Tannochsidebear

United 0 Rangers 2 fgs Dessers

Bheasts goalless at HT at home to Jambos. Brave young referee gives an early booking to a bheasts for a poor tackle, and then a penalty to Hearts when Shanklands header from a corner hits the outstretched arm of Scales. A full 2 minutes of McGregor in his face, touching his arms, gesticulating, and clearly trying to influence the referee. When VAR does their usual and says in his ear “you don’t want the hassle mate, have another look” then this behaviour pays off as the referee goes to the monitor which is located right in amongst the bheasts fans who are all screaming at him, sees exactly what he seen when he gave the penalty, and bottles it and overturns the decision. I don’t think it’s paranoia to think that if this was at Ibrox, the penalty would stand because we would not spend that time trying to put doubt in the referees mind, and VAR may not see enough to suggest a review.

It depends who we are playing and where. Id have quite a different side for a home game v Bottom league side as opposed to an away game in Europe or piggery. Also need to see more of the newbies to see the quality they bring. At this stage all I know is what players I don’t want to see in any Rangers side, which sadly is still several. But I’m hoping by this time next year the squad will be unrecognisable from Beale’s bottlers.

Been out all day, has the fixture lists been released yet?

oh ffs that is the opposite of the kind of draw the bheasts got. Our luck just goes on and on and on....

No point waiting till the team is announced for this one, heart ruling head as i'd bite your hand off for a draw but lets go for a 2-1 win with Dessers finally not fluffing a big chance in an OF game.

The complexity of the draw means that it will be done mostly by computer and take about an hour to complete. If it was done by hand it would take 3-4 hours and require over 900 individual balls apparently. While we will know the teams we will play at some point tomorrow early afternoon, we will not know who we play on which matchdays, home or away, etc until sometime on Saturday as the Europa, Conference & Champions (sic) leagues all have to be put against each other to avoid logistical issues like two clubs in same city playing on same/consecutive days. So while the CL draw is later today, there will be no rush to the Ryanair website by teatime tonight as the actual matchdays wont be known for all 3 comps until Saturday. Not much point even watching it then!

Good old cheatin Beaton, the shitebag's shitebag.

I wonder if there is a deal to be done for Hagi to stay. If the issue is Clement can’t justify a £6k pw increase in his wages if he plays him, but Hagi wants to stay, I wonder if that clause could be replaced and a solution found that suits both parties, even short term?

Well when you put it like that..........................we are totally fecked!!

Rangers 3 County0 fgs Dessers

Another own goal by the Onion Bears. Just how ridiculous and embarrassing do you get than trying to nick a drum off the visiting dozen or so fans. I wonder what repercussions there will be for this? The individual surely given a lengthy ban is a no-brainer. The UB as a whole banned for a game, a month, a year, indefinitely? How many more times do they bring our name down before we act? And dont get me started on them murdering a beautiful Scottish song that would be better placed as our National anthem than the cringe-worthy FoS.

Jefte was good but i'm going for someone I never thought I would ever vote for and that is Matondo. He had the full back on toast in the first half and looked the only real threat. A couple of the subs made an impact but overall I give my first ever (and probably last) vote to the Welsh winger.

Should have just left it as it was!

Rangers 2 st j 0 fgs Danilo

I’m also a Rays fan since going to a game in 2007 and have been a few times but not for a few years now. They operate in a really tough league with the 2 biggest teams in baseball and have still managed to be competitive in recent years. interesting theory re the tanking but it is probably more accurate to say we are trying to correct the errors of the last 2 years and just get the budget back on track.

Yes we bottled it at the end of last season, but it could and should have ended better with only our late subs costing us a win at Tynecastle and then more cheating officials costing us a cup double. I am onboard with you on lack of an obvious shape or style, I was hoping to see that by now but again PC has said all throughout pre-season it will take time and the lack of new players is hampering this situation. Imagine what could have been done if we had (as I and others wanted) got rid of Beale at the end of the 22/23 season and brought in PC then with the amount of cash Beale spunked on absolute diddies being given to Clement. Most of Beale's signings were done early in the window as well which gave him a lot of pre-season to work with. This summer is the exact opposite of that, with no budget, only replacing one out one in, more injuries and players coming back from Euros, long injuries etc, and PC having to try to get something out of players he knows are not what he wants. He is not Guardiola, he cant just make this squad of diddies play total football, the squad at this stage is not his finished article of even close to it. It really is all about patience (not our strong point!) and not ramping up the pressure on the team, although the same cant be said for our board. I thought Bennett said a new CEO was going to be appointed within a week of his interview? Still nothing. No further update on the steel that was supposed to be landing in days, or any consolation that the timescale for the end of September is on track.

The manager was asked that question in the post-match by Edgar and said the same thing, that is just how he walks and the plan was to introduce him last night for some minutes but the red card meant he couldnt, and that he will be getting minutes in each game going forward from now.

Yes and the fact that I dont need to spend another £30+ to visit that dump of a place that takes hours to get to, hours to get away from, and for 85% of it offers a pretty terrible view, and have a free midweek night instead of having to attend either the stadium or the pub to watch another borefest or two. That I am actually a bit relieved about that is a very worrying insight into how bad we have got at this time.

ffs Cammy we have only played three games, won 1 drawn 1 (at Tynecastle, hard place to win) and lost 1 due to a cheating referee and the fact we couldnt play at Ibrox, and over 10,000 of our fans didnt turn up to roar the team on. Might just as easily be our fault for not backing the team. I do get your point that its not looking good and we can see no improvement, yet, and I am far from feckin happy about it, but it is not fair to expect a turnaround of a broken squad in one window which still has 2 weeks to run while the manager has not been backed by the board.

Went for Souttar, defended well from what I could see. Won a ton of headers and a few challenges as well. Him and Propper seem to be developing nicely into a partnership in a short time. Dessers worked hard for sure, but most of his best work was defensive not offensive. I thought Dio was best of midfield, had a very good start to the game.

And a loan fee I would hope

Rangers 2 Kiev 1 fgs Dessers

I had the paper ticket with me but used the phone. Didn’t blow it up too much and only needed one side showing and it worked no problem. Think I will probably just take a paper copy with me again just to make sure as this is not a ST game.

Maybe so, but it's a tough environment to play in, and you simply cannot afford to miss several easy chances against your biggest rivals and expect your fans to be fully onside with your capabilities. Heroes are made in the big games of those who score winners. Take Maurice Edu, Katic, big Ugo to name just 3 that came to mind quickly. Cult heroes despite not always featuring or being supremely talented, simply because they scored goals in OF games that won us (or got us an important draw) the game. Dessers missed chances have been in close games that we could have won, and if he had scored we may well have won, that in turn may have won us the treble last season. Had he done so, there would be no debate about him, he would be adored by the fans.