Rangers banter 5

01 Nov 2026 17:47:24
Ok fellow bears here's one to get our teeth into 🤔 Being totally honest and unbiased name who you think are the best players in these positions in Scottish football ie. Goalkeeper, Right back, left back, centre half, central midfielder, right winger, left winger and centre forward 🤔The floor is yours 👍🇬🇧.

01 Nov 2026 18:00:08
I'll tell you who I think are the snidiest looking players in out league coops. Hands down, without question Duran and AJ. Couple of roasters.

01 Nov 2026 18:48:25
Hahaha brilliant cletus I'd also like to add that Hassan has a nose that could open a tin of beans.

01 Nov 2026 18:48:39
Bain
Strain
Nelson
Tanser
Spencer
Ross
Eames
Murrell
🎣😉🤣😇.

01 Nov 2026 18:53:39
Gk pandur

Rb Sterling

Cb Maka

Lb Tierney

Cm Raskin

Rw Buonanni

Am Nygren

Lw Kim

CF Duran or maybe Chermiti.

01 Nov 2026 19:17:37
One for the bears of a certain age group:

AJ always reminds me of the baby from the old TV series "V", the half alien, half human spawn. I can well imagine him scoffing a couple of hamsters for his pre-match meal 👽 🤣.

01 Nov 2026 20:16:13
Parlane - loved V back in the day.

That Diana was some bit of stuff (for a lizard).

01 Nov 2026 20:29:27
That takes me back. Loved that show at the time but had completely forgot about it.

01 Nov 2026 20:41:06
Lols @athole,

Ahhh Diana - be still my beating heart - tight outfits and kinky boots is how I remember her 😁.

01 Nov 2026 20:47:35
Not having Tierney as the best left back in Scotland, back in the day maybe but not now. Personally I would rather have Penrice or Rommens.

Just to show I'm not biased I also wouldn't agree with Minsu as best left winger, he's only played there twice .He was good against St Johnstone and rotten yesterday. On current form that would have to be McPake.

01 Nov 2026 21:11:14
I loved V too, so under-rated, got it on dvd.

Was V predicting the future?

Think about it.

01 Nov 2026 21:30:23
Goalie- pandur
Right back- Johnston( also the ugliest)
Centre back makhanya( ccv the most overrated player in Scotland)
Left back tierney
Central midfielder Raskin
Right wing bouanani
Attacking midfielder Nygren
Left wing jota
Striker duran/shankland

Yes I've picked 5 of them, however those are the only 5 i'd take from their squad, I think we are stronger from 1 to 11.

01 Nov 2026 21:32:13
Pandur
Sterling
Makhana
Teirney
Raskin
Nygren
Bouanni
Kim
Duran.

01 Nov 2026 21:43:29
Think Dundee United might have one or two in there at the moment.

01 Nov 2026 21:58:43
I've went with tierney as I think on ability he's the best left back.

His problem is fitness for a full game or run of games and so on but the question was best in each position. I'll say on ability tierney. But I would t argue with someone choosing penrice as I think he's excellent as I said since last year when I wanted him signed.

Also would not argue with mcpake I think I may actually agree with it in terms of end product but overall game I think minsu. It's a toss up tbh.

01 Nov 2026 22:18:59
Gk, Pandur
Lb, Rommens
Rb, Borchgrevink
Cb, Maka
Cm, Raskin
Lw, Dolce
Rw, Bluonani
St, Chermiti.

01 Nov 2026 22:41:33
"The floor is yours"

Here you go Claudia, sorry, I mean SWS.

Pandur GK
Johnston RB
Tierney LB
Fernandez CH
Raskin CM
Bouanani RW
Braga LW
Duran CF

Not my own selections but just out of curiosity I pasted the exact question into Google and got the AI response above for the 8 positions covered. 😁.

01 Nov 2026 23:12:41
Took me a minute fork. 🤔😛😛.

01 Nov 2026 23:20:53
Took me another minute after seeing Pieter's comment above.

Well played, Fork. 👌.

02 Nov 2026 00:33:37
GK. Pandur
RB. Sterling (on his day)
LB. Penrice
CB. Makhanya
CM. Zidane Iqbal
RW. Bouanani
LW. McPake(on current form)
ST. Naderi(big man's getting goals along with an unbelievable work rate)

02 Nov 2026 11:19:56
Gk Pandur
Rb Sterling
Cb Makhanya
Lb Rommens
Cm Neil
Rw Bouanani
Lw Minsu
Cf Chermiti.

02 Nov 2026 11:31:54
Had to have Neil cm, only because I've seen him having more outstanding games than i have Raskin.

01 Nov 2026 17:26:13
Well if we win our game in hand we're a point behind them. Still need to win it of course.

Add that to the cup final, 45% clean sheet record, 2 Old Firm masterclasses and a list of players worth a lot of money with a lot of promise now in our ranks I am over the moon with the club atm.

We're really building momentum now.

01 Nov 2026 17:35:43
Is our game in hand Aberdeen at home on the 24th?

01 Nov 2026 17:42:16
Yes Goingfor56, it's against Aberdeen at Ibrox on tuesday 24th of november mate 👍🇬🇧.

01 Nov 2026 17:53:42
Cheers bud 👍.

01 Nov 2026 19:20:22
Need to win next Saturday at 8pm first.
1 game at a time.
Agree though bud, I'm over the moon also, cup final and the league table starting to get interesting.
Win on Saturday and see what happens with Celtic on Sunday.
I'd like to see us put some pressure on them.

01 Nov 2026 20:49:57
Celtic at home to Killie next weekend so unless they are dead on their feet after the Besiktas game they will probably have a big win.

01 Nov 2026 21:52:40
Stevie G it's still no good enough mate according to some, because the football isn't slick enough and Fernandez & Sterling aren't Jaap Stam & Cafu every week.

01 Nov 2026 22:02:48
I can see Celtic parting ways with Martin in the new year.

If and when we go top and if we win the cup, they're going to implode and I think turn on Martin as well as the board.

I think Martin will walk for health reasons when the pressure gets too much h to be worth it for the man.

01 Nov 2026 16:48:13
With the Bairns result today and Hibs currently beating Hearts, it shows me that there are no outstanding teams head and shoulders above all others in this league. We are the only team that can win a treble so let's kick on, it's the away games in the league that cause me concern, win the next 2 away Saturday games and we could be in for an epic season.

01 Nov 2026 15:17:37
{Ed's Note - gdog55 has posted a new article entitled, Rangers Need Perspective on McInnes

01 Nov 2026 15:46:24
Think that's a fair enough read, gdog. You're correct in that some fans - even on here - never wanted McInnes in from the start and that is clear to see in their comments.

I do feel however that as fans folk are "entitled" to express their opinion on any given situation, be it about the manager himself, any decision he may have made, or anything a player does on the pitch, without having the "entitled" accusation levelled at them.

Their particular point of view may be seen as being biased due to an opinion that was formed based on previous events, but I just don't see how "entitled" would even begin to describe any Rangers fan given the dominance of that other lot in the east end for long enough now.

01 Nov 2026 16:15:36
I think if you spend any time in the live chats you'd know what I mean Parlane.

Of course people can have opinions and not all opinions will (or need to) agree.

But thinking we have to and should win every game and that any time we draw a match is a catastrophe that calls the manager, players and any chance of winning anything into question is the "entitled" I'm talking about.

Never in our history have we won every game. The best manager in our history never won every game.

The two most recent examples sum it up. In that chat Dundee were a terrible team in a second rate league and we should be walking over them. And the other night we had similar rhetoric about how we "should be beating" Hearts - a team who haven't lost at home for a year and a half and who had won their last 15 or some such. "No point beating Celtic if we can't win these games".

That's the sense of entitlement I'm talking about.

It's ripping out of us as a support and we need perspective. Or we'll just keep going round in the same old circles.

01 Nov 2026 16:48:31
Gdog, some of the stuff i read on here is bonkers after dropping points, not a club anywhere on this planet wins every game, after the Dundee game i never even looked for a couple of days after reading some of the stuff getting posted, we took our chances against Dundee we win that game easily.

01 Nov 2026 17:08:57
Going to be ups and downs all the way to end of season , we are a young team and if we can land the league cup it will do their confidence the world of good in our battle for the title , a few games of putting games to bed early by taking our chances would help fan confidence going forward.

01 Nov 2026 17:09:30
It's not entitlement. It's expectation. We're not entitled to win every game but we should have expectations to do better and demand they give their best. It's about standards. When u spend 10s of millions on a team, of course u should expect them to perform better than ones built on buttons.

Obviously shocks can happen like Fleetwood v Arsenal but shouldn't be the norm. Can u honestly say most weeks u watch us u can tell which team is the expensive one despite the massive gulf in wages etc?

01 Nov 2026 17:10:10
Well said Gdog, I don't think our fanbase is used to being in a title race tbh and are that used to having nothing to play for by Christmas that any dropped points just makes us think we have messed it up. We just need to keep calm and so do the players and keep picking up points. We are heading in the right direction.

01 Nov 2026 17:58:11
Well done, Gdog, a good piece. I came home from Hampden last night and came on here with some measure of excitement, expecting praise for the team, individual players, the manager, the club in general. Within a few minutes I was back out after reading some of the doomsday drivel and negativity from the usual suspects, the laptop lamentables.
While a few understood where we were, are and are trying to get to, it seems others just cannot wait to wade in with a fair amount of bilious comment even after we became the only club which still has a treble in its sights - and don't make me laugh by saying Hibs are still in a race for the league.


The manger is doing good work with these players and will continue to do so in spite of the - spite, really, from the keyboard critics.

01 Nov 2026 18:09:05
Gdog,

I get the point you are making, and you're correct, but IMO it's not a sense of entitlement. The examples you use in your reply to my own post are actually pretty factual.

Like it or not the Scottish top division is a 2nd rate league - at present ranked around 20th in Europe. The performances overall in Europe from our clubs gets worse with each passing year. Do we even recall the names of some of the clubs to embarrass both Glasgow teams?

And if we're beating the other lot that have won 15 out of the last 16(? ) titles then dropping points to other clubs, of course that will negate the points won in an OF match, and that in itself will for sure lead us to "going round in the same old circles" and handing them yet another league flag.

Said it plenty of times on here we need to be up for EVERY fixture regardless of the opposition.

BTW if you want to see actual entitlement in full flow head over to Celtic's rumours site right now 😁.

01 Nov 2026 18:43:07
Parlane, I didn't mention entitlement, I talked about unwarranted, over-the-top criticism.

01 Nov 2026 18:44:58
So it's the fans, the same fans that filled up Ibrox every week, when down the league's, the same fans that sang so loud we were putting fear into teams at Ibrox during our Europa run, nothing to do with blowing millions on players not good enough? Give us something to cheer about were some of the best in the world at it, if we don't play so well we're entitled to voice that, if your a player and you can't handle that, maybe they are at the wrong club. How on earth can we be entitled, having won next to nothing for 15 years? Entitled is winning 14/15 titles and calling for the managers head after 2 Old Firm defeats.

There's guys on here that get absolutely carried away season after season after a few good results, then there's other guys that can look at the performance and realise we won't keep getting away with it, that's not entitled gdog, that's just pointing out how we see it, sadly we've been right 95% of time, because we've called it correct we're the problem, really. Of course we're all buzzing about getting to final, but we're always going to talk about the performance, especially after 2 horrible performances against Hearts and Dundee.

01 Nov 2026 19:13:41
Gylnde, my own replies are addressed to the original poster, gdog, soz if you felt otherwise. I agree that sometimes the criticism can be a bit OTT. I also am aware that folk can react in the heat of the moment, especially in a live chat situation.

Only reason I responded to anything was because I disagree totally with the entitlement accusation. For me that simply isn't a factor. 👍.

01 Nov 2026 20:59:05
I think some of you need a dictionary more than an explanation. 🤣

Listen, if you want to argue that a large amount of our fan base don't think we're entitled to win every game we play in, and don't get their panties in a bunch when we inevitably don't win every game we play in, then you're absolutely able to make that argument.

I'd question your observation skills, or your sanity, if you tried to make that argument. But you are of course welcome to make it.

This can be true and fans can still be supporting the team, in a second rate league or otherwise, or in the lower divisions of that league.

More than one thing can be true at once.

02 Nov 2026 01:45:00
Gdog, we've been in the wilderness for years with some atrocious teams we've had, anybody that's felt entitled, that we should win every game would need there head checked. Up until a few years ago it was a formality that Celtic would beat us, every time they played us, and they did, and we would absolutely struggle against the rest, nobody was feeling entitled, infact the only thing we felt was sick! I honestly can't comprehend how any fan base can feel entitled after 3 trophies in 15 years, heartache after heartache.

I follow Rangers absolutely everywhere all around Europe, have a season ticket were i very rarely miss a game, the sense I've had from fellow supporters over past 15 years has been hope, not entitled.

01 Nov 2026 15:06:46
Great result for Falkirk, that's a very difficult ground to visit for any SPL team. McGlynn has them well set up and difficult to beat.
I always felt Falkirk could get something from the game but didn't see that coming.
We will need to be on form to take 3 points from them at home.

01 Nov 2026 15:30:15
Excellent result. It might show other teams not to fear them.

01 Nov 2026 20:51:42
Yet we were criticised for only beating them 2-1.

01 Nov 2026 14:06:09
I was speaking to a guy in the pub last night (don't know him; he was on holiday from the big smoke) and he was adamant that as things stand Chermiti is to return to training in December or January? I hope this is correct, but that sounds very optimistic. Anyone know the state of play?

01 Nov 2026 14:22:47
He might get back on the grass but will still be months away from being able to play.

01 Nov 2026 15:08:01
Think he might have had one too many and mixed Chermiti up with Shankland who will return in that time frame.

01 Nov 2026 16:06:30
I'd be very surprised if Chermiti plays again this season.

Hopefully we do though as we badly miss him.

01 Nov 2026 16:36:17
Chermiti won't kick a ball this season, if he does it won't be until around April.

01 Nov 2026 17:12:17
Think Shsnkland was aiming for cup final last I heard , good sub to come on for festive period if he does.

01 Nov 2026 13:00:46
The Celtic games apart, Derek IMO has got his team selection wrong a few times recently. Playing Penrice in a 2 with Raskin was obviously not working, this was plain to see after 10 mins and he let it run for far too long. Sure we won and I'm so grateful for that, it would have been a complete disaster if we had lost to that abysmal Aberdeen team.

It was no coincidence that our goal came about because big Kelsey controlled the ball and ran right in amongst them. We need runners from midfield to pressure teams , I thought Minsu might have done a lot of that but he looks as if he's going into his shell. Maybe I'm too harsh, getting into the final is great but we need to improve and quick.

01 Nov 2026 18:43:50
Minsu hasn't been great last 2 but hoping its just a confidence thing. think he is just trying to hard to make an impression which really isn't needed.