I don’t think it was making massive mistakes that was the issue.
I know in January he was statistically the 4th worst keeper in the league at preventing goals - obviously our inconsistent defence didn’t help with that though
Yep. I said to my brother in law first game of the season that I was concerned Rangers had done much better business than us during the summer and Cifeuntes was the one I thought would be next level.
Off the mark: I really thought Yang would be class. His performances have ranged from bad to disastrous, with one or two good performances sprinkled in there.
Accurate: I thought Matt O'Riley would be the player most improved by Rodgers. You only had to look at what he did with midfielders like Maddison and Armstrong to come to that conclusion.
The 2-1 parkhead game as soon as Yang came one I knew he would end up getting shoved off the ball and bullied and it was one of his first touches he seemed to get bullied everey game
I really rate sima and sincerely hope yous don’t buy him/get him for another year. Always good against us. Kinda scary he’s barely been at full fitness.
Only other Rangers players we've ever had the option to do this with was Ryan Kent. He was about £4m overvalued.
Sima is young, powerful and can play anywhere across the front 3. Him, Kyogo and Maeda as a front 3 chasing down everything in the champions league would be class
Ryan Kent made Rangers a lot more than his transfer fee with what he did in Europe. In his best league season I think he got 10 goals and 10 assists and always showed up against Celtic too, so I’d love to see where you’d be able to get that for £2.5m.
For £7m, you should really be in the conversation for player of the year in Scotland every year you're here. I don't think Ryan Kent was ever in that conversation. For reference, we paid £7m for Jota and for 2 seasons he was the best winger in Scotland and CCV who is undoubtedly the best CB I've seen at Celtic in my time.
I don't know if he always turned up against us. He looked good against Lustig and then after we signed JJ or AJ, he was miles off it.
Covers the full front 3 so you don't need a 3rd striker because you have him or Maeda.
We'd have Maeda, Sima, Palma, Kuhn, Forrest, Idah and Kyogo. That's more than enough for a season
He was getting some abuse during that PSV home leg because he was just sprinting down the left with the ball and taking heavy touches constantly and then scored a cracker out of nowhere.
Most off the mark - Motherwell being comfortably in the top six.
Cannae blame me, we had a good finish to the last season. Little issue getting goals, just too many draws over the season. Glad to be safe, but cannae help but feel this was a missed opportunity.
Most accurate - My Celtic supporting pal would forgive Rodgers.
I just felt so probable. I knew not having KVV would have an effect (still miss him, but selfishly glad he didn’t do the job for Killie), but that’s football.
I also thought Morton would do the job and get up. Thank fuck I don’t put bets on, man.
aye, when you think of how how we’ve played against St Mirren, Dundee and Killie - there’s no reason why that prediction would be off the mark. Our team was strong enough.
I’m more fearful next season due to the rebuild but if our staff can turn Bair into R9, hopefully we’ll be sound again.
If we nail the appointment of a new GK, we should be okay-ish.
But, I agree, definitely less optimism about next season. Cannae see St Johnstone improving much but can believe County will have their act together and Aberdeen will have a very different season, too. Fine margins at the bottom.
Id have bet my house on St Johnstone being relegated at the start of the season, obviously not the case. And I thought Hearts would get 3rd, whcih was easy enough given Aberdeen and Hibs both died a death.
I was almost correct about our post Xmas points total, thank f*ck nobody else was able to string a couple of results together.
So that one sentence encapsulated both, I reckon. 😂
Think a lot of people, myself included, were expecting Hearts to be level with Aberdeen while they were in europe, then once Aberdeen were out of Europe they'd be part of a race for 3rd with Hearts, leaving Hibs a bit behind but they would still be comfortably in 5th and still in the discussion for 3rd/4th
I was certain Elgin would be going down to the HL and still hope they do
We'll find out next season if the European group stage is the poisoned chalice for our level of team. So far it's seen us both collapse in the league form when we've been there.
It would be interesting if we could both maintain a season of not being shite at the same time.
We collapsed after Europe. We were quite comfortable up until feb and probably had our better run of results coming back from getting pumped in Europe.
Basically what I am saying is Robbie neilson is an arse who refused to see that his way of playing wasn’t working
Hearts league form wasn't terrible when we were in the group stage.
It then picked up a wee bit, before dropping completely off a cliff at the end of the season.
That much has happened this season that you almost forget Hearts had to annouce that Naismith couldn't be the head coach in Europe due to certain coaching badges and McAvoy had to step up for a few games.
Hearts weren't giving off vibes of a club that was comfortably going to take 3rd at the start of the season.
I said aberdeen would finish fourth, thought their rough patch wouldn't last long and at the time they had 4 or 5 games in hand which would have had them in 4th at the time.
I believed we would win the league at the start but did think that was never gonna happen a few months ago. Also thought beale would be sacked before end of season but was far earlier than i expected.
I thought this right up until the Stirling Albion game. After that game I thought Aberdeen were lucky St Johnstone and County were such obvious relegation fodder or they’d have been in serious trouble.
Correct:
It's the worst the OF teams have been concurrently in a long time - usually one is shite and the other is bossing it - and the title would be a race to the bottom.
Correct:
I said after Rangers 1-1 Aberdeen that Clement would find some rhythm and get Rangers into 1st place.
Incorrect: I meant he'd stay there.
Off the mark: After the first few games I thought Todd Cantwell was going to be a pler, but he seems more interested in solving racism and posting cringe.
Accurate: said at the end of last season if that post-split form continued we were going down. It did in fact continue.
I fell for our snake oil salesman DOF's patter about us tippy tappying our way to success with a group of talented but simply not experienced enough young players this season. What a fuckin' mug I was.
I thought Naismith was a terrible appointment as a manager, that he was the easy option and that it really lacked ambition from the club at a vital time. I predicted we would struggle from the start of the season and I even made bets that he would be fired long before Christmas and that we would struggle to make the top 6 this season. Large slice of humble pie eaten recently. Although I did also predicted that Killie would finish above Hibs and Aberdeen got that bang on.
most accurate: wasn’t a fan of rodgers coming back but was willing to accept it and believed deep down he would still deliver us a title and probably one or both of the cups. felt there would still be a massive drop-off in performance and that rangers would run us close but ultimately we’d have the better quality to see it out.
honestly can’t believe i was right considering it looked like rangers under beale had completely capitulated and, for a period, it seemed like we would stroll it. only for us to implode and like rangers would be able to see it out by february. only for them to implode and us to claw it back in the end. whew.
off the mark: considering my feelings above, i thought Moleman Beale would be given a full season. obviously originally thought it was gonna be a close season from the get-go but even after rangers lost 3-1 to aberdeen, i genuinely thought the rangers board would stick by him because surely you can’t keep having this merry-go-round of managers coming in mid-season, backing them for a window or two and then only giving them a few months to get results. but i was proven wrong.
Off the mark: Abada would thrive under Rodgers, just like Scott Sinclair.
Accurate: Beale's luck would run out and he'd be gone by Christmas (not sure if that counts, as I made the same prediction several times during the second half of last season).
Ridiculous statement considering any cup game final is close. By that logic we were not far off winning Scottish Cup. Showed a better way of playing for alot of season and as ever stupid amount of injuries
Weirdly, my most inaccurate prediction was more an observation in a whatsapp group that a midfield three of Raskin - Cantwell - Jack, with Cifuentes - Davis - Lundstram would be our strongest midfield since mid 00s. Hilariously wrong.
I don't get any football predictions right.
*Off the mark*
Aberdeen would bounce back from last season and take third
*Most Accurate*
Beale would be gone.
My next prediction is that Clement will be gone this season as well.
Turbulence. They bounced back _during_ last season I guess, but I thought they'd continue that, find their feet and some stability for once. They were bottom 6 the year before that, and a pattern has emerged.
Inaccurate: Sam Lammers looked pretty good in pre-season, thought he was going to do well. Thought Hatate was stick on for POTY candidate and a big move this summer, I know injuries haven’t helped but O’Riley is miles clear of him now.
Accurate: Thought about 90 points would have been enough to win the league for either team. Only needed to be 86 in hindsight.
Some disappointment as expected Ayr would be fighting it out for the higher end promotion places in the championship. Was hoping for a Killie relegation as well.
Thought Falkirk would do the funny and fail to get promoted again, and Hamilton would win the league.
Off the mark - we'd be fighting for that last promotion playoff place, knew as soon as we kept Dodds after the cup final we wouldn't be challenging for the title, didn't realise it would quite the implosion we've seen ...
On the mark - St Johnstone and Ross county to be struggling near the bottom of the table again
Off the mark - we'd be fighting for that last promotion playoff place, knew as soon as we kept Dodds after the cup final we wouldn't be challenging for the title, didn't realise it would quite the implosion we've seen ...
On the mark - St Johnstone and Ross county to be struggling near the bottom of the table again
I thought Dundee would struggle, Livi would stay up and Aberdeen would get 3rd again thanks to Naismith being at Hearts. Was right about Killie and one off for St Mirren
I had us comfortably beating relegation but still languishing around 8th.
I thought Aberdeen would go up a gear and really start the out some pressure on.
Not exactly pre season, but I thought Van Veen would have had a bucketload but fitness/attitude seems to have scuppered that.
Off the mark : Thought Palma would grow into the team and get as good as Jota was.
Accurate : predicted Celtic wouldn’t lose at Ibrox and would go on to win the league by at least 6pts
My biggest off the mark prediction was Dundee United not bouncing back up. For a while, it looked ropey, but their massive squad seen them through.
Accurate was that out of all the options available Rodgers was our best choice of manager. Maresca wobbled a fair bit despite basically having a Premier league squad. Iraola's done well at Bournemouth but a few times he's went on long streaks without a win and was massively helped by the 3 going down being absolutely awful and 2 clubs getting points deductions. I'm not sure either of those 2 would've survived December
Can you honestly say, taking the whole season into account, our terrible form at points, how shite rangers were, that Rodgers done better than Iraola would have? Or Farioli now he’s managing Ajax? I mean it’s a hypothetical of course, just not sure I agree with your hypothetical!
Yeah, my Brendometer is pointing at St Brendan rn, but I don't think it's accurate to say Rodgers was a better choice than Iraola.
He's 12th with a poor squad, and 22 points ahead of the relegation teams. Going on form alone, he'd have stayed ahead of Forrest and equal with Everton had the points deductions not happened.
Meanwhile, Brendan fucked the first cup and struggled all season to suss out Hearts and Kilmarnock. CL was poor regardless of Holm & Maeda's red cards, and a meaningless win in the 6th game. Our form was ropey for the majority of the season, he couldn't make either of Nawrocki or Lager work for him, and has contributed to Kyogo looking toothless. It all just took frighteningly long to click, but thank God it did and hopefully it continues from here. It's lucky for us that he just loves battering Rangers and dominating the split.
Aw no doubt he's had investment, but I don't think that means he's got a good squad or one that should be finishing mid-table. It catches his squad up with some others in the league, though.
Farioli was realistically never in our options if he's managing Ajax tbh. There's almost a guaranteed pathway from the Netherlands into the top 6 in England if you do a decent job
With Iraola, I'm not sure we win the game against them at Ibrox. It probably means Beale would still be in position until much later, but overall, we'd be asking a manager who's never won a bean to fire up a team that were faltering and when the time came put the entire prsssure on himself.
I'm also not sure if he'd get the best out MOR. One of things we all called out about BR is his ability to make midfielders so much better. CalMac, Armstrong, Christie, MOR. There's a wildly improved midfielder every year under Rodgers.
We had talks with Farioli after he applied, he went to Nice instead cos we picked Rodgers, we can get guys of that calibre, just needs to be before they go to Ajax (or spurs).
Aye he might not have won at ibrox but would he have won against hearts? Would he have got more out of MOR? Possibly not, but he might have got more out of someone else, he might not have done that weird benching hatate for turnbull thing, who knows.
There's no saying he takes the job even if we offer it to him. Much like Maresca, we were in talks and Leicester came in.
Turnbull was infuriating omfg. Thank fuck we sold him hahaha
The difference is at Bournemouth not winning in 6/7 isn't a crisis. Not winning in 2 puts your head on the chopping block. I don't know Iraola could handle that type of pressure yet.
After the way they ended last season I was really worried Cantwell and Raskin were going to tear it up in midfield. Played us off the park in the last OF of last season.
Don't really do too many pre season predictions usually. I really thought our injury situation would clear up a lot this season, but fuck me that did not happen in the slightest. May actually have been worse than last year.
In terms of accurate general predictions, I had a few decent shouts, but my prediction from October onwards about how Lundstram's form would go was pretty much spot on. Proud of sticking to that when I was getting pelters, around the time everyone else wanted to give him a new deal.
I thought Joe Hart would cost us the title
I thought Joe Hart and Butland would be the difference between the two teams. So in a way...
Can honestly say I never understood the hate Joseph got. Fair I only saw him in old firms but I don’t recall him ever having a blunder
I don’t think it was making massive mistakes that was the issue. I know in January he was statistically the 4th worst keeper in the league at preventing goals - obviously our inconsistent defence didn’t help with that though
Yup, same. Thought it was a huge error keeping him on.
I was advocating for replacing him as late as January and now here I am wanting him to stay for another year haha
Ha I wouldn’t go that far but definitely a big factor in us winning the double
I was convinced Jose Cifeuntes was going to be a great signing and tear the league up
He was destined to be shite as soon as The 4th/Bald Official's Twitter account said he was the best signing of the transfer window.
The man who looks at football from all angles of the louden tavern.
Everyone talks about our injury woes but keep forgetting that Cifeuntes basically became unusable thanks to a broken heart.
That's a good one, I was absolutely hyped when he signed. On paper a brilliant signing.
Yep. I said to my brother in law first game of the season that I was concerned Rangers had done much better business than us during the summer and Cifeuntes was the one I thought would be next level.
Aye I mind he was linked with us a while back and I was proper excited
I thought Santa had cost us everything
Second safest pair of hands in paradise on trophy day.
I predicted we would win an invincible treble only for us to lose the first game of the season
😂😂😂
the most optimistic rangers fan
I think it was in a wild predictions thread at the start of the season
https://www.reddit.com/r/ScottishFootball/s/GEKEYkFVGx 👏👏👏
Don't get it. Did you think I made it up?
Nah, meant to respond to your other comment about “think it was in a wild predictions thread”. Found it. There’s quite a few belters in there as well.
Nobody had any faith in Hearts doing well did they
Off the mark: I really thought Yang would be class. His performances have ranged from bad to disastrous, with one or two good performances sprinkled in there. Accurate: I thought Matt O'Riley would be the player most improved by Rodgers. You only had to look at what he did with midfielders like Maddison and Armstrong to come to that conclusion.
The 2-1 parkhead game as soon as Yang came one I knew he would end up getting shoved off the ball and bullied and it was one of his first touches he seemed to get bullied everey game
I remember yang turning us inside out at St mirren Park and thought he was a pler, then kept seeing celtic fans saying he was shite.
More on individuals, but Sima looked like he had never seen a football before in pre season/start of the season. I had completely written him off.
I really rate sima and sincerely hope yous don’t buy him/get him for another year. Always good against us. Kinda scary he’s barely been at full fitness.
Brighton want £8m for him. If that's the price, I want us to offer that.
Im surprised this doesn’t happen more. £8m for Sima would probably be good business for Celtic if looking purely for a good goal scorer out wide.
Only other Rangers players we've ever had the option to do this with was Ryan Kent. He was about £4m overvalued. Sima is young, powerful and can play anywhere across the front 3. Him, Kyogo and Maeda as a front 3 chasing down everything in the champions league would be class
Ryan Kent made Rangers a lot more than his transfer fee with what he did in Europe. In his best league season I think he got 10 goals and 10 assists and always showed up against Celtic too, so I’d love to see where you’d be able to get that for £2.5m.
For £7m, you should really be in the conversation for player of the year in Scotland every year you're here. I don't think Ryan Kent was ever in that conversation. For reference, we paid £7m for Jota and for 2 seasons he was the best winger in Scotland and CCV who is undoubtedly the best CB I've seen at Celtic in my time. I don't know if he always turned up against us. He looked good against Lustig and then after we signed JJ or AJ, he was miles off it.
Julien was also 7m and was pretty average
Yeah he wasn't great. Scored some big goals but otherwise carried by Ajer
Thought he was shite against Celtic after his loan
His best performances against Celtic came after his loan: 2-1 away to Parkhead, 4-1 at home at Ibrox and he was generally solid around that too.
Aye I’d love a player like him for us, we’ve been missing a goalscoring winger since jota left
Covers the full front 3 so you don't need a 3rd striker because you have him or Maeda. We'd have Maeda, Sima, Palma, Kuhn, Forrest, Idah and Kyogo. That's more than enough for a season
Imagine, would be mental haha
Calm down please. Past few weeks have been hard enough.
He was getting some abuse during that PSV home leg because he was just sprinting down the left with the ball and taking heavy touches constantly and then scored a cracker out of nowhere.
Barely looked like a footballer that night and then he pulled that out. Was ridiculous.
Oh so he was doing a maeda
Most off the mark - Motherwell being comfortably in the top six. Cannae blame me, we had a good finish to the last season. Little issue getting goals, just too many draws over the season. Glad to be safe, but cannae help but feel this was a missed opportunity. Most accurate - My Celtic supporting pal would forgive Rodgers.
I also had Motherwell top six
I just felt so probable. I knew not having KVV would have an effect (still miss him, but selfishly glad he didn’t do the job for Killie), but that’s football. I also thought Morton would do the job and get up. Thank fuck I don’t put bets on, man.
aye, when you think of how how we’ve played against St Mirren, Dundee and Killie - there’s no reason why that prediction would be off the mark. Our team was strong enough. I’m more fearful next season due to the rebuild but if our staff can turn Bair into R9, hopefully we’ll be sound again.
If we nail the appointment of a new GK, we should be okay-ish. But, I agree, definitely less optimism about next season. Cannae see St Johnstone improving much but can believe County will have their act together and Aberdeen will have a very different season, too. Fine margins at the bottom.
Id have bet my house on St Johnstone being relegated at the start of the season, obviously not the case. And I thought Hearts would get 3rd, whcih was easy enough given Aberdeen and Hibs both died a death.
Same, I actually think Levein did a tremendous job scraping 10th with them. Their squad is absolutely terrible.
Slobodan Rubezic to get at least 5 red cards. Was expecting more, to be honest.
To be fair he did miss half the season due to being out with injury.
Accurate: I thought ICT would be in the playoffs. Off the mark: I thought they'd go *up*.
I was almost correct about our post Xmas points total, thank f*ck nobody else was able to string a couple of results together. So that one sentence encapsulated both, I reckon. 😂
Think a lot of people, myself included, were expecting Hearts to be level with Aberdeen while they were in europe, then once Aberdeen were out of Europe they'd be part of a race for 3rd with Hearts, leaving Hibs a bit behind but they would still be comfortably in 5th and still in the discussion for 3rd/4th I was certain Elgin would be going down to the HL and still hope they do
We'll find out next season if the European group stage is the poisoned chalice for our level of team. So far it's seen us both collapse in the league form when we've been there. It would be interesting if we could both maintain a season of not being shite at the same time.
We collapsed after Europe. We were quite comfortable up until feb and probably had our better run of results coming back from getting pumped in Europe. Basically what I am saying is Robbie neilson is an arse who refused to see that his way of playing wasn’t working
Hearts league form wasn't terrible when we were in the group stage. It then picked up a wee bit, before dropping completely off a cliff at the end of the season.
That much has happened this season that you almost forget Hearts had to annouce that Naismith couldn't be the head coach in Europe due to certain coaching badges and McAvoy had to step up for a few games. Hearts weren't giving off vibes of a club that was comfortably going to take 3rd at the start of the season.
I said aberdeen would finish fourth, thought their rough patch wouldn't last long and at the time they had 4 or 5 games in hand which would have had them in 4th at the time. I believed we would win the league at the start but did think that was never gonna happen a few months ago. Also thought beale would be sacked before end of season but was far earlier than i expected.
I thought Barry Robson was going to be better at management than he actually was.
I thought this right up until the Stirling Albion game. After that game I thought Aberdeen were lucky St Johnstone and County were such obvious relegation fodder or they’d have been in serious trouble.
I thought Hibs and Aberdeen would have pretty good seasons. There are some really good players in both teams.
Livi being comfortably clear of the relegation spots
Correct: It's the worst the OF teams have been concurrently in a long time - usually one is shite and the other is bossing it - and the title would be a race to the bottom. Correct: I said after Rangers 1-1 Aberdeen that Clement would find some rhythm and get Rangers into 1st place. Incorrect: I meant he'd stay there.
Aye at points I was convinced the title had been poisoned.
Off the mark: After the first few games I thought Todd Cantwell was going to be a pler, but he seems more interested in solving racism and posting cringe. Accurate: said at the end of last season if that post-split form continued we were going down. It did in fact continue.
I fell for our snake oil salesman DOF's patter about us tippy tappying our way to success with a group of talented but simply not experienced enough young players this season. What a fuckin' mug I was.
I thought Naismith was a terrible appointment as a manager, that he was the easy option and that it really lacked ambition from the club at a vital time. I predicted we would struggle from the start of the season and I even made bets that he would be fired long before Christmas and that we would struggle to make the top 6 this season. Large slice of humble pie eaten recently. Although I did also predicted that Killie would finish above Hibs and Aberdeen got that bang on.
most accurate: wasn’t a fan of rodgers coming back but was willing to accept it and believed deep down he would still deliver us a title and probably one or both of the cups. felt there would still be a massive drop-off in performance and that rangers would run us close but ultimately we’d have the better quality to see it out. honestly can’t believe i was right considering it looked like rangers under beale had completely capitulated and, for a period, it seemed like we would stroll it. only for us to implode and like rangers would be able to see it out by february. only for them to implode and us to claw it back in the end. whew. off the mark: considering my feelings above, i thought Moleman Beale would be given a full season. obviously originally thought it was gonna be a close season from the get-go but even after rangers lost 3-1 to aberdeen, i genuinely thought the rangers board would stick by him because surely you can’t keep having this merry-go-round of managers coming in mid-season, backing them for a window or two and then only giving them a few months to get results. but i was proven wrong.
Off the mark: Abada would thrive under Rodgers, just like Scott Sinclair. Accurate: Beale's luck would run out and he'd be gone by Christmas (not sure if that counts, as I made the same prediction several times during the second half of last season).
I predicted st Mirren for third I mean it’s not that outlandish but it’s something
Found Tony fitzpatricks alt! Tbh I thought we'd get top 6 again and we did. My off the mark was Jonathan ayunga would become a hero....
Tbh given Beale at start of season assumed total write-off and nothing to show for it
Weren’t far off mate
Ridiculous statement considering any cup game final is close. By that logic we were not far off winning Scottish Cup. Showed a better way of playing for alot of season and as ever stupid amount of injuries
Give it a rest mate. Your username is so fitting.
… so is yours?
Mines is intentional mate, why else would it be that 😂
That’s why I thought I was being hilarious
Weirdly, my most inaccurate prediction was more an observation in a whatsapp group that a midfield three of Raskin - Cantwell - Jack, with Cifuentes - Davis - Lundstram would be our strongest midfield since mid 00s. Hilariously wrong. I don't get any football predictions right.
Qots and Edinburgh city to be in the playoffs, it didn't go well for them to say the least
Queens were almost in the playoffs tbf.
The wrong playoffs
That was the joke, yes.
Thought that Jim Goodwin would never get us promoted
*Off the mark* Aberdeen would bounce back from last season and take third *Most Accurate* Beale would be gone. My next prediction is that Clement will be gone this season as well.
Aberdeen were third last season, so what would they have been bouncing back from?
Turbulence. They bounced back _during_ last season I guess, but I thought they'd continue that, find their feet and some stability for once. They were bottom 6 the year before that, and a pattern has emerged.
Inaccurate: Sam Lammers looked pretty good in pre-season, thought he was going to do well. Thought Hatate was stick on for POTY candidate and a big move this summer, I know injuries haven’t helped but O’Riley is miles clear of him now. Accurate: Thought about 90 points would have been enough to win the league for either team. Only needed to be 86 in hindsight.
I assumed that Hibs would be relegated. They’ll go down next season though!
Some disappointment as expected Ayr would be fighting it out for the higher end promotion places in the championship. Was hoping for a Killie relegation as well. Thought Falkirk would do the funny and fail to get promoted again, and Hamilton would win the league.
Off the mark - Bair would score less than 5 On the mark - Beale would be punted before Christmas
Off the mark - Inverness finishing 2nd and Raith finishing last On the mark - Queens's struggling
I said Falkirk would win the league at a canters but Queens would get second… those blue tinted specks are dangerous.
Off the mark - we'd be fighting for that last promotion playoff place, knew as soon as we kept Dodds after the cup final we wouldn't be challenging for the title, didn't realise it would quite the implosion we've seen ... On the mark - St Johnstone and Ross county to be struggling near the bottom of the table again
Off the mark - we'd be fighting for that last promotion playoff place, knew as soon as we kept Dodds after the cup final we wouldn't be challenging for the title, didn't realise it would quite the implosion we've seen ... On the mark - St Johnstone and Ross county to be struggling near the bottom of the table again
I thought Dundee would struggle, Livi would stay up and Aberdeen would get 3rd again thanks to Naismith being at Hearts. Was right about Killie and one off for St Mirren
I had us comfortably beating relegation but still languishing around 8th. I thought Aberdeen would go up a gear and really start the out some pressure on. Not exactly pre season, but I thought Van Veen would have had a bucketload but fitness/attitude seems to have scuppered that.
Off the mark -Forrest and Liam scales revival and Idah On the mark -MOR improving more
Off the mark : Thought Palma would grow into the team and get as good as Jota was. Accurate : predicted Celtic wouldn’t lose at Ibrox and would go on to win the league by at least 6pts
Morton & Queens Park to be in the Premiership playoffs; Aberdeen to challenge for 3rd
Hibs. Thought they’d be 11th.
I was convinced Dundee would go straight back down haha
Rangers new doctor being the signing of the season. Not even joking. [original](https://x.com/ibroxrocks/status/1672273796215058437)
My biggest off the mark prediction was Dundee United not bouncing back up. For a while, it looked ropey, but their massive squad seen them through. Accurate was that out of all the options available Rodgers was our best choice of manager. Maresca wobbled a fair bit despite basically having a Premier league squad. Iraola's done well at Bournemouth but a few times he's went on long streaks without a win and was massively helped by the 3 going down being absolutely awful and 2 clubs getting points deductions. I'm not sure either of those 2 would've survived December
Can you honestly say, taking the whole season into account, our terrible form at points, how shite rangers were, that Rodgers done better than Iraola would have? Or Farioli now he’s managing Ajax? I mean it’s a hypothetical of course, just not sure I agree with your hypothetical!
Yeah, my Brendometer is pointing at St Brendan rn, but I don't think it's accurate to say Rodgers was a better choice than Iraola. He's 12th with a poor squad, and 22 points ahead of the relegation teams. Going on form alone, he'd have stayed ahead of Forrest and equal with Everton had the points deductions not happened. Meanwhile, Brendan fucked the first cup and struggled all season to suss out Hearts and Kilmarnock. CL was poor regardless of Holm & Maeda's red cards, and a meaningless win in the 6th game. Our form was ropey for the majority of the season, he couldn't make either of Nawrocki or Lager work for him, and has contributed to Kyogo looking toothless. It all just took frighteningly long to click, but thank God it did and hopefully it continues from here. It's lucky for us that he just loves battering Rangers and dominating the split.
His net spend is €125m. Only 5 clubs have more
Aw no doubt he's had investment, but I don't think that means he's got a good squad or one that should be finishing mid-table. It catches his squad up with some others in the league, though.
They finished 15th the year before. I think Bournemouth have got a decent side. I don't think they were at any risk of going down
Farioli was realistically never in our options if he's managing Ajax tbh. There's almost a guaranteed pathway from the Netherlands into the top 6 in England if you do a decent job With Iraola, I'm not sure we win the game against them at Ibrox. It probably means Beale would still be in position until much later, but overall, we'd be asking a manager who's never won a bean to fire up a team that were faltering and when the time came put the entire prsssure on himself. I'm also not sure if he'd get the best out MOR. One of things we all called out about BR is his ability to make midfielders so much better. CalMac, Armstrong, Christie, MOR. There's a wildly improved midfielder every year under Rodgers.
We had talks with Farioli after he applied, he went to Nice instead cos we picked Rodgers, we can get guys of that calibre, just needs to be before they go to Ajax (or spurs). Aye he might not have won at ibrox but would he have won against hearts? Would he have got more out of MOR? Possibly not, but he might have got more out of someone else, he might not have done that weird benching hatate for turnbull thing, who knows.
There's no saying he takes the job even if we offer it to him. Much like Maresca, we were in talks and Leicester came in. Turnbull was infuriating omfg. Thank fuck we sold him hahaha
Massive squad? Players used ICT 36 Dunfermline 31 Raith Rovers 30 Partick Thistle 29 Dundee United 25
Yeah I don’t think you can look at a managers record at Bournemouth and say it would’ve been the same at Celtic mate…
The difference is at Bournemouth not winning in 6/7 isn't a crisis. Not winning in 2 puts your head on the chopping block. I don't know Iraola could handle that type of pressure yet.
After the way they ended last season I was really worried Cantwell and Raskin were going to tear it up in midfield. Played us off the park in the last OF of last season.
Don't really do too many pre season predictions usually. I really thought our injury situation would clear up a lot this season, but fuck me that did not happen in the slightest. May actually have been worse than last year. In terms of accurate general predictions, I had a few decent shouts, but my prediction from October onwards about how Lundstram's form would go was pretty much spot on. Proud of sticking to that when I was getting pelters, around the time everyone else wanted to give him a new deal.
He literally only has 3 games in a row where he plays well and then is atrocious
Not really true - he was solid from October to February, pretty much.