Rangers Banter Archive April 06 2017

06 Apr 2017 22:03:27
Of course we want to beat sheep as well as two Celtic games coming up but I don't want it to mask the dire straights we are in with current squad as what happened last year when we beat them in semi. Why Warburton never addressed defense is beyond me. Anyway onwards and upwards.

07 Apr 2017 13:18:52
Right Bears here's my team for Sunday:

Wes
Tavs
Wilson
Bates/ Hill
Beerman/ Hodson
O'halloran
Hyndman AM
Toral DM
McKay
Miller
Garner

So if Hill and Hodson are fit prob put back in as if we've any chance of catching Sheep we must WIN both games and they WILL be ready and up for it and experience will count in these games.

Always thought McKay would start to produce if we kept faith but if Caixinha was to put Forest or Windass in instead i'd be ok with in fact I hope to see more of Windass AND going to be keeping an eye out for Atayaki to be involved the lad is a Gem and think just cause we have players in abundance in his position he's being overlooked when I think Caixinha needs to promote immediately instead of persevering with current group.

Sure he wants to watch these guys play in his system etc BUT this lad needs ti make the breakthrough next season or I fear he'll end up going like Aird and Gassparota

07 Apr 2017 13:31:08
For me, kenny miller HAS to start against the sheep on sunday! His experience of playing in what is a powderkeg environment, at pittodrie, will be paramount! He's also very vocal and if he does start he'll be the captain! Quite simple, kenny miller leads by example! This is my thinking that he has to be a certain starter, on sunday! let's get into them! Take the smug smile clean off delboy mciness's hairy coupon!

07 Apr 2017 19:36:26
Hill out again, don't fancy Bates against them.

08 Apr 2017 21:47:00
Fod
Tav Bates Wilson Beerman
McKay Holt hyndman moh
Forrester
Garner

08 Apr 2017 22:18:27
O'Halloran? McKay? You're joking mate. Also Aird and Gasparotto were never going to be Rangers players. Your level of ambition as far as Rangers players goes seems to be severely damaged by the dross we've been fed for the past few years. But Atakayi? He's still a wee bit fragile, but he's already a better bet than O'Halloran and probably McKay to be a real player.

09 Apr 2017 16:03:51
Bluedrama warbutton never addressed the defence because we already signed the players in his daughters agency

06 Apr 2017 16:55:46
Would anyone else like to see John Fleck back at rangers? He's been here before knows what's its all about, still only 25, 16 goals in all competitions this season, a stand out player for Sheffield United! And most importantly, within our budget.

06 Apr 2017 19:22:22
Yes he's been doing really well this season think he would be a good addition

06 Apr 2017 19:39:03
Would be a good replacement for Hyndman.

06 Apr 2017 20:45:38
Yes and add Lewis McLeod and Jamie Ness too! The like of Bates and Beerman should have been blooded months ago by Warburton as should have Burt and Thompson. We have a decent goalscorer, Hardie, farmed out to Raith Rovers

06 Apr 2017 20:52:44
Yeah TrueBlue definetly. I think that he would smash it up here, always thought we needed a player like Flecked and by that I include his Stature and the guy can move so yeah think Flecked would be great up here!

06 Apr 2017 23:24:31
No chance he is mince Can't believe some people would be happy with that! people moaning saying we are shite yet come out with things like let's sign fleck, ness, Nickleson, jack, Hayes, Cummings and play young bates and beermen every game yeah let's do that that lot will take us to the title not!

07 Apr 2017 13:12:30
Fleck was dire with us before. He has reached nowhere near his potential. Only former player i would consider is aluko but he is too injury prone.

07 Apr 2017 13:57:37
If you don't rate Jason Cummings then it tells us all we need to know about your knowledge of football.

06 Apr 2017 09:46:03
Caixinha really has his work cut out. Defense needs sorted, lack of strength and creativity in midfield, and no goalscorer to be seen. This won't be a quick fix.

06 Apr 2017 11:13:40
It won't be a fix at all unless we see some serious investment. At the present time we run more risk of being caught for 3rd place by St Johnstone than we have hope of catching Aberdeen for second.

The players generally are a joke! The ones that might make a difference, our goalkeeper excluded are either injured or out on loan! We might be fortunate with one or two of the youth players but in general, Warburton's signings are no where near good enough. They are Scottish Championship level at best and we need to be signing players that are better than those of the competition in the SPL.

I just hope that Pedro has a few Liga MX players lined up for next season because we are about six first team players short of what we need and that is before we start looking at the Squad!

06 Apr 2017 12:05:12
Brexit might make it harder to unearth some rough diamonds from outside the UK.

06 Apr 2017 13:47:14
If you think brexit will have any effect on the potential for the UK to tax a player making 1-500k a week you're uneducated. We will be able to set whatever laws the UK government decides is appropriate through the people we actually elect.

06 Apr 2017 14:19:32
It would make a nice change for you naysayers to give Pedro some credit for having a bit of intelligence.

Do you really think he had no idea how much he would have to spend before he accepted the job?

Do your really think he did not have an understanding of our current level of player?

One side of the debate is surely thick. Pedro or the doubters

06 Apr 2017 14:42:04
No one should be criticising the new manager; he has the biggest bunch of jokers that we have ever had in the SPL and trying to find eleven that are good enough will be far from easy. We can criticise Warburton all we want as well but at the end of the day the only semi decent money he spent was on Garner and while he appears to have wasted that I am not sure what quality of striker we could have unearthed for that sort of money looking in the UK.

My only criticisms of Warburton are that he didn't shop overseas and he didn't instil any fight in the players.

As for Brexit not helping, what rubbish! The only two things that will help are (1) Serious Investment (2) Good scouting

06 Apr 2017 15:40:48
Obviously Pedro was told how much money he would have for transfers.

Whether the figure mentioned is remotely accurate remains to be seen.

After all last year Dave King promised that he would 'overinvest'.

06 Apr 2017 16:59:35
According to Kings club statement where he was giving Warburton it tight after his alleged sacking, he said the manager was giving more funds for players, than the board had budgeted for at the start of the season

need to over/ overinvest just to catch Aberdeen next season.

06 Apr 2017 16:46:26
The biggest problem is we cannot create a thing.

06 Apr 2017 16:48:55
this could be a quick fix he could bring in 5 players and job done we don't know and i'd rather be positive about it as I've been too negative of late

06 Apr 2017 19:41:55
Nothing to do with tax. Non UK players will need work permits after brexit. Only players who have played enough percentage of games for their national team will be given a work permit.

06 Apr 2017 19:34:07
Brexit is going to make it more difficult to get Europeans as they will need Work Permits. Unless a player has a certain amount of caps they don't get automatic WPs. So it will, on theory, make it more difficult to get rough diamonds.

06 Apr 2017 20:44:40
If we bring in European players next season then Brexit won't be an issue and when we look outside Europe the answer is simple, sign international stars, not second rate third division England players.

06 Apr 2017 20:35:11
Brexit will have no effect whatsoever on player movement for at least three years, and maybe even then the restrictions will be minor. Plus Brexit means we are withdrawing from the EU, not the world.

07 Apr 2017 13:59:16
Yeah we are withdrawing from the eu so after the 3 years players will need permits. Obviously.

05 Apr 2017 23:28:23
Tonight just shows the old saying you can polish a rubbish is so true feel sorry for Pedro can't judge Him till he has brought his own players in and I hope too god he brings some real good ones in or next season will be very painful.

06 Apr 2017 11:27:10
While I fully agree with your comments he will only be able to bring in quality if he has the funding to do so otherwise he will be another failure because we will not win the league or make progress in Europe with this bunch.

I can only hope that we are able to sell most of the players that were on show last night, (Foderingham and the two youngsters excepted), since not one of the remaining players comes anywhere close to being what I and many others consider to be Rangers class.

When Miller is our best midfield player in the second half it says it all really and McKay and our two strikers, if you can call them that couldn't't score if their life depended on it and McKay isn't even showing one good game in five.

As for the defence, at least we have two youngsters that can develop and Tavernier is good going forward but we don't have a centre back of any true quality on our books and as far as full backs are concerned, Hodson does nothing to improve the quality when he is fit.

We need to hope and pray for serious investment and some decent quality new sponsorship alongside a better Retail Merchandising contract as well as some decent income from selling Warburton's failures or the next few seasons are going to be extremely painful!

06 Apr 2017 11:47:53
I think it's going too be a long time before we ever see Rangers class again mate

if Dave king doesn't give Ped the ted money too invest then He should stand aside and let someone who will invest heavily in the squad.

You have too spend too gain that's not just a football things that's a life thing.

After watching last nights game you can clearly see kenny miller has lost his pace as you would expect at his age I think he has too be deployed as a central striker not running channels or that stuff he has the football intelligence that could score goals

As for garner and waghorn just can't seem too score I think they have both been very unlucky with some of there chances they also do a lot of work for the team garner I think sometimes tries too hard and picks up silly booking like the one last night.

The fully midfield needs changed as well as the central defence I like Wallace and tab I think tab is a better defender than people give him credit for