17 Jun 2015 23:06:58
I read a lot of guys on here giving Walter Smith pelters about the money he spent and the style of his teams! You talk about how the fitba under advocaat was better and a lot more exciting but don't go into to much depth about the fact he spent £80 million in 2 seasons to achieve this! Maybe the fitba under Smith wasn't always great but I for one wasn't complaining when we were winning trophies and getting to a Uefa cup final! Were you?

With regards to McCoist everyone is entitled to their own opinion but he will always be a legend in my eyes! Everyone seems to forget that when we first went down he was the only man ready to stand up and be counted when it really mattered when all the other so called "Rangers Men" disappeared in to the sunset! With the team he inherited from smith we were 15 points clear at Christmas before the stuff hit the fan! I agree that some of his signings were poor especially last summer but to start off in division 3 with no players and a signing ban he tried his best so cut the guy some slack!

Now after my rant I would like to put forward something to my fellow bears! Remember a few years ago we managed to convince one of Europe's most talked about and wanted young managers in the shape of Paul le guen! We were all so excited and a new era was upon us! Looked what happened there! All I'm saying is we shouldn't get to excited and Warburton and Weir, the pair who are single handedly going to transform the club from utter dross on the park to the Brazilian national team on a shoe string budget but also manage to bring through these wonder kids at Murray park that all the previous managers love to ignore! All I'm saying is don't get to carried away just yet! For all the life of me I hope they do what I've mentioned above but I just don't see how!

1.) 18 Jun 2015
18 Jun 2015 08:56:29
McCoist didn't inherit a squad with no players ok there were maybe only 8 or 9 but to say there were no players is just rubbish. The signing ban didn't start until after the transfer window closed and he signed players like Black, Sandaza, Templeton, Shiels, Cribari and a good few more so that point is rubbish too. As for cutting him slack you obviously are unaware of the turgid one paced rubbish his teams played for the last 3 years. Obviously you weren't aware that he had the luxury of having a squad with a wage bill of £6m and still couldn't win the Ramsdens cup and was embarrassed in every other cup. He didn't improve any players he bought and they all went backwards. He lied to the fans regarding his wages and he decided against signing Craig Gordon and Scot Allan but instead went for Simonsen and Hutton. Fair enough if you think of him as a legend however a lot of us Rangers fans live in the real world and know the damage his man has done to the club

2.) 18 Jun 2015
18 Jun 2015 09:25:07
If Ally was a ' Rangers man' why is he still taking a wage from a club he supposedly loves, not as if he needs it, I thought like many other Bears that when King took control he would do the right thing and resign from his contract and not take any more money.

3.) 18 Jun 2015
18 Jun 2015 09:37:41
at least when Le Guen left he didn't take a penny, McCoist is taking money from a club he claims to love. That money could help us get a player or 2 in, he was clueless as a manager and when his contract is up nobody will touch him with a barge pole. In fact why haven't some of clubs in England came in for him if he is that good?? i:e Shiefield Weds etc

4.) 18 Jun 2015
18 Jun 2015 11:01:40
Nice history re-write Bears 1872, McCoist had 13 players at his first training session, with another 6 still to commit or return, all of whom played at some point in the season. The signing ban was suspended initially or don't you recall them buying Templeton and signing Cribari's and the like?

As for McCoist being "the only man ready to stand up", trust me TUPE-ing over was the biggest no-brainer of Ally's career, £825,000 a year to coast Rangers through the lower divisions, Charles promise of penny shares and a 25 year contract for a nice wee endorsement. The queue of managers prepared to take on that financial package with those resources compared to competitors would have been from the Copland Road to Carnaby St.

Breathtaking delusion in every regard there Bears 1872

5.) 18 Jun 2015
18 Jun 2015 12:37:23
Ally is no longer a legend more of a BELL-END now.

6.) 18 Jun 2015
18 Jun 2015 13:41:50
Templeton was bought when whyte took over was he not?

7.) 18 Jun 2015
18 Jun 2015 13:49:13
bears1872 or jyf or . Ally? Seriously you could at least use "Gardener on Leave" or "Football Destroying Money Grabber" so we know it is you.

I really admire you trying to defend yourself as it must be hard the facade of the cheeky chappie loveable legend cracking away to expose what many people suspected you to be . a self important , two faced mercenary only concerned with one thing The Ally McCoist Show no matter how it damages others and Rangers.

Your choice of old pals , funding their retirement and overpaying total muppets like Kyle and Black in particular. The signing policy of what can only be described as put a blindfold on and pin the tail on the donkey and they were nearly all donkeys. Your crass patronising of people and us fans with gems like "I never read my contract". Worst of all staying in place so long knowing inside you were totally unable to carry out ANY managerial tasks at the expense of football, fans and Rangers finances all down to one thing you ONLY care about Alistair McCoist period.

Above average striker that missed 2 chances for every one scored yes, piss taker yes, legend not anymore if you ever were.

Walter spent multi millions too and classically bought the Worlds best central defender from the Champions of Europe and played him at right back. His football was turgid and boring relieved only by the occasional Gazza and Laudrup signings, players that need zero coaching. Yes winning 9 in a row was fantastic at the time but I clearly remember being bored for long parts of most of the seasons and turning up out of loyalty alone, had I been able to afford going to Barca back then I would have been only going to selected home games and away games as the football was not entertaining.

I am more excited about going to Rangers now under potential of a new exciting style, win draw or lose, than I was back then about turning up to see us grind out another 1-0 or 2-0 boring win.

8.) 18 Jun 2015
18 Jun 2015 18:27:34
Cee

No he was bought when Green took charge