RANGERRAB 3,678 Posted September 2, 2018 Share Posted September 2, 2018 1 hour ago, Big Jaws said: Hereing theres been an incident of crushing with 5 injured in todays home support at Park head. The passageways between their North Stand & the cemetery? No big surprise there. One of the reasons the San Giro was initially refused a fire safety certificate after it was rebuilt in the 1990’s. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Shed 29 Posted September 2, 2018 Share Posted September 2, 2018 2 hours ago, alexscottislegend said: Cicadas - midge type insects Thank you mr scott....I think they are more like crickets than midges, but I don't know for sure.....they make a fucking racket, I do know that. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Shed 29 Posted September 2, 2018 Share Posted September 2, 2018 2 hours ago, Waltersgotstyle said: Advocaat lost 5-1 on his first visit to parkhead. Still a long season ahead. We have taken some humpings at the piggery, and with better teams than we had on the park today. Another one that springs to mind when Advocaat was in charge, was the 6-2 the day Fernando was hooked. Bobby Peta was destroying him (I know ,ffs), but that can happen on your first visit there, players can freeze. It happens the other way round, Reggie Blinker at Ibrox in Walters last season first time round, the day Gough scored, springs to mind. That was my only fear before kick off today, that some, in what is virtually a new team, might freeze. I didn't see any sign of that today, it was a difficult game for them, and for various reasons (talked about in length elsewhere here), we were not at it in some departments, but we didn't freeze, and nobody was hiding or giving less than 100%. Contrast that with some of the games against them last season and in particular the 1-5 at Ibrox. We were on the verge of total capitulation that day, at one point they were looking at not just their best win ever at Ibrox, but their best win ever against us anywhere! The players were at odds with the manager, not playing for each other or the jersey, and looking a beaten team from the minute they stepped on the pitch. None of that was evident today. We were not great today, but we're better, and will get better yet. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooponthewing 1,139 Posted September 2, 2018 Share Posted September 2, 2018 1 hour ago, RANGERRAB said: The passageways between their North Stand & the cemetery? No big surprise there. One of the reasons the San Giro was initially refused a fire safety certificate after it was rebuilt in the 1990’s. There could be a catastrophe at that place if that’s what’s happening? They should be spending millions on their ramshackle piggery to stop this! 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the gunslinger 3,366 Posted September 2, 2018 Share Posted September 2, 2018 Not a great performance today. But worth noting if the ref gives that blatant free kick then who knows if they score at all. All that asside we need to start winning fast and lots in the league now. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
compo 7,052 Posted September 2, 2018 Share Posted September 2, 2018 We will just have to pick ourselves up and get on with it there are plenty of points to be won . 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Doc 280 Posted September 2, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted September 2, 2018 I am pretty down about today. I thought we would show more going forward and expose the Celtic defence a lot more than we managed to. I am not offering excuses. Their goal probably involved a foul but any one of their shots that hit the post could have gone in on another day as well. We were second best and we have to look at ourselves and not blame the ref or anyone else. We have to be good enough that we take it out of the ref's hands and we can still win despite what passes for quality referring in Scotland. However consider it from the other side. They absolutely had to beat us today. They had the following advantages: (1) Home advantage - 60,000+ unwashed venting their hatred with only 800 Bears stuck off in a corner and a ground we (and I mean more experienced and more expensively assembled Rangers teams) haven't won at since 2010. (2) Experience - they have a settled team who are used to the manager's system, used to playing with one another and used to winning at the Piggery (the loss against Aberdeen where they threw the match to spite us at the end of last season doesn't count). We are improving but we are still very much a work in progress. (3) Squad value - even ignoring the Seville calculator valuations that appear in the Scottish press, Celtic's squad value is at least 3 times ours. They spent more on one striker than we have on our whole defence. (4) Freshness - despite playing later in the day they had a comparatively easy game on Thursday night and took off players in the second half with a view to today's game. We on the other hand had an epic heroic last ditch stand with 9 men against UFA for a third of the game followed by a grueling flight home. While Celtic could immerse their players in ice baths and cotton wool immediately after the game, we had immediately get on a flight and any rehabilitation was delayed until the following day. Ask any sports scientist about delaying rehabilitation and its effects versus athletes who can dive straight into ice or get massage. It showed on the pitch today. So what would have happened if Brendan's expensively assembled team couldn't raise themselves at home, at the Piggery in front of a baying green and white mob to beat a Rangers outfit who were largely dead on their feet after 15 hours travelling and a punishing encounter against foreign opposition? It would have been great to watch but it wasn't to be... Celtic did the minimum of what they needed today. They beat us but they failed to batter us when the reality is that they'll probably not get a better chance all season. We will gel better as a team and we'll get key players like Coulibally back from injury. They probably won't get much better than where they are right now. Their defence had a light job today but it's still a joke and will get found out a lot more than previous seasons. I wanted to win today. An awful lot. But this is a marathon not a sprint and what we need from the matches that come after the international break is a concerted run of home and away wins. Both us and Celtic will find it tough coming back from EL matches on Thursdays and I fully expect league points to be dropped. We just have to drop a lot less than them. Then the chase will really be on. 7 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RANGERRAB 3,678 Posted September 2, 2018 Share Posted September 2, 2018 (edited) 14 minutes ago, cooponthewing said: There could be a catastrophe at that place if that’s what’s happening? They should be spending millions on their ramshackle piggery to stop this! I’ve not been there since the 1993 LC final between us & Hibz. And I won’t be going there ever again. Glad today’s problems didn’t involve our travelling support Edited September 2, 2018 by RANGERRAB 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whosthedado 1,685 Posted September 2, 2018 Share Posted September 2, 2018 Frustrating day. We were just starting to come into it when we lost the goal. Looked like a foul on Jack too. No white flag waving though. We'll beat them at Ibrox in December Need a decent run before then 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RANGERRAB 3,678 Posted September 2, 2018 Share Posted September 2, 2018 2 minutes ago, Whosthedado said: Frustrating day. We were just starting to come into it when we lost the goal. Looked like a foul on Jack too. No white flag waving though. We'll beat them at Ibrox in December Need a decent run before then A setback but not a disaster 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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