Rangers banter 3

01 Nov 2026 17:26:13
Well if we win our game in hand we're a point behind them. Still need to win it of course.

Add that to the cup final, 45% clean sheet record, 2 Old Firm masterclasses and a list of players worth a lot of money with a lot of promise now in our ranks I am over the moon with the club atm.

We're really building momentum now.

01 Nov 2026 17:35:43
Is our game in hand Aberdeen at home on the 24th?

01 Nov 2026 17:42:16
Yes Goingfor56, it's against Aberdeen at Ibrox on tuesday 24th of november mate 👍🇬🇧.

01 Nov 2026 17:53:42
Cheers bud 👍.

01 Nov 2026 19:20:22
Need to win next Saturday at 8pm first.
1 game at a time.
Agree though bud, I'm over the moon also, cup final and the league table starting to get interesting.
Win on Saturday and see what happens with Celtic on Sunday.
I'd like to see us put some pressure on them.

01 Nov 2026 20:49:57
Celtic at home to Killie next weekend so unless they are dead on their feet after the Besiktas game they will probably have a big win.

01 Nov 2026 21:52:40
Stevie G it's still no good enough mate according to some, because the football isn't slick enough and Fernandez & Sterling aren't Jaap Stam & Cafu every week.

01 Nov 2026 22:02:48
I can see Celtic parting ways with Martin in the new year.

If and when we go top and if we win the cup, they're going to implode and I think turn on Martin as well as the board.

I think Martin will walk for health reasons when the pressure gets too much h to be worth it for the man.

01 Nov 2026 16:48:13
With the Bairns result today and Hibs currently beating Hearts, it shows me that there are no outstanding teams head and shoulders above all others in this league. We are the only team that can win a treble so let's kick on, it's the away games in the league that cause me concern, win the next 2 away Saturday games and we could be in for an epic season.

01 Nov 2026 15:17:37
{Ed's Note - gdog55 has posted a new article entitled, Rangers Need Perspective on McInnes

01 Nov 2026 15:46:24
Think that's a fair enough read, gdog. You're correct in that some fans - even on here - never wanted McInnes in from the start and that is clear to see in their comments.

I do feel however that as fans folk are "entitled" to express their opinion on any given situation, be it about the manager himself, any decision he may have made, or anything a player does on the pitch, without having the "entitled" accusation levelled at them.

Their particular point of view may be seen as being biased due to an opinion that was formed based on previous events, but I just don't see how "entitled" would even begin to describe any Rangers fan given the dominance of that other lot in the east end for long enough now.

01 Nov 2026 16:15:36
I think if you spend any time in the live chats you'd know what I mean Parlane.

Of course people can have opinions and not all opinions will (or need to) agree.

But thinking we have to and should win every game and that any time we draw a match is a catastrophe that calls the manager, players and any chance of winning anything into question is the "entitled" I'm talking about.

Never in our history have we won every game. The best manager in our history never won every game.

The two most recent examples sum it up. In that chat Dundee were a terrible team in a second rate league and we should be walking over them. And the other night we had similar rhetoric about how we "should be beating" Hearts - a team who haven't lost at home for a year and a half and who had won their last 15 or some such. "No point beating Celtic if we can't win these games".

That's the sense of entitlement I'm talking about.

It's ripping out of us as a support and we need perspective. Or we'll just keep going round in the same old circles.

01 Nov 2026 16:48:31
Gdog, some of the stuff i read on here is bonkers after dropping points, not a club anywhere on this planet wins every game, after the Dundee game i never even looked for a couple of days after reading some of the stuff getting posted, we took our chances against Dundee we win that game easily.

01 Nov 2026 17:08:57
Going to be ups and downs all the way to end of season , we are a young team and if we can land the league cup it will do their confidence the world of good in our battle for the title , a few games of putting games to bed early by taking our chances would help fan confidence going forward.

01 Nov 2026 17:09:30
It's not entitlement. It's expectation. We're not entitled to win every game but we should have expectations to do better and demand they give their best. It's about standards. When u spend 10s of millions on a team, of course u should expect them to perform better than ones built on buttons.

Obviously shocks can happen like Fleetwood v Arsenal but shouldn't be the norm. Can u honestly say most weeks u watch us u can tell which team is the expensive one despite the massive gulf in wages etc?

01 Nov 2026 17:10:10
Well said Gdog, I don't think our fanbase is used to being in a title race tbh and are that used to having nothing to play for by Christmas that any dropped points just makes us think we have messed it up. We just need to keep calm and so do the players and keep picking up points. We are heading in the right direction.

01 Nov 2026 17:58:11
Well done, Gdog, a good piece. I came home from Hampden last night and came on here with some measure of excitement, expecting praise for the team, individual players, the manager, the club in general. Within a few minutes I was back out after reading some of the doomsday drivel and negativity from the usual suspects, the laptop lamentables.
While a few understood where we were, are and are trying to get to, it seems others just cannot wait to wade in with a fair amount of bilious comment even after we became the only club which still has a treble in its sights - and don't make me laugh by saying Hibs are still in a race for the league.


The manger is doing good work with these players and will continue to do so in spite of the - spite, really, from the keyboard critics.

01 Nov 2026 18:09:05
Gdog,

I get the point you are making, and you're correct, but IMO it's not a sense of entitlement. The examples you use in your reply to my own post are actually pretty factual.

Like it or not the Scottish top division is a 2nd rate league - at present ranked around 20th in Europe. The performances overall in Europe from our clubs gets worse with each passing year. Do we even recall the names of some of the clubs to embarrass both Glasgow teams?

And if we're beating the other lot that have won 15 out of the last 16(? ) titles then dropping points to other clubs, of course that will negate the points won in an OF match, and that in itself will for sure lead us to "going round in the same old circles" and handing them yet another league flag.

Said it plenty of times on here we need to be up for EVERY fixture regardless of the opposition.

BTW if you want to see actual entitlement in full flow head over to Celtic's rumours site right now 😁.

01 Nov 2026 18:43:07
Parlane, I didn't mention entitlement, I talked about unwarranted, over-the-top criticism.

01 Nov 2026 18:44:58
So it's the fans, the same fans that filled up Ibrox every week, when down the league's, the same fans that sang so loud we were putting fear into teams at Ibrox during our Europa run, nothing to do with blowing millions on players not good enough? Give us something to cheer about were some of the best in the world at it, if we don't play so well we're entitled to voice that, if your a player and you can't handle that, maybe they are at the wrong club. How on earth can we be entitled, having won next to nothing for 15 years? Entitled is winning 14/15 titles and calling for the managers head after 2 Old Firm defeats.

There's guys on here that get absolutely carried away season after season after a few good results, then there's other guys that can look at the performance and realise we won't keep getting away with it, that's not entitled gdog, that's just pointing out how we see it, sadly we've been right 95% of time, because we've called it correct we're the problem, really. Of course we're all buzzing about getting to final, but we're always going to talk about the performance, especially after 2 horrible performances against Hearts and Dundee.

01 Nov 2026 19:13:41
Gylnde, my own replies are addressed to the original poster, gdog, soz if you felt otherwise. I agree that sometimes the criticism can be a bit OTT. I also am aware that folk can react in the heat of the moment, especially in a live chat situation.

Only reason I responded to anything was because I disagree totally with the entitlement accusation. For me that simply isn't a factor. 👍.

01 Nov 2026 20:59:05
I think some of you need a dictionary more than an explanation. 🤣

Listen, if you want to argue that a large amount of our fan base don't think we're entitled to win every game we play in, and don't get their panties in a bunch when we inevitably don't win every game we play in, then you're absolutely able to make that argument.

I'd question your observation skills, or your sanity, if you tried to make that argument. But you are of course welcome to make it.

This can be true and fans can still be supporting the team, in a second rate league or otherwise, or in the lower divisions of that league.

More than one thing can be true at once.

02 Nov 2026 01:45:00
Gdog, we've been in the wilderness for years with some atrocious teams we've had, anybody that's felt entitled, that we should win every game would need there head checked. Up until a few years ago it was a formality that Celtic would beat us, every time they played us, and they did, and we would absolutely struggle against the rest, nobody was feeling entitled, infact the only thing we felt was sick! I honestly can't comprehend how any fan base can feel entitled after 3 trophies in 15 years, heartache after heartache.

I follow Rangers absolutely everywhere all around Europe, have a season ticket were i very rarely miss a game, the sense I've had from fellow supporters over past 15 years has been hope, not entitled.

01 Nov 2026 15:06:46
Great result for Falkirk, that's a very difficult ground to visit for any SPL team. McGlynn has them well set up and difficult to beat.
I always felt Falkirk could get something from the game but didn't see that coming.
We will need to be on form to take 3 points from them at home.

01 Nov 2026 15:30:15
Excellent result. It might show other teams not to fear them.

01 Nov 2026 20:51:42
Yet we were criticised for only beating them 2-1.

01 Nov 2026 14:06:09
I was speaking to a guy in the pub last night (don't know him; he was on holiday from the big smoke) and he was adamant that as things stand Chermiti is to return to training in December or January? I hope this is correct, but that sounds very optimistic. Anyone know the state of play?

01 Nov 2026 14:22:47
He might get back on the grass but will still be months away from being able to play.

01 Nov 2026 15:08:01
Think he might have had one too many and mixed Chermiti up with Shankland who will return in that time frame.

01 Nov 2026 16:06:30
I'd be very surprised if Chermiti plays again this season.

Hopefully we do though as we badly miss him.

01 Nov 2026 16:36:17
Chermiti won't kick a ball this season, if he does it won't be until around April.

01 Nov 2026 17:12:17
Think Shsnkland was aiming for cup final last I heard , good sub to come on for festive period if he does.

01 Nov 2026 13:00:46
The Celtic games apart, Derek IMO has got his team selection wrong a few times recently. Playing Penrice in a 2 with Raskin was obviously not working, this was plain to see after 10 mins and he let it run for far too long. Sure we won and I'm so grateful for that, it would have been a complete disaster if we had lost to that abysmal Aberdeen team.

It was no coincidence that our goal came about because big Kelsey controlled the ball and ran right in amongst them. We need runners from midfield to pressure teams , I thought Minsu might have done a lot of that but he looks as if he's going into his shell. Maybe I'm too harsh, getting into the final is great but we need to improve and quick.

01 Nov 2026 18:43:50
Minsu hasn't been great last 2 but hoping its just a confidence thing. think he is just trying to hard to make an impression which really isn't needed.

01 Nov 2026 09:10:55
Fernandez has taken a fair bit of justified stick over the last few days but I felt like he commanded the box really well when Aberdeen were getting crosses in.
His headed clearance to get us up the park for the goal is superb, fair play to him.

Last night was all about getting to the final, which we've done. 'By hook or by crook' as the Manager said post-match. Delighted to be there and we can get the feet up today whilst we wait to see who our opponent will be next month.

01 Nov 2026 09:22:23
Agree Souness, he was really dominant in the air. There was a spell where we were under a little bit of pressure and Armstrong put in a couple of really dangerous balls and he was first to everyone of them.

It just frustrates me that there was also a spell in the first half where he seemed to completely switch off positionally and Aberdeen created two or three good chances.

Its frustrating because we all know he's better than what he's showing, but he just can't seem to iron out those lapses in concentration.

01 Nov 2026 10:29:51
The lad is just an enigma, yes he is probably one of the best at heading the ball - maybe even in the UK.

But actually defending, he is woeful. You can tell he's not a natural defender (I think he played as a striker in youth teams).

There was an instance in the 1st half (might be the same as EHL is mentioning) where Aberdeen broke and manny dropped the player and ran into the centre of the pitch giving the lad a full view of the goal. If the Aberdeen player was more switched on he could have ran through on goal.

It was beyond amateurish. I don't see that side of his game improving.

01 Nov 2026 11:03:40
Last game v Aberdeen was the same, (mentioned it at the time), he was very dominant in the air defensively that day as well. maybe he should just do what he is good at, instead of trying to be Beckenbaur.😉😉 on the not so good side, he looks as slow as a week in barlinnie!!

01 Nov 2026 11:41:54
The question is, is concentration something that can be coached into him? Thought he had a good game but as highlighted he has a mistake in him and sometimes holds onto the ball too long put himself and the team under unnecessary pressure.

01 Nov 2026 12:17:08
Zikos I actually disagree with you a wee bit there, I think he's a decent defender. I honestly think one of his best attributes is when he's in a dual facing his own goal, he gets himself between the striker and the ball really well and regains possession.
I think his biggest fall down is that he thinks at times that he's a giant Prilo.

01 Nov 2026 12:32:53
He just has me worried at times with his hesitation at times as I'm never confident he will do the right thing. Far prefer when he keeps it simple as he's really good at that rather than when he goes into his "I'm Beckenbauer" mode.

01 Nov 2026 13:03:39
Although i do rate Fernandez as a talented centre half he absolutely gives you the fear at times as he takes unnecessary chances thinking it's too easy, but his talent is not a question for me 🤔I'm however at ease when makhanya is defending and when he's on the ball as he's superb and smooth as silk 👌 He's very easy on the eye and i'm always confident about him 👌🇬🇧I've had a go at Naderi before on here but the big fella is growing on me 👍His workrate was never in question for me but i just thought at times he had to channel his running a bit more instead of running around for the sake of it and had to start adding goals and he's doing both for me now 👍🇬🇧 His goal yesterday was a strikers goal being in the correct place at the right time for the tap in and his run and positional sense was terrific, to get on the end of the ball from penrice 👌But like i said in my other post bouanani was the classiest player on the park by a distance and Aberdeen players whether it was one, two or three at the same time couldn't stop him 👌🇬🇧.

01 Nov 2026 14:59:11
Well done Walter, holding your hands up re Naderi. as I've said he is the new Dessers and he will score 20plus with at least ten assists

He is the knew dessers, so many do not appreciate what we have, Kelsey is also very good.

As the manager said yesterday the wingers all have to start scoring.

01 Nov 2026 16:48:49
It's only fair to be honest John and Naderi has definitely grown on me and long may it continue mate 👍🇬🇧.

01 Nov 2026 17:11:43
Manny was excellent fair play to him, thought Sterling was poor again.

01 Nov 2026 17:17:36
I really like Kelsy, John, read on here a few don't, always liked what Naderi brings, both youngsters that are only going improve, I wasn't really interested in signings in January, after thinking more about it, we could be maybe be doing with a couple of experienced players, very young squad not only the team.