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18 hours ago, KeyserSoze said:
I like him, he's decent and I think enjoys playing alongside Davis and Kamara with Arfield sitting forward.
Best midfield setup we have had in some time
One question Gerrard will have to think about this summer though, having seen these 4 players perform for the latter part of this season is whether that core combination is anywhere near good enough to be the midfield platform on which a title / trophy winning side can be forged for next season.
It may be the best midfield combination we've had for some time but is it really likely to be good enough, have the creative quality and drive.....and goal scoring contribution….over a season to produce trophies. Personally I think far more by way of creativity and goal scoring is needed and I don't readily see that coming from this combination. It'll be interesting to see who Gerrard and the DoF bring in over summer to bolster that midfield by adding more creativity and more of a goal scoring threat.
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Scottish national team under Clarke...…...going nowhere. They will be stuck in the mire of desperately trying to avoid defeat, claiming sterile draws as some sort of indicator of progress. The hallmark will be organised negativity. He can get the reception he deserves if he ever turns up to watch any Rangers games.
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On 19/05/2019 at 19:10, Dave Hedgehog said:
The dross on our squad stood up and showed just how shite some of them are and it shows we need a good bit of investment in our playing squad next season. No false dawns with any of them.
It was yet another repeat of previous game failures this season. This despite Gerrard's messaging about the need for players in the squad to impress if they wanted to stake credible claims for regular first team places. Very disappointing that after an entire season there are plenty in the squad who were not able, or not willing (take your pick) to stand up to the task of doing proper justice to the privilege of wearing a Rangers jersey.
Gerrard will not get away with another season where that sort of lacklustre play results in yet another barren trophy season. His ability to analyse the problems and to publicly comment on them is one thing. Fixing the problem is another thing. Its going to be a very important summer transfer window. Very good players need to be added to turn the squad into a trophy winning squad.
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12 minutes ago, SeparateEntityMyArse said:
I reckon they'll really struggle next season. Certainly bottom 6. Which will be pleasing.
Relegation fodder.
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He's a yesterday person bankrupt of anything useful and constructive to say about Rangers. Best left ignored.
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9 minutes ago, BridgeIsBlue said:
Any point reading this thread?
A good question. If there was any useful point in reading this thread it evaporated a long time ago. Much of the thread is a complete waste of time.
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14 minutes ago, Broxi said:
Warburton appointed QPR manager
Wonder what his reference from King said. Creator of made up stories? Expert in digging escape tunnels and undermining his employing club while doing so? No loyalty? Only got one plan and if that plan is not working then too bad because there is only one plan and that's that? Full of meaningless soundbites? Has no idea about how to manage effectively in sorting out dressing room rows?
Just wondering what due diligence QPR really did in order to come out with ….."We spoke with a number of excellent candidates for the position, and Mark ticked all the boxes for us," added Ferdinand. He loves working with younger players and developing them, and has a great understanding of the game........"
These days it seems it it'd have to be one hell of a fuck up at a club before your reputation became such that you were no longer a credible choice for being a football manager at a well known club. Or was he actually, really, believably, credibly the best choice that QPR had before them? And he ticked all of the QPR boxes. Amazing bordering on incredulous.
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Maybe its more than just bombing out flops (again) that's needed. Below is an extract from a Twitter posting by David Conn who is a writer for the Guardian on football and other stuff:...……….
" Liverpool revival under US owners FSG: Taken no money out, loaned in £110m to rebuild main stand, hired top coach with modern structure, recruited fine players. Man United under US owners the Glazers: Taken £1bn out and more every year, put no money in, etc etc...."
I know the comparison is between Liverpool and Manchester United but it maybe begs the question for Rangers about the extent to which King and the Board have done enough to generate the funding needed to get 'fine players recruited'.
My current belief is that to get anywhere quickly ie within a few seasons and certainly for the 150th anniversary annual 'bombings out of flops' should have as its flipside the funds to make sure that whoever replaces them are materially better replacements and not just some sort of minor incremental improvement on a sort of hope-it-works-out basis. Seems to me the challenge on King and the Board to get their shoe leather worn out by working to generate materially more cash has slipped into the background with tacit expectation that the only transfer money to be spent is money generated from selling the flops and selling our better player-assets plus whatever is allocated from ST sales.
Going back to the Twiiter message from Conn it leaves the question open as far as I'm concerned as to whether King and the Board are doing enough to generate cash and whether there are any Liverpool lessons they should be learning. It'd be interesting to hear King's views on the model Liverpool have adopted to generate football success and to contrast that with the model he is applying for Rangers......and if there are differences to explain why what works for Liverpool is not going to work for Rangers.
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4 hours ago, Bears r us said:
Yes I was surprised that he was only off once in England, just a totally different game now. No wonder he is called the magnificent bastard.
The game - at least in Scotland - is too namby pamby nowadays. A modern day Souness would be attracting red cards by the proverbial dozen. And be spending more time with a sports therapist in anger / behaviour management classes than he would on the pitch. It's the way the game is nowadays. A case of players having to adapt to the way the modern game is played and refereed and work within that, or don't bother and find a different career.
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Trying to bolt the excuses gate closed after the opportunity horse has disappeared from the paddock and careering towards the distant horizon is always an interesting but fruitless exercise.
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Would prefer a European league for colt teams that clubs chose to enter (and where clubs could prove they met to-be-defined financial criteria for entry so that only clubs who were really serious about entry would apply and be admitted).
Also would prefer reverting back to a top league structure where teams played each other just twice and not this 4 times a season shit that we get which, imo, sterilises our game, makes it boring and whose main benefit is for smaller clubs to get more bites at OF gate receipts and related TV revenue.
Is there really still a credible, overwhelmingly convincing case to stick with playing teams 4 times a season when the gap in quality between the bottom half of the SPFL and the top 4-6 clubs in the Scottish Championship is arguably much narrower. Playing clubs 4 times a season is, imo, throttling the opportunity for clubs to produce quality football. It produces games where being negative and defensively minded is the nature of the way clubs play to avoid dropping points for fear of relegation and of then losing out on OF game revenue and TV revenue.
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Brilliant achievement. Well done to all of the players and to all who are involved in coaching them. It's great to see the success. And great to see Dorrans get through a game too on his road to recovery.
The success of the squad should also give SG some real food for thought about which players to bring into the first team squad. There must surely be a few who are about ready to make the transition into first team football. It surely can't be the case that none of them are taken up to first team squad level.
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1 minute ago, Jeffrey said:
A Rangers manager who ends the season trophyless shouldn't even be in consideration let alone winning the award.
We haven't had a solid title challenge
I see where you are coming from and fair enough. 2nd is progress is it not (noting that so many in this forum think that progress has been made so why not seek to have it recognised). 2nd is solid enough if folk go along with the 'progress' line. All I'm really saying is compared to Clarke I think Gerrard has done a better job by very wide margin.
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Just now, ForeverAndEver said:
Europe means nothing, if you count Europe you include the cups which were embarrassing.
A solid title challenge? It’s effectively been over since January/February.
Fair points. I'm simply trying to put some points where our manager has sought to make a positive contribution to Scottish football - contrasted with Clarke who sets out to avoid defeat as a primary objective. I think Gerrard has contributed a lot more than Clarke to Scottish football this season. A matter of opinions of course.
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1 minute ago, Jeffrey said:Who do people think should have won manager of the year?
Other than Gary Holt or at a push Ian McCall I cant think of anyone other than Clarke.
Gerrard. Piloted Rangers to an excellent European run and made a big contribution to improving the visibility and quality of Scottish football. Rebuilt Rangers to produce a solid title challenge. Brought exciting players to Rangers for Scottish football to see - Kent for instance.
What has Clarke done other than coach a side that sets out to play negative football designed not to lose and to accumulate safety points.
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4 minutes ago, Tak3rNo1 said:
Apparently being a moaning faced cunt every week is enough to win that. A 4th placed finish is that much of an achievement?
A very good point. Entirely accurate.
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2 minutes ago, eskbankloyal said:
Saved us a few moments before with a superb save but his actions at the red card were a disgrace. 12 red cards this season is not good enough.
Very true. Understatements even.
Gerrard has a difficult enough job to build a trophy-winning (title winning) team for next season but he has to do so from a position of also having to manage things so that the number of red cards and suspensions see a big reduction. A repeat of that sort of indiscipline next season will see another barren season.
How the Manager establishes enough trust in the likes of Morelos and McGregor after this season will be a tough challenge for him. Of course if Morelos is sold then that part of it goes away but is replaced by an even bigger worry of how to replace his goals.
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From Gerrard's RTV interview it doesn't sound as though he's even remotely minded to appeal it. Seems to me from what Gerrard was (briefly) saying that McGregor has done his level best to embarrass Gerrard to the extent that Gerrard finds no reason to even think about defending McGregor "...its a red". And Gerrard would look silly trying to defend it.
McGregor - wittingly or otherwise - has handed his manager an unnecessary problem for the next game. Just what the manager and the Club needed eh. How does Gerrard re-establish confidence in his first choice goalkeeper after 2 red cards this season. How does Gerrard put a side on the pitch that can win a title if he can't have good enough discipline from the players. Its self destruct behaviour.
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1 minute ago, steven33jackie said:
Mental, from a keeper of his experience you just shake your head and say WTF.
I reckon Gerrard will be doing more than shaking his head and asking a rhetorical WTF. He has to find a side next season that keeps 11 players on the pitch all performing to the very best of their ability and his top goalkeeper and top striker have been hell bent this season on finding reasons for them to be sent off / suspended. I imagine Gerrard will be raging.
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Do they have a plan before the game about who gets the goalkeeper jersey if the keeper is sent off and all subs used? Wonder if Ross McCrorie woke up this morning knowing that he's the man if that scenario happens...….or do they just make a decision at the time?
I'm assuming its a planned move where the players know their role if that happens. But if it isn't planned then if fucking well needs to be for next season as it'd not be wise to rely on McGregor avoiding red cards. McGregor risks becoming the new Morelos for red cards but the difference is McGregor is older and should know a damn sight better and does not seem able to learn.
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Quite a few times earlier in the season Gerrard used to make a point about players he trusted without never actually directly naming the players. By inference there were therefore players who had yet to earn that trust.
Wonder where McGregor sits on the Gerrard scale of trust these days. 2 red cards in once season and a number of other incidents where he has got away with stuff.
For next season how can Gerrard be sure enough that McGregor can be trusted sufficiently to behave himself and stay on the pitch. And for next season it'll be interesting to see what influence Gerrard can exert to create a vastly improved disciplinary record at the same time as turning out an aggressively competitive game-winning team on a consistent enough basis to make a proper challenge for the title.
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When the Rangers game gets better - much better as in winning the league title and winning cups - then the Scottish game will improve. Until then its all just shadow boxing talk of improvement and wishful thinking that goes along with it.
Its ST renewal time and we've won the square root of fuck all so a bit of managerial navel gazing about the problems in the Scottish game plus a dose of 'summer shake out and better players next season' is the order of the end of season interviews. The point being to generate enthusiasm for next season.
If we lose Tav, Kent and Morelos...
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June 11 could see the opening of the most important transfer windows in our long history. I think Gerrard has acknowledged in various interviews over the last season that Rangers is essentially a selling club but (naturally) wants to keep the best players. They'd only be going for top prices. The point being that if the offer price is right and a player wants to go then the player will go no matter who the player is. That's the nose and tail of it.
The next questions would be what replacement player(s) are brought in and is the net effect an immediate improvement to the team. That's obviously the really tricky bit for Gerrard and Allen to deal with. There's no room for errors or misfits or players who just want to take a lot of time to settle in and all that if the aim is to win trophies next season.
I think Gerrard has acknowledged that there is much more of a pressing need for Rangers to be winning trophies next season so whoever came in to replace the 3 players mentioned in the OP would need to be of a quality where they more than marginally improved the trophy winning capability of the squad. It'd be quite a managerial and scouting coup if replacements for any or all of the 3 turned out to be players that improved the side. So I wish Gerrard and Allen every bit of good fortune, great judgement and fine deal making to replace any or all of these three players with better quality players.
But if Gerrard and Allen can't achieve that because they don't have enough transfer dosh to do so then the other question that is bound to surface before the transfer window closes is whether Gerrard and Allen think they have enough firepower in the eventual squad to win trophies next season and if they conclude not...…..what then for Gerrard and Allen? And what then for a Board that might have found itself unable to fund the football ambitions for the Club for next season.
We'll see soon enough who stays and who goes and who arrives.