DMAA

25 minutes ago, ian1964 said:

 

Lovely goal. Did really well to time his run and stay onside too. 

Another Barisic assist. Roofe injury is a bit of a worry.

That was a fantastic strike. Just what we needed to take a bit of pressure off.

12 minutes ago, craig said:

Can’t wear white shorts if they do, right ?

Yeh, stupid rules from UEFA.

So 5 changes. Arfield and Edmundson are fine, will make no difference. But Stewart and Itten coming in for Kent and Morelos is surprising.

They have a good record at home against bigger teams. We need to fly out of the traps and make sure we get an early goal, no tippy tappy stuff, just get the ball in to dangerous areas as early in the game as possible.

I watched the game back, albeit with disruption, and I just can’t get over how good Davis is at reading the game and opening up the game. He is going to be so hard to replace. 

38 minutes ago, RANGERRAB said:

Would prefer to see us go with 2 up front for this game today 

*looks over to @Rousseau....*
 

0-2 Rangers

Roofe

On 15/09/2020 at 20:04, The Tin Man said:

Errrm, yes.

Am I missing a punchline or something?

I know you know what it means, I was only joking, it’s probably the first time a backup left back has been put as first scorer. 

2 hours ago, The Tin Man said:

Imps 0 Rangers 5

FGS: Bassey

Do you know that FGS stands for first goalscorer? 

I should say I don't know who this guy is. If true, good that we are shifting players the managers doesn't want to play. 

13 minutes ago, Waltersgotstyle said:

If Twitter is to be believed Reading have knocked back £6m from Aston Villa for Swift.

Yes. We paid £7m for Kent though and if Morelos goes who knows, I think we’d certainly get our money back with this guy. Very unlikely to happen though. 

44 minutes ago, der Berliner said:

Just noted that Sone Aluko is playing for Reading these days ...

Charlie Adam just left Reading too. Obviously Ejaria is still there.  

A poster on FF claiming he is friends with a Scottish player at Reading and we are "definitely interested" in John Swift.

He seems well out of our budget to me. Even if he is, I hope it's true we have shown interest because that would be a much more ambitious signing than Johnson in my opinion.

32 minutes ago, RANGERRAB said:

Unfortunately I have to agree with you about Docherty & McCrorie although I’d suggest Docherty’s Rangers opportunity came along too early for him.

I thought Docherty had something to offer as a player off the bench, but I suppose you need player who can take over in the case of injuries which I don't think he was.

13 minutes ago, alexscottislegend said:

If he's young with potential and good sell-on value then I'm on board. Greg Docherty - Rangers through and through - could do all of those above things, so I can only surmise that the club thinks Johnson has greater potential.

He's just about to turn 28 so he isn't about potential. It seems the clubs aren't agreed on a fee anyway.

3 hours ago, DMAA said:

I had a look at Preston’s forum. If Chip Barm says it’s done, it’s done. 

Apparently Chip Barm was given some duff information and the deal isn’t done. 

I’m only going on the sportscene highlights unfortunately but it is another good win. We should be beating a side like that by a good bit more but ultimately we have to be happy with that result. Very pleasing to see subs make such an impact too and I'm particularly pleased for Arfield who showed he has still has plenty to offer. 
 

Dundee United were exactly as expected, for too soft to hold us off but it was interesting to see that they got our possession down to 61%, which is actually low for a game like that at Ibrox. Did Bolton on the right wing cause any problems on the counter attack? I saw he got Barisic carded but that was all that was shown on the highlights. 

14 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

Who's Gardiner?

And by the way, it was fellow Jamaican Ricardo Gardiner I had got mixed up with, formerly of Bolton ?‍♂️

13 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

Who's Gardiner?

The kids had me up during the night. 

52 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

Strange-- I wasn't convinced after watching the above clip: he looked slight, and only scored penalties or scuffed shots. 

 

I've now watched more clips and I think he looks better. He still looks quite slight -- I wonder how he'd cope with our League's physicality -- but has a bit of pace about him, and he likes to get into the box and/or take shots from distance. Maybe not a creative player, but one that likes to get on the end of things. 

 

Not a bad option to have. 

Yeh it is a bit strange. I was hoping we’d be signing a player to go straight into the first team. Johnson is 28 in a few weeks and the fact he is still at Preston suggests he will be coming in to be a rotation player. We’ve signed a 28 year old from Preston before, a hero with their fans, and he was a Preston level player. Having said that, Johnson does seem to have some attributes that we could do with. From what I have read and seen, he is a player who is mainly about his passing and vision and creativity in general, he isn’t fast and isn’t one to be taking men on very much. He would play in our midfield 3 and not as one of the number 10s. If that description is correct I think be a really useful player to have for games where we are trying to break a team down, even if it is a hugely exciting signing. 

12 hours ago, Waltersgotstyle said:

Daniel Johnson deal done according to their ITK forum member. Announced early next week. 

I had a look at Preston’s forum. If Chip Barm says it’s done, it’s done.