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Butland out for tomorrow with an internal bleed...🤔

A bit of a stretch saying Moyes knows the league. He played in this league about 40 odd years ago. That's a lifetime away.

Every potential new manager is a gamble. Including Moyes.

Would rather have Muscat to be honest. Moyes football is turgid.

Sterling at RB and hopefully Balogun back at CB with Propper?

I think we won't lose...

I think Compo and I had too many sherries at Christmas...🤣🤣

Good team but think he will put Bajrami in the 10 to negate McGregor. That worked well in the cup final. McGregor was anonymous.

I would pick a team as close to the Spurs team as possible. Kelly for Butland. Hopefully big Leon is fit? Ridvan in an advanced role on the left. ---------Kelly-------- --Sterling--Balogun-- Tav‐------------Jefte ----Raskin---Dio---- Cerny---------Ridvan --------Berjami-------- -------Igamane------

Possibly but if we are aware that we have weaknesses there we should mitigate that by removing them from the scrutiny of SPL physical duels. One way of doing that would be to press the opposition higher up the pitch with your best starting eleven (not Dowell, Dessers etc). The reason we struggle is that we settle into a slow tempo that allows too many SPL teams to reset. That in turn allows them to build their way into the game and bring us into a slog fest. If we can play with a higher tempo at the start of the 2nd half (usually based on a shit 1st half) we can do it right from the outset.

I get that but I think there's too much emphasis on the CBs. Our shape doesn't help IMO. If we are playing a higher tempo with a more fluid front 4, we are essentially defending from the front. This was demonstrated in the Killie, Spurs and Celtic games. Even Propper looked more secure. After a year (plus), I don't understand how PC cannot see that we need to swarm these teams from the first whistle and put the game to bed early. That will allow for his planned rotations and will help with injuries/strains. The fact that we play so many games right up until the last minute must have an impact on the players bodies. Big Ange worked this league out early. I just wish PC could have done the same.

Not to sound like Mr Hindsight but I always thought the reactions to his early form last years was OTT. He was decent but not amazing IMO. Now he is a liability.

FFS. Consign that song to the past. Its embarrassing. Up there with the 5 stars on the badge and "the world's most successful team" shite.

Quality or not, rotating our team with evidently inferior players does not help the managers cause. His last two starting line ups have been awful. What was going to be achieved by playing Dowell today?

Diamonde looks so much better when we play with a faster tempo. That probably goes for many of our players tbh.

This. The constant tinkering does not work with a team struggling to find consistency.

Or on the pitch.

My god. We are a mess. Whatever we were doing well 3 weeks ago has evaporated at the first sign of pressure.

At least 3 Rangers pods this week have mentioned Danilo and Raskin rotating as they have played a lot of football. Please define a lot of football... both are young and eager to play and will be lucky to have accumulated 20 starts between them over the last month or so. We must be the only club in the world that micro manages our players to this level. We simply don't have the quality to rotate to this degree. I get Raskin was on a potential suspension but you have to win the game the game in front of you. There's no point in worrying about the Celtic game if you lose in the build up. That game is now irrelevant IMO. 12 pts (13 with GD) is insurmountable. We should be going into that game with a chance of reducing their lead to 6 points and at least give them something to think about.

Rather randomly, Umbro produce designs for many Brazilian teams including Gremio, Santos and Fluminese. Their strips are quite minimal and tasteful IMO

I popped in to read comments regarding the penalty, the subsequent fall out and the SFA baloney. Am I missing something? I cant see an chat or threads on it. Is it a litigious thing?

Of course he is but he is refereeing a game that is going 100 miles an hour. VAR was created to step and help refs. Like they did last season when the disallowed Dessers goal for the previous foul. The onus is on VAR here.

It was poor but he's a young player with very little experience. Cerny is the better option obviously but I think Igamane is caught in 2 minds.

The referee should not have to ask. VAR are checking everything in the game. It's not like they are sitting in a wee room with their feet up drinking coffee and are waiting on a buzz from the ref. A foul that close to the line should be heavily scrutinised. This bloody stinks.

Considering they chalked off our goal last season (Dessers) by looking back way into the build up, I'm surprised they didn't look at this. Or am I?