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Enough to win in the SPFL One Not me Bare minimum IMO

Bielsa not speaking English is a HUGE BARRIER for me. I'm not sure who the answer is or even what type of manager we should look at, young and hungry or wise and experienced. If Gerrard can find a good alternative to Beale to bring with him, I could be pleased with that.

Yeah, one point doesn't help us, but there should be 12mins stoppage time, just enough time to lose a goal. Almost hoping.

Indeed, and a wrong result here maybe a blessing in disguise. I just can't stand watching this anymore. The players on the pitch should be performing much better and that is down to one man.

Agree, he's morphed from El Bufalo to El Efant

St Mirren 0 Rangers 1 FGS: Tillman

Better second half, subs helped. Still look devoid of any leadership or ideas, but Hearts weren't really offering a sustained threat.

Kamara has looked good since he came on.

It's already over for us, but Gio will continue win or lose. That's a sure bet. I almost feel that the board have a vendetta against the fans for forcing them to pull out of Ange's homecoming event and the loss of a reported 5million quid.

Rangers 3 Hearts 1 FGS: Colak

You wouldn't have thought so though

2 goals needed in injury time, which I know is possible. Keep believing

Well well well. If we don't come back from this neither should GvB

Shock horror, Morelos and Colak on together

Can you pull goals scored from this same source? It would be great if Kent has actually scored more goals that we thought. Paste the league table too if they have it. Thanks so much!

I'm in.

Opportunity for Club18-40 Sponsorship anyone?

St Johnstone 0 Rangers 3 FGS: Colak

As I said and I'm quoting your post after Ajax away: "I think we ALL could accept getting beat 4-0 by a more than decent Ajax team..... but to do so when they out-worked us should be a no-no. Effort, desire and application have nothing to do with finance...." is that not what we're talking about when we say compete? Make your mind up Craig.

This word 'compete' again. The definition or context of its use is what's dividing opinion. We cannot compete financially at this level, sure, very obviously. We cannot compete to win the competition, again that's clear. It's difficult to compete to get out of the group we were in or even for 3rd and a run in the EL. However , I think we could have competed better if we had the luck of a better draw. But we should certainly be competing in every game we play - by that I mean putting up a damned good fight - making it hard for teams to beat us even if, inevitably, they would. That to me is what competing means, and I expect that from any Rangers team, ravaged with injuries or not. That's what playing for Rangers means. That would sit okay with our fans - we have a sense of realism and will back the manager and team as long as you can hold your head high at the final whistle knowing you gave everything to the cause.

Nail on the head. We cannot implement Ajax model as we cannot come second for a few years, we can have the odd academy player making us money like Patterson but the big money will come from players paying in the first team and winning trophies like Aribo and Bassey

We need a manager and DOF to be in unison and to convince the board what's required for success on the pitch and financially off the pitch. The player trading model won't really work if we don't have a manager and squad capable of winning the domestic title. The domestic title and entry to the CL Groups (for now at least) would then guarantee a level of finance to keep improving the team. This season's CL group was a hard one to add points and further prize money, but if we get a decent draw we should be able to add several more million to the prize fund, especially if we can do enough to drop into the EL knock outs. That's not an unobtainable goal. Success on the park should fuel a successful player trading model and that's what the manager and DOF should be made accountable for. However, the board need to make more funds available to build a squad that the manager believes is good enough to win the title. I don't believe they did that. You could argue about injuries etc. but again it's about having a squad that are capable not just an 11 or 15 players. I guess that's what frustrated Gerrard in the end, he knew we needed 2 strong players for every position, not just numbers of bodies. So for me the board have been short sighted - have believed too much in Wilson and his recruitment strategy, so he is also culpable. Gio doesn't help either, if he's stating he's happy with the squad.

It won't hit them until later. Right now the reaching the CL Groups was a target achieved and 4 points off the top domestically is something they think can be turned around when the walking wounded return to action. But they'll see.