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13 minutes ago, RANGERRAB said:

We should be looking to win very convincingly tonight given the number of players Servette will be missing 

This is a red herring IMO. They'll still field a team that will be dogged and we will have to break down. Any talk of them being weakened sends out alarm bells for me.

43 minutes ago, Whosthedado said:

To be fair most of us ended up saying we would have been better in Europa last year. I think we will get our wish!

I just watched the highlights of the PSV game and it looks like Sturm Graz were adopting our defending playbook.

As a side note, De Jong is a monster and would have loved to have seen him in a Rangers Jersey. Reminds me of big Dado. 

1 minute ago, RANGERRAB said:

Did Jota go for £25m though ?

the yahoos are very good at manipulating their pals in the media.

Seems a very high price for a player who couldn’t cut it at Benfica or whilst on loan in la Liga 

Agree100%. As I said before, their numbers are very similar so I hope we pushed hard for the highest fee possible. Beale has previously debunked some of the fees involved for our incoming players and I'm sure he stated yesterday that our summer trading should even itself out. We've only sold Colak and Sakala at this point and the best profitable asset we have is Kamara, so we shall see. 

8 hours ago, Gonzo79 said:

The fee is 'undisclosed', so how do you know what profit was made (I'm not being cheeky because I know £3m is the fee being banded around and presume you're going by that but we, as fans, don't know for sure)?

I doubt if its under 3 million so that equates to a decent profit on a guy we got for nothing. 

2 hours ago, ian1964 said:

 

Apologies if this has been clarified but is this down injuries or illness?

23 minutes ago, Gonzo79 said:

Who on Earth heard Liam McLeod talking and thought, 'He'd make a good commentator.'?  

The same could be said of everyone at BBC Radio Scotland sport. Have you ever heard the analysis of Willie Miller? Old Willie still thinks it's 1987.

5 minutes ago, RANGERRAB said:

Just hope Mr Beale knows what he’s doing let Sakala, Morelos & Colak leave & replacing them with players who have been totally unconvincing so far

We can't judge these guys on one game.

********Butland********

**Goldson****Souttar**

Tav*************Ridvan

********Raskin*********

***Cifu******Cantwell**

*******Lammars********

***Danilo****Dessers***

1 minute ago, Bill said:

Team for home tie against Servette?

 

It was clear from the outset that Beale had called it wrong against Kilmarnock, so how would you change it against Servette?

 

Butland

Sterling

Goldson

Souttar

Yilmaz

Cifuentes

Raskin

Cantwell

Lammers

Danilo

Dessers

 

It's a bold move to drop Tavernier but, frankly, he's anchoring us to too many old behaviours and needs to take a back seat. I also wonder about the sense in playing Souttar at left centre back when he's actually better that Goldson when played on the right but beggar can't be choosers.

 

I can't see Tav being dropped at all but this is definitely getting close to the team we should be looking to aim towards. Is it too early in the season? Who knows. European nights at a noisy Ibrox under the lights can do wonders. Here's hoping...

Rangers 2 Servette 0

FGS Danilo

I see the Tav (ma baw) video is doing the rounds. The one when he runs 60 yards to take a potential quick shy away from Lundstram only for the ball to end up back at Butland!! 

1 hour ago, Graeme Ro55 said:

Thanks for showing this, but how would you interpret it ? 

I was about to ask the same question. I like the odd stat but I don't need an  incomprehensible graph to tell me we were crap. I have a set of eyes.

24 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

You're calling me a Tim because I have doubts about our manager? 

 

Harsh.

🤣🤣🤣 Apologies my friend. Low blow indeed.

17 minutes ago, Bill said:

Maybe it's a psychosis brought on by what we've been through in the last 12 years but there's something deeply insecure about wanting to sack our manager in August. 

It used to be strictly the domain of Timothy but alas we seem to be also afflicted by the same madness. 

I'm holding onto the slim hope that we will turn this around. I remember being at the opening games in 86 (Easter Rd) and 98 (Tynecastle) and returning home equally despondent. Those seasons turned out be great in the end. 

I don't want to dredge up an age old debate but when Kent was in the team we always had an out ball and width. Even Sakala provided that on occasions. Yesterday we had nothing like that.

1 hour ago, Yorkie Bear said:

Draw for play-offs is tomorrow 7/8 at 11am. Maybe getting ahead of myself but it helps looking ahead and not behind.

It may be myopic but I genuinely can't think too far ahead in Europe after yesterday's shambles. We need to reassert ourselves domestically and after that mess yesterday the Livingston game is paramount. 

7 minutes ago, Gonzo79 said:

Agreed.  Two up front, with either Lammers, Hagi or Cantwell in behind them.  

 

Lowry isn't as good a player as the three mentioned, which is why he is on loan.

 

I don't think we needed Lammers, as Cantwell looked fine there last season and Hagi is also very capable.

We have to play 2 up front. We cannot spend the best part of 10 million on 2 players to have one on the bench.

16 minutes ago, RANGERRAB said:

Going to be very interesting how Lowry does on loan at Hearts. If he does well then questions need to be asked. He’s a type of MF player whom we don’t seem to have in the current squad i.e. gets forward to support the attack & goes beyond the strikers at times. A sort of Ian Durrant type of MF player

We have to remember playing for Hearts is immeasurably different from playing for Rangers. I fully expect Lowry to excell at Hearts and only confirm what we know. He's an excellent player. The true measure of his future at Rangers will not come down to his playing ability but more his strength of character IMO.

Wooton hooo. I'm fourth. 

Raskin because he was at least trying to drive forward. Oh and he looked like cared. 

11 minutes ago, Sutton_blows_goats said:

Looks like Tillman is joining PSV. Expected an epl or bundesliga move for him.

Are we still in line for a million pound windfall? 

Best video I've seen regarding yesterday. It's genuinely hard to argue with anything this lad has to say.