Steven Gerrard reveals major issue at Ibrox

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Steven Gerrard reveals major issue at Ibrox


Once again Steven Gerrard has admitted his fringe players just aren’t up to it, by revealing disappointment in how poorly they stepped up to the plate last night.

Ibrox Noise moaned about how frankly rank rotten the Hallidays, Joneses, Barkers and Ojos had been, and it appears the manager agrees, and that notion of pushing themselves further away after the Tashkent friendly was only affirmed further after the visit of Stranraer.

He said:

“If you take into consideration we were playing in front of close-to 40,000 at home on a decent pitch against a team who are two leagues below, I don’t think I can give certain players or certain individuals a better opportunity. Some of them haven’t taken that opportunity tonight but unfortunately, some of the senior players that were given an opportunity as well haven’t taken that opportunity.”

For the second time in only a few days Gerrard has stated his fringe players have wasted an opportunity to deliver, and it’s evident he means Jones, Halliday, Barker and Ojo. Because no one else was a fringe starter/sub in the match.

We’ve already analyses Jones’ performance, but the Halliday Jones partnership was less than non-existent. It’s curious – Barisic managed to make a bit more out of the partnership with Jones earlier in the season, but Halliday was very poor as was Jones – as if they rubbed off on each other.

Meanwhile Barker and Ojo’s cameos were a complete waste of time all in.

It just confirms what we’ve feared – outwith our main rotating match group of McGregor, Tavernier, Helander, Goldson, Katic, Edmundson, Barisic, Davis, Kamara, Jack, Arfield, Aribo, Kent, Morelos, Defoe and perhaps Stewart, there is a painful lack of quality.

And last night did nothing to disprove this.

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7 COMMENTS

  1. To be fair you've just listed 16 quality players which isn't a bad number compared to where we were 2 years ago. Hopefully next season will see another 3 or 4 come in. Ojo will return to Liverpool, Jones has some interest from down south, Halliday can't have much left on his contract, but unfortunately we're stuck with Barker for the next near 4 years! Why? Why? Why?

  2. I agree, total mince and that Barkers a dud
    Watp🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

  3. Thought young Paterson showed good quality he can be a top player for gets if form like that hope he goes from good to great 🇬🇧WRTP🇬🇧

  4. Thoughts on the 22year old Egyptian player might come on loan now and sign in summer. Wonder what Stevie G see's in him as his goals ratio is nothing special 20 odd out if 86 games altogether. Is this just just 3rd cover for our stickers. Thought we would pay good money for a good proven striker as mo will be gone in summer and deffo is 37 plus Celtic have strenthed the first team again with 2 quality players it looks like and a wee gem I gate to say maybe in that 22 year old striker and we go for an unproven Egyptian??

    • I suspect you know next to nothing about the quality of the 2 players signed by Ceptic. I certainly don't. At the moment all we know is that they have signed 2 players and the striker they have signed is unlikely to play before Eduardo, or maybe even Griffiths.

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