13 Mar 2014 10:32:38
Fellow bears I'm new to this board but felt the need to post based on some of the responses levelled at Ally and the team. Whilst everyone is entitled to their opinion, I cannot for the life of me understand the level of criticism dished out to Ally McCoist. I've read on here about guys wanting Derek McInnes or Billy Davies as Rangers manager and the fact the quality of football we playing in league one is horrendous! I think we all know it's not great viewing however, Ally McCoist has had practically both hands tied behind his back since he got the Rangers Job. Yes we have the second highest wage bill in Scotland but for me too many gers fans are stuck in the past in terms of previous teams and players we've had. I agree with Ally with what he was saying in the newspapers about not having a Laudrup or Gascoigne. Those days are gone along with the Souness, Smith and Advocaat days. For me, Jose Mourinho could get the Rangers job and some fans would still be shouting for his head because we couldn't beat Albion Rovers for example. Look at the facts, we have won back to back titles which was the main objective, we are unbeaten in the league this season, yet some people are still shouting for McCoists head. I've no doubt we will get back to the top of Scottish football but we need to give Ally a break in my opinion. Someone posted here that he is in danger of losing his legendary status. total nonsense, can't believe anyone who was brought up in the Ally McCoist days would even say this!. The same could be said about John Greig? Get a grip guys and get back into the real world. Ed, you make valid points mate and I agree with your comments but a lot of other fans need a reality check. As I say everyone is entitled to their opinions but I just don't get it with a lot of fellow bears comments. We will get their slowly but surely but we need to walk before we can run. I'm sure Ally knows the quality of football is not good enough but I'm convinced a few of the guys in the current squad will be moved on once we're back in the premier league. That's not say they haven't done a great job getting us back up the leagues, it's just a fact some are not good enough for when we get back to the top.

1.) 13 Mar 2014
13 Mar 2014 12:45:58
Very admirable loyalty m8. And well written too. I hate accusing ally but the truth must out. He doesn't know any other way than punts into daly. jig. or moshni. he took the c/f off against rovers and replaced him with faure? Then got very lucky. And for info I was there when greigy was gaffer. and believe me his reputation came very close to destruction. with the lowest crowds in our history. So while h admire ure post I think he must step aside
tomblue

2.) 13 Mar 2014
SCDFB

As you state everyone is indeed entitled to their opinion. However, what seems to be the majority of the fan base is now in agreement that Ally McCoist and his coaching team do not have it to man manage players (SPFL standard) or strategise in games. If we are a goal down it's the same old long ball dross that belongs to a bygone era of football. I feel that you are yet another poster that cannot separate Ally the legend and Ally the manager.

Yes we do have the second highest wage bill in Scotland. The team is also full of players that Ally sourced through bosman signings. No one else recommended these players to him. there is no scouting network.

No one in their right mind is comparing this Rangers team to ones of the fast but the facts do not lie. We have won the league but take a step back and look at the opposition. They are part time players. I can open my back door which looks onto football fields to watch the same level of football player that we are against on a weekly basis.

The point I make is. this is Ally's team, not one which has been thrust upon him. The players have became lackadaisical under his stewardship. So what does that come down to? Managerial nous, ability, strategy, man management and all with no threat of the sack due to the clubs financial position.

I wish it were different but it is not.

3.) 13 Mar 2014
I with a little coaching experience would have won the league, Mccoist's hands where not tied when we got put out of europe by 2 pub teams, get him out now, he is rank rotten as a manager, what sticks in my throat more than anything about him is on the evening times telling fans he was buying shares as a fan and not as the rangers manager and he encoured the fans to do likewise.

4.) 13 Mar 2014
SCDFB

no one is stuck in the past m8 what people are fed up with is Allys lack of tactical awareness and his inability to bring the best out in a player not to mention his reluctance to play our youth. you mention back to back titles when you look at what Ally has at his disposal what do you expect. I have no football managerial experience whatsoever but I would feel confident of delivering back to back titles if I had Allys wage bill to pay players with.

Ally has managed to take some decent players like Sheils Law black Daly Foster Temps etc and turn them into mediocre players

no matter how you try and dress it up Ally does not have what it takes to be manager of Rangers, he has done nothing in the past or present to make me think he ever will have what it takes.

if Ally left I would like to see someone like Stuart McCall given the chance someone who is not afraid to play youth alongside some good journeymen, someone who will coach his players on how to keep the ball on the ground and try and play some attractive football. someone who wouldn't want £800000 plus bonuses for winning the fourth tier of scottish football and £400000 plus bonuses for the third tier.

5.) 13 Mar 2014
I agree with you on that one. Every Rangers manager will have his critics, and Ally has a lot. The football hasn't been great but we have got the job done.
His legendary status has significantly increased in my view due to his loyalty to the club through these tough times.

6.) 13 Mar 2014
Cbeattie

are you for real man " His legendary status has significantly increased" well that's your opinion and you are entitled to it but I think most Rangers fans would disagree. in my opinion his legendary status is slowly disappearing down the drain.

All this nonsense about loyalty Ally didn't do walking away for three reasons

1)£800000 plus per year
2)£1 Million in shares
3) HE HAD NOWHERE TO GO

you got one thing right m8 you say the club is going through tough times, in my opinion taking £800k per year and paying over inflated wages to very average players is just compounding our problems not alleviating them or increasing your legendary status

Lochaber Bear

7.) 13 Mar 2014
OP and 5 sometimes posts on here completely gas my flabber and IMO the advert should have gone to spec savers may apply to you two. Hey but its all about opinions my opinion is we had a wonderful opportunity to reinvent our club as one which had learned from its fatal financial imprudence and came back with a young and exciting attacking football team envisaged by Bill Struth when he talked about the ever increasing numbers of people who would come to Ibrox to marvel at the football product.
This legends dream has not been followed by a wee rotund chap from Scotland's largest new town who is so out his depth it is truly scary.
In fact the opposite is happening as those of us with 50 / 50 vision despair at the product being produced by the overpaid mercenaries on the pitch and in the dug-out.

8.) 13 Mar 2014
5, what? lol

9.) 13 Mar 2014
Maybe the OP isn't aware but for the past 2 seasons we have been up against part time players. Now there is a reason they are part time. If you think he has had his hands tied behind this back then what about the Albion Rovers manager or the Clyde manager. They haven't exactly been able to splash the cash nor do they get a salary like Ally's. You can defend him all you want but the truth is he isn't up to the job and will be found out either in the championship or the premiership.

10.) 13 Mar 2014
Spiv - did one of your pub teams not beat hibs 0-7 at easter road?

and

was your other pub team not still in Europe this season long after all the Scottish teams were ko, d and only put out narrowly by sevilla 4-3? good going for pub teams!

JG

11.) 13 Mar 2014
13 Mar 2014 21:43:43
@jg. very good reply m8. Just for the record.
However to op and 5. Total nonsense. If Anyone in the football world had taken the Rangers job with Allys resources and not won easily. and I include managers of junior teams. And not won leagues 3 and 2. Then we would have slaughtered them. He cudnt possibly fail. And I mean cudnt possibly fail. But along the way he has managed to take us to terrible depths and woeful football. And gave guys like "wee blackie " contracts they never dreamed of. And he was chucking it! U cudnt make it up
tomblue

12.) 14 Mar 2014
On reflection lads, maybe I was a bit defensive in my post yesterday regarding Ally and I hold my hands up that I was maybe blinkered in defending Ally the player and Ally the manager. I still find it hard to accept what has happened to the Gers and dropping down divisions etc so the sooner we sort out the mess the better. WATP

13.) 15 Mar 2014
Barcelona described WSs tactics as "anti football" and rightly so, it was pish, but McCoist has taken that concept to new depths, you say the fans would moan at Mourinho, maybe, but McCoist would DEFINITELY make Messi look a bad player! He has a "don't lose" mentality which is why even with the squad he has Rangers get numbers behind the ball and very rarely dominate games even at this level. IMO McCoist deserves all the criticism he gets for his "tactics" alone.