If there was one slight negative, and it barely even qualifies as one, it is the strange and continuing absence of one player at Rangers. Obviously, Danny Rohl put out a team which very few fans could fully grasp initially. But when explained as a 3-4-3 or 3-5-2 formation, it did click in a bit better. The match ran out winners, of course, Rangers getting the critical three points away from home. Lyall Cameron’s Rangers absence is odd.
Missing Without Injury
However, the absent player was not only not in the starting eleven, but wasn’t on the bench either, and according to Rohl, is not injured either. Lyall Cameron has disappeared entirely from the reckoning, and Rohl in his post-match presser confirmed that Cameron isn’t injured. He just simply didn’t have a place in the squad last night. Now, Ibrox Noise did wonder why we signed Cameron. A decent player from Dundee, yes, but we weren’t entirely sure what the need was to bring him in. In fairness, home-bred players are always a plus in Europe. That is always a big deal to have the five-year rule of rearing your youth players in your home nation. It helps with the selection.
A Player Fading From View
However, Cameron, despite showing some promise in some matches, has completely faded from the first-team picture. So much can be excused down to Russell Martin’s dire management given how utterly appalling the ex-boss was in every sense. But we do wonder why Cameron hasn’t resurfaced under Rohl, at least not last night anyway. Consequently, we do wonder what the deal is there.
What Next for Cameron?
It would be nice to have a hard-working Scottish player in midfield who has a bit of talent, and Cameron appears to have that. Connor Barron has done quite well in recent times, to be fair, but he is a bit too small, which is a big problem he has, pun not intended. He will get bullied off the ball by bigger midfielders. That said, he did rather well at Easter Road, despite his slight frame. But Cameron alongside him would be quite a decent thing to see, even if it still isn’t perhaps what we would call Rangers level. But he isn’t getting a sniff at the moment. We wonder about Lyall Cameron’s Rangers absence.