Plenty of Rangers fans have been reacting to a tweet from ‘Gers-focused channel @4ladshadadream which accused some players of “letting us down” – although some feel that a significant portion of culpability rests elsewhere at Ibrox.
Don’t enjoy criticising the team because nobody wants to read it but truth is too many players are letting us down
The spine of the team was really poor yesterday and once again we were far too slow & passive
I could pick faults in every single player but we all know the issues
— Four Lads Had A Dream (@4ladshadadream) February 2, 2020
The Light Blues closed to within two points of the Premiership summit heading into the winter break after beating leaders Celtic 2-1 but have now fallen seven points off the pace after failing to win two of their last three games, losing at Hearts and drawing to Aberdeen. By contrast, the Hoops have won all four of their matches since the resumption of the Premiership campaign.
Even in some of their recent wins, Rangers have seemed decidedly unimpressive. It took them until almost half-time to break down third-tier Stranraer in a 2-0 Scottish Cup win last month, with the same occurring in the 2-0 defeat of Premiership strugglers Ross County last week, while they also had a “nervous” 1-0 win over St Mirren (as per Sky Sports‘ Charles Paterson) in January.
After seeing the tweet from @4ladshadadream calling the players into question, these Rangers fans feel that manager Steven Gerrard (and, to a lesser extent, his coaching staff) must take a large portion of responsibility for the recent results that have allowed Celtic to steal a march in the title race:
Gerrard unfortunately is not good enough
He should step aside at the end of the season if he cannot win the Scottish cup
Same formation over and over again, predictable boring slow football
Yesterday was horrendous
— Helander (@CraigG15977856) February 2, 2020
How about a formation change at home? Every team are coming and setting up the same way, Gerrard is not covering himself in glory either.
— BelfastUknewmark2 (@uknewmark2) February 2, 2020
Management have to shoulder alot of the blame too imo… If the team come out of a winter training camp worse off than they went in surely that’s down to management?
— (@rockthekasbah88) February 2, 2020
I think everyone going to the game yesterday knew how the game was going to go and look like. I don’t think Gerrard can escape criticism as we’ve become too predictable. Need more players in final third in some games/most home games so no need for flat mid 3.
— Skinbag (@SK1N1873) February 2, 2020
Too many players off form at the one time, and got to question what has happened to the fitness over the break.
Biggest concern for me though, is Gerrard and his coaching teams inability to tactically change a game when its not going our way.— Faceless (@FacelessRanger) February 2, 2020
It’s not the team letting us down it’s the management, how many times do they have to see that system fail before they change it?
— Chris Scott (@christtocs) February 2, 2020
Do you think Gerrard has been the main reason for Rangers’ recent dip in form or do the players have to shoulder responsibility? Have your say by commenting below!
