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The red card which Motherwell should have got in the first half aside, until we get better quality in the wide areas up front & a striker who can get 20-25 league goals per season I think we’ll struggle to win titles.

Let’s hope MacAusland has a better game today. Otherwise we’re going to be playing with 10 men

He has done well so far but both his predecessors started well too. I think he’s rode his luck a few times though. Wednesday night being one such example

Hopefully we won’t get the type of starting XI we got on Wednesday. Silva & MacAusland shouldn’t be in the starting XI

It’s imperative we beat them at ibrox next month.

Ultimately PC will be judged on his record against the yahoos. Unfortunately his 2 predecessors both failed because of poor results against them whereas Gerrard had a decent record against them

Hmm…..I’m starting to get concerned about the number of changes made each game. Surely we get a best starting XI and stick to it as much as possible

There’s seldom any bother when rangers & Hearts supporters mix. Hibz, Aberdeen & the you-know-who’s a different proposition altogether

A great performance today on a day which would have been Walter Smith’s 76th birthday. I’m sure Walter would have had a big smile on his face today as he watched from above not just for the result but that at long last Rangers seem to have found his long term successor

Would be great to go all the way again in the EL but it’s Liverpool’s to lose unfortunately

When you see what happened to Neil McCann maybe you can understand why

My favourite Souness interview about Rangers was as Liverpool manager just after he’d left Rangers in 1991 and was in the manager’s office at Annfield. He was speaking about Scottish football and how there were so many people who hated to see Rangers doing well. These words came very true twenty years later when these people were effectively trying to put Rangers out of business. By the way did you know that in the 5 years Souness was Rangers manager(I’m including 90/91 when he left before the end of season) no Rangers player won the Player of the Year award despite Rangers winning the league in 4 out of the 5 seasons? I think Richard Gough won a Scottish Football Writers Player of the Year Award but this was all the recognition Rangers players got in the Souness years

Collins was at ibrox twice the day before he signed for Celtic

He’s a coach not a manager

Unbelievable BBC Scotland managed to waste £160m (5years x £32m) on a programme watched by so few. This is taxpayers and licence fee payers money so they knew they could get away with it. A privately owned broadcaster would have binned the show long ago or tried to make changes to it to try and improve its ratings. But not BBC Scotland. Providing jobs and jollies for the usual suspects The sooner the licence fee is binned and they need to get their revenue in the real world the better. Dross like NINE will get binned earlier or won’t even get started.And the hangers-on will need to find real employment elsewhere

Excellent afternoon. Only disappointment for me was Silva once again didn’t score or impress. Might be best to stick with Dessers even with his obvious shortcomings.

You are correct he doesn’t make a killer pass. His dec making is poor too often but at least he can beat a man. McCausland can't

No he isn’t.

Those three are as strong a MF three as we’ve had in a long time but it’s the wide areas up front which worry me. Wee McCausland has gone right off the boil & Matondo is very hit or miss. Cortes seems to have a lot of tricks in his locker but is there an end product? The much-maligned Scott Wright can at least go past defenders but can’t always be relied on.

I thought Wright did ok last night. He was better second half than the first half though. Like it or not we need homegrown players for Europe. With Jack maybe leaving at the end of the season we’re low in numbers of homegrowns who are a decent standard

Through to the next round but our problems up front are there for all to see. It’s beginning to look that Silva will never be prolific enough whoever he plays for. Plenty decent deliveries into the box tonight & he was posted missing all too often. And very fortunate to avoid a second yellow card although the first was typical Collum nonsense. Dessers was on a decent wee scoring run & was dropped. I wonder if he’ll return on Wednesday And is it time up for Ryan Jack at the end of the season? If he can’t be available for every game then it might be better if he was replaced

We often expect a barrow load of goals in games like these against lower league opponents & seldom get it. Ayr are top half of the championship and are probably as good as any team in the bottom half of the premiership. Expecting a win but maybe not by as a big a margin as most of us hoping for

Incredible Doncaster has lasted so long in his position at the SPFL and SPL before that. His record is abysmal. He seems to keep such a low profile nowadays. McLennan too

There’s a connection between Liewell and them?

Or are you part of the corrupt Fab Four: Collum, Clancy, Roberson & Walsh