bluenose48

Too many tippy tappy passes. Possession football is great as long as it has an end product. We had nothing going forward.

No complaints, Alfie needs to grow up and quickly. Anybody who thinks he didn't try and rake McKennas leg and followed through on his groin is blind or so one eyed to be an embarrasment. They were at it from the off and Alfie fell for it again, how many times did he barge into players when the ball is nowhere near them. A far better striker this season but really needs to grow up.

Spot on mate. We cannot afford to lose against the wee teams, home or away.

Welcome back Steven. You could be the difference we are looking for.

Fantastic post. The rumble will be heard all the way down here in Australia when it happens.

Ross is what we have been crying out for, an animal in the DM role. He played an absolute blinder.

Halliday was brilliant today. That's what it means to be a Rangers player.

Good onya Craigie boy. Alway's Rangers.

Good interview. Shows he knows the size of the job he signed up for, down to earth, honest. He was a winner as a player with a team that like ours are expected to win everything. Given the right backing he will deliver.

Merry Christmas to all the bears and their families and a Happy and Prosperous 2019. One where we really upset the fenians and win number 55.

Been said before but, if you were given the option of our season so far, back in June we would have taken it. January window could be crucial for us. I said back in Novenber we need a top quality number 10 that can dictate play and score goals. The rumour mill claims Steve Davis is a possibility, he fits that bill perfectly. He may be getting on but his experience in the EPL and his knowledge of Rangers and what is expected could be the signing we need. We also need another striker if Alfie gets injured we will really struggle.

Areed we do everything right until we get into that final third. I gets pushed out wide either left or right then back into the box to players who do not head the ball well. We need a good striker and and a good number 10 who can slide rule passes into the box.

The negativity on here at times is soul destroying. Consider where we have been over the last six years, then have a reality check on what has been achieved so far this season. We are sitting two points behind the scum and its nearly Christmas. We have just had the best run in Europe since 2008. Yet we have some on here conceding the league title to celtic, moaning about Gerrard's tactics and ability. WTF did you expect, to be ten points clear in the league, won the league cup and be a favourite to win the Europa cup. It's eary days yet in Stevie G's rein and the improvement in the team is there to see. Let's wait and see what happens in the January window and the rest of the season before we start building the scaffold.

Middleton is only a boy, give him another season and he will be a star for us.

Halliday should be LB for the Hearts game. Flanagan sprayed so many passes to Villareal players coming out of defence it was ridiculous. Yes he can put in a tackle but his distribution is abysmal. If Barisic is a bit underdone it needs to be Halliday he can tackle and his passing is good.

It was a great result as Tanneral says. Given the quality of the opposition, the sub standard match officials and down to ten men for the second half and but for 6 ft wee Glen could have stolen it.

It really comes down to the understanding that, no matter how wrong the referees decision was, you cannot publicly critisize him.

Do you need their addresses as well?

Why would anyone find it unreasonable for SG to alway's have Liverpool in his heart? He played there since he was eight, he was born there, he grew up there. He has only been in Glasgow for six months and already he gets us. He has the ability and passion to get us back to the top. The management team we have in place now including MA is top notch, all we need is the money to back them.

No , fat ,lazy useless footballer. Had his chance to show what he had before and did nothing.

Apathy is the cause of most of the Worlds problems. We allowed the bleeding hearts and the PC brigade to control what was printed then said and now they would control our thoughts if they could.

Reading all the comments on this topic is like a night at the comedy store. A new team, a new manager trying to gel in the red hot atmosphere of Ibrox and European competition. Yes some of the players are not up to the standard but we have not got the money to compete for the name players. The last time we did that got us into the shit we are in now. First loss in a european campaign, the best we have done since 2008, yet its all doom and gloom. Sack the manager and get who? Sack half the team and replace them with who? Money is the common factor and we don't have any. We may if we qualify for the knockout phase of the euro cup get the best cash injection we have had for 10 years. We are third in the league with a game in hand five points off the lead, four behind the scum not really that bad. Yes we have had some bad results and some players are not up to standard such as Sadiq and Flanagan but we are in better shape than we have been for years.

Lennon deliberately winds opposition fans up, he has done it to us more than once. But to assault him in any form only gets him the publicity and sympathy he craves. The guy is a moron, but he continually plays the victim card and the moron who threw the coin at him deserves everything that's coming to him.

So many on here saying the domestic comps are more important than Europe, why? If we make it to the knockout stage it gives us money to spend in the January window, regardless of the loss posted. Gerrard was signed for four years and at least deserves two before the noose comes out. IMO we need a quality number 10, we don't have one at present that can unlock stacked defences as per Moscow, Aberdeen and killie. Other teams in the spfl have improved this year not just us and they set up to frustrate us because of our style of passing and movement then hit us on the counter. I think from his comments SG agrees we don't have the quality in the final third, we are predictable, knock it around then get it out wide and either try to cross it in or play our way into the box. Too easy to defend against, We need players who can mix it up, shoot from outside the 18 yard box with accuracy or go through the middle and shoot.

The negative pish on here is unbelievable. Yep we could have beaten them and no we didn't play as well as we should have. But cast your minds back to when Gerard was appointed all the doom and gloom merchants were in full flight. They were here again when the Europa cup qualifiers started but we managed to get through that. Then when the draw was made for the groups even more wailing and gnashing of teeth. Now here we are three games in, three to go sitting on top of the group and they're at it again. Even if we don't qualify, the manager, the team, the play is so far ahead of where we have been for the last five years its like day and night. If you gave some on here a bar of gold they would complain it was too heavy to carry.