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There were so many folk filing in up to half an hour into the game. QR codes seemed to stump people. Also, those who booed the players taking the knee are absolute, 100% unfiltered losers. Total cretinous behaviour.

Used the money I saved from now hitting 4 months sober to buy myself a present today The guitar, not the scabby couch/cushions

the rangers thread on here is full of folk thinking they are in some kind of "war". They are very weird. I'd almost have to admire the way they stand together and give it the "rangers family" pish, then I remember they stood by and did f**k all as their ever so precious club died. This podcast guy is a right weirdo, has a room like a 14 year olds. Has replica wrestling belts. Probably is his maws hoose and his maw is defo the only woman that's been in that room. There is a also a debate about whether or not "***" is sectarian going on. I've yet to see a definition of the word that would suggest it is.

You might be in the wrong thread. This is the thread where folk hear about the tragic premature death of a perfectly blameless famous person and silently fistpump 'yes' to themselves, before concocting terrible puns and counting up their point scores. The threads where that sort of thing is frowned upon are all the other threads on this website.

The guy in front of me initially tried to scan his barcode by holding his phone vertically against the scanner, which was fair enough. I told him he had to put it in the slot - so he then tried to put his phone through the slot below the scanner where in the past you’d have handed your paper ticket to a person. He then realised he needed the slot on the scanner, so put his phone in the right position, but had fucked about so long that his screen was locked so nothing happened. As he got increasingly angry he finally realised, managed to scan the barcode then basically fell face first through the turnstile.

The people using them were cataclysmically drunk/stupid/both

5 at the back at home to Moldova. Going 5-4-1 against Moldova to protect a 1-0 lead at home. Not realising 2 up top hasnt worked in the 5 or 6 games hes tried it. A main striker with a Fraser or Christie around them with McGinn coming from deep worked. No idea why hes changed it. The midfield set up which has resulted in McGinn being anonymous for the past 5 or 6 games. Ryan Christie playing the past 180 minutes and offering less than f**k all while Turnbull gets a few minutes at right mid. His substitutions in general make us worse 99% of the time since he took charge. Tonight was no different. The complete non entity that is our right hand side. His lack of Plan B. 5 at the back at home to fucking Moldova. Telling the media afterwards we played on the front foot. Did we bollocks. The only good things tonight were the win (which should be a given), Billy Gilmour looking several steps ahead of his teammates, Hanley continuing to look decent and Pattersnm showing some good promise. Pish in every other aspecr.

Rant time. Ivr been to most home games since the late 90s and that was one of the most infuriating games Ive been at since the Levein days, and it was all down to the manager. f**k sake, 5 at the back against fucking Moldova? Going to a 5-4-1 for the last 10 mins with Turnbull at right mid to protect a 1 goal lead at gome to fucking Moldova?!! Our entire system is set up not to lose. It doesnt work in games we need to go win or in any sort of attacking sense. The right hand side of our team is such a non entity because we are asking a full back to be both full back and winger without the support Tierney offers on the left. Going into the Euros he shook up the midfield with one deeper and two more advanced either side. It doesnt work and it has made McGinn go MIA for 90% of the games since the change. We had success with McGinn attacking from deep with Chrstie or Fraser buzzing about Dykes. Now we have two static attackers upfront that offer very little. Thats all down to how Clarke is setting the team up. The most worrying thing for me is that Clarke and the coaches had a good month with the players during the Euros and England game aside weve been pish. The last two games weve went years backwards in my opinion. This is a talented group of players and Clarke just isnt getting anything from them right now. And his stubberness and lack of plan B or different tactics for more winnable games is going to cost us. Yes, we won, but that was a shite performance and they could easily have sucker punched us for a draw. As much as I really, really like the guy and want him to do well. Hes a loss in Austria away from me being firmly in the Clarke out camp. Thank f**k Im sober because Id be having a full meltdown tonight if I was pished.

Would've been 75 today. What a guy.

He had a quiet, uneventful night in goals, stopping the few Moldovan shots with relative ease.

It’s already been said on but maybe not bringing out orange kits and hiring a bigot as your head of PR would be a small step

Matchday 44 - 2064

Last month or so has been enlivened by the arrival of an insane wee cat next door who regularly appears on their roof from the loft conversion skylight. It's taken recently to extending its territory into ours, and even appearing at windows trying to bam up our cats, who don't seem to realise they're cats and thus far aren't rising to the bait.

Probably because everyone moans about losing/damaging tickets, so "why not just send it to my phone, get physical tickets to f**k". Much like how everyone moaned about having to carry cash to get in, so "why not let me pay in advance and just use a ticket, get carrying to cash to f**k". All in, your response probably suggest your now a "da".

No evidence apart from the actual games which I guess you're still not bothering to watch. Not much between us and Airdrie? A team we beat with 10 men whose other league results have been a 3 nil defeat to Montrose, a hard fought 3 points against Peterhead and a draw with Dumbarton. I mean honestly.. I'm not saying we're not going to drop points but on the evidence of the games so far we're the best team in the league. Yes, we need a striker (thats obvious) and we need to steer clear of injuries to our best players but at this moment in time we're not watching M&M or McKinnon standards of sh*te. My opinion may change if we descend into that but can only go on the league games I've seen so far and I've seen nothing to suggest QP or Cove are "miles" better than us as one poster keeps belting out.

Maybe the figures are compiled in such a sophisticated way that the fact it's Dykes gets factored in.

So gloom and doom for us dominating v QP but Airdrie playing well but not creating v us is ok? How does that work? Was positives again yesterday and the majority seem to be able to see this as the home crowd at games has increased so far since 1st home game this season but come on here and you'd think we were terrible to watch and going further backwards. I can see negatives another striker would be fantastic but the almost constant we're bad, we're terrible, everyone else is better, this player's terrible, that player's terrible our manager's clueless etc on here is just depressing.

Lyndon grew up playing Rugby league and has only been playing/following football for around 8 years. He came to Livi with a not great scoring record and having played more as a winger/attacking midfielder at QoS, but Gary Maley (our 3rd choice keeper/coach/mascot) did some 1 on 1 coaching around finishing etc and it brought him on leaps and bounds. He's also spoke very highly of the advice Stephen Dobbie gave him around finishing. Pretty sure if someone like McCoist was to work with Lyndon he would improve greatly

Now they’re arguing over who’s relegation was the biggest minter.

Scottish reformation = catholic bad Williamite reformation = catholic king bad Act of union = no catholic king for both countries Could be a pattern here… just can’t quite put my finger on it

Already counting down the minutes until the Rangers fans' heids explode when Patterson (who gave the ball away about 324 times tonight) gets dropped for O'Donnell on Tuesday night.

Utterly ignorant and imbecilic tosh. I've watched Scotland since before you were born and am always on these threads wanting us to do well. No need for these brain-dead tropes.

It always impresses me how RFC fans can always turn things around to make it look like they’re the real victims in all of this. When you hire a bigot as PR chief, bring out orange kits, welcome misogynist racists as your official partners It can’t really be surprised it emboldened that element of the fan base. That’s why they’re upset, they can’t handle the fact anti Irish/ catholic bigotry is slowly starting to become unacceptable in Scottish society Everything that has happened in the last few weeks isn’t the fault of the Daily Record, SFA, Neil Doncaster, Celtic, Etc… It’s squarely the fault of the bigots and the bigot enablers

A few of us on here will have hard feelings if you were swept away. Your highlights packages over the years have been top notch. I'd be happier if you were brought into the club as I'm sure you'd deliver a quality product.

The vet has given her the all clear. Just a stomach bug apparently. She's pretty much back to her normal self now.

I'm old enough to remember when all Rangers had to worry about is whether they printed cinch on their shirts or not.

Because he’s much better defensively than Patterson? I watched Patterson give the ball away numerous times last night, and the few chances Moldova did have came down his side. I don’t want to be too critical as he’s a young lad who’s just come into the team and he looks like he has the potential to be really good, but he’s not ready yet to be the first choice right back.

The latter of course being the result of nonsense political decisions in the name of 'pUbLiC hEaLtH'. There should he precisely zero 'measures' at this stage in schools (or the rest of society for that matter) as kids are at no greater risk than any other respiratory infection, most have already had it anyway (or soon will), and teachers will be vaccinated if they're so concerned. Get in the bin.

Yay!

Glasgow City 6-0 Motherwell. Could easily have been ten if City hadn't been so wasteful in the second half.

Using Goodwillie as an example of some sort of coup Clyde managed and we missed out on is embarrassing.

Not sure if this has already been shared… https://www.raithrovers.net/49951/club-statement-dylan-tait.htm

They were both English. Southern Ireland spent years capping anybody they could. Good to see them reap what they sow.

No, I'm implying it. You're doing the inferring.

I might be mis-remembering or getting old but It did seem like an even-more-pished-than-normal crowd last night. Lots of empty half bottles around us. Late kickoff on a Saturday, plus the first unrestricted access home game in two years.

But for you, it's a pleasure to be anywhere. If you were in Kabul, you'd thank your lucky stars.

Do you do this in every aspect of life? You lose your job, but you heard about someone else who that happened to, so it's all good. Your wife has three affairs in a year, but you thought she might have five, so it's fine.

Potato 13 (1958-1965) After several short-lived potatoes after the war, we now had our second long-lasting one in succession. Third Lanark would become the 13th different club to hold a dead potato in their trophy room. This potato would go on a seven year odyssey, changing hands 81 times and visiting 23 different clubs along the way. The opening day of the 1958/59 season saw Dunfermline Athletic lose 6-2 to Hearts at Tynecastle to become the first owners of Potato 13. The Pars would suffer another two four-goal defeats before being able to pass it on to Falkirk, before it quickly moved on to Hibs, Clyde and Dundee. It then had a lengthy but enthralling seven game spell with Stirling Albion, including a 7-3 defeat, a 5-2 defeat and two 3-2 defeats. They kept it for Christmas but sent it to Raith Rovers for the New Year, who kept it for five games before a series of short visits to other clubs. Near the end of the season it made its way to mid-table Partick Thistle, but the potato was at risk on the final day as Thistle faced a Dunfermline side who were in the relegation places on goal average. Fortunately for the potato, but unfortunately for the integrity of Scottish football, Dunfermline recorded an "unlikely" 10-1 victory to keep themselves in the top flight and also keep the potato in the league. 1959/60 saw newly promoted Arbroath take the potato from the Pars on the opening day, but they immediately beat Stirling Albion and didn't see it again despite being relegated at the end of the campaign with just 15 points. It would change hands a few times in the autumn before landing with Third Lanark for six matches over Christmas and New Year, and then Ayr United for a further six matches into spring. It wrapped up the season with brief spells at various clubs, but was never at serious risk of going down as it finished the seaon with mid-table Raith Rovers. This potato would become incredibly familiar with Kirkcaldy - spending nine different spells with Rovers for a total of 42 matches. It left Kirkcaldy for Dundee on the opening day of 1960/61, but was soon back for a five game spell in the autumn. Clyde then took it to Glasgow for six matches, before it circulated around several clubs over the winter, eventually surfacing in Dunfermline for four games. It had brief spells with Partick Thistle and Airdrie before making its way back to Raith on the final day of the season, again without any serious risk of going down. Raith kept the potato for the first five matches of 1961/62, but then they thumped St Mirren 4-0 to set off a spell where it changed hands 12 times in 21 matches before returning, inevitably, to Raith in February. After three games with Raith it moved briefly to Third Lanark and Hearts before finishing the season safely in the hands of mid-table Motherwell. Motherwell kept a hold of it for the first couple of games of 1962/63, then there was a brief spell at Airdrie before it returned to, you've guessed it, Raith Rovers. This time around, Rovers were something of a lost cause - they held the potato from September through to January, a run of 15 matches, before finally passing it on to St Mirren with one of just two victories they managed all season. The potato wandered around Scotland for the remainder of the season, before showing up with Queen of the South with four games to go. After they lost to Clyde, the potato looked in danger since their next match was against Raith Rovers, but the Kirkcaldy side battled to a draw and the potato went on to finish the season in Dumfries, with Queens finishing 3 points clear of relegation. The Doonhamers held on to the potato for a few weeks at the start of 1963/64, taking their run to eight matches in total, before they were able to offload it to Airdrie. The Diamonds lost 7-1 and 9-1 in their next two matches, but then beat Third Lanark 1-0 to get rid of it. It would have a series of short spells with clubs through the autumn before making its way to Falkirk in January, where it would hang around for seven matches. The Bairns eventually sent it on to Dundee United, before it kicked around various clubs for a few weeks, most of them in the top half. Interestingly, the potato would finish the season with champions Rangers, who lost 1-0 to St Johnstone on the final day. Rangers would end up holding the potato for five matches at the start of 1964/65, a sign of things to come as they would go on to finish a distant 5th. They finally got their first win by beating Airdrie 9-2. The Diamonds then had the potato for six matches before offloading it to Third Lanark who then quickly gave it to St Mirren, before it was soon back in Glasgow with Partick Thistle. The Jags held the potato for six games through Christmas and New Year before finally handing it over to Aberdeen, but the Dons immediately returned it to Glasgow by beating Third Lanark. Thirds were rock bottom, but still had 13 matches remaining to keep the potato alive - unfortunately they would go on to lose all 13 of them and thus end the life of Potato 13. Potato 13 really would prove to be unlucky for Third Lanark, because they were out of business within two years. Potato 13's journey: Total number of matches with Potato 13: Full set of results for Potato 13: Final resting places of all potatoes: Total number of matches with all potatoes: Total number of spells in possession of all potatoes:

Dundee St James 3-2 Forfar United 5 goals 2 red cards 1 overhead kick winner from outside the box 6000 fouls Usual write up is here if anyone fancies a read! https://groundhopscot.wordpress.com/2021/09/04/club-13-279-dundee-st-james/

It's been that bad, that you accusing the mixed race poster of digital blackface barely registered.

You don't just turn up to a home game against a diddy team like that and forget the midfield. Lumping it up to a big unit and playing kick and rush. For f**k sake man, we have guys that can actually play football, it's absolutely painful to watch. I defended Clarke a lot after Serbia but it feels like he's got every single possible decision wrong ever since

Rangers fans discover that if they all band together as a group they can cause a serious change thorugh sheer weight of numbers. Do they use this power to... A. Force all those who tarnish their club with racist songs/comments to change their ways and help everyone move forwards? B. Force everyone whos criticising the racist element in their support to back down and never question it again? Answers on a fucking postage stamp pls. Lets never again pretend the "vast majority" of Rangers fans want this element out their club, the last few days have shown differently.

Because Leigh likes things to look older than they really are?