Listening to SG he seems to have been second guessing himself all game today, probably just another example. Still gets a monkey off our backs and people need to fuvk off with this calling players petulant if they are not happy being substituted
He put in the phenomenal cross today that won us our penalty giving us our opportunity to go ahead again but aye he's shite
Some of our fans are fuckin roasters
I'm one of the complainers. Initiated my complaint during the lack of coverage during Europa Qualifiers. Complaint has been escalated and escalated again and now sits somewhere in the Executive Complaints Unit down south. 20 working days for them to respond expires on 18th October.
My complaint and responses thus far;
To Whom it May Concern,
I write (as advised in my last response from the BBC Complaints team) to continue through the complaints process with Regards to Case Number xxxxxxxxxxx, as I feel my query has not been fully satisfied. I am content that the complaint has gone through due process in accordance with your rules and timescales, but I must say the explanation and outcome is less than satisfactory for me as a license player. My initial complaint was over the coverage of Rangers games in European Qualifying matches, and it developed into a query on coverage of Rangers games in general. Firstly, see below the history of the complaint;
1. MY COMPLAINT initiated 21st August 2018: Complaint Summary: Coverage of Scottish European Qualifying Games
Full Complaint: I returned to Scotland recently after 10 years abroad. One of the things I looked forward to was catching up with Scottish football on the radio. I'm just a general football fan, particularly looking out for Scottish teams in Europe, and I listen to most games involving any teams, particularly when travelling if they're on. But I do have a soft spot for Rangers in particular, so I was particularly keen on hearing the European Qualifying games involving them. I understand that as a public service provider, Radio Scotland has to maintain a broad appeal so I wouldn't expect to hear every minute of their games, but I would expect to hear a fair share of the action. But during the previous three rounds, Radio Scotland favoured EVERY Hibs game ahead of Rangers games, particularly the home games. Even last week, you only cut to the Rangers game after the Hibs game had finished. I've been hearing the trailers today for the coverage of this weeks qualifiers and it sounds like you are live broadcasting the whole of celtic's game and not bothering with the Rangers game at all, other than providing updates as events unfold. The kick offs for both games mean you could broadcast the games back to back, so obviously I'm curious as to why you aren't doing so?
BBC Response (22nd August): Thank you for getting in touch about Sportsound and our coverage of the European qualifiers. We don’t hold the rights to broadcast coverage of Rangers v FC Ufa. We realise this may be disappointing but hope the clarification is helpful. Thank you, once again, for taking the time to contact us. Kind regards, Nathan Lynch, BBC Complaints Team
2. MY FOLLOW UP (22nd August):
Full Complaint: In your response to my original query regarding coverage of, in particular, the Rangers games in qualifying, I asked about this weeks qualifier in particular. Your response was to tell me that you don't have the rights for this weeks game. You didn't cover the previous home games either. Was this because you also didn't have the rights for those either? You had the rights for Aberdeen, celtic and Hibernian, so why not Rangers? Will this extend into the league season also? Or will I be able to hear live coverage of games from all venues, including Ibrox?
BBC Response (20th September): Thank you for taking the time to contact us again. We appreciate that you feel strongly about Sportsound’s coverage of the European qualifiers and are sorry to learn that you were not satisfied with our earlier response. We raised your concerns with the relevant teams at BBC Scotland. We are disappointed with the ongoing situation with Rangers, who have withdrawn the media credentials of one of our reporters (thus preventing him from reporting from Ibrox). We continue to discuss a resolution of this matter with the club but until it is resolved we will not be sending journalists to Ibrox or attending Rangers’ press conferences. We will continue to report on Rangers both on and off the pitch and will feature match action where appropriate. The level of coverage is decided on a case by case basis, we will be providing live radio commentary of Villarreal v Rangers on Thursday 20 September. Kind regards, Andrew McCormick, BBC Complaints Team.
I received a separate email to tell me that the local complaint was exhausted and I'd need to take up with the Executive Complaints Unit if I wasn't satisfied with the response received. So I wrote to them on 20th September:
To Whom it May Concern,
I write (as advised in my last response from the BBC Complaints team) to continue through the complaints process with Regards to Case Number xxxxxxxxxxx, as I feel my query has not been fully satisfied. I am content that the complaint has gone through due process in accordance with your rules and timescales, but I must say the explanation and outcome is less than satisfactory for me as a license player. My initial complaint was over the coverage of Rangers games in European Qualifying matches, and it developed into a query on coverage of Rangers games in general. Please see attached the history of the complaint;
My reason for continuing with the complaint, is that it emerged in the second response that BBC Scotland (Sportsound) are refusing to cover Rangers home games or attend press conferences because there appears to be a dispute between Rangers and one BBC journalist (see highlighted text). Perhaps I could be furnished with the details of the dispute so as to understand why BBC Scotland refuse to send a reporter? Otherwise, as a tax and license payer, I find that entirely unacceptable. BBC Scotland have several sports reporters they can send instead of the one in dispute. Why won’t they send another? As a licence payer, myself and, in fact, a very large licence paying demograph in Scotland are being denied the same right to hear Rangers live games and news from Ibrox, just as every other SPFL Premier supporter can hear games and news from their clubs. In fact, as a result of this BBC action, away teams playing at Ibrox are also being denied this same coverage! As the BBC is a public service broadcaster, I’m astonished that BBC Scotland can take such action when the “dispute” is only with one reporter. In my business, if any client had a problem with me or any of my staff, and “banned” them from site, the last thing I would be allowed to do is turn my back on the client… As a professional person, I’d continue to provide the service whilst seeking to understand and resolve the issue with the individual. I can’t understand why BBC Scotland aren’t behaving in the same way. This seems incredibly unprofessional and quite probably at odds with the BBC’s Royal Charter and the impartial service the BBC promise to provide.
What I’d like from this “complaint” is for BBC Scotland restore normal coverage of Rangers, i.e. if need be send another reporter to Ibrox for press conferences, their “open-all-mikes” match coverage, and provide occasional full live coverage of match as they do for every other top flight club. If they will not do this, I’d expect to receive communication that allows me to understand the situation with the supposed “dispute” and why BBC Scotland cannot provide such coverage.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Yours Sincerely,
He's winning people over because of his higher level of performances. He was in the same boat as Kent I think. They've not really played much and not at a great level. You can see them now starting to improve under a good manager & coaching team, and with lots of first team football. I think also a lot of folk had doubts before he signed because his (all important ?) stats weren't great!
Still has to learn when to try the spectacular though. There was one ball he went for yesterday that would have been easy to reach with his left foot, but chose to swing his right and lost control, giving away possession. I really like the guy, he's fast becoming one of our most important players. Him & Coulibaly together work really well.
When a team puts so much into a first half it's always going to take it's toll in the 2nd.
2nd half wasn't as bad as some have made out either if you take it on it's own rather than compare it to a great 1st half. The game died after the sending off.
I'll hazard a guess as it was 3-0 and we rightfully calmed it second half as that second half on Thursday was just an onslaught.
The rapid captain said they couldntbfind a breath so think how hard it would Be been for our boys playing at that intensity.
Wish people would accept the day for the fantastic result and performance that it was.
The pressure on us was immense. We HAD to win that today
On-loan Rangers winger Ryan Kent says he would consider signing a permanent deal with the Ibrox club.
The 21-year-old, who joined on a temporary deal from Liverpool until the end of the season was outstanding in Thursday’s Europa League win over Rapid Vienna.
“It’s something I’d consider. Definitely,” Kent said when asked about extending his stay in Glasgow. “The fans are amazing here. The club has a lot of history. It’s an amazing club, but that’s a conversation they will have to have with Liverpool – not me. “The fans seem to really enjoy players getting forward, that suits my identity as a footballer. I really enjoy picking the ball up, dribbling at defenders and getting past them.
“When the fans are right behind me, it gives me confidence to do that. “It was incredible on Thursday night. It was the best atmosphere I have ever played in. The fans were definitely the 12th man. They got behind us the whole game and that’s what drove us to get the win in the end.” Kent hopes for more of the same against Hearts today. “Hopefully we will get the same backing against Hearts,” he said. “That comes from our performances. We need to get the best out of the fans and they need to get the best out of us.”
The algorithm used to score players on that website takes in to consideration all manner of data. It includes: tackles won, aerial battles, interceptions, passes, crossing, goals, etc. If Tavernier is in that team than he's performed very well indeed. The guy is criminally underrated amongst our supporters and will always be a whipping for some despite being a huge reason for current European success.
I actually didn't think he started too well, looked nervy. I was definitely one of the "why is he playing again" guys, but he completely proved me wrong. Got stronger as the game went on and showed real composure with the ball at his feet at times.
More of that please!
Tough call going forward as I think Katic is going to be huge for us as well, but it's nice to have a number of good players in each position.
Having had a day to reflect I feel I've calmed down enough to comment on it. Full credit to Livingstone. They were the better team on the day. We never turned up. The reaction on here tho. Wtf. All this talk about stats etc , worse than Pedro if we lose to hearts. Any blind cunt can surely see the progress made in a few months.
I have purposefully avoided the forum since earlier. I’m now annoyed that I came on and subjected myself to this shite. Place is a fucking disaster after anything other than a convincing win.
We need to stop with the hysteria after every loss
?Wait a minute .That's our second loss in about 20 games ffs
Hate losing today .Hate losing any game but we need to be realistic .We can't win every game
Fully expect us to be back on track for the next 2 massive games
I'm all for letting fans let of steam but the threads have been ridiculous today
