BlackSocksRedTops

Good shout.

Two of our most revered strikers from the last 30 odd years (McCoist and Hately) would never have had successful Rangers careers in this age of instant gratification and over the top analysis.

I almost think some fans are not happy unless we play the perfect game, IN EVERY GAME. We are a work in progress but 5 new players scored our last 5 goals. Some of the reaction at the start of this season has utterly ridiculous IMO. And some of the reactions today towards Dessers today were bewildering to say the least. Let's give the guy a chance FFS.

Wouldn't be surprised to see Balogun coming in for Goldson today. If Cifuentes starts, then I presume Jack would be rested with the midweek game in mind.

Every week? In the post I stated that I feel we would benefit from a well managed settled team over the next 3/4 weeks to mitigate for the CL qualification and the OF game. That would mean consistent groupings in defence, midfeld and atrack. These games will have a huge impact on our season.

I'm not talking about rinsing players over a season. I'm looking more at having a semi settled starting XI for the next month or so that will carefully managed. This is a tricky part of the season. There's literally no point getting to the OF game and then stating that Dessers/Danilo are not match sharp. They need games to do this, so just play them.

I'm not sure but if these players are going to gel they need consistency of selection IMO. The victory against Servette is all we can build from this season as at least there were signs of progress. Was it perfect? No where near but we can't keep juggling teams until we find the answer. We won on Wednesday and should have won by more. That's our springboard for the season. 3 points against Livi is the next step with that. Teams and managers that constantly tinker too much win FA in my opinion.

We're always going to have lots of games at this point of the season but IMO this is not the time to be making change after change in each game to allow for this. We need 3 pts on Saturday or we are putting ourselves under a mountain of pressure this early in the season. By all means give people game time vs Morton in the LC but for me it's the same XI that beat Servette. Put the game to bed then make the relevant changes. We need to stop playing like we are waiting for things to happen. Celtic put teams away in the first half and then have the luxury of being able to change formations/players etc. There's no reason why we shouldn't.

I think he was subbed on 65 mins. I'm not sure if he had a knock because there was a bad foul on him just prior to that (according to the BBC feed)

Same team as Wednesday for me. Consistency of selection will help this team gel IMO. (no shit Sherlock...) High tempo and on the front foot from the first whistle. No excuses. No sideways football. No subs until your first picks have put the game to bed. Easy.

Rangers 4 Livingston 0 FGS Danilo

How does it? Hibs have played two more competitive games than us. I'm sure if we were playing the same game V Servette in 2/3 weeks we would run all over them as we should have last night. 4 or 5 goals would not have flattered us last night.

Went along today and was very impressed indeed. The overall presentation of all the sections was very professional and tasteful IMO. Had a few goosebumps moments tbh. Some of the older items and letters etc are the best part IMO. I think Rangers had a hard job to present this as they effectively already have a museum of sorts next door in The Trophy Room. ie. I'm sure there are lots things from there that could have made their way into the museum. Well worth a visit for any fan and the price point is spot on IMO. You won't be disappointed.

We were in for Luis Palma were we not? He is an out and out winger. I think it's way too early to judge Sima. In the last two games he's played against teams that have sat in and given us very little space. I think we will hopefully see the benefit of him in a more open game with more space.

Had a good 1st half but seemed to go back in his shell in the 2nd half.

At least the goalie was busy, making a few decent saves. He should have been busier though. I still think our play is over fussy. I wish we would have hit a few more shots as the penalty area was packed.

If anything, we played better against 11. They literally didn't leave their half after that.

I get that we can use 5 subs but feel that changing so many players has a detrimental effect on our tempo.

Another poor display by our captain IMO.

Poor, poor second half. We're just not clicking in the final third.

We need to get round the back of their defence and hit the byline.

We need to maintain the pace.

Danilo needs to settle down and try to keep it simple. It will come.

If we were a bit more fluid in our play and we were more composed we should be tanking this side.

Danilo and Dessers up top. Jack and Cantwell back in. When's the last time we started with 2 out and out strikers? I need a lie down...