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BULLISH Ally McCoist last night made his boldest prediction as Rangers boss ahead of tonight’s Old Firm crunch and roared: We WILL win. McCoist heads to Parkhead knowing defeat against Celtic will see his side slip two points behind their biggest rivals at the top of the SPL having led by 15 less than two months ago. But fear or contemplation of a negative result did not even enter the gaffer’s head as he made his startling statement on the eve of the game. McCoist said: “I do believe we will win the game, absolutely. “We have the players to win

I disagree with you on fleck. I think the lad either needs a run in the team. Which seems unlikely or he should be put out on loan in jan. Send him somewhere he is going to play everyweek. The lad need games under his belt and if played in his preffered position just off the striker i think he will come good. As for Bedoya ive not had the chance to watch him as yet. But not heard rave reports. Im with you on Mckay, get him in there tonight alongside davis. Lets get ball players in there instead thugs! Play our own game. Dont worry bout anyone else.

From what ive heard i thought hutton was off to Sheffield Utd on loan in jan? As for Dorrans i think it would be a good addition but not sure where ally would fit him in. Dunno if he would play him alongside Davis or is this an indication davis could be off to Villa??

Just spoke to a mate of mine back in the uk who works for a security company who do some work for west brom. Some Rangers reprasentatives have been there today to discuss ( Rumour around the place ) the final stages of Graham Dorrans coming on loan till the end of the season with a look to make it permament. Played well last year but has struggled with injury this year. Could be a good addition though??

Its not being negative its being realistic. Im not so worried about celtic cause there no better than us. But it seemes recently were our own worst nightmare. Maybe tonight will be different. And i hope it will be!! But if we play well and give it a good go instead of sitting back for 90mins and letting celtic play ill be happy and more positive. Its the players and managment thats negative. Get in about those fucker tonight and show them were the champions and were going to be champions again!!

Not really worried bout hooper so much, boca will sort him out. And as for the dirty greek i can see bartley put on him with his height and pace. Forrest is the only one i would be concered about. If he plays i can see him being put up against whittaker. And he would rip him a new arsehole they way he playing at the moment.

According to Sky Sports James Forrest is a doubt for tonights game with a hamstring injury. Thats good news for me cause in my view he is really the only threat that id be a little worried about running at our defence tonight.

Ill take that tonight. Agree with you guys great guy but his best days are behind him. But big lee has blue blood so we know he will always give 200% against the unwashed which is what we need tonight. Everyone has to play out of there skin. Were big underdogs tonight according to all the papers and thats the way i like it. Build the dims up for a big fall!!!!

Celtic is exactly the team we need to be playing next. A team that not going to sit back and let us try and break them down. If we contain them in midfield and hit them hard and fast there defence is shite. I could see us turning the last few weeks around if our players really want it. Celtic are no great shakes WATP

Id take 10 million for him. But i very much doubt we will even spend half of that on new players. More likely to get some loan signing in and boyd to come back on a free. But i would love to see them spend a good 7 million of it. Get Templeton and Allan in. Plus either Billy Sharpe or David Nugent And boyd on a free

I think it all comes from much deeper than the managment and players. Yes the players arent doing it on the pitch but as we all know everyone has a bad patch throughout the season. Its just all our players are having it at the same time. Doesnt make them bad players all of a sudden. Yes mccoist's tactics are negative but. We as in Rangers are no longer the force we once were. Gone are the Gascoigne's and laudrups! And the other teams in the SPL are a lot closer to us that once were. Some of those guys for st mirren were decent young players. With hunger and wanted to win. Where are our scouts looking? Cause i dont see us brining in any young talent. Other spl teams seem to be getting them. Look at your Goodwillies, your templetons and your allans. They should have been snapped up by us years ago!! Now all these guys are playing in the spl and now were all talking bout buying them. So they are obviously playing well for the teams they are at. Making an impression. So when they come up against us now there out to prove a point. They should be in our team proving a point!! Get things sorted at ground level for me. Becasue all the guys we have coming through just arent doing it. Fleck for instance. I think he hasnt been giving a proper chance and run. Get him in that team and play him in his proper position. Get wylde and hutton in that team. Get perry in there. Then you will see hunger and desire to win. I dont know about you guys but id sacrafice the league this year if these young lads were given a chance and were progressing. Because what im watching at the moment were going to lose the league and progress nowhere!!

Agree with all of the above. Our bench yesterday was shocking. Where were our attacking players, hutton, mckay etc etc etc. A team full of defenders and a bench full of defenders. Weve been negative for to long. Come on ally wake up and smell the rosies. Were all sick and tired of it now!! Were not even being defensive and winning anymore. Id rather attack and lose than watch that utter shit yesterday. Complete disgrace!! Whats happened to our great team? When we bullied teams and scared them. I cant remember ever when weve gone away to st mirren and had such a negative team and tactics. When we went down to 10 men yesterday there was no reason for him to bring edu on. He panicked!! He could have dropped lafferty back into midfield or pushed whittaker up. But no he went negative and lost us the game. Come on Ally sort it out. Id hate to see the supporters turn on you. But thats whats gonna happen unless you drop the negative tactics!!

Mine is completely different from you guys. Id change it all together cause it just not working. For me id go 3-5-1-1 with Shagger Bartley Boca Papac Davis Bendiksen Mckay Whittaker Wallace Aluko Jelavic Id have wallace and whittaker as wing backs and sit the 3 in midfield with aluko just off jelavic. Gotta try something new in my opinion. Get at celtic and pin there full backs in. And with davis, mckay and bendiksen in there you have 3 guys who can play the ball on the deck. Out pass celtic instead of kicking our way through the game for a change!!

Have we not learnt our lesson from Charlie Adam? Slated when he was with us by some and was told he was never going to be good enough! Give the kid a break. Ok james forrest on the dark side is playing out his skin but he isnt the same player as wylde. He is young and is still learning his game. Yes he isnt messi but give the lad a chance. Id hate to see us sell him and then in 2 years he's tearing the EPL apart. Stick with him!! He gives us some much lacking pace and he is direct. A player we need at the moment. He will get better!! Were to quick to jump on these kids back when its not going right. For me i think john fleck needs to be given more time. With the lack of reserve league these lads arent getting games week in week out and they do struggle when there thrown on for 10 mins here and 20 mins there. Bring back the reserves league and give these young boys half a chance.

Callum elliot?? i hope the f**k not. He is an absolute donkey!! As for jordan rhodes, i really dont see why people dont think we can sign him? Sure there are teams in the EPL that are after him but as he says he is scottish. And coming to rangers he is going to play ever week. If he goes to the premier league there is no gaurantee. Take a look at the likes of conor wickham. Went with a bigger rep from the championship and struggled. As did Jermain beckford and he's now dropped back down a level. So why not come to us for a couple of years get some experience then have a crack at the EPL?? Not every player chases the money. From what ive read and know bout the lad he has a decent head on his shoulders and his dad who i know from his days at dunfermline isnt stupid. So for me i think its realistic! As for someone else id fancy David Nugent. Cracking CF in my opinion.

Exactly what i thought. From what ive seen of him he likes to get forward but also gets back. For me thats what were missing....A box to box player. Not sure he's quite in the naismith category but he could give us something different instead of missing out the midfield as were doing at the moment.

No No No!!! alsolute shite. Templeton maybe!!

From what ive seem of him playing for the ozzies he plays centre mid and does it pretty well. Gets the ball down on the deck and knocks it around. For me i think thats what we need to do rather than hump it up to jelavic and hope we get something out of it. Dont know whats happend to davis recently, maybe to much on his shoulders but for me i think mckay can help him out in there instead of edu or big lee.

So there is no real reason why he isnt getting a game. Just that ally doesnt really fancy him in the way he sets the team up?

Agree davis is poor at the moment but i think we have to stick with him. He can make things happen

Only seen a couple of games over the last few months but the ones i have watched have been pretty poor recently. Can someone enlighten me whats going on with Matt Mckay? From the one game i saw he looked decent but then he gets dropped? Is he injured or does ally just not fancy him? For me id have him in there instead of edu and have a real go at teams

Whys everyone talking bout brining all these ex players back?? They all left cause they werent good enough or wanted away. Surely we havent gone backwards that much. Invest the money in youth and build. Novo would just be a stop gap. Love the lad but come on look to the future not the past!!

Ryan stevenson?? God no!! Not sure about maynard i think a few premiership teams are looking at him. But for me Billy sharp at Donny would be a good shout. He has showed by staying there he isnt someone chasing money. I think we could have a good chance of nicking him. Id love to see jordan rhodes at rangers. I think he is a great talent. Whether we could temp him im not sure. Again some premiership teams are sniffing around. But whats going on with our scouting system. We always seem to be the last to find out bout theses players. Im currently living in cyprus and regularly watch the cyprus league and rangers could do worse than come and have a look at some of the Apoel or omonia players. None of which are on mega money but look at Apoel in the champions league this year. They have some decent players that could be tempted away to a team like rangers!!

Boydy and jelavic could in theory be an excellent partnership. But honestly think big jela is off. Boyd and lafferty...im not to sure. But i dont think you can judge boyd on whats happened since leaving rangers. He is a penalty box striker who needs service and lets be honest. Boro and forrest are utter shite. Or were at the time boyd was there. Neither teams were supplying boyd with the service hence his lack of goals. And to expect boyd to make his own chances its just not going to happen!! And as for missing chances, its all part of the job. You cant score all the time. There will be a time when he misses a few. But 9 times outta 10 when we needed boyd he delivered. Id take him back but we need more creativity in midfield and the wings to supply him. oOr it will be boro and forrest all over again!!

For me id take him back. But i think he knows he would have to pull his finger out big time and well we all know running around is not his game!! But with boyd you need to give him service and the way were playing at the moment boyd wont work. Altough id still take him back we also need to get some more creativity into the team. For me id let Jelavic and Davis go aslong as coisty gets all the money to spend. Get down into the lower english leagues and sign up players like ricky lambert and jordan rhodes. Bit contreversial maybe!!