Operation tango day, the best wind up ever.
Some day that was!
I managed to get a Rangers end ticket direct from Dundee United at the student price of £12, one of the most useful uses of my course at the time.
Is it wrong to say I get a bit disappointed watching these back? Not because we're winning obviously but I end up comparing it to current times.
The fight these teams showed in something that is missing in our current side imo.
Darren dods was an absolute animal two footer against edu.
Lafferty was exceptional for us first time round, the abuse the guy gets on here is laughable, when the going gets tough, we talk about guys having bottle.Lafferty tracking all the way back to left back. The kind of hard work Walter Smith demanded.
First half observations:
Weir and Bougherra, a centre back pairing that would walk our current league. Papac and Whittaker also excellent. Illustrating hugely why we currently struggle to win trophies.
One of Boyd's biggest critics at the time and I remember why. Absolute goal machine, but unless he's in the box every attack just bounces off him. Having a better footballer in there would've created more chances and gave the team a higher collective goal tally. Miller sometimes just as bad.
Get that chopper to Dundee now!
"We won the league...
at Tannadice..."
First half observations:
Weir and Bougherra, a centre back pairing that would walk our current league. Papac and Whittaker also excellent. Illustrating hugely why we currently struggle to win trophies.
One of Boyd's biggest critics at the time and I remember why. Absolute goal machine, but unless he's in the box every attack just bounces off him. Having a better footballer in there would've created more chances and gave the team a higher collective goal tally. Miller sometimes just as bad.
Get that chopper to Dundee now!
"We won the league...
at Tannadice..."
that back four is way above anything we have now.
The team that day:
What a day. Looking at that though, it's not a team of superstars but they were title winners. How do we get back to that? What exactly is missing now compared to what we had then? Desperate for they days to return!
I fear bringing up an age old argument amongst rangers fans but I have to disagree with your Boyd point. Of course I agree that his build up play was probably as good as mine but his goal scoring ability is something we’ve found impossible to replicate since he was here. I don’t think we’d have scored more with someone else partnering Miller up front, they both worked great together.First half observations:
Weir and Bougherra, a centre back pairing that would walk our current league. Papac and Whittaker also excellent. Illustrating hugely why we currently struggle to win trophies.
One of Boyd's biggest critics at the time and I remember why. Absolute goal machine, but unless he's in the box every attack just bounces off him. Having a better footballer in there would've created more chances and gave the team a higher collective goal tally. Miller sometimes just as bad.
Get that chopper to Dundee now!
"We won the league...
at Tannadice..."
well done to himI was in Tannadice early that day and sitting in the Jerry Kerr stand next to what was the Dundee Utd directors box. About 90 minutes before kick off the ground is still pretty quiet. The next thing some guy appears climbing over the wooden divide between our end and the Dundee Utd directors box. He had snuck in to the ground the night before and slept in the toilet.