What's the most "Tin Pot" thing you've seen in the SPFL

[Toby]

Hagi and Danilo’s appearances last night aren’t even the worst thing about Rangers’ Trust Trophy campaign.

Their tie against Stenhousemuir being postponed for international call-ups, giving them the competitive advantage of playing a Stenhousemuir team whose players were likely working all day is bad enough, but to have the tie in the previous round against Fraserburgh postponed is mental.

Rangers get a weekend off for players missing what is effectively a reserve game, while Fraserburgh are forced to travel down for a midweek game in Stirling, and if their players can’t get a day’s annual leave to play, then tough?

Everyone’s equal, but some are more equal than others.

Edited Wednesday at 17:06 by Toby

[johnnydun]

Hagi and Danilo in the B team?

This will be great progression for the Scotland National Team.

[bennett]

I can see how from a Rangers perspective giving them some game time would be ideal, especially for Hagi after all of the issues.

I can also see how the B team nonsense would get up folks noses.

Edited Wednesday at 17:14 by bennett

[Stellaboz]

You're spectacularly missing the point about the reasons your club gave for wanting a B team, bringing through youth players which would apparently torpedo them to national team level.

Then playing expensive foreigners for "match fitness". 

Get to absolute f**king f**k the lot of you and your big house. 

[Grangemouth Bairn]

1 hour ago, Stellaboz said:

You're spectacularly missing the point about the reasons your club gave for wanting a B team, bringing through youth players which would apparently torpedo them to national team level.

Then playing expensive foreigners for "match fitness". 

Get to absolute f**king f**k the lot of you and your big house. 

Did the ‘big house’ stay open ? I never heard the follow up to that interview.

[Salvo Montalbano]

45 minutes ago, Grangemouth Bairn said:

Did the ‘big house’ stay open ? I never heard the follow up to that interview.

Come on now, it'd well known that the "big house" guy died not long after that interview. 

Spoiler

As did the club he supported.

 

[dagane]

2 hours ago, Stellaboz said:

You're spectacularly missing the point about the reasons your club gave for wanting a B team, bringing through youth players which would apparently torpedo them to national team level.

Then playing expensive foreigners for "match fitness". 

Get to absolute f**king f**k the lot of you and your big house. 

Don't sugar coat it ,say what you really think

['WellDel]

If the 'B' teams are to continue in any form of fair competition there have to be some very specific rules laid down. First teamers on £xx,ooo per week should be automatically barred. Only players who have come through the academies or arrived into their system by a certain age allowed.

The whole premise of these sides is supposedly to give experience to the youth of the bigger clubs  not to rehabilitate first team squad players or gain any form of competitive advantage. It's up to the individual club to arrange bounce games etc to get their fringe players up to speed, not devalue any competition at that level to do so.

Actually, get 'B' teams to fvck, and your first teams while you're at it. It'd be a much happier place without the lot of them and their nonsense baggage.

[Arch Stanton]

5 hours ago, Bairnardo said:

I don't believe for one second you think that's the purpose of the inclusion in the Challenge Cup, and with the background context of having tried and hilariously failed to bully your Colt teams into the league structure with typical Arse Cheek bluster, paranoia, intimidation and lies, you'll simply have to forgive the rest of us for not using your prism to view this. 

I hope Danilo, Hagi and any other highly paid first teamers used in the name of shitting all over what used to be a decent cup get absolutely f**king cemented in the next and any future rounds. 

 

[Swordfishtrombone]

It was an embarrassment for Rangers that they used to postpone first team games in the third division for players being on International duty. To do it in the challenge cup for the b team is beyond parody.

[bennett]

4 hours ago, Stellaboz said:

You're spectacularly missing the point about the reasons your club gave for wanting a B team, bringing through youth players which would apparently torpedo them to national team level.

Then playing expensive foreigners for "match fitness". 

Get to absolute f**king f**k the lot of you and your big house. 

Not a fan of B teams then?

[camer0n_mcd]

The problem here isn't Rangers btw, it's nonsense that is the challenge cup. Just as an example Motherwell used Paul McGinn, our club captain who has over 400 career appearances and a Scotland Cap, whilst Dundee Utd used Tony Watt, a Scotland cap who was *allegedly* on something mad like 4k a week at the time. There are most likely several more examples of this happening, I can't blame clubs taking advantage and using it to get players fully fit, on the other hand the use of B Teams in this competition is an absolute riddy from the SPFL.

[Arch Stanton]

"The most successful team in football" still being blasted out the Ibrox PA.

[topcat(The most tip top)]

57 minutes ago, Arch Stanton said:

"The most successful team in football" still being blasted out the Ibrox PA.

Having stood on terracing at Firhill loudly proclaiming Partick Thistle to be by far the greatest team the world had ever seen I’m inclined to forgive Rangers their hyperbole 

[Sergeant Wilson]

22 hours ago, camer0n_mcd said:

The problem here isn't Rangers btw, it's nonsense that is the challenge cup. Just as an example Motherwell used Paul McGinn, our club captain who has over 400 career appearances and a Scotland Cap, whilst Dundee Utd used Tony Watt, a Scotland cap who was *allegedly* on something mad like 4k a week at the time. There are most likely several more examples of this happening, I can't blame clubs taking advantage and using it to get players fully fit, on the other hand the use of B Teams in this competition is an absolute riddy from the SPFL.

Which clubs do you think lobbied most for B teams to be included?

[RandomGuy.]

On 23/10/2024 at 18:35, Stellaboz said:

You're spectacularly missing the point about the reasons your club gave for wanting a B team, bringing through youth players which would apparently torpedo them to national team level.

Then playing expensive foreigners for "match fitness". 

Get to absolute f**king f**k the lot of you and your big house. 

Hagi and Danilo seem to have helped ignore the fact that only 7/16 players used were Scottish, with one of them being Leon King who's played Champions League football previously.

Any club beyond Celtic or Rangers have Leon King, and probably Bailey Rice, playing top flight football regularly. Rangers have them playing Stenhousemuir and Lowland League football. But at least "colt" teams are helping develop players eh?

It'll be so, so, annoying when they start demanding entry up the leagues to help combat that instead of just giving the young players a chance.

[Dons_1988]

32 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:

Hagi and Danilo seem to have helped ignore the fact that only 7/16 players used were Scottish, with one of them being Leon King who's played Champions League football previously.

Any club beyond Celtic or Rangers have Leon King, and probably Bailey Rice, playing top flight football regularly. Rangers have them playing Stenhousemuir and Lowland League football. But at least "colt" teams are helping develop players eh?

It'll be so, so, annoying when they start demanding entry up the leagues to help combat that instead of just giving the young players a chance.

If only someone, anyone, out there could have predicted that this was an exercise in increasing squad capacity, managing that excess squad, enhancing their ability to attract young talent (of any nationality) and avoiding having to pay Diddy clubs significant sums for talent they actually nurture through their system. 

[Squirrelhumper]

Be hard to beat Rangers latest "we deserve better" styled banners that they had at RP on Sunday. 

No you don't - you deserve all you get. 

[Stellaboz]

Once again, because it's Friday and I'm in a great mood, f**k Sevco you zombified mother f**kers.

[bennett]

3 hours ago, RandomGuy. said:

Hagi and Danilo seem to have helped ignore the fact that only 7/16 players used were Scottish, with one of them being Leon King who's played Champions League football previously.

Any club beyond Celtic or Rangers have Leon King, and probably Bailey Rice, playing top flight football regularly. Rangers have them playing Stenhousemuir and Lowland League football. But at least "colt" teams are helping develop players eh?

It'll be so, so, annoying when they start demanding entry up the leagues to help combat that instead of just giving the young players a chance.

And was completely out of his depth.