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Rangers 3 Sparta 1 FGS Morelos

Rangers 3 Hibs 1 fgs Morelos

I went to Villa v Newcastle a few weeks ago and apart from McGinn I wouldn’t have paid for any of their players, they are a very average bunch. Newcastle were worse right enough!

So important to get 3 points today going into yet another international break. We also need to put on a good home performance after some mediocre performances at Ibrox this season. With Ross County struggling at the foot of the table (ignoring the freak result last week) this really should be a chance for us to get our strikers plenty of chances and get on the scoresheet, and boost our GD as well. We can no longer say we’ve had a slow start form wise and we will come good surely very soon, we are at mid-November and this will be us a third of the season in after today so our form is what it is and that seems to be our normal level rather than below par, so we have to work hard to raise our level if we are to achieve what we want this season, which is the title and CL direct entry. Lets repeat the clinical finishing from last week and keep us in a good mood going into the break.

Rangers 4 Ross county 0 fgs Sakala

Balogun the best of the defenders by quite some distance, (WTF has happened to Goldson, at least one big mistake every single game now and a shadow of the player he was last year), Arfield for me was the best of the midfielders, and Hagi looked our only threat up front, with an honourable mention to the returning Kent who looked sharper at times, but for the rest it was poor, 4 or 5 out of ten stuff. Hagi for MOTM for the cool finish.

Absolute shambles trying to get into the stadium here. I’ve seen a lot of shambolic organisation in away Euro games but this last hour has been right down there. I am now inside and it does seem to be moving now but that was really bad.

Brondby 1 Rangers 3 fgs Tav

Well you pretty much nailed our vulnerabilities in your first 2 paragraphs! Although our suicidal defending came from a long high ball this week. Thankfully we turned it round in emphatic style.

Motherwell 1 Rangers 2 fgs Morelos

Rangers 3 Dolly 1 fgs Morelos

Not PQ specifically but still the Beeb and still some well kent names to this thread. Nipped out to shops around 615pm and I have 5live on in the car as usual. This week I have the undoubted displeasure of having to endure the totally out of her depth Connie McLaughlin filling in and while she is generally awful at presenting this mix of news and sport, along comes a news story featuring the passing of Sir Walter, and the bold Connie is doing this one. I await with baited breath to hear her choke out some praise, but instead she introduces a guest to talk about his life. Im thinking who could be coming on, a former Rangers great no doubt. But no, who comes on to talk about Walter but Graham feckin Speirs, making me nearly crash the car. His eulogy to Walter amounted to talking about how nice a man Tommy Burns was, Gazza the alcoholic wifebeater and how Walter looked after him, and that he had a volcanic temper. Apparently he is up there with the top dozen or so best managers Scotland has produced. And he failed to eradicate bigotry from our country. But he loved Tommy Burns so he wasn’t all bad. To top it off Speirs repeated his claim that he grew up a Rangers fan, as if that gave him the qualification to be paid to go on national radio and talk out his arse.

St Mirren 1 Rangers 3 fgs Roofe

Of course silly me! Pass with flying colours.

I thought every Director had to pass a fit and proper test?

Huge game tonight, and it is absolutely a must win for us. I was glad to hear SG agree with this assessment in the pre-match presser yesterday. Defeat and we are out, a draw and we are going to struggle to come 3rd and drop into the diddier diddy cup, whereas a win puts us right in the mix for qualification in top 2 of our group and sets us up for the 3 return fixtures, albeit with 2 of the 3 away from home. Above all else I would love to see a 90 minute performance of a standard similar to last season at this time of year. To be in mid-October and not have played a complete game and hit any consistency of performance is more than a little worrying, no matter what the domestic league table shows. Just a question I was wondering recently for the stattos among us (you know who you are!) At this time last year we were bombarded weekly with tales of XG ratings and how well we were doing. I would be interested to see our XG ratings in recent games, where we are having 25-30 shots at goal in 90 minutes, with more than a few really good chances but only scoring 1.5 goals per game in league games. Anyone compare our stats in this between this year and last?

Rangers 2 Brondby 1 fgs Morelos

Rangers 2 hearts 1 fgs Morelos

Is that right @CammyF? I didnt know that! That is amazing and I suppose goes to show just how humble our humble beginnings were that we had to borrow kit just to get a good photo! Thanks for the info.

While the style and collar are clever, you can’t say it’s a nod to the gallant pioneers and lump a Castore badge on it and not use the star. At £68 it’s a total rip-off. What is this, the 55th new top this season between the 3 playing kits, training tops, euro travel tops, euro training tops, match day warm up kits etc? I don’t buy any of them anyway so it’s not affecting me and it’s clear our marketing department is doing some great work, but I really sympathise with parents and young fans who are targeted in this way every other week. Imagine what it’s going to be like in the Spring when we are actually 150 years young, when all this has already been maximised for us just being in our 150th year.

Surely now that NI are no longer in contention for the 2022 World Cup, Davis can retire from international football and try to concentrate on the club that pays his wages. I thought it ridiculous that SG admitted he left Davis out our game v Hibs because he had 2 internationals and travelling coming up. Surely that is the wrong way round, and that Davis, having to be used sparingly at his age, should be giving his all for Rangers, and used sparingly for his country, even more so when they were playing effective dead rubbers with pretty much no hope of qualifying anyway? He owes NI nothing after giving fantastic service, he is still on big money with us and should be doing everything in his power to ensure he is available to play.

Lundstrum cost us a goal, again, so he doesn’t get my vote this time. I’ll go for Balogun who had a very good game between defence and stepping into midfield as Hibs got deeper and he wasn’t needed as much back there.

Big big game today and while I will take the 3 points in any way they come, we really need to be at a level only seen in glimpses to win this match. Very interesting line up selected, another chance for Wright to prove he can play at this level and Lundstrum hopefully can build on a better performance last week and show why the manager thinks there is a player in there. If we can get the service in to Alfie then hopefully he can start a scoring run today.

Rangers 3 Hibs 2 fgs Morelos

And now it seems we have indeed followed suit and there will be no requirement for Covid passports for Sunday.