TheGypsyKing

Strong reserves team out against Falkirk. Started with: Alexander, Broadfoot, Kinniburgh, Wilson, Smith, Beasley, Edu, Fleck, Naismith, Novo, Little. In the second half Naisy, Edu and Novo made way for Hutton, Stirling and Wylde. then Broadfoot, Beasley and Naisy made way for Bemdiksen, McCabe and Hemmings

http://www.rangers.co.uk/articles/20100216/beasley-on-target_2254024_1967825 Lost 1-2 to Killie. Strong Killie team out. Good to see some of the youngsters getting a run-out too.

That really is a terrible article. "The thought that we should have our food dissed by two Americans is like a human rights lecture from holocaust-denying Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmajinedad." Slight over-reaction, no? Also what had the selling diamonds bit got to do with slagging off Haggis? Nothing. Except it showed the real purpose behind the article - to slag off Rangers players

4-5-1 ............McGregor ...Broadfoot Weir Wilson Papac Little Davis McCulloch Edu Whittaker ...............Fleck We'll be fine

The objection is not that Walter appears to be switching Little's position, the problem is that Walter is still dithering about it and won't test Little when it is appropriate to do so, like last night for example. How is he going to make his mind up if he doesn't test him?

Hutton started as a centre forward mate As for the hideous over reaction here, which, appears little more than another excuse to have a dig at Smith! The player himself states So, HE doesnt know, Smith has a feeling where he may be best suited. Wheres the fucking problem???? Little has said before that he thinks of himself as a striker but it's pretty clear he just wants to play for us and will do whatever it takes. Walter obviously thinks he's got talent but since we have too many strikers as it is, he's tried to turn him into a full back. I don't think it's a case of "finding out his best position", more a case of "can he be better than our existing defenders even though he's really a striker". You can hardly blame the kid for going along with it - he would get pelters for saying "if I'm not playing striker I'm not playing at all". As a NI bear, I reckon Little is twice the striker Lafferty is - Little just suffers from not having made a big money move and therefore Walter does not feel the need to justify the investment in him.

He wasn't injured straight from kick off cause if he'd had been, he would have been down not been able to move with a torn hamstring... Not coming off nearly 15minutes later. He still was running and it wasn't til just before the first goal he really pulled up and couldn't barely do anything, so we switched things around to compensate after the goal. If he was still was able to move like he was from the start he would have stayed on cause it was just a twinge then. I'm not judging his performance in 14minutes that would be harsh, he was unlucky and i've said we've all seen him before this game and we will see more of him in the future. I'm just saying it's understandable he wasn't at the races and was nervous playing at RB, before he really got injured that's all. If you don't agree then fair do's, but as i said earlier we will just have to agree to disagree. Of course we can agree to disagree, but it means you're effectively accusing Little of lying. You say "he wasn't injured straight from the kick off" but Little says he was. I don't think Little is lying because I saw him grimace and hold his hammy within seconds of the kick off. Maybe you didn't see that and fair enough. Also, you say if he had really pulled his hamstring "he would have been down not able to move". I disagree because you can still run on a pulled hammy, especially when you have the adrenalin of an OF game pumping (I imagine!). You just don't have any power in the muscle and can't sprint, which Little clearly didn't right from the kick off. Little was still running (gingerly) at 15 minutes, even after the time you accept he was injured. The fact he tried to play through the pain for the whole 15 minutes probably resulted in him now being out for so long. This seems to be going one extreme to another, i'm not accusing Little of lying or slating his performance in 14 minutes on the field. If it's really bad he wouldn't have been able to move as freely as he was doing before the goal, and have went down if it had pinged not twinged (and that's the difference here) straight from kick off. I know first hand how it feels and it ain't something you can just shake off and as you say he was still running. Him staying on so long after we scored would have done him more damage, and no doubt lengthen his time on the side lines. But luckily for us we put him upfront to take some pressure off from us as a team becoming exposed. So you believe him when he says he was injured from the first seconds after kick off? They are a big difference between being injured and having a twinge, and Little wasn't injured straight from Kick off. He became injured later on as i've said so many times. Little said ""Zheng Zhi came across and I sprinted to head it and felt a really bad spasm in my hamstring." At the time that happened I saw Little grimace and hold his hamstring. After that he could only run at about half to three-quarter pace. In my book that counts as "injured" and if he had had a fitness test in that condition he would have failed and they would have said he was "injured". You can make a distinction between a 'ping' and a 'twinge' and of course there are varying degrees of muscle trauma, but that kid was "injured" from the first few seconds. But you just say "he wasn't at the races" and was "nervous" and only later got injured. You're entitled to your opinion but I don't think it's supported by the facts.

He wasn't injured straight from kick off cause if he'd had been, he would have been down not been able to move with a torn hamstring... Not coming off nearly 15minutes later. He still was running and it wasn't til just before the first goal he really pulled up and couldn't barely do anything, so we switched things around to compensate after the goal. If he was still was able to move like he was from the start he would have stayed on cause it was just a twinge then. I'm not judging his performance in 14minutes that would be harsh, he was unlucky and i've said we've all seen him before this game and we will see more of him in the future. I'm just saying it's understandable he wasn't at the races and was nervous playing at RB, before he really got injured that's all. If you don't agree then fair do's, but as i said earlier we will just have to agree to disagree. Of course we can agree to disagree, but it means you're effectively accusing Little of lying. You say "he wasn't injured straight from the kick off" but Little says he was. I don't think Little is lying because I saw him grimace and hold his hammy within seconds of the kick off. Maybe you didn't see that and fair enough. Also, you say if he had really pulled his hamstring "he would have been down not able to move". I disagree because you can still run on a pulled hammy, especially when you have the adrenalin of an OF game pumping (I imagine!). You just don't have any power in the muscle and can't sprint, which Little clearly didn't right from the kick off. Little was still running (gingerly) at 15 minutes, even after the time you accept he was injured. The fact he tried to play through the pain for the whole 15 minutes probably resulted in him now being out for so long. This seems to be going one extreme to another, i'm not accusing Little of lying or slating his performance in 14 minutes on the field. If it's really bad he wouldn't have been able to move as freely as he was doing before the goal, and have went down if it had pinged not twinged (and that's the difference here) straight from kick off. I know first hand how it feels and it ain't something you can just shake off and as you say he was still running. Him staying on so long after we scored would have done him more damage, and no doubt lengthen his time on the side lines. But luckily for us we put him upfront to take some pressure off from us as a team becoming exposed. So you believe him when he says he was injured from the first seconds after kick off?

He wasn't injured straight from kick off cause if he'd had been, he would have been down not been able to move with a torn hamstring... Not coming off nearly 15minutes later. He still was running and it wasn't til just before the first goal he really pulled up and couldn't barely do anything, so we switched things around to compensate after the goal. If he was still was able to move like he was from the start he would have stayed on cause it was just a twinge then. I'm not judging his performance in 14minutes that would be harsh, he was unlucky and i've said we've all seen him before this game and we will see more of him in the future. I'm just saying it's understandable he wasn't at the races and was nervous playing at RB, before he really got injured that's all. If you don't agree then fair do's, but as i said earlier we will just have to agree to disagree. Of course we can agree to disagree, but it means you're effectively accusing Little of lying. You say "he wasn't injured straight from the kick off" but Little says he was. I don't think Little is lying because I saw him grimace and hold his hammy within seconds of the kick off. Maybe you didn't see that and fair enough. Also, you say if he had really pulled his hamstring "he would have been down not able to move". I disagree because you can still run on a pulled hammy, especially when you have the adrenalin of an OF game pumping (I imagine!). You just don't have any power in the muscle and can't sprint, which Little clearly didn't right from the kick off. Little was still running (gingerly) at 15 minutes, even after the time you accept he was injured. The fact he tried to play through the pain for the whole 15 minutes probably resulted in him now being out for so long.

Both us acknowledge he was injured. It's when he was injured we don't seem to agree with. We've all seen him play for us and NI in the past to put this unlucky Oldfirm debut behind him, and going with Walter statement he should get more minutes on the park to make a name for himself. I don't want to seem arrogant about it but it's pretty clear he was injured in the first few seconds. See here, for example: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/t...ers/8293894.stm The only reason (it seems, at least, correct me if I'm wrong) that you think the injury happened later is because that's when the team was eventually shuffled round. It wouldn't matter except it means you're judging his performance unfairly.

I'm not sure about that. Another way to think about it is that Little played RB because Smith didn't want to a) play Rothen, or b) have Stevie Smith at LB. Or both. I agree with that - WS must have thought Little would add something, possibly going forward. He could have started with the team he had when Little had to go off. I don't know why Smith didn't give him more match time as a sub in the less crucial games before the OF though!

Bit unfair, if he hadn't picked up that injury so early in the match, he would have probably played the whole of the Old Firm game. The way he started if he didn't pull up he would have been hooked by HT, but that ain't his fault after been flung in at RB. Andrew Little is like a lot of our reserves he'll get on for a token 5-10 minutes from the bench, can't see him ever outing anybody in our 1st team or becoming a permanent fixture if everybody is fit. He was playing with a torn hamstring from the kick-off, which explains 'the way he was playing'. He wasn't playing with a torn hamstring from the kick off, he pulled up 5 minutes into the game. That's how he ended upfront for a while til me made a sub. No. He pulled his hammy right from the kick off. Celtic immediately played a diagonal ball over to Zhi and Little sprinted over to head it out. After he did so he grabbed his hammy and couldn't run properly from then on. That was literally about 5 seconds into the match and he played at right back for some time after that before being moved up front. He pulled up just before we scored the 1st goal, cause after the goal Walter put him up front to get him out the road and Miller went LM and Smith went back to LB and Whittaker went RB. Until we could get Novo ready to come on which seemed like a eternity in Ibrox to come on. That may have been how it seemed to you but it's not how it happened. The man himself said in interviews it was right from the kick-off and I was at Ibrox and v close to him when it happened - I saw him look concerned and grab the back of his leg. It took a while for the news to get to the bench and for them to get a chance to shuffle the players around. Mate i was at game myself from a v good seat, i seen him struggling first hand from the stands and was glad when he come off. We'll just need to agree to disagree on this one I'm not disagreeing with you that he was struggling but the reason was because he was playing with a pulled hamstring. He's usually very quick but he had no pace at all and there was clearly something wrong. It must be very frustrating for him that people think he wasn't good enough and ignoring the circumstances.

Bit unfair, if he hadn't picked up that injury so early in the match, he would have probably played the whole of the Old Firm game. The way he started if he didn't pull up he would have been hooked by HT, but that ain't his fault after been flung in at RB. Andrew Little is like a lot of our reserves he'll get on for a token 5-10 minutes from the bench, can't see him ever outing anybody in our 1st team or becoming a permanent fixture if everybody is fit. He was playing with a torn hamstring from the kick-off, which explains 'the way he was playing'. He wasn't playing with a torn hamstring from the kick off, he pulled up 5 minutes into the game. That's how he ended upfront for a while til me made a sub. No. He pulled his hammy right from the kick off. Celtic immediately played a diagonal ball over to Zhi and Little sprinted over to head it out. After he did so he grabbed his hammy and couldn't run properly from then on. That was literally about 5 seconds into the match and he played at right back for some time after that before being moved up front. He pulled up just before we scored the 1st goal, cause after the goal Walter put him up front to get him out the road and Miller went LM and Smith went back to LB and Whittaker went RB. Until we could get Novo ready to come on which seemed like a eternity in Ibrox to come on. That may have been how it seemed to you but it's not how it happened. The man himself said in interviews it was right from the kick-off and I was at Ibrox and v close to him when it happened - I saw him look concerned and grab the back of his leg. It took a while for the news to get to the bench and for them to get a chance to shuffle the players around.

Bit unfair, if he hadn't picked up that injury so early in the match, he would have probably played the whole of the Old Firm game. The way he started if he didn't pull up he would have been hooked by HT, but that ain't his fault after been flung in at RB. Andrew Little is like a lot of our reserves he'll get on for a token 5-10 minutes from the bench, can't see him ever outing anybody in our 1st team or becoming a permanent fixture if everybody is fit. He was playing with a torn hamstring from the kick-off, which explains 'the way he was playing'. He wasn't playing with a torn hamstring from the kick off, he pulled up 5 minutes into the game. That's how he ended upfront for a while til me made a sub. No. He pulled his hammy right from the kick off. Celtic immediately played a diagonal ball over to Zhi and Little sprinted over to head it out. After he did so he grabbed his hammy and couldn't run properly from then on. That was literally about 5 seconds into the match and he played at right back for some time after that before being moved up front.

Bit unfair, if he hadn't picked up that injury so early in the match, he would have probably played the whole of the Old Firm game. The way he started if he didn't pull up he would have been hooked by HT, but that ain't his fault after been flung in at RB. Andrew Little is like a lot of our reserves he'll get on for a token 5-10 minutes from the bench, can't see him ever outing anybody in our 1st team or becoming a permanent fixture if everybody is fit. He was playing with a torn hamstring from the kick-off, which explains 'the way he started'.