DMAA

13 hours ago, JohnMc said:

but is their much to be learned playing at Lowland League level? 

No, they’d be as well releasing him

Morelos being linked with Leicester and Dortmund is great for Rangers but tbh I find both hard to believe. Personally I think the £20m price tag Robertson slapped on him is an attempt to push his price up further but I can't imagine us turning down £15-18m tbh. I still think Morelos is not great with the ball at his feet, shows a lot of the ball to the defender and his passing and touch are very hit and miss. Our fans don't care as long as he ragdolls whoever is marking him and ideally gets on the scoresheet but it's very different at the level of those clubs where they expect their lone striker to be far more comfortable taking the ball in to feet than Morelos currently is.

25 minutes ago, Bill said:

If it had to happen then why not the back few rows of one of the stands?

I don't think the UBs want that, I think they want to be front and centre and easily visible on TV ideally

1 hour ago, JohnMc said:

You call it 'safe standing' if you want, it's terracing, pure and simple, that's what it is whatever you choose to call it today.

John, I'm too young to comment on terracing but having a look on google images I have to say the two do look very different. Terracing looks dangerous, "safe standing" looks far more like what we already have than terracing. Everyone has their own assigned seat (whether they use it or not), and every row is separated by metal barriers. I'm not overly fussed by the issue but I honestly don't see a safety problem, I think practical implementation in the stadium is a bigger deal and keeping any "hooligan culture" in check.

8 minutes ago, ian1964 said:

It is incredible headlines by the Scottish gutter press! easy money for making up shite! can't believe people still buy newspapers! can't believe people believe the shite the Scottish gutter press spew!

Yeh I think the Sun just wanted to be the first to get that story out there but there's no chance of it happening, he's not a Brendan Rodgers style striker at all

Clickbait

2 hours ago, Gonzo79 said:

I'd just like all the overly sensitive old grannies to go back and do what they did before and leave the glorious tribalism of football rivalry alone.

 

Even if Rangers fans ditch the more questionable songs, the Nats, the BBC and all that lot will only find something else about us to get offended about. Testicular fortitude is required - subservient lickspittles less so.

 

No Surrender. 

It’s a bit childish to describe those who support the club here the way you do. You can have all the tribalism you want but why do we need to sing anti Irish and anti RC words when we have both Irish and RC players and have for a long time? I wonder if Barisic, Katic, Morelos, Flanagan and co would prefer if we stopped singing “F*** the Pope” and “fen1an b******s”. 

Interesting arrangement, sounds like a good idea.

12 hours ago, craig said:

Going on their websites is literally wasting away one’s life.  You’ll never get that time back.

 

 

When you hear of comments like that you realise you would never subject yourself to being in the company of these people for even a minute in person. 

On ‎27‎/‎02‎/‎2019 at 13:08, JohnMc said:

Rodgers being in England might come back and bite us in the summer. I could see him being interested in Alfredo for example, and Kent too.

I think it's far more likely he'll be interested in the likes of McGregor and Tierney. Kent is not an EPL player, if he doesn't come here he'll go to the Championship. Leicester would be too big a step for Morelos imo too but bottom half EPL is possible for him if he keeps improving and working on his technical game.

The UBs ironically hold the key to solving the problem of the dark side of the songbook. Surely the club could grant them some privileges on the basis of an agreed set of rules, with basically a type of strict liability. The UBs are in a unique position in that they largely dictate what is sung in the stadium, the club should be using that to their advantage surely. 

@JohnMc @Tannochsidebear 

What are the arguments against safe standing?

54 minutes ago, Waltersgotstyle said:

5 games and 5 clean sheets

I find it difficult to get too enthusiastic though because really we've had an easy run of games and still managed to drop 2 crucial points in that time.

Good score but we wasteful in front of goal. I thought Morelos and Kent gave away the ball a lot in the final third. Kamara, Jack and Arfield looked very good, they make a very good trio and had some very good interchanges. Kamara is a huge improvement over McCrorie/Coulibaly in those kind of games, we needed more technical ability and he’s brought it. Aberdeen will be a big test for him afte ran easy start though. 

Strange he lack of wide players on the bench again. 1 centre back, 3 centre mids and 2 centre forwards on the bench. I don’t think there’s enough variety there. 

2 hours ago, ian1964 said:

Everywhere except Ibrox!!!

 

 

We don’t spend enough on lawyers, sue them for false advertising 

12 minutes ago, DMAA said:

Scraping through tonight isn't enough, we need to win comfortably and send a message to Celtic and Lennon that we're breathing down their necks and from here on in we are on league winning form.

As an extension to this, we need to be in the mindset of thinking about goal difference with these games. Celtic won this fixture 5-0 and (although every game is different and unpredictable) I think Gerrard will and should be going in aiming for something similar to close the goal difference gap which has opened up.

3 minutes ago, buster. said:

You wonder if SG might take into account the weekend Cup-tie at Aberdeen and make a change or two.

Not if he sees it as weakening the side in any way

Since taking points off us they've haven't won at Dens with a draw to QoS (lost 3-0 to them a week later), 1-0 loss to Motherwell and 4-2 loss to Hibs.

Scraping through tonight isn't enough, we need to win comfortably and send a message to Celtic and Lennon that we're breathing down their necks and from here on in we are on league winning form.

I think you've got the team right. I'm still unsure about the 4-5-1 vs the 4-4-2 with Defoe stepping in but that's not going to change after two 5-0 wins. However I definitely think Kamara has made the 4-5-1 a much better option because he's a much better possession player than Coulibaly and McCrorie which is so important.

David Moyes almost lost his job at Sunderland for much less.

Talk sport is a hilarious listen just now, on the wind up big time! “Rodgers was scared of Gerrard” and “nobody cares if the treble treble outside of Glasgow” and stuff like that, they know the tims will be absolutely seething and they’ll get a reaction out of them every time

If Rodgers thought he would be given the resources to reach the Champions League group stages next season he'd have stayed, simple as that. 

Can’t deny it’s good news for us, he’s proved himself to be a good manager. However Lawwell has played a an absolute blinder financially yet again if he’s managed to be paid £6m for this. 

If it’s true he’s been unhappy with the board re finding its not far fetched. He said to judge him on Europe but to be fair to him he hasn’t had the investment he’d have expected when he said that.