*****The Official Dundee v Rangers Match Thread*****

[Boybluesy 3,708]

1 hour ago, B1872 said:

Just need to win and get to the international break top of the league. I’d go with:

Butland

 

Tav

Goldson

Souttar

Yilmaz

 

Lundstram

Raskin

 

McCausland

Lawrence

Matondo

 

Silva

 

2-0 to the famous! 🇬🇧

I can't see him risking McCausland with an international break coming up to fully recover.

[mus 1,381]

6 minutes ago, Boybluesy said:

I can't see him risking McCausland with an international break coming up to fully recover.

He has been picked for the NI squad

[TamCoopz 19,605]

3 minutes ago, Boybluesy said:

I can't see him risking McCausland with an international break coming up to fully recover.

McCausland will play if he’s fit, please go and watch the presser 😂

[bluenoz 30,867]

I'm not sure what sport Matondo should play, but it isn't football. Barring a few good moments because of his speed, he has been nothing short of atrocious. Yet posters still put him in their team selections. It baffles me. He doesn't have a football brain to play for Rangers.

Play Lawrence or Cantwell in a front three. It's not ideal, but injuries mean you have to adapt.

Anybody but Dessers and Matondo and to a lesser extent McCausland and Wright, who are both bang average, but not as bad as the first two.

[ayro 3,009]

46 minutes ago, Boybluesy said:

Can't see him risking Sterling for this one. Beat Dundee then a decent break. 

Agree, should have worded it better that if Sterling passes a fitness test and no further damage then I would play him but Phil doesn’t take risks with players fitness.

 

[Amokachi 3,014]

1 hour ago, Blue Nosed Babe said:

Scud Dundee then have a rest.

Scud Dundee then stop off at Hamilton then have a rest.  

[BookWorm 4,134]

Just a decent win to erase a bit of last night will do right now.

[.Williamson. 82,305]

4 hours ago, Boybluesy said:

I can't see him risking McCausland with an international break coming up to fully recover.

He’ll be playing for NI

[Boybluesy 3,708]

4 hours ago, TamCoopz said:

McCausland will play if he’s fit, please go and watch the presser 😂

Watched it. He won’t play. 

[Belshaft 290]

3 hours ago, BookWorm said:

Just a decent win to erase a bit of last night will do right now.

Any type of win will do👏

[Swagger 8,006]

4 hours ago, BookWorm said:

Just a decent win to erase a bit of last night will do right now.

3 points - all that matters 

Good break while  the Tartan Army pretend they’re real football fans then back to the real stuff 🇬🇧

 

[6superbarry6 14,159]

                      Butland 

      Tav Goldson Souttar Yilmaz

         Lundstram Diomande 

        Wright Lawrence Sliva 

                      Roofe 

hopefully get to the break without having to risk Sterling or Cantwell 

[graeme_4 34,572]

I think we’ll see Borna, Raskin and Roofe start.

Team are shattered. 

[demise 3,517]

I dont want to see Matondo anywhere near the team. Fucked up every single ball that came to him vs Benfica. Just win Rangers and no injuries please. 

[born a blue nose 90,803]

28 minutes ago, graeme_4 said:

I think we’ll see Borna, Raskin and Roofe start.

Team are shattered. 

That worries me. I know we've been rotating a lot, but it always feels like we struggle when we field the B team in a game where you think it's the one to do so. 

[SPWF 8,244]

37 minutes ago, graeme_4 said:

I think we’ll see Borna, Raskin and Roofe start.

Team are shattered. 

Brutal if he does start tbh. He’s done. 

[barrymorrison1 1,033]

20 hours ago, AGM_72 said:

Confident the team will bounce back and get us over the line. Then we can rest, regroup and go again on the 30th. 

Slight concern for me would be how we deal with Curtis Main's physicality. Obviously he's a limited player, but we've been unsettled a bit by his type in recent weeks. Wouldn't be too surprised to see Balogun come in to add a bit of physicality there.

Long hopeful balls into the channels making central defenders turn while a willing centre forward runs them down, harrasing them into mistakes and bringing the oppposition team up the park at the same time.

who’d have thought such an outdated percentage ploy, from a workmanlike team in a council league, would work in a workmanlike, limited, council league? 🤷🏼‍♂️

[JCDBigBear 10,825]

2 hours ago, graeme_4 said:

I think we’ll see Borna, Raskin and Roofe start.

Team are shattered. 

Why is the team "shattered"?  Our players should be fit enough to play 2 games a week.   We have injured players which is a different matter.    The only thing which worries me is that heads have dropped after exiting Europe on Thursday however I hope that Clement will prevent that being an issue.   

[RFC55 108,977]

Just now, JCDBigBear said:

Why is the team "shattered"?  Our players should be fit enough to play 2 games a week.   We have injured players which is a different matter.    The only thing which worries me is that heads have dropped after exiting Europe on Thursday however I hope that Clement will prevent that being an issue.   

Clement has said that the fitness levels aren’t at the levels required (thanks to Beale) the team are shattered because we don’t really have anyone to rotate the  players who need a rest with. For example due to cantwell being injured Lawrence is having to play more than would’ve been hoped, he’d have preferred to manage his minutes but in reality he can’t.

Weve then got Roofe back who needs micro managed because he’s basically made of glass, meaning dessers can’t really be rotated so he has to play. He’s not been able to rotate or rest lundstrum because jack is out and Raskin is just coming back.

some of the players are having to play when in reality they’d have been brought back gradually. 
 

we need first team players back and this break is coming at a great time for us 

[JCDBigBear 10,825]

1 minute ago, RFC55 said:

Clement has said that the fitness levels aren’t at the levels required (thanks to Beale) the team are shattered because we don’t really have anyone to rotate the  players who need a rest with. For example due to cantwell being injured Lawrence is having to play more than would’ve been hoped, he’d have preferred to manage his minutes but in reality he can’t.

Weve then got Roofe back who needs micro managed because he’s basically made of glass, meaning dessers can’t really be rotated so he has to play. He’s not been able to rotate or rest lundstrum because jack is out and Raskin is just coming back.

some of the players are having to play when in reality they’d have been brought back gradually. 
 

we need first team players back and this break is coming at a great time for us 

Injured players is a different matter from the rest of them being "shattered".   Dessers isn't shattered he's just crap.

[Loyal72 11,068]

3 minutes ago, JCDBigBear said:

Injured players is a different matter from the rest of them being "shattered".   Dessers isn't shattered he's just crap.

Everyone else is too shattered or injured to pick up the slack of Dessers being crap though.

[OrangeRab 2,757]

18 minutes ago, JCDBigBear said:

Why is the team "shattered"?  Our players should be fit enough to play 2 games a week.   We have injured players which is a different matter.    The only thing which worries me is that heads have dropped after exiting Europe on Thursday however I hope that Clement will prevent that being an issue.   
 

 

Tav and Lundstrum have played more minutes than just about anyone else in European football since Winter break. 

No other club is playing twice a week with no squad rotation and under PC we play a high intensity press.

In 2008 we won 13 in a row in the league. Then we dropped 15 points in our last 9 matches.

[Southsider 300]

1 minute ago, OrangeRab said:

Tav and Lundstrum have played more minutes than just about anyone else in European football since Winter break. 

No other club is playing twice a week with no squad rotation and under PC we play a high intensity press.

In 2008 we won 13 in a row in the league. Then we dropped 15 points in our last 9 matches.

Exactly.  

Lundstram started really badly on Thursday and looked shattered at the end.  I'd seriously consider using Raskin and having Lundstram on the bench.

Doubt we can do much about Tavernier with Sterling injured.  He is a pretty fit guy and played well on Thursday though.

Our biggest problem remains the fact our CF options are Roofe or Dessers, unless we play Silva there and start Matondo on the left

[JCDBigBear 10,825]

26 minutes ago, Loyal72 said:

Everyone else is too shattered or injured to pick up the slack of Dessers being crap though.

Our problem is that Matondo, Dessers, Wright are crap and Roofe is injury prone.   The problem with our injured players is that we have nobody decent to replace them.  

[JCDBigBear 10,825]

30 minutes ago, Loyal72 said:

Everyone else is too shattered or injured to pick up the slack of Dessers being crap though.

If we had won on Thursday nobody would be talking about players being "shattered".  We need the break to try to get injured players back up to speed though.