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Easily Scotland's best player. The save in the 2nd half where he tipped it round the post while almost smacking himself into the post was top class. If there was ever a player who has won me over from having doubts as an average player to become someone I highly rate its McGregor. Alan Hutton would be high on that list but some of McGregors performances for club and country over the last 2 and half years have been consistantly excellent....(ok he has had the off field blip but so did Goram and Gascoigne).

My doubts about Levein are proved right. I blame the SFA though for appointing an average SPL manager for the national job. Levein is just becoming more of an arrogant tosser with every interview I listen to. McGregor - 3 top drawer saves and easily merited No.1 jersey. Hutton - Most dangerous attacker. Whittaker - Was running a close line after 2nd booking. Weir - Some quality tackles and interceptions, would have been at least 3-0 if he wasnt playing. McManus - played ok. Caldwell - Baffling Fletcher - Mr "I play for Man Utd" was an Imposter again. Its ok fitting into fast attack minded play when you have world class, quality and skill around you every week. Dorrans - few nice touches. Morrison - Not much to comment about. Naismith - Playing the form of his life in a 4-3-3 was pulled to a left midfielder and didnt make an impact. Mackie - Nothing to comment about. Have to say that game was screaming out for Barry ferguson to be out there and put his foot on the ball in the centre of midfield. It was far too scrappy. Dorrans and hutton were the only 2 who wanted to play the ball on the deck. I dont mind losing to a better team when we have a go but to play nobody upfront is probably the worst decision Ive ever seen from a Scotland manager. Even Vogts and Burley would have had someone upfront...ok it might have been Dobie or Kevin Kyle which wouldnt trouble Elgin City's defence but at least they would have had the imagination to play someone upfront. The worst thing about it is: a) the media seem to think everything was rosey before this match and that we had a chance as we had 4 pts from Lithuania (hardly world beaters) and Liechenstein (part timers from a village) and yet the win was in the 97th minute.... and b) Levein will be there until at least the end of this campaign as the SFA dont have balls, guts or the idea to bite the bullet and go find a proper manager. Someone like Keegan with a bit of ambition in his play should have been approached.

Utter nonsense again from the SPL / SFA or whoever. But this sort of thing doesnt surprise me, these guys attempting to run the game are laughable. I suppose if any good comes of it, McGregor will be fresh for the trip to Parkhead as he would sit out the home game to Motherwell - alexander is more than capable for that match.

Lol, TBH though everything he said there is probably right Aside from that going back to the future of football, I just turned on my laptop and read the BBC footy page and 3 headlines: Liverpool may be docked 9 pts. Man Utd make 80 Million loss. Dundee to enter administration. Liverpool and Man Utd are 2 of the biggest clubs in the world and have a fan base in the top 5 world wide and are in a mess. The stories of Leeds and portsmouth are going to become very common soon. If Man city and Chelsea owners walk those 2 would be in free fall. There isnt much success stories of clubs at the moment, Arsenal are a breath of fresh air, making 60 million profits yet still being as good as they are. Shows if wenger would spend they could run away with everything. Id say Hibs are probably the best ran side in Scotland, they produce a lot of decent young players, are not in the red and still manage to upgrade their stadium.

Harsh on those who were simply having a few beers and behaving sensibly. Usual situation where a minority can spoil it for the majority. Im sure we know too well about that after manchester.

I dont think anyone is a victim apart from Diamond now showing his lact of intellect. It just comes down to the fact Rangers and our fans are hated with a passion due to our success. Ive suffered first hand at this hatred while being a Gers fan growing up with the hatred around me in Aberdeen. Even as a 14 year old I was being kicked and spat on by grown men after a Aberdeen Rangers game at pittordrie. Any chance a so called Journo gets at a pop then they will bite. They are all bitter. The ignorance of Diamond is to blame, we should feel sorry for the guy that he is so backward minded. Referring to all Rangers fans as "prods" shows his level of mentality. As long as Rangers keep winning then I personally dont give a monkey what jokers like that have to say, in fact they can say all they want to show us how much hurt they have....thats why we're champions. However its possible the BBC could have an agenda....they report whats given to them from the top. If they can lie about world issues then they can lie about Rangers. Its just a shame some people only pick up on their lies when it affects what "they" believe. EDIT - Therefore I think Danny has a point, its just poor so called Journo's trying to have a pop and sell papers.

Thats true. For the past 4 seasons Ive had a channel called Goal TV who fed the SPL games but the contract ended and nobody has taken it over so Im watching all our games online and always opt to chose foreign commentary over Andy walker, Ian Crocker and Davie Provan. The most recent summeriser I quite like is Craig Burley though, always calls it how he see's it and is honest enough. Was a good player also.

Caldwell in even though he hasnt played this season and Miller dropped when he is in the form of his life - Im trying to work out this 4-2-2-2 with the team being named: _____________________McGregor___________________ Hutton_________Weir___________McManus____Whittaker _____________Caldwell________Fletcher______________ _____________Dorrans________Morrison______________ _______________Naismith_____Mackie________________ Cant he just say its a 4-4-2 or a 4-5-1.

Whats this 4-2-2-2 going to look lke? Does it contain wingers? IMO Levein was never right for the job, well out of his depth at international level! He needs to get 3, 4 or 6 points to begin to convince me he can do the job long term. 3 points would mean we have beaten 1 of the them and a defeat against Spain is likely anyway, 4 pts would be terrific and 6 outstanding! Yet coming away unbeaten with 2 points/draws away to Czech and against the World Champs wouldnt be bad but Scotland needs to qualify for a tournament again.

Back to his injury, is he really out for 4 months as per another article on another thread?? Unbelievable if so.

Is so boring! The actual games themselves arent bad and I do enjoy watching Scotland but its more a case of the days in between there is nothing to discuss on Rangers and that our next game seems ages away plus the lack of action over a weekend including the EPL. Id probably prefer an international fortnight during a Domestic break when 4 qualifiers could be played to get them out of the way in 1 go and it would probably bring more interest to them having muliple games in a league type basis.

Yeah a couple of 2-1 wins early on was a bit concerning but those teams were fresh and trying to get a good start to their campaign so not too surprising. But agreed some of our attacking play on the break has been a breath of fresh air, we did that against Blackburn Pre Season and for once we carried it into the season where as 2 years ago I remember us playing great stuff pre season and then going back to defensive route 1 when the campaign kicked off.....I much prefer this way of playing and if the defence could tighten up all would be good. I think this is a point me and Pete made on a number of times than not having a poacher to play around would open up play all round and we'd get goals from all over the play just like the season when we scored 102 goals plus then in 04-05 Prso and Novo banging in 40+ between them. (No Boyd = More Goals = More Titles :fish: )

They should be. The League Cup should be played in Octo and reward the form team at that stage of the season. But yeah I think the start has been top notch, as Craig says we have had a bit of a tougher run than Celtic with 4 away games with 3 of them as tough as it gets - Aberdeen, Hearts and Hibs. Their real test is when they have to travel to those grounds.

Dont believe a word of that from the Sun. No way will Levein drop Miller. If he does he is a bigger clown that I thought he was. The only reason would be to rest him for the Spain game but as the Czech one is more winnable we should be going for 3 pts there.

Id mention McGregor in there, especially the way he was playing pre UEFA cup final just before he got injured, he was outstanding. Some of the saves were Goram Esk, two I can recall were against Werder and Celtic away.

Yip agree with this also. Up until 2 seasons ago Id have loved to see us play Liverpool, Man Utd, Chelsea and even the mid table sides but if anything Id rather see us now in a league with Ajax, Porto and the likes. Unless the SPL really revamps the Scottish game I can see the league still declining but its playing in a bad league is not as bad as being 150 million in debt. And Agree your point that another Laudrup and Gazza would be silly money. Football was changing when they came to Rangers, you seldom got a player who was individually brilliant and Laudrup kicked off a new style of player that wasnt previously seen much in Scotland. Both Laudrup and Gazza were top international level players and would be the other side of 20 million if they were playing in la Liga or the EPL at the moment. Ask any England fan who was better Gascoigne or the 18 million Gareth Barry. Barry will be lucky to be remembered in 10 years.

I thought the same about Beasley. Weiss is a bit more physical than Beasley though and will probably have more good games away from home.

Any pics Pete? Dortmunds stadium is as good as it gets IMO. Bayern were the form team in Europe last season and were playing some terrific stuff. I like the german league, probably 2nd to the EPL for me.

As I said in another thread, what do fans want? Better ties before CL games to prepare or easier games after? I dont think the fixture list would allow home games both before and after Cl games, and seen as the fixture list is made before all SPL clubs got knocked out - what we should expect is support from the SPL to prepare BEFORE CL games IMO. We didnt get that this week, it was rank awful having to go to Pittodrie on a SUnday then Hearts on Sat lunch time, but we gave the middle finger to that. However we have 4 HOME games before our remaining CL ties all to be played on Saturdays.....if they were away games we'd be complaining we are getting tough matches to not prepare us right. No pleasing some people.

Your believing it for once

Lol....fannys. TBH his overkick was top notch, made Berbatovs looks slow motion, it doesnt matter who it was against the techique was brilliant. But apart from that he has fitted in just ok, no where near Dado Prso level.

Quite cute! Needs a wee hair cut though.

Danny, I used to agree with a lot of your posts but now your coming out with stuff that makes Scotland such a depressing country - i.e. ever the pessimist. I say Weiss up to you. The lad hasnt done jack shit wrong and was electric in his first game, very good in his next 2 and not out of his depth today. He is never going to be a Laudrup who will change a game as he is only 20 but give the lad a chance, the more he plays at home especially then the more we will see a quality player. 3 MOTM games at the World Cup in the summer also! Go on the Weiss!

Would like to see the next 7 fixtures. Yet remember we've had Man U and Bursposor (sp) in there. But yeah Celtic are a bit like Chelsea IMO, the fixtures have fell kind to them. We'll stick 5 past Hamilton at Ibrox while Jossie's Giants will draw at Tynecastle.

Thought he was out for donkeys??? Your right though, Brown is an absolute cheese bag.