lenny3k

St Mirren 0 - 2 Rangers FGS Dessers

I don't know if that makes it better or worse 🤣

I still think from the little we have seen of Cortes, he would be a great asset for us so hope we can do something to bring him back, whether its a loan to buy or a straight buy (at the right price of course) Agree about Sima, but every passing game I find myself wondering just how a scout saw Silva and thought thats a player to spend £35-40 million on. Don't get me wrong, in the right league and with the right players around him, I think he could be a great player, but never a £20million+ player

Also, very hopeful we can get Cortes back, what do we think that chances of that actually are though?

Can't disagree with a single colour on your graphic

Rangers 1 v 0 Hearts Souttar

Excluding out of contract players, as I don't think I would keep any of them. Davies (not contributing, high wage) Matondo (not justifying level of wage) Dessers (scores a lot of goals but god, imagine how many he could have scored) Lammers (while his stock is high) Goldson (high wage that could be better spent) There are others but limiting to 5, which is tough because I could swap in other names that I would want rid of just as much as the above, but are likely not going to free up as much wage for a replacement

One thing that was glaring last night, more than normal, is that we didn't have a midfielder on the pitch who was brave enough to take the ball and with his first touch, face the opposition goal. Everytime that the ball was played to Lundstrum last night, his first touch was towards his own goal. While that doesn't sound like its a massive issue, when we are building from the back, its fundamental to play quick. To play quickly, the first touch has to be a positive touch, otherwise the opposition get an extra few seconds to press and close down space. Compound that with the fact that Lundstrum is the deepest midifielder, you're stuffed because teams find it easy to set up against us. Dio was hugely missed last night (and on Sunday)as, while he sometimes can be erratic, he is always positive with that first touch which opens things up and has teams scrambling more. The way to kind of mitigate this is to stretch teams with wingers, but last night we started with Sima and Silva, neither of which are out and out wingers with width. Matondo came on but always looks to come inside so, again, no width. Add to that, two right footers on the left side means the balance of our squad is some of the worst I have ever seen it. There were many things wrong last night, but that was the most glaring things to me

What happens if the 'climate changes' between now and kick off and the pitch gets a battering?

and all it took was a shambolic display.......

Dundee 0 - 3 Rangers FGS Roofe (Not because I believe it will be him, but because I want to see a clinical striker on the pitch)

Ross County 0 - 2 Rangers FGS Cantwell

I wonder if that will be because of climate change

You know its bad when I can look at those pictures and say I genuinely play on a better pitch every weekend in Sunday league

Maybe if he hadn't been rolling around embarrassingly previously, the ref may not have been so quick to try and get him for diving

Ideal situation.... Yilmaz comes back and performs to the end of the season, gets a place in the Turkey team and does well at the Euros, makes us some money and we replace him after the tournament

and playing on the natural side for a right footer...

Dundee 0 - 2 Rangers FGS Cantwell

Rangers 1 - 0 Celtic FGS Silva

"Where can Willie Collum do the least damage and still be involved in the game....."

Rangers 1 - 0 Hibernian FGS Silva

That shouldn't be an issue, its only covering it up thats a problem

Question, if anybody knows.... When players go away with the national team and get injured, do clubs get compensated for the time missed due to injury when they return? There must be something right, the club is paying wages for a player thats not giving anyting back to the club through no fault of their own. Is there some sort of insurance that covers it?