Rangers banter 6

30 Apr 2024
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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.

29 Apr 2024 18:13:16
John27, what colak is doing this season is absolutely irrelevant mate. None of them are good enough, but I'm just curious as to how dessers is getting plaudits on here for being joint 3rd top scorer, but according to guys like yourself colak was a cheat, but scored one less than cyriel in 800 minutes less.
Can you see the point I'm making I'm not having a go John I'm genuinely curious as to why.
I genuinely feel we've been that so starved of success we are applauding 3rd best.

29 Apr 2024 20:19:21
Bb3,
I was critical of Dessers at first,
After the transfer window and resigned to play him also one or two good signs from him I felt compelled to give him until the end of the season,
With 5 matches remaining I’m still not convinced that he’s what we need as our number 9 for next season,
I hope he proves me wrong but for now the good moments are few and far between,
I can’t fault him for effort or attitude but I’m just not convinced he’s a Rangers number 9.

29 Apr 2024 20:49:21
Dessers cannot be our main striker next season. He maybe someone we can rotate but he misses too many big chances.

29 Apr 2024 21:29:17
That's it in a nutshell, BB3. Years of failure have left us in a position where many will celebrate the most mundane and worthless accolades and it's embarrassing.

Does anyone think that there would be posts on here celebrating the womens team beating them if we were winning title after title? Not a chance! Posts celebrating a victory over their womens team is proof just how low some fans standards have dropped. The way some on here tried to get one up on tim supporters because our women beat their women was an absolute rid neck!

Although, it doesn't help when our club are handing out accolades to players like Goldson who has been rid rotten, and a complete bombscare all season. A proven case of the board not being able to read the room, again! Boak! 🤢🤮.

29 Apr 2024 21:59:26
20 goals first season in a new country.

29 Apr 2024 22:28:34
I like Dessers and am in no rush to see him leave. He had a terrible start with us so I get the initial impression but he has improved dramatically since PC took over.

He has a good goal tally and he offers a lot to the team in terms of movement, holdup and teamwork. Also been impressed by the mentality to keep going amongst all the criticism. Genuinely starting to really like the lad.

30 Apr 2024 04:47:34
I've got no doubt i'd keep dessers as a squad player for next season and beyond, but not as our no.1 striker for next season 🤔 Dessers has done well this season after a shaky start and his work rate and movement to get into the positions he gets into as a good striker should, has to be commended 👍He has now a good return of 20 goals this season and counting but for me still misses too many gilt edge chances and lacks that little bit composure at times, on his one on ones 🤔.

30 Apr 2024 05:05:20
He’s not getting plaudits for being joint top 3rd. Dessers shouldn’t have been main striker we should have signed someone else in January but we didn’t which was a costly mistake. Why we didn’t is up to the board. I don’t know the finance situation. The point is a lot on here saying how bad Dessers is, if he’s that bad to be joint top 3rd at tail end of season says a lot about our league and how poor it is. Stats can obviously change from now to then, maybe he’ll end up in 5th place who cares? Also tavernier a right back is currently 2nd top scorer. Yeah yeah he takes penalties etc. So did Shankland. If you want a winning team with a winning mentality and no more celebrating mediocrity then the tell the board not to sign mediocre players and mediocre managers. Then maybe we will start winning things. Until then it is what it is, but hey who knows maybe clement and his band of losers will pull a rabbit out the hat and win the league. If we don’t it’s somewhat of a rebuild in the summer anyways. Can the recruitment bring in the right players? Will
The manager ever be able to lay a glove on Celtic? Or will it be yet another season of mediocrity?

30 Apr 2024 05:08:42
Agreed coops. Guys greeting for 20goalsnoff a striker we get one and still complain 🤯. that's with only 2 pens as well. He should be a squad player next season.

30 Apr 2024 05:37:50
On a minutes per goal basis he's top in the league and he doesn't take penalties. But he still misses a lot, I'm not saying we couldn't improve our options next year, the lad is very frustrating to watch sometimes.

30 Apr 2024 06:00:36
We where too quick too punt both sakala and colak both did what we needed, scored goals, both had good numbers when they played, n I belive both brought more than what we have now, option and fact, where you liked them or not they dis what was needed, n I think both would have been better under clement.

30 Apr 2024 06:14:01
Our fans pummel guys all the time who seem too do well, but it's never good enough, ie josh windlass, good player decent return, but just not rangers calibre, same re colak, , n sakala, so what is rangers calibre I keep hearing about, cause only one guy just now I think, passes all is butland

We slate others n give some pass marks even when they are rotten
Colak
Sakala. Both tried n done well when we had others spit the dummy, n folk stuck with them

We need a clear out as far. Too many journey men just collecting a wage n give up when the goings tough n guys we all know who

This has been our failings for seasons sentiment wins no prizes

N I was really weary of dessers but I think he's turned it round n really toys, n just like sakala yes misses chances, he won't score them all, but at least he's in the position too miss them.

30 Apr 2024 08:40:32
So if we lose the league on say a couple of goals surely if they had signed shankland in January no brainer.

30 Apr 2024 08:51:29
with 20 goals this season he deserves another season.

30 Apr 2024 09:14:51
I’ve got some bad news any striker we sign will miss chances, of course if we spend say £35million and get someone like Nicolas Jackson now that striker would never miss would he. So a wee bit of reality required we are looking for a low cost top notch striker not many about .

30 Apr 2024 09:18:49
Spot on Azul and Storm.
Not one person saying Dessers is the long term answer.
But he is all we have.
Scored the goals to get us to another Cup final.
Scored 20 goals this season and people are still greeting.
Always available. Unlike Colak who liked a sickie.

30 Apr 2024 09:41:08
4.5m makes for an expensive squad player. I’d be delighted if we moved him on and recouped a decent percentage of what we paid.

30 Apr 2024 11:23:09
Every striker misses chances name one striker who doesn’t? He is only the 4 striker at rangers to score 20 or over since 2000 and I am not counting the time we were in lower leagues for obvious reasons.


Boak? What is that grow up.

30 Apr 2024 11:23:44
Bluedreamer sakala yes colak not a chance in hell struggling to get a game in serie B with Parma.

30 Apr 2024 11:29:36
If Dessers scores a winner at Parkhead will he be cut a bit of slack?

30 apr 2024 12:47:43
he desperately needs one touch coaching in the box,

30 Apr 2024 12:48:02
Dessers scores a few winners in the old firm league game and we win the league and he scores in the final he can stay as long as wants 🙏

But to be honest he’s scored what 14 league goals so far I think?
Is that not more then Morelos did In His last couple seasons with us? League wise?

still think we need a more quality striker in to be first choice if we want to be winning the league next season and having a good run in Europe

Tav moves on we will need to be covering his goal input too and hoping we have a penalty taker with his conversion rate?
Keep saying it - massive summer ahead only made easier by winning this league.

30 apr 2024 13:10:02
why isn't boak a genuine scottish word storm, i dint get that at all, like scunnered, its in the scottish language as being sick, you not scottish yersel, giesabrek.

30 Apr 2024 13:16:48
😂🤣🤣🤣🤣 Storm! Triggered! 🤣🤣🤣🤣.

30 Apr 2024 13:17:22
No one missed more than super ally, he was cursed under the breath of most the stadium weekly but always managed to get in the right places to know he would score more than anyone else and always turned up in big games, if Dessers stays we still need two strikers brought in and Shankland one of them, decent money needed for another one with Danilo being sold.

30 Apr 2024 13:36:44
Am not "greeting" about anything and certainly didn't "greet" to get a striker that scores 20 in all comp, that should be a given for any rangers striker. What I have been "greeting" about and this goes back to last season as you know, is a striker that can score 20+ goals in spl. The spl is the one we all want.
Here's a list of some of the top scorers in spl in last 10/ 11 year
Shankland (21)
Kyogo (27)
Van veen (25)
Shankland (24)
Edouard (22)
Liam Boyce (23)
Dembele (20)
Griffiths (31)
Hemmings (22)
Rooney (21)
Commons (26)
Boyd ( killie) (22)
Sutton ( (22)
Higdon (26)
Griffiths (22)
MckAy (22)
Mcginn (21)
So that's proof that strikers in our league are scoring 20+ regularly, the only problem is it's not rangers strikers. I get we maybe weren't in the league some of those years but my point was to prove strikers score 20,25,30 spl goals regularly, maybe we just got so used to Alfredo morelos, who never once scored 20 spl goals it's became the norm to some. Stormtrooper you even posted a while back that strikers don't score numbers like that anymore, no! Our strikers don't and it became the norm. So when I'm asking for more from our strikers I'm being told I'm greeting couldn't make it up. Not once did I say we need a 20 goal striker, I've always stated we need someone to score 20+ in spl. If teams like hearts, celtic, motherwell, Ross County, and Aberdeen can have it, why can't we? We are rangers and we want to be the best do we not?

30 apr 2024 14:19:31
take into consideration the 75% play in opposition half and you have a fair point blue

people like shanks must wonder the damage he could do at ibrox.

29 Apr 2024 15:41:05


Gers78!! has written an article entitled, Rangers Squad Rebuild For Next Season

29 Apr 2024 16:52:26
Pretty much spot on Gers78, I'd keep Lawrence, he can still offer something imo, Raskin, I thought done well initially when played with Cantwell, you may be correct in that a full pre-season may help. Balogun for another year as cover. Gd read bud👍.

29 Apr 2024 16:59:22
Good post 78. We may need three goalies.

29 Apr 2024 17:57:44
Was hoping there might be someone within the B team set up that is ready to be third choice keeper John, but not sure if that’s the case.

29 Apr 2024 19:08:28
Nicely summarised 78, i’d agree with pretty much all of that👍🏻.

29 Apr 2024 19:27:06
John is that you teasing that Butland is leaving?

29 Apr 2024 20:32:08
Storm no, plenty says he will go, I hope not, the thread talks McLaughlin and Mccrorie will go

Ger 78, wright was third choice for Europe this season but is behind McLaughlin now for domestic games.

Mb McLaughlin stays if mccrorIe goes

78, imo none of the reserves have any experience above say Alloa Stranraer, but that was same re wright.

29 Apr 2024 20:54:48
Good post and hard to argue but with such a big rebuild we may need to keep some players like Lawrence because we need to use money in other areas I'd certainly sell hagi lammers goldson Wright and not offer deals to any if the ooc players I'd keep tav unless a bid over 5m is made and would look for at least 10m if butland is to. leave so potentially with sales you could generate over 20/ 25m and save over 100k a week on wages so daunting but not impossible.

30 Apr 2024 07:57:27
If butland goes to the euros then min 15m.
I know he is 31 but we should play hardball. Celtic would get top dollar if it were them.

30 Apr 2024 08:52:38
We certainly won't turn down 15 million for him.

30 Apr 2024 09:15:43
Lawrence has been awful wouldn’t have him near my team he looks broken.

30 apr 2024 12:54:16
lets nit start with the “ not a penny less “, kent, morelos spring to mind.