Gossie gers

I think we tend to overlook the challenge of playing Thursday/Sunday for a relatively newly formed squad of young players who haven’t played a lot of top flight football. 
This is why, as frustrated as I get with some of Gerrards decisions and subs, I fully believe he is going to lead us to the promised land. 
He has spent very little net spend. He has pulled together guys who weren’t first choice at their respective clubs, some loanees and he has got better performances out of players we had consigned to the scrap heap and got them all to within 2 points of the league leaders and within touching distance of qualification in Europe. 
Its nothing short of remarkable really. 

Thought he like the rest of the team was brilliant last night. At a time when I was getting frustrated with out final ball he was putting in some dangerous crosses and getting forward well always looking to create chances. Also did some good defensive work I remember one in particular when he came across to cover one of the cb’s and made an important tackle.
Hes no where near as bad as people make out, yes he can make mistakes but if he was the complete package he wouldn’t be playing in Scotland. We’re lucky to have him imo.

I reckon Mr Gerrard has every ounce of respect and admiration for Ally McCoist the player.    Which of us would not have that admiration?   But I really do not think Mr Gerrard will be taking too much notice of the advice or analysis of Ally McCoist the pundit and former manager.     In managerial terms McCoist talks a game of sorts and would be nowhere near able to produce a Rangers side capable of these sorts of European results.  But Gerrard doesn't just talk the game - he walks it, he lives it, he devours the challenge, he inspires.    One is full of talk these days and the other is full of action to make successful football happen.     

As we all know we've been down in the lower leagues for seasons, now had 2 shite seasons back in the Premiership finishing 3rd both times. On top of that we've spent a lot of money (whether you like King or not) on building a team from scratch 3 times to get us back to the top. We've had no European football for years, we've had no major transfer sales in years and we've been pumped in almost every Old Firm game we've played. For years the only team in Scotland to play in Europe has been celtic, Aberdeen and Hibs never have a chance of qualifying it's just how it is.
Today is significant for so many reasons. Today puts us back to the top. We've put ourselves back in the prestige above Aberdeen and Hibs etc and we're now back to being a European football club, where we belong. Not only that, this was one of the most important milestone steps in the journey back. We get promoted to the Premiership, we qualify for Europe. We've just crossed that big milestone today. If we want to get back to competing with celtic we need European football the money it brings. Europa League isn't megabucks but it's an extra £8m or so minimum, it gives us a stage to expand the Rangers brand again, put our name back out there in Europe and will do wonders for sponsorships, recognition and increasing the values of our players.
Today wasn't just about making the group stages, it was a big step in our return. Great achievement.