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The kid's doing very well, it seems.

It may be the bottom end of the Championship, but I'm delighted to see an 18 year-old playing and scoring regularly.

1 hour ago, der Berliner said:

We shall see. Probably time to open up a new transfer thread ...

I had completely forgot about Murphy until I saw this on Twitter. 

He'd be good to have back, for more options out wide. 

I know it's the Championship, but I'd make a move for Shankland. He's scoring for fun.

10 minutes ago, ian1964 said:

He is correct! glad to see our players understanding what we are up against in Scotland. Every team raises their game against us and our players know that, they also know every match is a tough one, none more so than this one. Our players have a huge incentive, win this and they go top.

I never said he was wrong, but it's just given them an unnecessary boost. 

Have they just used Google Translate?

That's the Hearts team talk sorted. 

3 minutes ago, pete said:

I have just read this and wrote similar in the Beale thread. I don't think that is Gerrard I think it is Beale,

Just on a funny note. In the game Germany v Holland with Germany 2-1 up and minutes to play, a note was passed on to the field by Ronald Koeman telling Virgil van Dijk to move up to the strikers role. van Dijk scored the equaliser with virtually the last kick on the ball. When Koeman was asked about the note telling van Dijk to move forward he said "I didn't write it I just had a quick look and passed it on. I had nothing to do with the decision but we had to try something."

I agree, but Gerrard gets the credit!

I remember seeing a picture of the note. Just goes to show how important a manager's back-room staff can be. 

Gerrard said it: McGregor is world class. He had no right to save those two one-on-ones. I recall Ally McCoist saying after the first, if the lad lifts it over McGregor it's a goal; on the second one-on-one, he lifts it, and McGregor still gets a hand to it!

If there was an asteroid hurtling towards earth, McGregor would palm it away (shamelessly stolen from Bet365  ).

I thought Arfield was terrific; his energy and tackling was brilliant. I actually thought Coulibaly was similar, but he was playing deeper so didn't look as good as Arfield.   

The sending off was a joke. It took them half an hour to figure out he'd already booked him. Muppets.

I thought the tactical switch, although enforced, was clever: Villarreal played with a diamond, so they outnumbered us in the middle; again -- he did it in the first game at Aberdeen too -- Gerrard's gone with a 4-3-2 to compact the middle and force them wide. Very well done. 

10 hours ago, Big Jaws said:

Mistaken identity.

You can't say that! 

SFA charge coming your way...  

I noticed Gerrard said something similar too in his interview.

Part of me was actually more excited by Rangers signing Beale than Gerrard.

A wee bit.

2 hours ago, craig said:

I am sure I'm not the only one who has a serious man crush on Steven Gerrard.

I hope KT doesn't read this thread...  

Not Pacific Quay, but James McFadden said today on Sky Sports (I think?) that Morelos misses more games than he plays through suspension.    

Excellent form at home. 

We just need the away form to improve. 

Note: If you copy a mobile twitter link, you need to remove the "mobile." before pasting it. it'll not embed otherwise.

Paste the link > remove the "mobile." > copy it again > paste again ('as plain text', I find works best).

We played well in spells, but tended to just do enough. 

It's a good win, with a clean sheet. 

I can't be displeased with that. 

Full-time: Ranges 3-0 Livingston.

5 points in the GPL!!

Great play from Morelos, beating his man on the outside with pace and power; his intercepted cross finds Arfield who has his shot blocked. 

No more; that'll do...  

We work the ball across, Arfield slips it wide to Morelos, who finds Arfield to cut it into the near post!

YAAAAAASSSS!!!

3-0, Arfield.

Morelos booked, for walking away? 

I actually thought the Ref had dealt with it. 

He couldn't wait to book him. 

And, of course, the Livvy player is not bothered with. 

One more, please, Rangers -- I have 3-0 in the GPL...

One-two between Candeias and Tavernier on the right, Tavernier cuts across to Morelos, who cuts inside and smashes in into the bottom, near corner.

2-0 to Rangers!

ALLLFFFRRREEEDDOOOOO!!!!