Bakbear

Don’t think Lammers had a good game by any stretch but get the feeling he will be similar to Hagi in that he tries a lot of high risk flicks and tight passes, when they don’t come off they look awful but one or two coming off might be the difference in some tight games.

Midfield looked better balanced and thought Cifuentes looks the real deal, passing infront of players was refreshing to see although will probably be drummed out of him soon enough…
 
Fullbacks are becoming a real worry seeing as we seem to be setting up with them as providing all the width. Tav just looks off it. To be fair to him Borna had a good game (thought he faded as the second half went on) but can’t afford to be having someone capable of just totally going off the boil under the way we are set up. Also need both full backs to be far more willing to come inside / drive to the byline and vary the attack rather than just hug the touchlines and swing in early crosses.
 
Bit worried by our lack of pace up top and there were some moments of indecision from Dessers and Danilo, hopefully that’s just a settling issue.

Interesting to see the massive split in opinions on where folk think we’re at.
 Personally think we’re rotten and hopefully miles off with that.  Thing is with this league there is very very little time for us to be able to gel, league would be over in no time.

Some positives to be taken tonight from individual performances. Thought Borna looked a lot better and Souttar and Goldson have got the making for a good partnership. Lammers and a cameo from Cifuentes looks promising aswell, its the tactics I'm more worried about.

Need to get this out and here is as good as anywhere. 
 
The state of the squad is fucking embarrassing. 
 
Players that don’t want to be here like Morelos, Kamara, Kent 
Players that can’t get or stay fit, the likes of Jack, Helander and Souttar
Guys with a loser mentality like Lundstram, Goldson and Tav. 
Guys who have spine and ability but they are just finished like Arfield Davis and McGregor 
then just non-footballers like Sakala, Matondo, Davies and Wright. 
We have Raskin and Cantwell who I would keep going forward. And they only just got here. 
 
Beale would need to be the worlds greatest magician to sort that mess out not just the worlds greatest manager. 

Need to get this out and here is as good as anywhere. 
 
The state of the squad is fucking embarrassing. 
 
Players that don’t want to be here like Morelos, Kamara, Kent 
Players that can’t get or stay fit, the likes of Jack, Helander and Souttar
Guys with a loser mentality like Lundstram, Goldson and Tav. 
Guys who have spine and ability but they are just finished like Arfield Davis and McGregor 
then just non-footballers like Sakala, Matondo, Davies and Wright. 
We have Raskin and Cantwell who I would keep going forward. And they only just got here. 
 
Beale would need to be the worlds greatest magician to sort that mess out not just the worlds greatest manager. 

He struggles to sense damger and react positively.
They score a fluke, they were energised, that was the time to change (arguably could have done so at half time). But no change until they get the 2nd. Then he leaves Lundstram on who only ever slows our play down.
Arfield ready for 20 mins to get on but deemed not necessary.
Beale picked the right team imo but that's all he got right today.

Looking back we really mismanaged our player values. We should have been looking to cash in on Kamara, Morelos and Kent when they were at their peak.
 
Easy saying in hindsight but we have a player trading model and we should be sticking to it.
 
As it is those 3 players who perhaps had a combined value of over 40 million are going to all walk away for nothing and turn in average performances while waiting to do it 

Looking back we really mismanaged our player values. We should have been looking to cash in on Kamara, Morelos and Kent when they were at their peak.
 
Easy saying in hindsight but we have a player trading model and we should be sticking to it.
 
As it is those 3 players who perhaps had a combined value of over 40 million are going to all walk away for nothing and turn in average performances while waiting to do it 

Looking back we really mismanaged our player values. We should have been looking to cash in on Kamara, Morelos and Kent when they were at their peak.
 
Easy saying in hindsight but we have a player trading model and we should be sticking to it.
 
As it is those 3 players who perhaps had a combined value of over 40 million are going to all walk away for nothing and turn in average performances while waiting to do it 

Looking back we really mismanaged our player values. We should have been looking to cash in on Kamara, Morelos and Kent when they were at their peak.
 
Easy saying in hindsight but we have a player trading model and we should be sticking to it.
 
As it is those 3 players who perhaps had a combined value of over 40 million are going to all walk away for nothing and turn in average performances while waiting to do it 

Looking back we really mismanaged our player values. We should have been looking to cash in on Kamara, Morelos and Kent when they were at their peak.
 
Easy saying in hindsight but we have a player trading model and we should be sticking to it.
 
As it is those 3 players who perhaps had a combined value of over 40 million are going to all walk away for nothing and turn in average performances while waiting to do it 

Kamara is gone. He shouldn’t be anywhere near the team. He is not signing a contract and is not trying a leg. He downed tools as soon as Gerrard left and slid further backwards when we sold Aribo and Bassey. He is an imposter. 
 
I can’t figure Lundstram out at all. He has the ability to be a good player but it’s like he is towing a fucking caravan. He is miles off the pace and it was him that looked the biggest problem today. He was nowhere near any of the other mobs players the whole game. He gave them way too much room. Game just past him by and it was instantly obvious. I couldn’t believe he came out the tunnel for the second half. 
 
Raskin should be the first name on the team sheet for the midfield. Until he does something to deserve being dropped. 
 
Beale totally fucked it today and I only hope he learns fast

Not even read what’s been said but you’re 100% right! He’s fucking embarrassed himself today! Was evident 10 minutes in that Lundstram wasn’t in it! Prior to that, how he thought Kamara ahead of Raskin was an option is beyond me! And to sit on his hands at half time and wait for a second when we could barely got out our own half was criminal! 

He was our best player when he came on 😆 

Lundstram was absolutely shocking. Looks like a cunt playing in a legends game. 

It was Alex Ferguson that started it. His documentary on Amazon talks about how he was so driven to beat Rangers. He was bitter at the way he felt treated by the club and was absolutely determined to beat us. 

Made his team hate Rangers, the fans followed and it’s just snowballed since then. They absolutely hate us. Fuck them. 

Correct. I don’t believe this scenario has ever  happened before. Partick intended on returning possession to us because that’s the sporting thing to do. They just didn’t want the possession to be returned to us on our terms. They wanted it returned on their terms. I.e back to our Goalkeeper. 
 
I am glad now that Beale did it. Wasn’t sure at all during the game. I hope it never happens again because I genuinely don’t think we should repeat the gesture. Especially if it’s a harder opponent in a more important game. 
 
can you imagine that exact scenarios happened against the Scum at the peadodome in a game that would see us go top? 
 
Thinks we should chalk this up as a freakish occurrence and never speak of it again

I have tried typing this out already but let me see if this makes sense. 
 
i have seen this in football when the team that is expected to give the ball back, doesn’t and instead goes up the pitch and scores. 
 
in this case Patrick were expected to give the ball back but instead Tillman wins it back fair and square and then scores from the possession that he won instead of was given. 
I repeat. I have never seen that scenario in all my years of watching football. Tillman did fuck all wrong and to put it in the terms of him winning the ball instead of letting them give it to us in an unfavourable area of the pitch it’s a really hard one. 
Beale made a ballsy call which is perhaps significantly easier given that we would expect to beat Patrick but I hope the same scenario never comes up again because I wouldn’t want to see that call in an Old Firm game. 
 

Never seen anything like that in all my years of watching football. 
 
Tillman did fuck all wrong either by the book or morally. 
 
For us to let them square it up is beyond sportsmanship and if it had been against a team in our own league or even if it had led to a loss then Beale would be slaughtered. 
As it is, he should be lauded for fairness beyond the call of duty and it will stick in the throat of our detractors. 
 
Ballsy move and I would hope it never happens again

Never seen anything like that in all my years of watching football. 
 
Tillman did fuck all wrong either by the book or morally. 
 
For us to let them square it up is beyond sportsmanship and if it had been against a team in our own league or even if it had led to a loss then Beale would be slaughtered. 
As it is, he should be lauded for fairness beyond the call of duty and it will stick in the throat of our detractors. 
 
Ballsy move and I would hope it never happens again

VAR is a bit sacrilegious to the game in my mind but the fact is, our standard of refereeing is so fucking bad that VAR is preferable. The worst part of VAR is when you score a goal and celebrate like fuck only to have a VAR check which dampens the celebration and if its chopped off then its gone and if it doesn't its just relief rather than euphoria 
But the upside is that there are far more decisions getting called correctly than there was before. Ref's have far fewer places to hide now. It was easy just to pass things off as "just how I saw it".
The outrage from that bunch of fucking cheating cunts is sourced in the absolute exposure of how the poor refereeing has, for so long, favoured the safe decision. The safe decision being "call in favour of the scum and against big bad Rangers" because they know that if they do the opposite then there is a good chance they will get their windows panned in. 
Inevitably the Referees will still make mistakes and they will still see things differently, that's the human condition, but it will be far less frequent and so it is proving. The faux outrage over a pedestrian win over St Johnstone demonstrates the real motivation behind their whining about VAR.... always cheated never defeated
Ambulance Chaser FC. 
 

VAR is a bit sacrilegious to the game in my mind but the fact is, our standard of refereeing is so fucking bad that VAR is preferable. The worst part of VAR is when you score a goal and celebrate like fuck only to have a VAR check which dampens the celebration and if its chopped off then its gone and if it doesn't its just relief rather than euphoria 
But the upside is that there are far more decisions getting called correctly than there was before. Ref's have far fewer places to hide now. It was easy just to pass things off as "just how I saw it".
The outrage from that bunch of fucking cheating cunts is sourced in the absolute exposure of how the poor refereeing has, for so long, favoured the safe decision. The safe decision being "call in favour of the scum and against big bad Rangers" because they know that if they do the opposite then there is a good chance they will get their windows panned in. 
Inevitably the Referees will still make mistakes and they will still see things differently, that's the human condition, but it will be far less frequent and so it is proving. The faux outrage over a pedestrian win over St Johnstone demonstrates the real motivation behind their whining about VAR.... always cheated never defeated
Ambulance Chaser FC. 
 

I bought ExpressVPN a few years ago and used it to access a few restricted region services. When I was living in the Middle East I could get US or European access to Netflix, Disney+, Apple and Amazon. Now that I am back in Scotland I use it to access my RTV annual subscription which I have had for the last 8 years or so. You get pretty much every game home and away and the only difficulty I had was Champions League and Europa League. 
The Annual subscription also gives you all the full length exclusive interviews which is nice 

Tillman is a phenomenal prospect for us. For all the stick he got earlier in the season he’s miles ahead of the curve when it comes to the physically, gritty side of the game here for a 20 year old foreign playmaker. 
Get him signed, will be a total joke at our level by 23.

VAR is a bit sacrilegious to the game in my mind but the fact is, our standard of refereeing is so fucking bad that VAR is preferable. The worst part of VAR is when you score a goal and celebrate like fuck only to have a VAR check which dampens the celebration and if its chopped off then its gone and if it doesn't its just relief rather than euphoria 
But the upside is that there are far more decisions getting called correctly than there was before. Ref's have far fewer places to hide now. It was easy just to pass things off as "just how I saw it".
The outrage from that bunch of fucking cheating cunts is sourced in the absolute exposure of how the poor refereeing has, for so long, favoured the safe decision. The safe decision being "call in favour of the scum and against big bad Rangers" because they know that if they do the opposite then there is a good chance they will get their windows panned in. 
Inevitably the Referees will still make mistakes and they will still see things differently, that's the human condition, but it will be far less frequent and so it is proving. The faux outrage over a pedestrian win over St Johnstone demonstrates the real motivation behind their whining about VAR.... always cheated never defeated
Ambulance Chaser FC.