buster.

Impersonating a 20M pound footballer. Beneficiary of a chaotically awful Man Utd recruitment policy.

The amount invested is obviously important, but It is mostly about getting recruitment right and picking the right players to fit in with what your aims are. Second spell, Walter could put together an experienced team that he could trust to carry out a game plan without having to think of a player trading model. He was allowed to bring in his players and generally got it right, especially in defence, eg. Cuellar, Weir, etc Over the City,...... with the controlling Peter out of the way, the Fat Aussie was given free reign to bring in his players, unfortunately he got his recruitment spot-on and after predictable teething problems they were able to overhaul us with consistent results and a mentality that could win OF league games. We need to get this window right so we can get automatic qualification for next season's CL. So far, we see some positive signs and some not so positive. I think we need more quality in depth middle to front or we'll continue to ship points in occasional frustrating draws against provincial pish that they will turn over. That brings us to the OF games. Saturday is massive and we can't allow them to lay down a marker and take a 5 point advantage. Good or/and bad, we'll find out a lot about our side at the weekend.

To a degree, you gets what you pays for, eg. Sakala. Apparent bargains are more often than not, cut price for a reason. Selecting / developing the hidden gems is the difficult part. Matondo might yet come good. No choice now but to try and coach/motivate him into a better, more effective player.

What happened with Ure FGS ? Colak !!! Have you chucked it ?

Aye, so far the hat contains.... Rangers Partick Thistle Dundee Aberdeen Livingston or Dundee Utd Hearts or Killie Ross County or Celtic Motherwell or Inverness The preverbial home draw please,.... against Ross County pretty please with cream on top -------------- From my starting XI, McCann was the player that missed out. Real shame, we know what Davis can do. McCann should have got at least 45 minutes. King is very good and I am happy for him to be considered as a first team player and get increasing exposure at that level. He is the type of player, at the type of age that could perform well for several years and then bring in a big fee if his contract is managed well. Devine as back up to Tav, no problem. No need for more backups at RB #pathway Ure is raw but is only 18 and has scored his first goal in the first team.

I wonder why we don't look at more Czech players. There must be some decent quality at relatively good prices out there.

League Cup second round Rangers v Dunfermline August 2021 : 41,467 Rangers v Queen ot Sth August 2022 : 30,569 Various factors at play 2021 was a Friday night

I disagree. We can go into details come the OF match thread.

The big difference tonight is the intense nature of the following 4 games where the usual suspects will be required to step up every time. Gio had to offload the regulars tonight.

15m signing from PSG, arrived an hour ago.

I think you have to allow Devine and Ridvan to settle themselves into the first XI jersey, in their customary positions. Nor give King the job of the only centre half in a back three.

Rangers 4 Queen of the South 0 Ure

Jack as a ball playing centre back ?

Good to see such wholesale changes. Only a shame McCann didn't get a start.

Got that wrong as well 😂 In Scotland, it has been put back 23 or 24 hours because of games on the 31st.

Poor wee Plzen !! Just a little behind Bayern, Barca and Inter. However, at those numbers, the Czechs probably have a player or two worth looking at.

In the league, we do have to catch them up. They have a mgmt, a squad and system who have sussed out how to consistently win league matches. We will have to see if our current team can do what we failed to do last year. We are already behind and go to their place at the weekend. This match will give us a good idea of what our team can or can't achieve this season. The only decent run last season came after Gio arrived up until the almost certainly customery mini collapse in the league, post Xmas break. They get beaten by BoboGimp but win league matches. We put out Dortmund but drop points to the Arabs and Motherwell. One encouraging thing was a different approach to the home match against Ross County which worked. What we now need to see is a different approach to the match at the Brendanbeu (compared to February), that works. We don't want to be going to Aberdeen on a Saturday lunch time 5 points behind.

We will soon find out how weak they are.

Yes, but in Berghuis they have a more than adequate replacement fully integrated and ready to go. He played and scored a couple in their CL group campaign last season. They won all six games. Nothing to fear but a lot to respect.

Mulgrew loves himself, more than Jack Ross. I reckon he'd lose the preverbial dressing room before Xmas and bomb.

Antony hasn't played in the last couple of their games. So they have already had to replace him from what they already have. Berghuis An experienced player with real ability. He looked decent for Feyenoord in the two matches (2019).

I am fine with Devine taking up the understudy to Tav role. We have to start giving the younger lads a real pathway and reduce/reallocate the spend on back up options.

They put us out of the Challenge Cup around 12/13 (at Ibrox on penalties). They also beat us 2 zip on the day McCoist resigned (2014). Another couple of score draws in the same season.

Clearly a pro-immigration stance with your Zak and Zuk preference. Seriously, I don't know enough about any of them to form a useful opinion. Devine has done ok on the little I have seen of him. However, if reports are accurate and the Polish lad is about to leave, he shouldn't play. .😄