JentleJames

He is the head of recruitment though and identifies the direction of targets to go for which at the moment is the best Scottish players we can afford. Its easy to say this was a no brainier and would have happened without him but last season we signed Portuguese pish instead of players like this. Heads of recruitment and scouts are different jobs and I think there’s a big misunderstanding about that and his role on here.

On the topic of Beerman I never really rated him, thought he looked out of his depth apart from a reasonable game against Partick Thistle at home. He came into the team at the same time as Bates, and Bates seemed to relish the chance and improved massively in the year since, I get the impression Beerman didn’t improve from the introduction to first team football. You never really know how players will react until they get the chance.

The game was at Ibrox, I was there, we actually played some decent football (probably passed the ball better) but Leicester had maturity and cutting edge above us. Fast forward to now and the catalogue of games against top European sides has seen us gain what we were missing in that match in abundance, credit to Craig Mulholland and his staff and I think our academy is going places.

I just get the impression everyone on the site would love if he snubbed Murty so will twist anything to make that the case.

The Candeias celebration was about team unity, people looking for it as being disrespectful to Murty are clutching at straws. He was showing how much he cared and especially to Halliday who’s had a nightmare all week. Candeias showed with his comments about Pedro that he doesn’t play for or against any manager, he plays for Rangers.

He might as well have, he fucking embarrassed us more than any C****c player. Making bigman comments about how he was gonna do this or that all pre-season and delivering fuck all , his performance in the 5-1 game was worse than anyone on Sunday. Rangers was too big for him, relegation teams in England were his level, honestly have no idea how you can defend him.

I hope he loses every game of his career. Absolute thug who never realised how lucky he was to get to play for us.

Well he won 4 titles with Ajax immediately after coming in even though they appointed him in December and had given up on any title hopes.

Aye Warbs was great.

The problem for everyone that says they’d rather not be in Europe is that if we’re not, then we have to play in the tinpot league cup group stages against teams from league 1 and 2. which incidentally start 2 weeks before the 2nd qualifying round and the same week as the 1st. Qualifying for Europe is the best scenario here for every aspect.

That’s it (unless Well win the cup) the 2nd round date is now much later and even if we get pumped out of it it’ll give us a proper pre season and Europe will start at about the same time as the league season for once.

This was before the format change was announced. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018–19_UEFA_Europa_League

4th will still qualify us unless Motherwell won the cup.

That isn’t true. 3rd or 4th enter on the 12th July and 2nd this season will enter on the 26th July (unless Motherwill win the cup and they’ll take the second round spot).

The format has changed significantly this season, finishing second is more important than ever because of the way the draw dates have changed. if we finish second (and celtic win the cup) we won’t start our European campaign till the 26th July which is the latest a Scottish club has started for 7 years. This would give us significant advantages in terms of pre season. On the contrary if we finish 3rd or 4th (4th only gets you into Europe if celtic win the cup) we enter very early again on the 12th July which will give us the same problems as last year. Theyve added a preliminary round for the smallest countries so we’d either enter at the second or third qualifying round out of 5. Its a hard task to qualify but we could have a much better prep time than last year.

I’ve got sympathy for the fans that can’t make it but the SPFL know if we played them at 4AM on Mars there would be a sizeable support. Its Rangers, it’s what we do, we took more fans to Florida than most in Scotland would take to Motherwell.

If we win the Scottish Cup and finish strongly 2nd every Tom dick and Harry will want to offer him a 3 year contract. I promised not to guess whether he will or won’t stay again till the end of the season because ive changed my mind about 10 times.

He’s a dirty thug. Outside of celtic probably my least favourite player in the league, everytime I’ve seen him he’s committed utterly cowardly challenges. His deliberate elbow on Miller in the first game at County this season was worthy of a lengthy ban.He’s also a useless player.

Don’t really understand why so many ask for English managers like Pardew Allardyce and Warnock. None of them have ever won anything or managed clubs with real expectations of trophies. They spend every game with 11 men behind the ball and try to win games with set pieces and long balls.

There were folk on here saying FDB is a failure because he had 4 games at Palace and got sacked without being able to implement his style. Yet Pardew has failed spectacularly in his last 3 jobs now in England, and quite frankly was given more time than he deserved, but he might be exciting? Bizarre.

When Red Bull took over Salzburg they declared “this is a new club with no history” and the Austrian FA had to threaten them with legal action to tell them to remove that they were founded in 2005 from the club website. Even joking about it is too far for me, they ruin football and everything we stand for.

I think he means that he believes Butcher is bitter against us now (going by BT commentary) but was clearly a great bear celebrating so much when McDonald scored the goal. In reality I think he was just a shite commentator.

I still think the players are playing for him, the second half showed that today, they were never playing for Caixinha. Ovbiously the general feeling just now is gut wrenching disappointment but there’s no real alternative to him seeing out the season.

It’s got nothing to do with amounts and everything to do with our 2 biggest fees being for Pena and Herrera, we spent more this summer than Aberdeen have in the last 20 years but we’ll be behind them soon.

We spent a fucking ridiculous amount of money in the summer! More than celtic did, we need to spend it well is the issue.