Srg Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 Tom Huddlestone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintRam Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 HT 0-0 Rangers by far the better team. Good halves from Roos, Keogh and Evans. Everyone else basically nonfactors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramarena Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 We still have a very unbalanced central midfield, something that hasn't really been addressed properly for a few seasons and Rangers are exposing it. It's good for Cocu to see this as it will hopefully press home the need for a quality battling midfielder who can bring presence and knit the side together allowing our creative players to go about their business. Today's lineup would probably be better suited to the Prem, but in the Champ you need that player doing the dirty work in the middle of the park! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mckram Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 I just don’t see with these players how we can be top 6 this season. We only have a few game changing players and two of those were Wilson and Mount last season. Bennett and Zoon were useful impact players but if we’re relying on them to produce week in week out then I’m not expecting much more than about 10th this season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyPowell Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 Keogh Roos keeping us in the game,Lawrence and Zoon rubbish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derbados Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 Got a feeling Cocus going to run into the dressing room screeching with a Dutch battle cry and start smacking everyone around that should wake them up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coneheadjohn Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 A good reality check because Rangers have more game time. Needs sorting because we’ve looked poor. Zoon appears to have turned into Abdoul Camara for the half. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derby blood Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 1 minute ago, Ramarena said: We still have a very unbalanced central midfield, something that hasn't really been addressed properly for a few seasons and Rangers are exposing it. It's good for Cocu to see this as it will hopefully press home the need for a quality battling midfielder who can bring presence and knit the side together allowing our creative players to go about their business. Today's lineup would probably be better suited to the Prem, but in the Champ you need that player doing the dirty work in the middle of the park! That's were Shinnie should hopefully come in, bring him on 2nd half, good to see our keeper and centre backs having good games, think Evans is doing really well at centre back and deserves to start the season at that position. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Srg Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 Shinnie for Huddlestone, Lowe for Malone and then see if we can actually put a tackle in in midfield and not pass to a blue shirt every time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TZM Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 3 minutes ago, Ramarena said: We still have a very unbalanced central midfield, something that hasn't really been addressed properly for a few seasons and Rangers are exposing it. It's good for Cocu to see this as it will hopefully press home the need for a quality battling midfielder who can bring presence and knit the side together allowing our creative players to go about their business. Today's lineup would probably be better suited to the Prem, but in the Champ you need that player doing the dirty work in the middle of the park! Prem? We’d be murdered ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamsFan10 Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 4 minutes ago, SaintRam said: HT 0-0 Rangers by far the better team. Good halves from Roos, Keogh and Evans. Everyone else basically nonfactors. Have to disagree. Huddlestone has been instrumental in most of their attacks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LB_DCFC Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 Started reasonably well and was quite a balanced game up to the 20/25 minute mark, just lacking that final pass to create a good goal scoring opportunity. 25 to 40 Rangers controlled it and forced Roos into a couple good saves. You can see what we're trying to do, but it's very much in it's infancy as you'd probably expect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HorsforthRam Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 we Have been poor collectively and individually. Be interesting to see how Cocu and Co change things for the second half. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioactiveWaste Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 My snap half time verdict is we'll be OK, but we are under cooked. That rangers gave had some competitive games shows. To much preseason softness that would get punished in a competitive match. I know its a friendly but as soon as rangers decided to play with a bit of bite they became the stronger team. No reason to panic on any of it looking ahead to the season, but I think we're optimistic mid table side hoping to do something than a top six side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thierry Ennui Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 1 minute ago, Srg said: Shinnie for Huddlestone The Girona game seemed to show that Shinnie is much more of a Bryson than a Huddlestone or a Thorne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Srg Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 Just now, Penelope Pendrex said: The Girona game seemed to show that Shinnie is much more of a Bryson than a Huddlestone or a Thorne No, but Huddlestone needs to come off so we don’t have much choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamLad1884 Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 Martin and Shinnie on please, need a hold up man up front, everything getting away from Waghorn so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MackworthRamIsGod Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 I admire anyone who thinks we are in for a decent season with the squad as it is. I really hope I am wrong, but the ridiculous amount of time it is taking us to strengthen our squad will cost us massively in my opinion. And the fact we still find ourselves linked with 30 odd year old Andy King off the back of 3 years of injury hardly fills me with confidence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioactiveWaste Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 2 minutes ago, HorsforthRam said: we Have been poor collectively and individually. Be interesting to see how Cocu and Co change things for the second half. They can and will all do better come league games but we just look so much a side in peaseason not a side nearly ready to be playing league matches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcfcfan1 Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 Just now, MackworthRamIsGod said: I admire anyone who thinks we are in for a decent season with the squad as it is. I really hope I am wrong, but the ridiculous amount of time it is taking us to strengthen our squad will cost us massively in my opinion. And the fact we still find ourselves linked with 30 odd year old Andy King off the back of 3 years of injury hardly fills me with confidence. This squad is very very poor in my opinion I blame lampard and chelsea for this, too much time taken has cost us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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