Dundee 0-0 Rangers: immediate post-match reaction

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module. In association with Forest Precision Engineering and Football Awards, my name is Alec Anderson. I am an old woman named after my mother. My old man is another child who would grow old if dreams were lightning. the thunder was desire This old house would have burned down a long time ago. I'm speaking to you shortly after watching in the next room live on Sky Sports Rangers drawing 0-0 with Dunde Dence Park in that long-awaited, long-delayed, long-shaken game. During the Spfl Premiership

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, that kind of floating game in hand that we've had on us for a month, was always going to be resolved in a totally unsatisfactory way for us, wasn't it?

And so it turned out that the Rangers tied n n at dens Park 147 games in the Top Flight since we had a n now apparently according to Sky anyway 147 the maximum rest that turns out to be left is needing Snickers and not just the white chasing the red, we need a pool in the colors, which is good because Celtic have cleared the Reds and are about to highlight the colors more, Sky also told us at 4 4 and a half years since the Rangers went three games without winning, so just like Paul Manan says in the DVD extras for the video with nail I in the commentary, that's it. about the moment, excellent moment, Rangers, absolutely fantastic, uh yes I'm laughing but it's just to fight the teers now, uh, a totally horrible performance, uh, a toxic

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already in the Den Park stand tonight, the visitor's stand and also in the Rangers.

Social media is one of those people where I'm usually you, you know, there's a lot of opposition fans watching, so sometimes I try to fit the start of the Pod around that tonight. I'm just worried about Rangers fans and quite a bit. Frankly, anyone who defends any of the players or even tries to explain why it has gone the way it has gone and that maybe it's not the coach's fault or it's not the fault of this or that player, will end up getting lynched it's just that we want heads in a dish, that seems to be the general, the general reaction and you know, it's very understandable because it seems like we've wasted the title, my position is still that good, at least we have a coach who got his.

In a title race we had already wasted it this season, but people realize it. I'm accusing people of lacking context in the way they're criticizing the team right now, but it's the context that makes them "They're so critical that we're down to five games left in the League season." We have failed to win nine of our games in the League this season. We have the best defensive record in the League this season. League this season. If Celtic win the Scottish Cup they will have lost one domestic cup game this season and we will have lost one domestic cup game this season Celtic played in the Champions League they finished bottom of their group we played. in the Europa League and we reach the round of 16 this is the type of situation that represents the normality that we really want to return to after 2012 Let's be honest, this is a situation at this point in the season, it is mid-April, we are the only team in the country that can win the treble, but three points off the top of the league it's totally doable, okay, it's below Smith, it's totally doable.

What doesn't help the current situation is that we have arrived at this current situation due to a loss of form which has seen us only defeat Hibs. Hibs are the only team we beat all March and we still haven't won a game. in April, but I would say yes, you know, under Walter or whatever, before 2000, this would be absolutely fine, it's Al. The problem is that we probably would have had a league title in the bag in at least one of the previous two seasons. I don't have that situation now that we won a league title in the previous 12 seasons, so it exacerbates the pain we felt tonight and also the reaction.

There's no great desire to look at this and say this is how the league title races are close league title races. Wow, what's the fluctuation? Another part, since I'm saying there isn't much fluctuation right now, it seems like we're spiraling into the plug hole, but we need to analyze the game itself to try to make some kind of match report H. Please rate my subsequent reaction to the game which is what it is and to be honest a lot of my

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-match reaction is thanks for nothing guys I left things in pretty good order uh I stopped working on the Friday I went to the game against Hibs in hbrooks. on Saturday and I was left out I was one point off the top of the table and we have a game in hand and Celtic will come to IBU the following week.

I'm just telling you that I'm the greatest JX in the world. I'm out. I'm not even going to be there I wasn't even in the country I wasn't even on the continent I was in America I was in the US and I thought I'm not going back, okay, they didn't let me come back. I had already been told by my good friends who sit around me in my season ticket seat, don't come back, we beat Celtic next week, don't come back, you're obviously the problem and I was starting to think that wasn't the case. The problem is I've never seen us beat Celtic by more than four goals, for example, you know, and I've been watching Rangers for almost 50 years.

I thought this will be the week we do it when I'm not there, so here we go. who beat d d Den Park Cy ding will get the three points there and we will be absolutely flying and I will be very happy no R new my season ticket has not been proven that I am the problem but I understand it Go back and look at the state you left the place in where you couldn't even play the game and D played, we get a point. Celtic are running away with the league now so thank you thank you people 80 this is my 80th podcast season ha's 80th podcast.

I have done this season. I just wanted a free fortnite and I can't. I had to send your dad to the pub to calm him down because he's going to do something he regrets. He is absolutely called to the state. I left this house and while we were going on vacation I'm sorry I'm just trying Jes, he didn't even get to play the game against D so they're playing it. Tonight, here I am, the old jet lag trying to provoke a reaction. myself when I eat the rest you I'm flat as a pancake um, that was one of the most brutal football games I've ever seen in my entire life.

I have seen the worst football games. I've seen the Rangers play the worst football games. but as I said before on social media it's the circumstances that you throw the circumstances and how much we needed the result and a performance tonight um and the fact that it was never all the goal was always there, it's null, so a goal is going to Be make it a total disaster if it's a D goal or you know it's going to change your life if it's a Rangers goal and it never comes and the attacks are so impotent um, it was, it was, you're a big fat Couch Potato Alec, you're a big fat Couch Potato, yes I am, you're morbidly obese, yes I am, you must spend a lot of time sitting on the couch, just watching things on TV, P, things in your face, yes I did, I did it. tonight, but it would have been less painful if I had gone out even in my physical condition and run a marathon.

If I had run a marathon tonight it would have been less painful than sitting and watching the game, it was physically torturous to go through that tonight. it was unbearable uh a slow death it really was death by a thousand helpless attacks we just couldn't move on at all we couldn't do it like what happened with the starting lineup H after thebo on d wall and Sunday were all looking People were looking , they are looking for Tav, Goson and John Lundstrom to be added to the team and because you only get two and three months out of it, you know there are players that can get two and three games in a Trot to them, um, so I I'll take the guys who can last two or three months if you don't mind, but the big names from the leadership group as they are only called up when we start suffering losses from the leadership group.

They were fine H, the changes make John Sterling, who I think when taking a straw on social networks was going to have to play as a left back and the night is right, he was going to have to play on the right wing, he was going to there be a disturbance. He will have to sit in midfield, there is no other place you can play him, he has to go in there, there will be riots, so the option was for him to come in as a left back, which is absolutely fine with me because Bonab Barisich has just left, It's a turkey.

I don't know if it's the hair or the teeth he wants done first, but he's mentally controlled and is an absolute nightmare on Sunday, so hopefully we'll see Bor again and John Sterling will come in too. that was absolutely fine for me in sit two in midfield next to John, when Kieran D was absent, he was dropped, he's back on the bench, um after his complete lack of performance on Sunday and Tom Lawrence came on, who, as you know, was almost very fast when Vamos on Sunday in Dingell, but I mean the second set gives him more platform, he doesn't need to have the speed or ever, so it seemed good to me too, maybe the most The important thing of the night was that Des and Kamar were eliminated. of being recovered and Kamar usually only needs two or three games to get up to speed and then he starts scoring goals, so I thought it was a good shout because the two opportunities, the two direct opportunities that you gave I missed on Sunday strictly speaking, technically speaking, he scores them, we won the game on Sunday, he only does special endings, he can't do ordinary endings and special endings are not necessary, as much as ordinary endings are required, so I was quite happy with They start at 11, but We started exactly the same as against Ross County, conceding a chance, a really strong chance against another team in dark blue at home, another team with their own agenda, everyone has their own agenda, but you know Ross County.

We were fighting against relegation and here we have the Dunde who are trying to increase a celebration. They sealed their top six spot at Padre on Saturday and here they were today, suddenly Tony Docker tells his coaches that he is aiming for Europe now. they have little chance of making it to Europe, they can finish fifth, so I think they are also D beat Rangers, which they don't, but they were D to beat Rangers, particularly because of course the way it works in Scotland because then they completely failed when it came to the basics to get this game going.

An absolutely disgraceful situation with the way this game was not played. Somehow we need something to point that out and I think Ra's reaction has been pretty standard considering the absolute chaos in which this game has been played. but we had the nerve te Mo or whatever and that's what happens in Scotland, you know, complain, well, I'm going to arrest you and the M bubble, we're going to sort you out, but then I'll try to win football that's better and I'll I feel a little. better tonight, but they were motivated, but the point between the Rangers support is that we are going for the title and we are the Rangers, nobody should look more motivated than us in a football match in any football match and this has been the problem at the beginning.

The game against Celtic was horrible, we were totally asleep. I'd never seen anything like that against Ross County and then we just didn't turn up. I mean, something was going on there to the point where everyone was Trucking about half of our set tonight, so. Why don't I just join my kind of creeping up mud pest to follow the path? Have you noticed this? I'd like to know and it's probably out there, the information is probably out there, maybe it's in one of these paid pods that I never look at. I don't charge people to watch these pods, so I don't pay to watch any other pods, maybe it's on Rangers TV or something, um, but when did Philip Clont announce the team to the team? post the team sheet because I have a strange feeling that something has devastated our players before the old firm game before ding ball look at the way they started both games it seemed as if something had afflicted them there was a sudden illness in the camp or something, they started the game like they were broken, I think they are, I think it's definitely a component that we're going to talk about, that they're physically chained to H right now, but the way they started both games like They just got devastating news when they took the field and maybe that devastating news since by the way, Lonny K was playing which, you know, is difficult, but B is back at left back, oh Jesus, I don't know , I don't know.

I know what it is, maybe it's just when the team is announced and the senior players from the leadership group you know only become a leadership group when we've lost a game because they need to beelevated to status that then makes them a Head worth cutting off, you know, we've gotten rid of the directors, we've gotten rid of the managers, um, the captain, we all always go for Captain H, but we don't just want him , so let's call it a leadership group and Could they be a leadership group? Meet the senior players, but let's get their next ones in the Block Taliban style run on a football pitch because when things like this happen, when things go wrong for Rangers, it's about the Scottish death policy and let's get rid of them. people who have any kind of profile we just want to eventually be the ones who get rid of Tav and get rid of some veteran players. then you just have to execute the MD players, who will have to go too, then it will be us, then we will have to start dismissing the followers.

I know some friends would obviously want to fire me for maybe defending T from time to time, but there comes a point where you just have to say okay, let's just build, let's try to add positivity and that's what the coach did after this game night explaining his comments, here's how he did it. Up to this point in this entire season, we've even challenged for the title just with relentless positivity, positive spin all the time to try to build something, not destroy anything, but we started the game tonight absolutely terrible. D had a chance exactly in the first hour.

Same as the chance Ross County had in the first minute of the game, they and I remember that February must have been when we started to get back to the top of the league. Excuse me for realizing it in two or three games. maybe three or four games, a little bit of a run, a little spell, the Rangers would have a corner or a shot at the opposing goal within the first 40 seconds and 10 minutes of a game and I think I said that in one of these capsules of reaction we're just the whole thing about starting slowly went out the window, that's great, that's always great when we start looking really good and completely change again. um Tav hitting the ball against MAA for the Celtics' first goal in the old steady game. 21 seconds on the clock, the opportunity.

We continued in the first 30 seconds against Ross County the same thing against IND D. I think we took the center in both games in the last two games and we ended up conceding almost conceding a goal within 40 seconds of kickoff. Dund D looked up as they played. in one d, the D's were playing in a D shape, you know Tony maker, his time in Aline as assistant to manager Derek mckennis, who knew better than a superior Rangers team on paper than that team abin managed by mckennis and the do-gooder who was on this tonight It's the kind of day where you're all psyched up and relaxed because you've reached top six status and now you also know something to go for, so you're ready to move on.

H, the rest we had. Tonight, where we didn't seem able to attack in any numbers, string together passes, combinations outside the box and there being no overloads, no, you know, overlaps, overlaps, no Wowolling fee and yet, Ian, we also lit up a lot of midfield. We seemed totally susceptible to the defense's counterattack all night as the team was away, but tonight I feel like it's PTSD for Ross County, the way we played on Sunday, those three goals, the fact that Ross County were hitting like in A really effective counter attack seven eight times in that game when we went forward was more dangerous for us than it was for Ross County in dw on Sunday.

I felt like every ball we played forward tonight was laced with a fragility, uh. a memory of the counterattacks in Dingwell on Sunday um dunde tonight they lost it was 10 minutes in sha is he is that Captain is he was like he was turned inside out by a small faint on the hips of kimar ru really kar's only contribution this night he twisted his knee to say that, there was a little pause and the play affected his initial rhythm d d but still all we got were his long balls forward from goson or from Sutter or from lrom who were just hitting big patches of grass wet and empty there.

There was no one there or at best one would receive SEMA, who was also stalled because he is returning from a long term injury and has to play on the right side of the park to maintain form and balance. We saw what Bonab Barich was in the park. made him balance his form on Sunday, so Mar have to play position, but maybe force a corner or something from the corners, how terrible that was, it would just be better not to have it, it would be better to kick more corners straight for a timid one. you know, put the D and them in the corner, try to shine the ball in their own corner, try to shoot down there, we'll probably get more of that, we just scored for a corner on Sunday, we scored the first goal in a game that scored W County.

That was it for us, but that came from a t Corner and a Sila move, but overall the amount of Corners we received represents how poor we are at ATT these days, there was just no threat on our part. I think Corner go connected successfully. completely with a corner for One S to head into the opponent's area and shoot straight at the goalkeeper. Did he do it with the goalkeeper? Parry, there was that time when the goalkeeper dropped the ball and you were hoping to find out that Kamar Ru might be right. on top of him g m style to SCA at home to throw home the rebound, didn't it happen? and D had a free kick from the edge of our area, I don't know, 20 minutes or so into the game, a brilliant save from Jack Bon, really.

Well placed, free kick by Colin, great save by Jack Bton, double save by him as he saves a rebound that I think was already offside and then Baka Yoko scores the rebound from that one that was definitely offside, so he went for it and after that point we definitely started to dominate. possession, we definitely had better numbers, but we just didn't do anything with it. I was hoping this was just about us recovering from the trauma, whatever caused it, we just didn't show up at all, I don't know what happened. Why do I need to think of something and everything that I can handle as a coach, telling the players the team and they say why do you rotate this so often.

I have to play with this guy, I know. Why do you rotate it so frequently? You know people say the manager is just throwing, he's throwing something at a wall in the scene, but he's not throwing the sticks at the wall, there's no physical contact with that equipment. He's probably putting cushions under them. often Hy, all week long, you know I'll actually be there, you called your son, bring your blanket, he's trying to keep them all fit because these players just aren't fit, the injury situation is that he's alluded to Michael Be not giving him a proper pre-season and Whatever Michael Be's medical staff has done, also heavily hinted at by Philip Clemont, they have wreaked havoc and he basically has this.

We have this thing where people hate Tav, Goson, and Lunchroom because they play more often, but there needs to be someone to play. most of the time there needs to be some kind of backbone, oh the cowards, they really don't know, T is 32, Goldson, 31, John Lom, 30, that is absolutely fine in modern football, that is ageless in modern football, as long as they rotate you. They're resting, they won't rest at all, they haven't had a rest all season, so they know they're going to get discouraged, especially when they know that if they don't perform and they don't get results, they will. the neck something cruel has been cruel in the last few days the reaction TOS Tav they called him I saw cancer tonight wage fraud Thief that's what he's been it's unbelievable so we're trying to save the Rangers team that can score enough goals by eliminating the guy who scored, you know, in more than half the League games he's played, this is not the solution, it's just the need for a high profile to pay the price that people need to see change, almost for the good of the changes, that's why the players.

They are getting it, but the players who are coming in can't last more than two or three games, which means that the players who are there all the time are constantly running out to load the Bott, but it seemed like tonight Only if that was which caused the problem on Sunday with the entire team completely failing, it seemed like the Rangers team was trying to process the trauma of how bad they were on Sunday, in the first half, tonight we got more possession. I mean, I expected him to come through the tunnel at halftime, the coach was going to say, okay, relax a little, relax a little, you know, don't be so afraid anymore, you kept a clean sheet in the first half, just like we. we did it on Sunday and I think we had a little bit more possession in the second half, we managed to get through 50 55 minutes where we got some one-twos going too deep in the midfield area way out of the box and again I think Desel finally comes in .

We made a triple substitution. It was R around the 58th minute or something like that. H Silva was not doing anything. Cwell wasn't doing anything, so he asked Maton to do nothing. We asked Kieran D not to do anything. at 10 and we made Des have a kind of shot that his goalkeeper pushed over the bar, he even had to do it, it was a shot on goal, it was nothing more than I think it was just a direct shot on goal in the second half. only Fred came out, only Fred came out and it was terrible, horrible to watch, really painful, this reminded me of two games depending on how the situation was, EV depending on what finally happened at the end of the season, but remember when Barry Ferguson missed two penalties in Den.

Park 2002 2003 we lost to Celtic at hbrooks the weekend before towards the end of the season. We seem to be under Al M. They threw away the league title we lost against Celtic in hbrooks and then we got to Dunde and missed two penalties. Fin he had It was a bad night tonight I think and he finally scored the third penalty we got in that game because the Masons always try to help the Rangers and we tied two apiece and it was like we got a point but that's a new use. Now that we've got that out of the way, we eventually won the league on goal difference and, but then being stranded in that last game of the season wouldn't really have counted for anything if we hadn't taken that point and done it. do it without missing two penalties, but with two times this game was supposed to happen and it didn't happen, you never know, maybe that's it, maybe, the point will end up counting more than we realize, we're just three points.

From above, it's just the way, as I say, the way we are now. Celtic will finish with Bea us on par to win the league. In fact, they will take the title that day if we don't solve the spiral. that we are right now in the other match that reminds me if we are going to lose the League this season or not win the League this season that when Brucia Dortmund put Dick Advocate in the UFA CAU, we had 'got a goal in the League final of Champions, famous 92 93, the first season of the Champions League with Walter, but then, in the following seasons, you know, we lost 4-1 and 40 against Juventus and Ajax beat us, we also put four passes in the final.

At the Amsterdam Arena, they were all bad results, over time we understood that it was not good enough, you know we had to do better in the Champions League, so we got the great European coach and finally we stayed with Adat and him He has a It was really unfortunate to go to the group stage of the Champions League with Bayern Munich, they beat him, nothing, we hit the woodwork three times and Michael mes was beaten by Oliver KH, all that kind of stuff, but We fell to third place in the UEFA Cup. and it's brucia D, we caught him, we beat him twice at IBU in the first leg and that was that 23 24 pass goal that we scored, which looked absolutely sensational and then we went to Dortmund and they scored the second goal deep in the half discount and to take it to extra time, then they won some penalties and it was too much pain in Germany, absolutely brutal, but you know, the following season we beat PSG Paris San Gerain, we beat them on penalties in the extra time and we went through Christmas in Europe for the first time in almost a decade since that '92 93 race under Walter and it was like yeah, that's it.

Growing pains, C growing pains for a reason, it's painful and my feeling is very similar to the one I said, everyone, everyone tonight, is doing that. I told you, I told you something, you know, I told you that these players were going to leave us again. I told you we only had two or three months left before launch and they started pulling it again. I told you that this group of players and a bunch of losers um, so I told them at the beginning of the season that, you know, the preseason against Olympus and Hamburg was not good enough, it was clear that we did a good enough preseason, but I also said in February, when I was talking about the bottle.

This equipment does notHe has the bottle on him, just check your results and the situation has been in every league game we played in the month of February. It was about recovery. Are we going to catch Celtic on the points I'm getting close to? them, but they have lost points. Can we narrow it down to two points? We are down to two points. They have lost points. Can we catch Celtic on the point? Yes, can we catch something on goal difference? If we can. we caught some goals scored, yes let's go for it, we have to beat St Johnston to get to the top of the league.

Can you handle that pressure? We won three nothing the next week you're playing with hearts. You can't handle being first. The league and the heart are the best team outside of the old spruce this season, they come and during the result they beat them 51 3 at half time, they absolutely blew them away, they love it, they enjoy it a lot, it's just for me, it's just that fatigue has affected them, but I said that when we returned to the top of the league in February there was no way Philip Clont would get credit for taking the team that was winning three one at home for Abine.

Michael was being fired and more miles away from him you would. It's a bit in your hands to be in this situation, the situation we're in now, mid-April, we're the only team in Scotland that can win the treble. You know, three points off the top of the league, there's no way you're going to do it. the credit for that if we don't win the league it would just be being completely massacred and it's because of the context, because we haven't won any league titles, last season, the season before, we only won one in the last 13 years, which exacerbates everything and it makes everything much worse, but could it be so? get worse I don't know I just feel like this could be the last growing pain we don't know how to sell they get the Champions League money how they are going to spend that CH will they be allowed to spend? that Champions League money on players who know how they'll do if they get it, but I wouldn't give up just yet and that's what makes it so painful, you know everyone's dying to announce it because they're trying to protect their own emotions.

It was bad enough on Sunday, you know, we still had this game tonight against the D, it's over, that's it, everyone did it on this team, you know? I mean the problem is what makes it so painful, do you think you know, but you don't know, you never know how it's going to go and I can already see the comments saying you're delusional if you think this team is going to leave well to F Yanson Celtic in 1998 in exactly the same situation as them. They kept slipping left, right and centre, they only beat us once, they only won one Old Firm game that season, just like Alan MC's Rangers in 2002 2003, we only won one Old Firm game that season, we drew three each at Parkhead, um, and we beat them by The odd goal seems good, we've drawn three each this season, we beat them by some goal at Parkhead, we only won an old game to get back in, so you're seeing it's need to make a mistake again, probably. but you don't know, the worst thing about this is that the refusal in my head to give up makes it more torturous, but this has been a brutal and horrible night, and I can only solve that by keeping quiet, now it's me and Brian. on Friday night, people to preview the hearts semi-final, but also to look back, I would say a little more analytically than I have here on tonight's game and maybe even the comments afterward to Philip Clemont's party, which are all about maintaining positivity.

That is, we lost our Dallas due to injury, we lost him due to afon. Kamar Rus may be the most skilled player we have, but he gets injured even more often than SEMA, who didn't get injured very often and clearly became the more skilled player he was. the best player in my opinion, I think for the first half of the season until January, he goes to Afcon, how are we going to manage without him? We got Cortez and how are we going to deal with him, we got Yelas, we lost B. bar and Yas is coming I thought it was a bad move before Christmas Yas really starts in his performances we lose him like J but the coach has that thing when he stays I refuse to talk about the injured players.

I only want to talk about the fit players and it worked, it really worked. I was heartbroken and the thought of missing out on seeing Afcon and him not even playing a match at Afcon and getting injured, we won't see him again this season. I was thinking um and the manager managed to spend the entire month of February getting us closer and closer and getting us to the top of the league. We're winning games against Heartsville. We went to Rob Park and beat them in fantastic style. Eventually we are Louis Corz and yes. It is obvious that the number of players who have been injured is reaching us and we cannot rotate the team in the same way.

I think that's all that happened, so I don't blame the coach for staying positive. He has upset a lot of R fans tonight, but it's politics, he's just trying to turn it around, he's trying to keep a team that has these players, maybe they've just been told they won't be wanted next season, can he get in there and do like you know Paul L 2006 telling Barry Ferguson that you're not Captain anymore and there's basically a revolt and the next thing they legan is gone, you can't do that, you have to play the game, um, and I would be absolutely remiss if Philip Clont came out after tonight's game and said: "That's it, that's it", the title race is over and these players are shit.

Who else has to play? He has to work with these guys. These are the guys you need to get the best out of. and yes, it's bad right now, but me and Brian will see it with a little more clarity, a little less emotion involved on Friday night, we'll see Cl's comments after the game tonight, maybe and his comments pre-match before the semi final against Hearts will be at 9:00 live on the YouTube channel on Friday night so until then make me an angel flying from Montgomery make me a poster of an old badass just give me one thing that can sustain To believe in this life, it's just a difficult path to follow.