der Berliner 3,803 Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 On 02/05/2024 at 14:09, Sutton_blows_goats said: I dont hold any hope that Danilo is any better than Dessers. He's so bad that he's on 20 goals now. Imagine we'd play two strikers or have him take the penalties! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonzo79 15,299 Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 If Dessers took a decent percentage of his chances he'd be on about 35 goals. Not good enough. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sutton_blows_goats 5,463 Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 10 hours ago, der Berliner said: He's so bad that he's on 20 goals now. Imagine we'd play two strikers or have him take the penalties! If goals was the only measure of a players success then yeah, but some of us watch him play. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
compo 7,204 Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 Seems this is all they do at Rangers rip it up and start again we need to build not pull down. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonzo79 15,299 Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 1 hour ago, compo said: Seems this is all they do at Rangers rip it up and start again we need to build not pull down. The core of the team needs dismantled before a proper rebuild starts. Unless you want Goldson, Tav, Lundstram and Dessers starting for us in 2024/25, which would be silly. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
compo 7,204 Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 58 minutes ago, Gonzo79 said: The core of the team needs dismantled before a proper rebuild starts. Unless you want Goldson, Tav, Lundstram and Dessers starting for us in 2024/25, which would be silly. I would get rid of most of the present team but we can't afford to do that so it's a case of sticking with the best of a bad lot by the way Tav Goldson and Lundstram would go first . 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
der Berliner 3,803 Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 Northern Ireland defender Paddy McNair has confirmed he will be leaving Middlesbrough this summer and a move to Rangers is likely to appeal for the 29-year-old, who is a boyhood fan of the Ibrox side. (Belfast Telegraph) A move to Rangers would "appeal to me" too, so I can whip some tactical sense into the management team ... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post JohnMc 2,801 Posted May 7 Popular Post Share Posted May 7 (edited) The Martin Ramsay book that came out a few months ago about the title winning season of 86/87 is worth a read for a number of reasons. I thought I remembered this season well. I was mid-teens, going to game regularly, leaving school and getting on in the world. Rangers had not had a good side for most of my time actively supporting them. Decline under Greig followed by false dawns and further decline under Jock Wallace, the players at Rangers simply weren't good enough. Then Souness was appointed manager. One thing I forgot about that season that Ramsay's book really brings into focus was just how many of that title winning side were at the club before Souness and Smith were appointed. Indeed it's no exaggeration to say that it was basically the previous season's side plus Woods, Butcher and Souness himself. Jimmy Nicholl rejoined, but he'd been at Rangers before. Graham Roberts joined during the season and became a first team regular, but new players like Jimmy Phillips, Neil Wood and Colin West made little impact. The real story of that season is how introducing 3 very good players transformed the side and lifted the existing players to heights they previously couldn't reach. Players I could have sworn had left the club that summer, like Cammy Fraser and Dougie Bell, actually played a decent amount of matches that season. The core of the squad that nearly finished 6th the season before won the league in style. Players like Davie McPherson, Stuart Munro, Derek Ferguson, Ted McMinn and Bobby Fleck along with Davie Cooper, Ian Durrant and of course Ally McCoist became a title winning side. Cooper aside none of that group of players were hitting any kind of highs in their careers prior. I guess what I'm trying to say is we don't have to rip everything up. There are weaknesses in our squad, but its core is capable of winning the League Cup, reaching the Scottish Cup Final, the last 16 in Europe and taking the title to the final weeks. Some judicious improvement might be all that's required. Edited May 7 by JohnMc 8 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devil's advocaat 1,617 Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 30 minutes ago, JohnMc said: I guess what I'm trying to say is we don't have to rip everything up. There are weaknesses in our squad, but its core is capable of winning the League Cup, reaching the Scottish Cup Final, the last 16 in Europe and taking the title to the final weeks. Some judicious improvement might be all that's required. Absolutely. I think Clement has been a bit of a victim of his own success, I mean no one had us anywhere near the title when he came in, then we gave him zero budget in january, but now we're disappointed as it feels like we chucked a very good position - that his management took us to. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
compo 7,204 Posted May 7 Share Posted May 7 First thing to go would be that Tina Turner song Simply the best we have a nerve playing that stupid song 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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