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Morelos hit the bar with a fine header too. 

That cross from Barasic, for the goal, was beautiful. 

Jack gives the ball away for the goal, but that was an unstoppable strike. 

Excellent finish from Morelos too. 

Referee is not doing it for me; falling for their antics. 

Hastie, Robby McCrorie and Kelly doing well.

I was expecting more from Rudden and McPake, but they're still very young. 

No mention of Ross McCrorie? Not going well? 

£50M for the two of them. 

4 hours ago, Gribz said:

Seems to be a misconception (Created by our Bill) about compare from 5 years ago!!??? Whoa Whoa Whoa...I said just have a LOOK at where we WAS then...and how much a building job it is going to be. Set a timeline if needed.....

 

Maybe my first post about intelligence on gersnet should be edited.

 

 

Do you really need to bring up Bill on every post?

I thought you were comparing where we are with where we were five years ago. Which is fair enough, and you're right; we've come a long way, and it's been a long, hard road. 

I also agree with Bill in the sense that we need to start leaving that behind, in a way. We need to now be comparing where we are with a 'title challenge' situation; that's the target.  

1 hour ago, DMAA said:

I don't know about that. Neither Kent or Jones are goalscorers. A title winning team needs real goalscorers in those positions. As I say all I saw was the highlights but Kent only featured in those to show that he still shoots like an injured centre back.

Yes, when he got a bit of space for his shot, I thought, 'just bend it low into the far corner, and give the 'keeper something to do', but no, he bends it high and away from goal. 

I thought Kamara was one of the better performers--not enough to get my motm, however. 

Morelos, just because he scored. 

I'm not happy, but I'll take the draw. 

We've been caught cold, not played well, and given them a goal. 

It's not a good result, but it's not bad. It's a tough place to go. 

I think I'm finally on board with the 'Tavernier needs to be dropped' bandwagon. 

Give us a chance, Rangers! Please... !

Defoe replaces Morelos for the last 10 minutes.

Why are we always hitting out-swingers? Could Tavernier and Barasic not switch to give us an in-swinger?

Stewart's on, Arfield off. 

Why is Morelos not just hammering that!? 

He squares it into bodies. 

I'd say we've been on top, slightly, but it's been a really scrappy game. Crucially, we've not created a chance.

Kent comes on for Ojo. 

Ojo's not had a good game. 

[HT] 1-1.

What was McGregor booked for? (I've got it muted; I couldn't stand it.)

It can't have been time-wasting. It was 30 minutes in, and we were behind. 

MORRREEEELLOOSSSSS!!!!

We've got through their fast start, and we're slowly starting to gain a foothold. 

However, I don't think we've created a chance. Maybe that long-range header from Davis, but that was 'long-shot'. (No pun intended.)

Katic is having a nightmare.

1-0.

What is Tavernier doing?

Yeah... they've started aggressively. 

Typical. Pish every other time. 

9 hours ago, Franc Ergs said:

Maybe just me, but i'm failing to muster any enthusiasm at all for this appointment.

 

In this stats driven football world that we live in, surely there has to be dof stats ,and that includes Mark Allen in that too, i'd like to know exactly which players he was responsible for signing.

Maybe i just need educated a bit more on the dof role.

 

What i do know ,is than neither our Captain, or our best player , were signed during his appointment.

Yes, a DoF has to be judged on their recruitment, amongst other things. 

Allen has an average recruitment record. 

However, recruitment was not Allen's strength. 

Allen's signings: Docherty, Middleton, Murphy, Cummings, Martin; Arfield, McGregor, Katic, Goldson, Flanagan, Barasic, Lafferty, Grezda, McAuley, Kamara, Ejaria, Sadiq, Coulibaly, Kent, Worral, Defoe, Davis; Hastie, Jones, Stewart, Edmundson, Aribo, Helander, Barker. 

(I reckon there are a few more shockers that I've missed.)

What's that, 10-11 first-team players? And, a few good youth prospects. That's a whole new spine to the team. It's actually not bad at all -- although, the failures are really bad! 

Like I said, recruitment is not actually his strength. I believe Wilson is actually a better recruiter. 

There was a story the other day about the Lille DoF (Luis Campos, one of the best https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/11830121/luis-campos-the-transfer-chief-with-the-midas-touch), where he suggested Man Utd were an example of a team in need of a DoF: no overarching strategy, or recruitment policy, causing them to make bad decision after bad decision. Mourinho wanted a DoF, because the culture wasn't right: it didn't have any cohesion. 

If you appoint a good manager, that can do everything, then you're in great hands. But, that's extremely rare. How many Alex Fergusons have there been? And, then why would you take the risk of ripping everything up when they leave after a couple of years? 

When Gerrard leaves, the structure in still in place, so a manager can slot right in with little disruption.  

In the modern game, a DoF is absolutely essential. 

13 hours ago, pete said:

Funny if I was doing something like that I would prefer to do it from scratch.

Yes, probably. 

I think Wilson's strength is recruitment, whereas Allen's was the business side of it.