We need to stop the negativity

[tomger 874]

8 hours ago, Dave Hedgehog said:

I have been reading a lot on here about how we will fuck it against the sheep and start poorly in the league.

Lets think positively here, celtic aren’t a great team. They aren’t close to being a great team.

Last two times we have played them we have battered them all over the park.

They got pumped in Europe by a bang average team, FC Copenhagen.

Lets show some positivity and take these cunts head on and stop the cheating smelly bastards and get our title back. 

BRING IT ON. 

Think your being negative with your thread title. It should be: We need to start the positivity

 

[KeyserSoze 14,531]

I wish we had a couple of hammer throwers in our team. 

 

[Doron 118]

I’m planning to reassess after the game.

[kelvd1873 7,159]

9 hours ago, Malkytfp1 said:

celtic aren't a good team, but they know how to win in this league. Canny ignore that.

It’s about time their luck ran out imo. 

[gj923 1,457]

I think we will beat the sheep easily and win most of the early games quite easily as our match sharpness will be better than most of the other SPL teams who have not had much of a preseason.

its when we get into the turn of the year what happens with the same players as last year.....can they handle the pressure can they eek out wins now instead of draws.

[GersInCanada 7,775]

Tom English (I know) has a decent article on where much of our negativity comes from

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53585368

[eejay the dj 31,964]

11 hours ago, Dave Hedgehog said:

I have been reading a lot on here about how we will fuck it against the sheep and start poorly in the league.

Lets think positively here, celtic aren’t a great team. They aren’t close to being a great team.

Last two times we have played them we have battered them all over the park.

They got pumped in Europe by a bang average team, FC Copenhagen.

Lets show some positivity and take these cunts head on and stop the cheating smelly bastards and get our title back. 

BRING IT ON. 

Miracles can happen .That’s being positive 👍

[Misteral 2,932]

1 hour ago, GersInCanada said:

Tom English (I know) has a decent article on where much of our negativity comes from

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53585368

If you've read it then you should C&P the article. The BBC don't deserve more hits. 

[Dave Hedgehog 10,673]

14 minutes ago, eejay the dj said:

Miracles can happen .That’s being positive 👍

As they say.....keep believing mate 👍

[Willis 20,919]

Folk always act like a bit of negativity or abuse from fans will have a tremendous effect on the players

If a bit of abuse affects a players performance, especially with the money we pay them, then they aren't good enough to be playing for us in the first place

[Dave Hedgehog 10,673]

3 minutes ago, Misteral said:

If you've read it then you should C&P the article. The BBC don't deserve more hits. 

As last season's title challenge wobbled and then collapsed in the new year, it seemed the Rangers players needed a darkened room in a sports psychologist's clinic more so than a full stadium at Ibrox.

Under Steven Gerrard, this team has shown its twin personalities in back-to-back seasons. 

A side that has been good enough to achieve positive results home and away in Europe against opposition from Croatia, Slovenia, Russia, Austria, Spain, Denmark, Poland, Netherlands and Portugal, but one that couldn't get the job done against Hibernian, St Johnstone (twice), Kilmarnock (on four separate occasions across two campaigns), Hearts, Aberdeen and Hamilton Academical. 

Why does the 10 matter so much?

Can Rangers afford to sell Morelos?

Which Premiership manager are you?

Last season, they beat Midtjylland 4-2 and 3-1. Midtjylland went on to become Danish champions. Against Legia Warsaw, Rangers drew 0-0 away and won 1-0 at home. Legia went on to become Polish champions. They drew with Porto away and beat them 2-0 at home. Porto went on to claim the Portuguese title. Rangers beat Braga home and away. Braga finished third in Portugal.

How could the same squad that beat a side like Porto 3-1 over two games - and run over the top of celtic in their own backyard in December - lose at bottom-of-the-table Hearts, struggling Kilmarnock and relegation-haunted Hamilton, who managed to go to Ibrox and take three points in the penultimate game of the league season despite not having won any of their previous eight matches?

Do Rangers have mentality to win?

Gerrard needs more creativity and steel in his midfield and extra threat up front, but he also needs a new mind coach in his ranks. Book-shop shelves are stacked with tomes about how sporting greats coped with pressure. 

"I was nervous and that's a good thing," said Tiger Woods after winning the 2008 US Open despite having a double stress fracture in his left tibia and a torn ACL in his left knee. "You try and use that energy as best you can to heighten your focus."

And anybody who has seen Michael Jordan in The Last Dance will know about mental strength. 

It's a stretch to say that celtic could win the league again with their main guys hobbling about with broken bodies, but psychologically, they've been on a different level. They've subscribed to the view that pressure is to be embraced and that stress should bring the best out of players.

James Tavernier, the Ibrox captain, shone a light on Rangers' frailty towards the end of last season in his match programme column for that Hamilton game. "Whenever anybody puts a bit of pressure on us in Scotland, or gets in our face, it seems to affect us too much," he wrote. "We are not good enough domestically to react to that." 

Ryan Kent, the £7m recruit from Liverpool, chimed with that. "We're better as underdogs," said the forward. Understandably, some in the Rangers support went thermonuclear at those sentiments, but the players' words revealed a truth about the mentality of this team. 

How do they replace Morelos?

So we can talk about Alfredo Morelos staying or leaving and we can speculate about how much money and how many players Gerrard can bring in if and when the Colombian departs. But, if the mindset of his squad isn't a whole lot stronger on the domestic front, they're going to fall short again. There's nothing surer. 

celtic don't look like the kind of outfit that are going to implode. They're too talented, too experienced and too professional. If Rangers are going to stop 10-in-a-row, they're going to have to hit the kind of high they reached at celtic Park when winning 2-1 in December and stay there for the guts of the season. 

Right now, their best XI remains much the same as the end of last season, a fact that's not lost on Gerrard, who's been asking for more. If Morelos is sold, the manager's job becomes Everestian in size. How do you replace 30 goals a season? 

The theory goes that the Morelos money - the speculation being that it would come in at close to £20m - could be used on numerous players that would strengthen the overall quality of the squad. 

The somewhat hopeful comparison that's been used in places is that of Jurgen Klopp selling Philippe Coutinho and using the £142m to cover the signings of Virgil van Dijk and Alisson Becker with £27m left over, a handy sum to put against the overall cost of Fabinho and Naby Keita. 

Rangers would certainly want to bring in three or four players if Morelos moves on and hope like crazy that every one of them works out. That's pressure. 

Every day seemingly brings a new name. Kemar Roofe, Lyndon Dykes, Mirko Maric, Bongani Zungu, Josh Maja. That's in no way an exhaustive roll call of the players they've been linked with. That particular list would stretch halfway round Ibrox. 

They need players who will cover the 30 goals that Morelos has scored for each of the last two seasons, plus another who might help create the chances, plus another who is more robust in the middle of the park - a footballing bully who can play, in other words.

For all the discipline issues that came with him, Morelos has been a magnificent signing who has scored goals at Scottish and European level and who's now in the picture with his national team. 

Rangers got him for buttons, but that kind of bargain is rare. Look down south at many clubs' pursuit of a striker and your eyes water. Arnaut Groeneveld (Bournemouth), Jarrod Bowen (West Ham United), Albian Ajeti (West Ham), Oli McBurnie (Sheffield United), Moise Kean (Everton), Mbanwa Samatta (Aston Villa). Six strikers signed last season for a total of £94m with a combined goals return of 11 from 131 games. 

Finding another Morelos is one of the toughest jobs any manager can face. There is huge uncertainty around the striker and there will be a mad dash to find stellar characters - and not just squad-fillers - in the event of his exit. 

When set against the backdrop of having to stop celtic making history, it's hard to think of another manager in global football who has as much on his plate as Gerrard has right now.

That might seem like a crazy notion, but the manic desperation of the Rangers support to stop the 10 is not something that many outside the Scottish football bubble will understand. You have to witness this stuff to know how suffocating it can be. 

Up to now, Gerrard has only experienced the warm-up act. Now it's the big show. And it's time to deliver. Or the sky falls.

There you go mate 👍

[BlueSuedeSambas 53,775]

Fuck reading anything that bellend Tom English writes.

[GersInCanada 7,775]

Thanks Dave Hedgehog. Saved me from doing the same thing.

[GersInCanada 7,775]

2 minutes ago, DBBTB said:

Fuck reading anything that bellend Tom English writes.

He was the only one that stood up for Hearts/Thistle. He has gone up in my estimation. Nothing in today's article that has not been said on here many times.

[BlueSuedeSambas 53,775]

2 minutes ago, GersInCanada said:

He was the only one that stood up for Hearts/Thistle. He has gone up in my estimation. Nothing in today's article that has not been said on here many times.

Maybe not but give it a few weeks and he’ll be back to making his little snide snivelling digs.

[STEPPS BOY 73,890]

Forget the pre season games, This squad have proven, on many occasions, that they cannot cope when the pressure is on.

The management team have shown that tactically they have not got a clue.

It’s time to shape up or fuck off.

[Dave Hedgehog 10,673]

4 minutes ago, DBBTB said:

Maybe not but give it a few weeks and he’ll be back to making his little snide snivelling digs.

Mate I am the same with him, always waiting for the unnecessary negative Rangers slant to pop up.

There are occasions he puts forward a decent look at what’s happening though, still hate the wanker right enough. 😂

 

[EMRFC 4,780]

I can’t see us fucking it up against Aberdeen, maybe if the fans were there, but without fans to spur them on we will truly see how bad a team they are.

 

No fans will probably help our team.

[GersInCanada 7,775]

Pre season went well and we played some good stuff.

However in the league we face very different challenges. 10 man defenses. Plastic pitches. Corrupt refs. Scottish winters and parks that look like a ploughed field..

It is Gerrard's job to overcome these hurdles. However I doubt that he will change his system which is to play football.

Must start with a win tomorrow.

[TamCoopz 19,605]

We are trapped in the captivity of negativity 

[ForeverAndEver 71,467]

1 minute ago, TamCoopz said:

We are trapped in the captivity of negativity 

Ok, T-Bag.

[GersInCanada 7,775]

2 minutes ago, TamCoopz said:

We are trapped in the captivity of negativity 

We hope for the best and fear the worst. I would call it realism.

Last season, before a ball was kicked, I got 10/1 on us winning the league. This season the bookies have us at 2/1.

Nothing more than a gut feeling but I think we will win the league.

[TamCoopz 19,605]

9 minutes ago, ForeverAndEver said:

Ok, T-Bag.

Thanks pretty 

[TamCoopz 19,605]

5 minutes ago, GersInCanada said:

We hope for the best and fear the worst. I would call it realism.

Last season, before a ball was kicked, I got 10/1 on us winning the league. This season the bookies have us at 2/1.

Nothing more than a gut feeling but I think we will win the league.

I was actually positive last year but this year Im just full of hope more than anything now I think. Such a big season and as always I think the biggest worry is the mentality of our players, can they handle this? 

[BlueKnight87 17,282]

12 hours ago, Malkytfp1 said:

celtic aren't a good team, but they know how to win in this league. Canny ignore that.

That's the key difference just now they have experience in that squad of getting over the finish line. 

Going into this season the league is the number one priority. But I'd like to see a big effort to win the League Cup. I really believe a first trophy for our sqaud will take us onto another level.