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Like I said .... Joe Aribo, indispensable.

Another moan too. Stop wearing the purple strip - its fucking horrific and kind sums up the team. I know we are top but that shows how bad the rest are in my opinion

In three years and a bit, I don't think I have witnessed such an error strewn Gerrard Rangers team? Including pre season friendlies, we have played just over 20 games. We have notched up 14 competitive matches. The only game I have left/watched where I have felt I viewed Rangers was the Real Madrid friendly. We are all hoping, even saying it will improve. However, despite being top of the league I feel we are NOT playing. The ball goes forward and there is no venom among our forwards. We are not winning fouls on the edge of the opposition box. Today, we managed three free kicks in and around Dundee's penalty area. There is a huge gap between the midfield and the front three. Our exploitation of the opposition by our wing backs has almost become warm nostalgia. Tav' hit the bye-line once today. I could go on but, it's another three points and hopefully we improve in Prague. We must.

If the penalty hadn’t been saved I don’t think we’d have come back. Thank goodness it was.

Chelsea have had a difficult fixture list! Tottenham, Arsenal, Liverpool, Aston Villa and now Man City today. I know Spurs and Arsenal have not been great, but they are/should be top 8 sides. To get five of them in the opening six games is remarkable. Moreover, they've won most of them!

Genuinely wish Itten had stayed in the squad this season. Always felt he offered us a different option. On a side note...can any statos help me out? It feels like this the first away game we've had on a Saturday at 3pm in ages? When was the last one?

Like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel Never ending or beginning on an ever spinning reel...... Cinch executive worked for Scots football chairman Greig Cameron Saturday September 25 2021, 12.01am, The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cinch-executive-worked-for-scots-football-chairman-zprqvmfw8 A senior executive at an online car dealership involved in a sponsorship row between Rangers and Scotland’s football chiefs used to work for the chairman of the Scottish league. Robert Bridge was hired as the chief customer officer at Telegraph Media Group (TMG) in 2016 and reported directly to Murdoch MacLennan while he was running the business. MacLennan now chairs the Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL). A five-year, £8 million package with Cinch, a car sales business, was announced by the SPFL in June. Bridge was pictured with Neil Doncaster, the SPFL chief executive, at the unveiling of the partnership. There was embarrassment the following month as Rangers, the Premiership champions, said they could not comply with the arrangements as the club felt it broke the SPFL’s rules. Those state the rules do not need to be followed “if to do so would result in that club being in breach of a contractual obligation entered into prior to the commercial contract concerned”. Rangers also said they had pointed this out before the SPFL signed the sponsorship contact. Rangers are refusing to allow Cinch branding on team shirts or on advertising boards. Douglas Park, chairman of Rangers, owns Park’s of Hamilton, one of the largest privately owned motor dealership groups in Scotland. He believes that the deal struck by the SPFL breaches a commercial agreement which has been made between his company and Rangers. Concerns have also been raised an external agency would receive a fee of £500,000 for brokering the Cinch deal. MacLennan, who it is understood played no part in the commercial negotiations with Cinch, wrote to the other 41 SPFL clubs expressing his annoyance with the situation. Park won a legal ruling stopping arbitration proceedings to resolve the situation and which instead sees the dispute being heard in the courts. Earlier this week it was suggested by Lord Keen of Elie QC that Cinch approached Rangers to discuss potential commercial opportunities prior to announcing the SPFL deal. Rangers denied negotiations had taken place which could have led to Ibrox being renamed but acknowledged there had been contact. Rangers previously raised concerns about MacLennan having a conflict of interest in his SPFL position as he was the chairman of Independent News and Media. At the time that company included Dermot Desmond, Celtic’s largest shareholder, and Denis O’Brien, another Celtic shareholder, among its investors. MacLennan, 72, stepped down as the TMG chief executive in June 2017 but remained deputy chairman. He became chairman of the SPFL in July 2017. Bridge had worked at Yahoo before he joined TMG in the spring of 2016. At the time of the appointment it was announced he would be reporting directly to MacLennan who said: “Robert Bridge will have a crucial role in developing and offering new products to the customers who lie at the heart of our business. “I am delighted he will be joining our senior team.” After a brief spell with a maker of children’s cosmetics Bridge joined Cinch in January this year as its chief customer officer. The SPFL, Cinch and Rangers all declined to comment. It is understood the Rangers hierarchy still have doubts over the governance arrangements at the SPFL. Doncaster and Bridge about to take the floor Well, at least it's no' Masonic, Senga.

Is flare player, Leigh Griffiths cleared to play tomorrow?

Have you tried cinch?

We really need to break out of this lethargy we are playing just now , we need to up the tempo when we play high tempo , no one can lay a glove on us , that we are getting dragged into these brutal dig fights is mental . Given that Dundee never really threatened bar a couple of headers , we need and can do so much better , Thursday is going to be massive for us .

I really dislike this lateral stroll-ball the team are playing. It was acceptable (but only just) with Barcelona and City because you knew that every so often they would burst out of their coma with electrifying pace and devastate the defence.

3 points from a totally s**t performance

Been away all day with limited phone access. Sounds like I've missed sweet FA. Hope they start to click soon

Certainly played for it (and maybe hoping for a red card) but I'd be raging if it wasn't given for us.

Still a pen though.

Seriously? Semi-final of League Cup, Europa League Group Stages and top of league - wow..... We aren't and weren't gonna be as fluent as we were last season. We set impossible standards. Yes we aren't playing to our best but haven't had a settled team due to injuries and Covid. We have work to do, but come on, really? Who should go Gerrard or all the players?

Im starting to wonder if gerrard has taken this team as far as he can go. Todays performance was horrific but im not surprised given our continual poor form this season. Tactically were a shambles. Just about every team we play can snuff us out with ease and for a large slice of luck we could have lost 4 or 5 goals today. And i dont think it will change any time soon either.

It seems neither the manager nor the players agree with that as we insist on playing at walking pace, take far too many touches and make two passes when one will do. We're now almost in October so we need to be a lot sharper and realise other teams won't sit back and admire us, especially when they're at home. I've no doubts we will improve but, for now, it's not good enough so I'm hoping the manager is deploying the hair dryer in the away dressing room right now.

Ok, we're a goal to the good but that's far from good enough. Right from the outset we seemed to want to play at walking pace and struggled to compete physically. To be fair we did improve somewhat but after the goal reverted back to losing the ball far too cheaply with Goldson, Tav and Roofe all guilty of such. Dundee have worked very, very hard so they may tire as the game goes on but if we fail to match their desire and work-rate then we're fair game, just as we seen at Tannadice. It worries me how much of a gap there is between our midfield and attack. We sat far too deep at times and also lacked any pace in wider areas. There's food for thought for the manager but it has to concern him the sheer lack of composure on the ball. We need to be a lot, lot better than this.

Keep your missus out of this.

Might have been on of those 'Jumping Jacks' that you got in a big box of Brock's finest fireworks.

You sure? Won't he try to clear it from the table?

I bow to your remarkable foresight.

McGivern and the other yahoos at the DR will all keep their jobs. Probably won't even get a slap on the wrist. Our job is to not buy the rag, not click on or share links to the rag and if you want to be more proactive, if you see anyone reading or buying it, take the piss out of them and ask them if they have learning difficulties.

'KARMA' Leigh Griffiths should have OBLITERATED Scotland’s scoring records – he only has himself to blame, writes Kris Boyd Kris Boyd 21:54, 24 Sep 2021Updated: 22:13, 24 Sep 2021 KARMA has a way of catching up with people. Leigh Griffiths is about to find that out the hard way at Dens Park. He was laughing when he tied that Celtic scarf to one of the goalposts at Ibrox a few seasons back. Grinning from ear to ear during an Old Firm game the day he waved his Irish tricolour from the Broomloan Road Stand. When he wiped his nose on a Rangers corner flag he thought he was being clever. Well, let’s see how smart he is when Rangers supporters tell him what they think of him. Griffiths is about to get bombarded with 90 minutes of relentless abuse and if he’s got a brain in that head of his he better be prepared to take it. Listen, I’m not going to go into the reasons why supporters all over the country are going to give him a hard time this season. Frankly, I want nothing to do with it. But what I will say is that Griffiths only has himself to blame — and the sooner he realises that the better. Will he, though? Is he capable of accepting responsibility for anything in life? I’m not sure he is. It seems to me that every time something happens to him he thinks it’s someone else’s fault. He wasn’t to blame for how things worked out for him at Celtic, was he? No, that was all Neil Lennon’s fault apparently. Honestly, I can’t remember reading anything as ridiculous as when Griffiths spoke about Lennon recently and claimed his ex-boss was just trying to stay relevant by talking about him. Really? Are we talking about the same high-profile Neil Lennon who has been one of the most talked about personalities in Scottish football in the last 20 years? Griffiths can’t surely be serious when he says Lennon needs him to stay relevant. But that sums him up, doesn’t it? Rather than owning his mistakes and taking responsibility for them, his default position is to go on the attack. If only he was as threatening on the park. Because when you strip everything back with Griffiths, he’s not the player his fan club will have you believe. Is he a good finisher? Sure, I’ll give him that. But in the last three seasons do you know how many league goals he’s scored? Let me tell you because I looked it up. It’s 17. Two goals in season 2018/19, nine goals in season 19/20 and six goals in season 20/21. I’m sorry, but that’s not the statistics of a top-level goalscorer. This is someone with natural talent, sure. But that’s not enough if you are to be considered a top player. Yet his cheerleaders are forever making excuses for him, constantly telling anyone who’ll listen that Griffiths would prove everyone wrong. That he just needed to get fit and he’d be back. Griffiths ended up saying it himself but it was total and utter nonsense, every single word of it. Griffiths has had more than enough time and opportunity to get himself in shape and he’s only thrown it back in people’s faces. The scoring records in Scottish football should have been OBLITERATED by him in the last five years. Instead he put the tools away and it seems like he couldn’t care less. Why Celtic gave him a new contract in the summer, I’ll never know. For the life of me, I’ll never be able to work that one out. Even their supporters must have been scratching their heads. Those fans slaughtered me for criticising Griffiths and more or less saying it takes more than just ability to play at a top club. But while my wording could have been better I think I’ve been proved right. When he scored at Rugby Park one day he looked up at me and made a shooshing gesture, but I stand by every word. He’s not exactly silenced me since, has he? Now he’s at Dundee I wonder if his manager James McPake is beginning to wonder if it was a good idea bringing him to the club. They’re pals from their days together at Livingston so I can understand why McPake was prepared to give Griffiths the benefit of any doubt. But since he signed, Dundee have yet to score a goal. Listen, I’ve been there. I got abuse every single time I stepped on to a football park and had to take it. It’s part of the deal. Okay, the shouts weren’t anything like the abuse Griffiths is getting but he’s 31 now and should be experienced enough to know how to switch off from it. I just look at him and see someone who is more or less finished. Truth be told, he’s the way I was when I was at Kilmarnock and hung up my boots a couple of months before my 36th birthday. I didn’t have the same drive to stay in shape so I realised it was time to hang up the boots. As a striker you stand the best chance of playing every week, because it’s a specialist position. But you need to deliver. Griffiths just hasn’t looked like delivering for a long time now. His decline is there for all to see with his scoring record miles off where it should be. During the warm-up before the Dundee derby at Tannadice last weekend we were in the gantry preparing for kick-off when a ball flew past. We were nowhere near the goals so it was obvious someone was deliberately trying to hit us. I didn’t see who was responsible — but my money would be on Griffiths. Why? Because he missed. https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/football/7752273/leigh-griffiths-scotland-scoring-record-kris-boyd/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1632519903