Rangers' Wee Spot in Europe - Season 2023/24

[The_Kincardine]

2-0 probably fair over the 45.  The Braga boy getting red carded is the bonus.

Up to Gio to f**k it up now.

[G51 Red]

1 minute ago, Jacksgranda said:

BBC report: - HALF-TIME: Rangers 2-0 Braga (1-1 agg)

[velo army]

2 minutes ago, Jacksgranda said:

BBC report: - HALF-TIME: Rangers 2-0 Braga (1-1 agg)

Away goals don't count double, but they do cancel out a home goal. Football is becoming too complicated.

[Arch Stanton]

1 minute ago, oneteaminglasgow said:

Pretty sure I’ve heard some of the bigoted shite. Definitely stuff about Bobby Sands and whether or not he’s alive as well. 

Well aye, that was earlier on. I'm talking about the minutes after going 2-0 up.

[Albus Bulbasaur]

6 minutes ago, gaz5 said:

Well deserved half time lead. By a million miles better than Braga (this week). Should be more, but 2 is enough to do the job.

Barisic has been excellent.

Him getting excluded after the OF was mental to me.

He's actually good at defending just not stopping a cross. I love Bassey and he'll have a big career but Borna starts LB for me every time. 

[Jacksgranda]

Just now, velo army said:

Away goals don't count double, but they do cancel out a home goal. Football is becoming too complicated.

But nobody has scored an away goal in this tie...

[dirty dingus]

2 minutes ago, Billy Jean King said:

8 minutes ago, dirty dingus said:

These c***s must have had a spy at the game on Sunday and decided the St Mirren approach was the way to play Rangers.
 

Was just thinking that. I was raging at our performance on Sunday but Braga are so far making a far worse fist of this which must be pretty disappointing for them.

Their marking has been absolutely shocking. Rangers seem to have them sussed and are just running passed the static line the hold.

[jamamafegan]

Would love to see this comment come back to bite him on the arse. What an idiotic thing to say.

[The_Kincardine]

Just now, jamamafegan said:

Would love to see this comment come back to bite him on the arse. What an idiotic thing to say.

Idiotic thing to say but let's all hope he's right.

[Grangemouth Bairn]

2 minutes ago, jamamafegan said:

Would love to see this comment come back to bite him on the arse. What an idiotic thing to say.

It’s comments like that which make us dislike the English commentators so much. Can’t be arsed with arrogance like that.

[true_rover]

9 minutes ago, throbber said:

I thought they had done away with straight reds for last man fouls as the penalty was seen as punishment enough if it was a genuine attempt to get the ball.

Not sure anyone could paint a shove in the back as a genuine attempt to win the ball.

[Ann Dan Otherthing]

8 minutes ago, throbber said:

I thought they had done away with straight reds for last man fouls as the penalty was seen as punishment enough if it was a genuine attempt to get the ball.

No - if it’s not a genuine attempt to play the ball, it’s still a red. Despite what McCoist says on the telly, it wasn’t and the ref was correct.

And talking about McCoist - both him and the commentator are probably correct re the goal disallowed for handball - it didn’t appear either deliberate or with the arm in an unnatural position. At the start of this season, disallowing a goal because of an accidental handball in the leadup was tweaked to only relate to the scorer. The ref probably got this one wrong.

[velo army]

9 minutes ago, Jacksgranda said:

But nobody has scored an away goal in this tie...

Then it's more complicated than even I had realised. 

[Guest]

90th minute equaliser with "shagger" dropping the ball through his legs please

[Mark Connolly]

It probably is a red card, but it still annoys me that a little nudge like that is a red, but you can just take someone out on half way, with no attempt to play the ball, to stop a break and only get a yellow.

[Jim McLean's Ghost]

2 minutes ago, Ann Dan Otherthing said:

No - if it’s not a genuine attempt to play the ball, it’s still a red. Despite what McCoist says on the telly, it wasn’t and the ref was correct.

And talking about McCoist - both him and the commentator are probably correct re the goal disallowed for handball - it didn’t appear either deliberate or with the arm in an unnatural position. At the start of this season, disallowing a goal because of an accidental handball in the leadup was tweaked to only relate to the scorer. The ref probably got this one wrong.

He did swing his leg towards the ball, just becasue he got nowhere near it doesn't mean it wasn't a genuine challenge. That caveat in the rules was brought in to stop clear pulls or pushes. The Braga defender is just clumsy in his challenge imo

Barasic's hand was in an unnatural position. It was above shoulder height.

[gaz5]

Tie not over, a good player makes a better decision. That's the kind of thing that limits Aribo's prospect of playing higher level.

[Bairnardo]

It probably is a red card, but it still annoys me that a little nudge like that is a red, but you can just take someone out on half way, with no attempt to play the ball, to stop a break and only get a yellow.

Probably in the modern game, any tackle where its clear there was no intent to play the ball should be red, but we would miss out on some top notch villainy if that were the case.c

[Mark Connolly]

Who is this Ramsey chap playing for Rangers?

He seems quite good, he should play more often

[Miguel Sanchez]

6 minutes ago, Bairnardo said:

8 minutes ago, Mark Connolly said:

It probably is a red card, but it still annoys me that a little nudge like that is a red, but you can just take someone out on half way, with no attempt to play the ball, to stop a break and only get a yellow.

Probably in the modern game, any tackle where its clear there was no intent to play the ball should be red, but we would miss out on some top notch villainy if that were the case.c

Sounds rather like Mark thinks this should be a red card.