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It's a bit like Laudrup playing in Scotland. I can't get over the fact an ex-pongo is such a wizz with words

Not my place to do anything but IMO 26th's weekly column certainly deserves a wider audience. eg. Twitter account, FF, etc.

We can only concentrate on improving ourselves to the best we can be with the resources available. However the destination of the bits of silver depend on how we get on against other teams. I think it was Dave King who said something along the lines of ...'Celtic could fall apart like a house of cards in a relatively short time period'...... I think we've reached the point where the Green&Grey PLC have to open the biscuit tin and place a substantial amount of their chips on the table. I said a month or two back that the G&GPLC would spend relatively big and Lennon wouldn't get the job. If they don't and we win the 19/20 title, they risk an immediate and substantial decrease in ST numbers for the following season, as well as no route into the CL. Whichever way they go they are going to increase the wage bill and stretch the finances. If they qualify for the CL group stages this summer, that will pay for it for the time being. Given transition, not easy. If not, they'll lose at least one of their better players. If we can look after ourselves, get recruitment right (that doesn't necessarily mean spending huge sums of money) and put a team together that can start strongly, then we'll have a decent chance. Lot of hurdles to get over before that but we've reached a place where we've established a solid base camp to work from. When we start the league in August, it'll be like heading off to scale K2 on a single attempt. We have to get things right from the off, keep getting them right and hope for some fair weather along the way.

Apparently McCrorie did very well with Morton. He's on a similar route to the one McGregor trod #Dunfermline

A 12 months apprenticeship and 3 transfer windows were always likely to be required before the SG&Co era began to take proper shape. From the moment we adapted to the 11th minute sending off of Morelos to dominate Aberdeen in the first league game of the season, I knew the management/coaching team knew what they were doing. I'd say the managers biggest mistake was the starting XI for the Kilmarnock game we lost in January. I think that is where the outside possibility of a title was lost. Looking forward to next season with justified optimism. ps. We need to get the recruitment right #Quality x3, Spine

Who is the full back in the Scottish game who is always getting talked up with much attention drawn to the amount of football he has played ?...Answer: Kieran Tierney I don't argue that he isn't a good player but put his numbers beside that of Tav and ask WHY doesn't Tav get the recognition ? I wouldn't say it's just a media thing because our support don't give him the credit he is due either,..or at least IMO Tav's League numbers minutes / goals......(Tierney in brackets) 15/16: 3234 / 10 goals......(1933 / 1) 16/17: 3145 / 1 goals...... (2160 / 1) 17/18: 3358 / 8 goals......(2632 / 3) 18/19: 3234 / 14 goals......(1745 / 0)

As far as young keepers are concerned, I hope we keep the faith and keep a pathway open for Robbie McCrorie.

So that'll probably be Flanagan to add to Allan McGregor suspended for our first league game next season. Not the way you want to start and I'll guess it'll be a trip to Easter Road.

Everyone knows his exceptional goal and assist count but there is another thing that for me stands out over his time with Rangers and that is the very few minutes he hasn't been on the park during those four seasons. The first of those was spent in the Championship and he started all 36 matches, coming off in two, missing a total of 28 minutes of the League season....In the Cups (inc. Challenge Cup), he started in all games (11) and came off once in the 81st minute. In the next 3 seasons in the top tier and it's 38 matches (38x90mins= 3420 minutes) he's played... 16/17: 3145 17/18: 3358 18/19: 3234 (possible 3330mins / 1 game to play) In our European run this season, he's played 1260 minutes out of a possible 1260. The only two games he missed this season were Ayr Utd and Cowdenbeath in the Cups. So this season he's played 57 competitive games but has only been booked once. In the 4 years with us he's played 12950 League minutes from a possible 13410 Nor has he missed a minute of a European game and that is a total of 1440. We won't know what we have until he is gone...or to put it another way, to help title aspirations for next season, we need to do everything possible to keep a hold of him. Quiz ? Can you think of an outfield player who has spent at least four years with Rangers, who has a better appearance record than that ? ps. No-one tell Matt Polster or his Mrs might start to badger him for a move

Prior to his first start IIRC

Good to hear that Souttar (at a fee way beyond his worth) is down the pecking order, if indeed he's on it.

We knew he could play this way. What was important about yesterday was that he kept the head in his first OF start and actually played above his usual level.

IMO, it's between that and the Morelos goal at Aberdeen for Most Beautiful Halfway Line to Net..... Goal of the season. Splitting the component parts. Best finish was Morelos but best build-up was yesterday.

At an SPFL level, Killie aren't a poor side. They are a well organised team that are greater than the sum of their parts. A slightly understrength Rangers team should still be able to handle the game. However, regardless of what XI we play, it'll be about our mentality and how much we really want it. Sometimes it's very difficult to avoid that end of season feel. Freshening it up might actually improve our chances. It'll certainly make us more unpredictable for Clarke and gives our coaching staff a chance to tweak/experiment if they had something in mind.

Not much of a hoodoo when we put them out of both Cups with Morelos scoring 7 in 2 games.

I think our season finished yesterday to be honest. I'd send home the guys who have played most of the games Tav, Goldson, Arfield, Jack and Candeias and give them an extra week to recover. I think the important psychlogical win was yesterday and you now have to prioritise next season. It wouldn't be throwing the game away because IMO we've still got enough in the squad and I'd give a couple of the youngsters a start, they deserve it.

Much of the Scottish fitbaw environment is of relative, repetitive and very predictable low quality. From players to pies, officials to authorities, media to songbooks.... but it's what we know and we tend just to go with it. A little bit of imagination and a general will to carry it through regards the songbook could actually see us gain the political initiative but it's not happening anytime soon. As someone who lives overseas and doesn't attend matches I fully understand if my opinion is considered to count for nothing.

Quick observation Oliver Burke has changed hands for something in the region of 25M pounds over two transfer deals but I'd much rather have Jake Hastie. Hastie could make it at a decent level IMO Burke has already crashed and burned

Thanks lads for another decent listen !!

I'd have said so at the beginning of the season but precedent since then suggests grounds for it to be a yellow. I didn't think Clancy had it in him but come the moment, he kept his head and went with what he had seen instead of a premeditaion of sorts.

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Fair play to Kevin Clancy in his first OF match, he actually did ok. Despite all the noise about the Flanagan/Brown incident, I think he called it correctly. I thought it was somewhere between yellow and red, let's call it orange !...But in those circumstances, it has to be yellow.

Not sure but they might get away with it if Arsenal win the Europa League and qualify for next seasons CL. I wonder how long this new period of English club dominance of European competition will last ? Historically, it would last a few years before another country would take over but the financial background might change that.

The way we planned to set-up in the game would have had SG&Co expecting them to have a bigger % of the possession. It was as close to a perfect execution of a plan as you'll get in these type of games. Thinking longer term, it unfortunately showed up the opposition management team in a very bad light and on top of Gerrard finding a way to turn around the game at Parkhead (if not the result), ensures what I had suspected since he was appointed, that Lennon won't be there beyond the end of this month. That said, we need to concentrate on ourselves. Centre half Creative midfielder Centre forward (sell Morelos) Try and keep Tav Get Barasic firing Kent on loan, if not Woodburn

Game at their place was one of two halves. The other 3 OF games have been very one-sided. We're conceded one less goal than they have over the four. The league was lost elsewhere but absolutely no-one can deny the significant progress that SG&Co have brought.