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If a player goes down "injured" anywhere outside the penalty box, play continues while the physio treats them like in rugby. The only thing I can see being a problem is if it's centrally RIGHT outside the box. But if it could be done right it could effectively stop diving as no advantage would be gained from going down.

It's too late now for us to play a high pressing, possession based game. can you imagine the thought of Mohsni, Zaliuskas or god forbid Lee McCulloch pushed up at the halfway line with opposition striker running at them? Our team is so broken and uncomplimentary to eachother it's mad. We have defenders that are, bar Wallace, suited to sitting deep and playing long, which doesn't suit our midfielders like Law, Black (atleast they seemed to be capable of it at their former teams), Macleod who seem suited to a shorter, more patient passing game keeping the ball, which doesn't suit wingers like templeton,Aird,Mckay who are suited to directly running and taking on defenders to get into the box and create chances, which is then useless for strikers like Boyd and Daly who want the ball put in the box at every chance. It's absolutely ludicrous and I'd love to hear if there was some sort of tactical though process into any of the signings or if they were signed purely because they played well in the SPL. I think the best we could do with what we have would be; Bell Foster Mohsni Zaliuskas Wallace Black Law Macleod Aird/Mckay Templeton Miller Encourage Wallace to get forward, make foster more conservative. Tell Black his only role is to cover for breaks and give the ball to the midfielders infront of him Law and Macleod are responsible for keeping the ball moving trying to get something going, also our 2 most mobile midfielders. Templeton and Aird/Mkay run at defenders and try to get into the box and make something happen, work hard to press the opposition FBs. Miller basically try and hold up and bring midfield into play and then get in the box. He's really the only choice for a lone striker, we know he can do it from his national career and with our defence we're inevitably going to be smashing long balls up near a striker anyway and neither Boyd or Daly is capable of occupying a defence

The only thing that I can predict about the game is the level of absolute carnage on this forum if we lose. Is mohsni back? That would make a prediction easier

It's at a point now where I'm almost not even bothered when teams score against us now, struggling to have any interest in games when we play like we do. Missed a massive, MASSIVE chance to rebuild this club from the ground up after we were put in SFL3, just like hearts have openly came out and said they're doing now. Buy and develop talent and then sell it on for profit. Instead we've just turned to 30 year old SPL players with no desire and hunger to win that just seem happy to get their 10k a week from us. Not a single player who has signed for us has improved under McCoists management and the fact that people are starting to think about not attending games until he leaves is the final straw and says it all. Bad, bad times at the minute.

It doesn't matter if you can run 1 mile or 10 in a football game if you're going at the one speed (which is SLOWLY in Jigs case) the entire time. Being fit means a lot less these days than being fast. Also Mohsni is enough of a liability as it is never mind having 2 of him in our defence!

McCoist told the brora owner when they were up for the training camp that Jigs pace has completely gone and so he'll be used in midfield this season.

Barcelona have been scoring goals like that consistently for about 5 years now!

I really liked it actually, Why not just sing.. ''We are the billy boys, you'll know us by our noise, Hulloooooo, Hullooooo''

He's the most exciting player we have (along with templeton) and was really impressed with him yesterday, tidy passing and was the only player making runs beyond the strikers! Everyone needs to remember though he's 19 and will have matches where he'll dissapear and not make much of an impact and not get on his back.

Had a steady game today, didn't do anything too impressive and 9/10 all he ended up doing was playing a 10 yard ball to crawford, although that was as much due to a lack of options being made from midfield and strikers. I'm all for giving youngsters a chance and hope he can kick on and progress, would like to see him trying to overlap and hit the byline more often though.

Not surprised at all, everyone talks about how it's their goal to stay up but surely they have ambitions to push on, and finishing 11-14th 5 years in a row doesn't signal much progress. Also worth pointing out that Stoke are the 3rd biggest net spenders in the premiership over the past 5 seasons, only city and chelsea have spent more than them. The 3rd biggest net spenders in the prem should be getting more than bottom half finishes.

Just read in an article: "senior players privately voiced their annoyance with Mancini’s training methods and obsession with working on minor details of defending" Imagine turning the fact he put a lot of work into trying to improve their defending into a negative!

As an overall footballer there's not been very many better. Obviously better goal scorers, tacklers etc but his touch, passing, awareness, movement and shooting are up there with anyone that's ever played football. Just have to read what the best players in the world think of him to see just how good he is/was

What's the best site/s to start playing poker online?(texas hold em) I know all the rules etc and have some experience playing with pals but wanting to start playing online. Not looking to make a lot of money, infact I'll be lucky to make a profit but I enjoy it so doing it more for fun and enjoyment(although I'd enjoy it more making money haha). Also any sites with strategy/tips etc or even books would be helpful too

We shouldn't be looking to follow a model similar to Dortmunds because it's a totally different setting to what we have. We should be looking at the dutch clubs like Ajax and their model since their situation and finances resemble ours more closely. Why not introduce a club policy to have just 1 player move into the first team from the youths every season? To put that into context, Ajax aim for 4 players to move into the 1st team EVERY SEASON. If we could introduce 1 player a season, over a 10 year period we've promoted a whole team. Why not introduce a wage cap at the club, it should be kept behind closed doors obviously but strictly adhere to it with different levels of wages so that financial trouble is never possible again. It should be based upon not having european football as well, so we don't have to rely on getting to europe to break even and when europe does come the money is purely profit to be put to players etc. That's just 2 changes (and not even severe changes) that could have a long-lasting effect on our club.

Bet 4- £17.53 on Over 1.5 goals in Schalke vs Leverkusen tonight Returns £21.43

A match thread where Rangers aren't winning and people are still being POSITIVE about our performance?!?! I never thought I'd see the day.

Started a fun looking wee challenge I seen on a Fb page the other day, basically start with £10 and just put 1 bet on a day with rubbish odds that's a 'certainty' to come in then just keep betting all the winnings the next day so it rolls on. Basically after 20 days it'll be up around 500 bucks. Looks like something a bit different. Bet 1 and 2 came in so bet 3 today was £14.70 -Draw no bet shamrock rovers (1-0 up after 15mins) -Helmond sport clean sheet -NO (Already conceded) Hopefully be sitting here in a couple of weeks celebrating

Best coach in the world, looking forward to seeing him win his 3rd champions league with his 3rd club against Barca at Wembley next month then seeing him back in british football again. Legend

What the fuck is he doing on twitter?! Lazy bastard should be staying behind after training until he scores 10,000 free kicks, THEN he can go home and tweet.

Some of the thread and people on here are absolutely mind boggling at times. When Ally was made manager and we had poor spells the amount of people who said he was being someone he's not by wearing a suit when he was always in shorts and top as an assistant were unreal. Now it's the opposite. Some cunts are just never happy and need something to moan about. Get a grip of yourselves

Be buying my ticket depending on how the betting goes for me today!

He just tweeted that @JamieFuckinNess saying no

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