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I’m delighted Rangers lost, but it makes me more annoyed that Motherwell lost, what an opportunity now for the remaining teams. (Although valid point from elsewhere, I don’t like half our current squad, so wouldn’t have picked this lot to go down in history... bloated squad of absolute dross!)

Always felt Rangers (and Celtic) were more interested in one up over each other than progress in Europe, with any success greater than lasting 1 week longer than the other deemed a bonus, but with the league wrapped up, Rangers can really focus on their Europa games, while any opponents if they got through may have eyes elsewhere... Sparta Prague have an amazing home record, so not a bad start, wouldn’t be surprised to see a good game at Ibrox. Every chance they’ll go through.

What he said. 😂

A comparison is probably your local high street. Rangers and Celtic are Asda and Tesco, the rest are your local butcher, baker etc...

According to Douglas park, Rangers winning the league is: “I am at a loss as to what more Rangers Football Club could have done to limit the reaction to winning our historic 55th league title. It has been widely accepted amongst the football family that this is one of the greatest modern day sporting achievements and I believe that this should not be downplayed.

It doesn’t matter though. They shouted it loud enough, it’s now fact. 🤷‍♂️

I say this often, Rangers FC and their support just shout things loud enough and often enough that even their more moderate supporters presume it’s true and nobody else can be bothered arguing with them. 🤷‍♂️ Rangers half arsed stay safe messages and tannoy announcements are completely negated by the actions of the players and staff hanging out dressing room windows, going to the gates at full time, partying with fans at the gates of Murray park... I also can’t get my head round some of the things that went on at the weekend in the context of the Killie/stmirren issues earlier in the season, where they were punished (although punishment was later reduced) for players car sharing and sitting too close at lunch, while Rangers players are car sharing and dancing about the training ground car park drinking beers together... 🤷‍♂️

Interesting reading, my boys team (2013s) were separating the boys into 2 groups, the good players and the rest. My boy was in the 2nd group, and I never had a problem with that (there wasn’t a 3rd group (copyright John Gaghan)). They stopped doing that, think some parents were grumbling about it, but I thought it was better to let the weaker players play together at their own level and build their confidence, some of them improved significantly with the extra time on the ball etc, rather than them daisy picking while the better players played around them. I can see the politics and trying to keep everyone happy is an absolute minefield. Fair play to all the folk that give up their time to do it.

Agree with that. Frustrating for tomorrow night we will be without more players than St Mirren would have been for the original fixture, the difference being they had all these players unavailable as they were not following Covid protocols. 🤷‍♂️

Some of them are long term, like Carson, Fox, Donnelly, Dunne, but was reported as 18 on Saturday, with O’Donnell returning from suspension. Showing 11 on the official site. https://www.motherwellfc.co.uk/club/team-news/

Interesting that Motherwell could be without as many as 17 players for tomorrow nights St Mirren game. The St Mirren game that was called off due to their Covid breaches and them not having a big enough squad to fulfil the fixture as a result, the one that the SFA/SPFL wasted 3 months of free midweeks deciding what to do with, then planned in the busiest spell of the season.

That’s clearly mental, but is it more mental than the theory that the SFA/SPFL/Mhedia are running a conspiracy to stop Rangers; the self proclaimed “most successful team in football”?

I should have said a true reflection of how partisan the commentary was. 😂 He obviously wouldn’t say it live on air, saves that sort of chat for cultural evenings. 😜

Saw this after the game, and thought it was quite funny (and true) 😂

That’s not the case, the new rules are not as straightforward as you suggest RH. It always had to be deliberate, but the definition of deliberate had become so warped they brought in this nonsense about being outwith the silhouette or whatever the rule is. A black and white hits your hand or not would remove the grey area, but leaves an opening for players to engineer handballs, blasting the ball at players waist high from point blank range.

Rangers got 2 penalties like that in one game at fir park earlier in the season. 🤷‍♂️

Fair point. 😂 I’ve been quite enjoying the Wednesday night 6pm KOs 🍻 Made allowances for the conditions, but it wasn’t pretty, some good signs in the Celtic game and some positive results against County and United. Alexander has a decent CV as far as I can see, although perhaps the brand of football is why things turn so quickly? Robinson had a dreadful habit of just “bringing in bodies” so you also need to make some allowances for that squad. If you take the accies game out we’ve taken a point off Rangers, been unlucky not to get a draw with an improving Celtic and lost to Aberdeen, but beaten Ross County, Dundee United and Killie. Compared to the relegation form we were in, it’s better.m, I’ll worry about our style next season.

Definitely been an upturn in form since he came in, but the 1st half on Saturday was as bad as anything under Robinson. Given the early red card etc. we did improve in the second half, but we still look like we have guys who are sleepwalking through games and take a rocket to waken them up. There’s probably 5 or 6 1st team players I’d keep in the summer and most of them will likely be off (Gallagher, Campbell, Kelly and O’Donnell). Accies for whatever reason seem to do really well against us. It’s maybe because it means more to them? 😜

Rangers have been a bit less formidable recently, you could look at it as them taking their foot off the gas slightly, or wonder if Celtic had managed to put any sort of pressure on them could they have collapsed like previous seasons? I have to reluctantly admit Gerrard is doing a great job, and you can see genuine progress, but I’d like to have seen if they would have coped if Celtic had managed to close the gap.

Just to add to that, with the exception of McFadden, that was probably the pinnacle of most of those guys careers, but you’ll not find a Motherwell fan that didn’t see that season that McCall had probably run his race at Motherwell.

That sums up McInness and a lot of people ingrained in Scottish footballs culture of OF dominance. We all laugh at guys like Jim Gannon when they say their aim at the start of the season is to win the league, but I like that. McInness seems happy to finish 3rd regardless of how bad the opposition is. The Motherwell team that put Aberdeen 3rd in 2014 was awful! 😂 I don’t know how we did that! 3rd should be par for Aberdeen, and the only reason not to change things is a fear of getting it wrong and ending up in a relegation battle surely?

Think Cole has got off in the crossfire. 😂 Very surprised. Should’ve been a red, but wasn’t particularly violent I suppose. 🤷‍♂️

Devante Cole got the all clear in the cross fire. 🤷‍♂️ 😂

A charge each off the back of Rangers call for consistency is either sad or funny, I can’t decide which. Think the Roofe one looks worse on second viewing to most people, looks (to me) like he has intended to hook the ball, but been blindsided by Davidson and straightened his leg instinctively to “defend” himself. Stick on red, but regularly see similar incidents given as yellow or completely missed and ignored.

For some reason i got a vision of Jimmy Bell making up the lunches for the Rangers squad. 😂 Fish finger sandwich (excludes Friday matches) Billy bear ham Orange juice served in a flute Tangerine Orange club