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The Games
Last weekend saw the pleasure and pain theory roll into action once more. Delight and agony on not just one, but both days; welcome to the life of the 2009 Rangers supporter.
Everything started well with Walter fielding an attacking side that saw both Boyd and Lafferty starting up front and Beasley re-introduced on the left wing. The only setbacks came at the back with the omission of Weir through suspension and Bougherra and Broadfoot through injury.
Last weekend saw the pleasure and pain theory roll into action once more. Delight and agony on not just one, but both days; welcome to the life of the 2009 Rangers supporter.
Everything started well with Walter fielding an attacking side that saw both Boyd and Lafferty starting up front and Beasley re-introduced on the left wing. The only setbacks came at the back with the omission of Weir through suspension and Bougherra and Broadfoot through injury.
This meant that the cringeworthy central partnership in the middle of our defence was McCulloch and Dailly!!
Even with those doubts however, Rangers steamrollered the first half with some excellent football and when first Lafferty and then Ferguson saw us 2-0 up at half time, the game looked done and dusted.
Even with those doubts however, Rangers steamrollered the first half with some excellent football and when first Lafferty and then Ferguson saw us 2-0 up at half time, the game looked done and dusted.
Now enter the typical Rangers “we can never win easy” mentality, when in a dramatically drastic five-minute period, we released our grip of the game and let Hearts at our weak back line and they responded with a couple of goals of their own.
Walter said: "Obviously we are really disappointed at the situation, one that I don't think anyone that watched the first hour of the match would have thought was a possibility. It feels like a defeat and in a few minutes we managed to undo probably one of our better home performances this season.
Walter said: "Obviously we are really disappointed at the situation, one that I don't think anyone that watched the first hour of the match would have thought was a possibility. It feels like a defeat and in a few minutes we managed to undo probably one of our better home performances this season.
We showed a little bit of softness in letting Hearts get back in to the game. Their first real effort on goal was in the 61st minute of the game, which says it all. It is really disappointing that when you are chasing the title, you let a winning position slip in the way we did, but we will have to wait and see what impact this has on the championship."
This meant we had to then chase the game and that’s something we’re just not comfortable doing. We ran out of ideas fairly quickly and never looked like snatching our victory back again. Very disappointing, when we could have went top and piled some pressure on Celtic.
It wasn’t, however, the worst of weekends, as Celtic too showed their lack of real quality and succumbed to a Dundee United side that could have taken all three points but will settle for the draw all the same.
Final summary? We’re back where we started before the weekend had kicked off. Not great but not as bad as it could have been.
You can read a match report of the draw with Hearts from the following link: http://home.rangersmedia.co.uk/index.php/a...prove-heartless
This meant we had to then chase the game and that’s something we’re just not comfortable doing. We ran out of ideas fairly quickly and never looked like snatching our victory back again. Very disappointing, when we could have went top and piled some pressure on Celtic.
It wasn’t, however, the worst of weekends, as Celtic too showed their lack of real quality and succumbed to a Dundee United side that could have taken all three points but will settle for the draw all the same.
Final summary? We’re back where we started before the weekend had kicked off. Not great but not as bad as it could have been.
You can read a match report of the draw with Hearts from the following link: http://home.rangersmedia.co.uk/index.php/a...prove-heartless
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The Under 19’s got back to winning ways however as they beat Hearts 2-1 at Murray Park. The game was only a friendly but the winning mentality is a good one to learn.
You can read a report of the match from the following link: http://home.rangersmedia.co.uk/index.php/a...9-21-hearts-u19
Another friendly was played yesterday against continental opposition in Viking Stavanger from Norway. The wee blues had the game wrapped up by half time and the score was 3:1.
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