13 Dec 2018 21:29:35
With Barisic back fit Stevie g now has to decide who is best back four is and stick with it so they can build up an understanding tav gets pelters on here but he has a different cb next to him nearly every game the balance isn't right in midfield we can't control a game as we are constantly giving the ball away they don't create chances all we do is get it out wide to wingers who can't even beat a man would like to c Mcrorie get a run as holding midfielder with Arfield and hopefully an attacking midfielder signed in January playing in front of him am all for giving players a chance to let them settle but have to agree Grezda looks a waste of money so would be Candeias and Kent for me if fit and not suspended.
14 Dec 2018 01:20:26
Tav could have Cannavaro and Baresi next to him and would still be clueless.
14 Dec 2018 05:15:51
I'll be honest grezda hasn't been great but he hasn't played much yet. The management must've seen something in him. Tavernier was pretty hopeless again tonight. He can't get his crosses by the first man.
14 Dec 2018 05:16:02
Aye sounds about right.
14 Dec 2018 05:17:22
Buy a right back who can defend, tav is never a defender or a captain, how can Gerrard not see that.
14 Dec 2018 05:35:36
I'll tell you something tav gets a helluva time on here from our supporters. I'm the first to admit defensively is definitely not his strong point, but when he's out our team, we most definitely miss him offensively, big time! A lot of teams have right backs who are much better at their offensive game, opposed to their defensive game.
The difference being, that they have good players to cover their full backs, when they do bomb forward! IMO tav is the best right back in scotland, offensively,
which is and has been the traits of the modern day right back for well over a decade now! Our team under gerrard is in its infancy, rebuilding wise! Tav gets the stick continually, when there's much worse performers, who don't get half the stick! Tav is a very good footballer and nobody will change my thinking on that! When he's not in the team we have nowt, going forward, on our right hand side!
I never heard many bears criticising alan hutton, when he was playing out of his skin offensively, for us, before his move to spurs. He was similar styled to tav, as defence wasn't his strong point but he had better players, then at rangers, who could compensate, for his forward surging runs! Give tav a break for god's sake and back the guy, gerrard and our team as a whole! Rant over!
14 Dec 2018 07:30:04
Read the players ratings from last night swagman and come back and tell me who in fact is clueless.
14 Dec 2018 08:41:00
SuperCoop
I think the issue most of us have with Tav is simple. He isn’t great at defending, but not good enough going forward. He’s stck between a rock and a hard place.
14 Dec 2018 08:56:49
McGregors kick out was crap but Tav getting caught upfield and losing the ball -again-was the first step.
For the last few games, sheep and Dundee he is getting robbed to easily and often.
14 Dec 2018 09:45:16
Coop leave it mate you can't win. I thought all the recent Zombie games, I thought just stupid, are really Our fans. Forget he's our top assist AGAIN, forget he works harder than anyone else, Forget he leads by example, forget the professionals who rate players have him as our second best player behind shagger or did till recently forget he's playing as instructed as a wing-back I Can hear them now, we don't play wing backs cause we said so, guess what we do play wing backs SG clearly does say so. Pinball Wizards all of them. Back to playing left 4 dead 2.
14 Dec 2018 10:58:31
The level of negativity IMO is shocking on here.
I’ve got an idea if yous think tav is so bad give a viable replacement for him?
That should go for any player that people want us to get rid of give an example of a player we can afford that’s better.
Be happy for where we are don’t forget where we have been.
14 Dec 2018 12:18:46
Frustratedbear - player recruitment is not our job. We don't have the ability to scout Europe or the world for a better right back. Mark Allen does, and it can't be hard to find one. Tav is awful. Truly, truly terrible. People go on about his assists as if that means something, it's really just an indictment of the midfield. He gets far too much of the ball and just because one of his 50 crossing attempts might end up in a goal doesn't excuse the other 49 that hit the first defender.
14 Dec 2018 12:34:37
Maybe Mark Allen doesn’t think he can get better with the budget he has I would say another top centre half is more important than a right back I would even give Flanagan a chance at right back if we are in a game we need too be more defensive.
Just too add different point my only gripe with last night was bringing on Grezda who is the kind of player who likes too run with the ball and that pitch wasn’t any good for him.
14 Dec 2018 14:14:53
Hey swagman you don’t have the ability to get rid of players or choose captains either and that certainly isn’t your job eh? Btw that mob sneaked in through the back door last night and are “light years ahead of us” so at least you’ll be able to tune in to them on a Thursday instead of criticising us on a daily basis?
14 Dec 2018 14:33:40
I really feel sorry for Tav. he's the whipping boy now. If SG sees him as captain material he must be doing something right but it's got to the stage now when we lose a goal some fans check to see where Tav is before they blame anyone for goal.
14 Dec 2018 19:09:46
I would put a quality centre back, a quality attacking midfield player and a class striker at the top of my list of priorities and would agree with Gerrard that we need better quality rather than more numbers. Personally I would prefer that we avoid bringing in more loan players unless they are significantly better than what we have.
14 Dec 2018 19:24:59
Totally with you bluepete! There's a good few on here who contribute sweet FA, but try and sconse genuine,
rangers supporters, who follow rangers everywhere! I can assure them they're wasting their time, because its certainly water off a ducks back to me! Not at all meaning to be arrogant or big headed, but i without any doubt whatsoever KNOW,
that I know more about glasgow rangers and football in general, than they'll ever know! Now i've cast the line out, I can feel the bites already! Good to read your posts back on here TOMUSA! There is a good few brilliant contributers on here but don't get me started on some others!
14 Dec 2018 20:59:27
Steady coop. Not questioning your support for the Gers or even your football knowledge but some of havers you've said about players, managers, past and present! Deary me.
This is a banter page and everyone is entitled to their opinions. Yours is no more valid than anybody else's. And we don't need a poll for that either.
15 Dec 2018 11:50:09
Sharpshooter, I don't criticise us on a daily basis. I'm criticising a terrible player who is never Rangers quality. I still support him on a match day but when our captain constantly let's us down and is constantly to blame for opposition goals and wastes umpteen set pieces a game, as someone who has had a season ticket half his life, I'm entitled to my opinion.