***** The Official Taigs v Rangers Match Thread *****

[the goal machine 7,801]

Foderingham

Hodson Hill Wilson Beerman 

Tav Holt Toral Hyndman Dodoo

Miller 

Something like that.

[stevemartin1991 262]

12 hours ago, cr3_bear said:

Am quite calm for this one . Fuck knows why . 

give it a couple of days, the nerves will soon kick in

[ronniescu 2,970]

1 hour ago, the goal machine said:

Foderingham

Hodson Hill Wilson Beerman 

Tav Holt Toral Hyndman Dodoo

Miller 

Something like that.

Perfect. No Waghorn, Garner or Bates. And Tav in midfield. Good to go.

[FlippinEck 3,702]

1 hour ago, the goal machine said:

Foderingham

Hodson Hill Wilson Beerman 

Tav Holt Toral Hyndman Dodoo

Miller 

Something like that.

Id take that. Think Toral might finally be ready.

[Mr Soprano 13,964]

12 hours ago, TheBluebells said:

Got a great surprise from my Dad with hospitality tickets for this one.

For many reasons I've never gotten to a game with my Dad even though he's the reason I support Rangers so this one will be extra special when we win it.

Lovely stuff mate.

[markem 7,251]

15 hours ago, WeirFleckNRothen said:

Waghorn is bang out of form, big time, but I'd have him in-front of Garner any day of the week.

Neither's form is defendable, but I genuinely believe that on their day, Waghorn is one of the most able players in our squad. It might not be saying much, but there's a player in there who can do a job for Glasgow Rangers.

Garner, on the other hand, as mentioned, will pick-up a yellow card early on as a result of aggressively wrestling with someone's ankles. He'll then swagger around, bumping into people off the ball.

I think if Waghorn got it into his head he can create for others we would see a much better player. He can beat a man, has decent close control. Problem is he fancies himself as a shoot on sight striker  when his finishing is nothing short of shocking. 

 

[WeirFleckNRothen 1,789]

1 hour ago, markem said:

I think if Waghorn got it into his head he can create for others we would see a much better player. He can beat a man, has decent close control. Problem is he fancies himself as a shoot on sight striker  when his finishing is nothing short of shocking. 

 

Aye, he's very effective when cutting in from out wide. As you said, he can beat a man and he isn't bad with the ball at his feet, but he is absolutely not a goalscoring striker.

Unfortunately, we haven't seen any of the above for a number of months.

[psychobudgie 55]

Can't see him tinkering too much with the formation below. Can quickly become a 5 in midfield or 6 at the back or 4 up front depending on whether or not we are the pumper or the pumpee plus Tav is rank in midfield.

              Foderingham

Tav     Wilson      Hill    Beerman 

                Holt   Toral
               
                 Hyndman

Waghorn                      Dodoo

                   Miller

[Chineseboy 1,563]

Is this being shown on sky. Trying to find somewhere to watch it over here, but if it's not on sky I could be fucked?

[giffnockger 4,840]

12 minutes ago, Chineseboy said:

Is this being shown on sky. Trying to find somewhere to watch it over here, but if it's not on sky I could be fucked?

Sky Sports 2 

[writingranger 1,413]

I think this will be a close game. Their strength is still attacking on the flanks. we have to win the midfield battle and starve them of the ball out wide. I'm with the folk who talk about Waghorn as being a goal creator rather than taker.

[TheBluebells 6,898]

4 hours ago, FlippinEck said:

Id take that. Think Toral might finally be ready.

He's definitely been getting better after a shaky start.

Can see Pedro starting Waghorn though although I don't know what he's been showing to management the past few months to deserve it.

[thebluedoo 2,652]

I don't think he will deviate much from his last 2 games, personally I would like him to spring a bit of a surprise and go with a 3 5 2 

                      Foderingham

              Wilson       Hill      Bates

Tav        Toral       Holt    Hyndman     Beerman

                  Waghorn        Miller      

If we crowd the middle we would be able to smother Armstrong's runs from there, Tav and Beerman would also keep there full backs from bombing forward too often.

Hope to see us pull off a 2 nothing win, although any win will be welcome, come on Rangers

[kyleh1872 87]

Think when it comes down to it, this game is all about basics, and doing the basics perfectly. We know that their strenghts are in going forward, we have to defend as a team. Be difficult to break down and frustrate them. And be clinical in going forward, and get forward in numbers. i think he should stick with the same line up against partick, with maybe the exception of hill for bates, but at this stage i think the young lad deserves a crack in this game. We need as few complications as possible and to focus on a professional performance. Pedro should look at the tape from last year, we started so well and put them on the back foot straight away, get in their face, let them have the ball in their own half. Bodies behind the ball and then hunt in packs as soon as they cross the half way line, win it and break. got the butterflies in the stomach already hope we do well, but it will be very fine margins i reckon.

[RWB72 1,524]

"Andy Walker predicts Moussa Dembele will start for Celtic against Glasgow Rangers"

fucking hell the guys a psychic 

[DrFunke 401]

been saying all season, if we stop sinclair and dembele... the rest of the teams bang average

[RFCRobertson 11,777]

13 minutes ago, DrFunke said:

been saying all season, if we stop sinclair and dembele... the rest of the teams bang average

Case and point, the last old firm at the peadodome. 

[giffnockger 4,840]

14 minutes ago, RFCRobertson said:

Case and point, the last old firm at the peadodome. 

Hope we fuckin destroy them 

[Copland bear 7,966]

4 hours ago, Chineseboy said:

Is this being shown on sky. Trying to find somewhere to watch it over here, but if it's not on sky I could be fucked?

It's on sky 

[Ryju84 3,170]

1 hour ago, DrFunke said:

been saying all season, if we stop sinclair and dembele... the rest of the teams bang average

Hill done a good job last time - which is why I'm hoping he starts

[cr3_bear 14,830]

We have to go out there and want it more on Sunday and do something about it  . They will claim they want a treble and how historic it will be etc etc but these players of ours should match or better  that hunger and need to realise that we as a support and a club need a trophy to begin the process of putting these 5 horrid years in the past where they belong. 

[TheBluebells 6,898]

4 minutes ago, cr3_bear said:

We have to go out there and want it more on Sunday and do something about it  . They will claim they want a treble and how historic it will be etc etc but these players of ours should match or better  that hunger and need to realise that we as a support and a club need a trophy to begin the process of putting these 5 horrid years in the past where they belong. 

We showed at their dump we can more than match them and considering there's a potential trophy at stake they should be fired up for that aswell.

The fans will have the fight and hunger, it's up to the players to have the same.

[Zulu 981]

On 18/04/2017 at 4:13 PM, WeirFleckNRothen said:

Waghorn is bang out of form, big time, but I'd have him in-front of Garner any day of the week.

Neither's form is defendable, but I genuinely believe that on their day, Waghorn is one of the most able players in our squad. It might not be saying much, but there's a player in there who can do a job for Glasgow Rangers.

Garner, on the other hand, as mentioned, will pick-up a yellow card early on as a result of aggressively wrestling with someone's ankles. He'll then swagger around, bumping into people off the ball.

Just like the leggoeater

[RFCRobertson 11,777]

1 hour ago, TheBluebells said:

We showed at their dump we can more than match them and considering there's a potential trophy at stake they should be fired up for that aswell.

The fans will have the fight and hunger, it's up to the players to have the same.

And the two clearest chances of the game did fall to us, we were unlucky not to have scored. but that's sums us up for the past wee while, unlucky.

I really fancy us this weekend 

[ForeverAndEver 71,450]

13 minutes ago, RFCRobertson said:

And the two clearest chances of the game did fall to us, we were unlucky not to have scored. but that's sums us up for the past wee while, unlucky.

I really fancy us this weekend 

We weren't unlucky not too score, it's just Waghorn.