01 Jun 2015 06:05:30
A wee parable for the folk out there that for some reason uknown to people that understand how football works say that today and this seasons debacle is not entirely one Alistair McCoist's fault.

I am for debate's sake the Site Manager for a Timber Merchant and Kit House Builders, the Company hires me for £850k a year and tells me I can likely win a 25 year contract. They give me carte blanche run of the business to do my way.

I immediately go home and contact all my old building trade pals. I sign 15 Plumbers , 3 Sparks, 5 Plasterers and no finishing joiners.

At the beginning we do not bad but eventually after countless houses collapsing and people demanding better tradesmen I am sussed out by my Bosses as a flybynight no use Site Manager only caring about the £££ and keeping my pals happy, ffs I even let them fire the nail gun at my ar*e on the building site.

A new Site Manager comes in to try and get the company back on track and finds out he has no JOINERS just all jack of all trade past their best labourers.

When the company eventually goes bust and gets taken over by a successful Edinburgh Kit House Specialist with a streamlined well trained staff of surprise surprise mostly JOINERS do we blame the current Site Manager because it all went t*ts up to quote a poster on here or was the problem the original Site Manager who set EVERYTHING up wrong in the first place.

In business a certain Mr McCoist would have been sacked and sued for gross mismanagement receiving NO pay after he was sacked and forfeiting company shares also. Only in football with the disgraceful Corporate bad governance would a failure and detractor like McCoist ever have got away with this.

Does that make it a wee bit clearer for the jyf's of this world?

New Era New Dawn we can only get better we cannot ever get worse.

I am never getting my garden landscaped by a company from East Kilbride trading out of Bridge of Weir.

1.) 01 Jun 2015
01 Jun 2015 06:59:48
Except Smith was the man required to sort out the problems of his apprentice?

2.) 01 Jun 2015
01 Jun 2015 07:56:16
Got to say KT's post is spot on. Some of the posts say let's look forwards and not backwards but there's a lot to be said for a post mortem right now and that includes an analysis like that above.

Most here have written over the years expressing their anger at McCoist's reluctance to risk youth and at his agonising loyalty to his journeymen signings. I'm sure a lot of these let him down badly and he paid the price. He went all the way to Honduras to sign Peralta when young Charlie Telfer was down the road at Murray Park. As others have posted, the list goes on and on and the lost opportunities of the likes of Robertson and Allan have been mentioned.

A clear out is about to happen and people are saying they want players who will give their all for the jersey. Fair enough but I'd go first for players with real talent and technical ability. That's Jose Morinhou's starting point so it's good enough for me. We need younger, faster players in all positions and with a limited budget we've got to look at players like Walsh, Murdoch and Gasparotto as 1st 11 choices. I's like to see us try and get McLeod back and Allen in. Telfer too. Danny Wilson would be a great signing to partner Gasparotto, if we can afford him. A lot depends on the depth of the Board's pockets but I do believe if we put out a young team with flair that the crowds will buy into it and the gate receipts justify the expense. The risk is a half empty Ibrox next season and supporters lost for good if we don't make drastic changes.

As for the OP, it captures the cause of where we are and sends out a message for all and whoever is appointed manager, let's hope he's forward thinking and a risk taker.

3.) 01 Jun 2015
01 Jun 2015 08:12:21
Ps foundations for this were reinforced at the delayed AGM 2013 with Greenock bus drivers clinging to power with change going a begging.

4.) 01 Jun 2015
01 Jun 2015 08:13:58
So how's the nailed arse healing up?You never said what happened to your auld pals KT?

5.) 01 Jun 2015
01 Jun 2015 12:30:32
Good post. Rangers now have a 2nd chance to rebuild. When Supa Ally was winning titles nobody cared that they were getting knocke dout of cups by lttle teams or losing cup finals to little teasm becasue the targte was the top league. Over the last 3 years attendances have dwindled becasue the product on the park has been very poor and it has been highlighted further when they met Dundee Utd, Celtic and Motherwell.

Will Rangers have a squad capable of winning the league next year, weel they have about 6 weeks to get a manager, backroom team and a whole new raft of players meanwhile at Hibs they are already prepared and now adding the wee bits and pieces they think they need. St Mirren have a good young squad and they will be decent next year, plus they have a good young manager in place. QOS have added some more quality to their squad and Falkirk will eb better again next year so already the clock is ticking. Is McCall the man, well he brought in a lot of players at Motherwell for next to nothing and moulded them into a good team 2 years running, this season it didn't quite work but is he worth a chance? Problem is, Rangers aren't in a position to take chances, they need proven and they need it now, right now. Time for the Rangers men in the blue room to come out of their bunker and tot tellt he fans how they are going to sort this, the days of blaming everyone else are now gone, this is their time. tick tock

6.) 01 Jun 2015
01 Jun 2015 19:04:25
KT, how does that explain anything to me? We have strikers we have midfielders we have defenders and we have goalkeepers, the first new manager came in half way through the season and was crap so we got another in who in my opinion was also crap and both were worse than the original manager who, if left in his position, would stand or fall by HIS OWN results and we would have clear accountability. KT he left us in the SF of the league cup and the 5th round of the Scottish cup where our first new manager was in charge of a defeat to a team that the original manager beat 6-1 the same score where our second new manager managed to lose by in the play off. You also fail to blame the directors of this company for anything like selling your best tradesman from under you in your silly analogy.