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- First 5-10mins we'll do fine and Dessers will shoot wildly from a good position. - Celtic will score around the 15th minute after we fall asleep from a throw-in on our right-hand side. - Celtic will score a quick second goal from a corner kick after Cantwell and/or Lawrence don't track their initial man and Souttar heads wide under no pressure from the resultant cross to concede the corner. - We'll finish the half strongly but take the wrong passing option on the counter attack with a 3 on 2. - Second half will see Celtic sit back and Lundstram stroll around the midfield with no forward pass on. - Sterling and/or Ridvan go off injured around the hour mark. - Celtic score a third against the run of play with a deflected Hatate strike. - Tav scores a penalty awarded by VAR. - Matondo misses a great chance when put through on goal. - We hit the bar in injury time.

Spoken as a true Prebyterian.

I've been psychologically beaten into a mindset where, even if things seem to be going well at any point during the game on Saturday, I'll assume it's all just the build up to a crueller, more crushing disappointment further down the line.

Its the team fault mate. Well according to @Rousseau its mine

No confidence! only hope!.

They used to say form goes out the window in an OF. Not now though it seems....

We shouldn’t be signing Cortes until he’s proved himself over a lot more games. Another loan spell maybe if his parent club would agree to that

Would be happy with Cortes, good young player, bags of potential and offers a good wide threat.

Absolutely. I think Clement has been a bit of a victim of his own success, I mean no one had us anywhere near the title when he came in, then we gave him zero budget in january, but now we're disappointed as it feels like we chucked a very good position - that his management took us to.

The Martin Ramsay book that came out a few months ago about the title winning season of 86/87 is worth a read for a number of reasons. I thought I remembered this season well. I was mid-teens, going to game regularly, leaving school and getting on in the world. Rangers had not had a good side for most of my time actively supporting them. Decline under Greig followed by false dawns and further decline under Jock Wallace, the players at Rangers simply weren't good enough. Then Souness was appointed manager. One thing I forgot about that season that Ramsay's book really brings into focus was just how many of that title winning side were at the club before Souness and Smith were appointed. Indeed it's no exaggeration to say that it was basically the previous season's side plus Woods, Butcher and Souness himself. Jimmy Nicholl rejoined, but he'd been at Rangers before. Graham Roberts joined during the season and became a first team regular, but new players like Jimmy Phillips, Neil Wood and Colin West made little impact. The real story of that season is how introducing 3 very good players transformed the side and lifted the existing players to heights they previously couldn't reach. Players I could have sworn had left the club that summer, like Cammy Fraser and Dougie Bell, actually played a decent amount of matches that season. The core of the squad that nearly finished 6th the season before won the league in style. Players like Davie McPherson, Stuart Munro, Derek Ferguson, Ted McMinn and Bobby Fleck along with Davie Cooper, Ian Durrant and of course Ally McCoist became a title winning side. Cooper aside none of that group of players were hitting any kind of highs in their careers prior. I guess what I'm trying to say is we don't have to rip everything up. There are weaknesses in our squad, but its core is capable of winning the League Cup, reaching the Scottish Cup Final, the last 16 in Europe and taking the title to the final weeks. Some judicious improvement might be all that's required.

Airdrie 2, Thistle 2 was a rattling good old-fashioned game last night until both teams ran out of puff after seventy minutes. End to end attacking, powerful long range shooting, fortunes ebbing and flowing, it was most refreshing. If either team gets past Raith, County or St J will stifle them with system football. Boring.

So, how are we all feeling about Saturday? I'm swithering between sheer dread and thinking we're surely due a performance at that dump. If we can avoid losing an early goal and gifting them goals, as well as being clinical, we can do it. The problem is, there's plenty of evidence to suggest we're incapable of all of the above. Mon The Rangers! 🟥⬜🟦

Never once went on to the field of play thinking he was going to get beat I think some of our lads are scared of the hooped horrors

I am keeping hope alive but inwardly know it was over at RC. I am getting a wee bit annoyed by all the negative stuff from the fans. I am more in the camp of "if only we didn't have all those injuries" because in my heart I believe we would have won it #schizophrenialoyal

Hate to be this guy but.......Dread. Dont see anything but a home win

To quote Michael Owen, “whichever team scores more goals usually wins.”

The future of on-loan Rangers winger Oscar Cortes' is set to be ironed out between parent club Lens and the Ibrox side in the coming days. (CanalRCN via Daily Record) The agent of Australian winger Raphael Borges Rodrigues has teased a potential move to Rangers amid speculation over a move to Ibrox. (Daily Record)

Would like to see the Harry Wraggs back in top flight.

I'd prefer Cathro to Alex Rae on our staff.

My report on tonight's U18 win at Kilmarnock https://rfcyouths.wordpress.com/2024/05/07/18s-dent-killies-league-hopes/

First thing to go would be that Tina Turner song Simply the best we have a nerve playing that stupid song

Quite the opposite 😀.