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Ah, my comment passed straight over your head then.

How are Birmingham managing to sign players before the last few days of the transfer window? Asking for a friend.

It's a pity Downs wasn't still on when we switched things around and had a go. Think he'll be great in a front footed approach from the team as he makes clever runs and has some pace and strength. His impact yesterday was limited by the way we played when he was on the pitch.

Well he's clearly already got prickly with his own players.

He'll attract interest from better clubs than us - shame because he'd be perfect.

Don't agree - this is not a free hit game and if Still gets it wrong and we lose the fans will not be forgiving. Most fans want us to win every game and rightly so.

Not sure Downes will be fit and, even if he is, he'll be on the bench having had little preseason action.

Their fitness is what it is, preseason is over up there. This is as fit as they'll be and they look well short of the required levels. Motherwell were still full of running at the end of the game but many of the Ranger's lot were blowing out their asses. We had it last season and he clearly hasn't learned. He's asking for more running but I think they'll struggle to give it to him and a lot of that is on him. He's already dumped the players under the bus at the first sign of his plans going tits up. Needs to take a long look in the mirror though he probably already does plenty of that. If he continues to stubbornly fly his flag of one way of playing then the Rangers fans will be venting their feelings and I hear they booed their players today at the end. Every team they face will be ready to press them high and the pressure will just grow.

It's quite hard to tell.

Groundhog day watching that game. Rangers fans are already raging and saying all the things most of us said including lack of fitness. They've played 3 games and, if their opponents could finish, would have lost them all comfortably. Feel a bit sorry for the fans up there because they've got this for the whole season although many are saying he'll be gone by Xmas. RM continues with his self belief in his way of playing and, as we found, he will never change.

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Lots of realism too.

Oh, thought it was 🙂

Well it's normal to start your preferred X1 in the final friendly but maybe Will does it differently.

Creditable draw and hopefully Will has learned that he can't rely on those who have been crap for a long time. Lots for him to ponder before deciding his line up next week and hopefully quite a few have played themselves out of the team and vice versa. Let's see if he learned much today.

Seems Will spent weeks seeing which players would do a job for him and then picked all those who wouldn't - now he's subbed on the ones he perhaps should have started with and we are a different side.

Wash your mouth out - nobody could have had us fitter than Russ boy 🙂

Hopefully they've helped the manager.

Simple game isn't it - makes you wonder why we don't do what we are good at. Sometimes a lot is decided by how much intensity you put in from the start which is one of our long term failings - don't wait until you're 2-0 down, go for it from the first whistle.

This is my issue - he's done really well preseason, scored today yet, in all probability, someone who has done less well will almost certainly take the place he should have in next week's starting X1. Reward success not failure!

Clearly the reset has hardly got going yet. Disappointing because I was hoping a left field appointment like Will Still would already have got us looking like a totally different side but today is worrying.

That's us every year yet other clubs seem to plan, prepare and do everything better than we do.

I thought that was meant to be one of his strengths 🙂

He's quite large so should be obvious 🙂

Seems like once Fernades and Dibling are sold Will Still will be almost starting from scratch in trying to build something.