On This Day

[Don54 25,548]

 

[SeparateEntityMyArse 53,787]

Seems like a lifetime ago.

[wully 47,602]

I got the video and a 'the goals are FLOwing' t-shirt out the Club shop.

[Don54 25,548]

3 minutes ago, Sportingintegritymyarse said:

Seems like a lifetime ago.

Sadly it does.

[Captain Hilts 12,819]

I can't even watch these now tbh. 

[McEwan's Lager 30,571]

I remember this game as a 11 year old boy watching it on TV. More than half my life ago but it seems like yesterday.

It was a bit of a false dawn though I just remember us being gash that season and allowing us to be bullied by teams without a tenth of the skill we had.

[DW1872 1,207]

Probably didn't properly appreciate these hidings at the time because we regularly beat them. Nice watch.

Also, what a fucking midfield, De Boer, Ferguson, Reyna and big beautiful Jorg. Can't believe how far we've fallen.

[McEwan's Lager 30,571]

What a nice strip that was though.

I had mine with Number 9 on the back. Out the Soccer Shop or whatever it was called on Sauchiehall Street. Happy days.

[G.E.C. 18,813]

Just now, McEwan's Lager said:

What a nice strip that was though.

I had mine with Number 9 on the back. Out the Soccer Shop or whatever it was called on Sauchiehall Street. Happy days.

My favorite Nike kit was the one with the red in it. Season 01/02.

[McEwan's Lager 30,571]

17 minutes ago, Captain Hilts said:

I can't even watch these now tbh. 

It’s pretty difficult. Even watching shit from the 2010/11 season is difficult.

[McEwan's Lager 30,571]

Just now, G.E.C. said:

My favorite Nike kit was the one with the red in it. Season 01/02.

That was ok but had too much red in it for my liking. 

Nike made some class gear though. The goalie tops were amazing.

[Captain Hilts 12,819]

11 minutes ago, McEwan's Lager said:

It’s pretty difficult. Even watching shit from the 2010/11 season is difficult.

I remember how unbelievably happy I felt after winning the league at Rugby Park that season. It still astounds me what has happened since. 

[McEwan's Lager 30,571]

Just now, Captain Hilts said:

I remember how unbelievably happy I felt after winning the league at Rugby Park that season. It still astounds me what has happened since. 

I watched that in my mates house and got a bit teary.

I enjoyed that season more than any other perhaps apart from 07/08. I didn’t get to a single game cause I was overseas but it was just magic watching every game on Rangers TV.

That team had a lot of fight and it’s especially difficult watching it back knowing half the team became deserters.

[ForeverAndEver 71,606]

16 minutes ago, G.E.C. said:

My favorite Nike kit was the one with the red in it. Season 01/02.

Probably my favourite ever, just because it was my first 

[Captain Hilts 12,819]

1 minute ago, McEwan's Lager said:

I watched that in my mates house and got a bit teary.

I enjoyed that season more than any other perhaps apart from 07/08. I didn’t get to a single game cause I was overseas but it was just magic watching every game on Rangers TV.

That team had a lot of fight and it’s especially difficult watching it back knowing half the team became deserters.

I think alot of fans, including myself, though we'd chucked the league away after Christmas that year which made it even more sweet.

[thedarvelmarvel 796]

5 hours ago, Don54 said:

watching that i think on a good day we could have 3/4 more  easily

 

[Gazza1212 1,212]

Remember this as the first game we watched in my mates house extension, a purpose built Rangers bar in Springboig complete with bar and full size snooker table. Every time I went for a piss we scored. Bastards ended up locking me in the bog in the hope we'd hit double figures  

[Terry Hurlock Loyal 12,133]

Flo was a quality signing at the time, yes the benefit of  hindsight about the 12m fee is a lazy argument in my opinion. However, that was what he was worth at the time, and when he was playing for Chelsea he was a top class player - the ball to feet in the box and finish was sublime. I still say he was worth the cost of 12m at the time of signing, as we needed to push on in Europe. Sadly it never worked out, but we wasted way over 12 m on total duds and it is unfair to single him out.

[Smile 26,610]

1 minute ago, Terry Hurlock Loyal said:

Flo was a quality signing at the time, yes the benefit not hindsight about the 12m fee. However, that as what he was worth, and when he was playing for Chelsea he was a top class player - the ball to feet in the box and finish was sublime. I still say he was worth the cost of 12m at the time of signing, as we needed to push on in Europe. Sadly it never worked out, but we wasted way over 12 m on total duds and it is unfair to single him out.

We did get a decent portion of the fee back as well if I remember right.

[The Beast 9,229]

I remember it so well. 

What really brings it home is how good a team they had, their team then would have taken 10 off today's "invincibles", and we destroyed them.

Just yet another reminder of how far we've fallen.

[Don54 25,548]

1 hour ago, thedarvelmarvel said:

watching that i think on a good day we could have 3/4 more  easily

Yeah despite the scoreline I was slightly pissed off we didn't at least 3 or 4 more 

[We Will Follow Rangers 12,942]

58 minutes ago, Terry Hurlock Loyal said:

Flo was a quality signing at the time, yes the benefit of  hindsight about the 12m fee is a lazy argument in my opinion. However, that was what he was worth at the time, and when he was playing for Chelsea he was a top class player - the ball to feet in the box and finish was sublime. I still say he was worth the cost of 12m at the time of signing, as we needed to push on in Europe. Sadly it never worked out, but we wasted way over 12 m on total duds and it is unfair to single him out.

think his average in his 3 full seasons at Chelsea was a goal every 3 games, thats not too shabby in EPL terms, mind you they only paid 300k for him. when you consider Chelsea had already signed his replacement in Gudjohnsen for 4.5m, who had as similar sort of goal return, but was arguably a better player, then it suggests it mibbe wasn't such a good deal for us.

A 12m striker in those days was Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink territory, he'd have ripped shit up up here.

[The Beast 9,229]

38 minutes ago, wewillfollowrangers said:

think his average in his 3 full seasons at Chelsea was a goal every 3 games, thats not too shabby in EPL terms, mind you they only paid 300k for him. when you consider Chelsea had already signed his replacement in Gudjohnsen for 4.5m, who had as similar sort of goal return, but was arguably a better player, then it suggests it mibbe wasn't such a good deal for us.

A 12m striker in those days was Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink territory, he'd have ripped shit up up here.

It was never about us wanting or needing Flo from a playing perspective. It was all about David Murray putting down a marker based on his "you spend a fiver, we'll spend a tenner" strategy, which I and pretty much every other fan lapped up at the time.

But you're absolutely right, if we were committed to spending that kind of money there were many better options with JFH being a good example.

[Unicorn 12]

That game aside we were utter rotten that season.  That season was when the balance of power shifted in Scottish football and, being honest, hasn't really shifted back apart from a brief period under Walter.

[The Beast 9,229]

22 minutes ago, Unicorn said:

That game aside we were utter rotten that season.  That season was when the balance of power shifted in Scottish football and, being honest, hasn't really shifted back apart from a brief period under Walter.

Not quite, the pendulum went back and forth a couple of times with McLeish's teams before Walter's return and three in a row and the the UEFA final run.

It was the financial meltdown and the appointment if McCoist which was the watershed.