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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.
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13 minutes ago, Morrisandmoo said:
It's not even unique to football. It is just a function of unchecked capitalisation, where capital and power ends up being concentrated in the hands of the few.
Coca cola, McDonalds, Amazon, Google, Tesla and The Rangers
What he said. 😂
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16 minutes ago, aaid said:
And in the 30 years from 1955 to 1985, the Scottish league was won by non-OF teams nine times - Aberdeen (4), Hearts (2), Dundee, Dundee Utd and Kilmarnock each once.
Anyway, the point I make is that somehow this unbalanced position in Scotland with a couple of dominant teams is somehow considered as unique when it isn't.A comparison is probably your local high street. Rangers and Celtic are Asda and Tesco, the rest are your local butcher, baker etc...
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44 minutes ago, JECK said:
Total titles won
Titles won by club (%)
Rangers – 55[h] (44.0%)
Celtic – 51 (41.1%)
Aberdeen – 4 (3.2%)
Hearts – 4 (3.2%)
Hibernian – 4 (3.2%)
Other clubs – 7[h] (5.3%)
As of 7 March 2021
Absolute shambles of a domestic league and no “remarkable achievement”. They must find a more competitive set up.
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.
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41 minutes ago, slasher said:
Hun lies being called out..... seriously, what is wrong with these mutants? 🙈
It doesn’t matter though. They shouted it loud enough, it’s now fact. 🤷♂️
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5 minutes ago, Return of Yermaw said:
The approach he uses is actually a skilled approach in political debating called Gish Gallop, perfectly embodied by Trump in television debates where he releases a succession of lies, misrepresentations, unrelated and often bizarre counter-points in response to a simple straightforward issue that reflects badly on him or his party. The advantage of the approach is that it is impossible to counter all these lies or respond to the bizarre seemingly comparisons in a debate and therefore the root of the actual issue is often lost whilst unrelated (often false) counter points are landed.
I read about it after one of the Hillary/Trump debates and it is quite an effective yet infuriating and underhand approach that seemed to have been first employed and/or perfected by a Duane Gish during evolution debates.
Of course with all the evidence there is of his stupidity, I would suggest that it is not being used on this forum intentionally.
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... 🤷♂️
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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.
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4 hours ago, Och Aye said:
I fear the worst mate. Players don't looked committed to me. I like Chris Long's grumpy attitude but don't think I've see him or anyone else trying to rally the team. Can you imagine Scott McDonald accepting that on the pitch? Even Lasley is just hanging back on the touchline. I'd have thought he'd have been booting water bottles about by now. The teams around us just look more up for 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. 🤷♂️
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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.
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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.
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5 hours ago, dandydunn said:
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”?
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24 minutes ago, Rolling hIlls said:
Obviously it isn't 'true' as it didn't happen. But make things up kiddo. Scotland and Rangers Forever.
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. 😜
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Saw this after the game, and thought it was quite funny (and true) 😂
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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.
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25 minutes ago, slasher said:
Re last nights penalty appeal, I've definitely seen those given. I don't agree with it and I actually think Kamberi cleverly plays for it but they are more often given than not these days. You can understand why McInnes was raging when we got a fk on the edge of their box in the 2nd half in a carbon copy of the incident.
Rangers got 2 penalties like that in one game at fir park earlier in the season. 🤷♂️
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10 hours ago, Och Aye said:
I take it you didn't see the Kilmarnock game. Would have made your eyes bleed.
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.
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6 minutes ago, Parklife said:
What's your early impressions of how Graham Alexander will do?
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? 😜
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1 hour ago, Parklife said:
You, just like Ramy, are only looking at one side. Rangers have improved & been very consistent. However celtic have regressed massively. Celtic were on course for 101 points last season, this season theyre on track for 83. A huge drop off.
Rangers are on track for 103 this season. A huge increase but Celtic fans have every right to be frustrated at their own sides steep regression.
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.
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1 minute ago, sbcmfc said:
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?
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.
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1 hour ago, vanderark14 said:
According to mcinnes 3rd is a great achievement and the players were under far too much pressure last week.
Hibs away is too much pressure🤣 .
Aberdeen were almost neck and neck with celtic even when not playing that well and they still managed to lose even more ground on celtic. Mcinnes and aberdeen had a chance to do something better this season but they didn't have the balls to attack 2nd place.
Sack him and approach Goodwin now.
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?
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16 hours ago, Stu101 said:
Roofe banned 2 games. No complaints about that.
However anyone explain how the ref 'didnt see the incident', but still felt fit to give a yellow card at the time
Also, how did Cole get away without being cited for his kick in the Celtic game?
Don't think these people are corrupt, just not very good at their jobs.
Think Cole has got off in the crossfire. 😂 Very surprised.
Should’ve been a red, but wasn’t particularly violent I suppose. 🤷♂️
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Devante Cole got the all clear in the cross fire. 🤷♂️ 😂
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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.
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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
Scottish Cup....
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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!)