Rangers banter 7

16 Aug 2026 19:12:18
Fantastic result today, James penrice take a bow son, what a debut!. Fernandez, well, he thinks he is Maldini! A bloody bomb scare who clearly is NOT maldini!I like the way the squad is being built, EHL set that out in an earlier post. Things at our club have been bloody awful BUT if we all get behind what our owners manager coaches are trying achieve, then the only way is up.

This is NOT going to happen as soon as some on here want, but if we can all just calm down a bit and get behind the lads on the park then i think something really positive can be built here.

16 Aug 2026 19:03:56
Was fearing the worst today after the last few games, but thought we were excellent bar a few shakey moments!

Wasn't sure about Penrice signing but after todays performance was very impressed. let's hope we can kick on now.

On another note 2 Old Firms in a week Buzzing!!

16 Aug 2026 18:58:00
Just back from the match. Good to get the win but St. Mirren could easily have had 4 or 5 today.

The back 3 of Pandur, Makhanya and Manny - needs to serious work. After scored out 5th (maybe the 4th? ) on the break. Bith pandur and Makhanya chased Mannybto the half way line to give him pellets as he nearly blundered again prior to the break. The big man isn't decisive enough. Or as Souness say he doesn't see the picture early enough. The sooner Godfrey comes back the better.

Thought Penrice was really good and think Rommens might struggle to hold onto his shirt. But good to have 2 good players vying for the same position.

Thought Vanja looked very good at times (although think it was his loose pass that offered up the goal? ). The lad looks very cultured out there and his goal was a belt. Reminiscent of Thern.

Biggest surprise for me was Chukwuani in the 2nd half. I didn't see that coming at half time and was actually thinking he might be coming off but playing in the 8 suits him. Really driving at teams rather than sitting in front of the defence.

Interesting to see Johns note about interest in Neil . Very surprising.

16 Aug 2026 19:07:30
Agreed. Thought that was Chuki's best game in a Rangers shirt.

Really like the look of Makhanya, think he's been really impressive over his 3 matches. But Manny all over the place, and defence as a unit obviously needs time to gel. Adding a quality, leader of a centre half would be huge for this team.



Other problem was centre forwards today. Naderi tried hard, but has the touch and quality of a third division player, which to be fair looks a division or two higher than Shanks at the moment.

16 Aug 2026 19:13:11
Fernandez doesn't look interested, looks like he's on another planet.

16 Aug 2026 19:13:15
Disagree with the Pandur and Makhanya assessment. Fernandez is what's letting the defence down.

16 Aug 2026 19:18:14
Manny up there with some of our worst CHs we've had. Whoever valued him at 20 mill must be sniffin glue.

16 Aug 2026 19:34:52
I don't think he's one of the worst centre halves we've had. He's miles off it at the moment, needs to be dropped and to get his head out of his arse. He could have easily had us down to 10 men today clinging on to a 2 goal lead.



There is a good footballer in there, I wouldn't want rid of him completely just because of a very bad run of form. Think I'm very much in the minority with Fernandez at the moment.

16 Aug 2026 20:21:27
He's green for a CB, hopefully Del kick kick him up the back side. Because he has every attribute physically you could wish for in a CB, just light between the ears at times.

16 Aug 2026 22:56:52
If big Manny doesn't give himself a shake, he will be lucky to get minutes for us, let alone go to a big league for 20m.

16 Aug 2026 18:52:56
1 hopefully 2 expected incomings for Thursday night.

16 Aug 2026 20:13:36
TrueBlue33, I hope one is a centre half, Fernandes needs to know he's not guaranteed a start, and coaching staff need to give him a big kick up the rear end!

16 Aug 2026 20:47:11
I can see Godfrey and Makhanya bring our starting pairing when both fit.

16 Aug 2026 18:51:39
Really hoping drago can kick on after that worldy. He gets in brilliant positions to shoot, hopefully that'll take a bit of pressure of the boy. I like the look of his temperament, he looks as though he has absolute desire to win, a bit of dig about him.

Big manny needs a couple of weeks on the sidelines imho. Penrice as good as I thought he would be, but won't get carried away after Rommens, Antman, Gassama starts. Chuffed for del and the boys, by god we needed that.

16 Aug 2026 19:24:13
I'd take a couple more guys like this, he certainly looks the business.

16 Aug 2026 19:24:17
Drago, Makhanya, Penrice and Yokota all look like the standouts from the summer signings so far.

Devlin and Neil, I think, will be very good additions too, and I can see them joining that top four very soon.

Pandur looks good to me as well, and that save today will do his confidence the world of good. We just need our defence to give him a lot less to do going forward.

McCrorie, Shankland, and Godfrey all need time. They've had injury/fitness issues and need to get themselves properly up to speed before we can really judge them.



But you never know for the first time in years, we could end up looking back at a transfer window and saying the vast majority of the signings actually worked out.

It's still early days, but the signs from a lot of them are already looking promising. Hopefully they all continue to improve and go on to be successful at Rangers.

Can't really ask for much more than that from a transfer window. 💙

16 Aug 2026 19:33:41
Stingo, you could be correct, mate, but we are still needing a quality, lw, rw, rb, cb, cf.

16 Aug 2026 19:40:48
Some difference having a midfielder than can glide forward and have a shot instead of going OTT about Devlin.

16 Aug 2026 18:40:00
5-1 not to shabby! Hopefully this will be the result that kick starts our season. definitely need to be consistent if we can string a good few results. Next up Europe let's get another result at home 🔴⚪️🔵

16 Aug 2026 19:05:19
Well done to the team, hopefully a sign of things to come (quickly).

16 Aug 2026 18:35:44
I unfortunately didn't manage to see the game today but when I saw the team sheet I was pleasantly surprised and even more so when I saw the final score.
Heard bits and pieces about the performance (though I'm sure our fine posters on here can inform me more) but overall pleased with the lads and Derek today.

I pray that he sticks to the 4-3-3 and we can really build momentum.
Anyway, we're winning the lot, treble incoming
Cheers guys

16 Aug 2026 18:43:10
Simply cannot go back to 2 in the middle of the park.