***** The Official Rangers v Motherwell Match Thread *****

[googglebot 4,736]

3 minutes ago, totobull said:

Better team one with using there abilities, tough to take but yes we after all the possession never looked like winning. Very tough to take but a reality check at the same time 😟

Fuck off back to your own site mate.

[OrangeRab 2,907]

Just now, Valance1690 said:

Handed all the momentum back to them with a scared performance against a bang average Motherwell team

Got away with it vs Killie and bit us in the arse today. Clement has to change it up before the next league game

We've went back to outswinging corners and launching balls in from the fullbacks to 6ft5 centre half's...really didn't understand our gameplan today 

 

How does he change it though? We have no wingers. If you can’t get to the byeline, you have no width and it’s easy as fuck for teams to defend narrow against.

Leaving the only option as a full back to hit a diagonal cross in from a shite position.

That’s before considering how much more vulnerable it makes us in defence.

Injuries (and not recruiting in January a rw) have fucked us. 

[Ben10 2,294]

Gutted for the manager. The spine of this team was formed as a result of a bad accident 

[GA1972 9,786]

Just now, SkylineBlue said:

And Sima and Cortes. Basically all the quality in our front line.

We do miss them but Cantwell is the one for me, the energy he brings to the team is invaluable. As much ability as Tom Lawrence has he’s nowhere near Cantwell when it comes to playing in that role 

[KingKirk 25,780]

6 minutes ago, kelvd1873 said:

They won’t win tomorrow. We will still be top. 

They will win comfortably even more so now 

[Zappa6995 3,684]

5 minutes ago, Bluekev said:

We need to do some serious work on our set pieces too. We should be making a lot more opportunities from them. 

We could be doing with more crosses into the box for a start.

[NitshillBear 1,479]

1 minute ago, Valance1690 said:

Blow this league and as much as it's probably harsh, Clement will struggle to recover from it & doubt he'll last out next season

We've earmarked probably 6/7 million on Diomande and Cortes, he's not getting much more than that for players & we really have no sellable assets

He & we need this title, for belief and for the financial benefits from it

Talking about "blowing" the league like we had a 12 point lead. 

[theclothmonster 1,723]

1 minute ago, Moody Blue said:

From the high tempo, strong from the start performance we had last Saturday blowing Hertz away, it’s almost like we thought the job was done because the mhanks were chucking points away.  Started so slowly in the last two and went behind and put us up against it.

Going for a championship ffs, should be on the front foot straight from the off. Fans feed off that and vice versa. They think they can just turn up now and win and the hard work was done. About to find themselves behind again. 

We smashed Hearts because of our press and they couldn't deal with it, we allowed Motherwell to just stroll about today, same with Killie midweek.

[STEPPS BOY 74,695]

1 minute ago, The Godfather said:

Need to pray Cantwell, Matondo and Cortes come back after the 2 week lay off.

Sima and Danilo won't be back until the final weeks so no point hoping for that.

Cortes is done, mate.

[Toronto2Glasgow 1,828]

I think most of us expected to drop points before season end, don’t think anyone of us thought it’d be today. 
 

hopefully a wake up call that we don’t just get 3 points for showing up. 
 

Not the end of the world, but a massive gut punch nonetheless. Players need to find consistency. Blame injuries all you want, but we were missing one player from the Hearts game and it was a 20yo we signed in January. If that’s what it takes to derail our momentum then the core of this team needs a serious look in the mirror. 

[Valance1690 3,942]

Just now, OrangeRab said:

How does he change it though? We have no wingers. If you can’t get to the byeline, you have no width and it’s easy as fuck for teams to defend narrow against.

Leaving the only option as a full back to hit a diagonal cross in from a shite position.

That’s before considering how much more vulnerable it makes us in defence.

Injuries (and not recruiting in January a rw) have fucked us. 

For one we don't go 2 defensive mids at home to Motherwell, negative right from the off

McAusland, who has struggled in his actual positive getting put on the left & a defender at right wing...the whole setup today was wrong 

He's going to have to find something, either stick 2 up top & overload the midfield or find a big 6ft5 bastard in the u20s to get his head on our shitty crosses

[Prso's headband 35,785]

2 minutes ago, Valance1690 said:

Blow this league and as much as it's probably harsh, Clement will struggle to recover from it & doubt he'll last out next season

We've earmarked probably 6/7 million on Diomande and Cortes, he's not getting much more than that for players & we really have no sellable assets

He & we need this title, for belief and for the financial benefits from it

Agree with the second part of the last sentence but fuck me, the league was gone when Clement came in. The fact it’ll go down to the wire is absolutely mental considering where we were 5 months ago. He won’t struggle to recover from it ffs

[BigBearButt 3,702]

Just now, Zappa6995 said:

We could be doing with more crosses into the box for a start.

thats all we do. Cross the ball in with usually no one there

[PromDeAnglais 5,660]

1 minute ago, BigBearButt said:

thats all we do. Cross the ball in with usually no one there

Goldson was Motherwells best fucking player today for clearing the ball away from goal.

[Valance1690 3,942]

Just now, Prso's headband said:

Agree with the second part of the last sentence but fuck me, the league was gone when Clement came in. The fact it’ll go down to the wire is absolutely mental considering where we were 5 months ago. He won’t struggle to recover from it ffs

100% agree that he shouldn't be in this position but he'll be a victim of his own success

The vast majority of that team will be here next season, he's got them believing and dragged us into a title race but hand they bastards the Champions League riches and we ain't getting near them next season 

[chris182 6,343]

8 minutes ago, GA1972 said:

We are badly missing Cantwell 

Him and Cortes hopefully back for Dundee

[psb07158 33,603]

5 minutes ago, The Godfather said:

Need to pray Cantwell, Matondo and Cortes come back after the 2 week lay off.

Sima and Danilo won't be back until the final weeks so no point hoping for that.

Rumours Cortes is out for the season

[The Godfather 72,437]

3 minutes ago, STEPPS BOY said:

Cortes is done, mate.

Well that's fucked then

[GWR1979 1,970]

At this point I would have expected more from Silva, no end product yet. 

[KingKirk 25,780]

Gutted the result obviously but it's the injury situation and just the sheer lack of quality in the final third. In the business end of the season I fear it'll hamper us badly. 

[The Godfather 72,437]

Just now, psb07158 said:

Rumours Cortes is out for the season

It's honestly laughable.

It's not just bad luck either, for well over a year now our injuries have been a joke. 

[Swagger 8,274]

1 minute ago, Moody Blue said:

From the high tempo, strong from the start performance we had last Saturday blowing Hertz away, it’s almost like we thought the job was done because the mhanks were chucking points away.  Started so slowly in the last two and went behind and put us up against it.

Going for a championship ffs, should be on the front foot straight from the off. Fans feed off that and vice versa. They think they can just turn up now and win and the hard work was done. About to find themselves behind again. 

Pretty much gave Motherwell a goal of a start then had to turn it around with a side with very little going forward. 
So many out there looked clueless and a few (Goldson, Raskin especially) fucking embarrassed themselves. That’s every bit as bad as the Aberdeen game and what we currently have available won’t be enough to win this 

[SeparateEntityMyArse 54,117]

Once again too many all have stinkers at the same time.

We started shite and got punished yet again. We were bullied. And once more chances created were wasted.

Gifted advantage to them across the city and too few look as if they were bothered by it.

Sickener. 

[theclothmonster 1,723]

1 minute ago, psb07158 said:

Rumours Cortes is out for the season

Manager pretty much said so prematch.

[KingKirk 25,780]

2 minutes ago, chris182 said:

Him and Cortes hopefully back for Dundee

Cortes is out long term confirmed on rtv beforehand