19 May 2024 09:25:53
Not everyone's cup of tea but was watching Rangers review last week after the aftermath of old firm game, one suggestion was that Sterling should be deployed to man mark MaGregor, I was thinking about that and have no doubt he would be able to shut him down and deny him space and has the legs to do that role, let's be honest in all the old firm games this season we haven't been able to stop him, part of the issue is we aren't keeping the ball long enough, back to the Sterling suggestion how do we think he would do on the ball as the most advanced midfielder if he was man marking.
Interested to read the fans thoughts on this.
And on another note do we believe that it would be something that the manager would try, I'm not sure on that one, but personally I would go for that and put McCausland wide right. Options are limited on the right but rather a forward thinking player there than a holding player as we need to be positive, or Sima there.

1.) 19 May 2024
19 May 2024 09:56:12
Trueblue correct - It has been said many times on here by many people that our midfield MUST shut down supply to upfront when we play them - to this day this has not happened whether by our tactics or the inability to carry out a gameplan by the average players playing in those positions. Stevie Wonder could see that ORiley and McGregor have had the run of Parkhead and Ibrox too in recent games - TBH our intensity has never matched theirs and only Hearts game in Edinburgh comes to mind when we pressed all over the park for nearly the entire match - this trait is what can help sway the tightest of games yet we never do it week in week out - Celtic did this vs Killie in last game and blew them away in first 20 mins - it just seems so simple but yet so difficult for us to do- gut feeling is we need the right type of player to utilise this skill and at present we are severely lacking in that department.

2.) 19 May 2024
19 May 2024 10:31:02
There’s no need for PC to continue to play our best right back at right wing, it’s torture and needs to stop. If he does play Tav next week (this gives me nothing but absolute fear) and Sterling is fit then this is exactly that I would do.

To be clear though, I’d prefer Tav dropped and a fit Sterling at right back.

3.) 19 May 2024
19 May 2024 14:17:18
Think we need to get away from the holding type midfielders we’ve used two holding midfielders in Scotland for years now and got nowhere with it need more positive players no Sid ego side take ball of defender and do exactly what defender would do type players

Need players to drive out with ball not crab side to side rubbish or long ball.

4.) 19 May 2024
19 May 2024 15:01:51
Whilst I agree Sterling on McGregor would work in theory, the reason I’m against it is that we are not close enough together against them.
They seem to have a teammate 5 yards away but we end up running to their players to press but they bypass us easily because we are never compact enough to hurt them.
We play too wide even without the ball and that means we expel far too much energy and give up too much space trying to press. They make it look easy when they do it to us.

5.) 19 May 2024
19 May 2024 16:49:14
I agree Bathgate bear and to match them we have to invert both tav and yilmaz to create an overload at times ? They do it to great effect and we have to go like for like in the cup final on saturday ? We have to squeeze the space to make it extremely difficult for them ? Over to you philippe clement and the rangers players he chooses to play against them ? They're far from unbeatable, of that there's no doubt imo ?.

6.) 19 May 2024
19 May 2024 17:03:30
Bathgate, that's why playing 4-3-2-1 against them could work - this would have the players close to one another, would allow someone to push up
On McGregor and provide better support to the striker. It means sacrificing the wide men to an extent but, let's face it, our ride men aren't very good anyway.