JentleJames

I thought we lacked dig in midfield to combat them in the old-firm game. all 3 of them could provide that, hope they can get minutes in the next few weeks and be ready for the semi. Also that’s great news for Rossiter, if he can stay fit and get a run of games he’ll be a cult hero, no point in being cynical, there’s enough cynicism in Scotland from our opponents.

He’s only won the league in 2 though, and one of them is the Saudi Pro league. His Standard Liège team could have won the league with their eyes closed, they had Fellaini, Witsel and Defour in midfield with Mbokani and De Camargo banging the goals in. and he took 3 years to win the league with Club Brugge.

Why is FDB riskier then MPH? Doesn’t make any sense to me, he won 3 league titles in a better league and clearly has a stronger understanding of the Scottish game having played here.

I take your point on board. But he certainly didn’t need much time at Ajax, took over in December a number of points off the pace and won the league the same season...

Really surprised by all the negativity towards Frank De Boer, he won 3 titles in 3 seasons with Ajax, who spent less on transfer fees than we did in the summer, it’s a similar type of job and I think he genuinely has the caliber to win the league. The Palace thing was a nonsense and in no way resembles the job at Rangers, Guardiola would have been sacked there too if they only gave him 4 games. It would be the first post admin manager we’ve appointed with a track record of winning leagues in Europe and competing in the Champions League. Id be really excited by him if he was appointed.

Funnily enough I remember it really well. All the scummy wee Scottish clubs could do was howl at the moon about season tickets so that their putrid owners wouldn’t vote us into the top flight (I didn’t want to get in anyway). They could do fuck all else except post jokes about it. It was the British establishment at HMRC that tried to kill us by making an example of us, they accepted hush money from the big English clubs about their EBT scandals because they didn’t want to cause an uproar and thought it would be fine to kill a Scottish club as long as none of the EPL pish were affected. Enjoy your gubbing by Belgium btw. (In 2 years time because it’s a WC).

Scotland doesn’t hate Rangers KAI, you hate Scotland. well done to the lad! Rangers are Scotland’s most successful club and hopefully fill the National team with good Rangers men in years to come!

Every second thread I read seems to have fans groaning that we should have been winning the league this season, they’ve been pish this season but you’ve got your head in the sand if you think we’re significantly better. If we had better players we’d be top, it’s not the managers fault, or the referees, it’s that we’ve missed opportunity after opportunity because we’re not good enough, I could see we were gonna lose that Killie game after 15 mins, it was flat beyond belief. This is all made up pish from Provan, Walter should never be asked again because he’s given every ounce of service to us already and he wouldn’t have won the league if he had.

It’s been well established that we have a recruitment department in place within the club now with a UK and Europe wide network. Whoever the manager is next season will likely have some input and veto capabilities but the legwork is constant and has little to do with Murty.

I’ve akways really liked him, every time he played against us I thought he’d score...and he usually did. Terrific physical stature and a quality finisher, we spend half the game firing balls across the goal that he’d score in his sleep. Could easily be another Boyd or Novo. For me this comes into a larger point where in recent years we’ve stuck our noses up at players playing for clubs like Motherwell, but some of our title winning players in much better Rangers teams were recruited from Dundee, Killie and Livingston amongst others. The fans seemed to forget where these guys came from.

Had unbelievable quality and I feel for him that he never had the impact here that he wanted. He could have stayed in the US on bigger money than he came here for but decided to take the challenge on at a proper football club instead and try to win trophies. I remember watching him being the line breaker in the spurs team with Bale, Modric, Van Der Vaart and Defoe playing with him and drooling over his passing quality and vision.

Always delighted to see players from Scotland’s number 1 club in the national team

The last 2 chaps we had in charge both had success in their cvs and had managed elsewhere, he’s done fine, when he took over I’d have been happy to finish ahead of Aberdeen and shut the gap on celtic, we're on course to do that. He’s improved the team and given himself a shot at it. The semi-final is huge in deciding if the board will back him in the summer, I guarantee If we win the Scottish Cup people on here will want him offered a 4 year deal. We need to appreciate the process more and not get carried away every time we put 2 results together or lose 1 game, we’re now only 3-4 players away and at this time last season we were maybe 10 players away from them.

I find the obsession with “2 strikers” baffling tbh, the very top teams in Europe like Manchester City, Bayern, etc (people say Barca play a 2 but it’s 2 false 9s) all play 1 out and out “striker” with someone off of them and attack with inside forwards. 1 striker can turn into 2,3 even 4 in a flash. we almost play 2 strikers anyway with Windass playing as a shadow striker attacking the space beyond the centre-half’s.4-4-2 died because managers realised centre half’s enjoy 4-4-2 because they can man mark a striker each and there’s no confusion, but 1 up and 1 off leads to uncertainty. The teams that play 4-4-2 successfully are all counter attacking teams like Leicester and Atlético Madrid, not ones that dominate the ball. The real issue was celtics change to a counter-attacking strategy after the red and we started making poor decisions and lost our discipline.

This all day, it meant we couldn’t exploit the spaces they were leaving in the first half and killed the opportunities we had. we had clearly set-up all week to play against the celtic that pressed high.

Unbelievably disappointed with the result and won’t get over it all week. But for me it was the first team we’ve played like Rangers against them at Ibrox since the 2012 game. We went at them from the first whistle and they were terrified when we put them under pressure. But we let them off the hook, the red card changed the game in their favour because they went into a structure and countered us rather than the other way about.

Good luck to agent Mohsni and his undercover op to keep them down! ?

If we steamroll them on Sunday, even the most extreme, fringe conspiracy theorists will know they’ve been beaten by Rangers. And it’ll hurt them down to the pit of their stomach.

Ah ok mate ?

Hamilton, Dundee, Kille and Hibs is 4 losses is it not?

Jeremy Clement went on to play 140 games for PSG and 170 games for St Etienne. Theres some good obscure ones who maybe played for a season in a big league etc though like Mervan Celik playing in Serie A. Jesper Christiansen had a good career after leaving us and played in the Champions league loads of times for FC Copenhagen.

I think Murty will revert to the more natural 4-2-3-1 and his post match comments alluded to that by talking about how they were making the same runs. Foderingham Tavernier Bates Martin John Docherty Goss Candeias Windass Murphy Morelos or Cummings The first goal is crucial against this level of side and can see the early stages being tight but a goal would open the game up and that would suit us.