Match Thread [FT] Athletic Club 2 - 0 Rangers

[Sutton_blows_goats 6,108]

45 minutes ago, ranger_syntax said:

One last ffs tav moment to end the season.

Sorry but wtf was he doing. He had his arms out as if to say ‘leave it lads all good’ as the boy buried the header. Can’t watch that school boy defending anymore. Pls make it stop.

[Sutton_blows_goats 6,108]

27 minutes ago, alexscottislegend said:

I feel so much better now that Manure have lost to the team who outclassed us. 

This aged like Kerry Katona 

[Graeme Ro55 1,034]

Gutted. The Dessers pen and sending off aside we were set up to lose. 

[L72 131]

 

Ideally, you'll not be here next season.

[Gribz 1,236]

How can Dessers shirt being ripped off not be a Pen. Okay the big man goes down easily but rightly so as if you dont go down you dont get the pens 99% of the time. Why was it not even looked at - yet he gets booked for coming straight back onto the pitch after changing the jersey - why is that even in the rule books because he didnt go off with an injury. 

 

Yilmaz going off changed our plan A but not only the decision to put Diomande to LB was bad but that meant putting Jefte to left centre half which is worse! What a waste of a sub, which meant Hagi had to come off at HT to correct the decision and 2 minutes later Balogun comes off injured. 

 

For the second game in a row we started to actually play when going to a back 4, we had more possession second half.

 

But that was a tough cauldron to go into. Had Propper not been sent off so early in the first leg things could have been different.

Its a good run again in Europe and we certainly werent out of our depth in the tournament. 

 

Kind of hoping Man Utd go on and beat Bilbao in the Semi's. 

[Ready1314 96]

6 hours ago, L72 said:

 

Ideally, you'll not be here next season.

Knows if he gets the job hes the first name on the team sheet. Personally I cant wait till hes gone from the club , car crash of a defender and has been for years.

[Ready1314 96]

9 hours ago, Uilleam said:

When you can barely trap the ball, are unable to pass the ball to a member f your side, and when your movement, at its best, is sluggish, then you are unlikely to win the match, irrespective of strategy, tactics, formation, etc.

 

The paucity of basic skills, clear for 80% of the game, was, frankly, embarrassing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nailed it , the whole team dont want to be on the ball , theres a fear that runs straight through them.

[compo 7,878]

We had a good run made a few bob I think I read that was something like 15 million so use tha to repay the loans made by the board so the new owners aren’t burdened by a debt that was not of their making.

honor thy debtors.

[Rousseau 11,644]

2 minutes ago, compo said:

We had a good run made a few bob I think I read that was something like 15 million so use tha to repay the loans made by the board so the new owners aren’t burdened by a debt that was not of their making.

honor thy debtors.

They're converting their loans to shares so we don't need to pay them off. 

[Rousseau 11,644]

You fully expect to come up against good sides at this stage of the competition, but that's no excuse for the ultra-defensive approach from Barry in all his European games. Just defending and hoping for a lucky break is no way to approach any game at this level - and it didn't even work, as we were battered from the first minute. GvB was poor overall, but we could play in Europe; Clement was poor, but we could play in Europe. This, to me, proves why Barry should be nowhere near the Rangers job.