Nicky Law promises his form won't dip this season

[ian1964 10,777]

Rangers midfielder Nicky Law promises his form won't dip this season now he is over his Ibrox learning curve.

 

LAW admits it has taken him a year to understand what it takes to play for the Light Blues but he is now fully primed to shine for the entire campaign.

 

PHYSICALLY tired. Mentally shot. Nicky Law admits he failed to hack a whole season’s pace at Rangers last term.

 

But the midfielder is back refreshed and ready to go the distance this time around now he fully understands the strains of being a Light Blues player.

 

Law confesses the second-half of last season was the biggest learning curve of his career.

 

Superb for the first five months of the campaign, he was subdued and struggling for the next five as he lost the sparkle that had lit up his initial spell.

 

Ibrox boss Ally McCoist had warned Law when he signed from Motherwell last summer it can take a full year to come to terms with the demands placed upon a Rangers player.

 

Yet only when he experienced for himself the intense pressures could he fully understand.

 

The Mancunian needed the summer to recharge. But he’s back and ready to see it through in the Ibrox side’s bid for the Premiership.

 

Law said: “We played Dunfermline in the final game of last season on the Saturday and I was away on the Monday.

 

“I had 10 days just to relax and do nothing. I needed it. The season dragged on with the league being won so early and everyone needed a break.

 

“There was a lot going on, which has died down, and it was a strange season.

 

“Everyone seemed to fire at the start. We showed what a good side we were scoring goals freely and not conceding. We were 15 or 16 points clear at Christmas.

 

“In the two years I was at Motherwell, every single week was competitive and that brings the best from you.

 

“I had my two best seasons as a player there form-wise and took it into the season at Rangers until Christmas.

 

“I dropped off. I didn’t want to, I just didn’t hit the heights. I knew it myself but I just couldn’t get it back.

 

“People expect the best and when we did dip, the fans are not stupid and they see it.

 

“They think: ‘What’s happened to him from the first half of the season to the second half?’ You have 45,000 people on your back because they expect better and rightly so.

 

“It is difficult, of course, and we laboured in games when we should have done a lot better.

 

“The manager said to all of the new boys it can take a year to get used to everything.

 

“That went for a lot of us with nine or 10 new boys not just in the squad but starting the matches. We were learning together when usually, it would just be one or two.

 

“Did I learn more in six months than I have in the rest of my career? Definitely.

 

“Rangers is a massive club. I told Stephen Craigan we’d more fans in Holland and Germany than we’d take with Motherwell down the road to St Mirren.”

 

Law was in sprightly form during Rangers’ Highland Tour and is champing at the bit for tonight’s North American opener against Ventura County Fusion.

 

The midfielder believes the entire squad is energised not just by the summer holidays but by the signings of the manager.

 

Kenny Miller and Kris Boyd are back and Law reckons the injection of class and experience has lifted the troops.

 

He said: “I felt back to my old self in the two matches and with the new lads coming in it’s given everyone a lift.

 

“Linking up with Boydy and Kenny is great and you could tell straight away they know the game so well.

 

“You can tell the standards set by the experienced ones who have been here before.

 

“Even in the game at Brora, we were 1-0 down and it could have been more but Boydy and Kenny are onto you telling you it is unacceptable form, even in a pre-season game.

 

“Ian Durrant says it before every match. There are no friendlies at Rangers. Even in the couple of weeks we’ve been back, you can see the change those two have brought.

 

“Everyone is fresh and bang on it for an exciting league that will be much closer than last season.”

 

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/rangers-midfielder-nicky-law-promises-3862329

[the gunslinger 3,366]

Good stuff the lad certainly has talent.

[Waltersgotstyle 307]

Good to see Boyd and Miller instilling a winning mentality.

[ian1964 10,777]

Good to see Boyd and Miller instilling a winning mentality.

 

I think they wiill bring the best out of Law, in fact they will bring the best out of all the midfield players with their movement.

[Super Cooper 0]

I am going to hold him to that. Such a stupid thing to say Nicky.

[Tannochsidebear 2,435]

Good to see that at least he recognises and knows his form was not good enough in the second half of last season after an impressive first few months.

 

A good player who will hopefully have a good season ahead. Also some good soundbites from him about the desire and attitude of Boyd, Miller & Durrant. As it should be.

[jhunter 0]

Physically tired playing part timers and can't get motivated for a cup final.

 

And people have hope that this squad can achieve above the sum of its parts.

[Gribz 953]

A good player who will hopefully have a good season ahead. Also some good soundbites from him about the desire and attitude of Boyd, Miller & Durrant. As it should be.

 

The difference is Durrant has been there for 4 years and the message doesn't seem to get across.

[Super Cooper 0]

The difference is Durrant has been there for 4 years and the message doesn't seem to get across.

 

Correct, i have never seen so many players not listen to what their manager and coaches say to them as i have at Rangers in the last 3 years.

[BrahimHemdani 1]

Good to know Durrant does something

 

I admire Law's honesty; he's really put himself on the line this season with that statement though.