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The Eye of the Tiger, a book on the great captain, available on Amazon at £15.99 from 11 October. I can’t copy the cover illustration but check it on Amazon and you’ll see why Bobby Shearer, Tam Forsyth and Don Corleone aren’t so frightening after all.

I take it that he wasn't called "Tiger" because he ate Frosties.

Leaving Ibrox yesterday after drawing 1-1 with Motherwell, considerable angst was being expressed. I thought our falling out the game in the last thirty minutes was in part due to a Euro-hangover. Lyon had the majority of the possession on Thursday and the legs were wearying in the latter stages against the claret and amber. Fifty years past, the ECWC away draw in Rennes inspired the team. An away league game at Brockville was tricky in the early 70s. The Bairns had a couple of former Rangers in their ranks, Denis Setterington and Elbows Ferguson(better known these days as, 'Sir Awex'). The Gaffer made one change to the team, Tommy McLean dropped out to be replaced by Alfie Conn. We started well, Colin Stein scoring on the 7th minute. The attacks continued and a flying Bud was upended in the box, penalty awarded and, duly missed by Johnston. After the hour mark, Falkirk began to pin us back and Bomber Jackson became busy defending numerous crosses from Setterington. Our Skipper grabbed the game, became an inspiration and, finished the match with a late double to secure Rangers first two league points of the season. Ham and Egg notched on the 78th and 82nd minutes. The attendance was given as 20,000, it felt considerably more? I remember standing at the back of the terrace at the railway end being subjected to considerable wasp attention. The then Falkirk match programme was a perfect swatter. Next up was Jimmy Bonthrone's Dandies at Ibrox and, we would be stung.

A total let down whoever organised that should be embarrassed.

Seems to be taking the SFA a long time to ride to the rescue of Doncaster and he Cinch fuckup.

I thought for the first 30 minutes it was as slick and fast from us as I have seen all season, but as has become the norm since wrapping up the title in March we do not play for 90 minutes. I share SG's frustration at very poor choices in final third, very wasteful in front of goal, but that we opened them up time and time again and should have scored a bucketload and be 6 points clear of our only rivals. We have played worse and won (Motherwell last season!) but this brand of anti-football, timewasting from minute 1, long ball humping up the park deserved absolutely nothing from the game and yet we still managed to make 2 errors from the only 2 attacks they mustered in the first 75 minutes, and conceded 1 goal as Simpson refused to tackle the advancing threat. He simply has to tackle that guy, or take him out. But certain things are becoming clear as time goes on this season. We have not had a good transfer window, and we have not brought in any first team players to improve our side, only squad replacements to try to keep our bench at the same level. Some of our key players from last term have not hit the same heights this season. probably half the team in honesty. I agree with SG that the lack of consistency of availability this season has prevented us from getting any cohesion and form together, and therefore I am not panicking just yet until we get some consistency of selection and then we should see improved results and performances.

Motherwell set up to stay in the game for as long as ...... Profligacy on our part ensured 'Well were still there on the hour mark. They played for 15 minutes, equalised and we reflected on the several opportunities not taken to notch the second. On the hour mark, I thought we were mentally undone? The management team have to find a way to motivate our players to win matches at home, particularly in the next two months. Hearts, Hibs and, Aberdeen are all calling, we can build a cushion.

Looks like he ate girders for breakfast.

Anyone agree, Defoe should be back in the team - squad? Particularly, for the upcoming league/league cup fixtures at Ibrox. He remains an excellent finisher.

Turning point of the game.

On another day, when you score 2 or 3 goals in the first half from all those chances, teams may open up more and you can counter them for more goals. It is not like we didn`t have games like yetserday`s throughout the last few seasons, only that we managed to keep a lot of clean sheets in 20/21. Early doors yet, though I had hoped that we keep Itten as that sort of physical spear-head-striker that stays central, keeps their defenders busy while Morelos, Sakala, Roofe, Wright, Kent and Co. run them ragged.

I liked the low key flag unfurling. I thought the pyrotechnic display at the last one was dumb. I was completely baffled by the flag being hoisted sideways. Why on earth did we do that?

The " flag ceremony" was as much as an anti-climax as the 2nd half was. Maybe should have enlisted the help of the UBs for the flag "reveal"

Game of 2 halves , first half we played some great stuff , 2nd we were poor , terrible ref performance coupled with equally poor linesman , however if we don’t kill teams off that’s what you get .

One of the most disappointing things about today was Motherwell were the better side for the last fifteen minutes. We really should have scored a second when Davis broke free - he should've played it left and done it sooner. I had a feeling that missed opportunity would come back to bite us and it did a couple of minutes later.

The harsh reality is our forwards aren’t getting enough goals in the league so far this season. Morelos, Roofe & Sakala have just one goal each from open play so far. That needs to change. My view is Morelos should be the first name on the team sheet but that’s another debate for another day.

I thought in the first half we were quite good offensively, with some cute inter- passing and movement but just lacked that final touch. If we had improved that aspect then we could have been 2 or 3 goals in front. in the second half we lost our way whether due to tiredness after the midweek game or Motherwell changing how they played. Unfortunately, our defence always looked likely to concede, for example we were lucky when Watt went through after a basic punt from Kelly and a few times we should have just cleared our lines rather than attempt to play out from a restricted space near he corner flag. Ariba is a really talented but frustrating player, too often he holds onto the ball too long, becomes surrounded by opposition players and we lose possession. He needs to learn when to hold onto the ball and when to release and play a telling pass.

Due to working commitments I haven`t seen a minute of today`s game, but really, Kent has had more mediocre, sub-standard and countable-stats-less games than Wright has minutes in a Rangers shirt. Maybe Wright didn`t perform up to his own standards today, but for some reasons our no-matter-what-all-time favourites like Kent and Tavernier get far too much adolation than quite a few of their performances justify. I relied on a live text feed and some comments from the German board and if that`s poor ... 4' Attempt missed. Scott Wright (Rangers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Connor Goldson. 21' Attempt saved. Fashion Sakala (Rangers) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Scott Wright. 23' Attempt saved. Kemar Roofe (Rangers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Scott Wright. 38' Attempt missed. Scott Wright (Rangers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses the top right corner. 39' Attempt missed. Steven Davis (Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Scott Wright. 45' Scott Wright (Rangers) wins a free kick in the attacking half. 53' Attempt saved. Scott Wright (Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Joe Aribo. ... than I hope he has a few more poor games for us. We seemingly need that rock in midfield with the name Jack this season, as well as Hagi`s creativity, spark and shooting ability ... along with getting games into Sakala, Wright and seemingly Bacuna too.