Rangers Banter Archive April 01 2018

 

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01 Apr 2018 19:57:25
Quicker the season is over the better rangers may not get a European place hurry up may.



01 Apr 2018 18:46:27
Im reading the posts regarding our next manager. My question is how many people trust the board to make the correct appointment. They chose Warburton then waisted a heavy investment with Pedro and his players. Then there was the embarrassing scenario with McInnis. Please get it right and invest the fans hard earned money wisely.



01 Apr 2018 22:07:25
Yes I agree the board have made one mistake after another regarding managers but surely now Mark Allan will have a big input in who comes in as he will have to work with him



01 Apr 2018 23:22:15
Thinkaboutit, how many managers would want to work with a director of football? Its only my ppinion but i think Mark Allen is a waste of a wage and is simply not required at Ibrox.



02 Apr 2018 11:07:01
I agree with Goalie. If you appoint the right manager why do you need a director of football. If you are Chelsea or Man City with 50 players out on loan, image rights for club and player, sponsorships etc then you can make a case, but Rangers can't even get a shirt sponser or a structured scouting team so what is Allens role? Identify players and contracts? How can he identify anyone with 1 or 2 part time scouts? The reason the players coming in flop time after time is because the manager is telling Allen who he wants and Allen does the contract but that's not how a DOF works. The managers are going back for players they worked with before then the manager gets the sack and the new manager goes through the same process again. Look at Pedro. A good DOF should prevent that. Rangers miles away from building a stable club and that's down to King.



02 Apr 2018 11:20:50
Hey Johnny- I might be wrong, but didn't Allen join after Pedro had splashed the cash in the transfer window? I'm personally withholding judgment on DOF until he has a full summer transfer window under his belt. I don't really have much of a bad opinion on this other than them letting Danny Wilson go when i thought he was really starting to hit some form.



02 Apr 2018 13:25:27
Good post Johnnymac. Interesting last comment about King. This will ruffle a few feathers but i believe King is ready to step down. Rumours have it that the rest of the board don't see eye to eye with him, Barry Scott and Alistair Johnson included.



02 Apr 2018 13:49:27
In my opinion mark allen will have a big say on who should be the permanent rangers manager, beyond this season and rightly so! He has a very good working relationship with our current manager graeme murty and this is why graeme murty WILL be the next permanent rangers manager, beyond this season! For the record, like most of my fellow bears on here will know, i truly believe that murty is the correct choice to continue as our manager, after this season! Imo i think given time and another couple of transfer windows, murty and allen will prove this is the correct choice taking glasgow rangers forward! I said repeatedly on here that the current situation reminds me so much, of when celtic put neil lennon in temporary charge of celtic once they sacked tony mowbray, and then gave him the permanent job, at the end of that season! Look how that turned out as lennon went on to become a very good celtic manager! Incidentally he had some dodgy results, just like murty has had, while he was in temporary charge! I truly believe murty will mirror what lennon did and go on to become a good rangers manager! that's my honest opinion fellow bears!



02 Apr 2018 16:27:00
So we should keep murty because he's pals with Allen? let's not dismiss some of the results as just one of those things. We've been playing poorly at home for the majority of murtys time as manager. I think we see why martin couldn't get a game at Norwich. Goss's form has dipped babdly. There's a reason we got thouse 2 on loan. We can't keep murty on a slim chance he might work out.



02 Apr 2018 18:37:16
Blueberry think and read people's posts properly before coming away with statements like, "we should keep murty because he's mark allen's pal"! Nobody and most certainly not me is insinuating that! Read the full post properly!



02 Apr 2018 19:14:07
What exactly has murty done since taking over from Pedro that makes you think he should stay manager? Our performance's have improved since Pedro but surely that's the ver least you should expect after a new manager takes over. Defensively we haven't improved. Our performances at home? Nope. But he has a good working relationship with Allen says coop. And that's a good enough reason for him to stay as manager.



01 Apr 2018 18:20:38
Should maybe sign Andrew Davies from Ross county!



01 Apr 2018 18:48:51
Andrew davies is probably the type of centre half rangers are needing bgate w! Just when you mentioned that there mate, it makes me think of the fallout of his tackle or stamp on broony the loony yesterday! Now let me state here and now, i don't condone that type of tackle in football whatsoever, as it could potentially finish a footballers career! But here's the thing with brenda rodgers and that captain of theirs scott brown! Its seemingly OK for that idiot brown to go around bad tackling and bullying other footballers but a total hue and cry when some other player does it to him! My message to broony the loony is "YOU REAP WHAT SOW", sucker! He's made a good few nasty challenges himself in his career! Honestly fellow bears, i'd have loved rino gattuso to have played against scott brown! It would have been a walkover for gattuso in who was the harder midfielder! A total NO CONTEST! Gattuso would have walked all over brown and trampled him into the ground! Rino would have been far too much for broony! Far too hard, to good an engine and just by far a better all round midfielder than brown! I honestly truly think kevin thomson was a better all round midfielder than brown barring the unfortunate injuries thomo had to put up with! My totally unbiased opinion back when we signed thomo from hibs and they signed brown from hibs, was we got the better player and ONLY injury stopped that from being proved and nobody will convince me otherwise!



01 Apr 2018 19:05:06
Such a bitter bitter small minded man you are, a gentleman like Dave cooper would be embarrassed at you using his name 😢



01 Apr 2018 19:07:11
Fair point Coop, but I think you will find Gattuso was a Champion League winner and World Cup winner. The bold Broonie is simply a turn coat who wouldn’t last 2 minutes in any of the big leagues in the world🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧



01 Apr 2018 19:26:44
Absolutely get right tae wi that suggestion.

I mean the mans done the rest of Scottish football a favour geein Lego boy a kick in the swingers but he is dung 😂



01 Apr 2018 19:39:16
Just think he would stand up to brown and not be bullied like our lightweight players, I accept the guy is limited though



01 Apr 2018 19:55:01
Supercooper, were you aware that Broon nearly signed for us. He actually took a gentlemans agreement. Just shows you what type of person he actually is to go back on your word.



01 Apr 2018 20:05:09
Terry Hurlock would have had Broonie for breakfast.



01 Apr 2018 20:11:04
Maybe navide from still game would be a better signing though



01 Apr 2018 20:23:35
Ian Ferguson would have hav had BROONY by the throat in the tunnel before the game kicked off lol.



01 Apr 2018 20:22:32
The Lego muncher basically assaulted the young Hearts player just because he made him look average in the game that ended the domestic run. But surprise surprise, Brenda never saw that!



01 Apr 2018 20:32:52
you weren't kidding? 🤦‍♂️



01 Apr 2018 20:49:59
UJ, actually Brenda did see it and what’s worse is he claimed Levein shouldn’t be putting a 16 year old boy in against Brown if he can’t handle the physicality 😂😂😂.

Couldn’t script it. Classic double standard. Give as good as you get.



02 Apr 2018 07:04:55
I find some of the above posts by our fans trying to find an angle to be explaining away the Andrew Davies tackle on Brown as cringeworthy ie Brown has sown what he has reaped.

That tackle was absolutely brutal and simply one without any justification and the Ross County player should rightly be facing a long ban .



02 Apr 2018 08:16:44
Goalie, of course i'm aware scott brown was close to signing for us, as his pals from the hill o'beath used to sit across from me, in the copland rear! The gentleman's handshake on the deal for scott brown, was between our ceo at the time martin bain and that no user rod petrie of hibs! The fee agreed was originally £3.9million and when celtic came in and offered £4.4million, petrie went back on his word and agreed to sell him to them! Petrie did however go back to bain to ask him to match celtic's offer, but bain refused as had an agreement in place for the £3.9million! The rest as we say is history! So there you have it goalie and that was told by his pals, to many of us, who sit in the copland rear!



02 Apr 2018 08:29:28
100 % correct supercoop



02 Apr 2018 09:09:12
You do know why Davie Cooper left Rangers? A fabulous footballer, yes, one of the very best, but like most young men in the west of Scotland from his generation, he was blighted by his hatred of a certain faith and a certain club. No point blowing smoke about the guy as far as i'm concerned.



02 Apr 2018 10:39:40
I take it you never met Davie bham? A nicer, truer gentleman you could never meet, so your slight on him or anyone else who is not here to defend himself is the act of a cowardly lowlife.



02 Apr 2018 10:51:55
You obviously did not know Davie then bham. I did and what you are saying is downright lies. You are out of order with that scurrilous and wholly inaccurate statement.



02 Apr 2018 11:00:31
Bhampot i do know the reason (s), not reason, why the great, late davie cooper left rangers! You're saying it was solely down to the signing of mo johnston! It was part of it and most definitely NOT for the reason you are saying it was for! The 2 reasons i'll tell you about why he left his beloved rangers was, he wasn't a regular in the rangers first team anymore and he was unhappy with a certain signing who spat in his face and called him an OB! So get your facts right before trying to decry a great gentleman and wonderful footballer, who is no longer with us! God bless the one and only davie super cooper!



02 Apr 2018 16:57:51
Nothing cowardly about it, and i don't disagree that he was a gentleman to those around him, and a great footballer, but don't patronise me about anyone being flawless, the guy was only human and like the rest of us, had his flaws. I just don't buy into it, my own heroes had their faults, that's life. don't be getting all offended. He was no saint, like any of us. I used to mimic his style as a young lad being a left winger, because i loved the way he played. I just don't wear blue tinted specs.



01 Apr 2018 16:06:14
Is there any truth in the rumours that your team are playing single fish to
A lure us into a false sense of security about how easy the semi final will be for the champions
B so you drop enough points that your fans don't have to watch us win the seventh of ten league titles against you at Celtic Park in three weeks
Or C your team are single fish.



01 Apr 2018 16:56:22
Another one on on Easter Sunday trawling on Rangers site?
Honestly you couldn’t make it up😭😭🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧



01 Apr 2018 18:22:11
By all accounts your team has also been single fish. Is this because A. You are pish or B. You are trying to lull us into a false sense of security or C. Is it just you that"s sparring pish on a Rangers site on Easter Sunday when you should be in your cave rolling eggs?



01 Apr 2018 19:32:36
A. Your support are that reeking a letter had to be sent out to remind you to wash.
B. 54 titles and you are absolutely raging about it.



01 Apr 2018 20:24:23
@rangobango - we’ve watched our team mock the huddle when we won the league at the piggery. We’ve also had the enjoyment of Helicopter Sunday. So no, the opportunity for Celtic to attempt to win the league against us isn’t that important to us.



01 Apr 2018 21:08:53
54 titles so five stars for over fifty tries at emulating lions



02 Apr 2018 11:16:19
Celtic have a stable team and are a well run club with money in the bank. Rangers are a shambles off the field. Owe £20million and need another £20million to be competitive against Celtic. What's the point in arguing the facts.



02 Apr 2018 13:57:26
Ah right johmnymac. Just realised you are one of them! Must be mixing you up with another Johnny!



01 Apr 2018 15:48:29
De boer is a manager still searching for a formula that works. Ok he had success with Ajax, but with the academy and facilities they have, I could probably do it.

We need an astute manager with contact far spread in Europe, I know Benitez is at Newcastle but they’re never going to be anything special in that league.

A manage of that Ilk is what we should be demanding and expecting.

Marco Silva recently sacked by Watford is another that would be beneficial to us and want to rebuild his potentially over a few years.

De Boer is not for me yet as a manager nor is Gio VB in future maybe, but we need knowledge and tactical awareness now and someone that will build a template long term.

Murty has done well enough in my eyes but, is found wanting against teams at times. This waiting until the 70 mins for subs is pathetic, when we have depth now and an injection of pace is needed.

Motherwell could’ve been put to the sword by bringing Cummings and Goss on earlier. They had lost there shape when we went 2-2.

We allowed them to get back into it, through having a few tired legs, that had done well up-to a point.

We need to be cutthroat, ruthless and above all combative from the 1st minute, not awaiting on a rollicking at half time too change.

Sort it out Board, it’s time to spend on a manager that can out muscle Brenda, sick and tired of them walking around with no challenge and acting the big ones.

They’re champions yes, but we need to knock them off, never mind hoping other teams can scrape a point off them, it’s time we destroyed teams again.

We have the fan base and academy to prosper, so let’s sort the mess out, it’s time for decisive action and not polishing a rough diamond.



01 Apr 2018 16:57:06
I suggested the other day Chris Hughton, the Brighton manager. Much more affordable and he has done brilliantly with a limited budget by EPL standards. He also did well at Norwich finishing 11th in his first season. Big names are all very well but firstly, are they affordable and secondly, can they cut it in Scottish football where players get kicked to death? If injuries hadn't affected things and we could have had McCrorie, Dorrans, Jack, Bates, Wallace, Rossiter all playing since Xmas we wouldn't be far away. On a negative note, people say Morelos plays well, 'for the team', etc. He is supposed to be a striker and couldn't hit a barn door with a banjo from 20 yards! New start for 2018/ 19:

McGregor; Tavernier, Bates, McCrorie, John; Jack; Rossiter, Dorrans, Murphy; Hardie, McBurnie



01 Apr 2018 17:27:00
In all honesty could you tell us how Rangers are going to pay these manager's wages and how they will provide the transfer budget they would expect to challenge Celtic?



01 Apr 2018 18:09:19
That team you put up is nowhere near good enough to win this league lol



01 Apr 2018 18:39:04
Brenda won sweet fanny Adams before coming up here. De Boer would do a job up here. IF he got a decent transfer budget



01 Apr 2018 21:16:07
Disagree DOIGER. Rossiter will probably be injured again!



01 Apr 2018 22:27:03
Correct blueberry. People forget Brenda was a failed manager in England and has only done what he has done up here because of our situation. A monkey could have done as good a job. DeBoer and some decent investment woukd have the tanned one running scared.



01 Apr 2018 23:23:04
I'm sorry guys but how would de Boer have Rodgers running scared. He has came up against sir Alex morinhio Wenger and co. Not so sure he would be at all worried whoever gets the job to be honest.



01 Apr 2018 14:33:45
If Alex Mcleish does well with Scotland would you have him back at Rangers just like what happened with Walter?



01 Apr 2018 20:45:16
We'd be in a better position than we are if we had got McLeish in after Pedro



01 Apr 2018 22:29:48
And even before Pedro! Was a no brainer for me. Big Eck, given Pedro's transfer budget, would be winning this league, especially as the mhanky mhob have gone backwards



01 Apr 2018 13:40:55
cant understand the mentality of our team at the moment why do they never start a game well and always take a boot up the arse to get them started i like murty real nice guy and speaks really well just don't think he's getting the team motivated and going 100 % from the start certainly a different team the second half yesterday but why didn't they start in that manner baffles me also hope the talk of de boer is not true as for me is a massive risk as he lost the palace dressing room with apparently his big ego within a matter of weeks worring next choice has to be the right one.



01 Apr 2018 14:33:36
If murty wasn't to be given the permanent rangers manager's job, what do my fellow bears think of either marco silva or michel preud'homme instead of frank de boer, becoming the next permanent rangers manager?



01 Apr 2018 14:46:26
supercooper really stuck here on this one imo i would like someone with brittish if not scottish experience but how many suitable candidates does that narrow it down too far to few i'm really struggling on this one as its a massive decision and got to be the right one or we will watch the unwashed walk of with the next few titles and to me that is unthinkable



01 Apr 2018 20:47:32
Silva would be great. Think he'll be at Everton at the end of season I don't know anything about prudhumme



01 Apr 2018 12:28:01
Many may disagree here but yestardays game was suited a bit to halliday granted he ain't the best player but he wouldn't have been bullied in midfield i would have dropped windass pushed dorrans further farward and had halliday in there for some dig sometimes u need a player for the dirty work and also get mccrorie back in at centre half just my opinion guys



01 Apr 2018 14:15:59
with you there sm99 windy bottom is crying out to be dropped in my eyes to many ghost apperances from him total passenger at times if not halliday yesterday maybe holt not the best of players granted but far more dig



01 Apr 2018 14:33:39
Soon as we drop points Windass gets it 😂 everytime without fail.

Guys been our best player for months, but because he doesn’t run about like a headless chicken he’s branded ‘a passenger’. He pulled us weight yesterday and was back in his on have defending, if you remember back to around 75 mins, he actually came back into motherwells attacking 3rd, pressed the well player and nicked the ball off him, dribbled and passed the ball to Morelos, who was criminally offside (shock) .

But now Kipre has crocked yet another Rangers player, Windass won’t be in the team and folk will get their wish. One thing is for sure though, we will miss a player who has scored and assisted as much as he has.

Halliday for Windass but 😂😂😂 that’s a belter.



01 Apr 2018 15:04:37
look bearmode i'm not hallidays biggest fan by any means but he had a good game at full back against the unwashed and gives his all windass is an empty jersy at times and if you think he had a good game yesterday you watched a different game from me and many others its horses for coarses sometimes and windass is not a phisical player for a scrappy team like motherwell



01 Apr 2018 15:08:45
Bear, you are actually citing an offside pass as the highlight of windasses day, he scored a good goal in the OF game then went missing, he just went missing in the last two games! Dorrans was playing out of position as holding midfielder what was being suggested is putting Halliday in that role and moving Dorrans into his natural position ie where windass plays, not putting halliday to right mid.



01 Apr 2018 15:36:13
Bearmode sometimes you have to play a team that suits the type of match like yestarday was a physical battle suited to that type of player windass won't tackle or battle hard in these games that's y a would put halliday as holding midfielder and dorrans further up both would get stuck in but if your happy to draw these games with windass in the side that's up to you



01 Apr 2018 15:51:32
Jyf, sorry mate but Morelos was offside, he just needed to stay in line with just about the whole Motherwell back line, they were all playing offside, Morelos is constantly caught offside.

Fair enough lads, it’s all about opinions and I just feel Windass is constantly caned, when he is one of our better players. I agree Windass didn’t have his best game by any stretch, Murty should have had him off about 15 mins earlier and he might not have been injured. I’d actually have had Kenny and Cummings on as soon as we levelled, but Murty again didn’t use his subs. Frustrating.



01 Apr 2018 16:25:54
Guys for gods sake wake up and smell the coffee to all who just can't see through josh windass! Sell him, he's not got the work rate or the mindset to play for glasgow rangers! Can you guys not see this guy hides, especially so in the bigger games! Thus his nickname in the copland anyway is "THE INVISIBLE MAN"!



01 Apr 2018 20:50:50
There's a talented player in there with windass but like Morelos he's very up and down, form wise. I'd love to see dorrans further up the park



01 Apr 2018 12:19:59
Bears just a point here all the talk of de boer who was the last foreign manager to be a success at rangers other than advocaat who had millions to spend most have all failed badly just wanted to see what yous thought on this



01 Apr 2018 20:54:46
When was the last successful British manager after Walter?



01 Apr 2018 22:37:56
Eh, McLeish? Surely? What did he win, 7 trophies in 5 or 6 years and was the first manager to get a Scottish club into the CL last 16. And it would have been a quarter final had Boyd not missed a sitter near the end in Villareal.



02 Apr 2018 06:11:20
Yup forgot about him, point I was trying to make to sm99 was we've had unsuccessful British managers as well as foreign. I actually mentioned on another post on here, we'd be in a much better position just now if we'd appointed McLeish after Pedro.



02 Apr 2018 09:23:49
How many successful british managers did we have before smith blueberry



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01 Apr 2018 05:58:41
Hopefully a new manager is appointed before the end of the season and Murty IS given another role within the club or academy for the effort he has put in during the boards inefficiency. No Manager before season tickets go on sale will look like another poor appointment on the way from the board.



01 Apr 2018 08:01:13
I’m sure he will go back to coaching the u20 side



01 Apr 2018 08:46:37
I don't think Murty will stay at the club if not given the managers Roll he will get offers I'm sure but can't see him staying if he is demoted again, I personally don't think he is the man it's came to soon for him and he has been thrown in at the deep end by our inept board, we need to get a top class manager in someone like Souness someone who will sort this lot out he would not have accepted that performance the first half was awful, Motherwell deserved to be ahead they fought for every ball they were in our faces from the start we looked like rabbits in the headlights, we got a bit of luck with our penalty it was very soft great second goal but still didn't do enough to win the game, our defence is rotten schoolboy, we lack a bit in midfield as well an enforcer dare I say it a Scot Brown type player .
The results don't lie we are desperate for success we won a few games and fans were shouting about a title challenge we are still a bit behind Celtic we are about an Aberdeen or Hibs and for me that's not good enough for us, we need investment (share issue) or outside investment rumours are flying about about this I hope there is something in it or ten in a row will be here, we then need to find the right manager and I'm not sure this dorado can do that just look at Murty, Pedro the debacle with Mcinnes the the cheap and cheerful Murty plan, look at them they paid top dollar and got a manager in who has only lost a handful of games Kilmarnock a manager who has them flying if he had been there from start of season there is a good chance they would be ahead of us so the manager is the most important man at the club and we can't get it right, for me results under Murty have not been good enough we have an interesting few months ahead I hope the players understand exactly what is expected of them



01 Apr 2018 09:44:44
It's an interesting one. How to manage a group of good players to be on top of their game every single time they play? Every team we play raises their game, every opponent treats it like a cup final. I don't think they do the same against Celtic. Not to the same degree.



 
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