Rangers Banter Archive March 16 2015

16 Mar 2015 21:56:14
When wee signed Young clark I thought wee where on too a winner now I see a young guy lost waiting on a bus but their is no service if you get what I mean how hard would it have been too get all the goals he scored from footage and actually play to his strengths

16 Mar 2015 22:13:06
Jammy
I posted something similar a few weeks ago I believe he could be a goal machine if given the same service the rest got a bit light wait but fast!

17 Mar 2015 02:49:27
he is possibly the only one i'd keep, and use wingers and a creative midfielder to allow him to express himself,

17 Mar 2015 06:38:18
You see something in Clark that I don't, he does the same as Miller by putting in a shift every game but the step up with the expectation etc have been too much for him in my opinion his goals per mins played is very poor.

17 Mar 2015 08:00:14
look messi would struggle to score goals in that team although boyd is a lazy so and so if he got the chances he would score goals there is not enough midfield craft to make thances templeton must be given a run and if found to be wanting go with the rest but there are some players who were good enough when they came and due to the kick and rush tactics have went in reverse another problem we never play same strikers 2 games hard running couple that to the fact that the players are not fit and don't press the other teams we also defend to deep to suit macullochs pace we played this way with dave weir but he marshalled defence correctly

17 Mar 2015 08:37:54
Bigwull

No he wouldn't he would score goals in any team

17 Mar 2015 09:12:32
Clark is poor all he does is run about similar to Miller. This guy can't cut it in the championship and certainly won't cut it in the premiership. If we eventually do go up we need to get rid of players like him

17 Mar 2015 15:21:58
Aye I don't fancy Clark. He's a willing player and puts in a shift but he's just not good enough. I'd start with Shiels and give him a decent run with Templeton in as well

17 Mar 2015 19:18:02
Bigwull messi would have more chance on his own, no other plsyers in our team just messi, he would not be much worse on his own than our full team put together lol lol .

16 Mar 2015 21:46:09
Stuart mccall will be well versed on all free agents that are around just now, he has very good contacts in england alone

17 Mar 2015 02:52:12
If these clowns don't beat Hibs on sunday then its too late, I fear Stuart has realised they're no good and reported back to the board, they have a decision to make, release cash for wages now and try to get up,, or accept it is unlikely to be this season? that's they're choice

17 Mar 2015 08:11:04
jr do u know for a fact he has good contacts or are u just surmising it any player without a club at this stage will take about a month to get up to pace and in general would only be looking for easy money

16 Mar 2015 20:54:18
Free agents rudi skacel William gallas hatem Ben arfa lass diara assou akoto Ivan klasnic what do fellow Bears think

16 Mar 2015 21:14:01
maybe skacel neither of the rest would want to play for rangers or scotish championship

16 Mar 2015 21:14:07
Too much money on wages mate! Besides they are all too old!

16 Mar 2015 21:18:58
Would do a better job than what we got a would rather give gallas 72k a month rather than lee mculloch

16 Mar 2015 21:41:07
Doubt mccullochs on that much wouldn't mind diarra out of those mentioned

16 Mar 2015 21:43:52
South side bear do u live in the real world? Absolute no chance bar rudi I can't believe some fans are serious this must be a joke why not thru in rooney bale an hazard too

16 Mar 2015 22:11:48
Am just stating that these guys are free agents doesn't mean we will sign them calm down but we need new players in now fair enough give the boys a chance but we need up this season prob better getting 15-20 boys off the street be better than the current squad

16 Mar 2015 22:17:59
is this a joke 72k per month ---- SEVENTY TWO THOUSAND PER MONTH -- CALM DOWN PLEASE

17 Mar 2015 02:55:16
yes, get skacel, and him and his OLD pal Zaliukas can get they're pension together, and pick Kennys up while they're down at the shops?, They could even form a wee bingo club, about 120 yrs old between them?

16 Mar 2015 23:18:37
Kerrymac it only eorks out at sbout a million a year with his bonuses, alright if you can get it eh.

16 Mar 2015 23:59:03
Laylex comparing mcculloch to diarr rea is about right mate, I know its a lot of sh.t but makes sense imo .lol.

16 Mar 2015 20:28:10
Does any think that it might be better not to go up this season? That way whoever becomes manager can build a team which hopefully will be ready for the top league the following season. Is there any point going up and starting to build a team in the top league?

16 Mar 2015 20:31:51
I asked myself this question the other day. Go up and get pumped every game or build a winning team in the championship.

The answer my friend is to have faith in the board to provide said funds and fans to back this said board.

16 Mar 2015 20:56:16
OP you mean something like what should have happened during the last 2 and a half wasted years? I suspect we won't go back up unless fortunes at Ibrox and Easter Road dramatically change. They quite simply look a far better team.
Hopefully someone will write a biography entitled "McCoist the wasted years " - would a true legend continue to pick up £14,000 per week especially when he looks in on the shambling expensive mess he left?

I agree with Lani on McCulloch - time to go please god.

Have been away for a few weeks and surprised to see the most prolific poster is that well known Bear Martybhoy.

Still there is nothing like wit and repartee and his posts are nothing like wit and repartee.

Didn't banter used to to mean light hearted humour / friendly verbal interaction?

If it was meant that way and not to read as a wee angry man who has had decades of anger and bile building up and suddenly letting rip at the "enemy" then please forgive me.

If there was no humour and the only motive was revenge on a desperately wounded football club and its suffering fans then I hope these pages help lower your blood pressure and give you more pleasure than your readers.

Get well soon lad.

16 Mar 2015 21:32:46
Mannering

Exactly that should have happened 3 years ago and it's shocking that it didn't. As you say McCoist has totally ruined the team and to me is as culpable as Whyte, Green and the previous board for the shocking state of the club. I agree about Hibs I can't see how we can beat them over 2 legs even assuming we get that far. Time to clear the decks during the close season and it's better to do it in the championship rather than the premiership. I don't think I coukd stomach 4 pumpings off that mob not to mention regular beatings from Aberdeen and Dundee Utd

17 Mar 2015 02:58:37
Mannering I have implored fans on here not to reply to him, ure correct in his hatefilled posts, every single day, he must have a very lonely life, he gets very excited when he spouts some more rubbish I suspect, very excited indeed!!

17 Mar 2015 09:01:16
"The answer my friend is to have faith in the board to provide said funds "

Look, a flying pig.

17 Mar 2015 12:12:45
Stewie you forgot to mention hibs and hearts in the getting pumped next season, if we went up lol.

16 Mar 2015 19:20:36
Ed - the rumours page is dying of starvation- Is it worth maintaining it? why not just stick with the banter page

{Ed001's Note - of course it is worth keeping, there will be transfers in the summer.}

16 Mar 2015 19:36:45
3 names for the summer being branded about

Mark beevers
Jason naismith
Billy Knott

17 Mar 2015 03:04:18
I think we have more than enough BEAVERS already m8?

I personaly hope Magath will be in and we start scouting European fringe players for Bosmans and season loans it is our ponly way of getting players above our station as other than that we are left scraping for English Championship players costing over 1million to 3million NOT the way forward

Vuckic should be FIRST on our signings list if we can get him

17 Mar 2015 22:30:06
Kt very sensible post imo.

16 Mar 2015 18:35:06
in the last year my opinion of mr mccoist has totally plumited first through the few years he was manager he has scarred the club to a low low level with his his lack of knowledge tatics and what a football player actually is and now he still hangs on looking to bleed more money out of us, if he was real rangers man he would put his hands up and do what he said he never would and walk away, just another Charles Dickens leach

16 Mar 2015 21:39:12
It will always astonish me how a guy who played at the highest level can be so clueless and not have an eye for a player. Some of the signings have defied belief and not one of his signings improved under him. For a player who relied heavily on good service to score during his playing days it's incredible that he didn't try and do the same for his strikers

16 Mar 2015 22:18:29
Stewie I've always wonfpdered about that as well, but if things are to be believed about his contract to get us back up, and hsving to play jig and otheres is true he will lose his name completly in regards our club imho.what ime meaning is if he put pen to paper on conditions he is finished completly imo.

16 Mar 2015 22:41:41
I think the rot started when we were dumped out of Europe in Sweden; no tactics or discipline partic Whitaker then in the next league game St Johnstone turned us over. The writing was on the wall at that point we did nto have a clue, then came Whyte, green et al. Mind you if we had got the £ 10,000,000 it would have evaporated I suppose

16 Mar 2015 23:21:38
Deeb evaparated along with the people that have already screwed us for millions.

16 Mar 2015 18:30:08
Hoping McCall assesses our squad ruthlessly and drops McCulloch and the wasters ASAP.
I am heart sick of them all mouthing off to the press about how they need to stand up and be counted and how everyone needs to play for the shirt. I wish they, McCulloch and Miller in particular would shut up we are not falling for it, produce on park stop talking.

I am extremely annoyed that it appears McCulloch has had a clause in his contract GUARANTEEING him a 1st pick in every game if he is fit, that explains a lot. That has to be stopped immediately.72k waste of money keeping a young deserving player out the team.

I am glad McCall sees the 4 unfit Newcastle players as pointless and I hope he uses our freedom to sign out of contracts up to 31st March to bring in 2 big defenders and a proven young striker. Yet another mccoist error letting Andy Little leave and Gasparotto/McAusland/McKay away all EXACTLY what we have been missing.
Murdoch, Gallagher, Crawford and Walsh in please Stuart.

I believe in McCall he will sort this out

16 Mar 2015 19:02:52
Who's available on a free that's decent?

16 Mar 2015 20:19:38
not Crawford please the guy wasn't getting a game for Morton so why would he make a difference in the championship? However do agree with the others getting a game

16 Mar 2015 23:26:56
Kt if the alagations currently coming to light in re mccoist having to use players if fit its no wonder ha sent the youngsters out on loan eh.ime dying to see it all unravel,

17 Mar 2015 03:14:10
i also thought crawford was awful, fit as a flea mind, miller was a great player for us in his time,, ally must have some knowledge of the game, miller had left top flight football, was old, and was messing around in the sun in canada, walter got rid of boyd,, black was chased by hearts, m, zaliukas was finished long ago,, let's not even mention kyle that was simply a disgrace, Now sMC has to get rid, and he will I've no doubt, its his reputation on the line and his future, just a pity all this didn't happen in january, when he could have signed some replacements,

16 Mar 2015 09:08:16
Contrary to the pundits writing that the players aren't trying hard enough, I believe they are but that they're simply not good enough and we can thank McCoist for his policy of signings, blatant favouritism and failure of vision to play youth at the most opportune time in our club's history.

Reading McCullouch wanting to renew his contract sums up the disconnect between fantasy and reality. 10 years past his prime, the fans want a clear out and this crop of underperformers want the same again next season. Tom Walsh's performance at least gives hope to the fans and to Murray Park.

16 Mar 2015 09:30:17
I disagree for me most of the players just can't be ersed! No movement no desire no heart - law, Clark, shiels, Daly, Templeton etc. Vuckic look good on the ball but off it lazy. When's the last time you saw a player make a run in behind the defence or come short or go wide? They just stand in the same spot and wait on the ball.

16 Mar 2015 11:27:00
i agree about the ability in the side, and midfield is a problem, enegy levels should be better, we should be closing down and in general running the legs off the opposition during games!!

16 Mar 2015 11:45:58
Ceexxx apart from those youve mentioned i'd keep the 2keepers and replsce the rest with youths,

16 Mar 2015 12:12:15
I wouldn't even keep the keepers lol

16 Mar 2015 12:50:39
The players are of SPL quality, the problem is McCoist ruined their careers. Hutton had potential and he's not been used properly in my eyes, law is a good player, black can pick a very good pass, Wallace was once great, jig too was once great, Daly, Clark, Templeton they were all great players and McCoist ruined them. it's slightly depressing, even aird had potential, he needs to train on his crossing but yet it seems to have got worse. I guess playing ass blast with the players and taking a Thursday off would make them go from SPL quality too 3rd division quality. it's sad that we gave him so long even though the quality was slowly getting worse! he's not a legend, he's a thief, nice little 850k a year from us to mess about! pathetic.

16 Mar 2015 13:31:34
Can't agree that Jig was ever great, feel the same way about Barry Ferguson, but agree with rest of your views on how high quality SPL players were turned into ffuds by the tactical genius

16 Mar 2015 14:21:34
Jig in his CDM role was great, he was a brick wall. not the best, but a vital part of the team. but that's just my opinion

16 Mar 2015 16:03:25
Ositown mcculloch was average at his peek, good for headed goals, but age has caught it with him and a few others, I think in our wee country playes need to be mega fit because of the pace our football is played at, lots of older pros go abroad at the end of there careers because its slower, and so are they, sometimes we get an exception like big dave weir, a guy that thought about his career and career only, the right diet andd excersize throughout his life.

16 Mar 2015 16:06:24
LANI - Can't agree with you on Barry Ferguson. I thought he was a great player and light years ahead of anything we have at the moment. Plenty of heart and fighting spirit, but he could play as well and easily held his own in the top division down south. How many of the current crop could you say that about? Looking at the other mob, how many of them could do it in England?

16 Mar 2015 16:42:46
Noddy it someone like barry ferguson we need right now.

16 Mar 2015 16:57:05
Noddy, agree totally about Barry Ferguson, he costantly demanded the ball and was always available for a pass.
He never hid during games like this mob just now and knew what it meant to wear the jersey.

16 Mar 2015 17:54:02
All about opinions, remember some great performances, Bayer Leverkusen, 5-1 game against Sellik in 2000, 3-2" cup final, no question, but also lot of games where he didn't perform. good player, but not a great.

16 Mar 2015 22:28:05
Lani he demanded the ball and sure as feck let the rest of the team know what he wanted them to do, definetly somebody like that neede now.

16 Mar 2015 05:33:59
Not posted in ages but I do follow the site everyday so going to give a rather large comment and see how my fellow bears feel as we all want change under McColl

well I for one can't wait to see McColl's team selection for the alloa game a team who has proved to be a pain for us then I will judge him on this game coming its hard not to be disappointed after the last game but it was also said there were limited selections to the big man and only being there a matter of days is hard to pick a team who would compliment any of the over rated boys we have,

its also very well commented on the site the last few days that this has to be jigs last season but if he has to be in the team has to be in a defensive mid role as he is to slow to be our last line of defence playing boys onside and not having anytime to see what's happening and make a decision yet big strong guy always has been but if he's not in the area he needs to be because his lack of pace there is real problems and can only see him in a defensive mid role,

I for one feel Robinson has had a good run in the team and would love bell back asap but would stick with him for now as he can at least kick a ball and made a few really important save but I would drop jig unless d/mid role and so my team going by who's available would be

go: Robinson

rb: smith
cb: McGregor
cb: zaliuska
lb: wallace

dcm: mccullouch only if he has to be there
lm: shiels
rm: Walsh
cam: vuckic depending on him knock
cam: temps free role

cf: Clark movements good just needs
service

with a bench of

bell when fit but think he's still abit off
Murdoch been hot and cold but shows
can be good
miller not been the best but can change a game
Gallagher rate him highly
stoney can be a star givin the chance
hardie seen him a few times not seen a bad game

we have no defenders available so best team I could pick and can't say bring in youth anymore than the boys said as seen then play a couple times


but what ever the team I just hope to see some changes but will have to wait and see

WATP

16 Mar 2015 09:40:24
this gets right on my nerves your not the only 1 a lot do it our mangers name is Stuart McCall not McColl

16 Mar 2015 11:50:29
Gannet wooooo