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Absolutely fucking loved that. With the week we've had and what's went on this season, already surpasses Florence/ Manchester imo. Wow. Those players, take a bow. They really suffered that 2nd half and came through. The ultimate rollercoaster season. BTW that referee was nothing short of a disgrace and we should launch a complaint regardless. That we were up against 12 men makes it all the better what's been achieved.

Absolutely fucking loved that. With the week we've had and what's went on this season, already surpasses Florence/ Manchester imo. Wow. Those players, take a bow. They really suffered that 2nd half and came through. The ultimate rollercoaster season. BTW that referee was nothing short of a disgrace and we should launch a complaint regardless. That we were up against 12 men makes it all the better what's been achieved.

Absolutely fucking loved that. With the week we've had and what's went on this season, already surpasses Florence/ Manchester imo. Wow. Those players, take a bow. They really suffered that 2nd half and came through. The ultimate rollercoaster season. BTW that referee was nothing short of a disgrace and we should launch a complaint regardless. That we were up against 12 men makes it all the better what's been achieved.

Statement from The Gaffer - 
I am devastated to learn of the sad passing of my friend and colleague, Jimmy Bell. I had a special relationship, I loved being around him, both as a player and subsequently as Manager. He was a hard working, dedicated and selfless Ranger, who epitomised everything this great club stands for. He will be sorely missed by everyone at Rangers. I send my thoughts and prayers to the Bell family at this difficult time.
GVB
 

As much part of the fabric of the club as the bricks and mortar of the stadium. Just there and ever present throughout everything. Will be so strange not seeing him. Awful news to wake up to.

Hopefully if things don’t go our way people remember that and they don’t start with all their “Gio out” and “this player, that player and every other player is shite” patter
It’s been a monumental effort from everybody at the club to get us to this stage and in reality we have no right to have even made it this far. If we don’t make it to the final, it will disappointing, but it won’t be the time or occasion to start an OTT blame game.

That's nonsense about Kamara. You could tell he was desperate to stay on after a slight niggle.
Are you telling me he has stopped trying and doesn't want a start in a Euro semi & Scottish Cup? 
I don't believe it. He is just having a poor season in comparison to last year. I can't put my finger on it but I highly doubt it is because he doesn't give a fuck.

What a shit football team, never looked like scoring against ten men without Kamara’s help.
How did we draw twice, AT HOME, to Motherwell?

I’d be looking at Aribo away to Leipzig we need somebody to hold the ball up 

Scott Wright was absolutely fine yesterday, he allowed us to stretch their defence on both sides and tire them out 
Not every single player has to contribute the same level as your absolute best players, especially not those signed from Aberdeen for fuck all
He did a job, he’s a decent enough squad player, his pace will always be handy. 
We absolutely 100% need to sign a starting RW for next season

You watch the dross they’re bringing on as subs and wonder how the fuck are this mob top of the league.
 

That felt like a real turning point, at 1-0 I really didn’t see the team showing the belief but we turned it round 
And fair play to Arfield after midweek I didn’t want to see him today but that was some finish 
As for Lundstram and big Bassey absolute heroes. Bassey I thought was poor centre back but he’s a different animal on the left 

The Portuguese team usually do well in Europe so generate more cash and outside interest. If Scotland gets a better TV deal it will be off the back of our exploites in Europe and the interest it generate from counties with big football audiences. Europe and a good run in it is where the real money is for us and should be one of our main objectives every season.

Over the past 20 odd years our record (and theirs) against the teams from that league must be equal if not better, yet the transfer fees and TV deal going about over there are astronomical compared to ours. To be fair they've a big 3/ 4 teams compared to our 2 but to me just again shows up the failure of those meant to be leading our game in how we market ourselves. I know we live in the shadow of the English Premier league but they live in the shadow of the Spanish La Liga. For some reason that seems to work to their advantage whereas it's almost used as an excuse for the pitiful amounts we receive. Just pretty depressing we seem stuck with what we've got.

Have we ever been so far ahead in a game for so long, yet it be so close to disaster at the same time? Far, far superior even before any of the sendings off. 120 minutes of stress but utterly deserved.

Have we ever been so far ahead in a game for so long, yet it be so close to disaster at the same time? Far, far superior even before any of the sendings off. 120 minutes of stress but utterly deserved.

The league is done but the season isn't. It could be over in 8 days time though unless we improve the form dramatically.
Tomorrow should be used to find an answer to how we find goals without Morelos. I don't really care what we do but tactically we need to change something with an eye on the two games following the St Mirren game. Keeping the same style of play will do us no favours, even if we win comfortably tomorrow. 

Still not sure what to make of him. I get he appeared the most committed player yesterday. Still not convinced he's what's required for the majority of our games. Was it not Ross County he was brought on and we end up sitting back and conceding? Was never enthused by his signing so was always having to do more to to win me over. He's definitely grown a bit on me but it's as if he's been our most improved player at a time where our league form has been at its worst. 

Stopped watching after they scored their 1st as the Arabs are useless.
On the how did we drop points to them question. That is completely on us and our woeful finishing against teams like that.
Every game we've dropped points , outside of that last bheast game where we simply never showed up , we've basically dominated the games but our finishing has been dreadful. We've simply put ourselves in the situation we are in and that is the galling part.

As far as I know it was the norm, looking at old squad pics there's always a crowd 

Their attitude looked fine to me yesterday. We were all over them in the second half and this after playing in Germany on a very short rest.
I get the negativity when we play bad but yesterday wasn't the case. We just didn't have any luck.
 

Tell you what based on both our performances tonight how the fuck did we allow that last old firm to happen

get at them and they crumble, every team literally in Europe has done this, we shat it and sat back, the game plan is clear to see

Awful conditions on an awful pitch with a number of players who hadn't played much recently, several of whom had never played together before. 
On that basis it was a decent job done imho.

S’morelos