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"wel dun rangurs!!11"

Ahaha, they eventually beat that widely feared Portuguese team, Maritimo, on penalties.

Good stuff.

The players in Rangers are technically good, but Alex McLeish is a crap manager.

He had Novo out wide, and Burke playing on the left wing when Prso would have been better off on the left wing, Burke on the right, and Novo playing alongside Thompson.

And the ref was crap.
He carded Malcolm for a fair tackle, and two penalties (they were soft challenges, but still fouls) were declined.
Not to mention the fact that the linesman chopped off a fine goal.

But they won, and it doesn't matter if you beat them 4-2 on penalties, or 10-0 in normal time. A win's a win, which is something Celtic don't seem to be getting in Europe...

And there's such a thing called loyalty, you know.

Well he can hardly sprint up the field and score can he?

If you watched the SPL, you would see he's far more consistent and agile than any keeper in England. Only thing that counts against him is his age.

down wrote:
> Klos (the best keeper in Britain apart from possibly Cech)

Ahahahahahhahahahhaha.
That's why he's playing for a team that goes to penalties against some Portuguese minnows?
Oh dear.

No... I'd say Prso is about the third or fourth best player, after Boumsong, Klos (the best keeper in Britain apart from possibly Cech), and Novo. Prso works hard, and is alright at heading, but his finishing isn't that great, and he lacks pace.

AliBoy wrote:
> Rangers lack a creative midfielder, Burke is decent enough but too
> much is expected off him when he has had very little experience. They
> need someone who can provide Prso and Novo with a quality final ball
> which at the moment is never there.
>
Prso is about there only decent player

leeds played Maritimo back in the day, and we also had to go through on penalties.

This was about '97, though.

Aye, they're crap, I'm not disagreeing there, but they could have beaten Maritimo by so much more if their goaly was a bit more retarded.

What was with the commentators? MarItimo. Not to mention Dado Prusho.

Rangers lack a creative midfielder, Burke is decent enough but too much is expected off him when he has had very little experience. They need someone who can provide Prso and Novo with a quality final ball which at the moment is never there.

Best thing about scottish footy at the moment is martin o'neill whenever celtic loose. :-)
other than that its rather balls.

down wrote:
> Braga being seventh and Maritimo being second?

It's about 3 games into the season in Portugal, which really doesn't give an accurate representation as the season hasn't really started properly at all yet. Last season, Braga finished 5th, and Maritimo 7th in the Portuguese League. Therefore, my statement about them being the better team is justified. Rangers have only just gone ahead of Aberdeen and Kilmarnock, and this is the 7th week of SPL football. They're not better teams than Rangers.

Face it, Rangers are going nowhere in Europe if a victory over Maritimo on penalties is the best they can do. I'm not saying Hearts are going anywhere, but they scored five goals to Rangers' one in this round of fixtures. Against a proven better team.

Hopefully they can prove me wrong. I'd like another Scottish team to make an impression on Europe. But I just can't see it happening, as Rangers right now look crap. Seriously.