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I'd like us to be a team that can open up defences at will and be utterly clinical when scoring chances come along. When teams pack their defence I'd like a Rangers team that cuts through them like a hot knife through butter. I'd like to see us score no less than 5 goals in every game and win the league by 30 points. I'd like us to lift every trophy for the next 10 years. Sadly, we have neither the players nor the manager to make any of that happen. So until they ask me to run the club I'll go on doing what I've done for the last 50 years - hope for the best from the team we've got and that the referees don't hinder us too much.

Kicking the shit out of people in midfield ?

Win by four or win by one...still gets you three.

I find it hard to believe either Davis or Defoe will justify their wages this season. Gerrard needs to be very sure that their wages couldn’t produce a better return elsewhere.

If you are going to have a female talking football I want to at least see a female who is a former pro. Sports broadcasting is full of useless, yappin females sat between former/current male professionals playing talk show mommy. They contribute nothing, as 99% of them have no actual experience playing the game at a high level.

She is Rhys McCabes Auntie.

Me too although it is good to see women who wish too taking part in any sport I do not like them commentating/interviewing men in football.

Why don’t you hand back your ST and ask for a refund if you feel so bad about it? That’ll save you £15 every game, got to be a good deal.

Impressive line-up (not sure what Shelley Kerr is doing there?) and hopefully they deliver a professional broadcast on Sunday. It does stick in the throat a bit that I have paid around £25 for this game through my ST, but if I didnt renew I can get the exact same access for £9.99. Those of us who renewed are being taken for absolute mugs, again!

I have the same memories of Brown playing all over. He even played left back sometimes. Especially when Gough and McLaren were a pairing?

I think there were some positives but the same old hesitancy was clear once we’d taken the lead. There’s something fundamentally lacking in our footballing ethos. The last 8 years have left deep scars in the psyche of the club that only trophies with heal.

Correct. Brown was a bit of a utility player, from memory.

I'm just not a fan of his voice or his style and I think at times his banter is pish.

I disagree slightly. It is concerning we didn't kill the game off but that was down to us not shooting enough (Jack not pulling the trigger from 20 yards), a goal line clearance and a great last ditch tackle on Aribo. I actually think we have a lot more movement in the front 3 this year as they're being more interchangeable. Also, Aribo is being more brave than last year. He's really driving into space when he gets the chance. I think it's different from last year because as we all know we were too side to side or didn't have a penetrable pass or run. I don't think that was the case yesterday. I noticed something we seem to be trying is a wall pass tactic. Midfielder plays it in to a front man who first times it back with a defender on him. Our attacker then spins out and one of the other attackers comes into that space to receive with the intent to turn in that space towards goal or play in the first attacker. With some fine tuning this will cause defences headaches.

Never seen anything new/different in our play! some good tidy football and a 0-1 win.

Well, if the opportunities do not present themselves you are left with what you have. We simply cannot score on a whim...very few teams can. If they are not opening up and they are attempting to get us from a set piece or on the counter...that is pretty much what we can expect. Bro...be happy...we got through the first one with all three. That's really all that matters.

Can Defoe play a full season? Doesn’t look like it to me. And when Defoe does play hopefully our manager doesn’t play him up front on his own,a role he’s not suited to in my opinion

Peter told him he wouldn't need one.

Would agree entirely with Tsb. I braced myself before hand by finger hovering over the mute button ready for the usual string of pysh from the Sky Rangers haters. Really pleased they have ditched that supercilious tw*t Commons. Like you I thought Fletcher was a breath of fresh air, no agenda and a really good analyst as well. Great to see two ex Rangers as well in Boyd & McCoist. Best of all, however, no Andy (the tramp) Walker on co-commentary. Hopefully no more of his "impartial" commentary on all things Rangers!

Since 1888, it's been an insatiable consummation. Six Irish immigrant families, mostly Publicans decide to form a football club, inspired by Edinburgh based Irish immigrants that had formed Hibernian. They found land, rented it for a few months, and filled in the quarry with over 200, 000 voluntary carts of soil/aggregate. a Football field was created, two Grandstands built(one privately owned by the Glass family), and a velodrome installed. Two successful football clubs were invited to play an exhibition match, Renton and Hibs provided the entree, subsequently divided into better halves, they became ra Sellik. The original Hibs were dissolved and Renton succumbed to Junior football. It's how it began. A club that these days claims it was open to all at it's founding, set out in the late 1880s/early 1890s to morally compromise rc players to play for the rc club. This included players originally at Rangers such as Neil McCallum and Doc Kivlichan. The opprobrium faced by the early Sellik was a result of continuous stealing of other clubs' players. Such arrogance so casually displayed was an anathema. The epitome was a priest in Falkirk smuggling a Falkirk FC player(who was rc) out of the town in a hand cart, during silent hours to meet Sellik officials in the morning. Appropriation was in with the building blocks. In my lifetime, ra Sellik have stolen Liverpool's 'You'll never walk alone' and claimed it as their own. Producers at BBC Scotland made the documentary, not telling the listenership they were BBC Producers. They told of the emotion singing the song, visualising their deceased mothers whilst belting out lyrics about suicide. Barcelona FC were next, they were more than a club. However, ra Sellik's sense of vicTIMhood was such, they were more worthy of the statement ie ra Sellik had suffered 40 years of subjugation by Franco. The support wanted to believe it, it became so, as it had for almost 100 years before. Cultural appropriation is their rite of passage. The latest sack of pysh is His Bobness of Marley was a mad, mental Sellik supporter. Yep, a born'n'bred Jamaican from the blue mountains, became hooked on ra green;n;grey hooped horrors in the early/mid sixties by tuning into the BBC World Service. Lying in his cot, he had foresaken rock steady and ska blasted by Prince Buster's sound system, to hear tales of Seezur and Jinky. They crave it, it, it's what they want, it's how it should be. Why? This well trod path of least resistance does not belong to Yahoos in exclusivity. My introduction to Bob was in 1973, he appeared with the Wailers on the Old Grey Whistle Test. I bought 'Catch a Fire' the following weekend. I was in a world of Bob, Bunny, Peter Tosh, Family Man, .....etc. It confirmed my preferred prejudice, Island Records also had Free on the label, and who amplified better tone than Paul Kossoff? My first year at Uni' in 1974 began most days in a flat in Great George Street with 'Stir it Up', first track, second side of the Wailers first Island album. In June'76, we took the Union mini-bus to Bellevue, Manchester to see, more appropriately worship at the altar of Bob. A haze of ganja enveloped the auditorium, but no mention of ra Sellik. Bob's wikipedia tells of a life long support for Santos, he loved Pele. Bob was raised catholic but converted to Rastafarianism. He played football constantly whilst in London but never journeyed 400 miles to watch ra Sellik. He passed 40 years past without mentioning the bad word. What encourages the Yahoos conviction, other than desire? I would encourage the separated entity to continue their next cultural appropriation by focusing their attention upon the Bob tribute act, 'Big Jah Knew and the Wail, Wailers'. Their A cappella rendition of Three little boys by my doorstep, singing sweet songs .... will blow your cheese. Martin Luther King Junior did lots of good things, why don't ra Sellik appropriate him?