So what did we learn last night? For a start, when we need to, we can defend effectively and shut up shop, last night was our fourth clean sheet in Europe this season. The 4-5-1 formation, deployed for the opening 65 minutes, was not effective at producing attacking opportunities, although this may be as much to do with personnel as formation.
Emilio Izaguirre was swamped every time the ball went near him, which did little to settle his confidence. It was wise for Neil Lennon to hook him and drop Charlie Mulgew back. I felt sorry for Miku, who looked like a player in an unfamiliar line-up. He is not a lone target man but will do well when we get the ball to his feet. He was only asked to play that role due to injuries Hooper, Stokes and Samaras and will only do so again under similar circumstances. By contrast, Hooper looked the part once he came on. He bullied defenders as effectively as he does in the SPL, a real pleasing point for me.
Victor Wanyama needs to improve his sharpness to make the most of his composure and tackling ability at this level. The perpetual motion of Champions League teams means a fraction of a second off-pace can compromise the defensive formation.
Did you notice how every time Commons got the ball he was thinking “goal”? His turn before crossing from the left belied the meagre money we paid for him. He is every inch a Champions League player.
James Forrest was played out of the game by the full back. He/Neil needed to find a resolution to this challenge but it didn’t happen. He tried to knock the ball round the outside and pass on the inside a couple of times, which was over-ambitions, to say the least. I don’t think we saw him drop the shoulder and take the player on with the ball, which is a pity, as I’m sure he had the taking of his marker. Both Forrest and Wanyama will be stronger on Match Day 2.
The first objective from our return to Champions League football was that we would be able to compete at this level. That achieved, we can look forward to Moscow in 12 days time.
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blantyretim
19:24 on 20 September, 2012
ernie lynch
15:44 on 20 September, 2012
tomtheleedstim
15:33 on 20 September, 2012
You got this bit?
‘One has to assume he had mental health/emotional difficulties and to that extent might be deserving of sympathy.’
tomtheleedstim
Feel free to educate me on that one
:-)
KEVIN BRIDGES TICKET SWAP
Bhoys/Ghirls
Looking to swap two tickets for Friday oct 12th to any date apart from Sat 13th or Sun 14th……going away for ma wee Maws 60th……..
Anybody interested ping me an email feedthebhear@me.com
Hail Hail
A brain well and truly riddled with paranoia:
IS MURDOCH SHOWING HIS HAND?
billmcmurdo
Those of us in the know have been telling those who don’t want to know for quite some time now that Rupert Murdoch has a hand in the conspiracy against Rangers FC. He is out to get us fellow Bears. There is a bear hunt under way, and Mr Murdoch is holding the beartrap. All I can say is: I hope he doesn’t have his arm taken off with it.
The Sun’s planned serialising of truly wicked book, up their with Malleus Maleficarium, Mein Kampf, Sade’s L’Historie de Julliete and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion ( which I quite like actually, I have a copy on the coffee table at the moment)- by some plastic paddy called Phil Mac Giolla Bhain, a self-invented journalist who apparently tells evil jokes about Rangers fans, comparing them to mutants and zombies- as Leggo says: “Some of my best friends are zombies- mutants have feelings too!”
The book follows the tone of Phil Three Names’ blog, which is an incessant anti-Rangers rant, and is about the apparent downfall of Rangers. The horrifically bigoted nature of Phil Three Names’ blog is truly beyond the pale- like nothing you would ever see on a Rangers site or from myself and Leggo. Its all clean fun and serious debate on here.
The point I am making is that Rupert Murdoch’s Sun was about to give a massive centre-stage to a monstrously dangerous book which continues the campaign of vicious hatred and avalanche of treacherous bile directed at an innocent Rangers and the club’s sweet natured cherry-cheeked supporters.
“Why would Rupert Murdoch be interested in Rangers and seek to destroy the club?” someone may ask. There are at least 400,000 reasons why. That is the estimated number of Rangers fans who went to Manchester and its environs for the UEFA Cup Final in 2008. That is almost the same as the official population of Manchester city proper.
It doesn’t include the tens of thousands who watched the game on the big screen back at Ibrox or the multiplied tens of millions who watched it at home or in pubs and clubs all over South Lanarkshire, West Lothian and Deepest Ayrshire.
If you are still not following, that is because you do not think like Rupert Murdoch and the nationalists marionettes he controls, he is an evil puppet master who plays filthy games with his little figures. Its all very sick and depraved what he makes them do.
Most people were thinking: “How amazing that Rangers can generate such a massive showing of support for their team!” Yes and that is because God is on our side all the way. That has been proved many times. That is why We Are the People. But now is not the time for that.
But Rupert was thinking, “If this club can get hundreds of thousands and even millions upon millions of people mobilised for a game of football, what else can these vast numbers be mobilised for?”
Now it’s no secret that Rangers stand for the Union, monarchy, fighting contamination from exotic influences, good wholesome old fashioned family values, wearing a shirt and tie, honest hard work, obeying the laws of the land, no washing of your car on a Sunday, free speech and blind obedience to the authority of the establishment. Now these are things which Rupert is known to be against. He hates tradition. In Rupert’s mind, Rangers stand as a massive obstacle to his plan to install his puppet Alex Salmond as President of a Scotland bananas and haggis Republic. That is why Rangers, even more so than the Kirk, is the single most important and influential institution in this country.
It really is that simple. The truly, truly mighty Rangers, and its wondrous fans control the fate of this nation on its sholdiers.
In order for the Murdoch staggeringly evil masterplan to come to pass, this great obstacle must be removed for obedience to be assured and for the Republicans to gain control over our lives.
This partly explains the reasons why Rangers FC and its fans have been subject to constant barrages of abuse, persecution and downright bigotry in recent times. Its the same fate the first great Saints of the Christian religion faced soon after the death of Jesus- we are after all the last bastions of all that is sacred and true in this degenerate hole of a nation. And the enemies of Rangers and the Union want to fill the hole up with Papery, Republicanism and all sorts of black arts.
Rangers, of course, can expect no succour in the bitter war waged against the club from the Scottish Government. The SNP are not going to help Rangers in any way because Rangers are such a potent touchstone and rallying point for Unionists- Salmond and his slavering poddles could so easily have helped out the biggest institution in this country. But they didn’t. Why? Because they are bigots commanded by a big joystick from London controlled by the biggest enemy of the Crown himself: his satanic Majesty Mr Murdoch.
So strictly speaking Salmond is not the real leader of the separatist campaign.
Recognising and confronting the enemies of Scotland – and the UK – is what those who love this nation must do. There are shadowy forces from within who hide in the shroud of dark places: we cannot see them but they can see us.
Sooner or later, those who hate Britain and our monarchy will show their hate and be exposed for the bigots they are.
Phil three names and those of his ilk does’t hide his hatred of Britain or the Scottish club that is quintessentially British. We shouldn’t hide our hate of them. In fact we should express our hate with real passion and wear it as a badge of pride.
By allowing the showcasing of evil and twisted bigots, it appears Rupert the republican is starting to show his own agenda to the watching world- .The penalty for treason was changed from death to a maximum of imprisonment for life in 1998 under the Crime And Disorder Act. Before 1998, the death penalty was mandatory, subject to the royal prerogative of mercy- now I would have payed good money to see a few republicans beg for mercy from a monarch! Now that’s entertainment!
An ‘offensive’ banner depicting a zombie being shot?!
So this can only mean one thing – the sevconians now consider themselves to BE zombies.
Zombies dont actually exist though – do they? They might exist in the minds of George Romero, Chris Carter and others – a bit like Daleks and Orcs you could say.
So – if zombies are fictional creatures, then sevconians must also be fictional creatures.
HH!!
Celtic better get a decent QC and take the SFA to the cleaners over this banner charge. The Huns have let off smoke bombs at every away game this season without charge.
Irrespective of whether Celtic are culpable for a banner, offensive or not, the SFA must have a catalogue of offences against the new legislation, piling up on Lunney’s desk, in respect of Newthem.
If he dealt with them, out of face, then it will be next season before Celtic have to tell them to get lost.
It is becoming more surreal and ridiculous by the day.
The Daleks were overrated. Think the Cybermen were the ones to watch out for.
3-4 Liverpool …..great goal
Slick move ends in Shelvey putting Liverpool in front
4-3
Eldiegobhoy
Daleks were fascism and Nazis
Cybermen were Commies
I find Charles Greens insinuations that some SPL teams will not be welcome at Ibrox grossly offensive.
Can I complain to the SFA?
And can I demand that he names names?
Personally I am ashamed of the Green Brigade!
On behalf of all Zombies everywhere: I am truly sorry for that banner.
Especially the large amount of zombies that frequent Haiti and certain parts of Lanarkshire.
Ernie
yes,
but to finish off by calling that person a fud is wrong
I deal with people with mental health issues on a daily basis, many of whom are being thrown off benefits, comments like yours only add to their pain..
Just had a look at the banner…didn’t Glasgow welcome with open arms brad and his lovely wife angelina( :)))) for a celebration of the zombies..in facts streets were closed as the city celebrated everything zombie…maybe the Green brigade were simply just echoing our cities zombie love -in…we rest our case your honour
The banner has caused great offence….to zombies!
A spokesman said….”We are zombies, not Sevconians and resent the comparison. Being undead is quite different to just being dead”.
So what did we learn last night?
We can’t pass the ball and no one can see a final pass. I would change the entire midfield and play players who are comfortable on the ball. Anyway, we’ll need to change soon as bookings will take their toll – Too few shots on target in two games, is this Celtic?
Apparently it has nothing to do with cross-hairs – the reality is that an actual zombie has complained that he doesn’t want to be associated with the huns…
I suspect we’re not commenting on the idiot’s utterings because we know he is for the off for sure. What a sad and desperate club/company they are.
Shameful doesn’t do it.
Trying to locate some zombie gear for game at the weekend
hope we blast out zombie nation
Fourgreenfields – educate you? I’m not nearly clever enough I’m afraid.
Ask Ernie though. He never gets anything wrong at all. It’s uncanny.
He’s like a machine!
Oh, wait……………
:-)
Oh great night last night met bt abd went with oldtim and some other cqners ..especially mwd moonbeams and moonbeams junior..thought spoilt by an hours in the tesco car park after the match…next time old tim get yer messages before the match ! :))
Funny how the SFA have been sitting on this for 2 months and the day our fans are getting world acclaim for our tribute to the Hillsborough 96 they announce this charge.
Headtheball 19:39
Now where can I find the ole CQN delete bin just when I need it most :)
I think any game at home around Halloween this year could be fun….
Asonof dan19.42 ..I think the phrase is clutching at straws…hh
Just had a wee shot at Black Ops
Zombies were everywhere for a few seconds
blantyretim
19:38 on 20 September, 2012
”I deal with people with mental health issues on a daily basis”
Then I hope for their sake you are having an off day on here.
I made it perfectly clear that if the guy had issues he was deserving of sympathy.
And if he didn’t (‘otherwise’) he was a fud.
Fourgreenfields – contains sweaty words.
http://www.nasw.org/users/nbauman/arkell.htm
Note to self…start online zombie gear hire co
Johan Murdoch..
been on the cider today; a wee four day holiday, ole September weekend..and yes I am going to Blackpool… o))
The White Port will take a beating tomorrow evening…
A Shelvey piledriver makes it 5-3 Liverpool
YNWA belting out
Lol- sweary. Feckin iPad.
Ernie
you are correct in that I have had a bad day at the office.
no point going over it again…we can agree to disagree..
BT..enjoy my friend..hoping to replenish stocks in October …hh
Gol
4-0 Napoli v Majstorovic and Bangura
Deflection off big Dan’s back.
Aaah the memoeries….
‘Ol Mo Bangura booked as Napoli thrash AIK 4-0
wonkyradar
You forgot to mention the many Ayrshire zombies. I, personally, know quite a few of them.
HH!!