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Just watched the highlights and you could certainly tell it wasn’t a Scottish team we were playing! Refreshing to see a team pass the ball around so well despite being underdogs.

It seems the wage quoted for Defoe is totally untrue and we’re probably paying closer to 20-25k.

Yes but I think Stewart has proved that McInnes was at fault for that. I player like Stewart will look far better in one system than another and Clarke has shown McInnes how and where to get the best out of him. And yes it helps that they’ve taken the best player of the team one position above them. Gutted for Killie. They were on course to finish above Aberdeen.

Huge signing for Aberdeen. But I'm going to predict that McInnes fails to get out of him what Clarke did. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46925110

Two Championship clubs are battling it out for Rangers right back..........Lee Hodson ? https://the72.co.uk/123633/bolton-wanderers-ipswich-town-targeting-rangers-right-back/

No I agree with that. I was just saying if he wasn't our player we'd be taking notice of him and wondering if he should be a target. He has to do it consistently and hopefully he will.

Well if he wasn't a Rangers player we'd be saying who's this guy. 21 years old and 5 goals in 5 starts in the Premiership for a low scoring Livingstone side (and he's only played more than 75 minutes twice), and 4 of the goals coming against Hearts, Hibs and Aberdeen.

1 year extension for Hardie and at Livingstone for the rest of the season. The ideal outcome imo. Hopefully he keeps proving to Gerrard he can score goals at this level for the remainder of the season. https://rangers.co.uk/news/headlines/ryan-hardie-signs-new-contract/

McFadden said on Sportsound that we'd signed old players for an already ageing squad whereas Celtic have gone in the other direction. A very ignorant comment because our squad is not at all ageing. Gerrard has brought in experience for that very reason. I did a quick check on our starting line-up versus theirs in the last game and our average age was 26 and theirs 27.

Hope he is over his knee problems. He certainly looks like he has the quality to play for us and replace Tav.

Just checked FF and Stevie said it’s not Kamara. Polster most likely I think. I hope so, I was really impressed with the YouTube compilation of him. Very good on the ball.

St Johnstone? Weren't Kilmarnock were the only club to abstain from demoting us? I'm a pragmatist and building bridges with Scottish clubs benefits us, that's a fact we have to accept. That doesn't mean we should with every club of course but it's in our interest to with most. Our good relationship with Hamilton got us Docherty on the cheap when a Hibs or Aberdeen would have demanded triple the price if they dealt with us at all. This boy from Partick, just assuming he is a future Scottish international, a good relationship with the club could be the difference between signing him or not. I like the idea of loaning Rossiter, Hardie etc. to a Livingstone or Dundee (not United) because it disadvantages Celtic and advantages us when we play them. And when those clubs have a player we want it helps the negotations.

I didn't mean to indicate that there was any importance in the personal opinions of those sportsound. I just meant hopefully Rangers outperform Celtic for the rest of the season. Saying "hopefully their end of season select team will be very different" was just another way of saying that. Not that I really hope Michael Stewart changes his mind of Alfredo Morelos.

Agreed. Scapegoated too often by the fans. People never seem to forget a poor performance against Livi but he never gets credit when he performs well, on one occasion in Europe he performed far better than Goldson and bailed him out a couple of times but he wasn't given any credit for it.

You're reading into that comment too much. If they outperform Celtic's players over the next few months they will earn the status of being better than them, which would be reflected in a select team.

To be fair our players have won nothing and the gauntlet has been thrown down for them to justify the status of being better than Celtic's players by consistently performing over the next few months, including the away old firm game where you don't have the 12th man. Hopefully their end of season select will be very different.

Before the Old Firm game on Sportsound Michael Stewart conceded McGregor and Tav would make the select. We should be grateful for that.

No doubt about it. Both are stronger attacking than defending and have the potential to provide a steady flow of assists. I think the key to the wing backs getting space in a 3-5-2 is having as much creativity and threat as possible from the 3 centre mids. If you play centre mids who prefer to keep things simple it doesn't work. This would support playing Kent in front of maybe Davis and Jack because he loves a free role and would be a threat running into the channels and distracting full backs.

Defoe and Davis and coming in has even got me excited about a 3-5-2 so I hope we see it ? Against Cowdenbeath I think we'd be fine with Kent or Middleton on the left.

Dealt with very professionally by Steve Clarke as expected. He's above the constant digs at Rangers that so many other clubs and their fans engage in.

It would do wonders for his value. Unfortunately I think the best case scenario for us on Rossiter is he goes to a League 1 side like Fleetwood and proves he well above that level and a Championship club come in with a bid in the summer. This is pretty much what seems to have happened with Docherty. Championship clubs scout league 1 heavily and trust it more than Scottish football imo because it's more easily comparable to themselves.

Well it’s been a very quiet couple of weeks since the early signings. Hoping for another few signings, I’d settle for hot prospects like the Thistle kid. @craig, have you seen or heard of him at all at youth level? I suppose he’s skipped most of it given he’s playing 1st team football at 17.

It's in games like the old firm that you see the value of those old fashioned qualities. Compare the £15m+ Porto target to Halliday that day and you'd never know one was valued so much more highly than the other.

It's just bait from the betting companies, there no chance of that happening.

The Daily Record have also linked us with 17 year old Partick Thistle attacking midfielder Aidan Fitzpatrick. By all accounts a hot prospect and Norwhich have apparently offered a 400k package for him. Not to stereotype but going by his name I wouldn't be surprised if he wasn't interested in joining us.