pete 2,499 Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 Rangers clash postponed By: Hearts Media on 22 Sep, 2016 08:38 Hearts' Ladbrokes Premiership home match against Rangers on October 21st will now be played at a later date. Rangers' victory over Queen of the South in Tuesday night's Betfred Cup quarter-final means the Ibrox side will be in semi-final action on the weekend of October 22nd/23rd. A new date for the fixture is yet to be confirmed. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gribz 965 Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 That was a Friday night match to for the cameras. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacK1950 2,404 Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 Again SFA/SFL balls things up they should have made it clear to all concerned that a clash may take place. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whosthedado 1,742 Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 Suprised they aren't making up play Friday Sunday 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gribz 965 Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 Friday night away to Hearts would have been some atmosphere. Edinburgh' finest will be glad of that postponement though. But will probably still be an evening game midweek. As for cup semi - the last four / five in the cup are: Rangers Morton Celtic Aberdeen / St Johnstone Morton would be nice but nobody to fear. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFK-1 1,693 Posted September 22, 2016 Share Posted September 22, 2016 Friday night away to Hearts would have been some atmosphere. Edinburgh' finest will be glad of that postponement though. But will probably still be an evening game midweek. As for cup semi - the last four / five in the cup are: Rangers Morton Celtic Aberdeen / St Johnstone Morton would be nice but nobody to fear. Apparently even a lot of sheep fans are thinking St Johnstone will beat them which I too think is a distinct possibility but that merely demonstrates how illogical their opinion that they can beat Rangers easily is. St Johnstone are a competent top 6 SPL side but no more than that and not only are they no better than they were last season their arguably less potent. We have the guy who was their star man in our squad the loss of whom had to have a detrimental effect and they're not the type of club who can replace that kind of loss. St Johnstone are little more than competent grinders who set up to stop the other team playing which O'Halloran himself admitted in an interview soon after joining us. He said he was having to adapt to a team playing a startegy more or less the complete opposite of that he was used to. If the sheep on their own patch can't convincingly beat a team of competent grinders I see no reason whatsoever for them to have any confidence that they can 'easily' beat us. All the professional pundits are of the opinion that they're highly suspect defensively and that's going to be exploited to the max if our team play as they have been of late. Plus if our defence turns in the kind of stable show they have been of late that should serve to nudge it even more in our favour because I get the feeling that we can pin them back for long periods of the match leaving our defence to deal with breakaways. I have been encouraged by seeing Hill and Senderos too even in the disastrous Old Firm tie reliably clear those troublesome high balls that have had our hearts fluttering all last season while against QoS I saw Wilson make good interceptions and simply punt the ball away up the park into the opposition half. That's all we require of him not silky skills to dribble it out of there. Probably everyone would agree that the last two matches aside we have been playing well below par while the sheep have probably been as good as they are going to get with no missing Waghorn, a Windass, the recently returned Holt, or Crooks to throw into the mix. We can only get better while they are what they are and have no more league points than we do. Of their 3 home league matches they have won only one against a Partick side lying bottom of the table with 3 defeats and a draw from their last 4 games. Now all of this obviously doesn't necessarily mean that we will blow them away but I think it does mean that we can win this match and if we get just an average rub of the green in front of goal maybe even comfortably. It's a key match in the sense that if we can take them on their own patch given that they are reckoned to be solid top 3 then this could go a long way to shutting the mouths of the babbling haters and set us up nicely for a good run back to a challenging position. In saying that mark my words. If we win it will still be portrayed as the sheep played badly, Forrester or any other name you care to mention should have been red carded, we were lucky despite the fact that not only are we due an average rub of the green it might be said we're even due a bit of the luck others have carried against us. We only have to play as we can to take them and turn our season around. Does that give you a start for a positive preview Pete? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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