Shearer

Take a player who is really good in one position, put him in a different position he’s never played, in order to shoehorn a player who’s nowhere near as good into the original position? Have I got that right?

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I think Polster looks to be a decent back up.

Seems to be bang on!
I know it's early days yet, but we struggled to beat Killie and Hibs last season. These last two league games were ones we would have drawn/lost last season but we hung in there against Killie and won, and we've totally blown Hibs away today!
We do have better players this season, but for me, we just seem much more confident, assured and mentally stronger!!
Long may it continue!! 
   

Thought he was brilliant today! Gave 100% and worked his socks off, always looking to take his man on, and the hibs defence has no idea what to do when he was running at them. If he keeps playing like that then dare I say it but we won’t miss Kent as much as I previously thought!

Never had any doubt he would shine in games like tonight. 
Whether he can do it when teams stick 11 men behind the ball I have my doubts 

What a guy. That was up there with his best performances imo. He was everywhere. Challenging, scored a goal, was aggressive, set up 2 I believe too?
He looks like he's improving under Gerrard. His link up play looks better and he's still scoring goals. If he's still here and keeps his cool, too goalscorer again imo and what will his value be then?
Defoe is an asset to have too and will have some game time, but Morelos is the no 1 striker at this club and will take some replacing imo.
 

Dear Kilmarnock FC........................
Can you please tell me why your seats are empty and covered in posters, whilst I and thousands of other bears are in the house ticketless with cash in our pockets on matchday?
Is it perhaps because you are a bunch of useless fuckwits?
Enjoy playing in the Championship next season.
Signed: Rangers fans x

I thought he played well, linked up play and always looks dangerous in and around the box. He'll be a good squad player for us this season. 

I thought he played well, linked up play and always looks dangerous in and around the box. He'll be a good squad player for us this season. 

Polster can cross far better than Flanagan mate.

Taverniers the man but Polster could be decent back up. Had a good game

Looks very good. I had some fear that he was a pointless signing...
Looked more than comfortable in tavs absence. 

Good positive thread after a 6-0 win .
 

Really harsh. He’s got a good touch, great awareness and when up to speed/fitness, will create and chip in with a good few goals.
It’s Hastie for me that looks like he’s well short of the level we need.

I think he's quite decent. Got a decent football brain. He's not elite level but has the ability to open tight defences. His goal a few weeks back, his volley assist for Candeias and his wee touch tonight for Defoe's second were impressive. Think he'll chip in with goals and assists. 

Very harsh. 
His close control is fantastic, no chance he'll be in our first team but he'll offer something different to us for sure.
Weird post considering he played well tonight. 

Would like him back. But we're not actually missing him.

There's never too much to be taken from the first competitive game of the summer – especially against part-timers on a plastic pitch at the end of a runway in Gibraltar.
But while I’m not about to get carried away with Rangers for beating St Joseph’s 4-0, I’m happy to get myself worked up about the performance of new boy Sheyi Ojo.
The opposition were no great shakes and Steven Gerrard’s side looked a little bit rusty in the first half before starting to find a bit of rhythm after the break.
But Ojo? This kid stood out like a sore thumb from the very first kick of the ball and it looks like my old club have got a real player on their hands.
It’s not about the standard of the team he was up against, it’s about the tools he’s got in his locker and from this first look it seems as if he might have the lot.
He’s powerful, strong, athletic and a great runner with a good work ethic. Technically he’s really impressive and the way he took his goal on Tuesday night was classy and composed.
Listen, it’s important not to put too much expectation on his young shoulders and to remember that he’s up here for a reason. If he was the finished article he’d be in the Liverpool squad by now.
But none of that changes the fact that this is a young boy with enormous potential.
Put it this way, I could see in 90 minutes exactly why Jurgen Klopp wanted Ojo tied up on a five-year contract before he sanctioned the loan move. You don’t do that with young players unless you’re reasonably certain they’re going to be first-team material in a matter of time.
Ojo has huge potential and I believe he’s gone to the perfect place to help him fulfil it because playing for Rangers is all about coping with demands. That’s why Liverpool will be so pleased to let him play up here for a season as this will be a critical part of his development.
Some players flourish under that kind of pressure. Some players take time to get used to it. Some find that they just can’t handle it.
Just look back to this time last summer when Ryan Kent and Ovie Ejaria were sent up the road from the Anfield academy.
Ejaria looked the part but struggled to handle the demands that come with wearing the shirt and performing in front of 50,000 fans every second week.
Kent? He took to Rangers like a duck to water and as a result of his performance level over the seasion he’s now about to fly out with Klopp’s Champions League winning squad on a summer tour of the USA.
He proved to his manager he is cut out to make the difference in big matches under intense pressure and that’s exactly what Klopp will be looking for when he’s considering promoting youngsters into his dressing room.
So it’s no wonder that he wants to take a close look at Kent this summer before deciding if he’s ready to become part of the plans for the new season.
Klopp will be comparing him to the likes of Xherdan Shaqiri over the next couple of weeks and weighing up if the time is right to give him a chance.
I hope he reaches the conclusion the boy needs one more year of first team football at Ibrox because he’s a special talent who could make a real difference to Gerrard’s hopes of winning silverware.
But Liverpool will have looked at the improvement in Kent when they decided to let Ojo move to Glasgow and they will see this as an another opportunity for a young player to take huge strides.
We’ll just need to wait and see how he handles these demands but the first impression was that he can be a really big player for Rangers this season.
The club has won a watch in 
this new relationship with the Merseysiders and much of that is obviously down to Gerrard’s status at Anfield. But Liverpool will also see the benefits of plucking young promising talent from their own academy and giving them men’s football in Glasgow, at a huge club and a demanding support.
It’s effectively a fast track for these kids to prepare them for first team football in the Premier League so it’s a genuine win-win situation for both sides.
Ojo’s proved to them that he has the ability to go all the way. Now they need to see that he also has the temperament to handle it when he’s on a big stage.
It will help him enormously to have a professional like Steve Davis at the heart of the team and I was delighted to see my old team mate dictating things from the middle of the park at Victoria Stadium.
After a sticky start to his second spell, it looks as if he has convinced Gerrard to build the team around him and that can only be good news as he is such a class act.
Anyone who reads this column knows how highly I rate him and I reckon Davo could be the most important signing of the summer in terms of next season’s top flight campaign.
Gerrard will hope that Filip Helander will be another huge contributor given the amount of money the club are prepared to shell out to sign the big Swede from Bologna. I was reading the other day that the last time Rangers spent £4million on a player was when Walter Smith signed Nikica Jelavic in 2010. There wasn’t much money floating about back then, at a time when the bank was starting to squeeze hard. We all know what happened a few years later.
But when Walter bought Jelavic he knew he had signed a player who could help his team win the title and, as usual, he was right.
Gerrard must feel the same way about Helander. With talent like Ojo and Davis around him – and competition for places all over the pitch – it really does feel like an exciting time to be a Rangers fan again.
 
Good article.

I remember when people said Gerrard had no influence because he was a rookie manager. You just need to look across the city at the moment to see the difference in comparison. SG has a tremendous draw.

it's clear Gerrard was a special player, looks like he's taken that player mentality into being a manager. 

"I was speaking to him and I just got a feel for what he was like as a person and that was something that pushed me towards Rangers.
"It was a very big factor. You know what he's done in the game. I just felt comfortable with him and I just thought it was a no-brainer. That was just after the play-off final'.
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Only need two on the A list if there is a third on the B list.

Crystal clear on McCrorie there after all the sale talk in the media.