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Not a knee jerk reaction , but more over an ongoing issue , just what is the point of us having an academy if the players are never given a chance . no matter how highly rated these kids are they never get a chance on a consistent basis to play , we dont have a reserve league , the B team , hardly play , we would be better of just scrapping it as we are just going to keep buying young foreign players instead of giving our own youths a chance.

Sacking the manager makes no sense. We were never going to challenge for the league this season after such dramatic cuts. Investment in our squad will move us forward. We need better cover for players like Raskin and Cerny. St Mirren was a stumble, and until we add more quality to the squad we will have those now and then. No manager will get better out of defenders like Propper, Balogun and Souttar who pick up injury after injury. I say support the manger through this difficult period of change. Do not allow yourselves to be goaded by the press or forum and comment section invading yahoos.

Our problem is not our defence. It is our setup and the fact that we don't score enough from the chances we create. Play people who can score goals rather than people who might score, and that's that. BTW, I don't mind having Shankland in the side (probably the reason we didn't go for another striker last summer). Even if he's as mobile as a fridge, he will always have a couple of defenders around him and thus weakens a defence. You obviously need a Danilo or Igamane or both next to him in the attack line.

It must be because they're not good enough. I've always been a fan of scrapping the academy and going full B team (like Brentford did): use our relative financial muscle and hoover up all the young talent in Scotland, and those that are not quite making it at elite sides. For this to work we'd need to allow the b team to play in the pyramid like every other top footballing nation.

We are skint not a crum in the biscuit tin.

Since the English league sides probably face a similar "problem", unless the "EPL u23" (if they have it) is a success, why not set up a league structure for them? That is, a way to give them challenges against talented / quality sides rather than Lowland league footballers? Set up a northern British league, and a southern one, and have play-off at the end of the season for the u23 championship title. Our biggest problem under Walter and his followers was that we bought far too much "quality", and thus hardly ever gave any talented youngsters a real chance to progress. And IMHO, most young talents grow better by playing with equally talented "veterans" / first teamers. Lowry showed up quite brightly, yet we send him packing to Hearts rather than keeping him, now he's essentially done. I have no idea what the problem with McCausland is, who was fully dumped after the arrival of Cerny. Probably more to do with Clement than McCausland himself. (Mind you, I'd put him in behind Cerny during such affairs like Sunday's or vs Dundee at home. No use having a RB there who fails to cover and hardly provides much these days bar consternation.) Mind you, we rather play Bajrami on the wing, or Hagi, than real wingers. The problem remains the same as always. We don't rear truly talented youngsters in the way we should, back in the days of Walter because there was no necessity. Nowadays because of structural failure or ignorance on part of the managers.

We need a commanding center half a right back and a left back as we can’t afford decent players then it will have to be loans it’s also the time to give some of the youngsters a run in the team .

Does León King not count ?

Shankland then 😉 .

Rumours of a car boot sale stall being setup next weekend. Rangers looking to bring in around 810K. Propper, Butland, Matondo and Barron as a job lot. Trying to raise part of the money to pay Aberdeen the money for Barron. Devine and Lowry, two furra pound.....

At least 3 Rangers pods this week have mentioned Danilo and Raskin rotating as they have played a lot of football. Please define a lot of football... both are young and eager to play and will be lucky to have accumulated 20 starts between them over the last month or so. We must be the only club in the world that micro manages our players to this level. We simply don't have the quality to rotate to this degree. I get Raskin was on a potential suspension but you have to win the game the game in front of you. There's no point in worrying about the Celtic game if you lose in the build up. That game is now irrelevant IMO. 12 pts (13 with GD) is insurmountable. We should be going into that game with a chance of reducing their lead to 6 points and at least give them something to think about.

Honestly we're between a rock and a hard place as ofcourse if we keep losing it'll hurt us financially as fans are already talking about stopping going to games, buying merch ect as a protest but we also don't have the finances to pay off a 4 year contract, hire another manager on probably atleast a two year one and start all over again so it's a crazy position we find ourselves in. I'm just hoping our new ceo can help guide us through it

Is it Fairyland or Monopoly Money World where we can change the coach without it costing anything? As for me being delusional. I don't believe the current incumbents are going to make us a force again. It is going to take a lot longer than what we'd all like it to be. If we start the impatient 'throw money we haven't got at it' approach again and keep going deeper into the shite, then the threat becomes existential. Did you learn nothing in 2012?

as a matter of urgency we need two CB’s who can stay fit

But this player was playing against two defenders maximum, not three or more. Watching the highlights, it is the same problem over and over again. One team defends with 7 or 8 players and only counter-attacks. You can lose goals quite easily against such tactics, since the counter-attackers only need a few chances to score. It is similar to how Union played and plays against better opposition, like Leverkusen, Leipzig, and Bayern. Let me guess: teams like St. Mirren have far more problems against teams like themselves? That is, where they have to "play football"? I would play three defenders, and one 6. If you have 70+% of the ball, you do not need two 6s, and can easily use two modern style wingers. You saw what Cerny did at their goal. 3-4-3 or 3-5-2 is the way to play against such teams like yesterday. The 3 defenders guard the middle and don't attack. It is very strange that a continental trainer like Clement does not see and use this.