a title winning outfit I’m afraid.

It's a bitter blow. We're now falling towards a place where we're going to be dependent on others to take something from them.

How pathetic this all was again. Not a sliver of doubt that one or two Sheep would have walked - first half even - had this been the Scumhut. Came to defend, had a few good counters and dug in. My arse, what a shambles. We should have treid more from the outside of the area, had our chances, but in the end not enough. Good game from Polster again, great saves from McGregor and some bright sparks from hagi. Let`s hope the Scum drop points tomorrow ...

A pathetic performance

Since we've come back we've just looked incapable of scoring. The lack of penetration is so frustrating to watch.

Astounding that we have almost as many bookings as they do.

How many free hits does that bastard Logan get?

I didn't recognise our style of play in the first 30 minutes. The ball spent more time in the air in that first half than it ha s all season. Why do we allow ourselves to get dragged into the match that Aberdeen, Hearts, etc want us to play? Please Rangers play our own style and we will blow this mob away. If we continue to play their way we will find trouble, especially because they're allowed to foul us constantly without consequence. These bloody referees are useless and don't help the Scottish game develop technically. Cosgrove, Ojo and Consadi e should all be on yellows. Shocking!!!

Some real hammer throwers here, if the ref refuses to book them then what can we do? It's crazy what you can get away with in our game.

Kamberi is the striker; it is his natural position, despite being played elsewhere for Hibs.

Most of his career appearances have been for Cowdenbeath pre 2014 where he primarily played up front, but since Dundee in 2014 he’s primarily been a winger or attacking midfielder. Ryan Jack used to be a right back and Graeme Shinie used to be a left back but players change over time. That said I’ve always said I’m fine with him a 3rd striker because you don’t need one very often.

Correct the man at the left with the flat cap is Jimmy Clark he ran the Rangers bus from Bridgeton me and some friends travelled on it a couple of times a couple of weeks ago I put something on about supporters clubs and I believe the Jimmy Clark is still going

I'll make my prediction for the following game right now ..... 5-0 HAGI. I can't believe I get to put that name down as OUR first goal scorer in the next game. Never thought I'd see the day. For me, the only thing that will top that is if Kaka has a son who plays for us next.

As ye sew, so shall ye reap.

IMO if he is found to working on behalf of any media outlet Morelos and Rangers should sue them to the limit.

Oh.... balls

I shall be deleting my account presently.