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Remember that Tav has a) to return first and b) has to go too.

News still slow ... Turkish second-tier club Amedspor have offered Heart of Midlothian striker Lawrence Shankland, who is out of contract at the end of the season, a lucrative deal. (Scottish Sun) ... denied by Hearts. Clement has confirmed he has identified "several" players he believes can help Rangers in the January transfer window. (Glasgow Times) ... meanwhile, Wolfsburg are in talks with a Swedish winger, which would see Cerny drop down to third or fourth choice there, maybe opening the door for a permanent move. That said, he'll still cost some money ...

Looking ahead ... it might have been worse. But not much ... Referee - Kevin Clancy 😱 Assistants - Graeme Stewart and David Roome Video Assistant Referee - Nick Walsh Assistant Video Assistant Referee - David McGeachie

That said ... if we are talking about the board and the club as such, I wonder how much more people are currently employed than in the days of Sir Walter. While you acknowledge that football has changed, the number of people now running about looks to be somewhat inflated. Not least when we could sack a manager for not delivering, but then he's what, 5 to 10 people in his team who will also have to be taken care with? And who might have to be replaced too. I would hope that they all got clauses in their contracts that save us from payments when they fail in their duties ... More generally, people call for change, and rightly so after another half-season of stagnating "progress". There has to be some sort of improvement soonish, as we laboured ever since our return. What you would like to seen sooner rather than later is a change of attitude towards the SFA/SPFL, as we have been ravaged for the best part of the decade by heinous refereeing, compliance officer decisions, and now über- and non-active VARing. The club has to make a stand, and preferably hand in hand with outer clubs. It very much looks like we now have to bear another season (at least) shadow-walking behind the Scum, and the talk about our financial standing is surely correct. Yet, we've shown that we can hold our own against them on the field during the last few seasons, so any debate on "getting financially back on track" sounds a bit hollow, as our problems more or less lie on the field of play. I would assume that CEOs generally not interfere with football decisions, but I would expect that the manager gets an appointment with the CEO every other week after another dismal showing against the lesser lights of the league. Tactics, player motivation, expectations should be on the agenda there, and if it doesn't change after a couple of appointments, sterner measures need to be implemented. The experiment-phases need to stop.

Typical 2nd half after the job was done in the 1st. You wonder why we don't change things with periphery players earlier (might have saved us from another Danilo injury), with Matondo and Cortes as well as McCausland needing game time. Dowell could have easily replaced Raskin or Diomande after 60 mins, as their race was run. Cortes didn't really shine after being subbed on ... but what was he doing on the right? That's McCausland's slot ... who played on the left? Ach well ...

I looked at the line-up and though: nice 4-4-2 ... and that's how we essentially play. The two strikers give their backline hell, Cerny and Hagi press too, while Diomande does his (probably best) role as an AM. Ridvan and Raskin look a bit suspect with their touches, on the other hand, Nsiala doesn't look phased by the occasion, crowd, nor opponent. Wonder if King is getting 45 mins after Pröpper (playing well today) held his shoulder. Time to give minutes to the "fringe" and rehabilitation boys.

No, Dessers ain't the problem. Most strikers haven't been the problem. Their scoring rates and stats are and were similar to most in Rangers's history. Only that we are hell-bend on expecting them to be the finished jack-of-all-trades striker like Ibrahimovic, Messi, or the like, hitting the goal with ever other shot, scoring 30+ per season. We changed a running system to this modern crab and now try to blame the players for not doing it to perfection in a league where it is doomed to fail time and again. Blaming single players just means that people trust the system more than the ability of the players ... which is, IMHO, fundamentally wrong. (And this does not mean that I think that any player who receives criticism isn't worth it.)

There is no doubt that we have a team that can play good attacking football when the opposition "wants to play football". Be it in Europe or in Scotland. In the latter, however, only very few clubs do it, but that is where we have to do our homework. Regardless of injuries (and they have been horrendous over the years) and ridiculous refereeing decisions and performances, we have not managed to break down these Scottish walls for the best part of a decade. And ultimately, this is the point where the blame must be placed on every single coach since Warburton. Dundee were holed up, our three strikers faced two defenders each, the second row with ONE nominal attacker is useless against two or three Dundee players, the two 6s passed to the centre-halfs and that's it. We have seen it like this since Warburton. So the penny has to drop at some point ... the penny that should be the size of Fort Knox by now. You have up to six attackers on the bench each week, some are subbed on a 1 for 1 basis, others go on after 75+ mins with little effect. Week in and week out. It is unacceptable management and must come to an end. We handed the Scum a free reign at every trophy since 2012, and some may blame Murray for the initial fall. But since our return, we were able to built teams that challenged them for titles, yet imploded mainly down to the above.

Said admin was joking.

... please, go to bed.

Oh dear, the hindsight prophet now? Get some good whisky and off to bed.

No, he's been playing this way all season. Like his predecessors. Maybe with different players, but he never learned the lesson, and probably won't learn it either.

Plan A didn't work at the 787th attempt. No wonder there. The nice schedule at all those dreadful location did all that was to be done, but maybe the SPFL did us a favour there. That said, if the next manager goes 4-2-3-1 too, I'll probably go back to checking results rather than watching. The sensible thing is to cut the losses and let a new man create a decent side for next season. Igamane and Kelly probably the only one who gets a pass mark, though Pröpper and Nsiala did okay too. It's never cool to play at gung-ho kick-and-rush teams, who brick themselves up, and rush out to charge en masse with any won ball. Shit anti-football, but that's what we've been up against for a decade or so.

You were just bleating from minute 1. No-one sugar-coats anything on here.

Why od you watch anyway? Need to spill some bad mood onto others?