Rangers banter 3

17 Mar 2026 23:40:10
Just checking ladbrokes to see if olsen to beat a man is on a bet builder

18 Mar 2026 05:57:07
Not the player we thought. The low blocks will get the blame once he's back in the sun. Thought he was the 2nd coming of Laudrup, myself.

18 Mar 2026 06:05:43
Just don't see him taking to Scottish football. Doesn't look like he would take a tackle.

18 Mar 2026 06:25:45
That's why Laudrup imo, mate. We should be looking closely at players who are capable of playing for Rangers in the Scottish league. 🤔 We should be signing talent from our league and stop this snobbery, and that's why Connor Barron, for me, absolutely deserves to be part of our midfield, no doubt about it at all. 🤔 🇬🇧

18 Mar 2026 06:47:57
Sir Walter, are you related or something? It's almost every thread now. 😂

18 Mar 2026 08:12:02
Kaiser, I agree. I like Barron, but I'm now finding myself hoping he is dropped for the next game because of this constant onslaught. 😂

18 Mar 2026 08:32:23
Kaiser, he does this all the time when someone has a different opinion. Again, nothing to do with snobbery because someone doesn't rate a player. 🤔

18 Mar 2026 08:35:26
We are aware Coops likes Barron more than others. He may not be dropped due to Dio being out, or may be on from the bench as he works his way back.

18 Mar 2026 08:47:02
Kidding aside, Sir Walter, who else from our league would u like us to go for? I really like some of the Motherwell boys. Longelo to give competition to Rommens? Just a goal-scoring midfielder? And, if Skov is £8m+ or Moore is £20m quoted, would Maswanhise be a better option, can play anywhere across the front line? Any others ud like?

18 Mar 2026 11:23:19
Kaiser, they aren't many at all, that's the issue with that.

18 Mar 2026 12:00:14
There are players like Maswanhise and Brag in our league and countless numbers in other leagues who could be better options, but can they withstand the demands placed at our club.

It's the classic "heavy shirt" syndrome- where the weight of expectation actually changes how a player performs.
You can scout technical stats at a mid-table club all day, but you can't easily measure a player's psychological "floor." When someone moves from a team where a draw is "fine" to one where a draw is a "disaster," the pitch starts to feel smaller. That fear of failure almost always manifests in exactly one way: the safe pass.



The logic becomes: "If I pass sideways, I didn't lose the ball, so I didn't make a mistake." It's a survival instinct. They stop playing to win and start playing not to lose, which is death for a creative player.

The "blame chain" is the real killer- where a player is hammered for a minor foul that leads to a goal three phases of play later. Very few people can perform at 100% when they feel like they're walking a tightrope every single Saturday.

How many of us could truly give our best with that type of expectation on our shoulders each week?

18 Mar 2026 13:20:42
Good post Angus, very true, mate.

18 Mar 2026 14:45:57
BB4, I have been trying to do a lot of reading on it for ages. Our players have obvious (and not so obvious) ability, but something means they don't display that.
We all talk about the mental part of the game, and I understood that to an extent, but not why it would be such an issue.

I tried to put it down without too much of the jargon and technical stuff, as I am not 100% sure of it yet (or ever will be), but it does all tie in with that 'weight of the jersey' thing and even 'not understanding the club or the league' elements.

18 Mar 2026 17:09:49
Kaiser, I like Elliot Watt, Elijah Just and Maswanhise, all from Motherwell. I like the look of Barney Stewart at Falkirk. I like Braga at Hearts, all players who've proved they're good in our league. 🤔

18 Mar 2026 18:54:40
Stewart needs another year at Falkirk. Coops, Watt is a no for me. Maswanhise I would take, and Just, but I am wary of Just because Motherwell plays to his strengths; I don't think we do.

Angus, I agree with your post about passing the ball sideways, etc. That is one of my things about Barron; his passing stats will look good because of this, imo.

18 Mar 2026 20:37:19
Storm, I don't think Barron is as bad at the sideways passes as you think. SofaScore has arrow diagrams on a pitch, which seems to confirm that.
However, his role, I think, is to recycle the ball quickly to those inventive players, so you may be looking for something he isn't being asked to do.

Not comparing them as players, but to explain, does he perform the water-carrying role which Deschamps did for France and Juventus?
So, is his role to win it back and pass it on quickly?

17 Mar 2026 22:20:29
I reckon Mickey Moore or Fernandez will win our player of the year this season. Not because they have been outstanding, but they probably have been the best in an inconsistent season. Thoughts?

17 Mar 2026 22:32:36
I'm giving it to Rommens. The guy has been a breath of fresh air, everything we've lacked all season. Bit of grit, a real workhorse, and a very decent footballer.

17 Mar 2026 22:36:12
If we win the league, Butland will be player of the year.

17 Mar 2026 23:44:20
Agree, Stevieg.

18 Mar 2026 05:57:14
Stevie, below you said Curtis had been better than all but Moore. Would that not mean you think he's been our best player? I'm a big fan of JB. I said it numerous times on here, so I would be happy for him to get it also.

18 Mar 2026 06:01:04
Butland sorry don't see it. Has a howler in him in each game.

Big Manny for me, or Connor if he hadn't got injured.

18 Mar 2026 06:29:09
If Connor Barron hadn't got injured at the time, when he was easily playing the best football of his career, he would have been the Rangers player of the year for me. 👌 Now it would be one of these 3 for our Rangers player of the year, i.e. Jack Butland, Manny Fernandez or Mikey Moore. 🤔🇬🇧

18 Mar 2026 06:35:22
Forget POY, lads (for now). There is a bigger prize to be won, and we will need 11 POYs every week to get this, IMHO. 🤔🙏

18 Mar 2026 06:47:06
I asked this a few weeks ago. It was a struggle picking one who'd make team of the year. Probably Butland, though Manny is a decent shout.

18 Mar 2026 08:34:38
Connor Zidane Barron must be our POTY, no?

I would say Butland has been our best player. He has had a howler or two, but he has kept us in games more than anyone else.

Our star striker not in the running?

18 Mar 2026 09:37:09
Butland for me as well, if Rommens was here all season i have no doubt he would have took it.
Butland had a howler of a season last year, but this season, he has been solid and saved our skin more than once.

18 Mar 2026 13:14:01
Butland for his start to the season in particular, or Barron, who has been consistent and was really good before his injury, or a late run from Fernandez. If he keeps up his current form, he could be POTY. As I've said before, I don't see what the hype is for Moore.

Yes, he can be exciting in bursts, but he has shown very little end product and usually runs into trouble and gets dispossessed. The one exception was the home game against Killie when I thought he was tremendous.

18 Mar 2026 13:46:38
Orange T, I'm referring to wide players mate.

17 Mar 2026 21:21:04
And I pick up fresh on the topic of Olsen not rubbishing DR's style.

I've said same about Raskin and actually think the same for Diomande.

I think that his tactics are affecting our best players.

Aphe, my point on Olsen is if u yourself know he's not suited our style or Danny's tactics would that not make u agree he's better not being signed again next season whether that's a loan or permanent, mate.

17 Mar 2026 23:38:07
My player of the year would be Matondo, just because he's not been playing!

18 Mar 2026 08:02:24
I wouldn't say he is not suited to the style or system, my friend.

He is a boy who is very low on confidence.

Some say he chooses whether he can be bothered or not, and that is untrue and disrespectful.

He has had periods in his career where he needs an arm around the shoulder.


Many huge players have been through similar.

He plays very safe and risk averse, I believe, because his confidence is extremely low and he doesn't want to set the frustrations alight by losing the ball trying risky things.

18 Mar 2026 08:21:55
Stevie, so when those best players play well and the team plays well in games vs Celtic and Hearts, is it the exact same tactics which cause them to play that way? Tactics only seem to be an issue when we draw or lose; I don't ever hear anyone complain about them, or the subs, or the interviews when we are winning.
You can see that Olsen and Gassama, especially, are struggling with confidence, and that is difficult to recover quickly; however, one good game is all it needs.


I think the main difference with Raskin is he is actually sitting in mf now. I don't think this is his best role, and he is better in that chasing, harrying role when he seems to be at his best.

18 Mar 2026 13:48:45
Angus, perhaps he can move a bit forward now Barron is back.

A mf 3 of Barron, Raskin, Chuckwuani is a very good mf to have.

17 Mar 2026 18:44:30
I've been thinking about young Curtis. When he comes back in the summer, is it better taken a risk on him in the team or forking out on a very disappointing Skov Olsen?

17 Mar 2026 21:11:30
He's been better than all but Moore this season and he's hardly played.

17 Mar 2026 15:44:55
With this talk of possibly signing Moore, I think the best winger I've seen this season in the SPFL has been Yogane at Dundee. He's on loan from Brentford. Takes a man on, invariably beats him and gets a cross in. Quite refreshing.

17 Mar 2026 17:53:01
Yeah, agreed. I mentioned his name a couple of months ago after watching him vs Hearts. He had the Hearts right back in his back pocket the whole game. They tried to double up on him and 2 players couldn't get near him. Beating them with ease and delivering decent balls into the box.

That said, we played them a few weeks later, and so I was paying close attention to him, but they didn't seem to utilise him as much, or he couldn't influence the game in the same way.



But definitely one to watch. The lads that the likes of Brentford and Bournemouth have in their youth ranks really put our development squads to shame.

17 Mar 2026 18:41:10
Zikos, he was decent that day, as I watched as well. Not seen him since, other than vs us, so don't know if that was a one-off or not. He is only 20 as well, which surprised me, as I thought he was older.

Not the best of stats, but Dundee have only scored 31, so unfair to judge on that perhaps. One to watch, as you say.

17 Mar 2026 21:12:16
Best is Braga as wide left at Hearts, and Maswanhise has played a lot there for Motherwell before going through the middle.

17 Mar 2026 21:56:54
I like the look of Congreve at Dundee as well.

17 Mar 2026 22:23:37
Hearts have already said they won't sell Braga to a direct competitor. So, even if that is just bluster, they will want a lot of cash to do it.

17 Mar 2026 14:50:17
Bit of news for all the bears who use the subway to get home from games new opening and closing times
subway to run 6.30am - 12.30am Friday and Saturday and 6.30am - 11.30pm on Sunday.

17 Mar 2026 15:15:19
Closing time is nowhere near the end time for any game we play, so no excuse for the subway loyal to leave early.

17 Mar 2026 15:57:24
DoTheBouncy, it does if they don't want to stand in line for an hour after the final whistle.

17 Mar 2026 15:59:17
Bouncy, most of the subway loyal relinquished their membership long ago and now belong to the Motorway Bears, whose goal is to skip the crazy traffic queues at the end of a game.

17 Mar 2026 16:32:39
Honestly, the criticism of people leaving early is pathetic. I'm not one who does it myself, but some people travel a long, long way to watch the match and need to get home at a reasonable time. I honestly get it, critic wise, ifd your local or even Glasgow based, but surely people realise our fans come from all over to watch Rangers.

17 Mar 2026 16:33:32
And it's not like our games are on Saturdays most of the time, when public transport is decent. We mostly play Sundays when transport is horrendous.

17 Mar 2026 17:33:51
Thought the new times were still to be confirmed by the SPTE?

17 Mar 2026 18:16:32
100% correct. Bleed Blue, it's up to them what they do with their own time, no one else.

17 Mar 2026 20:17:41
My thing about folk leaving is:
Would you pay to go and watch a film at the cinema, or even a show in a theatre? Answer is no, so I don't get these 1s that leave early.

17 Mar 2026 21:02:42
If seeing something that other people do bothers you, then you must have a carefree life. Let people do as they please with their own time.

17 Mar 2026 22:22:45
Ano, enough of the bashing. People can do what they like. It's their time and money. If someone wants to leave 5 minutes after kick off, they are free to do so.

18 Mar 2026 08:42:50
This still a thing I see, people pay their money, it's up to them.

17 Mar 2026 14:05:28
Fernandez called up for Nigeria.

17 Mar 2026 16:10:00
Brilliant. Apart from AFCON years, but good to see him getting call up.

17 Mar 2026 16:34:30
Great news. Mystar only boosts his value if he can become a regular, with him and Bassey together lol.

17 Mar 2026 18:16:58
Kasier AFCON is changing to the summer.

17 Mar 2026 21:35:10
Is it changing to every 4 years, or did I imagine that?

17 Mar 2026 22:07:21
Baz, it's changing to that as well after 2027, I think.

They are, though, also introducing an annual Nations League. I don't know when those games would be played, or if it fits with our calendar.