Rangers v Motherwell 27/12/2025

[MFC-craig]

Frustrating stuff. 
Alternative left back and a striker that can finish his dinner in January please. 

[grizzlyg]

Longelo has went downhill a lot imo and slatts poor again .

[Orinoco]

I know ive went on about it, but Longelo offers nothing. He cant cross or pass a ball. His defending and tracking back is awful. Compare him to Johnny who always busts a gut to get back. 

Longelo and our failure to take decent chances cost us today.

[Walker86]

Good first 20mins. Had to take the chances.

Said and Longelo not good enough defensively. Sloppy start to 2nd half really cost us. Hendry is not good enough full stop.

Sterling handball, Fernandez on Sparrow and Fadinger at the end would all have been penalties in our box.

I think we are 2 or 3 good signings away from a strong fibish to the season. LB, ST and another midfield option.

[Richie]

Difficult place to go.

Didn't take our chances first half.

Decent performance though and had more possession which is incredibly rare at Ibrox.

They took their chance when it came.

Not a lot on it

[MJC]

That’s another sore one in a season of sore ones. Our glaring weaknesses were exposed yet again. We can’t score goals when it really matters and we can’t shut teams down when they are on top of us. 

[texanwellfan]

Nothing between the teams. 
As mentioned, left back to challenge Longelo for his starting place. and goal scorer needed amd we can still be in the mix come the end of the season. 
just have to beat the other half of the uglies on Tuesday. 

[Spiderpig]

3 minutes ago, Orinoco said:

I know ive went on about it, but Longelo offers nothing. He cant cross or pass a ball. His defending and tracking back is awful. Compare him to Johnny who always busts a gut to get back. 

Longelo and our failure to take decent chances cost us today.

Everyone knows we are hopeless up front, Hendry and AP are brutal, stating the blatantly obvious ie if you dont score you wont win any games. 

I assume JBA knows this as well so i hope we have targets identified to come in during the January window.

That said, we are 2 points off 3rd and have just had our only defeat in the last 11 games i think,  so we are in a good position. A good transfer window to give us more firepower up front and we can kick on and secure a top 6 finish.

[GrahamH]

Would like to see that Fadinger penalty claim again as it looked like there was contact.

[Kmcalpin]

8 minutes ago, MJC said:

That’s another sore one in a season of sore ones. Our glaring weaknesses were exposed yet again. We can’t score goals when it really matters and we can’t shut teams down when they are on top of us. 

All very true but I wouldn't lose sleep over this result. It was always extremely  likely and Rangers will finish the season well clear of us. The bottom line is that we just weren't good enough. Our lack of clinical finishers is costing us dearly but everyone knows that. I'm stil very hopeful that we'll be in the mix for a top 6 finish. Tuesday evening again is a free hit. Next Saturday is more important. 

[texanwellfan]

1 minute ago, GrahamH said:

Would like to see that Fadinger penalty claim again as it looked like there was contact.

I thought it was a penalty om assuming VAR had a look? Why else would he go down in that position. 

[MJC]

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. 

[mio]

Frustrating to say the least. Another game that if we had a goalscorer we may have hit 4.

to be fair to rangers they looked better than I expected and also looked like scoring. Both keepers kept them in the game.

Ward I thought was excellent. We just need to beat Celtic and then St Mirren….. that’s all.

[texanwellfan]

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. 

[wellsince75]

Our good run was always going to come to an end . We played well for 20 mins and didn’t take our chances .

As much as I hate to say it rangers were the better team and deserved to win .

i don’t like picking out individual players , I don’t think it was down to any single player today that we lost . Felt it more that we lacked belief that we could win. 

[twistandshout1983]

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 

[texanwellfan]

Thought O’Donnell played well when he came on. I see Slattery taking some stick but I thought he was decent when he came on, not so much Osong though. 
For a while I had been giving our forwards the benefit of the doubt, saying that we didn’t give them decent service. Now though, I think we have been creating more chances but not taking them. While i think top priority is a striker for us we might also work on some shooting practice for the team. 😳

[mio]

Just saw the JBA interview and he’s raging about the penalty? I have to say I thought it looked soft? Hopefully sportscene will show it better later.

[GrahamH]

6 minutes ago, mio said:

Just saw the JBA interview and he’s raging about the penalty? I have to say I thought it looked soft? Hopefully sportscene will show it better later.

Fadinger isn’t the type to go down easily so I think there must have been something in it. We all know that if it was in the other box it would likely be a penalty and the justification would be that there was contact, no matter how little.

[Prestwickwell]

We were decent enough but agree we lacked a bit of belief 

thought the subs were too late today, thought the likes of Just looked burst well before he came off 

undoubtedly need a forward, we couldn’t make it stick either today when we needed to relieve a bit of pressure 

[joewarkfanclub]

Great first 20 minutes. Absolutely bossed them.

But if you dont score when you are on top its gonna come back and bite you.

The middle third of the game we were second best. Too many forced passes not coming off instead of trying to keep possession and settle it down again.

Said was awful until the last 20 minutes. Slattery not much better when he came on. Both gave the ball away far too easily.

I get that they play high risk football a lotnof the time and when it comes off its great, but when you are under pressure, just keep the bloody thing!

Finished strongly and might have got the equaliser at the end (albeit we could also easily have conceded as we were so open at that point).

Not sure we would have deserved it, but Id really like to see the Fadinger incident again as it looked like a pen to me.

Disappointing. Frustrating. But miles above many of the turgid, gutless performances we have been acustomed to in Glasgow.

[SteelmaninOZ]

The gaffer 

 

[wellsince75]

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

[texanwellfan]

17 minutes ago, wellsince75 said:

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

Fair points on Longelo 

[stv]

1 hour ago, MJC said:

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. 

Let's just imagine we had a young fit Louis Moult up front for us . Or anyone who knows what positions to be in and how to score with half a chance not just sitters.

Wow.