RANGERRAB

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My take MW doesn't want him back but Rangers don't think they've enough grounds to dismiss him

Realistically we're one year behind schedule thanks to McCoist

W You say we've no money but MW has spent £3m since he arrived. FWIW I think the jury is still out on most signings. I suppose I'm one of the few who saw some encouraging signs tonight. I want to see MOH start every game and at long last do we have a forward whom we can play a long ball to ? We can't play out from the back all the time and on the occasions we did hit a long ball Garner generally did well I thought. And I think Hill has done a decent job at the back since he went into the side. He's not a longterm option by any means but if he can get us top three that'll do for me.

I was disappointed we didn't win tonight but I think we're heading in the right direction although not as fast as we'd like. I thought MOH proved tonight he should always be in our starting XI. We need to start scoring more goals and if he can get decent deliveries into the box that will go a long way to solving that problem. What did concern me tonight though was our MF constantly getting overrun & outnumbered. Both Halliday & Holt seemed out of sorts tonight for some reason. I'm not yet convinced by Windass so maybe if Rossiter returns as the sitting MF player that will allow Halliday & Holt to push forward in their more natural roles. Halliday isn't a defensive MF player & I genuinely thought Barton would fill that role this season.Not to be though. The other thing that concerned me tonight was us trying to play out from the back when St Johnstone had pushed up. In those circumstances we need to play a long ball whether we like it or not. Whilst I'm not 100 percent convinced about Garner yet we now have the option of that long ball and if he does hold the ball up as he did tonight he might just start to change my mind. And he took his goal well too.

I don't disagree with him. We have supporters who think we're a lot better than we really are & expect to win regardless

By my calculations we've spent over £3m on transfer fees since the start of last season. Tav & waghorn cost £350k each(?), MOH cost £500k, garner cost £1.5m & Rossiter & Dodoo each cost £250k (?). Other than Tav & Waghorn it's hardly been money well spent has it , although I do sympathise with MOH whose lack of game time mystifies me. I'd certainly like to think this hasn't gone unnoticed by the Rangers board.

The minimum requirement is top 3 to get into the EL. Anything else totally unacceptable

Don't disagree but that makes it all the more important we make better signings than we made in the summer. We brought in 11 players who haven't improved us at all IMO. We parcularly needed to improve at CB & up front where we needed a more physical presence than Miller. We achieved neither.

Selection will be interesting ? Don't you mean predictable ?

But he's not fit is he? How many games has he played this season ? Same goes for Rositter & Crooks too. These are young players we signed with high hopes for them all. Maybe they've just not got the required levels of fitness & stamina required for the step-up to a higher level

Miller 9/10 ? You must have been watching a different game from me

What are the chances of another half-hearted investigation from Plod Scotland like the last time against the yahoos when a young Rangers supporter got hit by a bottle?

During the summer it was imperative we strenghtened at CB & up front. We failed to do so & are now struggling as a result. Hill has done reasonably well in recent weeks but at 38 is hardly the longterm answer at CB. Senderos was a last minute panic signing whom I'd expect to leave in January. Up front Garner has looked every bit like a striker who got just 6 goals in the Championship last season. Like Senderos he also looked a bit of a panic signing just before the transfer window closed. If we're to get back into Europe next season via our league position or winning the SC, we'll need to try & move out 2 or 3 players in january & bring in better replacements. That won't be easy

Our 3 strikers(Miller, Waghorn & garner) have just 5 league goals between them this season. That tells you all you need to know. Simply not good enough

We did not recruit as well as we might have in the summer. Not getting a decent striker to replace Miller is beginning to show big time. We cannot hold the ball up front.

We weren't good enough. We were lucky it wasn't more than 1-0

Especially from Wallace

Kiernan.......

Why not do the simple thing & put O'Halloran on the right side ?

Perhaps but if Hill can stay fit I think he can do what Davie Weir did for us even if only for this season. I'm more concerned about up front. Miller, Waghorn & Garner have managed just five goals between them in nine league games. That simply isn't good enough. This cost McCoist big style two seasons ago i.e. Signing strikers (Miller & Boyd) who couldn't score. MW take note

It was the UEFA CUp final we played in back in 2008

There will be no succesful Scotland team without a succesful Rangers team. Sooner the tattered army wake up & realise that the better. And getting rid off Rhegan should be top priority. This man & his chum Doncaster have literally stoid back & done nothing as Scottish football has regressed

this is where a good scouting system is needed

I still think our summer signings weren't good enough. We signed too many MF players and didn't bring in a quality CB & top drawer striker which were needed most of all. Performances so far have been largely disappointing as a result