21 Apr 2024 20:18:39
Watched Dessers post match interview and while I'm not his biggest fan and he misses some sitters there's something about him you've got to like. Think I need to cut him a bit of slack he has a good return since the start of the season. I didn't think he would get into double figures.
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21 Apr 2024 22:07:48
He sounds like a cracking big guy. Made up for him today and hope he kicks on from here.
23 Apr 2024 13:06:23
Absolutely, I don't like the hate he gets. Sebo had a cult following however is a much worse finisher than Desser.
23 Apr 2024 17:32:38
The amount of sitters he's missed he should be on 30 goals this season.
24 Apr 2024 19:36:40
Haaland best striker in the world misses sitters and look at the players setting him up.
21 Apr 2024 12:28:43
I wonder if I can ask a serious question without getting pelters? If you could resist the urge of taking aim at me, it would be appreciated, although, I know it might be too much for some.
With everything that's went on recently, from picking the wrong starting 11, losing games, losing top spot, refusing to shake hands with an opposition manager (then spouting some far fetched excuse), rinsing his own player, post match urine interviews after dropping points etc etc, are we seeing the first cracks from PC? Is the goldfish bowl of a 2 horse league, where 2nd place means sod all, getting to him? Is the pressure getting to him?
I know this is going to get pelters from the usual suspects because it's just too much for some to take, but if we are all being honest, there has been a seismic shift with the man, and he is not the same calm, and collected guy we all witnessed when things were all going well for him.
If there is something wrong, it wouldn't be the first time it's happened with him? PC has previous for this elsewhere in his management career, and under far less stressful environments.
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21 Apr 2024 12:54:42
RTR - no pelters here, just a grown up discussion as its a fair question you ask.
Id say just now PC gets the benefit of any doubt as the players he's inherited are deeply flawed. Add to that, the signings he's made look to be decent, Cortes and Diamonde.
He's done well to get the best out of the decent players that were here as well as the gutless wonders for whom the jersey is too heavy.
I don't know that i'd agree with him picking wrong starting 11s as he has a nixture of players who are coming back to full fitness, carrying knocks and are out of form. He has to go by what he sees in training. None of us see that so we can't 2nd guess him fairly.
I don't think there's been a seismic shift in him, i think he's just frustrated like the rest of us bud.
21 apr 2024 13:11:02
said similar during the week rtr, i was flummoxed by the team selected for the old firm game and then completely shocked by county and dundee, the guy lost the plot over 2 weeks and in some parallel world
it’s beales fault!
i’m happy to wait and see but i never felt we had really went further until we were top and clear
make no mistake the manager takes as much responsibility for throwing away 6 points in a week that the players do, hard for some as you say, some actually point to “ what matondo did when he came on” last week at dundee, yet he had came on the previous two games and saved our season and an old firm defeat, again, the boys not a machine, expecting him to be brought out of cold storage for 10 minutes every week is ridiculous, along with a few other decisions and selections clement made, and you are absolutely correct about his recent performance in front of the cameras, totally different from earlier times, i pray he gets the rest of the season right because he’s in real danger of losing the plot imo, il still be giving total support to him and rangers but i’m not daft enough to blame a previous manager months down the line, especially when you have already went top, , and it’s great to have a decent debate now and then with some people who actually see the woods beyond the trees.
21 Apr 2024 13:16:15
Cheers athole.
Me, personally, I think it's a mixture of frustration, anger, bewilderment, and pressure that's getting to him. There are things outwith his control, but I honestly think he could have done better with things within his control.
Look, being a Rangers manager must be hard enough, but being a Rangers manger during a period when your biggest, and only real rival, is sweeping up the majority of trophies, and is so far ahead of your team financially, must bring stresses never experienced before.
21 Apr 2024 13:31:21
I know Tom, the "this Is all on Beale" is total mince, and as bad as the "journey" excuse.
As soon as we went top, with the chance to go 5 points clear, then any failings is on the current regime.
21 Apr 2024 13:43:23
Will be controversial I know, but for 'foreign' managers, I think a cup win a few rounds in Europe and 2nd in the League is perceived as a good season.
I thought Beale was hopeless and way too soft with players, PC seems to be falling into the same pattern not wanting to upset anyone, and his comment about Sterling comparing what he said with van dick was scary if he didn't realise what he was saying.
21 Apr 2024 14:21:13
RTR it’s all about opinions mate. I feel it’s the same players that let Gio and Beale (who I believe should never have been near Ibrox) . Maybe PC is as frustrated as us. Until we get rid of these guys who continually bottle playing for Rangers I don’t think we can keep sacking managers. But I do think the honeymoon period is over for him.
21 Apr 2024 14:27:43
Listen, notwithstanding what i said above about giving PC the benefit of the doubt, after the dross we've had within our club over the last number of years, i now have a healthy scepticism of those within our club, rightly or wrongly.
A sense of chronic unease. i'm not blindly following him. Just not judging him until the end of next season when he's had 3 windows to buy his players.
21 apr 2024 14:35:32
what made me laugh mate was, that some, usually almost sensible posters appeared, to be happy to say “ this is all on beale”
without acknowledging that the precious cup win and unbeaten run must also therefore all have been about beale?
cant have it both ways, if dessers scores 17 times its either all about beale or nothing to do with beale ( “ btw, i think he useless myself),
all rangers strikers should score a barrowload in spl,
we were in front, that negates any talk of beale unless your creditting him with the good parts too
bar you definitely have a valid point,
21 Apr 2024 14:38:55
Think he is frustrated as he can’t do anything other than play these players. Summer will be telling who goes from this team as a good few need to. He got the bounce and got back in the league when most of us thought we had no chance and we are going thru bad patch at wrong time tho is there ever a good time? .
Also we had a good few on here who thought we had already won the league 🤯.
21 Apr 2024 14:49:32
With the real pressure on these last 4 or 5 games we’ve been unable to handle it. Need to be able to think and perform under pressure and sadly we’ve been found lacking.
21 Apr 2024 17:11:25
rtr I don't think there's any doubt PC is feeling pressure but he gets the benefit until we see his team for at least 1 full season but I'm sure he's learning now who he can trust and who he wants for next season.
21 Apr 2024 20:46:08
Rtr, absolutely brilliant point, well put across. For all the praise he got for getting us into that position, surely some criticism should come his way for last few results, it's a 2 way street. Not shaking hands with a fellow manager, was just wrong, had me saying to myself that's not like him. Ppl can dress it up anyway they like, there's definitely been a shift in his attitude. The Sterling thing really got me thinking, that boy described exactly what we were all seeing and thinking, yet he tells us we got a reaction, really? I hope he was protecting the players with that comment, as it worries me if he actually believes it or thinks we believe it, he could easily have said it wasn't good enough, I know it, the boys know it. I also felt like he had a dig at Sterling, by saying in other words, you need to help the team more by being fit, having a dig at one of his own, instead of putting it down to as he called it, nievity. Someone mde a good point further up, maybe he's just as frustrated as us, but he's rangers manager, he needs to handle these situations a bit better. It's all good when results are good, but you see the true grit of a man when under pressure. I like pc and still believe in him.
23 Apr 2024 17:34:14
Imo, the players have let Clement badly down with their performances in the last number of weeks.
24 Apr 2024 16:53:41
guys any starting 11 should be good enough to win against Dundee and Ross County so saying starting 11 being wrong doesn't cut it for me. the players gave up the ghost and were deflated after the celtic draw imo. that tells you exactly the players we have. whether 100% fit or not they should still have enough in the locker to see off these teams.
25 Apr 2024 07:53:10
gee, I agree.
21 Apr 2024 12:19:09
The tims usually want us gubbed but today they will want us in that final make no mistake about that.
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21 Apr 2024 12:52:51
Aye so they will! Come on Laudrup, that's pish and you know it.
21 apr 2024 13:15:27
i can just imagine my local tim boozer screaming fir a gers penalty in the 95th minute lol,
i get your point laudo but on this occasion i doubt it, they know they're not guaranteed a win v gers now, but they did over the past few years, , happy sunday guys, i'm making dinner before football on big screen,
21 Apr 2024 13:38:18
Enjoy the game, Tom. I've a feeling it will be a good win today.
21 apr 2024 14:37:46
im backing usual 3-2, and il be backing balogun first and last goals along with soutter, i stopped backing goldson a while ago
il hav3 3-2 and 3-1:: with a wee bit on 4-2, just in case we get a 98th minute pen.
22 Apr 2024 09:20:16
Same Tom used to back Goldson anytime mate.
21 Apr 2024 11:54:21
Not rangers related but can anyone help me I'm going to a buffet in paisley rd on Saturday, it's to see if you can get the subway to it and what stop, I'm getting train to Queen Street.
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21 Apr 2024 12:57:15
Me2 - nearest subway stop to it is Kinning Park. 5-10 min walk depending on your pace. If i'm heading for a buffet i'm doing it in 2 mins 😁.
21 apr 2024 13:16:41
yes more than likely mate, kinning park, ibrox, govan, pretty sure one of the first two will be close, you never said where?
21 Apr 2024 14:30:40
I qas just assuming it was the buffet place in the old harry ramsdens building. Which case its KP station.
21 Apr 2024 14:42:39
Hot world cuisine 251 paisley rd, cheers for the reply guys.
21 Apr 2024 15:15:49
Take subway to Cessnock station which brings you out halfway down Paisley Road West where most of shops and restaurants are situated.
22 Apr 2024 06:29:32
U sure your no a bear Tim😉🤣.
21 Apr 2024 11:48:26
We've had some collapses in the past but without doubt this is the worst of them all. 2 points out of 12 against Motherwell, Celtic, Ross County and Dundee is an absolute shambles. How can them 4 games be down to Beale?
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21 Apr 2024 12:55:07
And still only 3 points behind, in a cup semi final and already won a cup. Depends on what kind of spin you want to put on it.
21 apr 2024 14:46:24
A way to go yet. I'm not confident, but your opening few gambits have been the stuff of suicidal bridge jumps.
21 Apr 2024 10:43:18
No players have been told they're leaving at end of the season. Some perhaps correctly are thinking that they are.
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21 apr 2024 13:25:06
according to john some have bankie, although that doesn't mean you don't know better
i would fine it beyond belief if he, or the club had told players that are in the first team dressing room that they can start packing, utterly gobsmacked if that's the case, strangely i said to my pal that klopp had just thrown liverpools chances out the windae when he announced his retiral from the job, it was tongue in cheek but with an element if fact, imo, walter did the same and rangers collapsed
i know its not quite the same but very similar, its unsettling a settled dressing room and upsetting for some players, these players have friends in the room and it can unsettle them too, dressing rooms are a players domain, and some will take th3 side of their pals, nit good to be upsetting them at this stage.