match thread (image) [FT] Rangers 1 (Morelos 67) - 0 Alashkert

[Bill 13,717]

11 hours ago, rbr said:

The great debate just now about what player is out of form etc etc , we as fans tend to go on game by game-basis when rating players , apart from that pair  of arseholes I had to sit beside last night who gave every player it right from the first whistle , where as managers and coaches tend to look at the bigger picture and how things tend to even themselves out over the course of a season .

 

we don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes or in training, we either trust our management team or we don’t , some fans seem to have reached def con 12 already .

It's right that we don't accept failure easily but most of us should have enough experience to know the game we're in is called football, not "winning". Sometimes we will lose and the occasional failures are just seasoning for future successes. The procession of last season was never going to be repeated and it's likely to be well after Xmas before anything becomes clear about this title race. Patience and composure is the order of the day.

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13 hours ago, DMAA said:

Gerrard was more frustrated at the players who aren’t performing for him in his press conferences than anyone on here tbh, questioned their dedication at the moment and said something along the lines of he’ll be going with the in-form boys at the weekend, so it’s not that he isn’t seeing what we are or agreeing with it. Some people do go too far (the worst normally in the stadium itself), but equally some don’t seem to be able to handle fans validly criticising some individual performances. 

Totally agree and it’s a very thin line , as for Gerard’s reaction , many great managers use the press conferences to their advantage , let’s wait and see how this plays out .