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Aberdeen 1 Rangers 2 Morelos

Give em an inch..........and they want 436 kilometres.

Quite the start to Beale's time as manager. Certainly can't say it was boring. Makeshift defence made it more difficult than it should have been. The upside is that coming from behind to win is always satisfying. I think we have to look at things post Old Firm match to get a better idea of how we are developing under the new manager. That will be 5 games, including our main rivals and Pittodrie. We now have an advantage of 2 extra days rest/prep. before we take on Aberdeen and they'll be coming off a Celtic game. Better time to be getting them than after the Ajax 4zip game.

He argues with the mirror @CaptainContradiction.Com ------------- This is all about the Beale effect because that team would have bombed under Gio this season.

Rangers 3 Hibs 1 Morelos

Who needs central defenders when you can use midfielders instead. #..0-7-3 Colak injury?

If Gio didn't trust the back-up option to the recognised first team player, then you wonder how the conversation went between the then manager and presumably Ross Wilson regards squad management/Right-Back, entering this season.

I can't make my mind up as to who I think will win. Will switch on the TV bang on KO time and enjoy the football. I will probably watch it with Norwegian commentary (NRK) via NordVPN.

Get your bridesmaids dress out again!!

The numbers involved at the high end of the sport are obscene. I am gradually drifting away from the game. Generational to a degree, in that I remember when things were more basic.

If it is from those 4 names and he has said it ain't Kent and it surely can't be Helander. Morelos or Davis ? WTF is a term that would come to mind.

The current focus on Messi to win WC is in good part, down to the vomit inducing media coverage. I love watching the football player strutt his stuff, but I now turn off anyone who wants to talk about it.

An interesting Final in prospect with no clear favourite. Wanted Argentina to win it until I heard Messi was working for the Saudis,... greedy bastard without morals.

The French are sending you a bottle over from Épernay !!

A couple of years ago Jack was an excellent player. That he is currently considered by some as such, says everything about our midfield.

If Hibs were a decent team I wouldn't be just as confident but they aren't.

That is a bit like saying it isn't fair that only good looking women with good bodies win beauty contests. Yes, of course you can get great defenders but they don't offer nearly as much as your elite game changers, middle to front. The latter are what most people want to see and who are worth far more in the transfer market for the same obvious reasons. Zidane is almost more middle than front but he was a supreme game changer whose level of skill and imagination was off the scale. Sometimes the lack of supreme quality up front will give the defenders a chance, WC 2006 Canavaro (Zidane decided to headbutt an Italian)

Toby Young is the arsehole's arsehole.

Getting closer now. Tomorrow is a non-negotiable win and three points, with a very reasonable demand that the attacking style of the team resemble Brazil 1970. I am actually confident that we will scud them 😱 I can remember we took seven off them one December back in the 90's.

I can also report that in todays presser, Beale said it wasn't Kent. (On utube) Please, don't let it be Morelos (or Jack for that matter)

I hope you actually mean 1970.

What is more surprising is that the Kent Express is so busy 😁

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/63934955

They are more important in allowing Messi to do what he does. Alvarez is more important to actually winning matches because he is in goal scoring form. Really, you have to look at the whole thing together and it has fell nicely in place at the right time. Fair play to Morocco but hoping for a France v Argentina Final (football reasons) It would be the first time Messi&Co have played a top team

We all get that. But Alvarez is the vital cog in that support mechanism. The one that is on a role and adds the important stat of goals scored.