Ryan Naderi

Maybe shows you where our head was at that time, just getting out of Hampton with a win.

But I think over time, when Kevin Kelsey and Ryan Naderi learn more about Buonanni and his style of play and what he's maybe looking for when he gets into that kind of central half space area, They're going to learn.

He's more than likely going to clip it to the back post, and their run has to be towards the back post, or at least one of them has to run towards the back post.

Kevin Kelsey would be the one for me in terms of just aerial ability, get him to the back post.

Saturday yeah

you know we probably just it feels to me like we lacked that almost kind of you know Naderi's done this so I'm contradicting myself but just that player that can get in six yards out of the box inside the box and can just the ball can literally bounce off and get into the net I think that's what Shanklin's very good at I think there's a bit of that in Mioski and I think you're right David We're actually creating a lot of chances and half chances, but because they're not executing and being put in the goals, that is added into the frustration amongst the support.

Yeah, definitely.

And I do agree on Shankland.

Yeah, well, look, it goes back to the classic where, look, why did Does, did I suppose he's out injured the minute Tremere frustrated us all? Because he could score, you know, an overhead kick, which you could liken to, you know, Rooney versus Man City all those years ago.

And then he literally could miss an open net where it felt statistically more difficult to miss than score.

Ryan Naderi, if he probably decided to attempt that overhead style kick, would probably dislocate his shoulder or something.

But that's not a disrespect to him.

And I completely agree with you.

Ryan Naderi is becoming

a really important player for Rangers.

I'll hold my hands up.

And that's where I always see Lewis.

Lewis and I had such a good view of that.

We were right on the six yard line and just saw Naderi coming in.

But he was brilliant.

And I think there was one in the second half.

Second half, Chris McCart comes right through the back of Ryan Naderi.

I mean, literally right through the back of him, which in this day and age within modern football, you can't do that.

Naderi goes through, I mean, he doesn't touch the ball.

He actually goes through and takes the player out.

The ball ricochets off Naderi, no foul.

So we see another example last night at Tyne Castle, the two-tier refereeing, which is in place in Scottish football.

This isn't a conspiracy thing.

You've seen it previous weeks.

I mean, how many times have I been on here to you saying, oh, Kelsey's just missed that? Or you look at the Ryan Naderi goal against Motherwell, there was none of that.

We didn't even get a sniff.

I felt like they...

He gets involved in trying to hold up the play.

But it's Ryan Naderi's run off that means that Kevin Kelsey doesn't need to worry about that part.

He can just be at the back post like he has.

And I think For Kevin Kelsey to get the goal that he does at the back post after the corner and then the goal that he scores in the first half and the goal that he should have scored when him and Ndiri were fanning about with it at the front of the box.

It's difficult.

I mean, probably, for me, if we're going to go one up front, I know Ryan Naderi's industry is great.

We all talk about how much his work rate is.

But the last time that Ryan Naderi started as a sole striker, it was Jablonica B. Yeah.

So, if it is going to be a sole striker...

Is it Kelsey? You know, Naderi is a great player.

I completely admire everything he does for us.

But I think there's still weaknesses in his actual football game.

That's exactly what we're going to come on to and discuss.

There was maybe the aspect of Ryan Naderi looking a bit too isolated.

I don't think Rangers intended to play that way.

I don't want to say long ball merchants because it wasn't quite that, but I felt like there was a lot of long balls going into Naderi that...

Again, I like to be balanced when I talk about the good parts as well as the bad parts.

But what did you make of that in particular? Because that seemed to be the sort of, a huge criticism last night as well that I saw online was about Naderi starting up top.

Now, I am charging the Ryan Naderi fan club have been on here at times and saying, I don't, I think he is undroppable, but I don't think that we played to his strengths last night.

And a really, really interesting point that I saw was that if we were going to be playing those balls up, maybe Kelsey might have been the forward to start up front.

And loads of defenders are just going to struggle with that.

Ryan Naderi's the same.

Just physicality off the charts.

I really enjoy watching, so maybe I'm going to give him a little bit of a pass for that second half.

So we've got conflict in the chat tonight.

I did not expect to see anyone after what we've watched from Naderi over the last few weeks saying that he's crap.

But yeah, don't think I ever watched Sergio Dessers perform like Ryan Naderi in the last two old firm fixtures.

That's probably the only thing I would say to that.