Not been tested but decent early signs of course.
Our defence has never really been the issue.
It's been the midfield in from of them and the link up play in final third.
Isnt he injured?We’ll find out on Sunday when they go up against the superstar that is Landon Dykes
Apart from the odd wobble I agree with youOur defence has never really been the issue.
It's been the midfield in from of them and the link up play in final third.
For e the jury is still well ad truly out on Balogun. I’ve seen enough to suggest that he will have really good days and also bad days (as every player does). I’m still waiting to be convinced that the bad days won’t cost us dearly.If Baloguns injury isn't serious, we're going into a league campaign with the best options we've had possibly in my living memory
Yep and we are not at home so his problem of blunders may rear its ugly head again.Tav is a weakness, not a great defender unfortunately.
You could be correct as one of our regular defenders has cost us dear in the past.7For e the jury is still well ad truly out on Balogun. I’ve seen enough to suggest that he will have really good days and also bad days (as every player does). I’m still waiting to be convinced that the bad days won’t cost us dearly.
Happy 10th birthday, when it comes wee man.
The Goalkeeper saved them, that's his jobWe were lucky not to concede against St Johnstone. Not great defending at their chances.
The Goalkeeper saved them, that's his job
Three nil and you are complaining, why not have a go at our forwards for not scoring moreAnd? Quality forwards would have buried at least one, possibly two the other night. The build up to their chances wasn’t good from us.
Who’s complaining ffs? Making a point the way I saw it. There’s a bigger picture.Three nil and you are complaining, why not have a go at our forwards for not scoring more
Too early to say on Balogun, he was spun about like a spinning top in the first few minutes against St johnstone because he hesitated to make the tackle. However he has also looked good as well., so we will see way too early to make judgement.For e the jury is still well ad truly out on Balogun. I’ve seen enough to suggest that he will have really good days and also bad days (as every player does). I’m still waiting to be convinced that the bad days won’t cost us dearly.
You seem very angry, chill out it's FridayWho’s complaining ffs? Making a point the way I saw it. There’s a bigger picture.
And the thread is about how great our defence is.
I always wait 6 months before I form an opinionToo early to say on Balogun, he was spun about like a spinning top in the first few minutes against St johnstone because he hesitated to make the tackle. However he has also looked good as well., so we will see way too early to make judgement.
You just make up shit as you go along? Or deflecting because you made an arse of your response?You seem very angry, chill out it's Friday
I only gave my opinion on you whinging about a defence that has not lost a goal in the opening 3 games. Maybe you understand Morse more than you do footballYou just make up shit as you go along? Or deflecting because you made an arse of your response?
Not angry in the slightest here. Nice bottle of red and watching Morse.
Tav is largely excellent in the main at 1vs1 defending & doesn't get beat in the air a lot. Granted he isn’t an AMAZING defender but he is a decent-good one but unfortunately a decent amount of the Rangers support judge him on performances from 3 years ago.Yep and we are not at home so his problem of blunders may rear its ugly head again.
I only gave my opinion on you whinging about a defence that has not lost a goal in the opening 3 games. Maybe you understand Morse more than you do football
Tav is largely excellent in the main at 1vs1 defending & doesn't get beat in the air a lot. Granted he isn’t an AMAZING defender but he is a decent-good one but unfortunately a decent amount of the Rangers support judge him on performances from 3 years ago.
It’s all relative. In a Scottish context it’s as good as any. In a European context it’s extremely average.
Exactly, I don’t think there is a top team in the world who doesn’t play with fullbacks as attackers. People just have it in for Tav, unfortunately.The modern game has full backs storming forward - greater teams than ours do this constantly
Presumably it's up to centre backs & or others to cover or at least be aware & position themselves to plug any potential gaps as they occur
For some reason when Tav does this many of our support see this as evidence of his dereliction of duty - all the more peculiar when it seems to be tolerated when Borna does it - for example
I won't for a minute claim Tav is without his mistakes, erratic form or that he's some sort of faultless superstar - but some of his worst critics would have us all believe he's next to useless
What I meant was if you take every defence in Europe we would be in the middle somewhere. Average doesn’t mean poor, but there are a lot better defences than ours out thereI think you are being ridiculous saying it's extremely average in Europe. Yes we may not be at a certain level such as Bayern leverkusen. But %^*& me it isn't extremely average.
I’ll let you know how good our defence is when we get properly tested. What I do know is, our right back isn’t a defender.iIn my opinion having kept three clean sheets so far in the league and all of our pre season games is incredibly promising.
Our team looks incredibly hard to break down.
I think Jack and Kamara, who have received a bit of stick on here recently, deserve credit when it comes to pitching in for this tight unit.
Very impressed by Steven Gerrard’s management so far this season. Exciting times ahead.
Actually we use Ham on our rolls with Cheddar Cheese and Lurpak butter on freshly made rolls from a home bakery. Well seen you haven't tasted them.You do seem to like a wee exaggeration. Whinging, lol.
You should stick to making your spam rolls.
Teams capitalised when our full backs were so high up the park.
The manager has identified this and played Jack and Kamara to offer protection to when full backs are further up the field.
This allows for aribo to push forward aswell.
Same way morelos is dropping deeper to collect the ball pass to aribo/jack/kamara then find hagi/Kent on the run.
It’s the same formation but with a different plan on how to create/stop chances at both ends of the park.
Staggering that it isn’t in the same league as Clubs that spend hundreds of millions of pounds on their squads.I meant in the grand scheme of things. Leverkusen took us apart at Ibrox and most teams in the later stages of the CL would do the same. It's probably as good as we can afford but its not in the same league as the big boys.
I’m not talking the team down, I’m being realistic. The question was how good is our defence, and I gave an honest answer. I said we were as good as anyone domestically but in the bigger picture it was average. I never at any time said anything disparaging about our club so please don’t make up liesStaggering that it isn’t in the same league as Clubs that spend hundreds of millions of pounds on their squads.
Sort of goes without saying for people that don’t insist on talking the team down.