Rangers banter 5

20 Sep 2026 19:37:23
As I sat at in Parkhead at the end of the game and watched our players go up the tunnel, was sitting thinking those players deserved fans there to witness that performance, to go celebrate with at the end of the match, it really annoys me that they didn't.

I totally understand why, but it's just not the same. It's our showpiece game, that stadium was like a morgue from minute our goal went in, it saddens me, we need to find a solution.

20 Sep 2026 20:14:16
Unfortunately any solution to get the decent rule following fans back in will result in the neds getting in also.

20 Sep 2026 20:30:56
Both sets of away fans follow their teams all over Scotland without any bother, unfortunately a section of them just can't behave in the old form cauldron.

20 Sep 2026 20:45:40
Definitely not the same without away fans this fixture.

20 Sep 2026 21:23:43
There's absolutely no doubt that Ibrox with all our supporters only in there last week, were far noisier than breeze block boulevard was today with only their supporters in and that's before any goal was scored in either of the two stadiums. 👌

I've always without being biased thought these 2 things were always the case anyway ie.

1. We're a much noiser, louder set of supporters than them and

2. Ibrox is a far better more atmospheric stadium than breeze block boulevard absolutely no doubt for me 👍🇬🇧.

20 Sep 2026 21:26:18
I think it may take for these games to be played behind closed doors before any sort of solution can be reached. Although, I'm not sure that will even be enough.

These individuals have such a selfish mentality that they can't see it's harming the club when they get fines etc. They only care about their own hate.

20 Sep 2026 21:36:43
Sws, last week the Rangers supporters had plenty to cheer about, today the Celtic supporters had very little, the way I like it, mate.😁.

20 Sep 2026 21:38:53
Been Ned's in these games for over 100 years Fork, you could have 150,000 at these games and no trouble if policed correctly.

20 Sep 2026 20:42:32
Boy blue, hope you gave our lads a good clap🤕🤕.

20 Sep 2026 20:44:54
Why not just erect a big net in front of the stand that houses the away fans so they can't get out. Surely wouldn't be that hard to do.

20 Sep 2026 21:47:36
So just because the police are there, you think everyone behaves. They don't, as the police tend to make arrests for various things. Been going for 50 years and not misbehaved once, it's not hard to do when your not a neanderthal.

20 Sep 2026 23:45:41
I noticed it was the first thing out big Naderis mouth "wish we had fans there to celebrate with"
Swso, i'm not going to be biased mate, but the noise in parkhead today for first 10 mins was was really loud, but felt they weren't giving it there all, as there was still a nervousness around the stadium, like they were singing to try and get a reaction out the players, but the fans didn't actually believe they could get a result.

Not explained myself very well there, it was just weird. Sons of struth i did, currently in ward 7, Glasgow Royal infirmary, can only eat liquids through a straw 😂.

21 Sep 2026 05:48:06
Boy blue😅👍, the welcome the players received coming of the bus is shocking, Scotland's finest standing twiddling their thumbs.

20 Sep 2026 23:53:17
It's a Rangers Celtic game and there will always be Ned's Fork, just saying if policed correctly we could have a large amount of away supporters, will they all behave No, even with just home supporters everyone does not behave but policed correctly their would be no major incidents in or around ground.

21 Sep 2026 07:44:16
Honestly Boy blue watching the game yesterday i honestly didn't hear their supporters anywhere near as noisy as ours at the start of both games last week and yesterday mate 🤔 I even said to my mates when they sang you'll never walk alone at the start of the game yesterday, they for me were not as loud as they usually are 🤔 However my friend you were actually there so i'll take your word for it pal and glad you're safe after being in amongst them 🙏🇬🇧.

21 Sep 2026 07:53:12
and there is the thing, why does it take a police there to have you behave. people go looking for an excuse to have a fight.
at the end of the day heavier policing costs more money, money that us ordinary well behaved fans need to pay for.

21 Sep 2026 08:28:46
Correct Geesa👍.

21 Sep 2026 09:54:01
Football isn't solely to blame.
It's a society issue.
Plenty times out drinking in my teens with mates and it kicked off in clubs and pubs for no reason.
And even now as a 50+ guy out with friends, how many times have you turned to a mate and said it's going to kick off over there in a minute.


Throw in drink ( and the coked up generation ) then everyone thinks they are an MMA fighter!

21 Sep 2026 11:55:31
Don't really get the argument you are having here, away support in any numbers will work if policed right and has for decades FACT, not had a ticket away at parkhead since the 90s so it's not effecting me personally but would like to see our fans there to support our team.

21 Sep 2026 11:58:40
With you Bb4 not the same.

21 Sep 2026 13:40:14
This fact you mention so no arrests no trouble recently or in the past.

October 1995 [The Murder of Mark Scott]; In one of the darkest modern chapters of the rivalry, 16-year-old Celtic fan Mark Scott was unprovokedly stabbed and killed on London Road in Glasgow by a Rangers fan while walking home from a match. This tragedy catalyzed a major societal push against sectarian violence in Scotland. May 1999.

[The Shame Game at Parkhead]; Rangers won the league title at Celtic Park in a highly volatile match. Fans threw missiles onto the pitch, one of which struck referee Hugh Dallas in the head, requiring medical attention. Multiple fans invaded the pitch, and massive street brawls broke out across Glasgow following the final whistle.

March 2011 [Touchline Flare-up & "Crisis Meeting]; Following a chaotic Scottish Cup replay featuring three red cards and a touchline confrontation between Celtic manager Neil Lennon and Rangers assistant Ally McCoist, police reported a dramatic surge in domestic violence and street assaults across Scotland. The event forced the Scottish Government to call an emergency summit with both clubs to curb the broader societal impact of matchday tension.

March 2026 [Ibrox Pitch Invasion and Clashes]; Following Celtic's penalty shootout victory in the Scottish Cup quarter-final at Ibrox, large-scale disorder erupted. Overexuberant celebrations saw Celtic fans breach the pitch, prompting groups of Rangers fans to retaliate and charge. Missiles and flares were thrown, causing injuries to several police officers, stewards, and a 10-year-old child. The event resulted in 43 arrests, multi-year stadium bans for key agitators, and the Scottish FA ordering both teams to play subsequent cup matches behind closed doors.

September 2026 [Missile Throwing]; Hostility remains acute; a Scottish Premiership derby saw 30 to 40 missiles, including a Buckfast bottle, thrown from the stands, striking Celtic goalkeeper Viljami Sinisalo and prompting an immediate police investigation.

Aye right🤯.

21 Sep 2026 13:46:46
Mph is correct it is a societal issue that permeates into people unable to behave during and after the football as factually evidenced above.
That's a snapshot of the trouble that never happened when the games are policed.

20 Sep 2026 19:28:28
What a win gents, enjoy it. Great performance from all the team but Sterling, in my opinion our man of the match. We've got a defence now, bar the odd hiccup who can defend.

We've got a hunger and desire to win games now, that doesn't come from anything else but the manager driving that into a team.

International break is here, couldn't have come at a worse time as we are playing like a team we all want to watch.

Never thought I'd be saying it after the first few games and a disappointing run in Europe, but we look like a team that can win things.

Again well done to all involved. Night and day from start of the season. Frank.

20 Sep 2026 19:58:53
Thought Makhanya was a standout on our defence yet again. Best centre back we have had since cuellar. Rolls Royce.

20 Sep 2026 20:28:16
Sterling was incredible today.

20 Sep 2026 20:43:35
Momentum wise you're correct Frank. However we have a lot of players with time to get over injury problems. That is the good part of the international break.

20 Sep 2026 21:24:37
A list of half a dozen players with posters MOTM, loving that.

20 Sep 2026 21:29:51
I tend to agree with you delboy. 👍 makhanya might well be the best centre half we have had at Rangers since Carlos Cuellar. 🤔👌🇬🇧 What a signing he's been so far and what a goal he scored today and wish it had stood, instead of brushing his arm. 👌🙏 He's taken to playing for Rangers like a duck to water absolutely seemless and still only 22 years old superb 👌🇬🇧.

20 Sep 2026 22:21:27
Whole back 4 was tremendous today but for me Sterling shaded MOTM, i'm still not convinced by Naderi but fair play to him today, by far his best game in a Rangers jersey, finally playing like a proper team and physically on a completely different level from them.

21 Sep 2026 07:52:59
I agree with you Jackboy that Sterling was my MOTM also and just shaded it from makhanya,
Naderi, neil(who won every 2nd ball), Raskin 🤔
Like most of us have already touched on, there could have been anyone of 5 of our players who could have been named MOTM yesterday and you couldn't have argued with it 🤔Everytime i watch makhanya, he never ceases to amaze me with his superb performances continually and i truly think we've robbed Philadelphia Union here by getting this class young centre half for £3.5million 😲🇬🇧 I think our recruitment team were wearing masks when we signed olwethu makhanya 😁🇬🇧.

21 Sep 2026 07:56:01
what does Naderi need to do to convince you Jackboy, i agree he needs more goals but i am convinced those will come. his workrate, his hold up, lay offs etc are all there for all to see.

21 Sep 2026 08:23:41
Jakboy football isn't for you take up another sport.

20 Sep 2026
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20 Sep 2026 20:22:14
Crazy thing is he was OK and came on in the match, seen it on the news this morning, looked nasty.

20 Sep 2026 20:38:03
When saw it thought he would be out for a while but as you say came on as sub.

20 Sep 2026 20:44:20
At least his shorts were ironed.

21 Sep 2026 00:02:35
Saw the video, the timing of it all is just crazy, so many things had to happen for that to play out like that, it all played out absolutely perfectly, mental!

21 Sep 2026 08:16:51
Thats a strange leg massage.

21 Sep 2026 13:52:20
Dado 🤣.

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20 Sep 2026 19:30:25
Veni Vidi Vici.

20 Sep 2026 19:51:04
Love that, very true.

20 Sep 2026 20:36:00
Very proud of our team and squad today, we're going places under McInnes, many had doubts earlier on, but I just knew he'd do a good job with far better quality than he's ever had before, look at his Hearts squad last season and look at his squad now, McInnes has been successful at every club he's managed, second place in the league five times, getting a couple of clubs in Europe for the first time in decades.


This is what a team is and that's what he's about and we will only get stronger as the season goes, I'm just so happy for ever Rangers fan now, I'm sitting enjoy a malt.

20 Sep 2026 21:39:57
Absolutely My star and said myself that appointing Derek McInnes as Rangers manager when we did was absolutely the correct appointment for what our club needed and McInnes ticked all the boxes to what we needed as a club. 👍 He'll be a successful Rangers manager and he's only getting started. 👌🇬🇧

Of course nothing has been won as of yet but i believe that will change and McInnes deserves massive credit to what he's already done by getting all our new signings fighting tooth and nail for Rangers. 👍🥊 The early signs now are he's quickly rebuilding our club into challenging to be the number one club in Scotland again 👍🇬🇧.

21 Sep 2026 07:59:51
its all great believing but i prefer to keep a lid on my emotions, we ain't won anything yet. we all thought Hearts would win the league after our collapse yet they didn't.

McInnes has also had abject failures, not wanting to put dampener on it but let's keep sensible here.

21 Sep 2026 09:56:21
Gees, that got on my nerves as well, about him winning nothing, what are we expecting him winning with clubs managed? Championship a couple of times, 2nd in the league with Aberdeen four times, won a cup, took a Hearts side that finished in the bottom half before him to minutes away from winning the league, his squad now and his squad last season is miles apart on quality.

20 Sep 2026 18:44:59
I now identity as a 6 foot female blond German model and will be marrying Ryan Naderi during the international break all welcome to the stag night.

20 Sep 2026 20:38:17
Gazza will be raging! 😂.

20 Sep 2026 20:39:12
Does Gazza know about this? You might have to fight for Ryan.

20 Sep 2026 18:13:24
When looking back at the early days of Martin and McInnes, the results and atmosphere looked remarkably similar.

The real difference is in the culture they built behind closed doors.

McInnes understood the weight of the shirt immediately. When the bad results hit he didn't hide from the challenge. Instead, he used criticism as fuel to build a seige mentality inside the dressing room. He diverted the plane back from Czech to Aberdeen so no one could hide from pain and disappointment. He made sure he and his team lived it with the players in a hotel in the middle of nowhere. Since then he's turned a team of misfits in to a team of fighters, a group willing to run through brick walls and give absolutely everything for their manager because they knew he had their backs. Adversity didn't break them; it unified them.

On the flip side, Martin's approach suffocated the squad. Instead of protection, players felt the weight of intense scrutiny. The culture shifted from accountability to anxiety. He created a team so terrified of making mistakes, and so fearful of being singled out for tactical errors, that they completely froze. When you play to avoid making mistakes rather than playing to win, the system collapses, just look at Gassama.

One manager built a brotherhood. The other built a pressure cooker within a pressure cooker.

Enjoy the international break.

Glasgow is blue.

20 Sep 2026 18:50:34
Good post mate.

20 Sep 2026 18:53:34
Great post EHL. What a sign off for the International break. 3 weeks and we go again. ❤️🤍💙💪🏻.

20 Sep 2026 18:54:28
Really pleased for guys like big Naderi and skipper Dan Neil.
Majority were writing them of 4/5 weeks ago. Now they'd probably be the first names on the team sheet.

20 Sep 2026 19:04:07
I agree with everything you said EHL, I hope McInnes doesn't go back to changing & tinkering too much after this, sticks with the high intensity & start putting teams to bed. I will admit McInnes has turned it around & has showed he deserves time.

Martin was always a dire appointment, still don't know how he got another job & sit us back massively last season, Rohl almost performed a miracle by getting us that close to the title.

20 Sep 2026 19:06:24
Could tell in the interview after what it meant to Naderi - that comes from the manager instilling that desire to win and playing for the team.

20 Sep 2026 19:18:55
Maloney clearly has more to do with the running/picking of their team. imo Saint Martin is only a cheerleader & up to now has kept their hordes happy saying all the right things.

20 Sep 2026 19:54:07
Great post EHL and wise words foolmonty.
So pleased for some of the guys who have taken pelters. McInnes for a start, but Sterling, Fernandez, Raskin(including ftom myself), Neil, Gassama, Naderi. All exceptional this week and last. But the South African lad??
Wow, what a player.

20 Sep 2026 20:18:36
Good post, we look so much more settled now, I was critical of DM a few weeks ago but happy to eat some humble pie after this week. We look strong all over the park and that with us carrying a few injuries.

International break has come at the wrong time for us would have liked us to carry on with our current run over the next few weeks but it is what it is. Pure buzzing today.

20 Sep 2026 21:40:05
Agree with everything you say but also worth noting the change in persondl and leadership group this season. Must be easier for the new guys to assert themselves and bond when its largely a new group of players of similar ages without the legacy issues we may have had with some of the old guard that have left.

It does feel like a clean slate this season, with only Sterling, Raskin and Kelly in the squad that have been here more than 1 season.

20 Sep 2026 18:05:19
Superb performance from our whole team. Big shout out to Manny. Won just about every ball 🫡. Head looks clear now and just needs to add a few goals. Well done big man 👏🏻 ❤️🤍💙.

20 Sep 2026 19:54:53
Grant shout jking, fantastic discipline too.