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Agree with everything bar the ‘clearcut’ bit but hey, the positive is he didn’t get done and now has carte blanche to do it again ?

He's no' really. He lifted his leg once. That freed himself from any hinderance then raked the player down his side. Doesn't really matter now as he's not been done but for me that is a red card every time. If it was the other way round we would all be screaming for a red, and justifiably so ?

Whit? Not complaining with the decision but that's as clear a sending off offence as you are likely to see this season. You don't need to be staring at someone to deliberately rake your studs down their ribs. Just goes to show you how incompetent the officials and SFA are, that they can't agree that that is a retrospective red card, because it is! I suspect Gerrard calling out recent refereeing decisions has altered their (public) views on this one. Can't think of any other conceivable reason as to how they have let him off with it to be honest.

By the way, if this isn't your first language, i applaud your embracing of the local vernacular ?

RM is quite special. Never in a million years could i have predicated that my half arsed thread/appraisal of 13 Rangers midfielders would lead to a bun fight over the merits of the word 'unfactual'.

That was me, ya fanny ?

Cheers. Well that killed some time, eh?

If words only exist if they are listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, can you explain how they enter an average of 1,000 new words year on year? These words must have a life out with their acceptance by OED, surely?

It is. When i googled 'unfactual' it came up with loads of sites which means it is in circulation. On the other hand, when i googled 'plodfars' fuck all came up. I also googled the information below.....which is non-unfactually correct ? 'Most general English dictionaries are designed to include only those words that meet certain criteria of usage across wide areas and over extended periods of time As a result, they may omit words that are still in the process of becoming established, those that are too highly specialised, or those that are so informal that they are rarely documented in professionally edited writing. The words left out are as real as those that gain entry; the former simply haven't met the criteria for dictionary entry – at least not yet (newer ones may ultimately gain admission to the dictionary's pages if they gain sufficient use). However, in preparing your own writings, it is worth remembering that the dictionary encompasses the most widely used terms in English. Words that are left out may have usage limited to specific, isolated, or informal contexts, so they should be used carefully.' If ever there was a place where certain words 'may have usage limited to specific, isolated, or informal contexts' then it is RangersMedia ?

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Oh, it is....it is an adjective of 'unfact' https://www.dictionary.com/browse/unfactual https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unfacthttps://law.academic.ru/62577/unfactual https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/unfactual Seems there are a few reference points that confirm the word exists, and before you bang on about the Oxford English Dictionary, the word 'emoji' never appeared in that for a while, doesn't mean it didn't exist beforehand. ?????

I believe that statement to be unfactual ?

I never once said they’d be 10% slower. Not once. I do know what is 10% slower though. You! Away and read up on Viper Pods. You never know, the penny might drop.

You’re not doing yourself any favours. http://www.yourdictionary.com/unfactual

Are you really this thick or just at it?

I don’t think you have to be an expert in anything to understand the basics principles of a GPS tracker. My seven year old knows how GPS works because he read about it once in the Peppa Pig book where Daddy Pig gets lost when going on a campervan holiday. It’s not fucking complicated. Also, I never said they were off by 10%. I said IF they were off by 10%, It was by way of an example, to help explain the concept of comparing stats. You ever wondered why middle distance runners don’t use starting blocks? Because they pace themselves. They know they cannot sprint at 10m/s for 10,000m. Thats what Rangers did. They played a game that suited the energy levels the stats had presented. The fact that it didn’t fit the narrative you had created in your head before kick off is irrelevant. The bottom line is, that team was set up to play with their energy reserves in the forefront of the mangement teams’ mind. Soak up wave after wave of attacks. Let the opposing team run the themselves ragged, then when they are knackered and the playing field is more level, come out and have a go. Just didn’t go to plan. That’s all.

He might have been rank rotten but he was still a stand out for us in the first half. That in itself tells you how far off it we were on Sunday.

Don't think you've fully grasped what 'tired' means in this particular context. It means they couldn't press for 60mins, otherwise they would have. You don't yell 'get it into your heads NOW' on the training ground then suddenly decide 'actually, see those drills and instructions that i've drummed into you these past 3 months, forget all that against our biggest rivals, i think we should take it easy for a change and not show them what we are capable of!' How do i know that couldnt press? Because they all wear these black bra type things. https://www.playertek.com/gb/playertek/ Even a half wit can look at the resulting graphics these things throw up instantly arrive at the conclusion 'yep, he's burst'. Saying 'they should have stuck Candeais on' isn't a great argument. He was an ever present in the absolute horsings last season.

Maybe this will help the hard of thinking.... https://www.playertek.com/gb/playertek/ It's the diddy version of the vest but the web site explains in pictures ?

That doesn't make any sense. Lafferty was probably our most effective and liveliest player in the first half. Put himself about a bit and pressed as best he could. Also, seemed to be playing mostly on the left. Candeias is a right sided midfielder. Also, Lafferty was on so that we had an aerial presence in the box so that when we did break and whipped in a ball we had someone there. It just so happened that the full backs never really got high enough up the park to whip in balls.

It would have made absolutely fuck all difference, unless of course we wanted pumped even more so. It has got bugger all to do with thinking they were good. The Rangers players were knackered. Simple as. I'm utterly astonished so many on here cant see this. You can't press the high line if you haven't got the energy, and if you do, you cant get back to defend where it matters. This is probably the third time i've mentioned this today. All the players wear GPS in training and during games. It gives feedback on all aspects of performance. Gerrard and his management team will have been entirely aware how knackered these guys were. All they have to do is review their performance stats. If a group of players are averaging 10% less than usual in terms of speed and distance covered why the fuck would you say 'right lads, i know you are absolutley fucked but i want you to chase every single ball down, we're playing a high line today!' Madness.... EDIT: Middleton has still to prove himself. A wee 10 min cameo against a few Eastern European full backs when they're shagged out does not justify an automatic start IMO.

Spot on Murzo.

you disagreeing with my suggestion or disgusted by the fact that it might be the case?

So would most, if not all of us but it clearly was a game too far for them. For that reason I think tactics were a secondary issue yesterday. Gerrard might well have got it wrong but i suspect we would have been beaten no more matter how we approached that match.

A couple of other relevant stats relating to yesterdays game .... celtic v Rangers (2nd Sept 2018) Distance Travelled to and from Thursday's Europe Qualifier (in miles) 0 - 6055 Total time in flight to and from Ufa (in hours and excluding transfers, passport control etc) 0 - 13.8 Men on Pitch at Full Time in Thursday's Europe qualifying games 11 - 9 Recovery time (in hours) 52 - 52 No. of games under current manager 133 - 13 No. fans attending Old firm game 60,032 - 800 Number of domestic trophies won in last 24 months 6 - 0 and finally.... Goals Scored on 2nd Sept 2018 1 - 0..... as frustrating as it was, it doesn't seem that bad on reflection, does it? External factors must be taken into account when analysing Sunday's performance. If you don't then you have absolutely no sense of perspective* regarding the result. Nobody would expect Mo Farrah to beat his biggest rival if he was wearing a pair of Adidas Kick and pyjama bottoms so why on earth would we expect a Rangers team to perform at its very best against celtic given the above? Because we desperately wanted them to do so, thats why. As an aside, anyone know anyone who travelled from Glasgow to Ufa for the game? Bet they were absolutely fucked when they got home after all the travelling involved. * a sensible way of judging and comparing situations so that you do not imagine that something is more serious than it really is