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Colak is now serious competition for him. Perhaps he realises that

I think it’s fairly obvious who benefits from inconsistent Scottish officials. One club more than most I’d suggest.

The question needing asked is whether this inconsistency is deliberate.

4 minutes ago, buster. said:

Call me a drama queen but if there is a big contract offer on the table for Morelos, I'd remove it and try and shift him before the end of the month.

So would I.

1 minute ago, buster. said:

To expand on problems.

 

- Lack of intensity

- Lack of physicality

- Lack of chance creation

- Lack of imagination

- Lack of penetration

- Lack of defensive coordination

 

And needlessly giving the ball away under no pressure 😎

10 minutes ago, buster. said:

He gave us the benefit of the doubt on penalty decisions at both ends in the first half.

 

Strange that, if he has it in for us.

 

Naw, Collum is a particular type of ref, but he isn't a cheat.

 

Our problems lie closer to home and domestically, I can see something similar to last season, only worse. 

 

 

Collum is a very inconsistent referee who likes to make big decisions in games, too many of which he gets wrong

Our own issue at the moment (other than the CLQ) is whether Morelos and Kent will sign contract extensions offered. If not they should be sold immediately to allow the manager to bring in replacements before the end of the transfer window

7 minutes ago, compo said:

Worst referee I’ve ever seen 

Doyle-Hayes first half

Hopefully we up the tempo a bit second half 

53 minutes ago, craig said:

I actually thought the ref had a good game

Except for the penalty he didn’t give us first half 😳

thought that was what VAR was for

Tonight’s the sort of game where Kent has to show what he can do. He doesn’t do it often enough for my liking

48 minutes ago, ian1964 said:

 

Fascists with an agenda.

47 minutes ago, ian1964 said:

Fascists

A decent scoreline in the end but like last week against Killie it took us time to get going against a team putting eleven men behind the ball as much as they could.

Most of our recent signings are making an impact with Tillman probably most of all. Matondo got better today as the game went on and Ben Davies looks an assured defender. And Lawrence getting on the scoresheet was good to see.

I just wonder if Morelos realises he’s now got serious competition up front when we play the lone striker. Until this season only really Roofe provided it but his fitness has hindered him everywhere he’s been. Colak is finding the net quite regularly now and doesn’t need a barrowload of chances either to score.

Sports Science is very much part of the game nowadays which I’d guess is behind this appointment 

One thing I took from tonight is that Lawrence &  Lundstrum are forming  a good MF pairing. 
Also I thought having only Kent as a naturally wide player helped consolidate the central MF

The recent summer signings are still finding their feet but the signs are good. 
It looks like another long season with lots of games & squad rotation will be vital.

3 hours ago, ian1964 said:

 

Simpson had to be one of our most bizarre signings of all time. He was about 24 when we signed him & he’d hardly played a game for Bournemouth. It soon became apparent why.

Would like to have seen us getting more goals today but the most important thing was a win after last Tuesday.

Am I the only one who thinks that the young Turkish LB is a bit on the small side?😳

Confusing isn’t it?

17 hours ago, the gunslinger said:

Seems a bit experienced to be back up. 

 

That said Tuesday showed how vulnerable we are to a Kent injury. 

It’s too easily overlooked that we were missing Kent & Morelos on Tuesday and we’d sold aribo & Bassey

We were, arguably, missing our 4 best players from last season on Tuesday.

A Rangers team without Kent, Morelos and Aribo in it will always struggle going forward. Only new signing who’s impressed me so far is Tillman

Vital we start well tonight which we didn’t do on Saturday 

16 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

The Europa League is the better competition anyway...

It’s our level whether we like it or not

37 minutes ago, Ted McMinnime said:

Sutherland played it straight and asked the panel. Bartley and Lianne Crighton? 1)They concluded the linesman could not see the Livi player on the far side who may be playing Colak on. Very tight decision. 2) Bartley stated the bench decided to pull Cancar as he is a CB rather than FB , and was struggling in LB role, to negate a further yellow. ( No mention of revelation at today's PC that Walsh "advised" his removal!) 3) Panel agreed whistle had blown before ball crossed line so no case to answer on VAR.

I like Bartley too. He was asked about our CL hopes as well, and seemed very genuine and positive around the need for us to be performing at that level.

Don Robertson was the ref on Saturday not Walsh.

Couldnt help noticing that one of his assistant refs was David  Roome on Saturday.

was that him who failed to spot 3 offside Shellik players at their goal in the 2019 LC final?

Whyte once said something along the lines of that Rangers were a train that was already crashing & he just happened to be the driver at the time.

But the questions remain how he managed to become the driver & whether he was the sole driver. I think not 

Now he’s looking for his own payday. I wonder what Mr Murray makes of all this. And if he’s successful whether others might join the queue too. Maybe those sleeping dogs might waken. 

Almost all football managers have short shelf lives.

even more so at clubs like Motherwell 

On 30/07/2022 at 11:05, 26th of foot said:

The super-soaraway Scottish Sun are reporting Peter Lawwell has been persuaded to end his retirement and take up the reigns of ra Sellik Chairman.

 

What will the Green Brigade say?

What will the Green Brigade say?

Did the fire brigade put out the fire ok? 🔥