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I'll let everyone else discuss the red cards etc., but at the end of the day, we're not playing well enough. We don't create enough chances. This was one of my main concerns with GvB's appointment from the start. Six attempts in that first half, with one on target; and it was a penalty. Embarrassing. I'm bored watching us.

I think GvB would've played for 2-1 even if we'd had eleven on the pitch. It's depressing watching us play for single goal wins against dross.

I am sick of this to be honest. Neither were red cards. We were on top when he sent Lundstrum off. Both will be overturned. Collum was gagging to send Morelos off.

Morelos let down the club, his team mates and every supporter today. He should be apologising but he won't. We're down to ten men after a ridiculous refereeing decision and holding a slender lead, when Morelos decides his petulance again supersedes the interests of the club. As much as I've always liked him, I'm sick of his continuing inability to control his stupidity. Looking at the incidents again, I'm fairly confident Lundstram's red card will be rescinded but I expect Morelos' red will stand.

We missed Tillman but it's understandable he was left out of the side, with the big match on Wednesday. Kent drove me nuts, more than anyone else today. A wee bit more nouse about him and we'd have been a couple of goals up before Tav's penalty. Shoot or pass it, don't try and take their entire team on FFS.

Isn't there a stats site for you to check? 😀

We created very little and were lucky to be 2-1 up in second half. However we might have sneaked it without Collums interventions (Alfie was stupid as he gave Collum a decision to make). Our club needs to strat takes these officials to task - stating silent isn't an option, bit we'll continue down the dignified silence route. Just heading back from game, has much been made/said about the missiles thrown by Hibs fans (again)? Steward next to be was hit on head with a bottle at half-time and Tav was hit with objects in 1st half. Becoming a weekly occurrence at Easter Road.

Doyel hayes does the same thing as lundstrum first half and rightly gets a yellow. Indeed its a far stronger tackle. That's what makes this cheating not incompetence. He knows the rules but wanted to cheat us.

Looking more at the replay, it does look worse than when I first saw it, Morelos has been really stupid there. It's hard to argue against a red there although a yellow maybe sufficed. The Lundstrum red is a joke.

Possibly not a red card because the ball was too far away from Colak to deem it a goal scoring opportunity. Just my take.

Oh and let's bin the statue nonsense and leave it to the cult-like yahoos.

Gentlemen, Surely such decisions ie soup accompanied with toasted bread and which baked bean deserves tomassi passata marination are the domain of one's Butler? We are here to discuss the more weighty concerns of the Rangers.

We regularly struggle when Collum is in charge. He is a seasoned pro at losing us points.

Walker actually mentioned it during the game that Hibs have a serious problem in that end of the park.

Good place to stop criticism in its tracks would be to go through on Wednesday. Can't say I'm confident but we've being doing the Jeykll and Hyde with Europe/Domestic for years now, so you never know.

The officials today are god awful and with VAR that is a very different game. Who knows how it ends up. Hibs may have had a pen, Tav is being fouled as well though so who knows. Hibs first is offside. Lundstrums red is as bad a decision as you will ever see. Morelos is a yellow. Incompetence or cheating the result is the same and the outcome should be to. Collum has to be finished after this and rangers need to lead the carge by saying that no matter the consequences.

Said a few weeks ago that this squad isn't going to do as much as we are going to need this season.

Wouldn't mind if we took any half-decent offers for Morelos and Kent by end of the window.

Well, that was monumentally awful. No tempo, no end product, no discipline. I fear for us on Wednesday after watching that. Lets be honest here, Hibs are woeful.

If we do this against PSV, which I expect, we`ll get horsed.

And there begins again, the ability to snatch a draw from a winning position. Morelos back to old habits cost us more than anything IMO

Kent mucking about has caused that red card (that should've been a yellow).

Get Morelos on he will never get match sharpness sitting on his arse

Let's bin the zonal stuff please.

Rest for Tillman. Interesting to see both Kent and Matondo start. Have to start showing we can defend a cross ball or it will be a long season.

I think we need to curb this delicate discussion now, before we get on to the dangerous Heinz vs Branston debate.

Morelos peaked at Ibrox after coming back from an international break in January this year...for about a month before he had to start playing through an injury. He was playing with a level of touch that was real class and a maturity/responsibility. He looked like the player we all hoped he'd develop into. Had he continued in that vein, I think we win the Europa League. It would have been a fitting way for him to go all the way in a competition he has done so well in for several years. The injury was one of those unfortunate things that football can throw in your face. Now, he seems to have forgotten about the maturity/responsibility and has reset back to the beginning.

I normally dismiss any blaming of refs but those red card decisions were shocking. Lundstram’s in particular, but as stupid and careless as Morelos is, you can’t send him off when it’s his forearm that made contact and with very little force. Exasperating stuff, and although it doesn’t excuse our constant profligacy and lack of quality in the final third it’s ultimately what cost us in the end. If we make the Champions League we could really do with a winger to provide Kent with proper competition who has more end product.

Andy Walker in fairness called them out on it.

there's the other one.

Jesus, wish I hadn't bothered replying to you, better patter from my 5 year old here you daft ****.

You can't slap opposition players on the head. It is a fairly basic rule.

Difficult to analyse that sensibly. Lundstram and Morelos lost their discipline but they're not red cards - certainly not the first one. However, we're just not clicking as a team at the moment. Too many people thinking half-pace is good enough when it's not; no matter the ref. It seems contradictory but we offer average sides far too much respect then also appear arrogant on/off the ball when it comes to 1-v-1 contests. It's hard to be overly analytical when the ref was the main issue but we need to up the quality of our play - that much is obvious.

Collum has lost it

Now stop F****** around!

I'm bored.

Crouton? Sometimes I think I'm too working class for this forum.

I suspect Hibs counters will be pinging long diagonals into the gap/space between Barisic and Sands. Further, winning free kicks and corners for cross balls into our box.

No excuses today. Hibs are garbage.The Tims would be putting 3 or 4 by them today.

Doesn't matter who's was better or worse the fact remains only one missed and cost us the chance of maybe winning.

Not quite. Had Ramsay scored his penalty this would not, in itself. have delivered the trophy.

I have had a few folks ask about Hamish? He was commissioned into the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, served for several years, contracted a tapeworm in Oman, met a girl and they sailed the Atlantic in a 30 foot sailing yacht. The last I heard some 25 years past, he was living and working in New Zealand as a Deer Farmer. It all fits because in culinary circles there is bit of hype about kiwi Deer Milk Cheese.

Michael Stewart's punditry during last night's Hearts match in Zurich was, again, very poor. He just waffles a load of shite.

In the Age of Ange'. 'We Never Stop' is the new mantra at ra Stade de Gadd and it has come as no surprise that many of PQ's usual suspects have adopted the nuance in their approach to Rangers and Rangers supporters. In the fifteen months since our Club secured title 55 and as a result, stopped ten in a row; I have come to realise how much this has hurt the Gang Hut members. The winning margin of 25 points received scant mention until Ange' regained the Premiership for the Happy Hoopsters and, suddenly we were told continually of the 29 point turnaround. Ange' has restored dominance. Of course, not everything Ange' touches turns to gold. PQ never mentions Ange' was stopped, specifically in three separate European competitions in the one season, last season. There is another unwanted narrative running alongside Ange's unique failure, Rangers have improved their European fortunes in four successive seasons, if we defeat PSV next week and, qualify for the Champions League, it will be five. Think about it, Rangers have had to play nearly two dozen qualification games to reach the Europa Cup group stages. Throw in the games played in the groups, the knock-out rounds and, the Europa Cup final and, the arithmetic surpasses seventy. It would appear in Europe, Rangers never stop. The most heard Rangers related phrase across BBC Scotland these last several weeks is, "over the last couple of seasons". They seek to minimise the multi season European achievement. The pertaining narrative is to reduce Rangers success to a couple of years and ignore ra Sellik and Ange's participation completely. It is what is known as, 'A Celtic State of Mind'. This brings us to last Sunday at Balmoral Park, Cove, Aberdeen. The SWPL Champions, Rangers ladies are playing their second game of the season away to Aberdeen and BBC Scotland decide to once again cover the match live on their i-Player. This week after a five minute black out, BBC Scotland's i-Player worked throughout. Commentating was Amy Canavan and co-commentary was proved by Pauline MacDonald. The first 30 minutes was all Rangers possession but the Dons Keeper had not been worked. The next ten saw Rangers notch a quick double and Amy was NOT happy. She was opining the injustice the Dandies must be feeling on the cusp of half time when Rangers knocked in a third, Pauline agreed Aberdeen do not deserve to be 0-2 down when Amy squealed, "the Referee has awarded Rangers a penalty" It was a disbelieving squeal? I do not know if Amy was upset at Pauline not keeping up or, Rangers had the opportunity to go in at the break four ahead? I should point out Amy Canavan has been a Presenter and regular contributor these last several years to a Podcast - A Celtic State of Mind. After a few years of being in funding conflict with UEFA, the organisation known as FARE(Football Against Racism in Europe) has been returned to Ibrox. Representatives were seated in the Broomloan Front for Tuesday evening's CL qualification against PSV Eindhoven. FARE last visited the Stadium in 2011. Correctly, once again the Club warned elements of our support reference the songs being sung. Any report of sectarianism( defined by FARE as ant-Irish racism) will lead to either partial or full ground closure. These last five years(or a couple of seasons in BBC Scotland-speak), we have become used to Euro wide reports of the fantastic atmosphere generated at Ibrox on Euro evenings. BBC Scotland deliberately boycotted the Stadium for seven years, they preferred to sit in a PQ studio watching a satellite company's live coverage and, make mundane comment. They chose to divorce themselves from the atmosphere generated. I should point out that FARE's first representative was BBC Scotland's own, Alex O'Henley. The Gaelic commentator from South Uist participated in Spanish practises in Villarreal. FARE's Executive Director is Piara Powar and he is married to Glasgow born and bred Aashma Mir. The Sellik minded Ms Mir has worked at Aunti Beeb for thirty years in numerous senior positions. BBC Scotland's Chief Sports Writer, Tom English returned to Ibrox on Tuesday evening for the PSV clash. Tom did not mention the atmosphere but he did post match conclude Rangers got what they deserved. I do not think we can disagree, we failed to defend two corners because of our new adoptation of zonal marking. Tom expanded, Rangers were sloppy, Rangers were fortunate with their second goal and, Rangers were hanging on in the last several minutes. Again, hard to disagree. However, in the Age of Ange' Tom's Sellik state of mind came to the fore reference Ryan Kent. Tom decided the Rangers winger was not all that. It was the manner he chose to discredit Kent that gave the game away. He thought Kent was decent first half but disappeared in the second period and concluded, "he is not good enough, he should be dropped". Further, he compared Ryan with Sellik's explosive game winners, "if this was Jota or Abada, they'd be ripping it up". Realising his state of mind had spoken he added quickly, "Rangers supporters won't thank me for saying that". Why did Tom say it? Think about it, a player that has participated in over 50 of those Euro games these last four seasons. We have watched him take it to numerous well known respected Euro sides. Only three months past, he played well in the Europa Cup final, nearly winning it for Rangers in the last moments. I suspect the vast majority of Rangers supporters are more than happy with Kent's Euro contribution? It was Tom's choice to compare Ryan with Jota and Abada, how did they perform in Sellik's last Euro outing, were they both ripping it up? I can tell you the Norwegian minnows from the Arctic circle, Bodo Glimt defeated Tom's beloveds 1-3 on their own midden and a week later won 2-zip at home for a 5-1 aggregate victory in the Europa Conference Cup. Should FARE launch an investigation into BBC Scotland's Celtic State of Mind?

Deli Alley plays with the focus, and intensity of a man who just found out he won the lottery.