Rangers Banter Archive March 18 2014

18 Mar 2014 16:35:51
I don't think that many of you on here will agree, but I thought last night's performance was much better than most of what I have witnessed this year. On far too many occasions, particularly at Ibrox, we have appeared to be really nervous when we have the ball. Against Rovers we kept the ball for long periods of time and did not look for the long ball up to Daly at every opportunity. I accept that we did not do that much with the ball and we are in desperate need of a creative figure in the middle of the park, but it was definitely a start. If we want to see a Rangers team play an attractive passing game, then they need to be comfortable on the ball and be able to retain possession for long periods of time. We also need width if we are to break down the teams who play with 11 men behind the ball and the quality of crossing was better last night. I know he is not a favourite on here, but Foster is a far better option than Faure at RB. My best case scenario is that McCoist is receiving a real education in the lower leagues ( a la Fergie at East Stirling), and that the squad will grow in confidence so that even if we can't compete with Celtic we can put out an attractive passing side that people will want to go and watch every week. I know there is a long, long way to go but despite what Walker, McCann or McNamara said, I enjoyed watching a Rangers team pass the ball to each other. It's not Barcelona or even Rangers under Advocaat, but does anyone remember how truly awful we were in the CL under Smith in the 90s (including 92/3)?

Totally disagree, we passed the ball about with a terrible end product, 4 guys on here could pass the ball about like last nite, Albion rovers never pressed us all night, I found the whole game very boring, the referee could've blew for full time after 76 mins, nothing happened.

Tell you what. go on YouTube and watch our champions league run in 92/93 and you will see what kind of team we were then. I think you might be surprised. but just in case you haven't a laptop I'll summarise for you. a team who could control the ball n one touch, a team who were all quick, well miby not Scott Nesbit, a team who were hard, a team who were powerfull, a team who swatted Leeds to one side, and a team who were cheated out of the cup final. wee rethink on your post I think!

The great man in the sky could learn ally tactics every one nows to beat packed defences is down flanks or some one running at defences and drawing players to them and as for holding the ball last night no disrespect to rovers they had there shot at the title in the first game last night

Sorry poster, we can all have opinions on how the team performs but it must be obvious that we don't perform as a unit. Not only that the standard of our play is poor.
We have some good players not being utilised correctly. We also have some potential in the younger players on the books that any decent manager/coach would have introduced before now.
Unfortunately, we are stuck with McCoist and unless we can sort out the playing system, the sale of season tickets will fall, not because of the board, but due to the standard of our play.
Over the years, when the team was playing poorly we did not go every week and chose our games to suit circumstances. McCoist has been very fortunate that we Rangers fans have shown such loyalty but unless he extracts the digit, season ticket sales will fall no matter what happens off the field.

I have been saying that for a while macoist is a bigger threat to rangers than the board at the present time because every game is the same mince mince and more mince and every one I know are not thinking of the planned boycott plain and simple they are not going to renew ther tickets and if we get humped in cup it will be ten times worse

Would be every surprised if season ticket sales for next season are lower than this season.

Why's that johncass, season tickets are expected to raise, if ally is still manager season tickets will be down, football is an entertainment and we ain't getting value for money.

And so the price should rise, as we know the championship, will be harder, with better teams than we have played in league 1&2. If someone is willing to pay for a season ticket for league 1&2, then I think they will continue that in the championship. We will soon see

18 Mar 2014 05:35:14
I see MacNamara jumping on the band wagon about unfair advantage because semi at Ibrox will these people ever let it go
Him and his chairman are really showing their true colours no complaints when venues announced when celtic where still in competition afraid to upset lawell me thinks.

Ur right it's pathetic how they are now complaining about the venue. Did Chelsea complain about having to play Bayern at their home ground? No they just played the game and won. Having watched last nights match don't think they have anything to worry about so don't see what the issue is

Remember dundee utd are all for sporting integrity when it suits but all the time they are puppets for lawell

18 Mar 2014 11:21:30
Pretty pathetic stuff and as for their poor ticket allocation I don't seem to recall hordes of DU fans travelling down to Hampden last year for their semi final. Certainly not remotely close to 13,000 of them.

Saying that, our boycott of Tannadice last year was cringe inducing too, Charles Green playing most of the fans like a fiddle and Ally McCoist not even having the gumption to go against him.

He was just following his chairmans lead last night imo. what did make me laugh was when he was asked about the rangers-celtic semi that was played at parkhead and all he could do was mumble about being injured. it was decided a while ago and nothing was said at the time, that was when stipulations regarding semi final and final venues should have been put in depending on who was playing. ie rangers in semi then it is played away from ibrox or celtic in the final (stop sniggering back there!) it is played away from parkhead. regarding ticket split then I believe that the wigan-arsenal game is 22k wigan and 42k arsenal due to the much higher ST sales that one team has, this is standard practice pretty much across the football world so why is it only a big deal this time?

Aye that's what it is, Dundee Utd are Lawwell's mouthpiece. do you read what you write before. you post it. give yersel a skelp will ye. PL is more than capable of telling people how it is BUT he more class than that and he just allows the eejits to do the shouting while he does what he is employed to do

18 Mar 2014 15:37:16
Utd should be asked for a written explanation as to why they had no objections before now. So that evyone is aware of their complaint. Then they should be disciplined after they offer no explanation for their very late objection. Mcnamara is just a very silly boy. The parkhead semi destroys his argument
tomblue

Tomblue the parkhead semi actually strengthens his argument because it was a 50/50 split.

@7 it wasn't a 50/50 split of tickets for the parkhead semi so make sure you know your facts before you start posting comments

18 Mar 2014 19:29:59
All the smugness in this thread is a bit pathetic. It's quite simple, there was no complaint before now because until we made it into the semi ibrox was a neutral venue. Now we are in the semi its not a neutral venue. I'm not backing utd's attempt to move the venue but it's easy to understand where they're coming from without resorting to some anti-gers motivation. How does all this sit with the theory that the sfa are anti-gers too by the way? And @4, wigan get more than half the tickets arsenal get, but utd get less than a third of what we get, why do you think that comparison justifies the situation?

For once charles was 100%right and if thompson wants to sit with utd support let him and I hope somone puts a laxitive in his pie and he surrounds hiself in California

Utd would struggle to sell 50%o f tickets for a game at tannadice never mind anywhere else

By the way rangers never complained and if they were going to complain it would have not been in the media

The sfa should give them 50 percent of tickets non returnible money up front see if they are still wanting half of the tickets then that's the easiest way to sort this debate

19 Mar 2014 07:30:04
@13 actually the easiest way to resolve the debate is for the sfa to climb down and just give them a fair allocation of tickets. They won't though, because the only rationale for the allocation is that they are trying to give us a helping hand. Embarassing. And judging by the smug tone of posts above there are plenty of bears who are gleefully happy to accept it. Probably the same ones who complain about an anti-gers agenda at the sfa at other times. Pathetic.

@9 I'm not saying it justifies the situation, I am saying that an uneven split is a very normal occurrence and more is being made of this than would normally happen. after the SFA statement saying that dufc refused a larger allocation on the grounds that they wouldn't be able to sell them it just makes dufc and the chairman look a bit amateur, although he has came out and said the SFA were "economical with the truth" so in short they were lying. This could get very interesting

@11 great idea.

Pauline I think your on your own there in thinking mr lawell and the rest of the sfa are doing us a favour if dundee utd think they can sell more tickets than there allocation give them the tickets on a non returnable basic that's the most sane way to solve any issues

20 Mar 2014 02:09:56
@7 Sweep, Try reading before you put ure fingers into overdrive pal,
Firstly, I was talking about their objection to Ibrox as a venue, not the ticket allocation,
2ndly the semi at Parkhead wasn't 50/50,
you really ought to engage before you mouth off
tomblue

20 Mar 2014 07:13:27
@17 just think its a very strange way to try to do us down, giving us ibrox and a huge crowd in the cup semi. My mind can't twist round far enough to see that as further proof of an anti-rangers conspiracy at the sfa. Happy to be on my own on that one.

Pauline I think its fairly obvious the sfa never thought we would reach the semis that's my take on it for what its worth