Match Thread Dundee v Rangers - 20:00 Wednesday - Sky Sports

[mountloyal]

Very poor half. What's more depressing is some of the suggestions to change it.....bring on Barasic and Dessers. Sad times.
Just scrape something up Rangers. PLEASE.

 

[Arkansasgerstill]

My WiFi has chucked it, will be relying on the match thread for the second half woohoo!

Is it in the Rangers midfield somewhere?

 

[Spam javelin]

Wheres the fkn panic. Strolling about like an over 50's bounce game.
We need to kkn die out there 2nd half.
They look as if they couldn't give a fk.
Fkn raging... again.

 

[Blutoe]

It's over, they know it, we know it

They'll be in dressing room now, like they have been before knowing they are not strong enough

Clement for me is in the ropes as well, we need a manager who can change things

He can only change things with the players we have. The players are to blame for this total collapse. And just at the point in the season where they need to show some steel
Not the managers fault that this lot don’t have one pair of cohones between them
Gutless

 

[NeilFifeLoyal]

Silva waste of a jersey..

He’s not the only one Lawrence and Cantwell have been very poor as well.

 

[Damask_Rose]

What has happened to the team from a few months ago?

Unrecognisable.

Similar theme for the last three managers?

 

[Bluerob]

We're playing like a team whose season is already over

 

[Red white Blue]

No midfield no cutting, fucking awful.

 

[julian candy]

I can't believe we're looking at another rebuild in the summer.

 

[Disraeli]

We may well scrape the win in the second half but this level of performance is absolutely unacceptable. Time and time again we start games so slow and lethargic under Clement it’s becoming a real trend now and is very worrying.

 

[Los Pollos Hermanos]

Incase you haven't worked it out yet, it's not the gaffer, it's the players.

Again...

Aye it's the players who decide not to play a solid midfield.

 

[TheAdman]

Missed the first half, just in the door with a bottle of whisky.

Are we back to October 2023 levels I take it?

Finish the whiskey before the second half starts. Might make watching us bearable.

 

[Jardine72]

The manager has been here for 6 months and I couldn’t tell you his style of play.

No patterns, no similar movements, and no intensity in the final third.

Aimless punts forward and relying on Tav to chip in with a worldie.

 

[BluebellGirl]

How can a whole team collapse? One or two or a few more, but the whole squad?

 

[Mreblue]

45 minutes to save the league

 

[MrJ]

hope he stays fit and we can get him sold i dont care how much for just get rid

He's like Roofe, only at us because of the doubt over his fitness. We keep signing guys like that and prospects. We need to sign a Captain & better players. With what money I have no idea as we can't keep rebuilding on buttons

 

[Dashboard Jesus]

Btw my point stands in a thread after Ross county. Cantwell should be nowhere near a rangers side next season. Brings zero to the ‘10’ position

Agreed, one the most over hyped players on here and we have alot of over hyped players.
He is absolutely anonymous again.

 

[Jono]

This team is spent, 6 cup finals someone said, if you knew fcuk all about Scottish football you'd be excused for thinking the team in navy blue were challenging for the league.
We truly are a shambles, I thought at least we would be putting in maximum effort and showing a bit of urgency, just shows how wrong you can be.

 

[BigBlueAngus]

You could hook literally anyone bar Butland, Sterling and Sima and expect us to improve significantly.

 

[Chas]

We are sitting 5-10yards too deep and our midfield and forwards aren’t pressing as a unit. Big improvement needed if we want to win this.

 

[ColdLager]

Passing backwards to Goldson should only be an emergency thing and not the norm

 

[albert_left_peg]

That was a pen on Sima - clearly shoves him in the back and puts him off.

Regardless, this is absolute turgid pish - we would be as well going 4-4-2 and trying to launch it forwards as we can’t pass it that’s for sure

 

[WATP1979]

They don’t want it.

That’s nonsense, it’s more a case that the Beale legacy core of the team are simply not up to it. Ability is the issue

 

[Skunkworks]

I think it’s a reflection of the squad quality. We’re tinkering with an average bunch of players and you could easily take 3 or 4 of them off at HT.

He could have started Borna, Matondo, Dessers? All players who we regularly say shouldn’t have started and should be subbed off in games.

Trying to get a tune out of not a lot of quality. Brutal.

We are playing Dundee this squad should be beating them 9/10 there’s more than enough quality in our team.
It was the same at the weekend, we were playing the 2nd bottom team in Scotland. It’s not like these teams have sat back with 10 in the box.
Our attitude and application is fuckin stinking, there’s players out there who can’t pass a ball, shelling it out the park it’s embarrassing at times.

 

[Welder_Bear]

Lundstram is way too slow with his passing. Surely time to give Raskin a shot.

At least Lundstram has shown he is capable this season.

When it's getting to the stage of "giving someone a shot" it's time to lack ot in.

 

[two2tango]

Wheres the fkn panic. Strolling about like an over 50's bounce game.
We need to kkn die out there 2nd half.
They look as if they couldn't give a fk.
Fkn raging... again.

They don’t appear too mate they chucked it again

 

[SBC72]

If the same midfield comes out for the second half there is serious issues.

 

[GazzaLegend]

Fucking terrible to think we have a massive gap in the middle of the park for 3 or 4 games now while the guy who could make the difference is filling in at LB.

Move Sterling into midfield, put anyone half capable at left back and move Sima to the left wing to cover. We played Aribo at LB FFS.

Sima got 15 goals playing off the left wing before his injury, he comes back and we put him on the right and persist with Silva.

I genuinely thought the gaffer had the balls to do something different, make a statement, draw a line under the past few seasons and show us that’s the end of this era please.

 

[Pepe Silvia]

I just don’t understand how this is the same team that’s been able to get us back into a title race after being out on their arse in October. So many problems all over the pitch

 

[Bunnybear]

The manager better be going mental at the players at halftime.

I'd not even bother if I were him. Leave them to it. They've checked out, can't see the manager being able to instill any sort of mentality in any of them that's required to be at this club. I'd have them all in tomorrow morning no matter how this game turns out to tell every single one of them they are no longer required at this football club and to find themselves a move in the summer.

 

[dh1963]

Really difficult to be positive and optimistic after watching that.
A seriously suspect defence, a slow and predictable midfield that creates nothing, and very little goal threat up front.

Sima apart, we have been terrible.

These are the awful boring games that title winners find a way to win 1-0.
And title runners up drop points. Time will tell, but I fear which one we're watching.

 

[borderbear]

Big Phil must now be learning he has to get rid of the losers or they will get rid of him.

 

[chablue1]

no commitment, no urgency, no will to win
ffs we are trying to win the league here,
it looks like we are happy to be in the top 6,
a lacklustre perfomance, we will not win the league with this lot i'm afraid.

 

[KJ_Rozental]

Missed the first half, just in the door with a bottle of whisky.

Are we back to October 2023 levels I take it?

It's Beale era, relying on a moment of magic. Hopefully someone can deliver it and we use the week to get Yilmaz and Dio back.

 

[bluetonic]

Don't even look as if we give a toss

Thats the worrying part for me, its a continuation of Sunday, they are shot of any sort of belief out there.

 

[Loyalja]

Terrible first half. Take anyone of that midfield 3 off as they have given us nothing once again. Get McCausland on for Silva and move Sima out left.

Such a flat performance with no urgency in this team. Hopefully Clement realises these players will let him down when it matters and doesn't fall for the same mistake previous managers have made

 

[Trueblue76]

Just no reaction from these players at all, same players and this is the third manager in a row. You don’t have to look hard for the common denominator

Get them out the usual suspects, sick of seeing them season in and out, surely Clement will get rid in summer.

 

[Vinted]

Our performance so far has all the hallmarks of an "end of the season" match.

Flat as a pancake.

An end of the season game? More like a pre-season game against a team that started training 3 weeks earlier.

 

[OlegKuznetsov]

Since Motherwell.

Our form has fallen off a cliff.

Regardless of this result tonight, we dont look like the same team that Clement came in and rejuvenated.

Is it managers bounce gone? (Gio and Beale both had similar starts with these players)

Is it tactics?

Is it bottle?

Somethings happened

 

[kensington blue nose]

HT stats show a different game!!

 

[TheCanonburyCaniggia]

Similar theme for the last three managers?

And if we dont bite the bullet and force some of these guys out the door itll happen to a fourth.

 

[Faure there’s not a team]

My WiFi has chucked it, will be relying on the match thread for the second half woohoo!

Pleased be assured that the reality is far, far worse than what could be described by posters in a match thread.

 

[148bear]

Its clear the players are beaten already league wise in there heads,most hiding now you can see there desperate for the end of season to get away from any pressure.

 

[MrJ]

Like 60 year old having a kick about. Reminded me of still game when they played football in the long shorts and smoked the pipes

Remember the Father Ted episode?
A team of Ted and Dick Burn would give us a game

 

[BlueSpruce]

Another team selection Clement has got wrong. Three on the trot.

Players are a disgrace. They’re not up for this title fight.

Got to laugh at people saying Clements getting his teams wrong. What heartless diddy do you want replaced by another heartless diddy?

 

[aghalee_hero]

I'll be honest I don't feel like watching us again until next season. Desperate stuff, 4 out of the last 5 halves of football have been utterly brutal. If we win it's delaying the inevitable.

 

[MrStruth]

They need the hairdryer at half time.
Totally different 2nd half performance required.

After Sunday the manager shouldn't have had to say anything.

 

[Silvio Dante]

This is apparently how we would be playing if we were playing in a cup final according to our captain.

It would be hilarious if it didn’t mean so much to each and every one of us.

 

[bud_light]

Players have chucked it and so am I.Real Madrid game for me and I'll look in here for updates

 

[Bluebell19]

Do we think that the manager gives them their character one too many times, then the senior players just chuck it and get the manager the punt? Its fucking ridiculous how effort and desire just falls away.

There must come a point where Clement having to gee them up constantly at HT loses its impact.