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Man up you bunch of fannies This is the game it's going to click. We're going win 5-0 and Damion Downs is going to score all of them

A fine custodian

‘Not a massive disaster’? When Sport Republic bought us we were 12th in the Premier League. Now we’re 17th in the Championship. How is that not a disaster for what was an established top flight club? Looking at success purely through the lens of how much money we do/ don’t make is exactly what’s got us into this mess. It’s bad enough that SR do it, we don’t need the fans doing it as well. But even if you do look at it like that, they haven’t made any money either, and they’ve made the club less valuable than when they bought it. So by any key metric, their ownership strategy is a failure.

Been dead four years unfortunately Probably still more effective than Downs however

That's the problem though - we won't be able to just fix it in January. What goalscorers capable of scoring the number of goals a promotion-chasing team needs from its centre forward do you think are going to be available in January? Goalscorers are hard enough to find at the best of times - no-one's selling anyone who's any good half way through the season. In January you end up either massively overpaying because teams know you're desperate, or taking yet another punt on someone who's out of favour, a massive injury risk or who no-one else wants, or all of the above. You're feeding off scraps. And it's not like we've not been burned by this before. It's how we ended up paying £20m for Carrillo and £18m for Onuachu. Other, properly-run clubs saw we were desperate and sold us their absolute shite at hugely inflated prices. They were rubbish, did fuck all and six months later we couldn't give them away. Whoever scouted Damion Downs and whoever looked at that scouting and off the back of it made the decision that he should be our centre forward signing should be sacked immediately, because the staggering ineptitude of those decisions has basically cost us our best chance of promotion this season. Now, unless Cameron Archer steps up and suddenly becomes a 20 goal a season striker, we are fucked.

Needed to identify that fixing the spine was the top priority and that the goalkeeper, CB, centre mid and CF positions needed sorting before worrying about anything else. Failed to fix any of them with the exception of Jander who looks like a decent player. Completely fucked up the strategy for the gk and cf positions, and Quarshie has got potential and may well go on to be good but is far from the finished article and hasn’t been a regular starter. Result - relying on a keeper who was already here and was 3rd choice 2 years ago, and has built a team that is leaking goals at the back and utterly ill-equipped and toothless up front. This after £60m+ spent. Then the jury is very much out on the manager but it’s not exactly been a great start. So I think it’s fair to say Spors’ performance has been pretty underwhelming so far. In fact no, it’s been shit hasn’t it. He’s fucked it up.

‘Ross Stewart likely to be out for months rather than weeks’ Wow Literally no-one could have seen this coming I can see why no-one would bother contingency planning for this massive shock and would instead simply cross their fingers and hope for the best with £100m+ potentially riding on it Fucking jokers

Interesting and well-written analysis of exactly where and why it all went wrong for him up there. Not just an attack piece, but rationally identifying many of the specific reasons why it went so bad so quickly, especially with his relationship with the fans, and a lot of common themes that we will recognise: https://www.followfollow.com/russell-martin-disaster-class/

It’s the opportunity cost though. His individual cost wasn’t that much* but gambling on him meant we didn’t buy someone else who could actually score goals for us as a CF. Now Stewart’s injured again, that decision means we don’t have anyone with the profile of a strong, oven-ready centre forward who can score the goals we need to challenge for the top of the table. If that decision means we miss out on promotion, as it could well do, then the cost of that utterly failed gamble is potentially £100m+. (*Although other teams in this division have also spent much less on centre forwards who are having much more impact)

He laid one off with his nut sack in one of the early games as well. Maybe that's his thing. Someone tell WhoScored.com, they can put it down as a strength, give the boy some confidence in case he googles himself.

It's Gilly I feel for

Danny Rohl and Steven Gerrard front runners to replace him

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11788/13445681/russell-martin-rangers-set-to-sack-head-coach-after-falkirk-draw

In other news, you’ve got a stalker

Their Union Bears fans' group blocking the team bus to prevent it from leaving the Falkirk stadium

Making more friends with his post-match press conference, coming out with more of the shite he did here about how the result isn't the most important thing. Saying it's not enough for Rangers "just to win" because that's "not sustainable". Like he's made the choice to only win 5 out of 17 fixtures so far because it wouldn't have been befitting to win any of the others if it couldn't be done prettily. How do the people who keep giving him jobs keep swallowing this absolute bullshit?

Just conceded an equaliser for 1-1 vs. Falkirk and have been comprehensively outplayed all match.

Or an alternative way of looking at it is that with 37 matches and 111 points still to play for we're 4 points off the play-off places and 7 off the automatics. We've been massively disappointing so far and clearly a huge improvement is needed, but at this stage of the season and with the resources we've got available, to start writing us off completely is a bit premature. Whether Still is the man to find the right formula or not remains to be seen, and the striker situation which everyone could see coming is concerning, but I just don't believe that there isn't a team and system to be found in that squad that's capable of coming at least sixth in this division. It does need finding though, and fast.

Gotcha. My stream was so bad I just had a load of random yellow splodges most of the time, so I appreciate the detail, thanks.

Thanks. Wasn't Scienza playing in the middle though? If the left hand side was the problem, surely that should have been on Fraser (who stayed on the pitch for another 20 odd minutes after Scienza went off) to track back more, as that was his side. How is it Scienza's problem if he's playing at 10?

Obviously everyone was howling when he was subbed off as he was having a really good game, but for those who were there, was there actually an obvious reason for it that may not have been clear from watching on a crappy stream? It didn't appear to make any sense, and it was compounded by the fact that muffin the mule was the one to come on in his place which wound people up even more, but in the cold light of day was there any logic to it?

Here you go sugar tits https://sports-com.com/game/Derby-vs-Southampton.php

Is that Scienza replacing Azaz at 10 in a 4-2-3-1 with Edwards at RB? Also: Stephens not even in the squad? Is he injured or is he now 4th choice?