alexscottislegend

Ha! Ha! Amazing how we can be so magnanimous in victory.:spl:

And this could be the last year we get the chance of automatic qualification, so we need to up our seeding position. As do all the other Scottish clubs. If the co-efficient is not improved, any future champions could find themselves having to play 2 CL qualifiers with the likes of Shaktar or an EPL club in the way.:spl:

As a Rangers fan, none of the names mentioned would strike fear into me, except Moyes and maybe Coyle - but they won't get either of them. Not that I care overly, but why was John Collins' name not mentioned? Is he not Celtic-minded enough for them?

I note Norris that you don't still want Walter to "get out of my club":devil:

See where you're coming from but with the players we have and the ones we face in the CL I reckon most managers would take a defensive approach (and it DID get us to a European final). If we lose WS then we have to see who is available and sadly there are just not that many candidates who are better at the moment. Until we know who could be likely to take the job, I'd rather stick with him than give the post to someone who may not be as good.

[QUOTE=Whosthedado;151540]Fantastic way to win the Title and brilliant team performance. Even Alexander had a couple of decent stops even one near the end when it was 3-0. Papac was outstanding for me though Glad so many of you are picking out Papac. The way this guy makes last-ditch tackles again and again, comes across to cover his centre backs, and just rarely makes a mistake, has convinced me that we probably won't get a better LB. If we could graft Whittaker's attacking capability on to his defending, we would have a multi-million pound player!

Makes you wonder if the two Jimmies could ever be an option for us. JC has shown some competence in Europe; makes you wonder what he could do with better resources. I'd say if he makes a go of things with a good Championship club then he'd be a possibility for us in the future. We don't have too many ex-Rangers doing well just now, with the likes of John Brown and Gough not developing their coaching careers the way I thought. Suppose the best at the moment is Derek McInnes.

I'm still raging at commentator Ian Crocker. Lost count of the number of times at the start of the match he referred to Lafferty's "disgraceful behaviour." Yes, yes, we know but the club took action against him (unlike C****c with the Boruc/McGeady incident). It's quite clear he is not an unbiased commentator. So I loved it when Laff scored after 6 minutes, causing me to spill some of my Champions Ale. Poor Lafferty will get dogs abuse at every away ground now, yet what he did was out of character. And Mendes! He only scores peaches. This time left foot (note how he steadied himself before picking out his spot), last time right foot. These occasional moments of class are what sorts us out from the rest. My non-football loving English-born wife couldn't understand why a grown man had tears streaming down his face long before the final whistle.

Absolutely hilarious. You couldn't get that banter anywhere else.

Preferably as a result of a Zaluska error.:devil: And perhaps Samaras conceding an own goal. for good measure. And please God, if you can arrange it, Lafferty score to please the sheep?

What a great quote from WS - it's absolutely Struthian! Regardless of what you think about his management decisions, when it comes to dignity and discipline matters he's almost without peer. A point we should bear in mind when considering any possible successor.

I've gone for Novo too for all the reasons mentioned above. My only reservation is that I think he's better coming on as a sub (or impact player to use the new jargon).

[You have to remember that Sunday threatens to bring the curtain down on Celtic's most prolonged period of dominance since Stein. I like the sound of that - it has a definite ring to it.

Only thing I disagree with is the 'defensively sound' bit. I think he can improve a lot there. And I think he has scored more than Hutton did (though correct me if I'm wrong.). When he goes on a run, you get off your seat. How many other Gers players can you say that aobut?

Nutshell. I'm more concerned because of our financial future. I can't see us getting past a CL qualifier, no matter who we got.

I'll take a 1-0 for us; we don't do cricket scores. Even if we drop 2 points, I still think it just as likely Hearts will do us a turn..

Hear! Hear!

150,000 rioted!! Our average gate is 50,000, most away games are attended by far fewer than 20,000. So where did they all suddenly spring from? Not just the Scottish media who lack a bit of balance.

Has there ever been a Rangers player who so divides the fans more than Fergie? I can almost agree with both sides. What we need is a midfielder who can chip in with a few goals. Davis and Thomson might be capable when they are both played in their right positions. Still think Mendes has touches of class which we no longer see from Fergie.

Er - leading a government full of corrupt thieves? Point being is it any better than Berlusconi's? Then the MP's turn round and tell us what they did was no worse than shoplifting - as if a poor person nicking a bag of groceries is comparable to stealing �£20k from the taxpayer to do up your second home. Oh, I forgot - it was within the (self-made) rules.

Or Gordon Brown's?

I'm agreeing with you, but Lafferty to be fair has no history of this (I think I'm right in saying) and I think WS will punish him; just thinking how it would look if the 2 C****c players get off.