19 Feb 2017 22:13:36
Just had another look at the starting 11 today and the teams we signed these players from are 3 from a league 1 at the time wigan then 1 from league 1 mk dons another from league 1 Bradford and another from league 1 Swindon town and don't think most of those clubs were at all bothered about these guys leaving says it all. then from championship Plymouth and qpr were hill and garner were not even getting Game at the time. Not to mention forrister not getting a game at Doncaster and holt same problem at hearts then crooks and widass from Accrington stanly how on earth did we exspect this bunch of duds to ever do anything and the worst thing is there all on whopping big deals between 2 and 3years left for most of them and prob earning more money than they would get anywhere else this is really worrying.


1.) 20 Feb 2017
20 Feb 2017 16:43:27
This is an incredibly valid point and one I made privately to my friends at the beginning of the season. Simply put, the expectation level placed on players who are frankly from mediocre backgrounds is completely misplaced. The players were signed by Warburton and while they were good enough for the Scottish championship, how could we realistically expect a bunch of English league 1 level players who couldn't even get a game for their clubs at the time to compete with Celtic in the league. I saw this coming although I had hoped that there was some hidden talent with them all that Warburton saw that we as fans couldn't. Even Windass who seems to be quite popular amongst our support is pretty poor and while he has the odd moment of setting up a chance, his overall contribution like the rest in the squad is pretty dire. I'm currently feeling very despondent at the situation we find ourselves in and it speaks volumes against those players we signed when Barrie McKay, a product of a shoddy youth system and ignored to the point that he was almost released until Warburton happened to give him a shot, is better than the lot of them. When we played Hearts, I remember looking through their squad and picking out all the players I would take from them in a heartbeat to replace the mediocrity we currently have. Would take Paterson instead of Tavernier, Souttar instead of Kiernan (heck I'd take a traffic cone instead of Kiernan), Kitchen as our DM, Cowie in place of Halliday, Walker instead of waghorn, Johnson instead of Garner, even Hamilton instead of foddy. Even Nicholson when he came on looked impressive and all that is just from ONE team. Warburton has went to England and cherry picked mediocre players from a terrible league (I will never buy that league one is a better standard than SPL as I believe Celtic, Aberdeen and hearts would beat those teams with most of their players being English championship level imo) . The lack of passion in our team is down to these guys. They are league 1 level for a reason, they never strived to be the best, to be winners, to be Rangers quality.


2.) 20 Feb 2017
20 Feb 2017 17:43:17
It's absolutely shocking that we extended most of their contracts before even testing them out in the premier league first yet again we will be left with most of these duds till their contracts run down, this is a worse feeling than when we were in the bottom tier