League Cup Results

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Group A

 

Peterhead shocked Premiership side Dundee with a 2-1 win at Balmoor, leaving Paul Hartley's men with an uphill battle to progress.

 

Group B

 

Brechin and St Johnstone could not be separated after 90 minutes, with the home side prevailing 4-2 in the penalty shootout to claim the bonus point.

 

Group D

 

Holders Ross County are out of the Scottish League Cup after falling to defeat at Alloa at a rain-sodden Indodrill stadium.

 

The home made the better of the conditions and led 2-0 inside 11 minutes with strikes from Jordan Kirkpatrick and Jon Robertson.

 

But the holders responded emphatically and drew level within 10 minutes as Alex Schalk powered in County's second after Brian Graham had reduced the arrears.

 

The visitors looked the more likely to find a winner but Calum Waters' strike 18 minutes from time saw County fall at the first hurdle.

 

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And notice how these sides who would be rated top 6 material struggle against this lower league opposition while the obsessed grunts scream that Rangers will struggle to be top 6. That they look impressive in the league cup but that's just lower league opposition anybody else would hammer too.

 

Really? Apparently not. NOBODY in this competition has been so thoroughly overwhelming as Rangers. NO lower league opposition has had even a sniff of a chance. ALL of them were clearly far out of their depth.

 

Anybody think this would happen to Rangers?

Brechin and St Johnstone could not be separated after 90 minutes

 

THAT'S a St Johnstone which comfortably finished 4th in the SPL and can't totally overwhelm a league one opponent while everyone knows exactly what would happen if they played Rangers.

 

Motherwell stuttered before beating East Stirlingshire 3-0

 

Any stutter from Rangers against East Stirling or were they simply swept aside??

 

We have been far and away the most impressive side in this competition despite being the only SPL group winner with another SPL side in our group.

 

We ran away with the group and will be comfortably statistically best of all the group winners. This IS an impressive team we have people there is no doubting that and all you have to do right now to see it for yourself is contrast the struggles everyone but Rangers have with lower league opposition.

 

We may not be scoring as many goals as we could so far but that will come. Goals aside we have been on a completely different level to these teams and that includes Motherwell too once we got into our stride. They want to pretend it was a close run thing because they had a few breakaway chances while in reality they too were played off the park.

 

There are some too stupid to grasp how potent this team is going to be and others who have a little more brain and do grasp this is a powerful team in the making but just don't want to acknowledge this is really happening.

 

Peterhead shocked Premiership side Dundee with a 2-1 win at Balmoor, leaving Paul Hartley's men with an uphill battle to progress.

 

The same Dundee "the best team in Scotland" couldn't beat despite the fact Dundee fielded a second string in preparation to play Rangers at Ibrox in the Scottish cup when they were blown out of the water by a side nothing like as potent as the one we now have.

 

And take a look around at all the opposition for this season. Have any of them being strengthening to anything like the degree Rangers have? Absolutely not, they tinker calling new signings strengthening when in reality it's at best just another player of a roughly equivalent quality to that already in their squad while our signings actually are a massive improvement on those they replace.

 

I laugh too at the hibs crew with the Lennon pronouncement of a "very busy week" in the transfer market which encourages the yahoos to get all excited as if anything they sign is going to be anything like say a Barton or a Kranjcar. All he is doing is bringing in more third raters to replace the third raters leaving.

 

Bring it on. The tweeting of the twits will be silenced in the coming months when the grunting will have nowhere to go but the fall back position of "new club" As if that makes the awful reality they fear so much go away.