Ridiculous stat exposes deep flaw at Ibrox

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Ridiculous stat exposes deep flaw at Ibrox


While we aren’t explicitly blaming Steven Gerrard for that loss (He wasn’t on the pitch was he) his selection policy played a role.

A selection policy which has been deeply flawed since he arrived and against his original principles of earning your place on merit rather than favouritism.

While Rangers’ tactics actually weren’t half bad tonight, and a win would have been a fair result for the travellers, Gerrard’s inability to drop players who don’t perform cost the 3 points on an evening when a win was completely within our grasp.

And one stat showed the immunity Connor Goldson in particular has.

The 26-year old defender has played every single European match under Steven Gerrard. No ifs, no buts no maybes.

The ex-Brighton stopper doesn’t earn his place, he expects it, and that’s simply not what we expect at Ibrox.

James Tavernier has come very close to this himself, playing in all bar one of every European match under this manager, with just the home visit of St Joseph’s seeing Matt Polster in his place.

It’s this bizarre favouritism, this loyalty which sees complacency – players not earning their crust and knowing they’ll play every week as long as they train fairly professionally.

Goldson, especially, is 100% untouchable. While he wasn’t the main culprit tonight, he was less than impressive, and it reminds us worryingly of Lee McCulloch’s seeming immunity to being dropped all those years ago.

That sadly led to the then skipper being tragically booed at Ibrox, and that’s the last thing we want to see happen.

Stevie, please start selecting the whole team on merit, not just bits of it, and leaving the rest to your trusted lieutenants every time.

We could have won that. We really could.

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  1. Connor Goldson cost us the Old Firm and his lack of concentration, cost us three points, tonight, along with Tav's mess-up. Tav is just as guilty. This cannot, go on.

    • Oh, but it will go on sadly and theres only one man to blame. It's pointless moaning. Gerrard wont change. Best we can hope for is Tav sodding off to the championship in january then we're left with old wife beater at RB instead

  2. Iam glad to see we're back to Steven Gerrard rather than just Gerrard on the previous post!

    Tav cost us,so fuck all group on 3 points all to play for,stay calm ffs

    Watp🇬🇧

  3. How many times has tav let us down in big games cant defend to save him self got to get benched for a few games mayb that wd help him thinks he is a starter in every game tbh just an average joe

  4. All the comments about what went wrong who was to blame have failed to analyse the performance of Ojo he was absolutely pathetic 75/25 in his favour was never on he is a waste of a jersey along with a few others in a nutshell he his a loan player from Liverpool who is not good enough to command a place in Liverpools team let alone our team our team he has no desire and commitment and how Gerrard allowed him to stay on for the whole game is a mystery favourites or must play loan players as per agreements

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