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  1. Cantwell was ok yesterday but again in key moments didn’t influence the game the way he should have. And that’s the problem, he’s playing in the 10 role, so he has to play the killer passes or take goal scoring opportunities. He’s just not doing it enough at moment and in big games like yesterday it’s crucial that he does. For me he still just holds on to ball that bit too much or take an extra unneeded touch. I actually felt when he dropped deeper he was better on ball than in final 3rd. Also thought it should have been up to Sterling and Lundstrum to ragdoll McGregor thruout the game. And none of those 3 did.
  2. Should be a secondary striker, as soon as we either bring in a striker or Lovelace or Danilo get fit. But in the meantime he needs to be told to be stronger in Holding up ball and linking play. Has to cut out the going down softly too.
  3. Tavs crossing has been dreadful for ages now, as other posters have said, he’s only putting 1 or 2 out of every 10 that can be classed as dangerous. He should only be allowed to take free kicks that are goal scoring opportunities, everything further out or wider or corners we should rotate the takers between midfielders. We wasted several opportunities to put real pressure on their defence and keeper with our poor crosses/corners yesterday. its the one niggling worry I have with Clement at moment, we haven’t yet seen a real improvement in the crossing dept, our shy’s or our passing (which I still think is poor). I’m hoping it’s just still a firefighting phase for him and we will see improvements after summer. But it drives me mad how poor we are at the basics.
  4. Thought that a few squeaky bum mistakes apart he had a very good game last night. He drove forward well, encouraged team mates to press high, was constantly looking for ball from defence (and they should give it to him a lot earlier imo, but are too effing slow at times). He had a couple of great half turns moments as well. He does appear to do this more in europe, but we could really do with him doing it more domestically as well. A very good game from him tho.
  5. Delighted with win. A flat nervy first 35 mins and then a decent few moves seem to spark us for final 10 mins of half. Thought the 2nd half we took game to them more and looked the team most likely to score. Despite the chances they had I never really felt like any were really gilt edged apart from that one header. The rest were save that I felt Butland should be making. Still a work in progress tho and much to improve on. Some real slack passing and control some times that put us in self inflicted trouble. But considering where we are at moment, last night was a definite step in right direction. Here’s hoping we build some belief and momentum now.
  6. Butland Sterling, Goldson, Davies, Yilmaz Cifuentes, Raskin, Lawrence Sima, Roofe, Matondo. I’d try Dropping Tav, as I just think the way we use him unbalances the team by expecting him to be our attacking threat. Then means our Right mid has to sit back and cover. Prefer to let Sterling just defend, and let Cifuentes and Sima provide our attacking options on right hand side. Hopefully allows Cifuentes to be more box to box as well. Of course I do realise there is no way Beale will drop Tav.
  7. Has to be the coaching, as it’s been a huge concern of mine how badly we do the basics of football. I think we are coached to play safe easy passes. Our players always always take a touch as well. We just aren’t drilled in quick aggressive pass and move style playing. So when we get pressured we aren’t on the front foot in terms or reactions, control and 1 touch passes so we can’t play thru a press even from some SPL teams. Also Our players are very guilty of holding on to ball too long and getting swamped too. Saw that against Newcastle, Olympiacos, Hamburg, PSV and celtic now. We are always flat footed and or lack of movement to support each other is part of that. Even when we do get a break on. How many times have you seen it falter because of a slow/poor pass or lack of support as everyone is staying back ball watching. I hate to mention them, but McGregor, O ‘Reilly and even Turnbull all look better passers of the ball than our guys, they play thru the midfield lines to feet, they are not afraid to pass to a teammate under pressure, their breaks exposed us with usually 3 passes and it was only poor finishing that let them down. How often do we see them pick out Kyogo or another striker with their final pass compared to our final pass in those circumstances. We usually delay final ball, allowing a block to be made, play it behind or beyond our strikers or pass it straight to opponent. we are awful at moment on the footballing basics
  8. We seem to play almost like 5 aside 1 touch stuff in a small pitch going by training vids. So it’s all 1 or 2 yard passes or flicks to beat inrushing players. And you see that in matches when we end up tippy tippy short passes amongst ourselves or doing stupid wee flicks and usually losing it as we don’t progress ball forward any distance under 5 yards or open up play. There is very little pass and move or 1-2’s. Our passing is usually short or curls back away from receiving player when it should be in front. My biggest bug bear is a our crappy slow passing and our numerous touches before we do pass. From the training vids, our crappy wee short passing exercises don’t solve that issue.
  9. He shouldn’t have gotten a new deal. He’s slow as a week in jail and is a very negative player these days. He should have been let go and if we wanted a bit part player, use a youth or Lundstram who may not be mikes better but he is more mobile and generally quicker than Jack and can be a goal threat which Jack is never. Beale tho is hanging him out to dry in games like this when he’s not got the legs anymore. Again another fault we can lay at managers door.
  10. Players at Rangers should only have a shelf life of maybe 3-4 yrs to be honest. If they are playing well and in a winning team the board should be open to offers when they are at their peak and before their last year of contracts, Any manager should be told that’s just the way it is. We are a selling club and that’s the model. And the end of 55 season, we should have absolutely sold Morelos, Kent, Kamara and possibly Goldson and Tav. They were at their peak, league winners and had decent European performances and we could have gotten very decent money for all of them. Even a conservative £10 mill for the likes of Morelos, Kent and Kamara could and maybe should have been achieved. Maybe half that for Goldson and Tav. And then reinvest and start again. But Gerrard supposedly wanted to keep them and then effed off 6 months later. We got left with them and look where we are now. Nothing for Morelos and Kent and arguably poor performances from both last year. Kamara we got money for but no performances for 6 months or more. And we have Goldson and Tav on long contracts when they are in their 30s and probably on the downward slope performance wise (if not hurtling down it already). As fans we are also too sentimental about players staying . Just look at all the arguments about keeping the players above. But it’s the boards place to be ruthless with this and I honestly can’t understand why even managers wouldn’t realise that at Rangers. Backwater league, we need money from sales and you’d obviously get something back to help rebuild. Surely that’s part of a managers job to improve players, sell on, invest and start again. Add in Jack Davis and even Arfield and we kept players and still keep players way to long. We should always be evolving, improving and moving on players, hopefully after they’ve been a success with us.
  11. Tav is a liability in defence, and his goals have saved him. If he didn’t have those goals(which he rightly gets credit for). We’d have been screaming to bin him years ago. but because of the way we set up which pushes him upfield he gets away with it, but our midfield have to cover for him and that unbalances our midfield imo. But we can replace his goals by getting the strikers to take penalties and free kicks. Midfielders and winger should replace his goals at back post. But we absolutely need a better defensive RB.
  12. He’s a dead man walking. There is nothing redeeming to write about in anything he does at moment. We have no style, we are crap at the basics(passing, movement, control). His signings don’t look great and doesn’t play half them. We are slow, cautious, boring. He’s ruining Cantwell and possible Raskin too. He sold players who were more effective. He obviously watches an entirely different t game from rest of us going on his comments. Bosrd have to act now rather than waste time. But suspect they will give him another couple of months until we have no hope of a comeback. Put it this way, 4 league games in and the League is Celtics to lose, not ours to win. That says it all for me.
  13. Any hope I have is rapidly eroding. I’ve no idea what our approach is. I felt our style is generally a cautious possession based one, but the front 6 seem to constantly be changed, moved around leading to no cohesion in our play. I just don’t know what Beale is trying to achieve at moment. We still stick with playing our fullbacks high up, when both are older and slower and it means our midfield have to cover. How many times have you seen our deep lying midfielder get the ball and look up and there is no one on middle as they are wide to cover space left by fbs. It’s just not working for me anymore. And we are all hoping it’s going to click rather than thinking it will happen soon. No confidence at all in seeing us play good football for 90 mins any time soon.
  14. I couldn’t understand this last night. Lammers may be tall, but nothing so far has shown he’s hard or robust in challenges! Their most dangerous threat in the air and our two biggest and supposedly hardest defenders are 3 or 4 yards behind him marking others. If that’s instructions from coach then he’s not got a clue, if that’s decided by Goldson or Souttar then they are cowards. It’s just common sense to put your biggest, hardest player on their biggest harder player. another thing I noticed last night is we kept a high line defending free kicks and were undone almost every time ball was swung into box. That’s another tactic or decision we got wrong last night. Suits attackers more than defenders to me. Defenders are caught side on to ball a it and are trying to play almost an offside type,approach rather than having backs to goal and facing incoming ball better.
  15. Goldson domestically is very good for us and probably our best defender. But he’s still got a f*ck up in him and that gets exposed more in Europe. Tav certainly doesn’t help him on his right side as he very rarely cuts out cross balls. Borna not much better on the other side. Souttar who I like has cost us more this season and last night could be argued was at fault in 3 goals. De Jong is a very good attacker but again how many times did Goldson or Souttar really have a go at him. It should have been a total ding dong of a battle, and they should have went thru him a few times last night. Might be crude but it’s the dark arts and they used it thru out match. I’ve mentioned this a few times in various threads but for me it’s our style of play that’s our biggest issue to how the team and defence play. No urgency or tempo, never on front foot, so players and crucially for our defenders wait for ball rather than attack it. We never anticipate again because a slow timid passing style leaves us slow in reactions. I think in some ways Scottish football holds us back too. We don’t come up against the technique here that we do in Europe. So our players kind of expect most of the ball, know they will get it back quickly if they lose it. Can’t take multiple touches and play safe, cautious, football. We aren’t used to pressure or passing and moving at pace or higher tempo. I feel Goldson can be really casual at times (similar to our style) and this gets exposed in Europe. Ultimately he’s 1 of 3 defenders who have been with us for 5-6 years and we’ve won 2 trophies in that time and we’ve seen many error strewn performances like last night. So it’s totally arguable that he’s not good enough.
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