Devil's advocaat

What age is this guy?.

Doesn't really bother me, it's a wee bit unoriginal is all I'd say, I'd echo the sentiments that we have a rich history that would be more appropriate. Canny knock the guys for the effort they put in.

Massive well done to the gaffer last night as well, got tactics and team selection absolutely spot on.

Aye, I'd agree, he actually put the ball the way he should have, towards Frather Forthterth feet, aye he could've lifted it, but he was just on as well.

Uch, it's easy to be hard on Dessers, he did everything right and made the chance himself, but it wasn't to be. Imagine the buzz Igamane must've felt, that young lad will never have heard a noise like that in his life, here's to many more of them.

Brilliant result, superb Rangers.

I was unlucky enough to work with a lot of them. The tightest, laziest bunch you'd encounter, unless there was compensation to be claimed, then they'd get their arses in gear!.

Technically we don't, however I agree, we have to carry a threat. First and foremost though, we have to be solid against them, I'd forego Taverniers threat for a solid right back defensively, allowing Jefte to be more of a threat (I believe their right back can be got at) and would prefer the a more mobile attacker than Dessers to start. He'll play a part at some point, for sure, he'll get at least half an hour I reckon, but he's going to have to start taking these chances against them, we need to be clinical.

Surely Cerny is more of a goal threat this season than Tav?. But more importantly, JT bends over and parts his arse cheeks when wee Tenko runs at him. So it's kinda pointless being a goal threat when you're lying on your derriere watching your opponent run away from you, again. I'd agree with Derek Ferguson, I think Dessers and Tav will play in Europe, but won't start on Sunday.

I recall us beating them 5-2 at Ibrox, if memory serves me right it was the season they shat the league in the last game against Dundee, although it could've been a season either side!.

Aye, I hope to never have to see that wee winger of theirs rip Tav again, or big Dessers cuddling their centre halves.

That was my first game at Ibrox buster, I was in the Hearts end as I was just a young lad and my mates big sis and her boyfriend were Jambos.

I was away hillwalking yesterday morning, so had to listen to game on radio driving back home from the hills. John Robertson was actually very good in his match analysis, was raving about our front 4/midfield movement, was refreshing to hear tbh, and took me by surprise. It's not often I've heard that recently, particularly from that outlet. Great to see Igamane's continued growth.

Which is perfect for recovery.

Two days Compo, they play on tuesday.

Short corners like they have in hockey if the ball goes out between centre of goals and 18 yard box line. Penalties - run from half way line.

definitely. For me, I'd have been telling Harry Maguire to have a starting place on Onana's shoulder, as soon as Rice started his run up, fuckin get to that front post and get that big square nut of yours on it.

Pretty much all EPL clubs have set piece coaches, but none of them have had the success that Arsenal have recently, that I'm aware of anyway. Declan Rice's deliveries against Manure were immense on tuesday night.

I don't think the players need to be ready to walk straight into our team and improve it either, the key part is identifying players with potential to improve, and your own coaching staffs ability to do that.

Gonzo and the American fella seem to have disappeared too.

We've always bought talent from other Scots clubs, and always will, for many reasons. Clubs sign players at 9 years old, many of these kids don't make it, peak early, and many of them don't mature til they're beyond what we'd consider 'young', so there will always be loads that slip the net, no matter how good your system is. I'm not for a minute saying that our system couldn't be better btw. The difference from us buying the likes of Davie Cooper, these guys can go south nowadays and get paid a fortune for playing in the championship, that option wasn't as evident back in the day, so it's harder for us to sign them now, especially in our financial predicament. Anyway, there's a lot of straw manning going on in this chat, at no point did anyone say we'd be exclusively shopping in our backyard, so lets move on.

Our audited accounts perhaps?.

You could change Shankland for Dessers in that sentence, quite easily. I don't want to see us signing Shankland, but big Dessers was circa £5M, has a big wage and little or no sell on value. We do this far too often.

The story I heard from the Lammers transfer - and it's not the only transfer we've done this - is that the money we got from Twente for him was given to him to cover the difference in wages, or he wouldn't have left. So we made nothing from him, but got him off the wage bill. A shit show, and no wonder we get feck all in terms of fees for players when clubs know our financial position.

Lyall Cameron had another good game last night I see.