Post Match Rangers 4 - 2 Celtic Thread.

kills me to criticise our manager but he got it wrong on many levels today.

1. playing samaras made us play a long diagonal up to him. didnt work.

2. risked an unfit broon and got a below par performance from him.

3. loovens isnt fit to wear a celtic jersey shouldnt be near our first eleven.

4. hooper and stokes should have played as front pairing.

5. brought bangura on too late.

the huns were up for it today....we didnt press the game high enough up the field.

Ibrox isnt a place were you can carry players....kelvin wilson, keyal, hooper were well below what should be expected in terms of level of performance.

 

Get a stress toy and put a picture of Gaysmiths face on it :icon_mrgreen:

 

Got to agree with this, I'm sick to death seeing the number of goals we lose due to defensive calamities, nothing to do with good build up play by the opposition but purely panic decisions by a clueless defence.

Mjallby has had long enough to eliminate this from our game but it keeps on happening, sick to the back teeth watching it week in week out.

 

i was in the pub with my mates and i says before half time mulgrew is going to get sent off if he doesnt get took off now if i can * see that how can neil lennon not , ledley was left out why ? the guy probly has the best attitude and desire out of arguably our team brown waltzez back into the team and takes the place of forrest whos been playing class glenda just gets a game when charlie should of been cb ledley on the left or commons , i just wanna say the decisions made today and the selection is apalling and im pissd right off with it

 

Lenny is quickly discovering the awful Gordon Strachan habit of bringing out the felt tips at every big game, over-thinking things and coming out with a * stupid formation.

We re-shuffle our whole defence and low and behold, we are a * shambles at the back and gift a rank * rotten, shower of * hun team, incapable of creating a * single chance, 4 goals that would get you lynched up the park in a Sunday league game.

Mulgrew should have played at CB, Ledley should have been in the midfield and Samaras and our 'captain' should have been rolled into a ball, booted into a * space rocket and sent to Saturn, never to be seen again.

Why can't we just play the * form players and give the guys that do the business week in and week out, their rightful place in the team instead of coming up with stupid * team selections and baffling positions.

Stand up and admit it Lenny .. you * up.

 

Everyone around me said Mulgrew was getting sent off as soon as he got booked

 

How can we go indoors at half time 2-1 up and ruling the game and then those Hun * come out and ruin us? What the * did fat sally say to his people at half time and did NL not say??

 

6 is passmarks:

Forster - 5. Useless at catching crosses, could've and should've done better with the headed Jelavic goal.

Wilson. M - 5. Committed a few fouls...did f-ck all else.

Wilson. K - 4. Poor clearance for the first goal, can't work alongside Loovens, poor game but at least we know he's capable of better.

Loovens - 4. I shouldn't even be rating this guy, I should be rating a CB signed in July/August...WHY OH WHY WON'T CELTIC SORT THIS AREA OUT? Wasted possession every time he had it by punting the ball aimlessly up front. He makes Gary Caldwell look like Xavi in this respect.

Kaddouri - 6. Scoring and giving Naismith a good kicking (can't stand the c-nt) are the only things that get him passmarks. Fairly quick but useless in the challenge both aerially and on the ground and made to look very lightweight today. Being new to the team I don't think he understood the gravity of the occasion or has really fully gelled with the team which makes me question why he was played in the first place. At least he tried.

Brown - 7. Looked lively first half and made things happen, faded in the second as he took a knock. I thought it was his best game all season.

Ki - 3. He's been our best player this season IMO so I expected far more. Totally anonymous.

Kayal - 3. He's off the boil. Hasn't hit the heights of last season. Poor game from him.

Mulgrew - 6. Had a good game but we all knew he was going for an early bath and probably should've been sent off earlier. Should've been subbed or at the very least shifted to CB or in front of the CBs where he'd have been less likely to foul as the areas around the flanks brought them a load of free kicks. I blame Lennon for the sending off as it was always coming.

Samaras - 5. Wasn't his worst game - won a few headers, made a few decent runs but he offered us nothing in the 25 yard box which simply isn't good enough for a striker. The gamble of playing him in the hope that he'll perform isn't worth it. When will Lennon see the light?

Hooper - 6. Brilliant goal. No service. Anonymous second half.

Subs had no influence on the game whatsoever so probably a bit unfair but - Stokes 1 (offered nothing), Bangura 0 (did he even touch the ball?), Forrest 3 (one or two decent runs).

Lennon's substitutions were totally useless and he should've taken Mulgrew off around the 60 minute mark. He also knew Rangers were going to come out all guns blazing second half so why on earth did he do nothing about this?

Lennon can't take all the blame because the players were poor and Rangers were up for it but IMO he has to take responsibility for the team selection, his use of subs and his inaction in changing things when Rangers were in the ascendancy in the 2nd half.
Team selection 2
Subs 1
Tactical Ineptness 10

 

Totally agree - the game was ours to win and I'm tired of TERRIBLE tactical decisions and choices for starting positions...maybe NL should clock into this site to give him a clue!!

 

Not sure where you get that from mate. We in no way deserved to be leading at any stage. Whats even more annoying is that they are pish as well. They got all the lucky breaks but they deserved to win, by even more than they did.

 

I was going to offer my own insight into our problems.....but no need now....well said sir.

 

Awful performance all round imo, looked lackluster throughout but for me alot of that could be down to a bad team selection, so yet again neils * up, starting sammy with hooper as weve seen many times before it just doesnt work yet lennons stubbornness wont let him see it, playing loovens in defence when hes struggled before against jelavic was a mistake and playing mulgrew out wide whilst forrest was on the bench was another mistake, our long ball tactics were *, and why oh why was commons not at least on the bench.

And defensively as a unit we have serious problems. could have been 5 or 6 to them.

 

Mate - we did get a bit of luck when McGregor had a howler. Their 3rd goal was lucky when the ball hit wilson but the truth is - a good team makes its own luck and they wanted it more than us. I agree that they are pish - but what is so heartbreaking is we only had it to lose - and we did! I hate to see them win but I am glad the ref blew up when he did otherwise it might have been 5... goin to bed early and hope its a bad dream...

 

I just cant believe how we collapsed like that in the 2nd half coz in the 1st half Celtic wer comfortably & then going 2-1 up they should have come out in the 2nd half & just played the same by taking the game by the scruff of the neck but the way we let they * back in the game was just a * shambles we were second to every loose ball & didnt win a header i lost count how many times naismith won headers n hes about 3 ft 7. It was just an absolute shambles in the 2nd half & what bothers me is how bad the huns r im actually embarressed we got beat of that mob the day.

 

What did the gb banner say I missed it?

 

What a major let down that performance was today. The back 4 were a shambles. Kelvin Wilson had an absolute nightmare and their first goal was all on him. El Kaddouri despite his goal which was an even bigger gift in return was poor I thought. Decent on the ball but I felt physically he got bullied all day. The biggest disappointments were Ki and Kayal who both did very little in the game and thus instead of us bossing the game the flow was pretty even in the first half and certainly in their favour the first 15 minutes of the second half. Samaras won a few headers but did next to nothing. No idea once again why he started the game. It should have been Stokes for me. Hooper took his goal brilliantly but otherwise wasn't involved much without Stokes alongside him. Brown I thought was good in the first half and it definitely hurt us when he got injured and had to go off. Mulgrew was decent but should have been playing at the back and he can have no complaints about his red card which was a terrible mistake at a point in the game when a point was still very realistic.
The biggest shock for me was how on earth was Ledley not playing. That I feel was Lennon's biggest mistake not starting Ledley on the left and playing Mulgrew at the back. Not playing Ledley today really back fired and hurt us big time. But beyond that it has to be said there were very few passing grades in our team today. The only consolation is as bad as we were today that game was still a 50-50 game and there is still a long way to go to pull back this 4 point hole we are in right now.

 

They may be broke, they may be scum but they can defend from set pieces and cross balls. Any team that can do those things well against us(set pieces) is in with a decent chance of taking points of us.

Been biting my lip for a while but i just don't get Ki at all. Very over rated by some. £10m player is laughable. Anonymous the whole game.

Lennon and his selections are getting on my nerves also. We always either play to our opponents strengths or play cautiously which we can't do. How about sticking to whats best for us, 4-4-2 with hooper & stokes up top. No natural width today either although brooney tried his best.

So much more to say, so frustrated, so disappointed...................

ps Leaving probably our most consistent mf in Ledley out was crazy, time to wise up fast Neil as you said no spl this year you probably won't have a job.

 

You lose old firms through bottle. We have none. Proved it last year and it will be the same again. They want it more so well done.

 

sorry why pay 2.4 mil for a player and put him on the bench and put on that greek pish samaras.

 

I'l say this.They have more players that know what it means to wear the jersey an waht it means to beat celtic than we fukin have,end off