Not too bad

Did we not play Kaunas a season or two ago?

Edit: I would rather play Santa Claus though. We could look forward to a few gifts from the defense!

Thankyouverymuch!

Should be no more that a formality. Comfortable progress then hopefully get a easy draw in the 3rd round.

Who will start favourites?

Santa Coloma will be easy pushovers for Kaunas and I can't see Rangers slipping up against them. Rangers have being lucky in the draw as they could have ended up with Dinamo Zagreb or a trip to Kazakhstan.

Are you saying a trip to Kazakhstan is a tough draw - think you need a lie down!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/europe/7479438.stm

Link to the BBC report.


There's the Captain of Rangers, at Manchester, the end of a European final....clutching a 1690 red hand of Ulster scarf.


Superb. Hope Kaunas or whoever hump their arse out of Europe pronto.


An embarassment to the country.... as always.

We had Kaunas the year Allan Johnston & co signed. We were meant to be playing Kaunas this stage last year aswell but Zeta bumped them out.

Poor Linfield

It would be a bloodbath if the huns had met Zagreb. Playing a Kazakh team doesn’t look an arduous task but I am not so sure the huns would have been jumping for joy if they had to go there to play. I certainly wouldn’t have bet on them to win the away tie.

Yeah, 'cause I'm sure he stopped to look at the textual content of the scarf before he picked it out of the dozens that were proferred his way.

Truthfully Kazakhstan is a hard draw as is any side from the old soviet states bar the baltic ones at this stage of the season as it is a long trip 7-8 hours flying and the teams are halfway through their season unlike Rangers who will be playing their first competitive draw. Aktobe, Pyunik and Inter Baku would have all being very hard draws for Rangers. Don't forget what happened to Celtic a couple of years back against Artmedia Brateslava

He wouldn't have to stop and look at the scarves thrown towards him if he was captain of just about any other football team on the planet. We threw scarves at our team when they won promotion to the SPL. They were black and white with 'St. Mirren' or 'Pride of Renfrewshire' on them.

Cannae' remember anything on them about old battles in another country, some bloke on a big white horse...or, come to that, the head of the Roman Catholic church.

Mon' the Kaunas. Or the other mob. Or anyone.

No, QOS and probably Hibs too will be that, as did Gretna and the other diddies in previous seasons

If we are supposed to have their good players it will be a stroll in the park for you.

How so?

I spent lots of time at the EURO's with some guys from Zagreb and they're great fitba people

Rangers went to Red Star Belgrade last season and no hassle so sorry to disappoint your or dent your clearly ignorant preconceptions

Who knows, we may even pay homage to some dead person we've never heard of, just to spite your lot

Unfortunately a number of them that are proud to be part of BBB hold a keen interest in Celtic based on outdated and ignorant notions. Having spent an afternoon with them hanging around us in Budapest when we were there to play MTK, I have no doubts that were they to face the huns they wouldn’t hold back just as they didn’t hold back with the MTK supporters.

It was the worst European away day I have ever had, made all the worse due to actions of a section of Celtic supporters.

I can’t ever recall making any mention of the huns in Belgrade, nor would I have had any reason to do so.

Whatever but sadly when I hear about all these allegiances your lot think you have all over the place it makes me feel sick

I hope the Rangers thug fans behave themselves in Lithuania.

They are the worst possible ambassadors for Scotland.

Hope they get humped

Mmm, that's pretty much fixed it.

** dusts hands, puts away screwdriver **

Not only here, but also happy, to help

How fuckin` clever you are! Not only a clown but also a p***k who tampers with other people's posts!

*whispers* Psst. Mr The Hun. Your 'nice' mask is slipping.

Behave youself...

`Honesty` wins over `nice` every time and tactfulness was never a strongpoint of mine anyway!

Don't think that Rangers fans have the right to call anyone embarrassing tbh.

Confirmed tonight, Kaunas safely through.

rangers will certainly beat them

I hope the Lithuanian authorities lay on enough big screens for the People so they aren't tempted to start another Northern Crusade.

Come on, Kaunas. Do these c***s.

Don't want to start a new thread, since there's a few, and this one seems to make the most sense as a match thread.

First off, when radio commentary tries to make a team sound so so so good, you know that they probably aren't very good at all.

McGregor, Dailly, Broadfoot, Weir, Papac, Whittaker, McCulloch, Thomson, Adam, Darcheville, Miller

Is this the worst first choice Rangers starting 11 ever?

no

Ok, probably not, but there isn't a star player in there. It's a team of players that makes you go "meh". It's certainly the most mediocre team for some time and if that starts against us in the SPL I won't be unduly worried.

EDITED TO ADD: 20,000 attendance? what a bunch of gloryhunters. Although probably all saving up for their Falkirk Herald voucher.

I wonder what Bloobell makes of this considering how obsessed he is with poor attendances.

Fuxake, you're hell of a grumpy. Not had your Nat King for a while?

Ledesma will sink them in the 2nd leg...hopefully.

LOL

How ironic would be if they got sunk out of europe by the hearts rejects

Well done lads! Another season of Euro shootouts beckon

Looked rusty as hell tonight, but it doesn't mask the fact that we've got no midfield. The only ones to get pass marks tonight were Miller and Papac.

Adam gets special mention for being particularly woeful

Great stuff!

One can only hope Fb Kaunas finish the job over in Lithuania.

Rangers will do well to make the top 6 this season, they are truly awful.

That was one of the most pathetic performances I have seen in a while. We were basically playing the Lithuanians who aren't good enough to play for Hearts and couldn't even score. Make no mistake about it, this is a team which Rangers should be comfortably disposing of with minimum of effort and fuss.

Going forward we were pedestrian and lacked any sort of flair or cutting edge. Lee McCulloch should never have been signed in the first place, but surely now Smith must be able to see what a waste of space he is. Dailly has never been a footballer and never will be. A poor centre half asked to play in midfield. Shocking at best. Hemdani and Furman must be fuming at this diddies inclusion ahead of them. Adam was p*sh as usual, a few long range goals a season doesn't make up for his ineptitude.

Smith just kept on changing the strikers, but if there is no supply line and no chances being created, it doesn't matter who is up front. The sooner Smith and Murray leave the better. The club is in a terrible state and the manager's tactics and player signing policy are just a joke.

look on the brightside, the glasgow cup might be winnable

0-0, Snigger, snigger...........

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That would be a bit of a knee jerk reaction don't you think? He took you to a European final and to the verge of a title with, lets be honest, an average squad. It just highligths the fact that without Ferguson Rangers don't have anything. The guy carries Rangers through matches.

It is amusing to watch though.

Woeful

Nothing else to say on it!

In their last 7 home European games, the huns have only scored in one of them.

That must be hard to take.