THE_Ibrox_Preacher

Easy to have a go, but clearly most are concerned.
We blew the league last year. Haven’t strengthened, and handed extensions to guys who’s best days are behind him. 
We’re back in preseason and don’t have a single new recruit there to take part.
It is a worry, even if it’s the cool thing to tell everyone not to worry. It’s an exact repeat so far of us making a cunt of the CL qualifiers last season. 

Really liked the big man, played a stormer in the first old firm game last season, had Kyogo tucked away in his back pocket the whole game. 

I didn't remember him as being shite, I remember him as being first choice until he rattled his knee off a post and then #2 Stefan Klos took over and never looked back?! FFS Antti Niemi was 3rd choice if I remember right and he was far fae shite?!

bassey doing his thing, peter van vossen upfront for Nigeria though
http://www.hesgoal.com/news/104670/Ecuador_vs_Nigeria.html

Mate, it's the best laugh I've had all day, sorry!! It's the kind of stupid shit I come out with sometimes. I had forgotten all about this guy tbh. I was thinking of the French midfielder we had round about then....can't even remember his name! 

I was on my tea at work, been a long day.  

That’s Lionel Charbonnier. 

Nothing personal against him but cammy bell was fuckin rotten man .

100% was not our worst ever goalie. 🤣

Not going to lie I thought he was deid when I seen the thread title.

Champs League - No, simply not good enough and put us under pressure for the whole season.
League Cup - No but if you're gonna chuck something to focus on the others this is it.
League - No but a perfect storm.
Europa League - Yes by a big margin.
Scottish Cup - Yes, we cannot play it down because it's the first in a long time (for us) and the manner in which it was won i.e. beating them enroute and playing days after huge sapping disappointment. Stopped them from an almost certain treble.
Transfer business - Jury's out until this Summers business is concluded; We done well to basically keep the team together considering the talk of interest in several players, we could have had a fire sale after the Champs League exit but remained whole, we sold Patterson which while disappointing was understandable and seemingly a good deal for us, January seen us lose no one else of importance which is a positive but the strengthening was seemingly suspect and turned out to be exactly that which could be argued was incredibly costly.
Managerial change - Yes, European final and everything close ran or won. The wheels could have came off entirely and we were looking and feeling stale prior to the change. It wasn't just a manager we lost, it was a top team around him too - all appointments had to be good. Players still seem to be developing despite the changes.
All in all it's easy to see why it might not feel like a good season but any season where a club from a small country such as ours takes a European competition as far as anyone can without actually winning it, having spent what we have spent on that team, and despite having lost our manager midway, IS a superb season. Everything pales in comparison to that. To win the big domestic cup for the first time in almost as long as our gap between European finals means we have something in silver to show for it that only a couple of our players and manager have had before. By reaching the Europa final and taking it as far as one can, we should be able to argue from a position of strength on sales out of the club.
The overall vision of the club of buy raw/cheap/young, develop them, challenge on all fronts and sell high for our long term preservation and success is seemingly working and quickly at that (bottom tier to Europa final, 2nd Europa final in 14 years). There is no reason why we cannot manage the season ahead and build upon what we have and we should be looking to do just that.

Couldnae even sneak in a roll on suncream yet the bold Andy wants us walking into stadium like Arnie in Commando  

Injury seems to be his Achilles heel

Tomorrow feels kind of hollow following the other night but it really shouldn't.
It is an opportunity to get the domestic cup hoodoo off our back. It's the better of the 2 domestic cups. It's an opportunity to do something to relieve the pain of the other night rather than stew on it for months unable to play. It's an opportunity to end the season on a high. It's an opportunity to demonstrate things learned or picked up on from the other night almost immediately. It's an opportunity to give a winning send off to those who won't be with us next season. It's the only competition we can win this season now. It's merited on the basis of what the players, the fans, and the investors have achieved over the last however many seasons. I hope they can win it well against a Hearts side who are right up for it.
I won't even attempt the line up as I could make a case for half a dozen.
Failure to win would be an awful end to a season that simply hasn't merited it.

Tomorrow feels kind of hollow following the other night but it really shouldn't.
It is an opportunity to get the domestic cup hoodoo off our back. It's the better of the 2 domestic cups. It's an opportunity to do something to relieve the pain of the other night rather than stew on it for months unable to play. It's an opportunity to end the season on a high. It's an opportunity to demonstrate things learned or picked up on from the other night almost immediately. It's an opportunity to give a winning send off to those who won't be with us next season. It's the only competition we can win this season now. It's merited on the basis of what the players, the fans, and the investors have achieved over the last however many seasons. I hope they can win it well against a Hearts side who are right up for it.
I won't even attempt the line up as I could make a case for half a dozen.
Failure to win would be an awful end to a season that simply hasn't merited it.

Bassey is my player of the year.
When we started the season, in my opinion, we looked like a team stuck in first gear....this has continued to reappear with regularity throughout the season; by saying this I mean that in the previous season there was a solid defense, a high fast press, tight triangles in link up play, some really nice passing play strung together; this season in theory would have took that and built upon it, refined it, been better at it (especially with losing no players you'd expect they'd kick on with the mounting experience). It never felt like it though from the very start. Several of our stars seemed out of sorts for months if not more.
Bassey from the very start of the season on the other hand looked like one of the few that had hit the ground running in terms of work rate and desire.
Chucked in at CB he looked makeshift with a bomb-scare moment in him that would see us concede BUT look at what he's done over the course, from filling holes when asked with pure work rate, to battering fuck through left wing like a train clearing snow to cross for big goals on the left wing at the highest stage, looking more and more like a reliable starter somewhere at center/left.
He's gave us something for the whole season and most simply haven't!
To see him all but cap this season off with a top performance in a European final at 22 shows just how far he's come and where he's heading.
He had a bomb-scare moment in that final and we watched him fall awkwardly with the ball, get back up, and chase down a frankfurt player who snatched and ran with the ball at full pelt the second he fell, an ending in an Amoruso-esque sliding challenge to snuff out the danger.
He's been instrumental to taking us to a European final, looking stand-out in that final, and look at the number of games he's played not only in this season but in good European results since he started featuring.
The boy has become a man and we either have to acknowledge this with a deal or get the right price for him. He's our highest value asset at this moment.
A tank that can run like a train who has an end-ball, can do a job left of Center, defends well, and works hard all game and will try his damndest to make up for his short falls. Now he's even starting to snuff people out in the air. 
I could go round in circles here and miss little things but he has brought something to the table all season and looked bang on at the highest table we sat at in our 2nd to last game of the season (after 60 odd games).
Player of the year! (I know some will think Tav but put it like this, I expect a Rangers Captain to be a top player and while he's stepped up in his time with us, he hasn't grown so rapidly nor does he have the same potential - he's been top but his limitations are more fixed and he's got a mile of experience more in the locker.)

Bassey is my player of the year.
When we started the season, in my opinion, we looked like a team stuck in first gear....this has continued to reappear with regularity throughout the season; by saying this I mean that in the previous season there was a solid defense, a high fast press, tight triangles in link up play, some really nice passing play strung together; this season in theory would have took that and built upon it, refined it, been better at it (especially with losing no players you'd expect they'd kick on with the mounting experience). It never felt like it though from the very start. Several of our stars seemed out of sorts for months if not more.
Bassey from the very start of the season on the other hand looked like one of the few that had hit the ground running in terms of work rate and desire.
Chucked in at CB he looked makeshift with a bomb-scare moment in him that would see us concede BUT look at what he's done over the course, from filling holes when asked with pure work rate, to battering fuck through left wing like a train clearing snow to cross for big goals on the left wing at the highest stage, looking more and more like a reliable starter somewhere at center/left.
He's gave us something for the whole season and most simply haven't!
To see him all but cap this season off with a top performance in a European final at 22 shows just how far he's come and where he's heading.
He had a bomb-scare moment in that final and we watched him fall awkwardly with the ball, get back up, and chase down a frankfurt player who snatched and ran with the ball at full pelt the second he fell, an ending in an Amoruso-esque sliding challenge to snuff out the danger.
He's been instrumental to taking us to a European final, looking stand-out in that final, and look at the number of games he's played not only in this season but in good European results since he started featuring.
The boy has become a man and we either have to acknowledge this with a deal or get the right price for him. He's our highest value asset at this moment.
A tank that can run like a train who has an end-ball, can do a job left of Center, defends well, and works hard all game and will try his damndest to make up for his short falls. Now he's even starting to snuff people out in the air. 
I could go round in circles here and miss little things but he has brought something to the table all season and looked bang on at the highest table we sat at in our 2nd to last game of the season (after 60 odd games).
Player of the year! (I know some will think Tav but put it like this, I expect a Rangers Captain to be a top player and while he's stepped up in his time with us, he hasn't grown so rapidly nor does he have the same potential - he's been top but his limitations are more fixed and he's got a mile of experience more in the locker.)

Bassey is my player of the year.
When we started the season, in my opinion, we looked like a team stuck in first gear....this has continued to reappear with regularity throughout the season; by saying this I mean that in the previous season there was a solid defense, a high fast press, tight triangles in link up play, some really nice passing play strung together; this season in theory would have took that and built upon it, refined it, been better at it (especially with losing no players you'd expect they'd kick on with the mounting experience). It never felt like it though from the very start. Several of our stars seemed out of sorts for months if not more.
Bassey from the very start of the season on the other hand looked like one of the few that had hit the ground running in terms of work rate and desire.
Chucked in at CB he looked makeshift with a bomb-scare moment in him that would see us concede BUT look at what he's done over the course, from filling holes when asked with pure work rate, to battering fuck through left wing like a train clearing snow to cross for big goals on the left wing at the highest stage, looking more and more like a reliable starter somewhere at center/left.
He's gave us something for the whole season and most simply haven't!
To see him all but cap this season off with a top performance in a European final at 22 shows just how far he's come and where he's heading.
He had a bomb-scare moment in that final and we watched him fall awkwardly with the ball, get back up, and chase down a frankfurt player who snatched and ran with the ball at full pelt the second he fell, an ending in an Amoruso-esque sliding challenge to snuff out the danger.
He's been instrumental to taking us to a European final, looking stand-out in that final, and look at the number of games he's played not only in this season but in good European results since he started featuring.
The boy has become a man and we either have to acknowledge this with a deal or get the right price for him. He's our highest value asset at this moment.
A tank that can run like a train who has an end-ball, can do a job left of Center, defends well, and works hard all game and will try his damndest to make up for his short falls. Now he's even starting to snuff people out in the air. 
I could go round in circles here and miss little things but he has brought something to the table all season and looked bang on at the highest table we sat at in our 2nd to last game of the season (after 60 odd games).
Player of the year! (I know some will think Tav but put it like this, I expect a Rangers Captain to be a top player and while he's stepped up in his time with us, he hasn't grown so rapidly nor does he have the same potential - he's been top but his limitations are more fixed and he's got a mile of experience more in the locker.)

I took the view that in the Summer we would have been confident of qualifying for the Champions League with the £30-odd-million that brings, crashing out has been made up for with the Europa run. Patterson's sale tided us over from failing to qualify for the Champs League and the semi-expected subsequent sell-off that never happened. In other words I think it's possible we needed a return on investment and we've basically took the season to pull in what we should have at near the start.
I could be entirely wrong as I'm reading between the lines with no real knowledge as to our affairs but did anyone think it was a good idea to have Goldson as our number 1 CB at the start of the season knowing he would be out of contract this Summer? Did the Malmo game not then confirm we needed someone else? Did the failure at both stages to recruit not suggest that we weren't in a position to spend?! 
Having failed to qualify I thought a sell-off would happen to "balance the books" and it didn't happen, at that stage I thought 'maybe we're more secure financially than I thought' but we were linked with handy looking affordable types last Summer and January and nothing happened with them, instead we sold Patterson and bring in 2 injury prone loans, a Polish guy nobody knew in a position Patterson couldn't get a sniff in, and Sands - An American who appeared to be nothing we needed and average at it. The end result of that recruitment is that they offered nothing towards winning the league with a certain £30-odd million + bounty attached and contributed hee haw in our quest for the Europa. A substantial amount of money missed out on either by shocking recruitment or by financial constraints upon recruitment.
Essentially we had last Summer and January to rework things for the better, we had extra impetuce to do so after coming up short against Malmo. Between that Malmo tie, the league and the Europa Final we've missed out on 3 opportunities to secure £30+ million in the 1 season; surely this indicates that we didn't have the money to do so?!
As a side - I personally felt selling Aribo following malmo was possible and should have been done in January, he hadn't started where he left off last season, he would have commanded a good fee you'd imagine and we'd avoid a Goldson situation from happening again, it could have been used to strengthen us in January (up until that point I felt he was a shaddow of the player he was the season before).
Not sure if you'd (or anyone else) would agree with any of this?!
 

I took the view that in the Summer we would have been confident of qualifying for the Champions League with the £30-odd-million that brings, crashing out has been made up for with the Europa run. Patterson's sale tided us over from failing to qualify for the Champs League and the semi-expected subsequent sell-off that never happened. In other words I think it's possible we needed a return on investment and we've basically took the season to pull in what we should have at near the start.
I could be entirely wrong as I'm reading between the lines with no real knowledge as to our affairs but did anyone think it was a good idea to have Goldson as our number 1 CB at the start of the season knowing he would be out of contract this Summer? Did the Malmo game not then confirm we needed someone else? Did the failure at both stages to recruit not suggest that we weren't in a position to spend?! 
Having failed to qualify I thought a sell-off would happen to "balance the books" and it didn't happen, at that stage I thought 'maybe we're more secure financially than I thought' but we were linked with handy looking affordable types last Summer and January and nothing happened with them, instead we sold Patterson and bring in 2 injury prone loans, a Polish guy nobody knew in a position Patterson couldn't get a sniff in, and Sands - An American who appeared to be nothing we needed and average at it. The end result of that recruitment is that they offered nothing towards winning the league with a certain £30-odd million + bounty attached and contributed hee haw in our quest for the Europa. A substantial amount of money missed out on either by shocking recruitment or by financial constraints upon recruitment.
Essentially we had last Summer and January to rework things for the better, we had extra impetuce to do so after coming up short against Malmo. Between that Malmo tie, the league and the Europa Final we've missed out on 3 opportunities to secure £30+ million in the 1 season; surely this indicates that we didn't have the money to do so?!
As a side - I personally felt selling Aribo following malmo was possible and should have been done in January, he hadn't started where he left off last season, he would have commanded a good fee you'd imagine and we'd avoid a Goldson situation from happening again, it could have been used to strengthen us in January (up until that point I felt he was a shaddow of the player he was the season before).
Not sure if you'd (or anyone else) would agree with any of this?!
 

Think his touch is better than he's given credit for tbh. Couple of top quality moments of technique today.

4 in a row and a place from Delta Work.
Plodding along very nicely.

Fucking delighted