BigSteve
Well-Known Member
What has happened since we pumped the scum at neverland?
First half of the season we were the best team in the league. That result on 29th Dec put us in the driving seat.
Sure, we had some poor results and performances from Aug to Dec. But by and large we were the best team in Scotland.
Since we resumed after the Christmas break we have been chronic. Yes, only the Hearts and Aberdeen game did we finish with a poor result. However, I think we have had invariably bad performances in every game in 2020.
It‘s the same turgid junk every game. We don’t look like scoring or creating much outside set pieces and the occasional bit of good play. Look at today; that wasn’t a 4-1 game. Our performance did not merit a 4-1 win.
This doesn’t feel like the Rangers of the first half of the season. It feels like the Rangers if 1 or 2 season’s ago. We dominate possession, create little, are slow, ponderous, lack incision and look vulnerable at the back. If our next game was Braga or Celtic I would not be confident. If this was December I would have been very, very confident.
I haven’t enjoyed watching us in 2020. Every match is a nervous grind, hoping we can nick that vital goal. Hoping we can hold out. But not really expecting it based on the way the play develops.
Morelos is the best player in the country. By far. When he is on it. Yet we haven’t played in a way that allows him to demonstrate his best. He is largely ineffectual in and around the box.
And yet, it is the same team, the same players, the same manager, the same tactics. The first couple of games back I was unconcerned. The cup game saw us ring the changes. The second game was the first game for the first choice, they could be excused as being ring rusty after the break (although it’s concerning we had the same issue last season with that pivotal Killie game and that the pederasts don’t suffer from the same post break malaise). Add in that Tav and Morelos were missing initially.
But we have played several matches now, the key absentees are back (ok, Jack is missing now but we should be able to absorb one missing player) the excuses are gone.
Tav today still looked rusty. Twice in the first 15 minutes he controlled easy balls straight into touch. In fact, I think slack passes or first touches saw us turn over possession around 8 times in the first 15 or 16 minutes with Tav, Arfield, Goldson and more guilty.
As I said, the players, manager, tactics etc are largely unchanged. So why the enormous regression in our performances? It’s not just those dropped points at Hearts and Aberdeen that concern. It’s the lacklustre performances in every match.
First half of the season we were the best team in the league. That result on 29th Dec put us in the driving seat.
Sure, we had some poor results and performances from Aug to Dec. But by and large we were the best team in Scotland.
Since we resumed after the Christmas break we have been chronic. Yes, only the Hearts and Aberdeen game did we finish with a poor result. However, I think we have had invariably bad performances in every game in 2020.
It‘s the same turgid junk every game. We don’t look like scoring or creating much outside set pieces and the occasional bit of good play. Look at today; that wasn’t a 4-1 game. Our performance did not merit a 4-1 win.
This doesn’t feel like the Rangers of the first half of the season. It feels like the Rangers if 1 or 2 season’s ago. We dominate possession, create little, are slow, ponderous, lack incision and look vulnerable at the back. If our next game was Braga or Celtic I would not be confident. If this was December I would have been very, very confident.
I haven’t enjoyed watching us in 2020. Every match is a nervous grind, hoping we can nick that vital goal. Hoping we can hold out. But not really expecting it based on the way the play develops.
Morelos is the best player in the country. By far. When he is on it. Yet we haven’t played in a way that allows him to demonstrate his best. He is largely ineffectual in and around the box.
And yet, it is the same team, the same players, the same manager, the same tactics. The first couple of games back I was unconcerned. The cup game saw us ring the changes. The second game was the first game for the first choice, they could be excused as being ring rusty after the break (although it’s concerning we had the same issue last season with that pivotal Killie game and that the pederasts don’t suffer from the same post break malaise). Add in that Tav and Morelos were missing initially.
But we have played several matches now, the key absentees are back (ok, Jack is missing now but we should be able to absorb one missing player) the excuses are gone.
Tav today still looked rusty. Twice in the first 15 minutes he controlled easy balls straight into touch. In fact, I think slack passes or first touches saw us turn over possession around 8 times in the first 15 or 16 minutes with Tav, Arfield, Goldson and more guilty.
As I said, the players, manager, tactics etc are largely unchanged. So why the enormous regression in our performances? It’s not just those dropped points at Hearts and Aberdeen that concern. It’s the lacklustre performances in every match.
