Match Thread [FT] Rangers 0 - 2 St Mirren

[Dragosani 79]

The problem is that the other poundshop managers have worked out Clements team and know when the chips are down, he's not going to change his game plan, or if he does it will be very late in the day.

Those spl teams can smell the fear in the team and know if they getin our faces. We will shrink into ourselves.

I'm not sure we can afford to wait to the end if the season  or we could end up with more unwelcomed records and a fractured squad with zero confidence. 

[CammyF 9,030]

3 minutes ago, Dragosani said:

The problem is that the other poundshop managers have worked out Clements team and know when the chips are down, he's not going to change his game plan, or if he does it will be very late in the day.

Those spl teams can smell the fear in the team and know if they getin our faces. We will shrink into ourselves.

I'm not sure we can afford to wait to the end if the season  or we could end up with more unwelcomed records and a fractured squad with zero confidence. 

The fact that "poundshop" managers can work out quite easily how to set up against us with mostly "poundshop" players blows apart the theory that we'd be unable to find a manager / coach who would get more out our players. 

[compo 7,612]

Another day of shame and a further slide into obscurity I’ve never seen a team so slow as us not one does any running off the ball to create space or draw the defenders we can’t even do the simple things like put in a decent cross out of yesterday’s eleven I’d only keep Nsiala Proper and Raskin the rest can go plus the drummer .

 

[Bluedell 5,843]

A defence that couldn't handle 2 strong forwards. 

 

A midfield 2 that got overrun by a midfield 3.

 

Wide players with no pace. 

 

A centre forward with no support that had two on him the whole game. 

 

The opposition 5-3-2 is a playbook of how to play against us. 

[RANGERRAB 3,989]

56 minutes ago, Bluedell said:

A defence that couldn't handle 2 strong forwards. 

 

A midfield 2 that got overrun by a midfield 3.

 

Wide players with no pace. 

 

A centre forward with no support that had two on him the whole game. 

 

The opposition 5-3-2 is a playbook of how to play against us. 

A static CF who always seems to be posted missing when the ball is put into the box 

[alexscottislegend 2,557]

15 hours ago, Whosthedado said:

Moyes and Van Gaal failed big time at Man U. In fact so did the so called "special one"

Think Scott was being ironic; he could have added Pep to that list.

[alexscottislegend 2,557]

13 hours ago, Franc Ergs said:

Think we were 5th that season, makes it even worse.

I well remember being at Ibrox when we got beat 1-0 by Morton, Jim Tolmie scoring the goal.  The crowd was 5,000! That led to big changes.

[alexscottislegend 2,557]

15 hours ago, compo said:

Easily the worst Rangers team I’ve ever seen player’s who in my eyes aren’t trying they are not interested in the results in the domestic games only the Thursday night cup and they play because they all want out they’re hoping some other mugs going to give them a nice fat contract pity you have to submit a squad for these European games because I would boot most of them out of that squad they’re a disgrace imposters taking money under false pretenses there’s a culture of laziness in the club as there was a culture of booze bags at united until Fergie booted them out but our manager is gutless he’ll stay as long as he can because he won’t get another job on the wage he’s getting at Ibrox .

You might have a point in that they turn up for Europe because then they are in the shop window.

[der Berliner 3,997]

11 hours ago, Blue Moon said:

I thought Cerni was awful and has been for weeks.  He should have been subbed.

True enough. My remark was more about him actually trying to do something, rather than the quality of his play. Others were simply "playing along".

 

One just has to look with one open eye to see why this current team, injury-ravaged or not, is simply not clicking.

 

Hagi is being played on the left. He hardly ever played on the left before, is according to his stats an attacking midfielder (95) or right winger (77, of which were 53 with us).

Bajrami is being played on the left. He hardly ever played on the left before, is according to his stats an attacking midiflieder (145), or playing centrally (69).

 

Enter Tom Lawrence, whom we primarily played as an AM (34 out of 60), but hardly ever on the left  (3) He is according to his stats a left winger (191), who can play through the middle (110, including our 34).

 

Obviously, the right-winger slot is taken up by Cerny (and McCausland, who can actually play on either side), and our prime left wingers, Cortes and Matondo (now off) were injured for ages. While Hagi is versatile enough to whip in enough crosses, Bajrami is obviously not. Both are better more centrally, preferably behind two attackers. Albeit being injured quite often, Lawrence is hardly ever used in his prime role though. Maybe he's been a touch too slow for some, but given that we camp in the opposition half most of the time anyways, spee is not exactly a factor. I do remember that Hagi was getting slaughtered for not being fast enough to be a right winger ... even though "speed" was not really needed. It's not like we were or are playing fast counter attacking football. 

 

Being set up with the wrong players filling wrong positions and poor tactics is asking for trouble. It has been the case for the last 9 years now, and we don't have people at the helm able to understand this. Trying the same thing over and over again hoping for a better outcome is sheer stupidity. PC has limited resources in terms of players, and fair enough. But even with a full squad he's not changing things.

 

... and on a semi-related note: if there is an order to "play out from the back all the time" (even if we crumble under pressure and players are well covered), whoever gave that order should be excorted to Erskine Bridge ...

[der Berliner 3,997]

Regarding new managers and coaches. Failure at other clubs, big or small, is no real criteria when it comes to us (or any new club). Every club provides a different challenge, has different resources in money and players, has different demands. Sir Walter would probably never be considered by Barcelona or Dortmund, AC Mian or the like. But he knew how to play the game in Scotland, knew what sort of players were required, where and when.

 

If the 49ers send us a ton of nuggets and we get Guardiola and 10 superstars that wipe the floor with everything in Scotland, fine by me. If we get Vinny Jones* and he gets enough hard guys and Scots in who rip themselves a new one to get the results required, fine by me. The current status quo simply can't continue.

 

*You know what I mean.

 

 

Edited 5 hours ago by der Berliner