Rangers banter 5

30 Apr 2024 13:05:32
Still sick about how we have succumbed to the pressure of attempting to win this oh so important league. We have handed a poor Celtic team all the initiative to win the league and pocket the tens of millions that come with it. Apart from Butland I don't give any other player credit for beating teams we should be beating anyway. Sure we have been extremely unlucky with injuries if Danilo, Sima and Cortes had been fit it might have been different up front. We need to find young strong players who know how to play in the SPL, guys who can run from midfield not pass it back and sideways. I actually thought Dundee had better players than us in the recent game, better touch, better vision and better physicality. Where are our young ball players like Rice or McKinnon are they not thought good enough to play against the likes of Ross County, Dundee and St Mirren.

30 apr 2024 14:31:56
couldnt handle the pressure of going to the top, usual people succunbed yet again, the manager will know that, celtic fans half expected we wouldn't go clear, many of them expected not to beat county, or they certainly hoped with some degree that these players would crash, now we somehow got past st mirren, we must go all out fir goals, stop the likes of cantwell dancing around, get stuck in for goals from minute one every game left, because celtic won't drop points now,

30 Apr 2024 17:50:46
If it’s a poor Celtic team what does that makes us? As we haven’t beaten them this season 🤯.

30 Apr 2024 19:57:25
Tom, I can see Celtic dropping points.

30 apr 2024 19:58:12
he knows that storm, both teams are poor, nothing like previous old firm sides,

the entire old firm fixture has been massively down graded in recent times, from the highs of the 60/ 70s to the teams of the nineties, early 2000s, not even close nowadays,

30 Apr 2024 20:23:12
I don't think its the dundee players are better they just put every ounce of energy intk thr game and battle for everything. Weve got stale old players sith no pace who think they are better thsn they are.
As they uSed to say in the briggait "hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard" only we are only half talented. few pints deep. if it wasnt the briggait it was ma auntie irene who said it.

30 Apr 2024 20:28:58
I fully agree that Celtic are poor, problem is that with our current injury list we have a very poor squad and are actually worse than them. The saving grace is that we have a better manager.
I also believe that Celtic will drop points between now and the end of the season, the question is whether we can go undefeated and worryingly I don't believe that the current lot have the character to bet them in the two head to heads.

30 Apr 2024 21:29:44
Storm both teams are poor this season. The fact we haven't beat them is why we ain't in pole position. We dropped 6 points to them in first 2 games, only 3 behind now.

30 Apr 2024 21:46:21
The good old briggait brings back memories that big dado class mate!

30 Apr 2024 12:36:17
Lundstram and Goldson both patched the end of season team night out.

30 apr 2024 13:02:20
should never have been any night out, nor anything resembling one,

30 Apr 2024 14:25:37
I agree should have been put till after the Scottish cup final. But it’s telling that they two have patched it. Hopefully both are away this summer.

30 Apr 2024 17:52:02
Shouldn’t be end of season night out until the end of the season I would have patched it as well.

30 Apr 2024 16:36:21
It was a week to next game, nothing wrong with them getting drunk, a wish the whole team did it and sorted out what they have to do to win the remaining games.

30 apr 2024 19:59:32
it us telling that those two missed it, were they alone? was it fir the right reasons or something else, who knows? .

30 Apr 2024
New image uploaded to the
Rangers Player Sightings page entitled, Another concept top no way am I saying that these are going to be our new tops

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30 Apr 2024 12:16:03
Minging.

30 Apr 2024 12:45:01
Unbelievable if it didn’t have they daft designs totally ruins it.

30 Apr 2024 13:05:00
Looks like a toddler has got a hold of it and scribbled all over it. What a waste!

30 Apr 2024 13:12:34
No glasgow rangers kit ever minging for me 🤔As long as that famous scrolled badge is on the shirt that does it for me 👌🇬🇧.

30 Apr 2024 13:34:17
Is it not the streets around the stadium, or meant to be? 😵‍💫.

30 apr 2024 14:06:19
could have something there fork, like the streets of govan? possible, love to know if true.

30 Apr 2024 17:43:09
Tom, it is said to be the streets around Govan and ibrox, if this is our top we will find out soon enough

Actually quite clever if true, my great grandkids want the white top.

30 Apr 2024 17:48:45
Naw you're all wrong. Did it myself, left handed, blindfolded with my 3 year old niece telling me what to draw. I think it's fantastic considering.

30 Apr 2024 20:00:35
I quite like it.

30 apr 2024 20:02:47
think if your grandkid had been telling you what to do with your pen and blindfold you wouldn't be sitting down for a week parl, lol,

thats interesting john, as fork said, i never knew that, it might actually look better wearing it, would be good in a case on wall too.

30 Apr 2024 20:25:41
I usually hate castore tops but i like this one.

30 Apr 2024 20:37:55
I quite like the design, I'm just not a big fan of white tops. You can't beat our Royal Blue Top, white shorts and red and black socks. Wouldn't mid us have a blue and black striped away kit with black shorts and blue and black socks, (similar to one of the Milan Teams), and I would love to see a Rangers top with our rampant lion, Ready crest.

30 Apr 2024 22:01:40
White tops make us portly gents look fat, scratch that fatter😉 I quite like it and already slightly rotund😁.

30 Apr 2024 08:53:52
{Ed's Note - Ed001 has posted a new article entitled, West Ham United v Liverpool - A Quick Liverpool Perspective

30 Apr 2024 12:12:54
Another good read Ed001,feel it madness klopp or Smith telling us they were away the end of season, especially with us chasing ten and Liverpool in a title battle.

{Ed001's Note - I was right with my remembrance that it ruined your season too? I only vaguely remember it. It makes no sense. If you haven't got the energy and you need a break, I get it, but you can't then hang about as you have basically told the staff you are done and lost all discipline.}

30 Apr 2024 12:20:44
Yes agree Ed001 like i said i thought it was madness mate.

{Ed001's Note - ok cheers mate.}

30 apr 2024 12:35:13
your cerroect ed

walter nade his decision known, he hoped for a majot upsurge in form due to him being very well liked and his olayers would jump through burning hoops for him, but, players phychologically lose something when something so big, so imoortant, changes, the rangers players never downed tools nor stopped fighting, they simply lost their momentum, and everything collapsed, the last day v motherwell, i think was sad, they didn't know how to return to what walter had built, the day he announced his leaving the players sank a few inches every week after,

{Ed001's Note - it is such a sad way to go out as well.}

30 Apr 2024 12:58:52
Agree totally with announcing leaving half way through the season but at huge clubs it always gets leaked one way or another, yes better to do it on own terms away from the reporters putting a spin on it but can’t think of it having a positive reaction in the past for teams progressing in anyway, a think fergie managed the title after announcing he was leaving (could be wrong) but it basically destroyed that team afterwards.

30 apr 2024 13:06:52
said that after the sakah show ed

don't know your thoghts and i don't know the full story, but

salah was disgraceful and should be ashamed of himself, no way should he respond like that and embarrass the fans, club and allow the whole world to watch, that single moment will be writ large from now on in klopps liverpool career, shocking behaviour, i honestly believe wakter would have dropped salah, there and then, literally

and if he hadnt any one of gough, brown, mcoist, ferguson, mcall, or hateley would have, he certainly wouldn't have entered the ibrox dressing room again that's fir certain.

{Ed001's Note - I am sorry but that is utter bollox. Go and watch it again and then remember Salah is the nicest, most mild mannered guy you could wish to meet. No one would have even noticed this in Walter's day, it is just another sign of how soft the game has become.}

30 apr 2024 14:08:48
ok m maybe your correct, i said i don't know what happened, sureky salah should have gone on and played and kept it inhouse, maybe i'm totally wrong, but that was my take. different era yes, maybe, i did watch it twice,

{Ed001's Note - Klopp had already been in his ear and he went over to the sidelines to come on, the sub was being held up by the other 2 not being ready, then the Hammers score and Klopp gets in his ear. You can see him spread his arms to placate Klopp, only for Klopp to say something else, which he then reacted to. I love Klopp but he should never have got in the lad's ear there and it is on him that it was all done in public.}

30 apr 2024 14:37:55
ok, you are much more aware of that situation than me ed and i accept that of course, such a shame because it won't go away and i was intrigued by the players words later, klopp obviously has upset him and possibly attached some blame to salah for goal, fair enough, my minds well and truly turned around,

whats left of it.

{Ed001's Note - it is such a silly thing to do. But it happens. When things are going wrong people turn on each other and bicker. It is the way humans are.}

30 Apr 2024 17:40:02
What ever klopp said to salah must have been hit a spot, as you say ed he's knowing the world over for being one of the nicest guys in football, so imo it was definitely klopp that was In the wrong, whatever klopp had to say could have waited. It wasn't a big deal tbh just 2 passionate guys getting heated because they knew the title was slipping away. Think both will always totally respect each other no matter what went on.

30 Apr 2024 17:44:06
Correct. Ed. Only need to look at cantwell and pc.

30 Apr 2024 17:49:28
Ed was the reason klopp said he was leaving halfway thru because someone outside of the club was going to break the news?

{Ed001's Note - not sure mate, people are guessing that it was the reason but no one knows for sure and not one journo has ever said they knew beforehand.}

30 Apr 2024 20:03:37
I can see some difficult years ahead for Liverpool.

30 Apr 2024 07:39:38
{Ed's Note - Gers78!! has posted a new article entitled, Rangers Squad Rebuild For Next Season

30 Apr 2024 06:22:36
Up n coming transfer window. Think if we get shankland our forward line sorted as will give us dessers, danilo, shanks, poss lovelace roofe moved on.

Wingers hopefully sign Sima, Cortes
Would give us. Sima, cortes, matondo, mccauland. Wright moves on

Att mid. Cantwell, lowry, diomande, (lammers, hagi, ? )
If lawrence and Dowell move on another att mid needed.

Definitely mid sterling, Raskin, Cole mckinnen, Bailey Rice,

If jack and Lunny freed. Need another defensive mid.

Defence
Left
Yilmaz, ( sterling, yfeko) another left back needed. Bb freed
Right
Tav, Robbie Fraser, (Sterlin)
Another right back needed.
Centre half
Soutter, Leon King,
If goldson and Davies moved on
I would go with a year extension to balogan.
One poss 2 Centre half's needed.

Goal keeper.

Butland
McLaughlin freed and mccrorie sold or loaned
2 poss 3 keepers needed if butland is sold.

Including shanks, cortes, diomande sima that will be poss 13 players needed.
With the cost of shanks, diomande, cortes and sima. We better make good use of the free and loan market as not sure how much cash will be left if we sign the four above.

30 Apr 2024 06:49:21
Bobby frazer is a left back.

30 Apr 2024 06:53:58
Reasonable assessment Stewarty, would still keep Lawrence though👍.

30 Apr 2024 09:39:57
Stewarty good post -my one area of concern is Matondo - he is too flash in the pan and imo he will not take us to next level so he would be one I would offload too - he has pace to burn but his final ball is suspect and his decision making is pretty poor on the whole - impact sub at best but feel wages could be better spent.

30 Apr 2024 11:02:40
Two new strikers needed, Shankland and another, would move on Danilo if possible and even Dessers but it’s not FM we are playing, scary to think we could win a treble and as big a turnover as ever needed, changes needed everywhere.

30 Apr 2024 11:05:21
Fork, lawrence is a strange one for me, feel like I've been waiting for months for him to show what he's about but just never does, can he go to another level, or is what we are seeing his level? I just don't know about him tbh.

30 Apr 2024 11:19:55
Fort Lawrence has done nothing of note in a rangers strip one year left on deal time to go.


I don’t think we will sign shankland in fact I have said it before and say it again we won’t sign shankland and it’s just my opinion.

30 apr 2024 12:39:38
i was wrong on matondo, blistering pace but no end product, in sane way as cantwell, kent, lawrence dowel and a few more have no substance imo

we need winners, guys who only want to put the ba in the net, nit dance around and fall down or run straight down copeland road, winners,

we may nit get shanks now, but he's player of the year for me easily.

30 Apr 2024 13:23:47
Bb3/ storm prob right guys, just now and again you see a glimpse, but nothing that he sustains, fair points guy's 👍.

30 Apr 2024 15:49:16
We need a left footed player to play on the right .

30 Apr 2024 17:42:58
Defo we glimpses fork, but that's really all it is eh mate!

30 Apr 2024 16:37:02
Agree Stewarty - move Dowell and Lawrence on as it will release transfer funds.
Unfortunately both are injury prone.

30 Apr 2024 22:02:41
Aye BB need more👍.

30 Apr 2024 23:28:28
We don't want shankland and yet people still on here saying sign him, I think he'd score goals for us but we aren't interested, he wasn't considered in the winter so no reason to think he will be in the summer - we need a minimum of a centre half, left back,2 midfielders, a winger and a striker in the summer, probably more.

30 Apr 2024 01:59:14
looked at the highlights of yesterday's game again. I wonder how many points we would have had this season without Jack Butland! We should try to keep him at all costs.

on another topic - should we have another look at Lammers? it is obvious he is a striker and not a number 10, how Beale (and PC) played him.

30 Apr 2024 04:40:02
Lammers not suited to scottish football imo, so we should sell him 🤔.

30 Apr 2024 07:54:23
Lammers is probably better than silva matondo wright and mccausland right now but overall he won't work here. Take money and reinvest.

30 Apr 2024 08:50:08
I'd look to sell in the summer. this is the first time in years he's scoring regularly for his club side. it should be a easy sell in the summer considering his current form.

30 Apr 2024 09:35:30
Agree completely with Dado and Mark on this.

30 apr 2024 12:44:11
hold out fir as high a fee as possible

but he should have been put up top and given a chance imo.