28-Oct-2007 Dundee Utd 2 Rangers 1
23-Oct-2007 Rangers 0 Barcelona 0
20-Oct-2007 Rangers 3 Celtic 0
06-Oct-2007 Rangers 0 Hibs 1
02-Oct-2007 Lyon 0 Rangers 3
29-Sep-2007 Motherwell 1 Rangers 1
Looking back you may think that Rangers are doing pretty well. A 3-0 home win over ‘tic; a 3-0 away win over Lyon; and a 0-0 draw at home against Barcelona.
However, in the SPL, there is a home defeat against Hibs, a draw against Motherwell, and the most recent defeat against Dundee Utd (Not to mention a 4-2 defeat at Hearts).
There are no excuses for these results. Many of these teams are under new management, have new players and have much less to spend than Rangers.
Against Hearts, Hibs, Motherwell and Dundee Utd, Rangers started very badly, and let the opposition take the initiative.
Walter and Ally were far too slow in making tactical changes and changes in personnel. Indeed, it is debatable if the correct personnel were put on the park to begin with.
It does not look like good news that we have signed the likes of Amdy Faye on Loan for a full season. There is nothing to suggest that he should pull on a blue jersey ever again. That is down to the player. He must realise that if you run on to the park wearing a Rangers jersey then much, much more is expected of you.
SPL teams are getting wise to Hutton and are now taking steps to prevent his runs, but that means opportunities in other areas are not being exploited.
Lee McCulloch, apart from being at fault with the Dundee Utd goal, did little to stand out from the crowd. Cousin looked completely out of sorts.
Sasa Papac is improving game by game. Kevin Thompson is also stepping up to the challenge. Nacho Novo is always full of running. I think it is time to see more of Steven Naismith.
Several areas where we need to improve enormously are in our passing, our set pieces and Throw-ins. Barcelona gave us a lesson in passing and moving off the ball. Rangers players need to be much fitter (Charlie Adam take note).
Rangers will have to perform much better over the rest of the season if we want to finish in the top two and a whole lot better if we want to win the League.
Thursday, 13 December, 2007 at 3:26 pm |
Thank you for your mail. I think that Rangers is a good team and yesterday it was very difficult for us. We had a lot of chance because if Darcheville scored, we won’t have won. I wish you good luck for the next match for the rest of the season.
Ps: Excuse my english (you can correct the fault if you want) but I’m French and I don’t speak very well.
Monday, 31 December, 2007 at 2:12 pm |
We won’t win it if the SPL continues its love in with Celtic…would we have got a postponement if we’d have asked for it?
Monday, 14 January, 2008 at 10:02 am |
rangers are not getting any luck this season with games being cancelled but this season the spl flag will return to ibrox for the 52nd time
Monday, 14 January, 2008 at 12:39 pm |
We still need more quality in certain areas.
David Weir is not going to last forever.
Alan Hutton will be difficult to replace. Steven Whittaker does not do the same jon. It really annoys me that Rangers were trying to force Hutton out the door.
Thompson and Ferguson are good enough for central midfield, but we need more class on the wings. Charlie adam does not contribute enough and Chris Burke still needs to be more effective. Crosses need to be more accurate.
All our strikers are of good quality, but they miss too many chances. WE need a class striker. Someone, at the strt of the season said that we should sign Robbie Keanne. That would have been a great signing.
So four new players, I think.
1 central defender
2 wide midfield.
1 striker.
They must be good enough to walk straight into the first team.
We will have to wait until the summer I think.
Sunday, 18 May, 2008 at 3:49 am |
i think you have god a cheek not to mention nacho …. got the boy is a ledgend give him praise
Sunday, 18 May, 2008 at 10:01 am |
Nacho has been pretty good of late. I wish everyone would play with his energy and enthusiasm.