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The Hausu Usher
Feb 9, 2010

:spooky:
Screaming is the only useful thing that we can do.

Total Meatlove posted:

Are we calling them the Bhanter Years or the Banter Yhears? What’s everyone’s preference?

https://twitter.com/mcgowan_stephen/status/1349633346855460864?s=21

Amazingly on-point for our Tory board. Must be trying to make up the money they spent on the piss-up in Dubai.

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jre
Sep 2, 2011

To the cloud ?



Total Meatlove posted:

Are we calling them the Bhanter Years or the Banter Yhears? What’s everyone’s preference?

https://twitter.com/mcgowan_stephen/status/1349633346855460864?s=21

Bhanter Yhears ?

Total Meatlove
Jan 28, 2007

:japan:
Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;
If Bhanter Yhears wins then mods?

Total Meatlove
Jan 28, 2007

:japan:
Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;
Gavin Strachan’s unbeaten run continues

McIness must be near the door at this point? That’s a shocker of a result.

Chas McGill
Oct 29, 2010

loves Fat Philippe
The idea of getting Greg Stewart back is very upsetting.

Dunno who we'd get to replace deek.

jre
Sep 2, 2011

To the cloud ?



Trending in the uk: Neil Lennon

The Hausu Usher
Feb 9, 2010

:spooky:
Screaming is the only useful thing that we can do.

Was hoping the isolation period would be doubled before he got a chance to sit in front of the press.

What an absolute buffoon he is.

biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke



BisonDollah posted:

Was hoping the isolation period would be doubled before he got a chance to sit in front of the press.

What an absolute buffoon he is.

We are all Neil Lennon

jre
Sep 2, 2011

To the cloud ?



biglads posted:

We are all Neil Lennon

Resign then

jre
Sep 2, 2011

To the cloud ?



How many games to go ? :suicide:

Total Meatlove
Jan 28, 2007

:japan:
Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

jre posted:

How many games to go ? :suicide:

Not enough. Was good to see Brown wearing short sleeves to pander to the da’s, really highlighted the elbow.

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.



Nice.

Her Dryer
Oct 15, 2012
Hibs are poo poo.

Total Meatlove
Jan 28, 2007

:japan:
Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;
Celtic can’t buy a win, Hearts poo poo the bed, Hibs hibsed it and Aberdeen are within touching distance of second.






Not a bad footballing week all told.

JollyBoyJohn
Feb 13, 2019

For Real!

Total Meatlove posted:

Celtic can’t buy a win, Hearts poo poo the bed, Hibs hibsed it and Aberdeen are within touching distance of second.




Not a bad footballing week all told.

saintees gonna win the cup :swoon:

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
https://twitter.com/ChronicleNUFC/status/1353290699106607109?s=19

Total Meatlove
Jan 28, 2007

:japan:
Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;
Every link on that seems to be coming back to the Mirror article, and the mirror article doesn’t cite anyone and came out the same time as the fake letter. Would be an expensive gamble from Celtic.

jre
Sep 2, 2011

To the cloud ?




What's rafa's view on "having a wee drink" during training camps ?

Total Meatlove
Jan 28, 2007

:japan:
Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

jre posted:

What's rafa's view on "having a wee drink" during training camps ?

Imagine the confusion when ‘set piece training’ goes up on the days schedule at lennoxtown.

Total Meatlove fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Jan 24, 2021

DrWrestling69
Feb 4, 2008

Tracyanne...
Hibs are poo poo

Eau de MacGowan
May 12, 2009

BRASIL HEXA
2026 tá logo aí
Is gerrard a genius or are celtic just spectacularly making GBS threads the bed

Because i hear liverpool are going to need a manager soon

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

Eau de MacGowan posted:

Is gerrard a genius or are celtic just spectacularly making GBS threads the bed

Because i hear liverpool are going to need a manager soon

Bit of both.

Rangers are loving trashing everyone atm but Lennon has hosed Celtic

jre
Sep 2, 2011

To the cloud ?



Eau de MacGowan posted:

Is gerrard a genius
Lol no
2nd biggest budget in Scotland but repeatedly knocked out of the cups by mid table teams. Spectacular collapses in the league where he throws the players under the bus in media

quote:

or are celtic just spectacularly making GBS threads the bed
The bed, and the couch , and the carpet. and half way up the wall ...

jre fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Jan 25, 2021

Total Meatlove
Jan 28, 2007

:japan:
Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;
Gerrard won’t leave us to go to Liverpool he wants to manage in the Champions League

Total Meatlove
Jan 28, 2007

:japan:
Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

jre posted:

Lol no
2nd biggest budget in Scotland but repeatedly knocked out of the cups by mid table teams. Spectacular collapses in the league where he throws the players under the bus in media

The bed, and the couch , and the carpet. and half way up the wall ...

Even the teams from the Brendan glory days when you had no one to challenge would be behind this Rangers side on points I think?

jre
Sep 2, 2011

To the cloud ?



Total Meatlove posted:

Gerrard won’t leave us to go to Liverpool he wants to manage in the Champions League

In the unlikely event he'd get offered it he'd do a rodger's in an instant

Total Meatlove
Jan 28, 2007

:japan:
Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

jre posted:

In the unlikely event he'd get offered it he'd do a rodger's in an instant

The joke was Liverpool’s current position and the fact they could be 7th after their game with Spurs.

And Celtic.

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

jre posted:

Lol no
2nd biggest budget in Scotland but repeatedly knocked out of the cups by mid table teams. Spectacular collapses in the league where he throws the players under the bus in media

The bed, and the couch , and the carpet. and half way up the wall ...

Spectacular collapses in the league...


Literally havnt lost a game all season.

Total Meatlove
Jan 28, 2007

:japan:
Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

CyberPingu posted:

Spectacular collapses in the league...


Literally havnt lost a game all season.

To be fair to jre, last season Rangers were neck and neck with Celtic and fell away towards the lockdown. The form over the 10 games before play stopped was;

WLWDWLWDLW

It gets overdone by other fans, but it was still 17 points from 30. A lot of that probably came from the way the team was set up - absolutely over-reliant on a star striker who is temperamental and likes a booking to score goals made by the full backs - which meant that when he was suspended or off the boil slightly, or teams doubled up on Barasic and Tavernier towards the tail end of the season, Gerrard couldn’t respond quickly enough to change the team around.

- Morelos up to the winter break in 19/20 - 28 goals in 35, sets new record in the Europa League. Celtic fans begging him to take up Squash as a hobby.
- Morelos after the winter break - 1 in 10.

But then Gerrard’s a rookie manager in his first big job, so being inconsistent and not knowing what to do comes worth the territory. Still managed to get the side from Europa League qualifiers in July through to the knockouts against Leverkusen, and so the progress* on display there (and the League Cup final ending as it did) probably did let him get away with a second potless run.

The positive this season is that Gerrard has reset the team and how they play. There’s much less reliance on one striker or player. Morelos is third for goals in the side, behind Roofe and Tav. There are more assists coming from the wide players like Kent and Hagi as well as the full backs too, so it’s more balanced**. Add to that the defensive solidity and it’s wonderful.


* :lol:
**Fun stat; Celtic’s full backs / wing backs have managed 7 assists all season. Rangers had 3 yesterday.

jre
Sep 2, 2011

To the cloud ?



CyberPingu posted:

Spectacular collapses in the league...


Literally havnt lost a game all season.

He's been manager for more than one season. If you don't think a manager having massive public meltdowns which effect his team every time he's under pressure is an issue then :shrug:

Total Meatlove
Jan 28, 2007

:japan:
Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

jre posted:

He's been manager for more than one season. If you don't think a manager having massive public meltdowns which effect his team every time he's under pressure is an issue then :shrug:

This throwing players under the bus thing is more of a Celtic fans thing than anything else. Like I couldn’t remember the majority of the shocking instances of it happening and all of the examples are on Celtic bloggers sites.

Total Meatlove
Jan 28, 2007

:japan:
Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;
Rangers have signed Wright from Aberdeen on a pre-contract. Interesting to see if they’ll be room on the McCrorie deal to get him in sooner or if they’ll leave him to Aberdeen so he gets more consistent game time.

No official news on the Bournemouth pair either.

CyberPingu
Sep 15, 2013


If you're not striving to improve, you'll end up going backwards.

jre posted:

He's been manager for more than one season. If you don't think a manager having massive public meltdowns which effect his team every time he's under pressure is an issue then :shrug:

In the context of this talk we were talking about this season though I thought.

Her Dryer
Oct 15, 2012
My personal, not at all bitter and entirely unprovable pet theory is that the no crowds thing has taken a lot of mental pressure off of Rangers, basing this largely on their previous yearly collapses and Tavernier admitting in a match programme that the team didn't handle pressure well. But even I have to admit that it's largely a combination of Gerrard tweaking his system (Which was obvious from the very first game against Aberdeen with Morelos dropping deep), players finding the form of their careers, and smart transfers.

Which also reminds me: Rangers have basically kept all their best players since 2015, they've not lost anyone their fans were gutted to see leave. The only one I saw any regret over was Candeais, who was a pretty one-dimensional player all things considered. This means that they've slowly but surely added quality to the squad with every window, eventually leading to today when they've got a quality first xi and good options from the bench. Gerrard has signed a lot of players, with a good few misses, but the team is still largely his players, with a lot of excellent value for money signings.

(Celtic have not done this, I still plan on doing a massive effort post at the end of the season to explain What and Why Went Wrong but we're talking about Gerrard here).

It's still way too early in his career to say if he's actually a genius manager or not, he's had two very mixed seasons before this one and who knows how much of this year was just lightning in a bottle. But he's achieved a seemingly impossible task at a young age while being a legend of the game, he'll absolutely get a job of his choosing down south when he's finished up here.

Total Meatlove
Jan 28, 2007

:japan:
Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;
Someone posted up the 5-0 game and the teams the other day as a comparison of how far Rangers have come, and what a job Gerrard did with the squad he inherited. What’s striking is the Celtic line up.




Two players from that Rangers squad survive. (McCrorie and Murphy both on loans with obligations to buy). Tavernier has clearly been improved a massive amount, and Morelos came off the bench for Dean Windass on the hour mark. We had Sean Goss as a substitute.

Celtic have 10 players from their squad of 18 left. That front line (bar Brown :lol: - maybe swap him for Turnbull) probably represents their best options at the moment?

Spent the best part of the Tierney money on a keeper who can’t jump, a striker who can’t get fit and a defender who got voted man of the match by opposition fans. Should have been light years ahead.

Total Meatlove
Jan 28, 2007

:japan:
Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;
Fun fact: Those surviving Rangers players have 2 more goals and 2 more assists than the combined efforts of the 10 remaining Celtic players this season.

Shrapnig
Jan 21, 2005

Looks like 22 poo poo players to me

Total Meatlove
Jan 28, 2007

:japan:
Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

Shrapnig posted:

Looks like 22 poo poo players to me

Tierney is currently wowing audiences down south with his ‘no coats I’m Scottish’ routine so probably 21 poo poo players.

Chas McGill
Oct 29, 2010

loves Fat Philippe
Always love it when either old firm club is in crisis but why can't they do it simultaneously?

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Total Meatlove
Jan 28, 2007

:japan:
Rangers died, shoujo Hitler cried ;_;

Chas McGill posted:

Always love it when either old firm club is in crisis but why can't they do it simultaneously?

When WADA work out we’ve got the whole squad hooked up to IV espresso you’ll get your wish.

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