Le Guen Wants More

Paul Le Guen is asking for more from the pl;ayers and that is understandable when looking back on Saturdays performance. Too often play was sluggish and they were at times looking a bit slow and off the pace when it came to distribution and running with the ball. He is spot on there as there always will be room for improvement no matter who you are and what club you play for and any player particularly for Rangers who feels they cannot improve is wrong. Big time. Le Guen is a perfectionist who will not settle for anything less and the legendary quote "Let the others come after us, we welcome the chase" is relevant in this case.

We should always be looking to improve and other teams improvem,ents should mean that we strive harder to be number one. Currently we are second in the table and have a lot to do to keep pace with the champions Celtic and it is more difficult when you look at the players they have signed. Make no mistake, we will be lucky to be in the chase come the business end of the season but I am sure that under the stewardship of Le Guen we will be up there and hopefully up there at the top with a gap between us and everyone else. The foundations are there, so that is part of the battle won already.
Looking ahead to Thursdays game and it looks like we will have Lee Martin back in the team and we could have done with him playing on Saturday, but we won convincingly so it is no big deal but his pace will be vital against Molde.

Another thing that bugged me on Saturday and all season is fact is the roughouse tactics used against the likes of Burke and Martin by opposing players. The dirty tackles have made me wince several times and it is no wonder we struggle to produce good players when they get fouled sand subsequently injured. The time has come for the dirty stuff to calm down and for players to learn how to play the game properly and to truly make Scottish football part of the beautiful game. I await that day with baited breath though sadly.
til tomorrow then.