pete

I am still of thought that I would try MOH at right back. He is fast and can tackle the only thing I would like to see is if he switches off as most forwards do.

Welcome mate I hope you enjoy our forum. And a very merry Christmas to you.

Please forget this Naismith crap. The guy hardly plays through injury. I have nothing against what he did in the past but he is not the way forward. please can we move on and plan for the future and not dig up the past.

With santa slowly making his way from the North Pole with his bags full of presents, last weeks poor performance must have left St Johnstone feeling that Christmas had come early. The fighting spirit we saw against Aberdeen and Hibs in the games before turned into another lethargic Ibrox display against a team that had been struggling to even think about a draw never mind winning. Teams must now be beginning to think “It is okay boys we have Rangers at Ibrox that is a confidence booster.” Lets not cross words, St Johnstone thoroughly deserved their win. If this happens once then you can say it was a fluke but when it happens time and time again then you have to think it is a chronic problem. Personally I believe our interim manager got his tactics completely wrong. He had found an inventive way to beat teams in playing a diamond shape in the midfield. Never change a winning team is the old adage. Murty chose to return to a system that has not worked all season Playing Candeias wide right and Windass Wide left. That left Alfredo Morelos stranded on a desert island with three defensive midfielder's behind him and two wide men almost forty yards away. I find it hard to comprehend the change in system as he said himself that Josh Windass has been a revelation since moving more central. With St Johnstone having a bank of four defenders and five midfielder's sitting deep, the perfect player on the park would have been Carlos Pena who can ghost into positions others don't dare or think to go. Why was he sitting in the stands? Playing with a front three with two wide players is great if you have a Mark Hately in the middle who will win headers all day. Putting crosses in to Alfredo Morelos with three defenders around him and no one else in the box is like that smilie of hitting your head off a brick wall. Murty needs to play a different system as the 4-3-3 does not work for this Rangers team. On Saturday we travel the short distance to Kilmarnock. Kilmarnock struggled at the beginning of the season but since their new manager Steve Clarke has come in they have had a complete transformation. Until now in the month December they have taken ten points from twelve all be it teams from the bottom half of the league. That though are the points Kilmarnock really need to win to be the best of the rest and not be engulfed in any degradation fight. Well done to them but hopefully Kilmarnock's Christmas greetings will be Kilmarnock's Christmas greet'n when the Gers roll into town. I believe that Rangers should go with a back three for this one and probably for most of our games. Push our full backs who are attacking players further forward to create a midfield five and have Morelos and Windass in a front two. David Bates has been outstanding when he has come on and having that back three may also allow Danny Wilson some freedom to move into midfield when we have the ball. Lets face it the defence are not going to be chasing Kris Boyd around all afternoon. It is known that I am not a great Kris Boyd fan but I must admit he nearly won me over when giving his views as a pundit on TV after the Hearts v Celtic game where Hearts won 4-0. When the camera switched from live play to the pundits he had a grin on his face like a Cheshire cat that you couldn't have wiped away with a car polishing machine. I almost started to like him. When we play in that diamond formation there is one name that should be first on the team-sheet and that is Carlos Pena. I can understand why he was not picked for the, up for a fight, Hib's game but his showing against Aberdeen should have given him far more credit than he seemed to get from the Rangers manager. Watching him on the goal of the month video on Rangers TV, how he effortlessly stroked the ball into the corner of the net said enough for me.He will never be a workhorse or a fighter but his ability to make late runs and ghost into scoring positions will surely make him a prime candidate for a starting spot on Saturday. I hope the team will be. Foderingham, Bates Alves Wilson McCrorie Tavernier Holt John Pena Windass Morelos The old saying is: When you take the Great away from Great Britain it only leaves Britain. When you take the R away from Rangers it leaves angers. I hope this Rangers team puts in another Aberdeen performance and gives us a merry Christmas and not leave us with a stocking filled with soot. Come on Rangers! We need a Tigerrrrrr in our tank! Let's get rrrrroaring. Give us a Chrrrristmas crrrracker Merry Christmas everyone!!!!

They played for Scotland on opposite sides if i remember right

Yes the word is Allen wants McLaren as manager.

Shit I was wanting to book for march 18 but thought there was plenty of time and didn't book as I hadn't booked a flight yet.

I always am.:

As I said my memory wasn't great on that. I knew it was a High. It was the headmaster who was in contact with Rangers though. As I said the Reps\Scouts did not turn up or called off at the last minute. I believe I was ever at their house once just waiting outside in the car and to be honest I have no idea where it was now. From what I can remember if it was Drumchapel then it was a nice part of it. It looked more like a Milngavie house.

Danny went to Bellahousten High if memory serves me right and the headmaster was 100% in contact with the club and as I said reps from Rangers were supposed to be going to his house for talks but never showed up. That does not mean it was because of his name but Danny's mother and Father perceived it as that. That came direct from the mouth of his mother who I knew and talked to up until I went to Holland in 1980.

Strong rumours on FF that all is not well between Allen and the board and there could be a parting of ways shortly.

Yep his mother, Margaret, worked with my Dad in the veterinary university on the way up to Bearsden but they were friends of the family for years before that. The best story from my father was that Danny's father and my Dad played for Anderston. My father was on the wing and Danny's father was at CH. The back of the other team kept crunching my father. I think his name was Bob McGrain but forgive my memory, said to my father go to CH for a few minutes. After a few minutes the guy was carried off and Mr McGrain trotted back and said okay you can go back on to the wing now. My father said the guy tried to crunch him but he was waiting for it and came down landing on his knee My father said he was as hard as nails. As you have pointed out Craig the other point was that they were always at our birthday parties which always ended in a Sash bash and they joined in just as much as anyone. When Danny signed for Celtic Margaret changed to hating Rangers with a vengeance as she thought we never signed him because of his name. The Rangers reps had agreed to meet them and called it off at the last moment and they never contacted them again. The rest is history. One more thing. I helped Danny when he was trying to buy kitchen units when I worked for Timberland in Renfrew. I only knew him though he doesn't know me. It was a cunt trying to understand him. One other thing was that one of the songs our family used to sing was to the Beanz meanz Heinz advert. My father would never teach me the words as I was very young. The only thing I can remember was the chorus went. A million fe***** every day pick up there rosary beads and say Stein stein stein. Have any of the older bears ever heard that?

Yep his mother, Margaret, worked with my Dad in the veterinary university on the way up to Bearsden but they were friends of the family for years before that. The best story from my father was that Danny's father and my Dad played for Anderston. My father was on the wing and Danny's father was at CH. The back of the other team kept crunching my father. I think his name was Bob McGrain but forgive my memory, said to my father go to CH for a few minutes. After a few minutes the guy was carried off and Mr McGrain trotted back and said okay you can go back on to the wing now. My father said the guy tried to crunch him but he was waiting for it and came down landing on his knee My father said he was as hard as nails. As you have pointed out Craig the other point was that they were always at our birthday parties which always ended in a Sash bash and they joined in just as much as anyone. When Danny signed for Celtic Margaret changed to hating Rangers with a vengeance as she thought we never signed him because of his name. The Rangers reps had agreed to meet them and called it off at the last moment and they never contacted them again. The rest is history. One more thing. I helped Danny when he was trying to buy kitchen units when I worked for Timberland in Renfrew. I only knew him though he doesn't know me. It was a cunt trying to understand him. One other thing was that one of the songs our family used to sing was to the Beanz meanz Heinz advert. My father would never teach me the words as I was very young. The only thing I can remember was the chorus went. A million fe***** every day pick up there rosary beads and say Stein stein stein. Have any of the older bears ever heard that?

Yes it was down the whole day for me.

We would get some Dortmund supporters on our side they love Lambert and Murdo McLeod.

Europe is a must and would bring some of the money back to the club.

Depending on what part of the hamstring is ruptured and how bad. Best scenario is 6-8 weeks. Worst scenario for a grade 3 rupture is 6-12 months.

One of these things you don't miss until it is gone.

I have said that Ronald Koeman will be the next Dutch coach but the KNVB said they will not make a choice until February. Whether this is a curve ball I have no idea but If Koeman is offered a good job then I doubt he will wait until February.

At least the commentators can't use invincible's with every attack. Sometimes they vary it to the Champions to be fair They will still use it to the end of the season regularly in the past tense but at least we can laugh at that.

From losing boys to losing bhoys to lady boys all in 3 days. Have a good holiday, a Merry Christmas and a Happy new year.

Dundee. Celtic can also say if they had not dropped points they would be out of sight. The thing is if Celtic drop points it is a pleasant surprise whereas we are getting used to it and fear it before the game,

They won't send out a commentary of my team so I won't give them clicks.

Yes a 3-5-2 could have been a good option pushing Tav and John forward. With Candeias and Windass playing wide and Morelos dropping deep we sometimes had totally nobody in the strikers role. As to why Pena was not even on the bench is a mystery.