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That would explain an awful lot about his performances.

Very early for him to be this brittle. Every point dropped is going to bring loads of criticism. Every time it happens, there will be people wanting him gone. The larger the gap to Celtic, the louder that's going to be. So, he does need to walk the walk in terms of all his getting the players onside platitudes he said with us. Motherwell were not braver. Martin's system allowed them to have some momentum, and his own attack created nothing of note at the pace they were instructed to play at. He can't be surprised as he sees it in training every day, and their fitness is likely to fall to Rothwell levels, rather than improve. It's clearly going to take time for him to work out transitions from the centre of midfield to attack. And then to do it at pace. And against sides, far more happy to defend. Sadly, he's never going to learn to win ugly. Rangers don't seem to have anyone to do that anyway. Hopefully for him, his tactic gets him through the next Euro round, as that's likely to be where it's better suited for now. If he's going to throw regular starters under traffic this early, he's in trouble.

Never underestimate the win at all costs mentality of Old Firm fans. As we all know, there's deep rooted cultural hatreds and rivalries mixed up in it. A vocal percentage couldn't give a stuff about the club's player turnover, lower resources or implementing football philosophies. Did they win, and are they doing better than Celtic are their priorities.

Exactly this. I watched from 40 mins on. Motherwell conceded by being even more suicidal in passing out from the back, than Rangers. The often defensively maligned Tava ier got the header from a resultant corner to get the lead. Rangers had lots of the ball, with Rothwell being central in their midfield and in taking corners. As the game went on, Motherwell did get a fairly controlled number of players forward. But Rangers never exploited the space quickly enough. Nor did they manage to break down Motherwell, when the home side were more compact. As normal for Martin sides, they didn't mind ceding some space down the flanks. That's an acceptable risk for Martin, and they were comfortable dealing with it. However, Martin never factors in that seeing your side break forward creates a bit of momentum and noise. He's not I tested in that. Motherwell's equaliser came fairly centrally, with a chest down back out to be struck past Butland. Butland didn't mind kicking long. Not that Rangers did much with that, and you can see Martin wanting to train that out, or bring Baz in on loan. After Rangers showed a couple of minutes of life after conceding, it was Motherwell's Sparrow who nearly got all 3 points for them. Butland's shot stopping kept them with a point. Before the game Martin was aware of the requirements, while pointing out the amount of changes completed, and still to be done. “There's been so much change and we're navigating a lot of change at this football club, everyone is, and the staff and the players are really doing well with that. “To manage that is not always easy, so we're trying to win while building and developing. We have so much to work on and so much to go in terms of performance and what we're looking like. “We've had five weeks that have been hectic with pre-season and then two massive games to prepare for and now we have to focus everything on this because this is what you're judged on, the success of a season." Not that this will impress a number of their fans. They dropped points in the last 2 opening league games. Neither manager lasted the season. Rangers failed to really create anything in that second half, whether they had space to move on or not. They showed sparks of playing at a higher tempo, and Martin will have to get them there for longer. Although I can imagine Rothwell spontaneously combusting at being in a game of that pace. Defensively, you could see Martin's training at work. They are already better than other sides at playing out. They moved players into space to receive short passes from the centre halfs. However Rangers had high possession before Martin. Controlling possession isn't the problem. Today, they couldn't even move it up quickly enough when they had space. Rangers clearly the more talented side. Undone by having a narrow margin and not being able to keep a clean sheet. Familiar territory. No doubt Rangers forums will be in their meltdown phase, even before Celtic kick a ball.

Procrastination

I heard we were expanding the antelope? MLG Snr has been sending messenger pigeons about it all week.

Thinking

I certainly don't have your flare for the subject.

Well, don't blame me if it blows up in your face.

Oh for Fawkes sake, trousers. Let them at least start their investigation.

I heard that some Wednesday fans were less bothered about their club going under, because at least they'd not have SOG on their forum. 🙂

Nostalgia

Disappointing, considering previous upwards trajectory that tailed off, plus the extra euros boost. Still, in Mott we trust. 🙂

SR on the side of well intentioned. Sure, let down by their ideas of running a squad based on lower paid potential into sellable assets, over having a PL able core. But better than the many clubs with brittle, fickle, asset stripping, non wage paying, tyre kicking chancers.

Story

You should show some application, to make an application for it to be removed. 🙂

Mull

A good season will be to run Celtic closer, pick up a cup and to get pennies from a Euro competition. They desperately need the European revenue, while their fans demand a contest at least for the title. Even if they don't win it this season, some improvement has to be seen.

I don't want anyone to track my browsing secret...that I visit SaintsWeb. 🙂

In fairness to Dalek, I do remember my brain cell finding it difficult to adjust from strugglers to Cortese's drive for CL football and the higher table enjoyment of Poch and Ron. Lots of nose Leeds at that unfamiliar altitude. And I'm just about old enough to remember the Lawrie Mac days.

Congratulations!

I think those results would represent any group. The difference between someone who maintains the ideals of his part of the spectrum against someone who has a goal of being in power, regardless of how many of the ideals he might have had being jettisoned. Add to that a bit of the reality of having to make uncomfortable decisions while a tally in power, and juggling a number of factions within your own party.

'Hayley Barnett, SYP assistant chief constable said: "We know how hard it must be for a victim or survivor, who has been so badly let down in the past, to put their faith into the South Yorkshire Police of today."' A rather pathetic attempt to pretend that there's some sort of separation between the wretched organisation they had with the wretched one that whistleblowers have said continues now. No surprise that victims withdraw their statements from investigation by the organisation that perpetrated the offences.

I half expected it to say he wasn't leaving, it was someone else, in a last act of deflecting responsibility. 🙂 Our quality requirements and repeated recruitment failures made him our best defender for a number of seasons. He would have been a starter going into this one too. We ended up getting a lot of appearances for such a small investment. As posted earlier, he went some way to come back after the Polish international incident and his failed time at Villa. It's not certain, but hopefully the likes of Edwards and Quarshie will minimise the impact of losing a starting player.

I heard them mention that not long after the pens. It came across as prepped well in advance and was clunky. Not because I remembered Carsley, as I didn't. But the women's team did fantastically well, and had no need for clumsily pitching them with the men's team. Just another reason to avoid the hacks and the commentators.