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Dessers goal must be a contender for goal of the season. It doesn't need to be a 30 yard screamer of an acrobatic cart wheel. His goal was simply sublime.

Lundstram's pass for the first goal was excellent

Steve Davis was entitled to act similarly to Naismith and Whittaker. When he departed the club for Southampton, he insisted upon Rangers receiving a fee. A proper professional, a proper Ranger.

Or maybe the three. Actually, I was wrong to mention Baxter. He is unique. In old lineups there were two halfbacks, right and left regarded as part of the defence but playing in front of the back line. The ideal half back’s role was to break up opposing attacks, procure the ball and supply it to the forwards. Equally they were expected to defend inside their penalty box. The ability to drive forward into the opposition penalty box was a bonus. The perfect exponents were John Greig and Dave McKay. Stuart McCall did pretty much the same. More often, one half back was more defensive minded (Harry Davis, John Cumming) the other more forward going (Danny Blanchflower, Frank Beattie) Left or right didn’t matter. You would think that Tav would be an ideal attacking half back on the right. I just wonder if he needs his area of the field to be the modern right back position where he can see the trend of play and start his runs early. Standing further forward might impede those abilities. He would have to play four consecutive games at right half before we would know if it suits him.

I thought it was french for pineapple.

Three goals, three points, clean sheet, and all on an East coast January night. There was a bit of slackness, in passing, and movement/positional play, but the team was never really in trouble, and when it was, Spring-heeled Jack was there, as we have come to expect. Here's a question: what was the best goal of the three? They were all 'football' goals, different, and from different players. Yilmaz: great pass, great first touch, great finish. Cantwell: a terrific strike, controlled, and beautifully placed. Dessers: a subtle subterfuge, which sent several Hibees away for their tea. It did not quite reach the status of being 'disrespectful', more's the pity. I can't make up my mind. (I didn't think Dessers capable of such a finish, and I've belted and flayed him, with the rest of you, but the hat was off last night. Maybe there is a player there, after all.)

Thought he was MOTM again last night by some distance.

Said both were precautions - so assume both being out for 4-6 weeks 😀

Some years back my company had a Club Deck hospitality box for a few seasons. Willie Henderson and Davie Wilson were our hosts for a while and we had many good chats with them. I was always struck by their humility - there was never any pretentions or grandstanding, just two decent blokes who were as keen to have a laugh and talk about the team and the game as we were. The other one we had for a while that I always think of was Colin Jackson, who was just the nicest guy you could hope to meet.

I had a look at our league fixtures up to the next OF which is at home, these are the 11 fixtures: St Mirren (a) Livingston (h) Aberdeen (h) Ross County (h) St Johnstone (a) Hearts (h) Kilmarnock (a) Motherwell (h) Dundee (a) Hibernian (h) Celtic (h) So we're looking at 7 home fixtures in the next 11 games, with none of the so-called traditional tough aways either (Aberdeen,Hearts,Hibs). In fact, the only one I'd be trepid about is the Killie fixture because of the reverse and their form against the OF this season. What I'm getting at is that this is as good a setup for a title run in as you can get imo, we should really be going unbeaten in this 11 and aiming to beat Celtic at Ibrox. Obviously there's the issue that I wouldn't trust this team to beat Celtic in a game of Rock Paper Scissors but you've got to start somewhere. I still think we're well in this, even with a medical department run by Ronald McDonald. What do you guys think? Cheers.

one of these.

Great servant to this club and his country. A quiet legend.

A sad end to a wonderful career that he could not get one more game in front of the BEARS. Happy retirement Steven and good luck for the future.

Boulevard, surely; it's still Edinburgh.

So, is @Gonzo79 suggesting that, in 2024, a prince may NOT become a princess? Monstrous, if true.

Three great goals, but the Dessers one was pure class. Thought we had two honest penatly claims too. And Butland broke spoon burner hearts. Nice

I'm stressed enough about Saturday's fuxture without focusing on anything else.

I have related as a Primary schoolboy, often I sat with my Grandfather in the old section G of the Main Stand. There were some characters among the sea of raincoats and bunnets. One old chap had a hand made rickety(when is the last time a Gersnetter saw one) and would bellow when Henderson received the ball, "stick it in the bunion bag Wullie". As a ten year old I though he could not pronounce, 'onion'!

As an Edinburgh resident, I'm offended.

Boredom > Posit > Rumor > Speculation > Possibility > Near Certainty >>>>>Denied by club Repeat. People just get bored and talk shit. MANY of those people are in the 'press'.

Sterling looks like he could develop into being a cracking destroyer in midfield.

Never seen three better goals in one match. Cantwell, crash bang WALLOP. Yilmaz, crash, bang and a bit of skill for control. Dessers, if Sherlock Holmes played football he would have scored goals like that. Best of the three.

Dont even joke

If he can stay fit, yeah we could keep him. lets face it his stock at this point can only really go up.

Found all the ex-players to be really down to earth, a particular favourite being wee Doddie. I remember when growing up having a miniature Willie Henderson key ring. ha.

I thought we had a shout for a pen when Silva was brought down in the box in the 1st half??

100% makes such a massive difference compared to Greegs last season

Special mention to Butland who kept them out at some moments that could have changed the momentum of the game.

Man = pornography Woman = erotica. Ninny.

Personally I disagree, the league as a whole would perform better in Europe. More teams would be able to contribute to the coefficient and the increased competition would also increase our competitiveness.

With us hopefully!

Double an + as i.e. ananas.

I think so. Interesting to hear him say how much they work on that, amongst other things, in training, how they try and feed the quick direct pass in situations like that, it was a great pass & finish. Actually the Cantwell goal was similar regarding the inside pass from McCausland.

We dominated the game but were wasteful on the ball and with scoring opportunities. Having said that, the turnaround in these players is remarkable and we should have had a few more goals. Yet again the decision making of the match ref and Var was questionable. We had a perfectly good goal chopped off and a certain penalty denied for a non-foul. Thankfully this incompetence did not affect the win. I was really worried about this one pre match. We still need another striker and a right winger.

Lundstram by the length of Princess Street. Ridvan, Butland, Silva all played well but JL bossed the game from start to finish. Also a brilliant assist for Ridvans goal.

A fine win. Very pleased with that. Tin hat on now, one or two of Beale’s signings now beginning to settle after difficult starts? 😳

That's a really pleasing result in a game that could easily presented more trouble than it did this evening. It was good to see us control the match, score two crucial first half goals and relax into a more confident style once the third went in. Job done and we move onto another tricky game on Saturday.

Quite. Doesn’t decide the match but at some point, something like that will and it’ll be a season defining game for some team.

He is some fucking keeper.

We're a bit sloppy at the back. Giving the ball away too easily. If we could get a good finisher, Silva and Cantwell would work great with him.