Looking forward to your first league title trilby :cool:]

Joeybhoy you forgot to add to the French Poodles disciplinary record his 4 month suspended jail sentence for being part of a gang who shot a passerby in the head with an airgun fired from their car. Sentenced in 2018 whilst at the Girodome. Yet you choose to try and demonize Alfredo?

Roma showing interest in Barisic and ready to offer £10m but Rangers not for selling him and offering him an improved contract to keep him.

BTW sad to see the racism in Malays post. Shocking .

Alfredo Morelos scored 8 goals in the qualifying rounds of the Europa League.
He scored a further 6 goals in the group stages (including the goal of the tournament so far).
That makes a total of 14 goals (I did the arithmetic to save MALAdY from having to take a shoe and sock off)
Never before in the history of European club competitions has anyone scored 14 goals before Christmas.
In the UEFA record books but barely commented on by the pundits. I wonder why?

Bill Leckie reckons Rangers star Morelos is his own worst enemy

Across 17 years, 504 games, 120 goals and nine trophies for Liverpool, plus 114 caps and 21 goals for England, he must have been an absolute swine to face across that white line.

Yet all he ever got from the opposition was respect.

And why? Because he was honest. Because he gave his lot. Because his first responsibility was always to his mates.

Because he radiated a love for his club, his city, his country and for the game.

So it’s baffling that a man who’s an ideal role model for every young pro should put himself out on a limb for a waster like Alfredo Morelos.

A waster? Yes, for me that’s what the Rangers striker is.

Someone blessed with wonderful talent, yet who spoils so much of the good work he does by slouching around like a spoiled, angry brat who hates his job.

He dives, he cheats, he lashes out at the kind of provocation 99 per cent around him laugh off, he celebrates in front of rival team’s fans, though he knows it’ll get him in trouble.

Then, when it all comes back to haunt him, he plays the victim. Or rather, he gets his manager to play it for him.

Morelos was given extra time off last week while Gerrard launched an attack on the mysterious forces he says want to drive the  lad out of Scotland.

Sorry, Steven, but this is nonsense.

You’re an intelligent man, you’re a straight-talker and you’ve the potential to be a top, top gaffer, but you’re way off the mark on this one.

Because while you’re right that Morelos is a threat to these mysterious forces — aka Celtic — so were Ally McCoist, Brian Laudrup, Mark Hateley and plenty more, but no one tried to drive THEM out of the game.


Henrik Larsson, Chris Sutton, John Hartson were a pain in the backside for Rangers and Alan Shearer, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dennis Bergkamp  were all threats to your ambitions at Anfield, but no one tried to drive any of them out.

Why? Because, like you, they were decent guys who played the game the right way.

Like you, they were hard but fair, they could take a kick and come back for more.

Like you, they’d go to war for 90 minutes then shake hands at time up.

Morelos doesn’t tick any of these boxes. Neither did Luis Suarez, who you brought up as another example of someone who had no friends outside his club and who was railroaded to another country.

Suarez racially abused an opponent. He serially bit  man-markers.

He always looked as if playing football was a chore rather than a pleasure — and that’s why he was so disliked — not because he scored goals.

Guys like Suarez get little respect from opponents because they don’t try to earn it.

Guys like him blame their own bad behaviour on the pressure others put them under.

And guys like him are not missed when they finally trudge away grumbling under their breath.

Sadly, that’s the way Morelos is headed.

With his Resting Bitch Face pout, his flailing elbows and snide off-the-ball kicks, the way he’d rather fall over to get a fellow player  sent off than take a shot at goal, he seems hell-bent on making as few friends as  possible in our game.

He’s not alone in this last one, of course. Roy Keane didn’t try to win popularity contests either, nor did the likes of Eric Cantona or Graeme Souness.


But what separates them from a Morelos is that they backed up the snarl with success. They led from the front, they were serial winners.

In real terms, meanwhile, this moody blue has done the square root of hee-haw.

He doesn’t have a winner’s medal, he hasn’t scored in an Old Firm game.

He has, however, let his team down through the antics which have seen him pick up seven red and 39 yellow cards in just over 100 starts.

When they come back from Dubai to reboot their season, he’ll be missing yet again.

It’s three games this time thanks to the stupidest sending-off yet — that dive when through on goal at Parkhead.

That moment, for me, said everything about him.

It cemented him as everything the average fan hates about a certain type of modern player — the cynicism, the deviousness, the absence of joy.

Only he can change this. Only he can turn around the image the world outside Ibrox has  of him.

Only he can put a smile on his coupon and  learn to count to ten when he’s being wound up, only he can work out why he’d rather cheat than score.

Only he can earn the mega-money move we keep hearing big clubs are queueing up to offer.

That’s what  Gerrard should be concentrating on right now, getting his goal machine’s head right, because that could end up being the difference between stopping nine in a row and facing up to stopping ten.

He should be pointing at Jermain Defoe as someone who’s been a threat wherever he’s gone for 20 years, yet who’s universally liked and admired.

He should be working overtime to turn a manchild into a man.

The fact  that he would rather turn him into  a martyr does neither of them any credit.



Leckie knows

Good on Alfredo. Flew home to play in a local charity match before joining the rest of the squad in Dubai.
Great supporter of his local community. Does well to ignore the sweetie wives polluting Scottish football.

Top lad, Freddie

https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/sport/17920404.rangers-hero-alfredo-morelos-launches-foundation-help-children-colombian-hometown/
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MALARIA still foamin at the mooth

MALAdY still frothing at Helicopter Sunday.
I think attacking Alfredo takes his mind of how good Rangers are.

The Charity Foundation was set up in memory of his kid sister who died age 9 when he was 13.
The Scottish media seem intent on driving him out of Scottish football and focus on trivia rather than giving him any praise.

WATP

JC..surprised you waste your time on this Jockanese rubbish.

Obsessed is absolutely the correct word, Stew.  Worrabunch of fannies they are - especially that dopey sheepy fudulike

Meanwhile, "Morelos will miss Scottish Premiership matches against St Mirren & Hearts next Wednesday and the following Sunday, and also sits out Rangers' Scottish Cup opener against Stranraer after being booked twice in the competition last season."

5-0 & Defonebox brace / hatrick, for me

Yup, pretty much just a training exercise.  Fonebox had plenty chances but Stevie was correct to take him off.  Ne'ermind, onwards and upwards

Alan Hutton watched the game in Dubai and raved about Nathan Patterson.
Having played him tonight it looks like SG sees him as Tavs replacement rather than Flanagan.
SG says Tavernier out for 2 weeks but hearing it could be 6 weeks.

Clancy now saying he booked Morelos for his zip it gesture.
A booking nobody saw and only now being revealed.
Will deflect, he hopes, from his appalling biased performance.

2-0 tonight. Looked for more but Stranraer parked the bus and made it difficult. Into next round though and thats all that counts.

2 flat performances on the trot albeit the wins were never in doubt.
On the plus side another 3 points and through to the next round of the Scottish cup.
The Stranraer chairman was full of praise for the Rangers support for turning out in such large numbers, over 38,000.
Clutching a rather large cheque he said there isn't a better support in world football than the Ibrox lads.

Poor behaviour from Griffiths in the celtic gamewhen being substituted. Throwing things at the Killie supporters.
Obviously the likes of Sutton, Harts, English Stewart and etc will be having a go at him
Hope it wasn't those lego bricks Broonie loaned him that he was throwing.

If Gerrard thinks Defoe is the answer to our strike force he must be delusional as proved today against the bottom club.

Or put it another way, if I was a defender I would rather mark Defoe than Morelos...

Naisey Knows.........   :)

Oh My Days - if Sevco want to challenge for the league they'll need to bring a few in before the end of the month cos this lot aint gonna cut it.

stewarty b • January 26, 2020 6:10 PM GMT

No money to buy a decent striker and now we have the slim hope of Celtic slipping up (unlikely giving their strike force) and a must win at Ibrox against the tic.


Thank you Stewyb, at last some sanity on here. You have no money, you never did, it was an illusion created by that madman King, now he has stepped down, your club will need to CUT YOUR COAT ACCORDING TO YOUR CLOTH. You are a one man team, and that man is damaged goods, he is like poo, place him on a the end of a stick, dangle him in front of another club and they will recoil in disgust.