Mark McGhee reckons Rangers will do well to avoid bottom-six

[calscot 0]

I see what you're saying but you can't extrapolate one game to the whole season - we could do that with the previous game and say we're 2nd place by miles.

 

For me I think it shows the two extremes between us playing well and playing badly with our more average, expected game halfway between. So a reasonably comfortable draw away at Dingwall, while playing very badly, definitely suggests a top 5 team, never mind a top 6.

 

If you extrapolate the sum of our 12 games then we're obviously competing for 2nd to 5th. That would be fine for the likes of Hibs, but while there's not much chance of 7th and below, it's still a pretty dire position for us, so nothing to be happy about.

[der Berliner 3,744]

Yesterday's performance was not that of a top of the table (1, 2, 3, even 4) side.

If replicated throughout the season, and I have seen some equally reprehensible efforts, too frequently to be comfortable, to date,.......

 

The only thing saving us from ignominy seems to be the poverty of much of the opposition.

 

It will be rather fatal to analyse how the season's going to go on a weekly basis. Never works and never worked before. A quick look into the record books will show that hardly any of the great sides of the 80s, 90s and 2000s regularly ranked up high scores away to Falkirk, St. Johnstone or ICT. They were sure better sides than ours right now, of course, and we still lack a certain level of consistency all round.

 

It was perhaps a decent move by King & Co. to keep money in the bank for January, so we can see how the lot that got us promoted and the new chaps cope with the top flight and its demands. Too bad that three of our prime midfield signings - Kranjcar, Barton, and Rossiter - have played so little and no real chance to establish themselves. We looked to have settled most (but sure not all) defensive issues, but everything in front of them remains a concern. IMHO, we should use the international break and arrange a friendly to give all peripheral or not-used players a chance to impress.

[Uilleam 5,940]

The team has nowhere near the wherewithal to win when playing badly.

This makes me think that it may be, in fact, rank, and not merely one which is commonly, and consistently, dragged down to opponents' levels.

 

The man on the Cardonald omnibus might reasonably conclude that yesterday's match was between two bottom six teams.

[Norris Cole 0]

McGhee.

 

LOL.