Bill

Sorry but what does this have to do with you? I made no reference to you or anything you posted. It will come as a shock but not everything has to be about you. Seriously, your rudeness and aggression are getting out of control. How about winding your neck in for a spell. Go for a walk, try to calm down.

The purpose of continual repetition is to reassure a dubious proposition.

In a Venn diagram of Scottish referees Don Robertson would appear in the section labelled Conscious Cheats.

Tinkering suggests making changes unnecessarily and just for the sake of it. I don't see any of that and it's rather unfair on the manager to suggest he's guilty of such a luxury. We've had a constant stream of injuries that have forced changes and a similar stream of players returning from injury whose game time needs to be carefully managed. We've also had new players join the squad. All of these things have dictated the need for the changes we see.

Yes but rightly so. It was weird. 😉

That's a fair observation @compo. I remember thinking McCausland had finally turned up again and was having a fine game when he was struck down.

Or un-smelled

For some reason the world seemed a little more flat and grey this morning. It got worse finding @CammyF was still giving it the full demented "everyone else is an idiot" pitch. Can't we just give him the King Of Everything gold medal and have done with it?

Out of a relatively a poor choice I've gone for Yilmaz again.

Disappointing. Come on Hearts.

I hope you'll do the same for every player who hits a trough for a spell. Or do only some players get the special label?

Let's hope he has a better game today because, if he does, we'll be a better team for it.

You're just doing what you accuse 'lesser' fans of doing - reacting to what you think you see and forming a dialogue around it to justify what is in the end just a personal opinion. God save us mere mortals from the grand superiority of big picture types.

That's a comforting line up but most importantly, if Dujon Sterling starts then all will be well. If he plays on the left he'll tick another positional box. Is there anything he can't do?

If you're saying that fans react to what they see then perhaps they're the only ones with good eyesight. The alternative, surely, is to react to what you don't see and that's usually called fantasy. Y'know, where smartarses live.

It's ridiculous how Cyriel Dessers has turned around his fortunes in a Rangers shirt. He hardly knew what to do with a football when he arrived and was rightly criticised as a poor acquisition. Six months later and most fans are disgruntled if he isn't in the starting line up. That's a story to be proud of and you can see it in his whole demeanour at the moment, the relief at being accepted and a part of the story this season. Nice one Cyriel.

Two weeks?

Who's currently unavailable? Cantwell, Sima, Cortes, Dowell, Matondo, Danilo ...... who have I missed?

I think one of the most important achievements of Philippe Clement so far has been the bridge he has rebuilt between the players and the fans. Of course this depends on favourable results but, when you come to think of it, doesn't everything. However, before you can build that bridge you first have to recognise both the need for it and the value it brings. No manager since Walter has given me the impression they even began to understand this. Since his first day in the job, PC has sought to speak directly to the support as an integral part of his plans for the club and that was key. It marked the difference between a shrewd, experienced manager and those who went before him. His greatest asset appears to be his ability to communicate effectively on multiple fronts. It's not often you find someone who communicates so clearly and commands respect so easily. I find it telling that I never hear fans talking about directors any more - the club now has only one face. (To reference another topic, it's Kloppesque)

Sometimes you just exceed expectations.

I find what you said perfectly acceptable. It's a reasonable viewpoint and one you've justified effectively and at length. For myself, I'm sure somewhere is a record of me complaining about referees but in general I seldom do so now in individual games. No doubt Rousseau will be burrowing into the archive to find it. I have merely arrived at a settled opinion that officials cheat, insomuch as they take decisions they know to be incorrect. Some of them clearly (imo) know their crime as they commit it while others would know on reviewing their performance that they took decisions that cannot possibly be justified or put down to simply incompetence. Either way, officials are taking decisions in relation to Rangers that are grossly and knowingly incorrect and which, whether deliberate or subliminal, are too frequent and too consistent to be mere chance errors. We know this to be true. The frustration is that the system is set up to provide deniability so that both cheating and incompetence are protected in equal measure. It's a cheaters paradise and no one can either prove or disprove anything. Ergo, it's a shambles.

If it was merely incompetence it would have been rectified years ago. It's clearly cheating and no one will convince me otherwise - it continues because the footballing officialdom in Scotland is organised to allow it to be deniable.

The job McInnes did at Aberdeen looks better with every week that passes.

He's been handed a sow's ear and asked to make a silk purse. Probably wouldn't matter who got the job, the players clearly don't want to listen.