The Ibrox Derry
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15 minutes ago, Loyal and Blue said:
The other night I watched a 9 in a row documentary which featured players like McCoist, Laudrup, Albertz and Alan McLaren being interviewed, as well as Walter and Archie. For those who don't remember, we almost blew a 14 point lead going for our 9th title. We had just beat Celtic and were on cruise control, when we started to drop silly points. We lost to Dundee United at home and started to draw games, by the time it came to the last old firm game, there was just 5 points between us, lose at porkhead, and the gap would be 2. The reason they said this happened was complacency. Now we know what happened that season, but if some of the best players to grace our club and one of the finest managers can suffer from complacency, then as much as last night was hard to take, I'll accept it once. Learn from last night and make sure they are better prepared for the rest of the season. To use a cliché, it was a game of 2 halves. This is why we all love to watch football, the unpredictability.
Exactly, a freak result like this was going to happen sooner or later, that's just football, but it's better happening now and us getting the wake up call. If we look at all the League results over the last month, virtually every result at the top of that table has went in our favour, so much so that its been quite unreal at times, so we have alot to be grateful for. Obviously looking forfor a big reaction v QofS, I'm sure we will get it.
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7 hours ago, centenarystand said:
What angers me was that clown in the stand spying on us would have been shitting his pants after an hour but at full time he would have been satisfied by what he saw overall. We really showed our weaknesses tonight.
Yes, that is a good point, but let's hope he and his bitch tell their players that they have nothing to worry about against us, I think they are arrogant enough to do that, and it could actually play right into our hands. That's what I'm hoping anyway.
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31 minutes ago, RFCRobertson said:
Like the rest of you, i'm pissed off, confused and pretty disappointed after tonight's result. Should've been out of sight, easily 3+ goals in the first halve alone.
But we need to look at the bigger picture here.
Firstly; there is always going to be losses and draws. We can't help that, the teams going to have bad days, be complacent and worse get cocky. But a loss is something that happens to every team, regardless of stature or quality.
Secondly, It hasn't affected the table that much. We're still in the lead by 11 points with a game in hand. The league is still very much in our favor. and there's only 7 games to go.
Thirdly, It's a wake up call for a lot of people. We're a very good side, to the point that we can dominate a spl team. But we're not always going to have that. We'll have off days, and that ain't a bad thing. Because you can learn more from a loss than a win. So this if anything will call into question our subs, our attack, our defense and our players attitudes following an early lead. They need to keep their head. It's not over till the final whistle. Our late wins have proven that.
Like I said at the start, I'm pretty gutted. Especially since I've read that my favorite player a bit to do with it. but all we can do is take it in our stride, the team can learn from it and we can come out of it a better side.
Great post mate, got to step from the problem into the solution. Good point you made about sometimes learning more from a defeat than a win. A reality check does no harm, it has actually grounded me as a supporter tonight. Like alot of folk, I was getting carried away aswell, and with that type of thinking sometimes we can be setting ourselves up to fail. I'm sure we will bounce back next week.
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Deila and the mumbling lady boy are that arrogant they will hopefully be telling their players tomorrow that they have nothing to worry about, perfect if they do, will play right intae our barra.
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The last 4 weeks have been that good results wise for Rangers, nearly every result in this league has went our way, our own results and other teams, it's been a bit freakish actually. A blip like this was going to happen at some point sooner or later. Its the law of averages that happens in football, you cant win them all. If it's going to happen, and it has, it's probably happened at a reasonably good time, 4 weeks ago could have been a real problem. MW can now get the players refocussed, kick their balls, win the next few league games and be firing again in time for the Semi Final. At least we have got that bad result out of the way, and it's happened at the right time. Just trying to be positive here.
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If you lose a 2 goal lead with 20 minutes to go in any game, you simply do not deserve to win the 3 points.
Concentration and focus really needs to be worked on.
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All these arse lickers sucking up to Lennon and promoting him for the Celtic job may actually work in our favour as it's sure to cause further unrest and uncertainty at Bourneville Avenue. Not that that was the intention of McCoist and co but it might benefit us.
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6 minutes ago, HG5 said:
Indeed.
Substitutes (& only one!) had only recently been introduced back then, so a bit of versatility would have been helpful.
Also, the idea of having cover in every position hadn't been thought of, so folk would have just had to fit in!
Mind the days when teams only used about 14 or 15 players a season?
Aye and won championships and cups with 14 players who were getting kicked all over the park for the entire season. There was however very unscrupulous use of players by club directors and many were forced to take an unhealthy amount of cortisone injections, which in later years had a devastating effect on their health and mobility. It was a bit of a liberty at times.
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10 hours ago, Helicopter Sundae said:
Some jolly japester had a birthday cake made for her husband...the outside was beautifully finished, and decorated in white icing, with Rangers crests and red white and blue stars, then asked the baker to include a wee surprise...when cut into it revealed layers of green and white. Iain took it well.
Oh the craic, as poor Iain cut into it and realised he was about to become famous. The BBC have interviewed him, it has made the baker very popular too ( I bet it has) with her social media lighting up. She even said it wasn't the first time she had been asked to do it.
Meanwhile in a parallel universe, can you imagine if it had been done to some septic fan?
Mother " When wee Declan cut intae it, we saw the red, white and blue inside, ma mother had a heart attack and nearly drapped deid. Poor wee Declan started screaming and we had to take him to the infirmary tae get him tranquilised. Ah'm suing the bitch that made that for everything she's got. We phoned the Iraish Embassy, and they advised us to push it as far as we could, get compie aff everyone"
Exactly mate, nothing but a bunch of old hypocrites, just like their Cardinals, Bishops and Popes.
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Just now, HG5 said:
Had several games in the 'number 9' in season 68-69, then a few at 8 & 10 the next season, which he finished at full back.
That's interesting, but makes perfect sense as he had an amazing scoring record from full back, so could probably play up front with great aptitude. Top players back then had 2 sometimes 3 positions that they were more than capable of playing in, they weren't as systemised, as they grew up with the game and excelled in all areas of the park.
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3 minutes ago, HG5 said:
Was George McLean scapegoated, as well?
Ah - didn't know that about Hynd!
Forrest and McLean were transferred only a few weeks later, but every cloud has a silver lining, and Jardine was stepped up from the reserves into the 1st team around the same time, although I can't remember Sandy playing up front, if he did it must have been short term. Yes Hynds uncle was indeed Bill Shankly on his mother's side.
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4 minutes ago, foghorn leghorn said:
How can he come out of hiding, be best buddies with the Lurgan Lout, praise the lout, endorse him for the Celic job and take £800k from our club?
As it's been mention previously, why not praise the Warburton and Weir partnership.
You let us down Ally.
Because he failed, His ego won't allow him to praise W&W.
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17 minutes ago, jim white's a bear said:
Without trying to go off topic to your post, he won't be here 7-10 years.
The turnaround in fortunes isn't solely down to MW, nor DW. The club have already said that the ethos of the footballing side has been completely transformed from top to bottom. I'm more than confident if and when he does leave we won't be changing our approach to football.
If he leaves that legacy and footballing ethos to be carried on by others when he does go, that would be good enough for me. It is actually very encouraging and reassuring to hear that the club have said this, I didn't know that. It would be great to watch this style of football generation after generation no matter who the custodian taking us forward is.
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Lennon is a serial stalker, predator and intimidator of wimmen, a low life, the thug should be cast onto his fat belly like the rest of the serpent world. Anybody who is worth their salt would have no dealings with this character, less spend time socialising with him. He is a hater of all things Rangers, of all things Protestant and of all things that are wholesome and good.
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What encourages me about Warburton, amongst other things, is that he certainly isn't in football for the money, by his own admission he is VERY comfortable in that area of life, so I keep hoping that his plans are very much long term at Rangers, 7-10 years. He is the first Rangers manager for donkeys years that we really cannot afford to lose. Personally I do think he will be here long term, as I believe we are in the first steps of embarking on another legendary period in our clubs history, not only domestically, but in Europe as well. It's wonderful to be in on the journey, can't fucking wait tbh.
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28 minutes ago, fanaticCR said:
Can take a fuck to themselves for all eternity.
Not long enough ha
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Rangers and the SFA, Its not a new thing, 1987 Butcher, Woods and Roberts. 1994 Duncan Ferguson. Although it was the PFs that decided to prosecute, the SFA were more than happy and willing to help them in their investigations. This mob have been no friends of Rangers for many a year. A parcel of rogues.
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2 minutes ago, HG5 said:
I think he - part of the clear-out after the Berwick game, iirc.
Yes, Hynd and Jim Forrest were made the scapegoats. Roger Hynd was the nephew of Bill Shankly.
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1 minute ago, Willis said:
Nothing ball my arse, if hedve got the ball the keeper would've been down and wouldve been Mols and Wallace(?) against the defender
Having now seen the footage for the first time in 17 years, yes it was more than a nothing ball.
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33 minutes ago, roboscot said:
The Mols/Khan tackle is around the 4minute mark. The keeper came out to cut off Rod Wallace and then has to keep going as his clearance wasn't good enough. That's why he ends up in the tackle, which he won, with Mols. Mols landing was indeed the cause of the injury.
Looking at this again after many years, it was actually a great tackle by Khan, there defo wasn't any attempt to injure Mols, was just one of those things.
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5 minutes ago, Orange Persson said:
IIRC top man Willoughby was crocked?
He was, and Hynd who could play centre half and centre forward stepped in up front. Alot of players in the old days could play in both these positions. Derek Johnstone at Rangers, the famous John Charles was another. I seen that John Terry tried it for Chelsea last week for the last 15 minutes, to his credit he didn't look totally out of place, but then again it was for only the last few minutes.
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3 hours ago, williemacbrd said:
Anyone remember the guy that watched a game in every ground in the Scottish and English leagues back in maybe 82-83, i think he was the first to ever do this and his last ground was ours because he said he was saving the best till last, he was on the pitch at halftime.
I think it was Simon Inglis, who authored "The Football Grounds of Great Britain". A great book, I have it somewhere, need to dig it out and have another read. I have the recent " Ibrox --Temple of Dreams" looks good, but just not got round to reading it yet.
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18 hours ago, HG5 said:
He came flying out in an area you've rarely, if ever, seen a goalkeeper before.
Mols' honesty in trying to hurdle him, instead of the modern way of going down under a 'touch' caused the injury.
Yeah, you have totally summed it up mate, that is exactly what happened
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18 hours ago, HG5 said:
Gubbed them in 67, too - just couldn't score.
True, i remember Roger Hynds miss aswell, was he not playing as a striker though in that game
Let's keep things in perspective
in Jimmy Bell's Kitroom
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Exactly, the over reaction has always been the same with Rangers mate. There were guys publically saying things to each other last night that was totally out of order. We all hurt at a defeat and the manner of it, but we should never ever ever be turning on each other, definitely not on a public forum, leave that shite to the mhanky mob. Swearing or abusing a fellow Rangers fan, for me, is like doing it to a brother or sister. By all means have healthy debate and opinions, but we do not abuse our own. Again, we leave that to the time.