***** The Official Champions Vs Malmo Match Thread*****

[BlueVanguard 6,621]

4 minutes ago, Rowley Birkin said:

but you're the one abusing a fellow fan

Don't take it personally 😜

[Swagger 7,921]

10 minutes ago, graeme_4 said:

Just back. First half was OK.

Second half was appalling. Players hid. Took the easy option. Didn’t take responsibility. Shitebags. 

McGregor and Balogun need to take blame for the goals, but Alfie aside no one got pass marks. 

Fullbacks were as bad as I’ve ever seen them. Goldson and Kent have regressed big time.

Whole team had gone back 18 months. Get it wide, cross it into the box to no one, defence clears it and repeat. Dreadful. 

Davis only one with pass marks for me 

[HG5 11,112]

Just now, Bears r us said:

I wonder why that should be, they did so well winning the league last season, what has gone wrong so quickly to make so many be off form?

And so disappointing that the shine is being taken off a great achievement quite so soon.

Several players late back from summer tournaments (by agreement), isolations, injuries, suspensions all feed in to us being pretty underprepared for this level of start.

Those are some of the reasonable reasons, before you get to the other, possibly speculative, such as players thinking they’ve arrived, unsettled because they feel they should be elsewhere, can’t agree contracts, etc.

Whatever the truths, there appear to be far too many things going on, whether you think they’re reasonable excuses or not.

 

[Rowley Birkin 8,655]

Just now, BlueVanguard said:

Don't take it personally 😜

aye no bother abusing a fellow bluenose for no reason at all is ok in your book 

again that speaks volumes about you

[Rowley Birkin 8,655]

 

[AberfeldyBlue 1,550]

we got done by a better team over the peace

 

they out thought us

 

end of, suck it up and move on having learned why

[Rowley Birkin 8,655]

Just now, AberfeldyBlue said:

we got done by a better team over the peace

 

they out thought us

 

end of, suck it up and move on having learned why

they didnt though they are a team of tall players they played pinball with headers in our box most of the game that was their plan to score from that 

the fact it took two strikes by a player on form is neither here nor there 

[Swagger 7,921]

A really poor start to the season and that tonight was disgusting. 
 

Davis was the only player who can leave that pitch and feel he’s done ok. 
 

Heads down all over the place, no leadership, no fight, no threat and one of the most embarrassing performances I’ve seen at Ibrox. 

[ForeverAndEver 71,473]

Good to see players head straight to the tunnel again without any acknowledgment for the fans.

[GA1972 9,555]

1 minute ago, Swagger said:

A really poor start to the season and that tonight was disgusting. 
 

Davis was the only player who can leave that pitch and feel he’s done ok. 
 

Heads down all over the place, no leadership, no fight, no threat and one of the most embarrassing performances I’ve seen at Ibrox. 

Soon as they scored, full team looked defeated 

[JCDBigBear 10,824]

1 minute ago, Swagger said:

A really poor start to the season and that tonight was disgusting. 
 

Davis was the only player who can leave that pitch and feel he’s done ok. 
 

Heads down all over the place, no leadership, no fight, no threat and one of the most embarrassing performances I’ve seen at Ibrox. 

Your post sums it up.

[Drunk and disorderly. 14,418]

1 minute ago, j1mgg said:

They came firing out start of second half last week, and got away with the exact same thing tonight.

 

Aye. As I said earlier. 7 minute spell of poor defending over 2 legs cost us 4 goals. 

We repeated the same mistakes. Even more tragic in the second game when the scoreline was even and they had a man sent off.

All to play for at home in front of a capacity crowd willing the team on then failed to mark properly yet again. 

Fucking scunnered. 

[AberfeldyBlue 1,550]

the fans turned up and delivered the noise was incredible and we sang all night - credit to the Ultra section for keeping it going

[BlueKnight87 17,284]

7 minutes ago, j1mgg said:

They came firing out start of second half last week, and got away with the exact same thing tonight.

 

It's unbelievable that not one lesson was learned from last week. It was groundhog day. They knew if they got at us quickly they could get a goal and it worked. 

We should have been all over them. Yet we stepped back and acted like the side with 10 men. 

[Swagger 7,921]

Just now, ForeverAndEver said:

Good to see players head straight to the tunnel again without any acknowledgment for the fans.

There were a couple who went over to the Broomloan at the end but to be honest they’d have been better just fucking off. 
Fucking embarrassment 

[Bears r us 30,794]

11 minutes ago, BlueAvenger said:

Fuck knows. Maybe they think winning the league last season was everything and they can’t get up for it this season. This season is massive financially. 

They better start to understand one league win as great as it was, is not what playing for Rangers means.

[Swagger 7,921]

2 minutes ago, GA1972 said:

Soon as they scored, full team looked defeated 

Soon as they scored you could sense they’d get another 

[GA1972 9,555]

Just now, Swagger said:

Soon as they scored you could sense they’d get another 

Yeah the way we approached the game from the off second half made the crowd nervy and totally killed our momentum. Retreating to the half way line when a team thats 1-0 down and down to 10 men has the ball in their own half is criminal 

[Drunk and disorderly. 14,418]

4 minutes ago, ForeverAndEver said:

Good to see players head straight to the tunnel again without any acknowledgment for the fans.

I think they were embarrassed. I would be.

Still rude though  

[GOAT 30,449]

6 minutes ago, ForeverAndEver said:

Good to see players head straight to the tunnel again without any acknowledgment for the fans.

Wit are you wanting them too do a fucking lap of honour?

[Supersonic 4,654]

Remind me again, which team was down a man?

Pass it wide, cross it in, have it cleared, repeat ad fuckin nauseum. 

Amazing how we let off all the first half pressure AFTER they got a red.

3 out of the first 4 competitive games have been right out of Gerrard's first two seasons sadly.

[Bears r us 30,794]

9 minutes ago, HG5 said:

And so disappointing that the shine is being taken off a great achievement quite so soon.

Several players late back from summer tournaments (by agreement), isolations, injuries, suspensions all feed in to us being pretty underprepared for this level of start.

Those are some of the reasonable reasons, before you get to the other, possibly speculative, such as players thinking they’ve arrived, unsettled because they feel they should be elsewhere, can’t agree contracts, etc.

Whatever the truths, there appear to be far too many things going on, whether you think they’re reasonable excuses or not.

 

That covers a lot, time for Stevie to sort things out.

On players maybe not sure about signing new contracts, I do think that could be a problem. 

[ForeverAndEver 71,473]

Just now, GOAT said:

Wit are you wanting them too and a fucking lap of honour?

Aim spit at you

[j1mgg 3,766]

Tav could barely get it past the first man on his crosses, pointless tactic.

[MarzM 1,248]

We also better hope to fuck that Almaty don't win on Thursday night. If they do then we play the away game on the Thursday before the old firm. Almaty is about 250 miles from the Chinese border.

 

That is 1 cunt of a flight.