buster.

On its own, the Souttar signing looks fine. Add it to the now worse situation of Helander and IMO, it is too much of a risk. We can't depend on the indestructibility of Goldson. Up front, we signed Roofe knowing of his injury history but got a good player for a relatively small fee. Always a risk but we had Morelos, who like Goldson, never got injured, until he did. At this point you have to ask the injury prone player (Roofe) for more minutes. What happens next is predictable, injury for Roofe and no decent forward option for business end of season.

Trying to squeeze value out of signings is all very well but recruiting an injury prone Souttar when we already had an injury prone Helander was always liable to lead to this type of situation. That isn't recactionary, I said it when Souttar signed. Then to just make sure we made it doubly difficult for ourselves, we change to a zonal marking system as CL qualifiers come around.

Colak by a distance. Good to see one of the new signing starting to look at home. Sands didn't play badly but is part of a central defence that isn't really functioning and makes you think we'll need to score at least two or three next week, just to make extra time.

Early days, you'll be up at the sharp end come next springtime.

Had to do a double take,...26th place for the main man 😱 Classic Diddy Team reaction to success.

It isn't working properly, nor was it liable to be this early in the season. It is like we wanted to make CLGS qualification as difficult a challenge as possible. Do you know if Souttar is injured or on compassionate leave ?

Leak was correct, Davis starts. We'll have a better idea of what Davis still offers after tonight. Hope Gio has got this right.

Eminently sensible but surely you might allow football fans on a message board to dream a little. If you were talking about our players or mgmt then I would get the Herbie jeebies. What I don't like so much is that if our team has been leaked in advance of the game.

We know they are coming. We know what they look for. Just don't give it to them on a plate.

I would have hoped you might have spotted that the post was less than serious. Have inserted an emoji for those less perceptive.

Is your notebook, black ? 😄

It is obviously contagious. Were they in red or green?

If I am reading this right, it could be more important for us that Kiev put Benfica out (unlikely). In the hypothesis that we qualify, Benfica going out would I think, put us in pot 3 and thus our group would contain a lesser ranked club. A win = €2.8m Although for us and Kiev to qualify, the bookies would payout 1537 for a 100 stake. Rangers 11/8 Kiev 11/2

I don't care who we get, it's all about being in the draw for us.

True, but we'd have to get really lucky in the draw for the groups, not to mention getting past PSV. Porto, Leipzig and Shakhtar is about best we could get for advancing. Real Madrid, Liverpool and Inter Milan would be a little more complicated. https://kassiesa.net/uefa/seedcl2022.html

The 10 year co-efficient was brought in to ensure the usual suspects trousered a higher percentage of the pie. Despite a relatively wonderful 5 year number, the 10 year version will continue to limit our earnings from European football for the medium term.

If we win tonight, we'll become the first team to beat a PSV side playing a competitive away fixture in 2022. They have lost 3 at home this calendar year.

Tav, 22 pen Tav, 11 pen Tav, 2 Tav, 18 Tav, 45 pen Last 5 European games at Ibrox. First goal scorer. Quite something.

What there is to fear or at least, very much respect, is their capability to counter attack with speed and quality. For that reason, I can't see us going hell for leather from the off. Gio will play Kent if at all possible because of his defensive covering discipline. Here's hoping for a performance and a result.

Was still at school but can remember the enormous pride I took from the results against Juventus and PSV in 1977. I listened to David Francey commentate on an early ko in Turin. It finished 1-0 to the Italians @26thfoot and given their fame for shutting up shop, it made the 2-0 win at Ibrox one of our great results. Bayern Munich 72 or Juventus 77 ?? It was the first decent result in Europe since 1972. A 0-0 draw had me expecting the worst in Eindhoven. So it was real celebration time on hearing the final result. A draw would probably suit PSV tonight. Obviously we'll very much look for the win but a draw wouldn't be the end of the world for us either. Ps. Vicars, Tarts and Paras ...sounds about right 😀

1-1 Tav

Most of the play but we don't create many clearcut chances. Other than the goal, best was the St.Johnstone sitter* * We did manage to create that

Gio said Kent and Sands "unavailable" today.

Rangers 1 St.Johnstone 0 Colak

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/62465256 Article on football's psychology revolution