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Just home. Very happy tonight. We showed aggression and commitment. What a difference Ryan Jack makes to us. Morelos tremendous and Kent exciting and creative (although he dipped for a wee bit second half). More of this please Rangers.

The response we wanted. The response we needed. Great performance

I thought we were good from middle to front but some of the defending would be punished by better sides. Morelos and Jack were terrific today.

Good response from midweek. Well need to keep it up with every game, theres no margin for error now. Still suspect at the back. Need to improve in that area.

The reaction required. Interesting line up with Arfield in the right attacking slot, but all worked tirelessly and got the result we deserved. Keep up that level of performance and we`ll come good again. BTW, Dortmund lost 2-5 at home against Levrkusen earlier in the day, they tend to have a bad spell after the winter break, let`s hope it continues 😉

That's twice Kent has tickled the post when he should be scoring. Everything else is brilliant play. He just needs to finish.

Get well soon mate.

Right! heading off to Ibrox in 5 minutes, looking forward to the match and to seeing Ramsey play, 3 points is a must, mon the Rangers

Seen it before no bargains though.

Fashions "Alfie" celebration was highlight of the day. Even got the scowl right....😀

I think the term is 'pop up shop', seen it a while back, think it's been at a few locations.

Here we go two in a row. Bring on the Hibees

And now you can never go back. Likewise after Wed i didn't watch the game and i can no longer watch them until next season. Not live anyway.

I thought they were both excellent. You could see so clearly what we've been missing. Jack oozes composure and drive. I thought Alfie was sensational. The surprise for me was just how well Jack and Lundstram paired up. Some game by Ryan Kent too.

I don't see them dropping many points also so I suppose we just have to keep winning!!

Nobody deserves to be dropped after that performance. Also, the bench was crucial and all contributed when called upon.

Still plenty of twists and turns before April 3rd me thinks...

Hopefully today's starting 11 came thro game unscathed as I'd start them all again on Wednesday.

Bring them in, we'll hump them home and away 😁

I don't want to...

I still don't think we've played well. Hearts have opened up, here.

Thank fook for that as we were struggling a bit in 2nd half

Follow-through on Jack, no foul. Follow-through by Balogun, free-kick and booking.

These Referees are too incompetent to be cheating. They've got two brain cells between them all. Hopeless.

Hope to see Ramsey make an appearance at some point.

Huge improvement. We could easily be three up. Still too hesitant at the back but much much better transition

Let`s ask a soothsayer on game-day noon how Kent will perform later then. Lot of bite in midfield, calmed much of any Hearts' gall. Even by law-of-averages we should be 3 or 4 up, as it stands, it remains tight and Hearts need one lapse to look dangerous. Wherever our captain was in the last minute (when we have enough DMs on the park), it was not where he was meant to be.

Decent 1st half - need another goal but at least we look interested and we are creating chances.

Other game where Devlin is allowed foul after foul after foul and no action taken by ref.

Exquisite interplay from Tavernier, Arfield and Morelos.

Stone wall pen - defender pulling Kent's jersey off his back

And no yellow for Hearts player taking Alfie out - Collum at his worst.

Whilst it's been a positive start, our defence still looks shaky

Fromm what we’ve seen in the past few games, no I don’t think so

Just took the hook to write my pre-match thoughts 😉

No. We don`t have "wingers" in a 4-3-3 ... we play "wingers" instead of real modern day strikers like Sakala and Roofe and ask them to perform like strikers, which a hardly any of them do. I expect a left-/right-sided attacker to come up 10+ goals a season against Scottish opposition. Kent stays at 2 goals and 5 assists in the league in 15 games (1,229 mins), whereas Sakala has 5 goals and 2 assists in 18 games (805 mins). Roofe is on 6 goals and 1 assists in 798 mins). Our right sided "winger" play more often than not consisted of Hagi or Aribo being played there for long spells under SG and also nowadays. Neither IMHO are right-"wingers" nor right sided attackers. Or should play there ahead of true attacking players like Roofe, Sakala and Morelos, who can play and have played all across the front 3. There is every reason to think that 4-3-3 has its values and should be played with small variations. If you have the players for that (and use them) and if the opposition "allows" it. Against low-blocks you need wingers and strikers ... plus marauding fullbacks though. Under Gio - not least in those last few games - the supply by the fullbacks has been dire (even if one or the other comes up with the odd goal or assist) for long spells so their attacking thread is hardly that of a real winger. Likewise, having to rely far too often on a CH like Goldson to make cross-field long balls and precise passes from the back means we sure lack someone in midfield for that role. So we need anchor men in MF who take the pressure off the defence and also are able to find their own in the attacking areas. We sure need a more lethal attacking threat in the opposition area than we have seen throughout the last few seasons, so I`d always play with at least two strikers, one of which stays central. My greatest point of anger is that we have and have had the players, yet persisted with the same system and usually the same players no matter what. I assume Kent was SG`s darling and Tavernier being captain could simply not be dropped. But I don`t buy this droned mantra of how important either was or is for our current team, not least when both simply don`t come up with the goods. Patterson made me forget that we had Tavernier after a couple of games, Sakala`s attack play and enthusiasm for the game is half if not a level above Kent`s current showings. And here it comes to the manager now, who has to show what he is willing to do. Change the players (if only for tactics) and change the formation according to the game at hand. As I said before, Gio`s seen now how Scottish football works now and has seen all his players in action. It is time to get on the job. That OF firm game fell niecly for the Scum and their in-form team, as opposed to our current troubles, be it a leaky defence or players returning to form/fitness only now. The hysteria levels from Wednesday were quite remarkable, given that you could clearly see beforehand what was to come. While I do not expect the Scum dropping points very often this season, playing us is something different than squaring up against the brickwall brigades - a quick look of their last games will show that. It could well be that we are top of the league again tonight. Should one have reason to believe in a change in fortunes? Well, football fortune is capricious, as they say. We will soon see a world-class player in Ramsey taking control of our CM, will have Jack back in the frame to dominate the MF too. Our strikeforce is back up to full strength, I assume Diallo will show a bit of his trickery soonish too. (IMHO he should not have been send out against the Scum from the off - he`s a ManU u23 kid who has never played in a remotely similar game before.) Zukowski is a good one too, only that he hasn`t played in January due to the Polish winter break. Helander will be back, Balogun now too. It only depends on the manager to make the right decisions now and see how these player fit in and play.

I don't recall ever saying we were too narrow under Gerrard. The full-backs played further forward/wide. Barisic and Tav are both good at going forward but aren't great defensively.

I wouldn't be too bothered if McGregor was left out as we have a very good keeper to come in to replace him! however I don't buy into this McGregor should be dropped theory!. McGregor is still our best keeper IMO, it's the word ''dropped'' I find a bit irritating like he is done or he is shite! which he certainly is not!. To me it's scapegoating which is not a thing I like! the man performed heroics in the match against them and if not for him we might have went in at half time 5/6 down! Jon McGlaughlin is a good keeper but is still 2nd to McGregor in ability, IMO. He did have a nightmare against Ross County, but what keeper hasn't had a nightmare in games?. He was badly let down by the rest of the team against them on Wednesday yet still had a cracking game.

Abstaining (or rather, announcing your abstention to everyone) is adolescent behaviour. On the other hand, announcing your abstention while also voting for the worst player on the pitch is a kind of genius - thanks Compo.