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Yeah, I didn't see the coverage as all that surprising really. We have to remember that all media platforms will look to manufacture some sort of controversy and, as Scotland's premier team, we'll bear the brunt of that. It's important to pick the right battles when complaining about this stuff or you just look desperate.

I get the impression some Rangers fans won't be content unless Sportscene focuses on every debatable decision that doesn't go our way.

Never mind all that, get stuck intae they Walloons, Rangers.

To think that a couple of hours ago we were fretting over Monaco or PSV 😆

Another summer and another great gesture from us, giving free Champions League money to another team. Dreadful, just utterly dreadful.

The game is on Premier Sports. You can watch it on RTV if you live overseas...wink, wink.

A player worth the admission money a great entertainer.

The Europa League is the better competition anyway...

Terrible ju-ju, buster. Rousseau sees this and you’re looking at a ban.

Look - why shouldn't we do to them what Malmo did to us? We've nothing to fear after Dortmund and Eintracht. We don't deserve it if we fail to beat Union though.

They'll be a decent side. Not world beaters but not walkovers either. We've beaten better but lost to worse.

if i ever hear anyone slagging kents contributions again......

Absolutely horrendous , to have players like Matondo , Colak not touching the ball or doing anything is incredulous

We have started worse than we played in the 1st half

Started well then ended the half lucky to be only one down. Over to Gio to change things, it ain't working. Have to be careful here or the tie could be more or less over before the second leg.

Midfield no existent - Jack and Kamara way off it. Up against it here unless we improve

It appears that they take the approach that if you're not on the board then you don't have significant control. King, for example, has been removed from it. I'd usually take it based on shareholders rather than directors, but I can understand the logic of them doing it this way.

I hope no one thinks they have to watch or listen to the BBC just because it happens to be broadcasting. Why would any Rangers fan be concerned whether or not the BBC sends people to Belgium?

Yeah let's get past USG and worry about it if we do. We have a chance and the loser of the next round gets 5 million as a consolation payment. That's a player.

My first Old Firm match at Parkhead, it was 1st January'66. The pitch was a sheet of ice, the trackside contained a couple of dozen hay bales. Davy Wilson notched in the first minute and the half time the score remained nil - one to the good guys. As stated, a couple of Sellik layers came out in the second half in trainers, John Hughes was wearing white baseball boots. He demolished us in the second period, they hit the net five times without reply.

I know an English lady who regularly travels to see this Belgian side. From what I gather, they have a similar appeal to that of St Pauli (trendy, with fans who have pictures of Che Guevara up in their bedsits). Get intae them Rangers!

Seems weird to be bricking it about this before we even get a look at USG could be huge as one side makes us decent favourites and the other big underdogs.

You mean the plucky little Belgians are going to stand fast and repel the invader? Always a first time, I suppose.

We looked like world beaters against Real Madrid but then Malmo, Dundee Utd and Malmo showed that not to be the case.

On a dreadful night for Rangers I think McLaughlin was the one player who didn’t let himself down. (and Scott Wright)

Abysmal

Could have had Messi and Ronaldo up front tonight and they'd not have had a touch either.

They cannot be blamed. Our tactics ensured they got very little service.

Never a penalty, however we have been so poor tonight we deserve nothing

This referee is an arsehole.

At this point, a draw looks like an achievement.

Shoot on sight never get a result with this incessant passing it about in midfield ,get the sleeves up and get tore in Mon the gers

19:45 here

Yes; worrying. The obeah man says that the only way to counteract this is for Rousseau not to watch the match.

Very good piece on Tillman vs Livingston. I think he looks like exactly the kind of player we need. Hopefully get another look at him tonight, looks a big coup for the club if the reported £5m fee is correct. https://www.rangersreview.co.uk/tactics/20593017.malik-tillman-helped-rangers-turn-tide-livingston-victory/

I'm trying to be positive! Let's neither over-estimate nor under-estimate this mob of chips and mayo munchers. Of course, if we haven't established superiority within 15 minutes this evening I could well be be in the Slough of Despond.

Be afraid, be very afraid...... But we have nothing to fear, bar fear itself. Union Saint-Gilloise’s fairytale makes for riveting read Belgian minnows have come from nowhere to the brink of European football’s top table Robert O’Connor Tuesday August 02 2022, 12.01am, The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/union-saint-gilloises-fairytale-makes-for-riveting-read-qrf8g5vg2 The history of Union Saint-Gilloise reads a little like two pages have been turned over at once. Twelve months ago they had just emerged from Belgium’s second tier and were preparing to play their first season in the top division in 48 years. Not content to sit and stabilise in the league, Union raced ahead, finishing runners-up to champions Club Bruges to set up their first season in Europe, which begins against Rangers tonight at the Den Dreef stadium in nearby Leuven. The fairytale could have been more fantastical still. The team, which had remained largely the same as the one that won the second division at a canter, came first in the regular league table before finishing an agonising second in the four-way play-off for the title, undone by two defeats in three days to Bruges that toppled them from a position they had held virtually all season. The runners-up prize could prove incalculably valuable. The lucrative group stages of the Champions League are two rounds of qualifiers away, yet expectations are realistic. Most of the Union squad have never played a competitive European fixture, and they begin against a team fresh from last season’s Europa League final. But there is a callow naivety written into Union’s DNA that, next to the weighty expectations on Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s side to build on last season’s European run, could render Rangers’ visit to Belgium an unexpectedly tricky affair. “Most of us bar one or two have never done anything of this magnitude, playing for a place in the Champions League,” says Christian Burgess, the Union defender. “But we play good teams in our league; Anderlecht, Bruges and so on. We’ve played Feyenoord and Sporting Lisbon in pre-season, we’ve played Brighton. It will be a step up in terms of occasion. Rangers are a good side, but we’re getting more used to that. “We have massive underdog mentality. Our character means we relish these kinds of games. We played our best stuff of pre-season against Feyenoord’s first team. It was a massive boost to our confidence against a team that have just been in a European final.” Few in Belgium hold out much hope of Union repeating last season’s success. A consensus has been reached in the media that, with a small squad and modest resources, the added strain of European football will be a burden too far (they will drop into the Conference League if they lose to Rangers). Most predict a mid-table finish, with some bookies having the team that finished first in last season’s regular standings as seventh-favourites for the title. It is not anything that is likely to trouble Union. Many of these players have been recruited from clubs playing in the second and third divisions of countries abroad — Burgess himself was recruited from League One side Portsmouth. For many, they have been given an unexpected second chance to add an exciting new chapter to the story of their careers. Among the sky-high stakes that typically accompany Rangers’ European campaigns, Union have a free pass. “Rangers have a bigger pedigree, but they’ve also got a bigger squad and a bigger budget,” Burgess says. “They’ve just had an incredible run in Europe. They will be clear favourites. We’re also playing in a stadium we don’t call home in Leuven, but it will be a sell-out and it’s a decent pitch. We’re looking for any kind of result to take to Glasgow. Burgess, whose grandmother is a Rangers fan, was playing in the English third tier before being scouted by Union two years ago “I could argue that our naivety might help us. When something doesn’t go to plan and you can laugh at that, it helps you to take it in your stride. Our strength is in that there is no pressure on us. Not many people are expecting us to beat Rangers over two legs. “But we’re an honest group and there are points to prove. We’ve got a lot of players who have come up from the lower leagues in their countries. If you’re used to a bigger club and better facilities and smoothness of travel, the pressure might affect you. But we just look at it and laugh and get on with it.” There is still a sense of the surreal that pervades Union’s progress. Burgess is a case in point. Two years ago he was playing in England’s third tier, before he came onto the radar of Union’s data-driven scouting system. It has been a key feature of the club’s rise since the owner, Brighton chairman Tony Bloom, came onto the scene in 2018. For Burgess, the Champions League is one more unexpected twist on a mazy venture into the unknown. “It’s brilliant for me,” he said. “My grandmother is from Glasgow, she’s a Rangers fan. I’ve got family and friends who are travelling up from down south. I’ll be able to understand all the players on the pitch, which is not something I’m used to any more. It’ll be nice to feel back home. “I visited Glasgow once when I was a kid. She [his grandmother] is still very much Scottish in her mind, she’s proud of that part of her. She’s a little bit too old now to make it up there from Essex. She’ll have it on TV. “If we get past Rangers and get to the group stage it will be unbelievable. I think it will be an even better story than if we’d qualified by winning the league. But it’s going to need quite an effort.”

The club just list all the directors as having significant control.

You told us the same thing six days ago.

If this is any indication of how he is going to play for them it looks like Ross Wilson taking the 6 million + 20% sell on rather than the flat 10 million is a work of a pure genius.

We played poorly in those matches but I don't think that was down to lack of match fitness. It was more down to poor tactics and the players not applying themselves sufficiently. We also should have had a penalty at Tannadice, when Sakala had his shirt pulled.