Rangers banter 10

12 Feb 2026 11:41:22
Firstly a think Rohl has done a great job getting us to where we are & nothing has changed win all our games we win the league. My only issue is we do not get enough shots at goal in most our games the opposition have more shots than we do & this needs rectifying quickly this was again the case last night also the amount of possession in the opposition final 3rd has to be better its not just about creating chances its about pressure making defenders defend again & again eventually they will make a mistake & your in. Our forward is way to isolated it doesn't matter who is up there there getting ask to do to much without the ball.

Take the goal last night Dio has to run 40 yards with the ball before he can pass to a forward now its a great goal great run by Chermiti & Raskin & a lovely Finnish but within the goal as lies the problem Dio only had 2 options one another midfielder a forward. Also on last night's game not a single player put there foot on the ball after there sending off and said let's just keep the ball for 5 minutes & take the sting out the game it becomes a basketball game

12 Feb 2026 15:00:36
That's because we have no leaders in the team, something that needs addressed.

12 Feb 2026 11:25:57
Hi

Like others a bit disappointed with our performance/result, we never really looked like what I was expecting!

Also felt we should have played our best team from the start, but we move on to Hearts and need to win.

We still miss C Barron need him badly in mid field, come back soon!

12 Feb 2026 12:21:20
Barron doesn't change that result last night. We are not missing him.

12 Feb 2026 12:43:44
I think what's upsetting most of us this morning is the fact that both Celtic and Hearts got late winners. If they had lost points, we would not be so despondant.

12 Feb 2026 12:51:02
Looks like we can't field our strongest team if playing mid week as well, which is a big problem. Our top three last night offered nothing. The Gasman, the main culprit. I expect to win on Sunday and win well, but DR seen what we seen last night and must see who can be trusted in the bigger games.

Got to give Motherwell their dues, and the only bonus being they will take points off Celtic and Hearts, who are both far from being good teams, but they have the knack of getting over the line. 5 or 6 changes come Sunday, and we see where we are after that.

12 Feb 2026 12:51:57
I genuinely think we did miss Barron last night.

12 Feb 2026 12:57:59
You never know.

12 Feb 2026 13:11:33
Storm, I think Barron is a big miss, especially last night. That's the type of game that suits him, hunting down opponents.
He brings more dynamism to us. Dio, I feel, is a bit of a liability with regards to giving away silly fouls, which puts us under pressure, as proven last night.

12 Feb 2026 13:50:02
Is Barron going to take control, hang onto the ball, play a few one-twos to waste a bit of time? Game management, I don't think so. Barron does a lot of running about, so gets noticed, but he's hardly our saviour. He will struggle to get in the team when available again.

12 Feb 2026 13:59:31
The team definitely misses Barron.

12 Feb 2026 11:01:39
While i do think Rohl is a good manager and he has done a lot right to get us back in the title race but we will not win this league if he continues to rely on Chermiti, the guy just does not score goals, give that chance to Miovski, Naderi last night its a goal and we are 2.0 up, Chermiti can not be trusted moving forward, Gassama needs dropped for Antman, i just feel with rommans & Antman on the left there is a better balance to the team

12 Feb 2026 11:30:33
His insistence on playing Gassama and Chermiti will be his downfall. Gassama hides. He had 21 touches last night, and Chermiti will never be a striker as long as his arse points south. To play him ahead of Ryan and Miovski is either dumb or stubborn.

12 Feb 2026 12:22:27
This has shades of PC when he came in. Got us back in race, then fecked it up. That line up was a complete and utter joke last night, and a lot knew it when it was announced, but we were told the manager knew better than us. 🤦‍♂️ How did that work out?

12 Feb 2026 12:29:44
Agreed, Chermiti lives off 2 goals at the midden.

12 Feb 2026 12:31:26
If the rumours in the window were true, Chermiti should have been sold and replaced with someone better, which is quite a low bar. He is getting an easy ride because of the OF game, which was great, but 45 mins of good play shouldn't make him a first pick at Rangers.

I've also thought Gassama had something about him, but watching him over the last few weeks, maybe we should have taken the money for him too. I honestly think we would have got more out of Matondo on the wings last night, that's how bad he was.

12 Feb 2026 12:35:21
I agree, Bigt, Altman deserves his chance. Gassama tends to go missing and doesn't contribute enough.
I also thought Danny chose the wrong starting line up. We should have easily seen that game out, but to be fair, Motherwell played some good stuff.
On to the next one, only a win will do.

12 Feb 2026 13:09:36
Agree with every word, Storm.

12 Feb 2026 13:16:38
I totally disagree, Storm. Rotation is a must when you go every 3 days, and the manager has done that whilst getting us back into a title race. I did not like the line up, particularly full backs and wide positions, but his selection had us in a winning position. They were also the core of the team that got us into this position.

For me, the bigger mistakes were his tactical substitutions. They did not work at all. Going 4-4-2 and then throwing another CH, inviting the opposition on, lost us the points. Since he has been brilliant since day one with us, we cut him some slack imo.

You ask, how did it work out? No one knows how this will work out.

Not you or me or DR. We will find out starting on Saturday. Come the end of the season, the 2 points at Hibs and Well may end up winning the league. In a title fight, you take what you get and move onto the next game.

I am still confident because we have no more midweek games and much better players to come into the team. Our opposition are definitely not going to win every game, and neither will we.

It will be a rollercoaster till the end of the season, a third of which is still to be played. If we had 3 games to go, I understand the doom and gloom, but right now the reaction is more about scar tissue and forgetting what a proper title race is like imo.

12 Feb 2026 13:19:56
Agreed, Storm, I was confident until I seen the line up, then bemused. Antman and Rommens looked great playing down the left. Olson was looking better each game, and Moore is better through the middle. Personally, I think Dr got it wrong last night.

12 Feb 2026 10:09:18
I hope that DR takes 1 thing from last night. Play your strongest team you can and stop giving chances to players who might turn it on in training but constantly don't produce when it's required. Players left on the bench for me would have in my eyes gave us a more solid line up and good attacking creativity and I think 2 more goals but you never know I suppose.


My thoughts are the obvious. We need to win all games going forward and like you all I desperately want this title. Still a happy bear the future is bright and that's my longer term focus.

12 Feb 2026 10:41:07
Watch him play Gassama and Chermiti again Sunday. 😂 Gassama sulkin when coming off, as if he didn't deserve to be hooked. Was absolutely rotten.

12 Feb 2026 10:52:14
I'd be surprised if he didn't play what he felt was his strongest team.

So is the ask that he plays what the fans believe is the strongest team?

We were poor, particularly in the fullback positions, which is where I think we 'lost' the tactical battle.

12 Feb 2026 11:08:26
EHL, that is my point, but making it badly, as always ;). He will pick the strongest team he has available, which won't always be what we think as fans.

12 Feb 2026 11:15:04
EHL, our front 3 had zero impact on the game at all.

12 Feb 2026 11:20:44
So EHL, you think he's signed Skol, Naderi and Rommens, and none of them are in his strongest team? Come on now, mate, be serious. I know you don't like to criticise the club and try to be as sensible as possible, but sometimes the criticism is justified.

12 Feb 2026 11:43:27
Wishy, I have no issues being critical of the club.

I queried the team line up with a couple of contacts, who advised that Fernandez, Olsen and Rommens were not fit to start.

So it's easy to say they should be in our strongest 11, but that's different from the strongest 11 available.



Personally, I'd have rather have seen Naderi and Antman start. Both weren't due to tactical reasons, which I think was a mistake.

12 Feb 2026 12:06:51
EHL, did you not say that this was the last midweek game for a couple of months now? If so, this will affect who plays from now on, as less pressure on the squad. Also, I think last night was the first game Motherwell had this month.

12 Feb 2026 12:23:22
That wasn't the strongest available, and we all know that, but apparently it was all because of sports science. 👀

12 Feb 2026 12:35:43
Yip, sorry EHL, but I think he got it wrong last night, and if that late goal didn't go in, then we'd all be saying the same thing; Danny Rohl is getting results despite not playing well.

I wasn't keen on adding another defender to see out the 1-0, as I felt we weren't in control enough in the midfield and attacking areas at that point.



Regardless, Danny Rohl knows the squad, their fitness levels, and we have to back him and put trust into the man when we are not at our best. We can't win them all, and with every late goal going against us in the top 3, we could have been looking at a very different league table with a change in luck. Danny Rohl on Sunday.

12 Feb 2026 12:38:12
I agree about the full backs. I would have played Sterling in this one, and Tav against Hearts, if they had to be rotated. I thought last night called for strong defending against pace, whereas I think the Hearts game might need a more attacking right back. Meghoma had a shocker too. He was weak and looked nervy. However, we don't know how fit Rommens is, or how good he is defensively.

We don't know if Skov Olsen is carrying an injury, but I do think Antman deserved a start before Gassama, just on recent form. I have to say I thought substitutions were strange, taking off Dio, who I thought was doing well, and it has shown that we are light in midfield options until Barron comes back.

12 Feb 2026 12:44:17
I think you could get the fans on this forum to pick what they deem as their team for Hearts, and you would get a few different permutations.
Doesn't make us right, doesn't make us wrong, as we are only passing an opinion.


Unfortunately, Danny Rohl (and all managers) live and die by their team selection.
And, as fans, it gives us the chance to dissect all things from the game.
And that includes the good, bad and ugly. It's part and parcel of football.

12 Feb 2026 13:00:28
EHL, I get your point. We only 2nd guess the reasons unless we are told before or after the match.
I'm only thinking, if all selected bench included are all fit to play, the new players should be on from the start.
If I've missed a DR presser, it's my bad.

12 Feb 2026 13:03:36
Sports science tells you, though, who is fit and available, hence strongest isn't always what we think is the strongest.

12 Feb 2026 13:10:10
Fair enough, thanks for the response.

12 Feb 2026 10:07:18
Trying to let the dust settle and offer my view which I feel is balanced. Firstly the manager appeared to get things wrong tactically. Personnel wise, I believe he is managing the players the way he feels is best. Looking at the pitch last night I certainly would not have risked Rommens for example. That looked worse than some amateur pitches.

Secondly I keep seeing Celtic mentioned because they got a last minute winner against the worst team in the league at home.

We got a draw against one of the form teams and best coached teams in the league where so many only a few weeks ago were saying they were not confident at getting anything from the match.

No one thought we would be in a title race after Martin and now people are saying Danny is not the right man to lead is forward because we have drawn a match.

Win on Sunday we are 2 points behind.
It's not over so I will not throw in the towel.

12 Feb 2026 10:58:07
Not read a single comment saying Danny isn't the right man for the job. A lot of frustrated Bears, and rightly so. Not read people saying he needs to go?

12 Feb 2026 11:06:50
APH, it's not just dropping 2 points and giving Celtic the initiative again, it's the manner of the performance that depresses me. Totally outplayed, outfought, and even when they went down to 10, Motherwell wanted it more.

12 Feb 2026 11:07:04
I agree with that assessment also, Asa, felt he went with the wrong line-up to begin with. Would have loved us to see it out for the three points, but as you say, not the end of the world getting the draw on that pitch against one of the form teams.



There will be more bumps in the road for us, Hearts, Motherwell, and Celtic before May.

Quietly confident of a result on Sunday, however.

12 Feb 2026 11:15:03
Totally agree with you, Aph. Perspective is purely down to the result for many, which I can understand, but a decent result when we were outplayed for the majority of the game. Disappointed we couldn't hold on, but a fair result.

Agree that Celtic just aren't quite at it and are buzzing that they just got over the line against the bottom team in the league, and same against Dundee in the Cup.

12 Feb 2026 11:15:33
Don't often disagree with you, Aph.
But Motherwell played some lovely attacking football on that pitch.
And, to win titles, you need to collect 3 points no matter who we face.
That's us dropped points to the 4th and 5th best teams in the league currently. Hearts scored a last minute winner against Hibs.
Celtic got the 3 points - that's all that matters, no matter who you are up against at this stage of the season.


And getting back into a title race shouldn't be the limit of our ambitions just because of a bad start. We need to push on and believe we can win it.
It isn't all over, but we can't keep giving up the opportunity to close the gap. Win last night and win on Sunday, and the gap was closed.
Now we are playing catch up once again.

12 Feb 2026 11:12:25
Dado, no, you are right, but my worry is what is being said re wrong selections, tactics, etc., are the start of that road. No manager is going to pick the team which fans think is the strongest all the time, and that is because he knows who is fit to start every game, I reckon.

Why would any manager, when challenging for a title, not pick his best players, unless there is a reason for it? He isn't going out there trying to draw or lose games, as that ends up with him getting the sack.

12 Feb 2026 12:23:05
The manager got his team selection and substitutes wrong last night. Agree with EHL that our full backs were the weak links.

In saying that, Well were excellent, and we were still unfortunate not to pick up all three points. I am disappointed with the result, but its all about how we respond to disappointing results in a title fight for me.



This is our last midweek game for some time, and we will start to settle into a starting 11, which will be much better than last night's starting 11. I know fans don't like rotation in the team, but when it's a game every 3 days, it's essential to rotate the squad, otherwise plau.

12 Feb 2026 12:25:04
* Otherwise, players levels drop, and injuries become a major issue. We have seen that over last few seasons.

Whi

12 Feb 2026 12:27:07
Aph, mate, that is nonsense. No one is saying Danny Rohl ain't the right man.
It's also nonsense about drawing against form teams, etc. Celtic were playing the worst team in the league, but they still got over the line. That's what champions do. We couldn't get it over the line against 10 men, something you forget to mention.
I get you love Danny Rohl, but he got it badly wrong last night and deserves criticism, just like he takes it when he gets the plaudits.

Celtic last min winner 11 v 11.
Hearts last min winner 11 v 11.
Rangers lose a late goal against 10 men, something.
👍

12 Feb 2026 12:44:22
All of the top 3 teams have dropped points to the teams in 4th and 5th, that's what happens in competitive leagues. Celtic lost at Fir Park, and Hearts lost at Easter Rd recently, so you could say that we have done better than them both. I think all three teams are fairly even, form wise.

All three have also just scraped by the team at the bottom of the league, at home, by a single goal. Not sure about Hibs, but that Motherwell team will have a say in who wins the league, and I'm just glad we only have to play them once more, and that's at Ibrox.

12 Feb 2026 09:50:02
Over reaction is not a good thing but fans will always do it.

Beale came in initially, done well, huge overreaction

Clement came in initially, done well, huge overreaction

Martin the overreaction to his appointment was absolutely justified as most just knew he was not a good fit.

Rohl has come in and improved us. That wouldn't be difficult given what we were watching. The sample size thou for him isn't big enough to judge him accurately.

He's trending in the right direction and whilst he's got a few things wrong he's got a good bit right.

A point away to Motherwell who hadn't conceded a goal at home since October might be a good result. I think they will take points off Hearts and Celtic as well.

He might NOT be what many have already crowned him as, equally last nights result shouldn't wipe out the improvement we've saw under him.

I think he got it wrong last night in regard to starting 11 and subs but keep calm plenty twist and turns to come. Personally this time next year we'll know more about Rohl but just now the jury is still out but he's showing great promise.

12 Feb 2026 10:55:15
Think a lot of reaction is in reflection to how quickly things in the league changed last night. He got it wrong in team selection and maybe subs. Still didn't lose, but, and a big but, I've said time and time again he needed to learn quickly on who he can trust. He is either not learning or is playing what he has to play.

Last night was the type of game you win to win leagues in Scotland (weather & pitch). If you need to protect players, especially in your first starting 11, then I question judgement. Danny has brought us to here and will rightly get next season, however the next against Hearts and the 2 against Celtic will be better indicators.

12 Feb 2026 11:11:36
He has to trust all the players available to him. He takes advice from medical staff on who is fit enough to be played. We need to rotate players, there is no option with all the games we have.



I do question why he had to make the subs when he did. If it was time wasting or game management, then why 3 and destabilise everything? Could understand that if we had a bit of a cushion, but we didn't.

12 Feb 2026 11:15:46
Windy, I think it is more around playing who he has got with fitness that can start the game. The 3 we think should have started last night were all recovering from injury or hadnt played much since October.

That is the only reason I think he makes those changes.
He has a squad to use for that reason, but it may be that this is showing us that those in reserve aren't of the standard he needs to make those changes yet.

12 Feb 2026 11:30:09
Windy, Rohl played with who was match ready. He didn't want to risk Rommens, Olsen isn't up to speed, and Naderi picked up a slight injury in training.

Still all to play for imo.

12 Feb 2026 11:30:22
Windy, more points will be dropped, and that might or might not be on Rohl. He got it wrong last night imo, but I'm not surprised.

I don't really know what to make of Rohl yet.

He's undoubtedly improved us and is trending in the right direction, but will he win a league this year, next year, playing this brand of football I've watched up until now? No, I doubt it.

But it's early days, and we have a summer transfer window to aid and help him. All is not lost after last night. It's more difficult, but it's not lost (yet).

12 Feb 2026 13:28:30
L-Mac, yes, Dr has improved us, but our style of play is still terrible. Can't keep scraping by games with a single goal to be champion contenders. Our striker is constantly isolated every game. We all see that, but Dr clearly doesn't.

12 Feb 2026 14:16:20
I'm no expert, Davie, but we're going to struggle with Tav and Meghoma as fullbacks imo. Moore is undoubtedly talented, but I'm not convinced he's anywhere near as good as many think. He had a very good 35 minutes last week against a poor Killie team, knackered and down to 10 men. I don't think he's a winger, and I think Gassama is absolutely bang average, bar a screamer every now and then.

Chermiti, no for me. Dining out on 2 goals against them when they decided not to defend.

We've got to vastly improve offensively, I agree. I'm not sure Rohl is a risk taker, thou. Someone else has said it might have been Strom, but the handbrake needs to come off.

I think we afford to drop another 3 points after dropping 4 to Hibs and Well. Any more, you can forget it, just my opinion thou.

12 Feb 2026 09:41:35
One of Danny Rohl loyal
But lastnight he got that wrong on team selection can't always get it plain sailing daddy cool
Bears bearettes stick together fill Ibrox to the roof we are the 12th man as big marv would say KEEP BELIEVING 56 pending ❤️🤍💙

12 Feb 2026 10:15:23
100 percent, he isn't going to get everything right. But supporters need to stop pissing their knickers. We weren't in a title fight a few months back.

12 Feb 2026 12:28:33
OT, lost to Hearts, and we aren't in a title race anymore. It's not panty wetting when you lose two points against a team with 10 men. It's poor management for that game.

12 Feb 2026 13:29:49
Orange T, if we keep playing the way we are, and Dr doesn't change it, we won't be in a title fight come 5pm Sunday.

12 Feb 2026 09:30:13
yeah last night was painful, Big Marv said "Keep Believing" and we did. Yeah it was a wrong seelection from Rohl but let's stop the blame game and "Keep Believing"

12 Feb 2026 08:37:02
Woeful.
And that's being kind.
The type of game, no matter how good the opposition are, if you have aspirations of being title winners – you need to win.
Rangers concede a last-minute goal to a side with 10 men.
Our title rivals both score last minute winners.
Gassama was absolutely honking last night. And had the gall to put on the petted lip when being substituted.
Tav broke his domestic average and gave the ball away 20 times.
Chermiti missed a sitter.
And Souttar had one of those games where one minute he's strolling out of defence like Franco Baresi and the next falling over the place like Frank Spencer.


Rohl himself is accountable. Wasn't 100% convinced of the lineup.
And the subs were even more bamboozling.
I would have brought on Rommens and Antman at the start of the 2nd half for some creativity down the left.
The only highlight was Diomande and Raskin linking up for a wonderfully worked goal. One of the rare times we broke with pace.
We now must beat Hearts.
Onwards and upwards.

12 Feb 2026 08:51:10
Spot on, MPH.

Would anyone have taken a draw, though, if offered it at the start of the game? I'm sure a lot would have.

It's more the way the game was played.

Danny Rohl got it all wrong.

12 Feb 2026 09:07:43
Agree, MPH, that again was a must win game. You play your strongest team, and we were schooled by a well organised team who passed the ball about in a fashion that we could only dream about.

We will not win the league playing Tav, Chermiti, Meghoma, Gassama and Aasgaard. When I saw the team, it was like DR had learned nothing about dealing with these teams away.

12 Feb 2026 09:11:21
Subs lost us the game. The changes were there for everyone to see. You don't change shape unless you're chasing something. We should have changed both full backs, who had a poor night, and the front three. Olsen, Antman, and Naderi should have replaced them. Very simple, keep your core and add pace.


We have players with supposedly superior ability on the ball in the final third, so we need to play to our strengths and play attacking football.
Last night, we sat off too far, wary of Motherwell's ability to move the ball and break the lines. Our players aren't comfortable doing that. We need to go at teams.

12 Feb 2026 09:12:20
We lack experience on and off the pitch, and really need to beat Hearts on Sunday. Danny said he'd have taken a point before the game started. That's not the mentality our manager should have, so Sunday is massive. Win, it's game on, draw or lose, we are up against it.

12 Feb 2026 09:19:54
Draws shouldn't even be in our head, not before or during a game. If we draw a game, we should be walking off the park p**sed off at dropping points. Draws at this stage of the league are defeats. Winners win, and first place loses are in day dreams for draws.

12 Feb 2026 09:21:50
Wouldn't have taken a draw. 3 points last night would have shown we have the mettle to be in this title race up to the last.

As MPH said, title-winning teams make it happen, just like Hearts did in the 88th minute and Celtic did in injury time. Instead, we concede a goal in the last minute to throw away the points to a team with 10 men.



That's the facts.

Also felt we were playing with 9 men with Gassama and Chermiti on. The front line was completely ineffective. Seemed we had absolutely nothing on the left. Gassama was useless. Most disappointing player last night, imo.

To be fair to Motherwell, they deserved at least a point.

12 Feb 2026 09:28:00
No, would not have settled for a draw before the game started.
I am afraid if Danny Rohl, as part of the lead up to the game, gave players the impression a draw would be an OK result, then he is not the man to lead us forward.
It is just giving some of these gutless players an excuse.

As for Gassama, some keep saying he is young, but he is not learning. He needs to have a good look at himself. If he thinks his contribution last night was satisfactory, then he is deluded.

Should have been hooked in the first half.

Least said about Chermiti the better, just never going to make it at Rangers. If Danny Rohl persists in playing him, we have no chance of winning the league.

Tav, Butland, and Souttar are meant to be senior players. Not one takes responsibility to see out games. Just a bit of leadership would have helped in the last 10 mins last night.

12 Feb 2026 09:30:34
I think when DR went to a five at the back, he signalled his intent to try to see out the game at 0-1. That was a mistake imo. We need to take into account that Motherwell were good last night. However, his comment about looking at two games is strange, as he has always said one game at a time. Would have been better, instead of going to a five at the back, putting an extra player in midfield and controlling the game from there.


DR has been excellent, but I think he got it wrong last night. Still in our hands, but no more slip ups, as Hearts and Celtic have shown how to keep going to get 3 points. That could be the difference between winning and losing this league, and we cannot do this again going forwards.

12 Feb 2026 09:32:04
Didn't play well. Too many changes from the weekend. Diomande is gash. Sooner he's sold, the better.

12 Feb 2026 09:41:23
Last night and the Hibs game set up and lineup has really worried me. I think Rohl has got it wrong several times now away. The Celtic game was badly wrong and he corrected it at HT, after Celtic let us off the hook.

Then, last night and Hibs, we've set up not to lose, and both games never looked like winning.

Agree with MPH. I even think we got the subs wrong last night.

12 Feb 2026 09:43:16
We have far too many very poor players just now. I see the Tims are saying, if they do win the league, it's the worst Celtic team to do so. I think that could be said for us too. For both teams to be still in with a chance of the league shows how poor our league is.

12 Feb 2026 09:53:43
I think what Rohl said re taking a draw was that if you'd offered him it before the match, then he'd say, 'It is what it is.'

I think we need to give Motherwell some credit, they are no mugs. They are, by some distance, the best 'footballing' side in the league. They're hard to beat, and they don't lose goals at home, which has been demonstrated since October.

That being said, you can't be losing a goal like that in the last min when you need to see the game out.



When they go down to 10, we need to go and kill the game and present ourselves with the chance of going top of the league by 6:30pm on Sunday.

Instead, we went to 5 at the back, tried to see it out, and paid the price.

We need to take the point and ensure we leave Ibrox with 3pts on Sunday, preferably with a comfortable win.

12 Feb 2026 10:05:36
Souttar also honking on the ball.

12 Feb 2026 10:15:15
Diomande is one of our key players, Superally. To say he's gash is nonsense.
Retains the ball better than anyone in the team.

12 Feb 2026 10:43:26
🦬💩 comment, Dio created the only bright spark in the game and put the ball on a plate for Nico. Aye, he's gash. 🤯
Spot on, Jzer. 👍

12 Feb 2026 11:44:02
Correct, Fork. Also, Chermiti's run, taking a player with him, at the goal was important.

12 Feb 2026 12:50:07
Jasp, just to clear it up for you, Tavernier had been subbed off by the time they equalised, so blaming him for a lack of leadership to see out the game is just your bias showing. As for Butland, he saved everything and didn't have much chance with the goal. What else is he supposed to do, do you want him to keep the ball in his box for the last 10 minutes? A combination of weak play by Sterling and Souttar cost the goal, and we shouldn't be surprised, as Souttar is always liable to mar a good performance by a costly mistake.

Blame people if you want, but blame the right people.

12 Feb 2026 13:36:49
Correct, JFM. 👍👍