The Official Scottish Football Thread (Vol. 2)
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An incredible achievement for Rangers to get to this stage of a major European competition. Deserved to go through over the two legs and looking forward to see what this team can do in the next round.
Having experienced var thought this competition, I think on balance it has improved the games. It doesn't always get it right but it has picked up plenty of fouls that have been missed by the referee on his own.
Having experienced var thought this competition, I think on balance it has improved the games. It doesn't always get it right but it has picked up plenty of fouls that have been missed by the referee on his own.
biggbn said:
...not much mention of Arbroath, now guaranteed a play off place and still might win the league after their 5-1 drubbing of Queen of the South yesterday. Regardless of the eventual outcome, an incredible season for a part time team!!
They are at Kilmarnock on Friday night. As much as it's a great achievement, the club and facilities aren't ready for the promotion.
Driver101 said:
biggbn said:
...not much mention of Arbroath, now guaranteed a play off place and still might win the league after their 5-1 drubbing of Queen of the South yesterday. Regardless of the eventual outcome, an incredible season for a part time team!!
They are at Kilmarnock on Friday night. As much as it's a great achievement, the club and facilities aren't ready for the promotion.
I know what you mean, and they would likely come straight back down, but the bottom of the premiership is awash with mediocre teams so who knows biggbn said:
Driver101 said:
biggbn said:
...not much mention of Arbroath, now guaranteed a play off place and still might win the league after their 5-1 drubbing of Queen of the South yesterday. Regardless of the eventual outcome, an incredible season for a part time team!!
They are at Kilmarnock on Friday night. As much as it's a great achievement, the club and facilities aren't ready for the promotion.
I know what you mean, and they would likely come straight back down, but the bottom of the premiership is awash with mediocre teams so who knows I think the step up to the Premiership would quickly take its toll on their players. I can see them going down too easily.
It looks as if Dundee are going down. It'll be either St Johnstone or St Mirren in the playoff. On current forum it looks like St Mirren are in real trouble. Both clubs have done well in recent years. I'd rather both of them were in the Premiership.
I would like to see Kilmarnock and Livingston would get proper grass parks.
Edited by Driver101 on Sunday 17th April 11:50
abzmike said:
Fair play to Rangers - the better side today, and impressive after their Thursday labours.
Celtic prove once again you can’t play without a target man against a big defence.
Driver - please don’t dignify the ‘referee’ with an analysis of his performance.
Celtic were poor today. 2nd best to most things. Celtic prove once again you can’t play without a target man against a big defence.
Driver - please don’t dignify the ‘referee’ with an analysis of his performance.
The ref........
Rangers were up for it and Celtic were not. It was a high speed game, but the quality wasn't there.
Rangers had their tactics spot on to beat Celtic. Make the game very physical, but I thought a number of Rangers players overstepped the mark. They were too dirty and very lucky to keep 11 players on the park.
When Celtic scored it did feel like the game was over. Arfield scored and Rangers found more energy. Celtic looked very tired. There wasn't that many clear chances in the game and all the flair players were poor. The sitter by CCV will always be remembered. That should have killed the game.
Rangers had their tactics spot on to beat Celtic. Make the game very physical, but I thought a number of Rangers players overstepped the mark. They were too dirty and very lucky to keep 11 players on the park.
When Celtic scored it did feel like the game was over. Arfield scored and Rangers found more energy. Celtic looked very tired. There wasn't that many clear chances in the game and all the flair players were poor. The sitter by CCV will always be remembered. That should have killed the game.
I thought that was a fantastic performance from Rangers today, and they thoroughly deserved their victory. The tactics were spot on and the players put in an incredible effort. Many were clearly struggling after the extra time on Thursday night and they deserve huge credit for putting in that performance less than 3 days later. Bobby Madden was his usual (terrible) self, he normally likes to keep his cards in his pocket as long as possible. I thought Celtic got way with an awful lot. Once he let's McGregor off with his early challenge it set the tone and then obviously tried to get control of it again resulting in inconsistent decisions.
Overall, a great week!
Overall, a great week!
Looks like some sour grapes from the Celtic support on the forum that can’t take defeat as my last post was deleted 
Anyway rangers were absolutely phenomenal yesterday, physically and tactically demolished Celtic. Gio was absolutely spot on with his subs and the timing of them.
The players deserve a lot of credit for there superhuman effort and lundstram motm was deserved he was an absolute giant on the park for us and set the standard for the rest of the team. His 50/50 with McGregor where he sent him into orbit is something the rangers team sorely missed.
The refereeing was poor with madden missing kyogo interfering with play for Celtics goal and meada being about 4 yards offside for Celtics best chance of the match but definitely didn’t influence the outcome that the likes Sutton and hartson are trying to spin.
Beautiful Sunday indeed
Anyway rangers were absolutely phenomenal yesterday, physically and tactically demolished Celtic. Gio was absolutely spot on with his subs and the timing of them.
The players deserve a lot of credit for there superhuman effort and lundstram motm was deserved he was an absolute giant on the park for us and set the standard for the rest of the team. His 50/50 with McGregor where he sent him into orbit is something the rangers team sorely missed.
The refereeing was poor with madden missing kyogo interfering with play for Celtics goal and meada being about 4 yards offside for Celtics best chance of the match but definitely didn’t influence the outcome that the likes Sutton and hartson are trying to spin.
Beautiful Sunday indeed
dalzo said:
Looks like some sour grapes from the Celtic support on the forum that can’t take defeat as my last post was deleted
Anyway rangers were absolutely phenomenal yesterday, physically and tactically demolished Celtic. Gio was absolutely spot on with his subs and the timing of them.
The players deserve a lot of credit for there superhuman effort and lundstram motm was deserved he was an absolute giant on the park for us and set the standard for the rest of the team. His 50/50 with McGregor where he sent him into orbit is something the rangers team sorely missed.
The refereeing was poor with madden missing kyogo interfering with play for Celtics goal and meada being about 4 yards offside for Celtics best chance of the match but definitely didn’t influence the outcome that the likes Sutton and hartson are trying to spin.
Beautiful Sunday indeed
I didn’t see many sour grapes, I though I at least was rather gracious - Rangers deserved to win. But please don’t moan about the referee - if we go down that road, then we’ll quickly establish that the first Rangers goal shouldn’t have happened. As for the winner, would have been interesting in a world of VAR. There I did it… doh!Anyway rangers were absolutely phenomenal yesterday, physically and tactically demolished Celtic. Gio was absolutely spot on with his subs and the timing of them.
The players deserve a lot of credit for there superhuman effort and lundstram motm was deserved he was an absolute giant on the park for us and set the standard for the rest of the team. His 50/50 with McGregor where he sent him into orbit is something the rangers team sorely missed.
The refereeing was poor with madden missing kyogo interfering with play for Celtics goal and meada being about 4 yards offside for Celtics best chance of the match but definitely didn’t influence the outcome that the likes Sutton and hartson are trying to spin.
Beautiful Sunday indeed
abzmike said:
I didn’t see many sour grapes, I though I at least was rather gracious - Rangers deserved to win. But please don’t moan about the referee - if we go down that road, then we’ll quickly establish that the first Rangers goal shouldn’t have happened. As for the winner, would have been interesting in a world of VAR. There I did it… doh!
Sour grapes as in the person(s) who reported my post as offensive when it was absolutely nothing.The ref talk really is nit picking tbh like I said it didn’t effect the end result. Out of curiosity though why would rangers first goal be chopped? A quick look back at the highlights and I can’t see anything contentious.
- can we assume VAR will be supported by all ?dalzo said:
Sour grapes as in the person(s) who reported my post as offensive when it was absolutely nothing.
The ref talk really is nit picking tbh like I said it didn’t effect the end result. Out of curiosity though why would rangers first goal be chopped? A quick look back at the highlights and I can’t see anything contentious.
Juranovik got taken out - Lundstrom I think - before the ball was moved up field. It was mentioned in the post goal replays, pretty clear to most eyes. Hey ho.The ref talk really is nit picking tbh like I said it didn’t effect the end result. Out of curiosity though why would rangers first goal be chopped? A quick look back at the highlights and I can’t see anything contentious.
dalzo said:
abzmike said:
I didn’t see many sour grapes, I though I at least was rather gracious - Rangers deserved to win. But please don’t moan about the referee - if we go down that road, then we’ll quickly establish that the first Rangers goal shouldn’t have happened. As for the winner, would have been interesting in a world of VAR. There I did it… doh!
Sour grapes as in the person(s) who reported my post as offensive when it was absolutely nothing.The ref talk really is nit picking tbh like I said it didn’t effect the end result. Out of curiosity though why would rangers first goal be chopped? A quick look back at the highlights and I can’t see anything contentious.
dalzo said:
Sour grapes as in the person(s) who reported my post as offensive when it was absolutely nothing.
Mods do read and contribute to threads as well, you know. It doesn't always require someone hitting the 'report' button.That said,we're all supposedly old enough and thick-skinned enough to not need to clipe on each other, so I take your point.
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