The Gallant Few

Old Firm Preview

In a two parter, the boys take a deep dive preview of the key battles in the first Old Firm of the season and where Rangers are likely to get the most success!

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Duration:: 1h 15m
Broadcast on:: 01 Sep 2024
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This episode is brought to you by Progressive Insurance. You chose to hit play on this podcast today. Smart choice. Make another smart choice with Auto Quote Explorer to compare rates from multiple car insurance companies all at once. Try it at progressive.com. Progressive casualty insurance company and affiliates, not available in all states or situations, prices vary based on how you buy. [MUSIC] Hello and welcome to the Gallant Few Rangers podcast. My name is Maxis Stewart and I'll be your host for our very special old firm, Preview Part One. With me today, I've got Davey. How are you, Davey? Not bad, my man. I'd decent sleep considering the rollercoaster that was the closing, the closing hours of the transfer window. But yeah, I'm doing well, my man. Thank you for having me. That's a tip, you all. I've got Jack, how are you, Jack? I could make the same as Dave. Man's getting a good sleep. To be honest, Dave, yesterday, yesterday, you could have just waited till 10 o'clock at night. You didn't need to look at all this stuff that was happening during the day, yesterday, just waiting till 10 o'clock and seeing it fair. I was up really early as the week for work and I'm basically our systems were down at work. I spent the whole day just on Twitter, just really fresher. And yeah, you were out until 10 o'clock. It was a waste of the time, but at least we got a couple in. I know you guys have done the show last night and debated the transfers at length. So if we won't go back into that, we'll spend this part one just up, obviously, on the game. So tomorrow, maybe. So we'll start with the fences and then we'll start with our defense first. I think we can all assume that it will be bottoming goal, tapping it, fall back with a suit up and proper, and then have the left back. Have you got any sort of disagreements there? Would you like to see anyone else maybe come in? No, just there before the show. When I was looking at our topics of discussion, I didn't even take long. I took a few seconds to basically say the exact same as what you've just said. But when tapping the up-prop or suit up, and I think it'll be here today on the left, I know that people have questioned his, I mean, I know people really like him, the other one going forward. A lot of people have questioned his defensiveness, but, you know, we'll see tomorrow, but I do think half days both guaranteed to start and also deserved to start. So yeah, that would be my defense as well. Thank you, buddy. Jack, have you got any, you know, a baller gun, is he one that you'd be tempted to throw in there? I think it's a fitness repaling, isn't it? We don't know if he's made a full recovery for last week. I mean, if this guy, I don't know what kind of training he did, but if I'm really impressed with this new guy, I wouldn't be, if he had the personality for it, I wouldn't be totally against throwing this new guy in, because we're just one more classic. Back in the moment, so for some that could improve or look better, I wouldn't be able to be against it and I'd get people would say, "A bit of size of the fixture and all that." Well, sometimes, he'd just play, "You need to send me a sperm and find out "what you're all about, and if you're good enough." And I believe that the finder is at a loan, as the fender. Well, they buy, apparently. Well, when you play, it should be playing instead of no playing then. So, but then, that's if he's ready, up to you. I don't know about training a day, but surely if you're bringing two players in, and then fly there, you're putting yourself to your Sunday, you need to have a session, you see what they're all about. Yeah, beautiful. So, I mean, I don't know, I'm going to call him big cats, because perhaps in his name, he's way too early. That's why I still did that stuff in. I wasn't even going to. The name. Do you know what? I don't know if he's registered and he can be in the squad. I assume he'll definitely be in the squad for some day and be available. I don't know about the Albanian field that we saw last night. I'm still not sure. I don't think he gets in the country until today. So, but, yeah, if they can both register, I agree, get him in the squad. We need help, don't we? We need bodies in. Just on that, with the defence, even with Pro Cup coming in, who only played, you know, a couple of games before picking up an injury, typical Rangers fashion. 30 years old, experienced the fend up and a really good season last season, even the season before, I think got proud of the year as well. But, going into this game tomorrow, he wouldn't have experienced anything like this. And if we're going to get a result, we're going to need him, you know, and John Souter to be on their best form. Yeah, I think it's safe to say this game on Sunday. It won't be like anything he's played in before, regardless of where he's played in Holland or, you know, anything like that. That is safe to say, but I think it's also safe to say that we shouldn't have any, you know, doubts or reservations about him. It's not in with the, you know, the runner games that he's had and, you know, getting player of the year as you say. I think he's old enough and experienced enough to, you know, drown it out so to speak. I don't think he'll be phased, but I think he will be, maybe even just coming out the tunnel, oh, shit, that's his, that's his big. But, no, I don't think he's going to, I don't think he's going to flap or, you know, be unreliable. I would have him as my first choice defender, but absolutely no problems. And I know, obviously, with the two that we've signed, I'd like to see them in this course, I'd like to see the new defender. But I know that fair enough, we've signed them in time, but it might be an issue with a registration, as you say. Yeah, I agree with that. And, Jack, just on that, with the pairing, as I said, we're assuming it's going to be with John Sutter. What's your thoughts on John Sutter? Because I know in the group chat, he gets a little bit of a step online. He gets a bit, I'm a fan of John Sutter. I think I can understand what he criticism does come in, because there was games last season where he did, you know, his mistakes were costly. And he does tend to switch off at times, which, you know, we've been punished. But I think that he does need, he's a type of centre-half that needs an experience, lead an extra, and I'm hoping that the proper is, you know, perfect for that. I think Sutter was one of these ones where nobody really has done his first choice, but giving away Rangers' injuries in the way the squad's been running. You're going to play more often than not, even if you had a fun choice, centre-half. So, probably he's a mere responsibility on him when a player has level should have, but he still needs to have the mistakes. I'm going to stick up from one thing. He makes mistakes at all. Plet defenders make mistakes, but his ones always seem to be costly. See if he mistimed with the one where he'll, like, yoga in half, he ends up smashing it right in. And there's one that can man up, but he takes one miss, kicking a guy, some finish. No, he still should have been making mistakes, but he seems to be one of these guys that when he makes a mistake, it's a goal now, isn't he? I think it was a survey away game as well. Last year, he almost his guy for a second, but the guy ends up whipping the ball, right in the top corner, as if it was del Piro. You know, so it was, you know, unfortunate with that. But normally when the ball comes in the box, and he has actually won it, he's fine, dealing with things, but then, it was a dino-cave away game. I thought he'd lost a jersey, I thought he would have been dropped because he had an absolute stinking away to Kiev, a very bad game. And then the Motherreal game, him and Tamir, didn't cover us, so in goal, they won it proper, scored the own goal. Because to me, Tabs got to it quicker, but he's sort of had his eyes shut and went for it. The season's fair, I don't know if he has asked that half-time and told you're getting sub-dynamic risk. It seems to have came on again in the last few games. So, hopefully, they've formed me, so now that's three or four games, is what he brings in to this game, if he starts tomorrow. Yeah, I agree with that. I thought he was, I know the Kiev home game was a really poor performance all round, obviously, he can't dance to Tamir. But because we got beat, it was all about the result, and that's what we do as Rangers had. But I think Johnson was our best player in that, and I thought he defended really, really well, and even the two goals, you know, that he wasn't nothing to do with Johnson. I thought everything that was sort of in that box, he cleaned up really well. So, yeah, I agree with you, Jack, there, you know, definitely. Just last point, just on the defence, you touched on a hefty minute ago. We've seen early on that he's, you know, a tribute, so kind of forward, obviously, playing left wing in the European Games, and we've even seen him to them get half a yard, and he's not afraid to put the ball in the box. For an old firm, they do, though, park head. We've got bad experiences of left backs in the last couple of years. It's a big, big game for him tomorrow, because, you know, I think Colin and, and the boys, and Andy are going to touch a little bit later. But, you know, that is where he's felt like a really strong, and he just needs to keep the head, he's one as well, where he's a bit, you know, inexperienced, gets into tackles, he just needs to keep the head, and he's going to be, as I say, it's going to be a big success for him. Yeah, I think, I think we've not really seen him do much defensively, so tomorrow does bring our, you know, let's be honest, it brings a rather big taste for him. He seems to be a very confident young guy. He seems very assured, I mean, some of the stuff he does going forward, that is, it's quite bold, but, yeah, tomorrow's a slightly different care of our fashion, the fact that we're going to need him to defend as much as we need him to go forward. It's not one of the ones, again, much like proper, although it's not his experience that's reassuring me, but much like proper, I don't think he's going to be phased. You know, I think he's, I think he's, he obviously believes in his self, he looks very confident, as I say. So, I mean, it could, it might contribute, we are an assist or something, but, yeah, we do need him to be very defensively minded as well. Yeah, no, no, definitely. Jack, just, just, you know, moving it on, our forward line with, which, again, we're assuming, Mottondo, Desser's, and Churney. Have you, again, any sort of disagreement or that? Would you like to see someone else coming to that for me? I think that's the best we've got in a minute. Hi, it's the best we've got in a Mottondo. He's, the jail's, he says, at the moment he'll ask to a performance. He's just going to be taking that off him. People have said in the past that Mottondo is good in your game, but he doesn't get consistently well as to games. He's done it consistently, and in the past he's gained Celtic. But, yeah, time, he's got a goal against Celtic, and I was going to cut the games out like he's been out drawing so long. He should be playing. Desser's probably one of the first games. If not a first game of team sheet at the moment, he's formed this season, he's fantastic. He seems to be less hesitant at important times. Even last season when he could be hesitant, he was never a bad player for as he just done. You have that kind of killer instinct, and he's playing really well. A very weak up. We'll have near and through and through, as in each side, the side on Mott seems to be good. So, I've not got a problem at it. I've only had a problem, if one end, then he played McCossum, played for the energy for the first ever, because it's no different way to win as we'll finish again. He could be cheering, coming on a metondo, coming on. I know he's cheering, and he played a bit of people who would go mad, but it could be a method to that for one time, because McCossum's quite a good worker. Don't like going on a bit too much, being decent, but whenever we play them, Greg Taylor's a strong runner coming forward, that is. So, I mean, whoever's at right wing's going to have that to deal with as well. If I'm at my either, and Taylor liked it or no, and very fit players, and very fast. So, whoever's in the right hand side, then I'd feel just going to have to support the feel back. And even if it was a really fit, 20-section, I don't even still need a good pace, but Taylor might have been a lifetime seed. Yeah, no, no, definitely, and Davey kept me to a couple of points there, but metondo, it's a big big game for him this, because he had a really, really good game last weekend to be fit. But we've seen metondo do this, and it's one game, one good game, then two or three really bad games, and when he does get rewarded with a start after a good performance, he hasn't really backed it up. So, again, we're going to need everyone, but as Jack said there, on the wings, we're saying we're really strong. It's really important that him and Tranny give us an out ball. And a brave, and a brave up ball. Don't get me wrong, the goal with Tondo scored, obviously, the old phone game of an out-box was a crack-up, but it's a couple of times where we can go and get Johnson 1v1, with his pace, Johnson's on a yellow card, and he just keeps turning back, so he's got to be brave tomorrow. Yeah, I mean, these past two games have been fantastic, but there is still more than an ear of inconsistency there. I know that everyone else are like that. You know, they can be anonymous for 85 minutes, then conjure up one bit of magic, and that's all we remember, rather than the 85 minutes of nothing, basically. But yeah, I would, he's earned a start in place. He can run at their defence, he can, you know, bomb him down the wing. He's obviously capable of scoring goals. So while I would have absolutely no arguments about him starting the game, I just need, I think we just need the Materondo of the last couple of weeks to make sure he turns up, and not the kind of, you know, well, he won't, he do anything mindset that he sometimes gives us. I think he'll be, I think he could play a very important role tomorrow. But yeah, I just hope that has consistency as now, consistent, I just hope that, yeah, that's run that he's on, continues for, you know, many games to come. But yeah, even if he is quiet for a while, he's always capable of pulling something out the bag. So, yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing what he can do, but yeah, it can go either way. Yeah, yeah, if we went on the way, it's okay to you, just typical, you never know what you're going to get. But the thing is, they never came to the way they play. You know, they're going to come out first 10 minutes, for 15 minutes and try and get a game one. That's the way they play against us, and to be fair, the last few seasons, that's, we haven't been able to cope with it. But that's where Matondo and Charlie are really, and Dessar's are really, really important, because they're going to take chances, you know, and Dessar's, I thought last weekend to be fair to him, was probably, I would say, I'm not Johnny Ross County, but I thought his whole, the first minute the ball bounced off him. But apart from that, he, everything he done stuck. And what that does, you get runners like Lawrence last week, running off in Matondo, turning. So, if he can do that, sell it, we'll leave space in behind, and with Matondo returning, there's plenty of, plenty of pace there. And this set with defence, or country both of us, isn't, you know, as much as the Scottish media will let you believe, it's there to be got up. But we need Dessar's, probably, to get hold of that, or because the last few, I think, Carter Bickers has had a really easy 90 minutes. Um, see, we've found that this is a good set of half, so if you're not going to be, if you're not going to be at it, he's going to have a, he's going to have an easy game. He kind of throws it in Scotland. Carter Bickers, um, I don't know, I'd be quite happy for you to get rid of him. I heard that we rumor about a week ago, saying he'd put a quest in, but not in game it because he's a good player. Um, I guess one of your ones where, like, very well, leave space, he's not at, I don't think Dessar's ever really had a bad game again, so I don't think he's missed a couple of chances, but he does hold it up when he's played players. I don't know that, we just need to be smarter, and we're, we're moving, and when we're going, we're not going. And all we are saying, she sell takes fast start in the first 10, 15 minutes. We seem to deal with, we play in Europe against these two teams, like, uh, Bittison, whatever, and Sparta Plagaway, and they come in with a fast start. I think it's just because it's sell it, we seem to notice it in there, 'cause that's the one, the game, it matters to most people, but I'm quite envious, that's what we should be doing. I've got to explain to them, and we don't. That is approach that a home team should be taking on for them again, as a first 10, 15 minutes as a home team, we let them know we are going for this today, and that we need to be a bit smarter, because a lot of times when they have played that way, when they always be a waste of action, they come and play something silly, or on your part, or something no track, no man. You know what I mean, are poor goal-keeping, which I think the last two games against that are right doing, and even, wait, but one last year, they'll never have had a great game against them, so we just need to be switched to in first 10, 15, 20 minutes. That includes the goalkeeper, because see the great range of teams in the 90s, it would beat Celtic. Watch your highlights, the first 20 minutes, Celtic are all errors, and they're causing the goal, but that's what your big goal-keepers are. That's what your main goal is, I suppose today's have a very good game, and that doesn't happen in big games in World Football. Your goal needs to be on it, your whole team needs to be on it, and then your club just starts getting a bit quieter. And as you said, that's what's up front. With the fence, as I said, Vickers is good. Scales isn't a good, and even Celtic Fadio talks. You'll tell your Celtic's defence isn't a great part of him. If he hadn't gotten hard to board when I cut off Rowan's, even a corner, that just slows the game down and takes time if you don't know what you've got. Yeah, it does, and David, that's Q there, isn't it? We've got, you know, Jack's right, the first 20 minutes, you're going to expect Butler to be called into action, you're going to expect them to get into dangerous areas. But I just think when we've gone to Parkhead, when we do get the ball, we give it away far too quickly. Now, so we've got a really good press inside, again, especially at home, but we need to be a lot greater. And again, the midfield will come into this, because I think that he's gone by. A midfield has been our biggest issue. I've sat down in his podcast for many years. The guys I'm doing the part to discuss more of the midfield, but, you know, just concentrating on our attack, getting a silly defence. Jack for our scowls is there to be got as well. So, yeah, what do you think, you know, our front free can do again? So, it's background. Yeah, I think, I don't know if any feels that we don't have goals in, as I think we can, we've definitely more than capable. In terms of attacking, yeah, the defence is, you know, it's not unbreachable. You know, they're not some sort of, you know, rock solids sent of back paring. They're definitely, well, definitely able to, you know, penetrate, whether it's with flubbles or just running at them. In terms of the midfield, though, one thing I know that I'm saying we should really just go in attack, but one thing I would like is if, instead of insisting on someone playing that number 10 role, if somebody's not capable of it, if I'm not going to start or have Bizram even on the bench, I would like to just say is go flat midfield. And, you know, plug a gap, so to speak, we can still, you know, attack, we can still go forward, but insisting on that number 10, attacking midfielder, when we're kind, I don't have one that's unnatural. To me, it seems a bit defeatist, you know, just sticking with the tactic, just because I think we should maybe perhaps tailor that and adapt slightly. It's not a massive change, I know, but I think a flat, you know, a flat across midfield is what we're beneficial for is at least just for tomorrow. So, yeah, I do think this was his capable of scoring. I know that he misses a lot, but he usually makes up for it. Metondas get goals in him. Jeremy's got assists in him, plenty of. And, you know, the midfield, we can, as I say, you know, we're more than capable of splitting them on with rubles. So that gives me confidence, to be honest. Yeah, and as I said, again, staying again, standing again for me, that first 20, 25 minutes, and you'll get chances. We see it even last season, where Fabio saw him, this is an absolute, for me, it's a set up. But I'm not a clinical striker, we've got one that ups a completely different game. And then, again, it seems to be the same pattern. So, first chance we get, we take a completely, completely different game. Before we come on to talk about the bench, because I hate it, Jack, we'll start with, you know, the, come on again, so it, and, and, and David just sort of alluded it to it there. He hasn't really changed our formation at all, really, in the time he's been there. He hasn't. I think the, the Cup final, to be fair, when we went, we were asking, and, and, and we seem to have a little bit more legs in the final. And I don't, I know we lost, I don't think it was a, the poor performance. Could have gone either way that day. I think the VIR goal was extremely harsh. And as you said, Jack Butler didn't cover himself in glory for the goal. And even a couple of other goals, as we said, this, last season. So, for me, we've come on, he's got, he can't play Lawrence tomorrow. I think we'd all agree with that. Baron Stern and the Amanda should be free. I think that gives you a lot of legs and energy and, and, and it can go toe to toe. We could debate quality wise in, you know, in forward areas. But I think old firm games, you know, especially a park kid, you need to match their energy. And, and to be fair, I would say, probably the strongest area of the team. What were your thoughts on that? Do you think that someone should do maybe anything different? I think tomorrow, if, if a real good number of times, Tom Lawrence, he can go get a number 10 at all. Because Callum and Greg are going to have a few days. Well, it's not, I know what else people would say he's overheating this in that. But if he's up against somebody, it's very good. He doesn't need to get him a sniff and he'll control that area of the park, which I'm Celtic when they've got engine and control. That means a better players can make a run and make a move to get a bit of position. So, I wouldn't be going anywhere long, so tall. And unless this parameter can play and he's fantastic and ready to go and maybe do that. But I would be more, I'd never like to stick way to flat three for this game. And then if we were to get, if we keep ourselves in the game, see going forward and flat three sounds negative, but Sterling can do good triangles with the right hand side. Baron can do triangles, he can win a ball and play it wide and make sale available. And the Amanda can float a bit further forward. No, that's if we had the going win midfield. Maybe we could get a total curve ball that we've seen in the old film. Somebody comes in and they're on the expecting. But if Tom Lones plays the motor, I'm no saying it's on me. It's just one area where he's... And you know, inevitably it was something you were half-team on 60 minutes. And you were at what was the point of doing that? You know, you can imagine the, you know, the outcrack and how before kickoff, if Tom Lones is in the end of the time, 11, it's just, it's inevitable that we've seen it in the last... Again, for me, apart from the Cup Final, where everyone wanted that 11 to play with what we had available at the time, the other games they had, he has gone with a Lawrence or someone else where in that 10 position, Jack's right, column, column, column, column, a great guy. He does, he's a good player, he's a really good player. And he's old film games, he's proved that if you give him time and space, he'll win the game for them. So it's all about stopping that, but also having the legs and energy to stop, so we express from wild and as Jack said, Sterling on the rap and Baron covering the lift. That for me, what we've got in a moment, that's the best. Yeah, I think this thing we're going to get good as... I mean, he is undoubtedly a good player. He's probably over-heaped at times, which you expect from a partial media. But yeah, I think the thing with him as well is despite the fact that he is dangerous, he is also a total needle for other players. You know, he's always in their face, he's always there or there about being a nuisance. So that's something that we need to mute as well, as well as he's capability to create a goal or change the game. He is also just always there or there about, you know, in players' faces. So if we can just kind of mute him, I think we're there looking at him much better. A much better chance. They've obviously got other players that we need to watch, you know, especially wide. But yeah, we're making that good. I think I don't know whether he should be manmarked the whole game or an other tactic to keep him quiet. But if we can do that, it will be a little bit half the battle I reckon. Yeah, I think games that we went on a run were Gerard and he was in there. We didn't go really mad for man, if you're like, "But what we've done was we've ever played in a 10 called him more problems." You know, that was the big one that is especially a game that I thought I think can play in one. I think I really both played in the other. But it was always on the half-term and it stopped McGregor, you know, from... We were dominating, so it helped. But to give maybe D.M. Andy to push him on and give McGregor something to think about the other way, I think we've got, yeah, said we've got to be brave, a lot more brave than we have been. Going there, Jack, seems the result, don't go all the way tomorrow. Again, I'm just sort of being realistic with what's going to come after. I think it'll be Clemon's fifth old firm game. There is going to be, you know, if it doesn't. How important you think this game is for Clemon's sort of long-term? Because, again, it depends, I suppose, how the game goes. It's a little bit difficult to answer, but Bill obviously lost his first one. And the season last year, and the right one was sort of a more completely different scenario, mind you. But we just know what our support, the longer it goes without, I've been again silly that the crumbs are going to get louder and louder. I would, the record's no great, but I'd be fair to imagine, this one, you know, wait a second, and they have just made two record signings in a row. We've got a bit of momentum, we've started the season where we've upgraded a couple of positions, which are fine. I mean, they're going to keep up as good last year. I've probably seen a better one. I see it be fair, although he's no beat Celtic, we're going to unlock it against him. He's two games at ParkCad, because I went either way, we were unlucky. The one at Ibrook's for each game, we have been done a year ago, and the Cup final we've been done a year ago, so it's known as if I've beaten his free phone. However, again, if that was the case, I'd be really concerned. But if we were to lose this game, but it's known through a lack of what I try, and if it was two, one, three, one, and I've went for it now at the Hamms at ParkCad, and at Hamms vice versa as well, we can beat the abnormally-day results. That's how your old firm games really should go. The home team should probably win in them, so I've only heard that against them. But I think if we get a good account that ourselves, I think most kind of level-headed fans would say, right, if they're not, this is where we are. We're having five points behind, but it's a faster September. It was a long way ago, and we donated whatever plain Celtic to January, which would be a home game, a little advantage, and it was a lot of points to pack up between then. Yeah, yeah. I'll give you a positive fifth of it, because Jack answered that one quite well. If he was to get a result tomorrow, again, I think it could flip it for us, because it's been a really frustrating summer. I think we would agree, obviously, not being back in eyebrows, going out the Champions League. Sign-ins has been slow, again, we could argue if we got enough. But see, if we get a result tomorrow, it does change it for me going into that international break, because, you know, we get a bit of momentum, so we get a knock, because they lack a lot there, flying at the minute, everything's good, they're signing big money players, but just the result can just throw in a little doubt there, and it can give us the momentum and just how, again, you know, to change it from, you know, how important would that be from someone to get that, you know, early on? Yeah, I think it's massive tomorrow. I think we need to lay down that marker for the season ahead, that, you know, we can beat them, we can take them on, we can match them, we can go to their place, we know support and, you know, still do it. As I said last night, rightly or wrongly, if, you know, it's a negative tomorrow, then that record is going to start, the women overcome on, fans who already are doubtful about them, media pundits, they'll all use it as a stick to beat them with, the longer it goes on, so I think for, I think just for the mentality, as well as the points that we're going to have written, I do think it's very important tomorrow, I do get the mindset that, like, it's the first one, you know, it can go either way, it's, we'll get it out the way, then, you know, we'll beat them at eyebrows, I can see that means, you know, any other time, but I think in the present, it's, it's a bit more important just because it would get a monkey off of Clemont's back and also give us the belief that we can take them on and we can beat them and match them and, you know, challenge for what is our, let's be honest, our, our difficult season ahead. Yeah, no, you spot on, spot on, and with it beating so early on, you've seen it in previous years where we've got a result at Parkhead and whilst that, you know, what that done for the, for the season going forward and then obviously on the flip side, what it could have sort of negatively, so yeah, I agree with it, absolutely, I think it's so important for Clemont tomorrow, I know some fans will disagree with that, but I think he needs to prove he can get a result. Yeah, and especially Governor. It will just give his momentum as well, then a national break. If we went tomorrow, it could be our good then a national breaks came at the wrong time because, you know, you've got that, but if you want to climb on it and just keep holding on it and, you know, go in a right good run. But at the same time, it gives you guys time to blind in and train and getting all the score, the tactics and everything. So, yeah, I look at the international break as a positive, but if we went tomorrow, I think a lot of us will be like, nah, shit, it's a, a proxy and a national break. So, yeah, it's good for my men on mentality, positive and just, you know, they're like, they're like places in general. Yeah, no. And Jack, just, just final bit, our attacking options, we, again, we haven't got loads at the moment, Cortez out injured, you know, but I'm hopefully going to be, I'd love him to be available tomorrow, but we'll have to get away and see. But if the game does, we do keep it tight, you know, the last half an hour, what players can come off the bench for us to make a difference? Well, if had you, rumours last night that something's been sorted, that would be like a new signing, actually, the bench would be a good player. He's, he's experienced and everything is scored. He's one of players has actually done it again, Celtic, when it's marked. We now don't totally go for a game when it's marked against him, but some day, Matt and Mo'narell's, he's been there and done it when it's marked. So that was some of the effort bench. As I said, I'm no convinced, although we ain't got way to turn there, and Matondo, no convinced it will be. So if it was, we could be one of them. Or Mikozan, Kimone and Mikozan, that has always got a good account of himself. Then he will get in that goal last week, that will have done his confidence. And out of the bet, for him, as I've said, that will be about him running up and doing the house for training, why he see the belief, I'll key him for his fitness as well. So there's a couple, obviously, there's no Cortez, a revenge, look at something desperate with Tomlans, we haven't had to go. That's what he could, maybe, do something against Celtic for half an answer that ain't the minutes. So I'm actually normally concerned, I don't, I've had any reason if he wanted to be quick, he'd receive a certain little favourites to win the game, but I've always taken a, like, I don't think we're out there. There are some people, whatever you believe. And, I mean, I've just named a few players that could come off a bench. So there is players that can hit Celtic. We just need to make sure that in the game still there's something coming off a bench, wouldn't matter. Yeah, no, I agree with that, baby. I think Tomlans, that's the type of player he is, I think, in these games. I think if you give him 20, 25 minutes, half an hour, where the game starts to slow down a little bit, where there's, you know, players make mistakes. That's where he, I think, in this figure, he could have an impact. So that would be one I think that he might, you know, later in the game, if he's tied to come on and then he'll probably be, I know, Jack Sandner and my cousin, Jenny, he always gives a 100%. You can't expect Matondo internally if they do start to play the whole game. So maybe that is one as well. But yeah, just hope that he knows, you know, the goal last week, it's going to take him a little bit of time, but, you know, hopefully, again, coming on tomorrow, if he does get a chance, he can take it. Yeah, I think we might not have the strongest bench, but there is definitely options. I know that we're not keen on world and being near the start now, but it is an option, you know, way, maybe half an hour, 20 minutes to go to, you know, do something, bring a fresh pair of eggs on. So yeah, I'm fine with him being on the bench. McCorsland undoubtedly very energetic. He will, you know, play his heart out and hopefully, you know, deliver something. So he's, which he's capable of, as I say. The neuro, I would hope that he comes on as a tactical change, rather than just a like for like with dancers, you know, take this as often just put the neuro in his position. I'd like to see him come on, you know, while there's a still on. Yeah, there's definitely options there, you know, not, we might not be bombarded where, you know, selection headaches, but there's definitely a few options that could change the game and improve the energy levels, the pace and, you know, the passing, the assists. So yeah, I can see him using, I can see him using some kind of area, like maybe the other mark, and then as we get to 70, 75 minutes, another proper one. None of us have mentioned the cure and dial comments, the bench for pulling in a midfielder that will probably happen as well. Yeah, I thought it was a given that he was a game changer. I thought that was just obvious. Yeah, hopefully, you know, rascing can get back to it. I think that is definitely an area we definitely lack in. Yeah, I'm up. Yeah, but Jack, just to finish up in, what's your prediction for some more? Maria, one other one to keep it on behalf of you. And as I've said, I feel like our favourite is for ladies, right? But at home, they've made two records, sayings of start and season, right? I'd like we have started the season is by this, people would have you believe. But I think we could get a one each drawer to. Well, I don't get to be impossible for this to win. The way some people are talking to you about it, I don't think it's impossible. We would be some effort, but I'd take a drawer right now, so I'll go for one each. Hey, Prime members, are you tired of ads interfering with your favourite podcasts? Good news. With Amazon Music, you have access to the largest catalog of ad-free top podcasts included with your Prime membership. To start listening, download the Amazon Music app for free, or go to amazon.com/adfreepodcasts. That's amazon.com/adfreepodcasts to catch up on the latest episodes without the ads. My dad works in B2B marketing. He came by my school for career day and said he was a big row as man. Then he told everyone how much he loved calculating his return on ad spend. My friends still laugh at me to this day. Not everyone gets B2B, but with LinkedIn, you'll be able to reach people who do. Get a $100 credit on your next ad campaign. Go to LinkedIn.com/results to claim your credit. That's LinkedIn.com/results. Terms and conditions apply. LinkedIn, the place to be, to be. Yeah, last one, and David, what by yourself? I'm going to go to one Rangers. I'm going to say Dessels and Chearnet to get the two goals. I don't know what care who will score for them. I would say to one, I do hate myself for saying the following sentence, but I would take a draw. It's not a mindset I believe that we should have or have as I support that we would accept a draw. However, the circumstances dictate that it would be a decent result. But, yeah, I'm going to go for two of one Rangers. I think we'll keep it relatively tight at the back. And I think we're more than capable going forward of getting a couple. So, yeah, I'll say two of one. I did say, was it on a chart real night? Rangers have won these games, but you know, up against it. And it's been one now where somebody's going their first goal. Who hasn't scored in ages? So maybe one now bad. I think they'll post in the charts 125 to one. So I didn't even back it. I didn't do everything I've seen. That's the way it will happen, but I just thought it was a tip. I've got quite no good ego, I mean, it's a tip. Now, I don't agree with all, I'd love to see us win tomorrow. But, I'm agreeing, I think, both of you, we at first bounce, I think, a draw would be a good result. And I think that's fair to say for where we're at in a minute, going in a one or with this as, I think, getting in a go, I think I'd be quite happy going into the international break. And I still think that would put a dent in there, you know, likely or not, because they're expected to go and be by three or four tomorrow, I think, even when you listen to Rosa's, the confidence is ridiculous. So, yeah, I think if we can go there and not get beat, I think that would benefit us sort of in the long run. But yeah, get your predictions in the comments, see if you agree with any of us three. But we're going to wrap it up there with part one. So, what it's best to do is, if I'm a guest, so thanks for today, Jack. Hopefully, we can get a positive result tomorrow. Hi, thanks very much. Thanks again, David. I feel like I see a lot of you. Please, it's quite good. I'm no one in a bit of good to meet you, me soon, and hopefully next time we see each other, I'll get certain positive to talk about. Hopefully, mate, that's the dream. Now, thanks for coming on, and thanks, as always, David. I've been excellent, as always. I think, me and Jack are maybe looking at forming a splinter group to leave the Gavin Fuhrer and start up on my own, and secret talks. Now, as it's been great, I very much enjoy it every time I'm here. So, this was a productive discussion this morning. I know a lot of it was hypothetical, but it's good to see that we were kind of on the same wavelength mostly. Like, can I guess now, but I hope so, isn't it? So, it remains to be seen how it goes, but I guess we'll show dayseck tomorrow. Yeah, and we will be on the live show after the game, evening, evening show. So, yeah, I'm sure we'll go through. Hopefully, what is a positive result? But, yeah, thanks, Jens, and thanks for listening. Colin will be here with me to go through part two to talk over some of the points which we've not discussed, so make sure you keep watching. Cheers. Hello, folks, and welcome back to the old firm preview for the first all forming this season. First of September, Rangers travel to park head. My name's Colin, I hope you've enjoyed the coverage so far. Mason leading the charge with David and Jack. Here they continue the chat, I'm joined by the very well-presented, working sharp, fresh out the barbells as Andy Stewart, how you doing? Yeah, I'm not bad, man. Thanks for pointing out that I've got the barn that caught, and I needed a change up much, much like the Rangers scored itself in the summer. Either way, you better have a change. Are we fresh enough? So, I'm happy to be back on and discussing tomorrow's events. Oh, yeah, it's a weird feeling doing these preview shows, isn't it? I can't see the table, folks. Well, these are going to lie, these are pre-recorded, right? So, we're recording Saturday because we've all got old fun plans. This is simple as I would. We'll be overcome by battle fever at this point in the, in the, on Sunday. So, yeah, I think it's, when they want us just sweating during the, on the camera, if you'd have it, you know, as, as we all will be in every time, by and so forth, as some other people say, I can't spot. Yeah, to get a good, you get a good, kind of, you know, idea of how we're feeling. To get a hot and sweaty cold, you may be extra on the Patreon for them. I don't do this. So, in general, Andy, how are you feeling, as it stands? It's been a weird week. That's, it's been, you know, the, once you get into old from week, the feeling and the camp changes. When we were awful, it was a feeling of dread. I remember a good, it was a feeling of I can't wait for this. And I'm somewhere in the middle. I'm not too high, I'm too low on it. I think, I think we're all aware of how we're feeling in terms of personnel and the team and how the performance is so far the season have been. But the old from, as we know, presents a very unique challenge for this squad. And we've seen results that completely go against form sheets and player performance. He's leading into it. So, it's a very weird feeling in the camp. And I know that's not a great journalistic term to use. It's not one that would pick if I'd have the thaurus in front of me, but it's just the way I'm feeling. It's quite a weird feeling there. This whole week. So, I think you're quite good at never getting too high or too low. Whereas I never wrote for one extreme to the other, but I do tend to jump above the opinions and emotions and reaction. Like, as it stands, I feel nowhere near as bad as nervous as I did eight days ago before the Roscoe in the game. I mean, I know it's Roscoe in there, but we, if we could hand pick a game at the performance to play it before we go to a pocket, it would have been that. And, but we're running a couple of, a few of the specific topics today, but we're going to be very conscious, not a couple for Mason, Jack and David did in the first show. But I think for me, and I want to start with the mentality of the team, because it's elephant in the room that we've had for so long with this club. Now, that transfer window's done and dusted. We've seen, it's known so much about what players were coming in, because nobody's what I'm saying and afraid to meet and start on Sunday afternoon. It's more about what players to be keeping and do we move on. And when we've spoke, as a fan base, time and time again, about the players who've been there too long and have far too many battle scales, corner goals and joint ones from Ryan, Jack. You're about born a ballastage. You're with us and the group. You're seeing your players and the group who you need to lead the charge. The majority of them are going. We still have a captain, James, to have a knee up. But when I look at the wiggles that I'm seeing in the picture now, go jackpot with them. Of course, of course, John Sutter and Leon Ballergen, who maybe aren't his battles card as well, the rest. Well, you've brought midfield guys like Connor Ballergen while he was young. I've seen him being a real big personality and the angels to listen to him. I'm west nervous about all the targets repeating themselves. This, as they say, we'll go over there and, you know, it's a brand new Rangers, we'll, like, none of the rest of our models. So if we continue getting beat under the strip of whales and their battleshells of stuff, it almost feels like being a star in my flesh or as much as we can. Yeah, I think, for me, although, as you said, there is a couple of players still from previous regimes to have and to those ballagons. I think this team should be seeing this first hold from as an opportunity to go and play a marker down for their personal stats or where we are in the Rangers career, as they are new in the door or as there may be one window old. They should be seeing this as an opportunity and not, you know, having to feel the burden of being their seven, eight, nine, 10s, 15s hold from, which maybe in those games haven't been positive results. They should be seeing this as a clean slate and I go in with a point to prove that whatever happens in the past is going and we're going to take a step forward now because if we keep playing the same 15 games back in our heads, we're not going to be feeling very good about ourselves after. We're going to have to have met the old thumbs in recent memory, haven't gone our way in terms of results, some in more, you know, atrocious fashions and others, but that's in the past now and we need to take a step forward. I think that's what the manager should be echoing, that it's time for him and his team to make a stamp on this fixture and see what we can do. And by no means am I saying, but as I said, but we're going to go out and blow them out the water and drowns them, but they should be trying to, you know, take lemons from this game and try and have a good crack at it and see what happens. You're right and if you look at the old from babies, it's the link that you have, we've got a backup chair on the corner bar then, he has to maybe rob and drop it, if he's fat, who knows, and then maybe a couple of others who will be playing the old from the first time. And again, the argument that, you know, even more too many old from debut talent because it's a unique game, but at the same time, if the alternative is people who have been studied every time, obviously, I think they don't know about an umbrella pick. So, you know, I think it's, I think there's enough freshness in this world to almost go that side, whether or not. Good enough, tomorrow will be the test, but let's go into some specific areas, Mason and Gold would have just stressed this centre of defence, so let's go to the field box. James Davener, I'll be honest, I'm a big Davener fan. Yeah, as I can say on him up against Aizen-Mader, I think we need to, we need to stress that. By the loss of it, he's drawn to be starting. I'm going to do a zone stay up and in the midfield, like Casa, who I can't pronounce his name yet, and the way he can play it right back, he's not going to feature the motor. So, as James Davener, what do you need to see if you have all the people who are in a boom to handle Aizen-Mader? I've said that since the Kiev game, Aizen needs to be smarter positionally, and it's a form of adapt in his game. It's, you know, it's, it's all this time of sports that, you know, fatherhood catches up to players, you can't play forever, but Aizen wants to keep playing at his level for another year or two years, so he needs to learn to adapt his game and understand where he's no longer the level he was and pace has been a big one for Tyler, I think. From what I've seen in the album, especially from looking at a Kiev game, he had done up the line a few times, and it was not just the, the wingers, these opposite numbers, stood them up and tried to be skillful and it's, it's a nice piece of dribble and it's, it's, it's cut out to have. It was that I'm going to knock the ball by yet and I'm going to challenge it to the foot race. And, and Tav was willing to give him that as the option. He does everything, writing, pushing him out wide, but then it's giving him the line and insisting that I'll beat him in the foot race and I'll recover the ball. That's a failing and Tav's point of view. And for me is that you can't keep giving him that line. You're gonna need to, or, or, or, or giving him the line's fine, but then not stepping in to retrieve the ball. It's, it's the insistence on, I'll give him the first yard almost, which is, it's, it's, a blind man can see that Tav's not got that pace anymore. He, he, he needs to, you know, be trying to get his body in there and get in fouls, that's, I think he's going to need to do that. Or he's going to need to completely stand off and wait for support. And, he needs to find this way, where his body and what he has left in the tank can work in, in what areas and what it can't. And then react to that, that's what he needs to learn. He needs to pick up these learnings. And I think maybe it's because this is early in the season. And he's coming back off the, I saw him on which there was a lot of links from going elsewhere. And there was an injury in pre-season. I think he just needs some more time to maybe adjust to the, maybe I don't have that yard now. And how can I grow a bit of fixing that? But as, as we know, he's the opposite number will probably be Dies and Meida, who has pace for days and will be happy to keep going out and then keep going out and then keep going out. You might say he's not got the final ball, he's not got a great finish, he's got pace. And if he can use that, he will use it. It's funny, because what is for sleeping so much of a tab, so far this season has not been tight enough to join us in letting the ball come in. And I've been shooting them for a get tighter and tomorrow. I won't be doing the exact opposite. I don't want to be tight. I don't want him to get a yard, so Dies and Meida, is that what you say is he can't just kick and run past him? I don't mind giving Dies and Meida in the space because he's not great on the ball. And I know that's me coming back and biting and he asks when, but that's to go out and I will be able to kick off. But he's not like, he's very good at what he does, he's very athletic. But, you know, a tricky finish, why not, isn't his game? So, give him that space. And I think what's got to be really important as well is the support he gets for him at field. And I went to have a new last year, you're right, he did try and play his same game, his same attack focus game, but he has won in the forward. And that tactic as a team was excellent when he had a fair way for his to round Jack, who did double Jack at every point he was able to do it. So, he joined one soon and couldn't quite master that last year. So, if we are running, if we are running, have commanded the right-hand side, she only will have to put the legs in, corner bar, and this is where they get a back-up for them. And I'm going to corner bar and do zone staring, can come up between them. I can see bar and playing in the right-hand side of it. That gives me a lot of comfort that have won't be left exposed. Yeah, definitely, I think, when we know do zone staring at athleticism, we know how many yards he can cover in 90 minutes. We know how physically he can be on the ball. We know what he can do when he's on the ball as well. So, he covers both the sides of the coin of a kind of defensively minded midfielder. We can move the ball once he retrieves it back, and that lets us back into our swing play. And corner bar and, as you said, again, always looks well into getting amongst it, not afraid to push his weight around his vocal. He reads the game really well. That's one of the key things I think he needs. Well, we need it in the midfield. Even just, as we say, covering the wing back. So, I think I've seen it. Tav, I want to say, it might be in the motherboard game at Hamden. Tav gets caught, just runs out of room. This could work from the motherboard, to push him out wide. And the striker makes a move towards Sutter, to cover off Tav's only passing option. But it's at that point, Barren runs even further back on Sutter. So, that Sutter can then continue to drop and he has a straight option. He was so bad in reading the play two passes before it goes to him. Gets us out of a tricky spot. And I think with the intensity that the wingers will have for Sutter. I mean, that's this is a massive thing that we're going to probably need to be looking at. Where can we move the ball two passes from now almost? Actually, we're going to be a press. And having the composure that if we do get caught in those situations, that we know somebody will be there. So, it's about having trust, I think, as much with the back line and the two sitting mids potentially, it was sterling and Barren. Because they're all sure for it. They're not scared of getting the ball. Both of them are athletic enough and comfortable enough in the ball to be an option if the back line's under pressure. So, as you said, I mean, I feel there'll be a bit of confidence because both of those players, I think, are quite reliable. We are probably assuming a lot here that Barren and I are still going to go to start in the middle of the park and not in the middle of being my next point. You know, by the time this is out, you know, I think no, I don't know my preference in any midfield. You know, what we've had to be able to ask you to reach will be sterling and Barren as I don't know if it's a double pivot or two number sixes, ones are sixes, ones are eight, just your two main midfielders with the advantage of a forward. I think he offers you more in terms of mobility and then some wardens. If that is in the midfield three, I do worry about how much will be run over. Yeah, I mean, it's the options that I would be looking at. I think we mentioned Thursday night. I mean, Tom Lawrence got to go on an assist at the weekend and yeah, I still don't want him in here on the other start in the 11, which is funny because obviously we want that killer pass. We want that final finish, but at the same time, we don't want Lawrence to be the one that does it. I think I think it's just the added energy that the Amanda can bring. I think we've seen it before. Tom Lawrence was trying to be deployed as just sitting on Callum McGregor. And I don't know if it's just the occasion trying to find the mixture of being attacking and whilst holding on someday. But I didn't work, I didn't work and we get found out. I mean, McGregor get a free rein. But I almost focusing too much on McGregor at times, also like a really big threat in the last last kind of games we played against them. But I think it just needs a more tight athletic unit that for me, which features the Amanda in it over our Lawrence. But that's that's what I would be going for. Granted, as I said, along with everything that we see, the now, once the team sheet comes out and once the game kicks off, Lawrence could go in and have an absolute worldy performance if it gets picked. And in that case, I will be absolutely buzzing. I'll probably be nobody's buzzing as I am that I've just eaten my wads. But yeah, it's just one of these things. I think in this game, looking at this game in isolation, don't think Lawrence is the right player for it. No, and again, if we're being fair, it won't be times. So like last week, there will be times where the game suits him, where he comes, is floating and out because he is really dangerous, where he's passing in his lawn. He's range of how he can move the ball between passing through his own shorts. Like that is major strength. It has the more it just is when you look at it. And, you know, I'm no right paying $70 to be the Amazon, but at the same time, we need to be honest on how, you know, what the strengths are. But for the last two, the years, their strength has been in the midfield. And he ran over the top heels and Colin McGregor, with a lot of fans don't like him in this. But he has a key to how he's able to take care. And if we can, if we can notify him, if we can put, at least put pressure on him and make sale to use other options, then, well, we're opening ourselves up. As well as that, you go all right, we won't be playing. And I didn't get to be playing for anyone for a while after that tackle, where I was well done. But I thought they cover a lot of ground. But yeah, they do have, you know, fours, they go strange. But just how much energy sales you have in the midfield. We just need to go about that. Oh, I don't know, they need to be forward, so on the ball and not. Yeah, I mean, I know what it says, it's understandable to give credit where it's due in certain cases. And this is probably one of them. But I think I've got a number of players that that if we let them just enjoy the ball, then they can punish us. I mean, we, you know, they might even have any about it. So I think we make it on to Nicholas Skoomer, since Jeff Day. I mean, even himself with this, that's both wing options being a threat. The midfield, I'm proud of, and I'll just go on the park head last season. Real high-tattie didn't take long to score on his own from debut. There's players from the forward line to the midfield line that in open play, well, if we let them, well, heart is. And I think it's about just being proactive in the game and not allowing them to have their time to go and make a play that will hurt us. I mean, it's just going to be one of those things. You just need to do it best to shut them down, man to man. Like, you need to win those individual battles, as you said. Know your opposite number and then try and beat them. That's it. We're sort of boiled down to, I think. You've mentioned them there, Jeff Day, and I'm sorry, mason and go cover the winnows. And I think from both teams tomorrow, I think they'll try and get a joy through the middle. As usual, they'll try and dominate the middle of the park. Rangers will try and use our wings. And I do feel quite confident where the options we have are in the wings, but it's not just who's either side of the vessels, it's who's behind them. So, Jeff Day, tomorrow is a big, big game for them. I don't want to put too much pressure on them. I'm excited to see how he plays. I think, in terms of offensively, whoever plays with us, we don't do a lot here and other. I see them getting out, so Jon's not a real, real hard time. He's either this nor feel back out, so Jon's unbarred. I think he can't be go out, nor feel back out of that. Like, he can run it with pace. So, if we put Jeff Day in there and just give him free rein to go, no free rein, but encourage him. He played that game. I think, as for Rangers, we'll see a lot of joy. Yeah, I mean, my hope is our worst. I asked Jon to score the against at one, so that's for us out there in our last game. So, that's his good contribution to them for the foreseeable completed. The quarter's been filled and you have an absolute stinker against Mattondo and then Jeff Day. And we'll obviously brand a success from that, if we can do that. It will be a really interesting battle. I think the manager needs to have faith in Mattondo to be the left wire and he needs to continue to have faith in Jeff Day to be able to contribute going forward from the left-by position. I think both of them want to see them together. It's an interesting partnership. I think they're slowly trying to pick it up over time. Getting better, we can reach out. I think Jeff Day's getting better at a big game of cinema since coming in. I think he's still quite a road talent, but I think there's something there. And especially going forward, he seems to always have the ability to just... I'm going to keep going and I'm going to see if I can get a ball in here. It's just the ability and want to cover yards to then go and help out these men in front of them, which in this case is Mattondo for me, at least. I think that's the way we're going to have to go at the weekend. I think, as you said, I think Jon's in his to-be-go-at. I think, again, he has a good feel back, but we should be trying our best to give him a tough, tough afternoon. And if we can do that, then we'll find joy. So, my worry about Jeff Day is... And again, it's only a real small sample that we've seen him play in, but that key F game, yes, it was a fast-area card that he got, but I think we all fell in the heart of that card, which I'm going to turn him in. He seems like... I don't want to be too critical of it, or two. I don't want to be standing on basis, so I don't want to band every day, so if I'm American, the same way, but that is so if I'm American, fire. I think we needed to summon that in the story. Then he's young, he's raw, he's passionate. My biggest fear is that it's a Fernando, like, he gets caught up in the pressure to use fossil from the game. And he doesn't make you 90 minutes. Well, I mean, see it the way I'm trying to see it, to try and forget a bird, I mean, he gets sent off against Kiev, then he didn't get a card at all against Johnston. Then he got a yellow against county, so that by logic, it would be a catalyst game for him. I don't know to be perfectly honest if that is something I can see happening. As you said, I mean, he is... He's not afraid to get involved in the physical side of the game, he's a nice way of putting that. But I think you're spot on, I think, even in that Kiev game, he got away with maybe one or two. And we could maybe see it coming. I was surprised to think he'd taken off a half-time that game to be perfectly honest. But, yeah, I mean, we can't just, as we said, the merellos to be at time and time again, just because there's a possibility of him getting sent off, does it mean... Yeah, yeah, I have to keep him out of the squad because if we do that, then we're just completely wasting our player, essentially, wasting that slot in the team and a position in which we really can't afford to do that at the moment with the red van injury. I agree, just on the injuries, it was nice to see the pair strong and since everybody was fighting available, bar red van yolmas, so... And also, he knew saying it was one feature of, but from who we've had so far in the squad of the game, one that's still at the club, it'll feel a compliment to pick from. So, let's finish off with Predictions A and A and D. You know, by the time this was out, we are roughly about 65, 70 minutes before kickoff. Gathers, your full-time prediction. I think it will be a very, very narrow one all. I think it will be good defensively, but they'll find a way. As they do, they're a very good team going forward. The fine goals, as I said, we need to focus on a lot more than just the front three. I mean, it was Johnson, Hittati, and McGregor. I scored the three goals against six months, so it can't come from anywhere. We just need to be focused. But I've got a feeling the desk is going to keep up on his run. I've been trying not to be too vocal about my feelings about deskers. I feel like he turned a little on your leaf. I think since that the VAR goal against Enjoynston, where he took it really well, it's maybe starting to click for him, and how he needs to be a striker for Rangers in this league. I think he'll find a goal, which I think he will deserve in the fixture, because there's been an old firm game from the previous season, where I think he's deserved a lot more than he's got. I think he's been unlocking games. I think, apart from a mind-blank moment where he was baring in a goal, which I think he was maybe unfortunate to receive a penalty for a park head, he's cut a frustrated figure because he's not been able to keep working off of players when we've been pending and not having support. But I think the players going to have around him for this game might change that, and I think he'll get on the score sheet and get as a point of park head. I think this is your only start coming in the point. You could come in here with what above. I think he will still have the same match evidence we have about him, where he will be inconsistent, he will fall for a lot of shots, but I think he has to take his roles from the next level this season. I hope that as part of that, he does start becoming more clinical, and he started to season people really well, such goals already. I see him getting a goal today. I absolutely, hand in heart, regardless of what I am, I see a dangerous goal in the day. I think Salty can be gone at the back, that's one of the fours. Salty got a favourite, I was going to go for one each, I'll go to each, I think a lot of emotion will dictate how today goes for Rangers in, and emotion mentality, all that kind of stuff. So, I think finishing the transfer when we're fair with Salty, getting a few players moved out, having a bounce off it last week, and I think it might have been fun and available. I'm going to go to each andy, and I'll be honest, I bet you hand-off right now, if we talk about the transition, I've never grown up and grown in either. It might, it's a marathon in the last spring, today. The week won't be one of us today, regardless of what people say, and people have criticised the past for this. For the Patreon, we're doing a review of the 0-2-0-3 season. Salty got the better of Rangers in the week in terms of their own films. Rangers went on when the week went. Yes, it helps getting these results in their own film. The week won't be... Ah, and it was broken, I'm walking. It won't be made or broke. I hope you know what I mean, sorry for the lack of English. I think, I think it's important, the fixture, this first old film this season, you know, if they win, then their mobile thing gets wrapped up already, because they always do. There is no, well, let's wait for game two or game three, but it's I think if we were to take the draw, or if we were to win, by any means, necessarily, I would take a win, we would be gaining so much more in the mentality battle. Players believing in themselves a lot more. Even to the management team, the coaches, I think they would, if we were to win, it would maybe start to look like it's paying off the hard work, because that's not, it's not beating the bush. This is a big, big challenge going through this transitional period. And if we could have, if we could somehow pull off our win at Parkhead, which we haven't done in a long period, we don't make a good routine of it, it doesn't happen very often. If we were to, I used to pull it off, it would be like rocket fuel for this team, I think. But I think it will be the same feeling if we were to get a draw, if the performance is good, I think if we can match them, straight for straight, then if it ends up being a draw, then we'll also take a massive boost from it. I think we're, I think we're seeing just stand up and be counted. If you don't, I haven't always seen any of these officials, so I think, I think the most reasonable of fans will know that we are in, again, in that transition, we're going to see range of change through this season. But even the basics, the bare minimums, the application, the attitude, the determination, they never say that. Whatever you want to call it, they may seem like all these answers, but we've never seen them before. But the more I get in there, the better I feel. So I hope this is the same of a good day ahead. But I think that's a nice place to finish up on it, because the shelves will just be starting. Although, it's not so we will let them go. It's where we'll buy a show. The reason we do that is these colleges for certain games, it's just to get you something else to take a mainboard there. The nails, I suppose, before we have been going, let's say, like, the pundits, as channels, such as the range of rabble and range of rabbles, do a very good, pretty much review. So, just going into our nature, if you're a secularist, then go and get your content elsewhere. But that's not what you think. The content in the day, last night, if you like it, we'll do it more. If it's not for you, not in nature, not in games. But I hope your team wins, and we'll be back for the aftermath of the livestream at 1/2/8 on Sunday. Andy, you know, pleasure speaking to you, as always, my friend. 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