*****The Official Rangers v Ayr United Match Thread*****

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[GA1972 9,600]

                     McCrorie 

Tav        Goldson     King     Barisic 

               Jack      Diomande 

Wright          Lawrence         Cortes

                      Dessers 

 

Sterling in for Tav if the suspension doesn’t carry over, get Raskin on for Diomande at half time/60 minutes 

[Rob4th 164]

5 hours ago, graeme_4 said:

Short-sleeve t-shirt in the dug out even though it’s snowing. 

No brain, no pain!

[scottyscott1963 18,407]

PC strolling down Ayr High Street with his missus and daughter today.
Heard he was in The Tam O'Shanter for mince n totties 

[Essandoh 21,217]

Get this one out the way and batter Ross County next week to go top

[PromDeAnglais 5,488]

12 hours ago, The Specky Forum Organiser said:

He has lots to improve on but McCausland has made a far bigger impact than he's given credit for

He also needs to improve in terms of game management, gave the ball away too many times last night, including the one that led to the Sterling incident. Needs to calm it under pressure.

[don logan 8,070]

16 minutes ago, PromDeAnglais said:

He also needs to improve in terms of game management, gave the ball away too many times last night, including the one that led to the Sterling incident. Needs to calm it under pressure.

He's doing fine. Massive upgrade on Kent.

[PromDeAnglais 5,488]

23 minutes ago, don logan said:

He's doing fine. Massive upgrade on Kent.

Nowhere near Kents level. Has a long way to go before he's even in the same conversation, has to start taking his man on for starters.

[trueblue 64 613]

Should be a 24 hour ban for mentioning the unmentionable.

[RFC55 109,138]

8 hours ago, don logan said:

He's doing fine. Massive upgrade on Kent.

😂

[graeme_4 34,615]

9 hours ago, don logan said:

He's doing fine. Massive upgrade on Kent.

He's been alright, but that’s just silly. 

[OrangeRab 2,768]

22 hours ago, The Specky Forum Organiser said:

He has lots to improve on but McCausland has made a far bigger impact than he's given credit for

He has been given credit.

He’s had a solid start, he’s a great prospect. His production is below the other wingers in the league at the moment. (goal or assist every 5 games). And teams are beginning to change how they defend and show him inside.

Hope he kicks on

[OrangeRab 2,768]

Don’t think I’d be risking Tav or Goldson for this one. The defence doesn’t need more time together. Can’t afford to lose either to injury.

Good game to get the new signings minutes. 

[don logan 8,070]

35 minutes ago, graeme_4 said:

He's been alright, but that’s just silly. 

Kent last season was rarely better than dire.

[MillwallLoyal 284]

19 hours ago, GA1972 said:

                     McCrorie 

Tav        Goldson     King     Barisic 

               Jack      Diomande 

Wright          Lawrence         Cortes

                      Dessers 

 

Sterling in for Tav if the suspension doesn’t carry over, get Raskin on for Diomande at half time/60 minutes 

This.. but with Souttar in for Goldson pleeeze! 

[OrangeRab 2,768]

28 minutes ago, don logan said:

Kent last season was rarely better than dire.

He chucked it, was well below his best and identified as an area we needed to strengthen.

But still had 13 G+A in 29 league games. 

McCausland has 3 in 17.

Not sure how you can claim he’s a massive upgrade. Even despite that being Kent’s worst season. 

[GA1972 9,600]

1 hour ago, MillwallLoyal said:

This.. but with Souttar in for Goldson pleeeze! 

Wouldn’t risk Souttar in a game where he’s no needed 

[don logan 8,070]

51 minutes ago, OrangeRab said:

He chucked it, was well below his best and identified as an area we needed to strengthen.

But still had 13 G+A in 29 league games. 

McCausland has 3 in 17.

Not sure how you can claim he’s a massive upgrade. Even despite that being Kent’s worst season. 

He was pish last year Rab. 3 goals in his 29 games. Most of his assists were a bit tenuous if I recall correctly. Disinterested and ineffectual. McCausland doing fine so far. He'll get better and the manager rates him.

[Colin Traive 22,847]

McCrorie

Tavernier Goldson King Yilmaz

Lundstram

McCausland Diomande Matondo

Cantwell

Silva

Get the game won and give Cortes, Barisic, Lawrence, Wright, Dessers, Jack some minutes.

No fucking about, a treble to be won.

[Southsider 305]

23 hours ago, ayrshireranger said:

sorry, but he was poor last night overall, bit better 2nd half, he should hve been hooked for Cortes not Matondo. Or Wright. 

While I agree he shouldn't be first choice for us at this stage of his career, I think his last two performances have been pretty decent. One thing to remember is that whoever comes in will have to track back and tackle the way he  does, given that Tav has been off form for weeks

[PromDeAnglais 5,488]

52 minutes ago, don logan said:

He was pish last year Rab. 3 goals in his 29 games. Most of his assists were a bit tenuous if I recall correctly. Disinterested and ineffectual. McCausland doing fine so far. He'll get better and the manager rates him.

I agree last season did really sour the memories of Kent but as others have said, he still had more impact. 

Don't want to undermine McCausland as it's his first senior season but Kent had a far bigger impact in his first season here on loan, although was a couple of years older and with a few seasons of senior football under his belt. 

Plenty of potential for McCausland and he needs to progress and mature for us but his stats read more like Wright than Kent at the minute. Hopefully Clememt as his team can add that end product.

[East Enclosure Row N 2,824]

If we don't give youth a chance in this or Ross County home games, then we never will. No point in keeping lads like King and Rice if they are just going to be bench warmers and wear out the astroturf warming up every game.

[Roy Hobbs 2,179]

22 minutes ago, PromDeAnglais said:

I agree last season did really sour the memories of Kent but as others have said, he still had more impact. 

Don't want to undermine McCausland as it's his first senior season but Kent had a far bigger impact in his first season here on loan, although was a couple of years older and with a few seasons of senior football under his belt. 

Plenty of potential for McCausland and he needs to progress and mature for us but his stats read more like Wright than Kent at the minute. Hopefully Clememt as his team can add that end product.

McCausland has 3 goals and 4 assists in 1570 minutes.

Kent had 6 and 9 in 3438.

McCausland's are marginally better.

Edit: Just realised McCausland has challenge cup games in there. Remove those and Kent's are better but not massively so.

[GA1972 9,600]

4 minutes ago, East Enclosure Row N said:

If we don't give youth a chance in this or Ross County home games, then we never will. No point in keeping lads like King and Rice if they are just going to be bench warmers and wear out the astroturf warming up every game.

King isn’t good enough, he can play against Ayr but wouldn’t put him near any of the league games the now 

[RockwellGers 14,722]

22 hours ago, psb07158 said:

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