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Still don't understand why celtc didn't get the same treatment as us over referee criticism. Oh wait...

Clark is hurting like a taig. To even try & compare Defoe to the Jones incident is vague at very best.....paranoid in anyone else's language. JD'd studs hit the turf and he lost his balance. Didn't dive and got right back up. Jones swan dived and looked instantly to the ref! 
 
With the 4 pens incident added to Morelos not getting /booked/sent off/sine die against THEM, things are almost at fever pitch! I can't wait for 55!!

Clark is hurting like a taig. To even try & compare Defoe to the Jones incident is vague at very best.....paranoid in anyone else's language. JD'd studs hit the turf and he lost his balance. Didn't dive and got right back up. Jones swan dived and looked instantly to the ref! 
 
With the 4 pens incident added to Morelos not getting /booked/sent off/sine die against THEM, things are almost at fever pitch! I can't wait for 55!!

Clark is hurting like a taig. To even try & compare Defoe to the Jones incident is vague at very best.....paranoid in anyone else's language. JD'd studs hit the turf and he lost his balance. Didn't dive and got right back up. Jones swan dived and looked instantly to the ref! 
 
With the 4 pens incident added to Morelos not getting /booked/sent off/sine die against THEM, things are almost at fever pitch! I can't wait for 55!!

The young fans were a joy to watch, should we be worried or laugh.

Aye some day. Didn't the players go back to Glasgow by helicopter that day for some reason? Sure I remember hearing that!  

completely forgot about that one, what a day as well
the lads in fancy dress in the flat behind the demolished stand haha
I think most of the posters on here slagging laffertys first spell forget forget his goals because they got blind drunk celebrating the titles after those games haha

Don't forget this one.....(He's still mince these days though )
 

Lafferty back to Hearts would be a good start.

Already getting shoe-horned into RW mate, so it's not looking good for him. Vile IMO

Already getting shoe-horned into RW mate, so it's not looking good for him. Vile IMO

Already getting shoe-horned into RW mate, so it's not looking good for him. Vile IMO

Love the guy and really chuffed he's got the shirt back. Hopefully he holds onto it now & builds on his new found confidence. 

2 starts for a guy who has barely played any football this season and he’s being wrote off. Ffs.

Love the guy and really chuffed he's got the shirt back. Hopefully he holds onto it now & builds on his new found confidence. 

Put the fishing rod away ya fool. 

Nikola Katic revealed how pep talks from defensive legend Richard Gough helped fuel his desire to win his place back in the Rangers team.
The Croatian stopper opened up on a difficult two months at Ibrox after Steven Gerrard dropped him after a dip in the standards he showed in a solid start to his Light Blues career.
It’s hard to believe a manager finding much wrong with a team that won 7-1 but it was after Gers dished out that thumping scoreline to Motherwell that Katic was benched.
That emphatic victory on November 11 came just days after Gerrard watched some kamikaze defending in the 4-3 Europa League defeat to Spartak Moscow in Russia.

Katic also had some shaky moments in the 4-1 win at Hamilton in the previous game and it came to head in that match against the Steelmen.
The 22-year-old admitted going from starring in front of sell-out Ibrox crowds to playing for the reserves in front of the proverbial two men and a dog was hard to take.

But he never lost faith and turned in a performance that made him a man of the match contender on his return in Sunday’s 3-0 win at Livingston.
Gerrard yesterday spoke of his love of warrior-like defenders as he highlighted former team-mates Jamie Carragher and John Terry as two examples of stoppers he admired.
Rangers nine-in-a-row skipper Gough is another who had a never-say-die attitude and Katic is grateful to the former Scotland defender for some sound advice during his time out.
Katic, hoping to keep his place in the team for tonight’s Scottish Cup tie at Cowdenbeath with Connor Goldson still crocked, said: “I have met Richard Gough a few times.

“He always tries to give me some advice. He is a big player with a lot of experience, a legend, so I’m always happy when I get to chat with him and try to learn some stuff.
“He knows everything about Rangers. He knows about the expectation of the crowd because it is a big club so you always need to be 100 per cent.
“When I was out of the team and the squad, he told me to still believe that I was playing for Rangers, push hard every single day and be ready for the chance.
“It was very good for me to come back and get game time after a long period. It was a tough game for us, everyone knows how Livingston play at home.
“It is an Astro pitch and they are a physical team so it was tough to go there after two or three months and start but I am very happy with the result.
“It was more difficult mentally when I didn’t play but I was pushing hard all the time in training, trying to get a chance to show on the pitch that I am ready.


“For the first two months I played every single game and when I was first left out of the squad I said to myself ‘ok, I will be in next time’.
“I had a few games where I played really good, at the start of the season in the Europa League was much better. But when we beat Motherwell 7-1 at Ibrox I wasn’t at the right level in the first half.
“So the manager took me out and explained what I had to do. I respect him, I trust him and I was pushing hard and waiting for a chance.
“The improvements I had to make was to be more comfortable on the pitch, show more confidence, be stronger in the air and be more clever.
“There were a few stupid fouls around the box against MotHerwell. We know how they play, they throw it in to the box and try to score. I played a more intelligent game against Livingston.
 
“I played two or three times for the reserve team but the tempo is not the same. It wasn’t like the Scottish league or European games, but it was good just to feel the ball and play with the guys. It was an empty stadium but I was happy to feel the ball and get game time.
“My mentality is to be warrior-like and why the manager took me here to Rangers and gave me a chance to play for such a club.
“When I was younger, I liked players like Carles Puyol, who was a leader on the pitch. The gaffer was the same, he organised everything around himself and I want to be that type of player in the future.
“When I started to play football as a kid I was a goalkeeper, but then I wanted to become a central defender. I wanted to play.”
Gerrard praised Katic’s response as he spoke of the qualities he looks for in a defender. He said: “I like defenders to defend the goal and the club for their life.


“I was the type of player who always preferred a Jamie Carragher or John Terry-like defender. I’m not really keen on the frills, Cruyff turns and showboating of a defender.
“Certain managers have certain styles. Some are obsessed with building from the back and overplaying at the back.
“If you’ve got the best players in the world at Barcelona or you’re Pep Guardiola then I understand - you can absolutely kill teams with the ball.
“But we’re not there yet and we have to play to our strengths and our strength is that we have honest lads who will do all they can to keep clean sheets and I think they proved that at the weekend.
“Niko came back after the winter break and he was really focused with a determination to break back into the team. He’s been very strong in training and he deserved the opportunity and he took it with both hands.”

Sweet baby Jesus it’s handwringing time again. 
Mo ran to his own fans, the Alfie young team jumped over the wee wall to hug their hero, no fans ran onto the actual match pitch or were threatening to anyone the most dangerous thing about it would’ve been the fat lump in the Rangers top falling on somebody. 
The joy is slowly being drained from the game and we have folk getting annoyed by this 😂😂

not sure about the clubs but the SFA and the SNP may demand - moats, fences and machine gun towers 

That's the point I was going to make. The pitch itself isn't too bad by comparison to others.....it's the amount of pellets that they have down. Every time someone kicks a ball or tackles, it looks like they've struck oil. Ban them I say. Piss poor at the top flight. You just wouldn't get them in the EPL.

There is, imo, absolutely no convincing football reason and no convincing economic reason why plastic pitches should be allowed for top flight football games in Scotland.    If clubs cannot afford to install and maintain grass pitches then they should not be in the top flight.    Its as simple as that.
Get them banned.