Rousseau

To be fair, they had been knocking on the door all game. It was only a matter of time. The Referee's door, that is... (Shamelessly plagiarised from Twitter. )

Please be careful to only post once. I do just take the last prediction, if you do post more than once, but it is easier of you just post once -- you can always change it up to kick-off.

Rewards for optimism this round - quite a few predicted draws or defeats... GIRUY!! BEARGER, coop, gs, whosthedado, Gaffer, Colinstein, craig, rbr, lenny3k, Yorkie, onevision, t-1000, TB, FS, Rousseau, les186, Barebear, JFK, BF, Pete, Boabie and Uilleam all gained 1 point for the Correct Result. Coop, Colinstein, FS, BF and boabie gained another 1 point for the Correct Number of Rangers Goals. Lenny3k, onevision and boabie gained 2 points for Tavernier as FGS. No one got the Correct Score -- a couple were very close. Latest Standings: IFRAME Not Available. Direct Link to Spreadsheet.

Surely that's what the DoF has been doing, drawing up a list, which I expect DM to be on?

Not this again... Surely it's just a perception because there are fewer of them? Relatively speaking, there won't be a lot of them: there is 1 'keeper to every 10 outfield players. There are plenty of good managers that were 'keepers: Slutsky is doing well with Hull, Santos has Wolves top of the table, and Lopetegui is the Spain manager. (Those are just off the top of my head.) Although, I do think that defensive players seem to make the best managers - when you'd think it would be the more creative types? And, arguably the best manager around at the moment (Guardiola) was a Defensive-midfielder and sweeper at times.

You know, I started it, and now...

Rangers 1 - 0 Aberdeen Windass

Miller is hardly much better!

When you see the odds on McLeish shortening... And when you see he's had no contact:

That's it! We're now so desperate, we're scraping the bottom of the barrel for names...

We played ok the first half, but didn't have any quality in the finishing -- Miller lines up a free hit to smash it into the net, and it trundles into the 'keeper's hands! Awful. The second half was the worst I've seen. I don't think it's a formational issue -- although going to 3-5-2 may help -- I think it's a playing style/philosophy problem; we can't seem to play the ball through midfield. How many times did the ball go wide to John, then he looked to find a man up the line only for him to back out and play it back to Wilson? The first half we got into the final third -- mostly because Dundee kept giving the ball away, but we we did ok. The second half Dundee seemed to block the ball up the line and we were screwed! We didn't know what to do? Were Hamilton not bottom when we played them? And now Dundee were bottom last night? Brutal. We are shite, but a win would've got us into 2nd! I'm starting to think a manager that plays the percentage game, like McInnes, would get us into 2nd for the next few seasons. Allow us to rebuild, with regular income etc. and stability. But we're not overcoming Them anytime soon like that.

TB had him sussed before he had signed! Useless this season. He played well last season, but this season he has been absolutely brutal!

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Yes, that would be a good option too.

A number 10, or second-striker, coming deep into midfield is nothing new and can be an effective ploy. It's just that Miller is crap at it. I think we have to differentiate between the role -- which is good and effective -- and the player -- who is crap at it! I think Windass would be better at it: he's got good ball control, he's creative, and can get up and support Morelos more quickly with his pace. Pena is better at the top end, but I don't see him creating from deep as well. Having two players behind him [Windass] will negate his poorer defensive game, to a certain extent.

This is becoming laughable.

Another wee dig at Pedro... Good read, though... apart from that sentence.

Born in Greece. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay... Seriously--I've been aware of him for a few years but I can't recall how or why. It was his tactical approach that drew me in, along with his record of success -- I'm not sure how appropriate his A-League success is as it's not the greatest of quality; but winning several league titles has to count for something. I think it was the way they played in the 2014 World Cup, rather than their results -- defeats against Spain, Chile and Netherlands in a tough group.

Fair enough, but I took it as managerial experience in the Scottish game. My point still stands.

Yes. I don't think it's a prerequisite to success. Rodgers had no experience of the 'Scottish game', and neither did Tommy Wright, Steve Clarke or Steve Robinson.