Rangers banter 6

05 Sep 2026 09:39:31
Very interested to hear McInnes say not playing Raskin in Europe was not his decision, he states that instruction came from above.

05 Sep 2026 11:59:19
Expected a sale for sure, John.

05 Sep 2026 12:02:33
Think, after Chermiti getting injured, they couldn't take the chance. Was it an incorrect decision now that no acceptable bid came in for him? There will be different views on that.
Would playing Raskin have got us through? I'm not so sure. Anyway it's done and dusted, so I'm looking forwards.

05 Sep 2026 12:05:06
Yes, but ultimately failed. It absolves the manager from euro defeat.

05 Sep 2026 12:20:47
That's one thought, John. The side we were playing are not a good team. Should the loss of 1 player absolve the manager from blame? Poor tactics and weird changes in formation and players, all absolved because he was told not to play Raskin. That's too far of a stretch for me, but everybody is entitled to their view. That is just how I see it.

05 Sep 2026 13:01:40
It's the damned if you do, damned if you don't argument. If Chermiti hadn't played against Hibs, and we lost, as we did, then he wasn't sold, then the argument would have been why wasn't he played rather than why did he play and risk injury, as it currently is. They took the opposite decision with Raskin and that failed too.

Bottom line is we lost two games that we should have won with or without Chermiti and Raskin. We have more talent than Hibs and Jabolec, but the players who did play didn't turn up and that's on them, not because we were missing one player.

05 Sep 2026 13:10:13
I can understand with what happened with Chermiti, but in other words, the manager doesn't pick the team. The powers of above may just have cost them a pretty penny for not qualifying.

05 Sep 2026 13:17:26
I'd rather the manager told them to keep their nose out of footballing matters.

05 Sep 2026 13:32:01
Should have had plenty to beat that mob, after the Chermiti injury would have done the same knowing the luck we have.

05 Sep 2026 09:12:03
Game day.
On the 6th day anniversary of my last birthday, fingers crossed McInnes and the players make it 3 wins in a row.🤪🥳🕺🥳🤪
Enjoy troops.🔴⚪️🔵

05 Sep 2026 10:19:53
It's worked so far, so feck it, happy 6th day anniversary of your last birthday, hope you get everything "we" wish for. 🤞

05 Sep 2026 10:24:37
Happy Happy Happy birthday again 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 hopefully goals and 3pts today MPH.

05 Sep 2026 11:06:42
MPH. 🤣🤣🤣

05 Sep 2026 11:35:06
Happy birthday again, potato. I'm stuck at Kings Cross. Train cancelled. I'll miss the game. C'mon you Gers!

05 Sep 2026 12:42:36
A very merry unbirthday to you!

05 Sep 2026 12:56:10
At this rare, you'll be aulder than Methuselah. 😉

05 Sep 2026 12:59:13
Many happy returns, MPH. 🎂🎉👍

Here's hoping for the same outcome re the game today.

I can just about remember when I was 21 (+ 6 days) myself. 😉

05 Sep 2026 07:39:13
{Ed's Note - Ed001 has posted a new article entitled, Liverpool v Nottingham Forest - A Quick Liverpool Perspective

05 Sep 2026 07:17:26
Just for those curious and discussing it the other day. Just noticed Driouch made his debut on Thursday. So they were spot on saying 2-3weeks out. Nothing like we said. Not that it really matters now. Just hope he doesn't turn out to be a star and we regret it.

05 Sep 2026 07:37:39
PSV might have been right about their medical prognosis, but we needed him for Europe and to hit the ground running. It was madness to sign an injured player. We signed Kim instead, who looks like he'll be a cracking player.

05 Sep 2026 08:05:23
Actually, they said he would be injured for a week so they weren't right.

05 Sep 2026 08:12:47
Happy with Minsu time, we move on from PSV guy. 🇬🇧

05 Sep 2026 09:24:27
Said a week or very soon. Player said couple of weeks. Was back training within days. Throw in moving to a new club, so unlikely to have played earlier, and I'd say it was pretty much bang on what they expected.


As I say, it was more out of curiosity than anything, and was mentioned during the week. Very happy with Kim instead and looking forward to see the other new lad can do.

05 Sep 2026 09:44:44
Kaiser, we made the correct decision.

05 Sep 2026 09:49:25
We absolutely made the correct decision, and I like the look of Minsu Kim. 👌🇬🇧 Think he'll be terrific for us. 🤔

05 Sep 2026 10:40:01
Minsu > Driouech.

05 Sep 2026 11:04:33
Without putting too fine a point on it, we need to stop looking backwards and look forwards.

05 Sep 2026 11:32:12
This isn't aimed just at this thread, but it really amazes me how we seem to almost pine for players we've missed out on or been linked to, whilst frothing at the mouth waiting to hate on the players we have signed.



It used to be Once a Ger, Always a Ger, but it feels like it's becoming Once a Target, always a Ger or Once a Ger, Never Good Enough.

05 Sep 2026 12:22:00
No pining, EHL, just discussing. 👍

05 Sep 2026 13:06:28
Seems to me we didn't sign any of the "name" players that we talked about all summer, Ferguson, Dahl, Cerny and Driouech, which makes me wonder if there was anything in the rumours, except the last one, obviously. Can't even say it was about money because we splashed big money on Minsu and Kelsy. Club targets and fan targets not the same, maybe.

04 Sep 2026 22:16:16
Not bang on Rangers related but the tranfer prices have gone mad in the epl a half decent player costs 20M and a superstar is going on 100m and more and the spl signs players for 12M max we are so far behind no wonder its difficult for both green and blue to compete in Europe it would make you think they don't want spl teams in Europe

04 Sep 2026 22:48:52
England is leaving everyone in Europe behind financially. The top 10 teams for money spent in Europe this summer. Only two are from outside of England. Barca and Real Madrid, according to transfer market, sit 10th and 8th.



All three promoted teams to the Premier League are in the top 20 for most spent: Coventry 18th, Hull 11th and Ipswich 9th.

15 out of the top 20 for money spent are English teams.

05 Sep 2026 07:03:22
Bluebear, it's all to do with money they earn from TV. For getting back to the EPL, Hull is expected to earn 205-215 million. If they survive relegation, that will rise to over 300 million. As long as Scotland is so poor in earnings from Sky etc, we will always struggle.

Considering our meagre earnings in comparison, we greatly overachieved in getting to Europa final. As the earnings gap gets bigger, we have little chance in competing despite fans' expectation levels.

{Ed001's Note - that 200m+ includes the full total of parachute payments if they do get relegated by the way. They always add on those to hype it. So it is 200m over about 4 years, iirc.}

05 Sep 2026 07:06:56
Sorry, hit send before I was finished. SPL champions get 4.5 million, I think. Wolves, as a parachute payment, get 49 million for getting relegated.

05 Sep 2026 07:24:46
It's gone absolutely mental. It's 40-50 million for just your average player there. The one that got me was Chelsea making nearly 20 million profit on Delap after 1 bad year.

05 Sep 2026 09:27:41
Did Chelsea not just make nearly 400 mill in sales/loans? It is absolutely mental!!
We need to borrow a couple of their sales guys. 🤣🤣

05 Sep 2026 11:55:53
Cheers Ed, we would need to win the SPL 10 years in a row to earn what they get for 1 year parachute payment. The gap is huge and just keeps getting bigger.

04 Sep 2026 20:55:04
EHL or was anyone else at the summit today? Anything positive come out of it apart from the buffet?

04 Sep 2026 21:36:15
Lots of lively debate, very little strategic direction.

04 Sep 2026 21:45:23
Saw them say that more Under 21s in cup games, doesn't seem like enough.

04 Sep 2026 21:56:43
Sounds about right, EHL, so little hope then.

04 Sep 2026 22:29:32
Football in this country needs ripped up and started again imho. And in particular grass roots. My boy plays in a 2012 team. All nice guys that run it and take time out of their own lives to do it, but the coaching is awful. The facilities are awful. Many games a season there are no changing rooms. Pitches are awful. The league/s set up is awful.
There are quite a few schools nearby where I live, and the pitches were locked up during the summer holidays. Nowhere for these young boys to go and just play football.
I was over in the States for the first 2 weeks of the World Cup with my boy. Very fortunate that I have family living in Boston and New York.

My cousins' 2 sons both have got scholarships playing "soccer". You should see the facilities they use, unreal. Paid coaches (at college and for their club side). I get that there is more money over there, but this is our national game. That was in Boston. Even in Manhattan we went with my brother to play a game with him and some of his colleagues. Down at the docks. 3 or 4 full size pitches on top of the roof of the loading bays at the docks. Incredible. We build houses on the spots where our pitches used to be. It's mental. We need to start at the bottom and work our way up, not the other way around.

04 Sep 2026 22:43:48
This should have been at Hampden. Another gravy train whilst the game is skint.

05 Sep 2026 07:36:38
Helicopter Sunday, whatever happened to just finding a bit of grass and playing with your mates, building goals, that's what we did as kids. Now the kids all want astro pitches with goals all set up, and if they can't get in there then no game, plenty parks and grass about.

05 Sep 2026 10:27:06
Jaekets for goals. 🫡

05 Sep 2026 10:27:54
We used tae use a no football games sign as a goal post. 🥳

05 Sep 2026 11:47:53
Jaekeys n jumpers for goals aye, Laudrup. Then a game o knifey to finish off. Jeely piece fur lunch. Shouted in when it was so dark, footy was binned fur hide n seek round the back doors.😂

04 Sep 2026 19:37:51
Well it's that time again fellow blue bell(e)s.

Score predictions for tomorrow.

I'm going with my glass full. Quick goal and a 3-0 win!

Cmon the Gers!

04 Sep 2026 20:35:13
2-1 home win.

04 Sep 2026 20:39:50
Really difficult to predict this one.
Visitors are knocking it about well. The new manager seems to have them playing with confidence.
Listened to his press conference today. They have unearthed another good one there.
Don't know how DMc will line up, who he will use, or if we will manage to gear up and get things going?

04 Sep 2026 20:50:25
If we line up similar to Falkirk, then I predict a really tough game.

I will go 2-1 us.

04 Sep 2026 20:50:47
3-1 Shankland any time.

04 Sep 2026 21:26:33
I think the exact same Helicoptersunday Rangers 3-1 and Shanks anytime. 👍🇬🇧

04 Sep 2026 21:37:19
4-0.

Shankland double, Drago and Gassama.

04 Sep 2026 22:54:21
I'll go 3-2 Rangers, but I think it could be 2-2.

05 Sep 2026 05:53:18
A horrible 1-0 Shankland penalty and I couldn't care less. 3 points is all that matters, nothing else is important just now.

05 Sep 2026 08:49:58
2-1 Rangers.

We will start well, go two up, throw one away with poor defending on transition in the second half.

The last 5 minutes, plus added time, will be nervy, but we will hold on for 3 points.

Sound familiar? 😉🇬🇧

05 Sep 2026 10:35:45
4-2 Rangers Bouannni double, Kim and Kelsey.