Post Match Rangers 4 - 2 Celtic Thread.

Where do we * start?

Team Selection
Rotten. Clueless. Wrong. Inept. It showed, and we got what we deserved. I really don't understand it. As soon as the team was announced 97% of us knew that it would not work.

Dropping Forrest, Stokes, Ledley and replacing them with Brown, Samaras, Mulgrew was a shambolic and quite frankly mind boggling decision. Ledley is one of our most consistent performers and Brown was just back from a long lay off ( and surprise he got injured again! ). As for Samaras, he's not a footballer. End of.

How many times does Lennon have to pick Samaras and Hooper together to realise they go together like * and perfume.

Why have we bothered to shell out £2.2 million on a striker if we are not going to play him in our most important games? We saving him for St. Mirren and Ross County?

Management throughout the game.
Useless again. We all knew that Mulgrew was heading for an early bath. We all knew. Yet he is not subbed and subsequently gets sent off. What is it with Lenny not wanting to change it until its far too late?

As soon as the 2nd half started we were getting battered, nothing stuck upfront and we were giving the ball away like it was Christmas. Yet nothing changed. We paid for it within 10 minutes..................and still it did not change.

Rangers are crumbling and they were there for the taking today. We could have really hit home our intentions this season, but yet again, we leave with that familiar feeling of injustice from the players/management and a story of "better luck next time" or "it just wasn't our day". I for one am truly fed up of it. It's one thing giving everything and being beaten fairly, it's a totally different thing being half assed and lacking the intelligence/drive.


Forster - 4. * *. As decisive as a woman picking shoes. He came for 4 crosses today and missed every single one of them. Every single one. When he should have come for ones he stayed planted on his line like an old tree.

Wilson. M - 6. Played when he had to. Didn't give too much away. Booked.

Wilson. K - 4. Horrible defending for Rangers 1st goal and was bullied by Jelavic all day long. Looked so out his depth it was incredible.

Loovens - 6. Didn't do too much wrong. Unlucky with header off post just before they scored again. Usual silly fouls.

Kaddouri - 6. Shouldn't have scored but did.

Brown - 6. Great pass for the 1st goal. Just back from injury and it showed badly. Subbed after getting injured again (Nice one Lenny)

Ki - 5. Annonymous.

Kayal -6. Got beaten by Lafferty for the 1st goal. Got wound up far far too easily by their players.

Mulgrew - 5. Sent off. Silly boy. Not a left midfielder (Nice one Lenny)

Samaras - 4. Could fill a * book with * and still not finish describing his performance. Needs a kick up the * like I have never known.

Hooper -6. Great finish. Done * all else.

 

the thing is can the huns get in any worse a position than they are just now they have been on ther kness for at least 3 year and yet we still change our game plan to suit there style of play imo no brown no samaras means a balanced and more atack minded celtic brown is not a right midfeilder and imo samaras is not celtic class last week was best perfomance of season why change it

 

Mark Wilson was a 3 or 4

 

hooper imo worst ive seen him apart from goal he just kept giving ball away i realy think he plays better when commans is in team dunno why but seems to work

 

I was confident right up until I seen the starting 11. I knew we would struggle with that team. Lennon made some bad decisions today and the players didn't perform. Mulgrew should have been subbed long before he was which could have gave us a chance with 11-11.

 

Our midfield went missing!

 

Lenny to blame. Samaras is as useless as a Greek statue. Wrong starting lineup and inept management decisions throughout. I'm gutted.

 

we have won 2 games in our last 7 games radio just said were exaclty are we going wrong and were do we go from here

 

Dont know where to start totally gutted I just don't know how the Huns always win !!

 

aye wylde tore wilson a new one that whole game. wilson gets a 2 maybe 3 in my book.

 

The selection was definitely questionable.

However, where was the * heart and desire? Kayal? What's he done since last season? * all. Too big for his boots at the moment. As everyone has said already - everyone knew Mulgrew was going to get sent off, though Kaddouri was getting beat to every ball in the air, so what are you going to do?

We were a shambles though. Lenny doesn't know his best team and it showed. Absolutely shambolic performance today. We weren't anywhere near a cohesive unit. We should be better than these *, but ineptitude all over the club has maintained the fact we are second best.

 

He is faster five times than Wilson !

 

This was Lenny's defeat!

 

Forster - 5...........Does not utilise his height nearly well enough, but let down by defenders in front.

Wilson. M - 5.........Terrorised by Wylde. Doesn't want to bomb forward this season as the lack of Izzy creates an imbalance.

Wilson. K - 4..........Did not rise to occasion and looked shambolic. Loovens as his partner in crime didn't help.

Loovens - 5........Nearly scored, but was scrambling like Wilson half the time.

Kaddouri - 6........Lucky to score, but looked nervous and was, at times, rash.

Brown - 6.........Commendable performance given his injury. Not helped by the men around him.

Ki - 4.........Annonymous. Dominated by Rangers midfield.

Kayal -6.........Tried like a bear but became frustrated and was not helped at all by Ki. Part of an overrun midfield, which is rare for him.

Mulgrew - 3........Looked OK going forward but totally lost his cool. Daft!

Samaras - 3...........Murder. Doesn't look up for the fight. Master at using his pace...to run into blind alleys.

Hooper -6........Great finish. Worked hard but was given zero service in 2nd hald.

 

I don't Lennys tactics are bad as people are making out, Lenny put out a team that is well capable of thumping that r*ngers team, on any other day we would have beat them, too many players never turned up and that is the only reason we lost.

I think Sammy throughout the first half was one of our better players, he was winning quite a lot of headers, him and Hooper had a couple of good link ups, i don't think the strikers were lined up wrong, nor did they play badly.

The midfield was the worst part of today in my opinion, apart from Browns pass for Hoopers goal and the odd bit of Kayal doing what he can usually do for a full game is all that came from the midfield today, Ki looked lost, again on another day he would of had the r*ngers players terrified, Forrest wasn't given long enough to make a real impact but still, Brown is good enough to put in a game winning shift against r*ngers. Mulgrew was ok, had a few parts of the game where he done really well, although some of the challenges he was putting in were stupid, I do still think though, his red card was never a second booking.

The defence was also tragic today, KWilson looked at time to not know what he was doing, MWilson was getting caught to much, Loovens was unlucky with a header in the r*ngers box, but again looked suspect in his own, Kaddouri, played well at times, should not of been taken off for Stokes, it should of been Mulgrew coming off.

Forster could not do anything with any of the 4 goals, but did look iffy at times coming to punch the ball and missing, not much else can be said about him.

Overall I think they need to get a winning mentality throughout the team, some players at times still look like they don't care about what is happening, from todays performance the only players I would keep in the team are, Kaddouri, Kayal, Hooper, add in Ki to that as we all know he is much better than he shown today. To that team add Cha, Forrest, Ledley, Stokes, Forster with a bit of commanding his box training Mulgrew at CB and another Centre back who can prove themselves, we should win the league and should be destroying r*ngers.

 

Really depressing performance from the players and the management.

If Stokes fit enough for bench he should have started.

Ledley should have started/ and should have replaced Mulgrew as you could see the red card coming a mile away.

Loovens was our best player but Kelvin Wilson was miles out of his depth, Lenny has put a lot of trust in Wilson but looks like we need to go into the market again in Jan.

There's a real lack of class at the RB position with three mediocre players looking to start.

Ki and Kayal didn't turn up today especially Ki(they will be good enough though).

Sammy can get to *.

What the * has happened to Commons he needs to play to get fit.

Poor at set plays defending and attacking.

Beaten well by a really poor hun team.

Need to get our act quickly!!

 

Ledley not starting was the most confusing. When he's out the team we notice big time. No idea what he Lennon was thinking.

 

forster - *
wilson - *
wilson - *
loovens - *
el kaddouri - *
brown - *
kayal - *
ki - *
mulgrew - *
sammy - *
hooper - *

subs -*

tactics - *

no being able to deal with long balls, corners, free kicks - *

players looking like they don't give a * - *

 

Sammy and brown were decent today. Agree with the rest though.

 

cannot believe we were that bad.............

gosh we need to catch up to the darkside miles behind

i cannot believe there back line is stiil good after there changes

* me how * are we