Adapting To Scottish Pitches
Players arriving from warm, hard surfaces often look like different footballers when they get here. To be fair, it’s not just about dodgy boots o...
📅 29 May 2026
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Physicality is closing the Premiership gap
The gap between the top and the rest of the Scottish Premiership is getting tighter, but it isn't down to some sudden burst of genius from the smal...
📅 28 May 2026
Ross and Stevie Smith: Coaching Futures at Ibrox
You can see why readers would start linking Maurice Ross and Stevie Smith to the backroom chatter. Both names carry weight for different reasons: R...
📅 26 May 2026
Perception vs Reality: Added Time in the SPL
There’s a gap between what fans feel on matchday and what the spreadsheets actually say. This season the average SPL match length is 97 minutes a...
📅 26 May 2026
Ultras: Help or Headache for Scottish Football?
The BBC Scotland three-part on the Ultras cuts both ways. It’s obvious these groups bring energy, young bodies through turnstiles and genuine com...
📅 21 May 2026
Do Rangers Need a Goal-Scoring No.9?
Strikers get judged by numbers, timing and temperament. To be fair, that is the whole argument here: do you require a talismanic scorer every seaso...
📅 20 May 2026
Why a £9m striker still worries me
Not buying the blind defence of a nine‑million forward who has only nine goals by Easter is hardly radical. To be fair, goals get shared and I'm ...
📅 17 May 2026
Give the team credit for our balance
We keep hearing the same line — bottling it, not taking chances, panic. To be fair, fans can be harsh. But look beyond the soundbites: this team ...
📅 17 May 2026
Is the Lack of Striker Goals Hurting Rangers?
To be fair, the simple point is this: Rangers are collecting results even when our strikers aren’t scoring regularly. That doesn’t mean the iss...
📅 16 May 2026
We need goals and a focal striker
To be fair, I don't hate Chermiti — I just don't see him as a natural out-and-out striker. He might be better used elsewhere on the pitch. The re...
📅 16 May 2026
Goals must be a summer priority
We don't score enough goals as a team and that's been painfully obvious for a while. It's not just one player or one bad run — it feels structura...
📅 16 May 2026
Backing the manager's plan for Chermiti
To be fair, it's easy to jump on a striker when the goals aren't flowing. But the manager's selections tell you something: if he wasn't happy with ...
📅 14 May 2026