Match Thread St Johnstone v Rangers - 12:15 Sunday - BTSports

[Skoosh1872]

Tav just looks like he’s running on empty.
One player he’s not been able to rest and he needs it but he’s such a huge player for us.

Morelos is beyond crucial to us.

 

[Gazzaflag]

The downer from today is the injury to Barisic, frustrating that he can’t seem to get a run of games together.

 

[Amato Turn]

For 60 minutes I was absolutely disgusted with that.

Then we did what we had been screaming for;

Changed the formation to 2 upfront and suddenly we looked much more dangerous.

Suddenly we didn't have to endlessly try and play through the midfield with uncreative midfielders not suited to it.

Suddenly we could go direct and win headers and win second balls and get knock downs and get shots off and actually look threatening.

And Lafferty didn't even play particularly well (infact he missed another sitter) but just his presence, the extra body in the box occupying the centre backs and the change in shape gave Morelos that bit more space to win us the game.

Thank feck because at half time I was fixing to tan my wrists.

 

[Coza]

I'm beginning to think we are going to have to play hoofball in more games.

Yeah we had to do it versus hearts. And it worked.

Once we get the lead being more direct we are then more free to play an expansive game.

 

[RFC97]

Borna’s injury a serious one confirmed by SG.

Effing hell

 

[frankie_dux]

Horrible performance

Absolutley rotten

Morelos and mcgregor are our best players

The rest are bang average

 

[JD1872]

Gerrard really not happy in his post match interview

 

[Kingwoody]

Gerrard raging in his interview

I hope he is angry with himself to. Said in the interview that it made a massive difference playing two up front.
Why go to Perth and just put one up front?

 

[TommyV]

To the poet that came

Hate to put a dampener on a win but we were dreadful again today until the last 25 minutes.

Worrall and Goldson can't play together. Simple as that.

Worrall looks lost at times and Goldson has cost us with far too many individual errors this season.

Worrall is a bombscare, possibly the eorst centre half I have seen for us and I include cribari in that

 

[klosrfc]

Horrible performance. Do I care? Nope!

3 points. Do I care? Yup!

 

[Blue Tack]

Definitely. No fight whatsoever.

Watch Gerrads reaction and come back to me ,trying to be a smart arse after the game is very easy

Even Warburton would have got a result here.



It definitely would be.



We are aren't we?



You missed a 2-1 comeback. Enjoy celebrating a win you don't deserve to.



I genuinely can't see us ever scoring again.



I turned it off at 2-o to them.



I hope they get to the bottom of it.



I hope you had the mortgage on it.



McCrorie.



Bring back Pedro.



Feel free to come back and join us next season for another go.



We have to put in a better performance than that one.



Bring back Pedro.



We've slid from second to first to second. Disgraceful.



And my personal favourite.

I can't really remember this being said but I do remember saying that you can only compare where we are in a league challenge to the teams above us.

Right now, we're 1 point behind them at the halfway point. If they win a game in hand, it's 4.

I don't see any reason to even hope that we can win the league based on that disgraceful stat.

 

[SpikeRFC]

Surely it's now time to give Morelos and Lafferty a start up top together. It might just be, at least part of the answer, of what we've been needing.

 

[TommyV]

Gerrard really not happy in his post match interview

He needs to carry the can for poor performances. Getting bored of hearing him blaming the teams he is constantly changing.

 

[govwalker]

Another wee side note from the game.

Guarantee there would NEVER have been 4 mins injury time if it was still 1-1 or behind.

 

[tazzabear]

Sitting at work watching this last twenty.
My feed is ten seconds or so in front of another guy’s feed and he’s watching this with a colleague.
Given their raised voices, raised so that I can hear them, I’m guessing they’re septic fans.
Rangers score the winner and I, having already made my mind up not to, don’t celebrate.
Instead, I’m waiting for these guys to “know before me”.
It was a long ten to fifteen seconds but they look on they’re faces was well worth it.
One for the “daily tale”?

 

[Barry]

That’s a big win. For a large part of the game it looked like we’d get nothing. Merry Christmas bears.

 

[sofakineazy]

Well done to SG and the players. Just couldnt see us winning it half time.

 

[Andyzx9]

Set up the Christmas games brilliantly. Bring on HIVS and the scum.

 

[wadey]

Hullo there Wadey.
You might have showed a bit of enthusiasm about a spirited comeback and a massive three points.

Certainly was a spirited comeback and a massive 3 points for us long may it continue mate

 

[No T in Mikhailichenko]

I always laugh when the beaten manager of the wee team in a close defeat against us says there are positives, there aren’t any because they’ve lost and will probably lose to Livi on Wed.

 

[Suttonger]

Well done rangers,what a finish for the winnet

 

[DeeGer10]

Borna’s injury a serious one confirmed by SG.

He won’t know too much yet although he’s said it’s bad he’ll just know it isn’t a tightness and he’ll be about for a period of time.

Fingers crossed it’s 3-4 weeks rather than 3-4 months.

 

[madmac1959]

To all the lurking tims and panty wetters with fucking stupid comments during the game I hope you are as happy with the result as I am regardless of the performance.

 

[Renoranger]

That was a telling ball from Middleton for the equalizer, well done. Good header too.

 

[tazzabear]

He needs to carry the can for poor performances. Getting bored of hearing him blaming the teams he is constantly changing.

Nothing to carry the can for today.
I didn’t see the whole game but I understand we weren’t too good.
I’ll tell you what though,
I’m happier just now than I was ten minutes after the final whistle on Wednesday, despite our great performance.

 

[theryesider]

Nightshift tonight nae booze, nerves shredded, but it’s off to work with a smile

 

[BlueBritain]

Come on the Teddy Bears.

3 points for my birthday please!!!!

Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me.

Cheer up everyone. 3 points is everything, especially in a tough month.

Merry Christmas!!

 

[Lawsome]

show me were you thought after 50 minutes in we were winning is, if you can hat off to you otherwise STFU

Because we're Rangers with vastly superior players, playing against St Johnstone - regardless of the first 50 minutes.

Believing you can still win is the reason winners go on and prove it.

Losers whine.

 

[Lord Summerisle]

Thank %^*& for Alfredo Morelos.

 

[Foolback]

4-4-2 is they way to play these teams that sit back. Not teams that attack. Big win.

 

[Britannia89]

This happens?
Truly hard to believe.

Yes, i'm not making it up.

 

[gersfanal]

Hate to put a dampener on a win but we were dreadful again today until the last 25 minutes.

Worrall and Goldson can't play together. Simple as that.

Worrall looks lost at times and Goldson has cost us with far too many individual errors this season.

As I posted earlier Goldson has regularly been shunted to left CB , where he is much less comfortable, to accomodate Worral and McAuley.

I am sure it is no surprise that things got better today when Goldson and Worral swapped sides !

 

[ferris72]

Could be a really important couple of points, showed some real grit pulling it back! Anyone else think Lafferty got Morelos his booking after scoring, Morelos trying to get away from Lafferty and the touchline and Lafferty dragging him towards it.

Maybe wants him suspended for a guaranteed start?










firmly tongue in cheek before anyone starts

 

[bornabluenose]

Before we scored, we were shockingly bad, don't kid yourself.

Some absolute lunatics on here at times but if you couldn't see how bad we were in that first half you need to lay off the Christmas booze.

Gerrard looked livid in his interview at the end , saying how disappointed he was with the first half display, he must be a crackpot too.

 

[Woodrow Call]

We need 2 upfront.

But the papes play with 3 centre mids and will murder us if we have 2.

 

[Cavalera]

I said thoroughly deserved earlier but it seems I am in the minority.

Granted, I'm at work and was watching it on and off but to me it looked like there would only be one winner in the second half.

That was a tricky fixture and I'm encouraged by much of what I've seen over the last couple of games.

 

[Wild & Wired]

Morelos winner right at the end and Tommy Wright foaming at the mouth, that's the way this game ends hopefully.

 

[Coopers left foot.]

Yellow card for celebrating a goal in the 88th minute...%^*& off...%^*& the SFA

The boy Kennedy did the same and nothing!

 

[JD1872]

He needs to carry the can for poor performances. Getting bored of hearing him blaming the teams he is constantly changing.

Agree, we have seen that first half performance time and time again this season yet we set up the same way. At least he went 2 up front with enough time to turn it around

 

[dublinbluenose]

Because we're Rangers with vastly superior players, playing against St Johnstone - regardless of the first 50 minutes.

Believing you can still win is the reason winners go on and prove it.

Losers whine.

Must admit I couldn’t see a goal coming in the first hour but as soon as alfies header went in,my gut was telling me we were winning it

 

[RFC97]

Sitting at work watching this last twenty.
My feed is ten seconds or so in front of another guy’s feed and he’s watching this with a colleague.
Given their raised voices, raised so that I can hear them, I’m guessing they’re septic fans.
Rangers score the winner and I, having already made my mind up not to, don’t celebrate.
Instead, I’m waiting for these guys to “know before me”.
It was a long ten to fifteen seconds but they look on they’re faces was well worth it.
One for the “daily tale”?

Watched it in work with a septic work mate.

Was adamant he ‘didn’t care’.

 

[Sly Stone]

Well done to SG and the players. Just couldnt see us winning it half time.

Never doubted us for a minute.......

 

[Cutty/Young]

To all the lurking tims and panty wetters with fucking stupid comments during the game I hope you are as happy with the result as I am regardless of the performance.

Suppose before Morelos scored you were sitting giving it your best captain Mannering impression while puffing on your cigar, Your comments are stupid,people had every right to be concerned up until that point about such a shite performance and regardless of winning it was still a shite performance,so don't kid yourself.

 

[Mondraker]

Anything near that performance against the tims and it's not ending well for us.

 

[ferris72]

If I see Worrall jog forward 5-10 yards stop turn and pass across to goldson ONE MORE FUCKING TIME

those pair must have the highest stats for time on the ball!!!

 

[RFC_Champions]

We played Hamilton and St Mirren away, were absolutely honking, created little but ground out 3pts on each game. The quotes on here we’re “not good enough etc”

We play well at Hibs but draw 0-0 and some of the quotes on here are “best away performance of the season... play like that and we’ll smash teams”

I know what I’d rather today!

3pts please, in any flavour that they come.

Bump, bump, bumpety bump

Merry Christmas bears

 

[A Magician Named Gob]

To all the lurking tims and panty wetters with fucking stupid comments during the game I hope you are as happy with the result as I am regardless of the performance.

I don't share your gracious spirit.

Negative people help create a negative atmosphere. All it takes is a few hundred moaning faced defeatists to mutter on about how rubbish everything is for other people to react to it.

They need to be shamed and shown up for it.

I've said on here before it's a personality trait but it's something they can work on with an ounce of self-reflection and awareness.

 

[Three-in-seven]

Anything near that performance against the tims and it's not ending well for us.

If we perform that way against them, and come away with a 2-1 victory, I will be fcuking delighted.

We played well against Hivs and got 1 point, we played sh1t for an hour today and got three points.

It's a funny old game.

 

[NI-Bear]

Who else do we have?

Rossiter was on the bench. He can pass a ball

 

[crmpicco]

Hate to put a dampener on a win but we were dreadful again today until the last 25 minutes.

Worrall and Goldson can't play together. Simple as that.

Worrall looks lost at times and Goldson has cost us with far too many individual errors this season.

People have been focusing on Worrall, Katic and MacAuley but I honestly think Goldson is garbage. He’d be decried as a bombscare in years gone by.

In positive news Ross McCrorie had a good game and as for Morelos not being a big game player? Pah. Absolute top class