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That tackle would have laid up whoever was involved. Can't see it as an indication of Jack's fragility.

Lundstram has been excellent .

Injury prone? Time will tell but we have a terrible habit of putting labels on players and then convincing ourselves it must be gospel. It would be better if we didn’t do that.

The important matches just keep coming. Hopefully we show similar desire to that shown on Sunday. Get intae them, Rangers! 🟥⬜🟦

The purpose of these matches is to help us create top class players, not to win the competition. While winning is always nice and a good habit to form at a club like Rangers, our youth and B teams are there to develop players, not win trophies. Being exposed to sides like Sevilla should help our player's development, or at least some of them. I think the best we can hope for from the team that played yesterday is a couple of them are good enough to make an impact on our first team and maybe another two or three that aren't good enough for us might command a transfer to another Scottish or English side. The rest will be released and rebuild their careers at a different level. If say Lowry and King can push on and become first team regulars this crop will surely be viewed as a success.

I served for 16 years in a Regiment where young soldiers having survived eight months basic training, P Company(a 3 week assessment on suitability for the Parachute Regiment) and, two weeks parachute training at RAF Brize Norton; found it hard to resist to run down the Tattoo Parlour and receive an inking. A decade later, those same soldiers were spending ten times the amount getting laser removal treatment. We had a CSM who had a Tattoo of a fox hunt that covered his entire back, the fox's tail disappearing up his arse.

Ryan Jack is 30 this year & unfortunately it now looks as if injuries are beginning to become a problem for him now Maybe that’s why SG signed Lundstram who’s now settling in quite well I’d suggest

Did he not suffer several lay offs caused by the same injury until he got surgery for it which caused the long absence?

How much of that is suspension and rested though. I am dubious about it to i can easily find 12 games in a row he played in in 2018/19. May not have started I suppose in all. He definitely started our opening 7 game of last season and has other spells well over 6 games. In 2018/19 he played 47 games to connor goldsons 54. As i say how injury prone is he really barring that 1 year long injury?

My report on today's game https://rfcyouths.wordpress.com/2022/02/08/colts-lose-to-sevilla/

We await outrage from Falkirk's MSP, BIG BIG Sellik man, Michael Matheson? I suspect as long as Leigh does not do the Hokey-Cokey(remember Michael wanted the hokey-cokey banned because he deemed it anti-catholic), he will be alright. Sexpesting on Twitter and Facebook a 15 year old Edinburgh girl and a 14 year old girl from Fife is okay though, Leigh was only asking for naked pictures. How about Falkirk's MP, John McNally is he outraged? Given both elected representatives are SNP; perhaps it's better if a party donor was to be outraged, or maybe a Stirlingshire based crime fiction writer who is the First Minister's Bestie could express outrage? How about Val's Gals refusing to play Falkirk Ladies?

Tav is one of those players some won't realise how good he actually is and how much he contributes until he is no longer playing for us.

Bloody Lundstram, never good enough for Rangers. Seriously, when even Borna Barisic starts passing the ball forward you know things are looking up.

Yeah, Alfie was outstanding again, just thought Lundstram done the nasty / dirty stuff that allowed our football players to go and express themselves. Was between Alfie and Lundstram for me and plumped for JL but could have easily been Alfie.

Fair shout for MOTM, however the Buff was mine, the guy is on fire just now!

We just need to keep winning games , it’s really that simple , this league will come down to the 2 old firm games .

A run-off-the-mill victory tonight. Once again Alfie and Kent (in flashes) were superb but Lundstram was best player on pitch - Another excellent performance. Referee was shocking once again.

A good professional performance tonight, not as good as Sunday, but another three points & a clean sheet. Another shocking refereeing performance! I'm almost getting used to it!

We have played very well tonight .

Need to be more ruthless in the 2nd half - Another horrific refereeing performance spoiling the game.

Yeah, I mean, injury prone suggests you can't get over those niggles and knocks, or maybe reoccurrence of same injuries. Any of our players on the weekend taking that same tackle Jack did would be getting rested this evening would they be injury prone too ?

Sakala deserves a start tonight

a rest at the weekend perhaps seems more likely for Aribo.

They lost 2-0 to Red Bull Salsburg which is why they finished second in their group.

Now you’re getting carried away 🤣

After the stamp on his knee by Kipre of Motherwell at Ibrox the management team seemed to manage his game time 1 game on 1 game off.

This was very noticeable. Also we had a striker who couldn't hold the ball up. Lowry looked to be playing wide which is a waste.

How injury prone is Jack? obviously he had one really long term injury recently but 30 games last season 41 the year before and 47 the one before that.

They played a higher press and worked harder off the ball. Those things are the very least we should be matching.

Despots never last forever. She'll definitely leave a smell but she'll flush eventually. Maybe sooner than you think.

Maybe it says more about me but I've always thought of tattoos, body piercings and BMW M3's as camouflage for low self-esteem, badges of inadequacy. You just hope they make their owners feel better about themselves.

I thought Lowry played well and was quite impressed with the application throughout the team. The Seville defenders all looked good prospects. Whenever we got the ball into their half, it looked like they had 2-3 players on our man.

But the question to you was "do you think the dropped points in those three games was because we were playing two games per week?" I don't think that was the issue. I haven't seen anyone use that as an excuse for the bad form in those games. I could also reference a run of games where we took almost maximum points playing twice per week for many weeks. My point is that I don't think there's a silver lining or benefit to our league hopes in dropping out of Europe, unless we lose several key players to injury due to EL games.

She’s a callous little shit and no mistake.

It was a disgraceful challenge witnessed by the Hobbit, and no action taken,that caused the injury.

Nah but McCallums coat on a shoogly peg....😀

Trippier signed for Newcastle for 12m aged 31, before that Madrid for 20m aged 29. IMO Tav is every bit the player that he is.

Jambos, Fifers and, the Bairns in the Scottish Cup. Mark Feld was a Face from Stoke Newington. By the age of 14, he had accounts at several Tailors and a regular model for clothing catalogues. He was the epitome of the Modernist approach. Initially, as a 15 year old he played guitar in Helen Shapiro's backing band but graduated to his own beat combo whilst worshipping at the altar of the Modfather, Steve Marriott. He took a bit of acid, read a bit of Tolkien, found a bustle in his hedgerow and, emerged as a fully formed Peer of Glam Rock. Electric Warrior was the number one album and Telegram Sam was the toppermost of the singles chart. Marc Bolan had arrived eulogising Purple Pie Pete and Jungle Faced Jake. As the Jambos ran out at Ibrox on the 22nd of January'72, a few dozen Bears behind me in the Enclosure serenaded them to the tune of Telegram Sam, "Alfie Alfie Conn, he gies a haun tae his local flute bon". I don't think it caught on? A bigger talking point was the news of Wullie Henderson storming out of training midweek, promising never to return. Thirty-five thousand of us had stormed into the Stadium to watch Rangers - McCloy, Jardine, Mathieson, Greig, Jackson, Smith, McLean, Conn, D Johnstone, A MacDonald and, Johnston. Hearts - Garland, Sneddon, Kay, Brown, Anderson, Thomson, Renton, Ford, Winchester and, Murray. The Hearts Gaffer was former Rangers Assistant Manager, Bobby Seith and the general consensus was the Jambos were on the rise. At half time the Boys in Maroon were the talk of the Toon, Donald Ford had been the most spirited forward on show in a no scoring first period. The next forty-five saw a 20 minute DJ hat-trick, with further goals from Bud Johnston, Alfie Conn and big Ham and Egg. A six - zip thrashing, easily our best League performance of the season. The cacophony on the Tannochside RSC bus on the way home was all about Big DJ, he was maturing nicely. Derek had just turned eighteen. He must keep his place for next week's visit to Bayview. Methil was, maybe still is a dour town. Bayview was an electric venue to view football. An attendance in excess of several thousand created a crackling atmosphere. The high terracing behind the goals allowed for excellent vistas of Largo Bay and games against the Fifers tended to be hard fought. Schools football was back and the mate's Brother with the Tunnock's wagon was required to transport three of us from deepest, darkest Lanarkshire to coastal Fife. The lunch of champions was included, half-a-dozen of Tam's finest pastry enclosed mince pates went down a treat. The newspaper was a harder swallow, Flying Pickets and Three Day Week were new terms, notification of power cuts was a new experience. Bayview was surrounded by members of the NUM(National Union of Miners), all toting collection buckets as the Strike was at the end of it's third week. Thirteen thousand watched East Fife - Gorman, Duncan, McQuade, McLean, Martis, Clarke, Honeyman, Love, Hughes, Hamilton and, McPhee; Rangers - McCloy, Jardine, Mathieson, Greig, Jackson, Smith, McLean, Conn, Da Johnstone, A MacDonald, Johnston. It was blood and snotters in a stiff breeze and the glaur. Rangers dominated the first forty-five, Bud's pace continually got him to the bye-line and, DJ obliged in the 35th minute by nodding the opener into the net. The second period was a game of attrition. The Fifers Gaffer, Pat Quinn was a devotee of the Offside Trap and the Linesmen had sore arms. Bud beat the collective step forward, was hauled down by the Keeper and, Bud stroked the resulting penalty past the post. playing into the wind resulted in Tommy McLean being paired up front with Bud and the nicely maturing DJ was back with John Greig in front of our back four, heading and swinging at every East Fife lumped forward ball. We held on for a nil-one victory. The Scottish Cup third round draw saw us paired with Falkirk at Brockville. Another atmospheric ground where we had been vanquished the previous season 4-3. We were on a one week warning, a State of Emergency would be declared if the NUM Strike continued for a further three to four days. Conserving energy had seen nearly 2 million workers on a three day week, a number of the bigger companies were predicting large scale temporary redundancies and, the nationalised power authorities had drawn up plans for nine hour long power cuts. Twenty thousand squeezed into Brockville to keep warm. Falkirk - Donaldson, Jones, Gibson, Cattenach, Markie, Shirra, Hoggan, Ferguson, Jack, Young and, McLeod; Rangers - McCloy, Jardine, Mathieson, Greig, Jackson, Smith, McLean, Conn, D Johnstone, A MacDonald and, Johnston. Apparently, the tie was a fizzer, the game ended 2-2 after the Bairns opened the scoring through Jack(34). We notched either side of the break with DJ(42) and Greig(49) to go ahead 1-2 but could not hold on. Former Ranger, Alex Ferguson was the head of the Players Union in Scotland and he had released a statement in full support of the Miners then subsequently stuck one in the Gers pokey on the 72nd minute to take the tie to a replay under the lights at Ibrox. I missed all the excitement, did not even know the result until early evening. I had embarked on my Duke of Edinburgh award through the auspices of the Scouts. I spent the entire weekend in Lochgoilhead and on the Loch, kayaking and sailing. I was one of the 45,000that made the replay, it was allowed to go ahead despite the State of Emergency being called that very day, 9th February'72. The power cuts would begin the following Sunday evening. We lined up the same apart from Colin Stein returning in place of Bomber Jackson, DJ moving to central defence. Falkirk made three changes, Wheatley, J Scott and, Harley replacing Cattenach, Hoggan and, McLeod. CThe Loan Ranger, Colin, Colin Stein came to the party early, finding the net on the 2nd minute. Bud missed another penalty and the Bairns, Jack could not see green cheese, obligingly missing his spot kick too. Tommy McLean used his height to nod the clincher with 15 minutes left. We were drawn away in the fourth round to St Mirren, then solidly mid table in the second Division. It would be a week of contrasts, visiting Paisley and Turin. Ironically, the then Love Street had a greater capacity than Torino's Stadio Comunale. Anyways, that was three weeks in the future. We had the Arabs at Ibrox and two away days at Fir and Rugby Parks to negotiate in between and, we did not know if the floodlights would be on. The SFA were meeting to discuss moving Saturday kick-offs forward to Noon. How about us playing schools football, how were we going to get to the match?

We have all had our doubts to some extent since Gio came in, for me even at one point I was thinking the players aren't getting his tactics! or they don't like the set up! are they playing for him?. Well that performance eased my concerns! they reacted alright! and yes still a few errors in there however I believe they are all in it together and as long as they maintain the hard work and tempo, playing on the front foot then we will be in with a great chance of 2 in a row!