Colin Traive

Get Davies to fuck. Cost us a goal against Betis, he’ll be pretty rusty and he was already shite to begin with. Not a game to fanny about with experimental formations. Usual back four, Lundstram and Sterling in front of them, McCausland (Wright), Diomande and Lawrence supporting Dessers. Subs will be crucial imo so Silva and Roofe will have their part to play late on.

Gavin “clipboard” Strachan

Hope you’re wrong and that Lens also don't realise that hammer throwers are allowed to kick lumps out of anyone wearing a Rangers strip.

Reasonable compromise would be to ask Lens to extend the loan until next January window, on the same terms as existing arrangements.

I love the fact that the arse end of it is hanging over a cemetery. Dead or alive, shitting on Glasgow since 1888.

Someone needs to tell him that there’s a ‘t’ in Iwata. Hearing him going on about Iwa’a is worse than the fucking adverts.

That would be an ecumenical matter.

Shrewd diversionary tactic, get your retaliation in first. They might well be scumbags but they’re not daft. The decision to award Hearts penalty is getting ripped apart from all sides but Iwata’s arm actually knocks the ball out of the box, although he knew nothing about it. Exactly the same scenario with Lundstram but I don’t remember a fraction of the frenzy or outrage?

The refs association have released a statement this afternoon saying almost exactly that! And the scum statement (yes, they’re back to asking for ‘clarification’ again ) is designed to pre-empt Brenda getting hauled up for his comments. Retaliate first - the scum way

They only need another half dozen first team injuries to understand what we’ve had to deal with.

He mentioned last night the importance of developing more young players. Said that some of the kids he brought through in Belgium and Monaco went on to play for Real Madrid and clubs in the Bundesliga. Thats part of his thinking for our future. Didn't sound like we were a stepping stone, more like a substantial long term project. Went down very well with the assembled bears.

I wondered if the scum attitude was right going to Tynecastle. After our result, they should have been encouraged but they seemed lax, almost complacent. Might be that, if we’d won, the scum might have approached the game differently even on a sub-conscious level. Alternatively, I’m talking shite…

He was quite open about it. Was told at the outset he would have ‘zero to spend’ (his exact words).

No, he was talking about the synergy between the players and the support and how important it is to the players especially in a tight game and we’re pushing for a goal. If fans can stick with the team, it helps the team. At that point, a guy got up to go for a pish and got booed

Said that he was in the office on Sunday preparing for Benfica and didn’t watch the Tynecastle game but he was watching Alex (Rae) so he knew what was happening

Clement said he was told that the transfer budget In January was zero which is why DioMande and Cortes deals structured that way. Butland really at home. Sticking to Clement’s “one game at a time” Clement says “if he doesn’t, he is out and I play Dujon there”

Souness on good form : “George McCluskey is only famous because I fucking kicked him” Nice tributes to Jimmy Bell and Walter. Clement loving it big time. Cracking atmosphere

Nope. Looking forward to it even more after a weekend where we have marginally improved our position. 😎

If that happens, then the decision to leave him at Tynecastle will have been a masterstroke

Danilo, Sima, Cortes, Cantwell. The only fit forward left is the one we’d happily sacrifice. Take the equivalent players from the scum squad and see how they’d cope. Cortes, Diomande and Silva have helped since joining but we’ve lost one of them already. Every week that passes, the decision to overlook Shankland and Armstrong looks like a false economy given the money that a league title would earn us. Be interesting to see SFA reaction to Clement’s “kicked off the park” comments. Pretty disrespectful (although accurate) and we’ve seen managers pulled up for comments like this in the past. If they don’t take him to task, does that mean that they know he’s spot on?

Revealed : the entire Rangers medical treatment supply kit.

I really don’t think he has a choice. He has a squad of journeymen who are either carrying a knock but playing through it or are recovering from injury and nowhere near fully fit. Or guys like Jack and Roofe, good for ten minutes every three months. Had we not suffered a ridiculous number of injuries, players like Lawrence, McCausland, Wright, Raskin wouldn’t be near the first team right now and I’m not convinced that Lundstram is 100% right now either. He doesn’t have the luxury of choice, it’s about getting eleven men on the pitch, as close to being fit as possible. No other team or manager would be where we are with such carnage in terms of injuries and a medical team who seem unable to get injured players back for months at a time.

Ironic that scum fans are moaning about underinvestment while a few million on Shankland and Armstrong would have saved us from your scenario and put us in a hugely stronger position.

To be fair, it’s not rotation for rotation’s sake. The injury situation is so horrendous (and getting worse, not better) that he’s trying to give as many players as many minutes as he can so that we can still field eleven players and fill the subs bench. As for Cantwell and McCausland getting kicked out the game, just imagine the outcry had that been Furuhashi and O’Riley. The Motherwell players crossed the line between pressuring and fouling on umpteen occasions today but it went completely unpunished. Injuries and corrupt officiating remain bigger obstacles to us than the scum.