Just adding my own perspective on longelo as think he’s a decent player .
Personal view is the left hand side of the pitch is an area we lack balance , therefore quite a bit of expectation for longelo to cover a lot of ground . Particularly today where rangers are pretty strong on their right hand side .
for contrast on the right we have JK but he’s supported by Said , Just and Sparrow who have a tendency to be on the right .
The times longelo has been at his best he has RCC on the left to support him .
Appreciate we all see the game differently - just wanted to chuck my 2 cents in .
Overall key that we find a different striker if we want to kick on and get top 4
We just have to be patient. The good work that JBA has done so far is astounding. He can’t fix everything at once and I’m surprised by how much he has fixed already. Players are going to have off days, bad spells, good spells and today we had several players with off days yet managed to have slightly more posession than Rangers did and could have been a goal or two up after 20 mins if had a goal scorer.
disappointing result but still not a team in the league that we should fear.
So, the optimists will see this a chance of bouncing back and ending a run of eleven(?) losses in as many of our last home games against Celtic.
But this won’t be any different.
Either 0-4 or 2-3 with them scoring the winner in stoppage time.
Either way we just don’t have what it takes to win this one.
I think a total refresh up front centrally is in order. Nothing has or looks as if it will click/ed. Hale for osong would be a good start.
Osong whilst its difficult to come on from the bench has shown nothing of note.
Disappointed not to get at least a point today, which shows how far we have come in 2025
One thing we do need as others have mentioned is a goal machine for the big occasion. A Higdon , John Sutton, Moult (2015-2017) , a Tommy Coyne or a Dougie
Anyway onwards to the Celtic and St Mirren games
I think we will be too (in the mix for a top six finish).
But this season and this team has all the look of “so near, yet so far” about them.
We won’t get any ‘big’ results like winning today or against Celtic on Tuesday. We saw it the last time we played them at Parkhead in October, 2-1 up yet lost 2-3 in stoppage time. The same with being 3-0 up at Tynecastle in August and clinging on to a 3-3 at the end.
We’re a good side, but frustratingly not quite good enough.
I just want us to go there and impose our game on them and prove that we can. After that, I will take whatever result comes our way as there will be other factors that will determine the result over and above what we do.
Rangers have been vulnerable at home this season and are a poor squad but I think under their new manager they’re starting to get better so I’m not overly optimistic about getting anything today and sadly I can’t see a 2 or 3 goal defeat - hopefully I’m wrong.