Match Thread [FT] Rangers 1 (Dessers 6') - 0 Hearts

[JohnMc 2,801]

Is our injury list not better this season? I thought our only injured players currently are Cortes, Matondo and Lawrence, am I missing someone? For comparison Celtic currently have Odin Holm (cost £2.6 million played 3 games this season), Adam Idah and Greg Taylor out, with Carter-Vickers having missed much of the season. Every squad will have injured players, but without wishing to jinx things we do seem less injury prone this season, certainly we're on a par with other clubs where last season we'd 6 or 7 players out fairly regularly. 

 

Interestingly we played Livingston on the 12th of November last year, five of that starting line-up are no longer at the club and of the five subs that came on, four of them have also left the club. That's quite a big change in 12 months. 

Edited November 13 by JohnMc

[Gonzo79 15,299]

23 minutes ago, compo said:

We area big club anymore

We're a huge club, fallen on hard times, in a diddy league.  

McInnes turned the job down recently.  He's not the sort of manager we should be looking at.

[Sutton_blows_goats 5,457]

1 hour ago, RANGERRAB said:

I heard it said PC wanted 3 players in the summer & got none of them. Joan Jordan was one but not sure who other 2 were.

think another might have been the CB who went to Norwich 

That's interesting, perhaps the managers expectations are not aligned with reality when it comes to recruitment.

 

That's a worry on two levels.

 

1) He is aiming too high and we cant recruit effectively

2) Players don't want to come here

[CammyF 8,373]

12 minutes ago, JohnMc said:

Is our injury list not better this season? I thought our only injured players currently are Cortes, Matondo and Lawrence, am I missing someone? For comparison Celtic currently have Odin Holm (cost £2.6 million played 3 games this season), Adam Idah and Greg Taylor out, with Carter-Vickers having missed much of the season. Every squad will have injured players, but without wishing to jinx things we do seem less injury prone this season, certainly we're on a par with other clubs where last season we'd 6 or 7 players out fairly regularly. 

 

Interestingly we played Livingston on the 12th of November last year, five of that starting line-up are no longer at the club and of the five subs that came on, four of them have also left the club. That's quite a big change in 12 months. 

Currently that's correct but we've had Igamane, Ridvan, Propper, Danilo, Sterling Diomande (IIRC) all unavailable this season. It's a continuing trend. 

 

There has been a large turnover but we are still relying on "the old guard" far to heavily. 

 

That means either Clement doesn't rate his signing, they were the wrong signings, they are injured, they are not ready or a combination of all off the above. 

 

However, the discussion on player turnover, starting 11s etc can't mask how poor we are at (attempting) to play football. That's down to coaching.

[Rousseau 10,807]

That's @der Berliner's Christmas present sorted: 

 

[Gonzo79 15,299]

5 hours ago, CammyF said:

Who scored our goals in 1-0 victories? Dessers and Lawrence so if they hadn't we'd be much worse off. 

We'd be better off with two better players in their positions.  They're both shite.

[CammyF 8,373]

43 minutes ago, Gonzo79 said:

We'd be better off with two better players in their positions.  They're both shite.

We might well be - but the facts are they scored goals in 1-0 wins, so if they hadn't we'd be worse off.

 

Dessers has scored 10 goals in 20 games in a team who don't create chances. He is on course to score 20 goals in back-to-back seasons. 

 

So we have our 20 goal a season striker we were all crying out for. 

Edited November 13 by CammyF

[Gonzo79 15,299]

1 minute ago, CammyF said:

they scored goals in 1-0 wins, so if they hadn't we'd be worse off.

 

So we have our 20 goal a season striker we were all crying out for. 

[CammyF 8,373]

5 minutes ago, Gonzo79 said:

Ah, funny. Lol and all that. 

 

[Gonzo79 15,299]

Nothing remotely funny about those two players whatsoever.  Even years down the line, I doubt I'll be able to look back and laugh about their time here.