match thread (image) Aberdeen 1 - 1 Rangers (Tavernier 30pen)

[der Berliner 3,747]

21 minutes ago, buster. said:

I don't think Aberdeen will make the top three this season, I reckon Hibs will finish 3rd and the sheep will be fighting with Hearts and Kilmarnock for 4th.

 

 

Walker was getting into them all match long, saying how poor they actually were. Square crosses trying to work an opening. Too bad they weren't punished for that ...

 

In any case, for some reason, various people start "the wrong thing" early this season. That is: putting single games under the microscope and try to make a forecast for the whole season. Something that will probably change on a weekly basis and renders quite a bit of that talk virtually irrelevant.

[buster. 5,199]

1 minute ago, der Berliner said:

Walker was getting into them all match long, saying how poor they actually were. Square crosses trying to work an opening. Too bad they weren't punished for that ...

 

In any case, for some reason, various people start "the wrong thing" early this season. That is: putting single games under the microscope and try to make a forecast for the whole season. Something that will probably change on a weekly basis and renders quite a bit of that talk virtually irrelevant.

Revisit at end of transfer window.

[Walterbear 557]

1 hour ago, DMAA said:

The BBC continue antagonising Rangers fans in every way they can. Including ending their match report with "he (Gerrard) has a squad capable of competing for second spot". You couldn't make it up.

That isn’t just disrespectful to Rangers it’s disrespectful to Scottish football and the entire SPFL. The hypocrisy from these people is breathtaking. Rangers only crime on this whole respect/disrespect cr*p is to say they want to win a competitive sports league. In no other country in the world covering any sport would that be deemed as disrespectful to all other contenders. It’s what competitive sport is supposed to be about. The anti-Rangers bias is clear and obvious. Fortunately we can see that clearly.  

[DMAA 3,658]

7 minutes ago, Walterbear said:

That isn’t just disrespectful to Rangers it’s disrespectful to Scottish football and the entire SPFL. The hypocrisy from these people is breathtaking. Rangers only crime on this whole respect/disrespect cr*p is to say they want to win a competitive sports league. In no other country in the world covering any sport would that be deemed as disrespectful to all other contenders. It’s what competitive sport is supposed to be about. The anti-Rangers bias is clear and obvious. Fortunately we can see that clearly.  

Having a squad capable of competing for second spot is something you'd expect to be said in praise of Hibs or Hearts. To say it about us is a thinly veiled jibe.

[buster. 5,199]

10 minutes ago, DMAA said:

Having a squad capable of competing for second spot is something you'd expect to be said in praise of Hibs or Hearts. To say it about us is a thinly veiled jibe.

The scrote is getting his dig in.

 

I think our current squad is capable of second place but to put some daylight between us and the rest and get closer to Celtic, we'll need to improve the squad before the end of the month.

[Tannochsidebear 2,414]

The cheating Clancy has been covered enough in this thread, and obviously highlighted even more because we failed to see the game out.

 

On the football side of the match, yes we were far better than them, very well organised, defended well and tried to break on the counter as Dolly pushed more forward late in the game. Our rookie manager got the tactics (post red card) pretty much spot on, but made a hugely important error with his second sub. Bringing Ejaria on for Jack was clearly the wrong move, and absolutely everyone round about me (and on the bus back home) couldnt understand why that wasnt McCrorie to directly replace Jack in the middle 3 in front of the defence. The space Anderson gets to score is exactly the space Jack would have been occupying, and by transference where McCrorie would have been. 

 

It was also a mistake not to replace Windass with Sadiq with 10 mins to go. Windass, for all the abuse he gets as a lazy so and so, worked tirelessly yesterday but both he and Murphy were clearly out of gas and while SG subbed Murphy, he kept Windass on blowing out his backside. That lack of an outball in the final minutes cost us at least a couple of possessions. Dont read this as criticism as nobody other than the officials deserve criticism for yesterday, but we could have helped ourselves get an almightly GIRFUY with a couple of important changes.

 

What is more worrying for me is our total lack of goals and shots on target. 5 goals in our 5 competitive games to date is a worry. We are missing too many good chances, Murphy in the early minutes yesterday was a terrible miss, and we several times made the wrong choice of final ball when we broke on them and wasted great opportunities to put the game to bed.

 

Of course we have had a lot of difficult matches so far with a brand new team and this can take time to settle down, this Sunday's game is our first opportunity to play a much poorer side than us and see if we can find a ruthless streak to put that game away early and convincingly. Before that against Maribor we may not get a lot of chances against a very experienced and streetwise European opponent, so we simply have to start making better final balls and taking our good chances when we create them.

 

Our whole bus was gutted on the way home, yet most of us would have been fairly happy had a draw been offered pre-match. That tells us a lot about where this team is going, if the officials allow us a fair crack at it of course!

[craig 5,199]

19 minutes ago, Tannochsidebear said:

The cheating Clancy has been covered enough in this thread, and obviously highlighted even more because we failed to see the game out.

 

On the football side of the match, yes we were far better than them, very well organised, defended well and tried to break on the counter as Dolly pushed more forward late in the game. Our rookie manager got the tactics (post red card) pretty much spot on, but made a hugely important error with his second sub. Bringing Ejaria on for Jack was clearly the wrong move, and absolutely everyone round about me (and on the bus back home) couldnt understand why that wasnt McCrorie to directly replace Jack in the middle 3 in front of the defence. The space Anderson gets to score is exactly the space Jack would have been occupying, and by transference where McCrorie would have been. 

 

It was also a mistake not to replace Windass with Sadiq with 10 mins to go. Windass, for all the abuse he gets as a lazy so and so, worked tirelessly yesterday but both he and Murphy were clearly out of gas and while SG subbed Murphy, he kept Windass on blowing out his backside. That lack of an outball in the final minutes cost us at least a couple of possessions. Dont read this as criticism as nobody other than the officials deserve criticism for yesterday, but we could have helped ourselves get an almightly GIRFUY with a couple of important changes.

 

What is more worrying for me is our total lack of goals and shots on target. 5 goals in our 5 competitive games to date is a worry. We are missing too many good chances, Murphy in the early minutes yesterday was a terrible miss, and we several times made the wrong choice of final ball when we broke on them and wasted great opportunities to put the game to bed.

 

Of course we have had a lot of difficult matches so far with a brand new team and this can take time to settle down, this Sunday's game is our first opportunity to play a much poorer side than us and see if we can find a ruthless streak to put that game away early and convincingly. Before that against Maribor we may not get a lot of chances against a very experienced and streetwise European opponent, so we simply have to start making better final balls and taking our good chances when we create them.

 

Our whole bus was gutted on the way home, yet most of us would have been fairly happy had a draw been offered pre-match. That tells us a lot about where this team is going, if the officials allow us a fair crack at it of course!

Post of the day

[Whosthedado 1,685]

1 minute ago, craig said:

Post of the day

Yeah absolutely spot on for me too @Tannochsidebear

[Dave M609 100]

Just seen on SSN that they think McKenna has torn his hamstring, hopefully that c**t Stevie May gets cruciate ligament damage in their next game

[JFK-1 1,693]

1 hour ago, Dave M609 said:

Just seen on SSN that they think McKenna has torn his hamstring, hopefully that c**t Stevie May gets cruciate ligament damage in their next game

So they might have issues trying to punt a player who isn't fit to conduct a medical.