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Interesting !!

It was a strange pleasure in that we were playing an International competition, mostly dominating the ball, taking the game to the opponent and scoring lots of goals. I say strange because generally over decades I've become used to watch Rangers often struggling to take the initiative in European competition and having to battle our way to the odd decent campaign. The Academy part of the football operation at Rangers seems to be working well and in time may well prove to be the most important foundation stone laid by the board post March 2015. Difficult as it is, we need to produce players good enough and mentally strong enough to tread an early path into the first team squad because it's of little benefit to see them come to the fore at other clubs a little further down the line.

Bigger reach than last nights Thursday Cup.............

Current champion goes by the name of Patrick IIRC

Hope we secure his signature (he will be 16 in June). The way he took his penalty suggested the Scottish Rui Costa

How good was that...........Real Madrid players sat watching Rangers win the tournament

FT: 1-1 Well played lads, brilliant tournamenr regardless of who wins the penalties !

Just as well Sadiq was at centre forward for that chance

The match was there for the winning, we had the upper hand by spades playing against 10. Now it's more complicated but we have players who can create chances,...we just need to score the next goal. I like the wide players Lyall and Kennedy. Sponge Bob looks a real prospect as well

These lads have done really well and show our academy and their new methods in a positive light. The sooner we start seeing young lads getting to a level of ability to be able to break into the first team squad, the better. It's the only way we'll progress significantly as a club.

I guess we'll just have to wait until team news filters through but I'd guess it means any thoughts of starting with 2 up front goes by the wayside. I would tend to err on the side of caution regards Defoe's hamstring. I think we are going to really need him in what is left of the season given how many games Morelos is likely to miss through suspension (nearly reached 2nd yellow card threshold and another red might see him miss 4 games). I have my doubts Dorrans will play for us again. I think it might be a bit of a frustrating struggle tomorrow.

Jan Tomaszewski was the best keeper I saw play in England !

We looked good from what I caught of the game and were miles better than the Japanese side. They could only park the bus in the first half. It was as if Walter Smith had been put in charge of the Japanese team and they were playing Pep's Manchester City !

What you need is access, software and a level of ability. A reasonably professional job that could produce a utube video that focussed on the worst examples. Perhaps the club could do something towards it but without the need to take any credit.

If someone had the time and clips to hand, a compilation video of incidents from the same time period that could/should have led to the citing of Celtic players would be useful company for the info above.

Take the colour of the jerseys out of it for a moment. I'd have upgraded it to a red and help put a marker down that deterred such reckless and dangerous play at head high.

His performance at Aberdeen won't have done his value any harm at all. You can see that he is steadily getting better and if he keeps improving then he's going to be one hell of a player. I said elsewhere that I can see him working with Diego Simeone one day. Alfredo is the type of player the Argentinian loves.

More noise. Only thing that matters is winning the game on Saturday.

Many are Aberdeen fans, not just Celtic. The common theme is basically anti-Rangers and it runs parrallel to a Rest of Scottish Football v Rangers political scene to have emerged post 2011. Part of the Celtic-Minded political goal has been to develop this divide, eg. The so-called Scottish Football Monitor which if named on what they do, would be re-named Everything to do with Rangers Monitor.

D. Anti-Rangers

What they should be and what we know them to be both before and after Morleos signing for Rangers are two different things. Generally the media take the easy, lazy, controversial, click-bait route. The national broadcaster is another matter and I'll leave that to 26th's thread. It's nothing to do with "white". If Neil Lennon was called Paul Elliot it would be the same. If Alfredo Morelos was called Fernando Ricksen it would be the same. If Neil Lennon had played for St.Mirren it wouldn't be the same. If Alfredo Morelos played for Motherwell it wouldn't be the same. Wrt Lennon, yes, the coverage has something to do with the Irish angle because of the politics. But wrt Morelos, yes the coverage is way OTT but we shouldn't forget that he does have a significant problem wrt discipline.

Quick word on last night's Sportsound. Out and about edition up in the Highlands with guests from ICT and Ross County, presumably focusing on the up and coming Cup-tie. Format is questions from the audience that have already been submitted, collected by the programme, selected and put in order by the programme and guess what the first one is.......... "What's the panels thoughts on Scottish refereeing as a whole seeing as today the lovely Glasgow Rangers (dripping with sarcasm) have decided to appeal Mr.Morelos' red card which for all and sundry looked, certainly to me looked a red card but I don't know how the rest of them feel (panel). Does doing something like that when it is clearly a stick-on make a mockery of Scottish refereeing as a whole "

The tiring aspect of this is that the same advice/questions/answers of not to listen, why listen comes up every week or so. This thread has answered the questions. No need for the same people to continually make the same points.