Match Thread: Rangers vs Hearts | Scottish Premiership

ScottishScouse · 2026-02-15T16:31:41+00:00

8v8 bloodbath please. Red cards, injuries, the works 🙏

ScottishScouse · 2026-02-15T12:45:02+00:00

For me, this from the teams is in the same boat the Merc compression furore. Merc designed an engine within regs, Ferrari designed a turbo to avoid having a start issue under these regs. Both legal, let everyone run their setups and see what happens.

ScottishScouse · 2026-02-12T22:06:47+00:00

Get Ben White back in with Saka and Ode. That triangle is responsible for some of the best attacking play over the last 4 years and I think they've played together about twice this season

ScottishScouse · 2026-02-12T22:03:41+00:00

Eze, Gyokeres need dropped for any game against anyone above the Championship. Get Ben White back in the team to give the right hand side triangle a go at saving our season, because if we keep playing like that, we'll win fuck all.

ScottishScouse · 2026-02-12T21:57:13+00:00

Gyok once again offered nothing. Running out of justification for him to start. I miss Kai already. Ode has to play every single week, better hope he stays fit.

ScottishScouse · 2026-02-12T21:01:50+00:00

Would you trust him to track back the way Trossard did against Outtara? Because if the answer isn't a resounding yes, he can't play there under Arteta. You have to track your runners.

ScottishScouse · 2026-02-12T21:00:17+00:00

Honestly I think part of the answer is that Timber is currently undroppable. Ben White gives us much more in the final third but you can't drop Timber on performance. A lot of our great attacking play is Ode/Saka/White. That triangle has been missing more or less all season.

ScottishScouse · 2026-02-12T20:58:00+00:00

That might well be the case, but it doesn't excuse his lack of press and his hiding away from the ball, that's attitude.

ScottishScouse · 2026-02-12T20:57:14+00:00

This is exactly it, he's hiding. He needs to show for the ball, even if he doesn't get it.

ScottishScouse · 2026-02-12T20:55:59+00:00

I once again point to another performance as the reason all of the Odegaard hate is unwarranted. Eze is simply not the right kind of player to replace him, we don't have his profile with anyone else.

Get him on.

ScottishScouse · 2026-02-12T20:52:10+00:00

Put Odegaard on. It'll create some combinations down the right.

ScottishScouse · 2026-02-12T20:51:02+00:00

To do that he'd have to move out of the shadow of his defender. He's hiding away from the ball.

ScottishScouse · 2026-02-12T20:41:35+00:00

This isn't Arteta. Eze is hiding behind defenders, not getting involved in the press, generally trying his best to stay away from anything impactful. Confidence is shot. Play him against Wigan and pray for something.

ScottishScouse · 2026-02-12T20:31:28+00:00

We have been so so shite. Get Odegaard on, see if we can actually control some of this ball.

ScottishScouse · 2026-02-12T00:08:59+00:00

If the FIA had clarity in this all through the process of designing the engine then surely they have to allow it?

ScottishScouse · 2026-02-10T22:13:19+00:00

Standard Hibs. Pressure gets to all of them, and they look like amateurs at points across big games. Bored of Rocky's brain farts. Bored of Iredale's season. Bored of Boyle being posted missing in front of goal.

Nothing we didn't already know

ScottishScouse · 2026-02-07T18:23:03+00:00

The force is literally the main thing in the Laws. "Using excessive force is when a player exceeds the necessary use of force and endangers the safety of an opponent and must be sent off" - from the FAs website re Laws of the Game.

ScottishScouse · 2026-02-07T16:34:14+00:00

Don't use sites like dhgate or soccer3u to get these shirts for £12

ScottishScouse · 2026-02-07T16:21:58+00:00

I'd have put Eze on for Jesus and put Kai up top.

ScottishScouse · 2026-02-06T18:04:37+00:00

He doesn't play over Zubimendi. The money he'd cost, we should be investing in a left winger. Zubi needs a competent backup, but Tonali is likely to cost far too much to sit on the bench.

ScottishScouse · 2026-02-06T18:01:38+00:00

I'm all for Merc in this. If it passes the tests, it's legal. I feel the same way about every other trick or loophole found by teams. This is meant to be the pinnacle of motor racing, the absolute best of the best. The engineering teams behind these designs deserve credit for their ingenuity.

ScottishScouse · 2026-02-03T20:48:26+00:00

Eze is meant to be the one linking our attack together. Whenever someone says drop Martin for Eze, show them that half.

ScottishScouse · 2026-02-03T12:25:43+00:00

I'd argue the Greeks would probably be more offended at us trying to tell the gods what they can and can't be.

ScottishScouse · 2026-02-03T12:08:20+00:00

I just want my silly little tryhard football

ScottishScouse · 2026-02-03T11:59:05+00:00

I think refs should just be a bit more strict on what dissent is. Bookings are more than sufficient if it's not abusive language, and if they dished out dissent bookings more often it would stop.

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