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38 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

Do you know Man City - and most other elite sides - play like this? It's a 3-2-5. 

The old stuff was more 3-2-2-3.

Two fullbacks either side of the centre-half.

Two half-backs, left and right.

Two inside forwards, left and right.

Centre furrit, wingers either side.

One half-back tended to be further back than the other, likewise one of the inside men. 
 

Rangers were playing a 4-2-4 before the system was invented. The earliest example being:

Shearer, Davis, Patterson, Little

McMillan, Stevenson

Scott, Millar, Baird, Wilson

So, Marcel Keizer it is then.

Is London as a venue a good sign? Handy for Clement but also Eustace. Probably rules out McInnes.

For some reason, I’m starting to lean towards Muscat. I didn’t like him as a player because he was a nutcase. It’s not going to be him, though. He’s still in Yokohama so there isn’t any need for the appointments committee to go to London. Tokyo would have been a big clue.

3 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

8 - box-to-box, a bit further forward than a #6. (Gerrard, Lampard, DeBruyne)

 

Ah, John Greig, the Prince of them all because he could do full back and centre forward as well often in the same ninety minutes.

5 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

9  and 10 - You know what #9 and #10 are, surely?

Nine the main striker or centre forward as we used to call them, got that, I think.

The ten? The nine’s chief assistant? Seems to be Ralphie Brand’s role. He actually wore number ten on his back and actually scored more than the nine. Role reversal.

He beats the Baggies 3-0 in a derby, albeit a sort of second tier derby and gets his jotters. The Brummagem Board must have been expecting six.

For the benefit of the really aged what are sixes, eights and tens? Do sevens play any part in the game? I’m guessing that the numbers refer to pitch areas and or playing roles.

Derek Ferguson aged just over sixteen but played in a friendly aged fifteen. Durrant was a geriatric nineteen.

11 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

My xG tracking, if anyone's interested. 

 

I think I have the solution to all Rangers’ problems. Gerraballuprrapark.

29 minutes ago, RANGERRAB said:

The experienced Roofe will talk him through the game

For twenty minutes before Roofe has to go off.

11 hours ago, Whosthedado said:

buzzing for this   said no Rangers fan ever

I’m not very excited to tell the truth but the pre-match anticipation is always there whether it be dread or hope. Today it’s hopeful dread.

52 minutes ago, alexscottislegend said:

You can be too cynical you know. Is that what this shambles is doing to us?

Sadly true. Not unrealistic though.

I eschew this cerebral stuff. Gerrituprrapark is all you need to know.

28 minutes ago, PoohBear said:

we badly need to fresh players even after because of the summer investment.

Just a wee adjustment there, PB.

Muscat is biding his time to take over when Clement gets sacked after defeat on 30 December.

Who is going to leave a full time job for a post as temporary manager?

1 hour ago, 26th of foot said:

After considerable thought, I would go for :

 

McCloy, Jardine, Smith, Johnstone, Mathieson, Greig, Conn, MacDonald, McLean, Stein and, Johnston.

 

I think they could take St Boo 3-2.

Decent but better would be Ritchie, Shearer, … you know the rest.

Fired up the telly a few minutes ago and what appears on the screen but one C. McLaughlin pontificating from Paris on the Rugby match tomorrow. Good to know that we’ll be getting the most informed and most professional analysis from a true rugger expert. Shows the importance of the game otherwise it would have been the other idiot Idessane.

@26th of foot has launched a milan missile left over from his old job at the unanimous vote. 
 

A fair and even minded moderator is entitled to discard 26th’s vote for McAusland because he did not play the whole match. A substitute must play more than sixty minutes or do something exceptional in a shorter time to be eligible.

Either that or just retrospectively ban the bamstick.

Derek Rae? Was there an overnight coup on Wednesday?

Obviously false. Rangers wouldn’t have sacked Beale if they hadn’t settled Gio.

If the mythical unanimity is achieved @Rousseaucould be in hospital for another six months albeit with a different type of mental paralysis this time.

It’s achievable if a moderator were to discount rogue votes.

9 minutes ago, ranger_syntax said:

You must be raging.

Evidence?

2 minutes ago, Frankie said:

I've watched a lot of bad performances over the last 30 years but that has to be up there with the worst. The lack of effort and quality is simply unacceptable. Yes, the pitch looks crap and it must be hot but we have player after player walking about. Very few get pass marks.

That and the rest of the analysis is correct. Been like it for a while now.

Raskin and Roofe have recovered. I wonder if they are the alleged lead-swingers mentioned earlier in the week.

42 minutes ago, Bill said:

A man could make worse use of his time than to tour all grounds of the Highland League. He might even rediscover some of the true nature and fellowship of the sport we follow. 

 

 

The author is indeed greatly enamoured of the Highland League and the HL grounds and clubs. Not one bad experience, apparently.