JentleJames

Last season the recruitment team wasn’t in place over the summer, the coaching staff basically had free reign to sign whomever they wanted.

More top level experience than 84 capped Croatian international Niko Kranjcar? Who played for a spurs team that got to the quarter final of the champions league. Barton played for a string of relegation battlers and was POTY in the championship.

The Montrose player that scored a 25 yard screamer to nick a 1-1 draw in Division 3 was applauded. He applauded the main stand as well after the game and it was a nice touch.

The under 21s beat France this week with McCrorie outstanding in goal and Gilmour running the show, and they beat South Korea today to reach the semi’s of the Toulon tournament, the Mexico game was a bunch of 4th and 5th choice fringe players playing a superior side. There’s players coming through believe me and Rangers are right at the forefront.

This. Lots of managers haven’t completed the license yet, they get dispensation from the association.

You’re definitely wrong. Especially considering the players don’t return for another 2 weeks, he’d have been sitting in the office drinking coffee. Its just a contractual thing that he “starts on 1st June”. He’s also obliged to turn up to the pro license course because if he doesn’t gain his pro license he’s not allowed to manage us.

I think a lot of posters are confusing players being unfit for being shite.

Those 3 clubs want easy qualifying ties because if they don’t make the group stage they’ll sack their managers. Qualifying will be a pre-requisite.

Let’s worry about the 1st qualifying round tie first, there were folk on here talking about how to get to Cyprus last year before the Progres game. If we can get past the first tie we’ve already outperformed last season. But I’ll add one thing, everyone is speaking about who we want to avoid, but if we do come up against one of the top clubs I bet when they look down the list and see minnows from Ireland and the Faroe Islands.....Rangers under a rejuvenated Gerrard at a packed Ibrox is the last team they’ll want to draw.

anything we get will be absolutely minimal, we only signed him in 2016, so only has 2 years of development and actually quite a limited number of first team appearances. We will only be due compensation if we offered a contract and he accepted another one and a high percentage of any fixed fee will go to Raith Rovers.

What he says about our policy upon being founded is absolute nonsense.celtic of course didnt even exist. We we were founded by 4 young men who thought football looked like an interesting game to play. What happened 50 or 60 years later was reflective of tensions in society, a lot of Irish immigrants arrived seeking work and there was a distrust of them among the native population much in the same way you see in England just now with the situation that caused Brexit, society has moved on and the Football club moved on with it, I don’t care what religion a player is if they love playing for Rangers and I think most fans are the same. Football clubs will ultimately always reflect society.

I got blocked years ago when I called him out for finding a way to blame the racist Chelsea fans towards the guy on the train on us and compared Rangers fans to the national front. Utter scumbag of the highest order.

The 3rd division team were the worst in our history, we had appalling players and were trashed by ICT and Dundee United in the cups. As bad as we are now the 3rd division team would have been lucky to avoid relegation from this top flight. Having Argyriou, Kyle, Hegarty, Cribari et al in the team gives me shivers to think about it. The Motherwell win that season blinkered people’s memories.

It’s the national coefficient, every Scottish club is seeded in Q1, the national coefficient acts as a default and our points are added onto it which at the moment we have almost zero.

I was really looking forward to pre-season because a second placed finish would have meant not playing a competitive game till 26th July and having the best possible pre-season for quite a while, but finishing 3rd and playing 2 weeks beforehand means we probably have less exciting options now.

In the past our players like Ferguson or Ricksen would have been itching all summer waiting for the first game against Hibs or whatever nothing team Allan signs for, and fucking nailed him with the first tackle of the game after what he did yesterday. Nothing to do with who he plays for, it was a cowardly potential career ending challenge on a young kid with a bad injury record in an end of season game. Shows you how much the players involved care about their team mates.

If he played like Neymar I wouldn’t care if he was Catholic, Jew, Hindu or a Scientologist. He should leave because he’s shit, not because of his religion.

I think if you read into what he’s saying I get the impression Miller didn’t exactly slap Murty about after the semi, and I’m starting to worry about who actually made the decision to suspend the pair and what it was based on. If he’d done something out of order surely the players would have no time for Miller? Was the whole thing an overreaction and deflection tactic by the board to take minds off the 4-0? Or even Murty himself taking it out on them?

It’s hard to say because the Europa League qualifier comes so early that the players already here will probably have a fitness advantage and advantage of having already been used to playing here. i think a better question might be who starts his first league game. I think Tav, Rossiter, Candeias, Murphy from today, as well as McCrorie and Morelos from Tuesday (plus maybe a surprise like Holt) could all start the first Europa League game. But it will be maybe only 3 of them starting the first league game once our business is complete and the players are more settled in.

Adding to above, the issue for me from an attacking sense hasn’t been our possession but our end product, it’s incredible the number of times in matches we get to the byline inside the box and don’t get on to the end of deliveries and cutbacks. It’s also apparent from looking at the league table that we score as many goals as anyone in the league, it’s defensive issues that need to be rectified.

Jesus ? every professional team works on passing every day, we’ve scored some outstanding flowing passing goals this season like the 4th at Accies, second at St Johnstone or the first against Hearts. We’re not Barcelona but we’re the second best possession side in the league by quite some distance.

How’s this for a conspiracy....If Hibs win tomorrow (by less than 10 clear goals) and Aberdeen lose on Sunday....a draw between Rangers and Hibs would get us second and Hibs into Europe in 3rd with Aberdeen rooted in 4th. ??? 90 mins of passing the ball across the back 4 like the end of helicopter Sunday anyone?

celtic winning the league got about 2 mins on Sky Sports News, Rangers appointing Gerrard got 24 hour rolling news coverage with comments from every premier league manager and every player under the sun. We can all guess the ins and outs of how he’ll perform but the board have played a blinder here, it’s all about the Rangers and it will be all summer. Earlier in the week id never felt that we’d been smaller, I remember how big we are again and what the name Rangers means, excited beyond belief for next season now.

Malky Thomson is the head coach I’m sure, Brian is the assistant.

We’ve went 7 years without winning the league before, make no mistake the last 7 years have been the lowest in a football sense in our entire history. Football does in work in cycles and you saying it doesn’t won’t change that. They love this because they think we’ll give up, if you want to give up then don’t darken our door again, because the days we beat them, win a major trophy, and ultimately win 55 will be 1000 times more glorious than today will be painful. Remember the pain today when those days come and it’ll give you life long perspective.