Rangers Banter Archive September 27 2016

 

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27 Sep 2016 22:41:18
If Warburton does go and I'm not saying that I want him to go or that he should go but, if it came to that then I'd love for our directors to try get Alex Neil. He is a cracking manager.
Until something happens whether that's a change In results or Warburton getting the bullet I'm behind the boys all the way starting on Saturday a 15:00.



27 Sep 2016 23:37:32
You realise he'd require compensation? You'll need to offer a lot of "extra" stadium tours to Barcelona fans to raise some extra cash for that.



27 Sep 2016 23:57:19
I hope Warburton does get the time to change things round cause I do believe he will and we'll get the results in soon enough but if there was to be a change at any point in future, Alex Neil would be near the top of the list for me as well.



28 Sep 2016 14:02:27
Why would Alex Neil leave Norwich and come to Scottish football. Why don't you put Pep at the top of your list because he ain't coming either.



27 Sep 2016 19:56:51
Only my opinion but I hope my fellow bears back to the hilt and stick by our management team of warbs and weir, it will come together guys, given time! I really rate and truly believe in our manager and I think we'll most definitely finish in the top 3 come may which is when and only when we should judge warbs and weir! let's all get right behind our club and have a little patience especially when you look at where we've been over the last 4 years!



27 Sep 2016 20:51:56
I think most fans of SPFL clubs feel the same: Warbs must stay.



27 Sep 2016 20:55:11
It was "most definatly challenging" then "most definitely finish in the top 2" not long ago W15 lol.



27 Sep 2016 20:23:06
dropping points on sat and losing the cup semi final, would you still back the management team?



27 Sep 2016 21:37:27
Poetic, be careful what you wish for. I remember us all shouting Strachan must stay when he had a bad start with your team and look what happened.



27 Sep 2016 22:20:34
Strachan had three bad games. His first three games. Warbs has been there for 15 months. Barely comparable.

I'm happy for him to continue- the guy is cracking under the pressure, big time.

Oh I forgot, the team is (still! ) gelling. Those two (! ) new starts on Sunday really cost you.



27 Sep 2016 22:40:55
Yes kaney 1983 I would still back our management team, said time and time again on here the time for reflection and judgement on warburton and weir is in may.



27 Sep 2016 23:27:05
Just to add my opinion to our defensive issue, we really do not know what Sendaros has in his locker? He has only played one competitive game and he was thrown in at the deep end totally, I know the guy is experienced BUT I think that we could still have a good CB on our hands as it seems to have been totally dismissed and we are no better off in that area! I think Warbs will have Sendaros in the defense with Wilson along side him. It just annoys me that we seem to have overlooked the fact that this guy could do a really good job for us but because he didn't perform at the piggery on his debut we're still up in arms about our defense? Hope to see the big man on Sat and see a solid performance, Also would like to add Bears that this team are crying out for a winger with a left foot! Hope we can bring someone in when Jan comes even a loan deal, if anybody knows was Winks a lefty? Heard we might be bringing Gedion back on loan?



27 Sep 2016 23:24:53
Kaney 1983, we are not all glory hunters, and as Warbs15 stated once the team settle and gel we WILL be a top 3 finish this season, just a pity some so called fellow fans don't have the patience!



28 Sep 2016 16:14:47
Rangers will Finnish 2nd this year, I have full faith in the gaffer and the squad, even if others are all too happy to get rid of them, remember it only takes a few good results to go up this league, we will come good.



28 Sep 2016 19:24:30
Well said Delboy, just wish some of our so called fellow
supporters would have the patience for the management / team, time will tell, too many of them think MW has a magic wand as well as the hat .
I for one most definately think we will finish in the top three and qualify for Europe .
Now! instead of slating me ( non believers ) I will happily
pay £100 to charity if we don't, a one to one bet . to first non believer, as this will give me great satisfaction taking it off you, if you pay up, my £100 will go to Erskine hospital, as I have said before have patience.



28 Sep 2016 23:41:24
Interesting, I had a top end meeting today and while we were talking business I could draw parallels. The common theme that everyone agreed was that it does not matter who good the Boss is, if the staff are of limited ability the Business will struggle.

We could have Alex Ferguson, (who I consider to be the best modern day manager that the UK has produced), and if you give him eleven also rans he will struggle to win things.

Unfortunately for Warburton that is exactly what he has been saddled with at Rangers, a poor captain that cannot lead the men on the park, (even though he is a decent quality full back), a number of centre backs that are either past their sell buy date or are just not of the right quality, a surfeit of central midfield players all for the same position, (and the majority of which are mediocre (, a winger that can't take tackles and a couple of strikers that couldn't score in a brothel! You give the guy two or three quality players in the spine of the team and he will win everything in Scotland!



28 Sep 2016 23:22:33
The biggest thing tat is missing is a Captain with leadership qualities!



28 Sep 2016 08:56:22
the biggest mistake Warburton made was not signing players with Scottish Premiership experience in the summer. 12 players brought in with only Hodson with any experience of playing in the league. As I've said before he could have bought Hemmings and Stewart from Dundee for less than he paid for Garner and you would be getting 2 players who have proved they can thrive in the top flight and score goals.

It was clear to all we have problems defensively yet he is hasn't addressed this and we continue to concede poor goals. We have issues all over the park and have struggled in every game in the league so far. Warburton is losing the plot and hasn't got a clue what to do. I feel there is even more pain to come and I dread the semi final as this could potentially be another skelping.



27 Sep 2016 19:56:05
Think we need to put things in perspective. We were never going to win the league this year. at the moment things are not clicking but we are only 3 pts behind Aberdeen in second place. The biggest concern I still have (apart from defence) is that we are creating plenty of chances but not putting them away. If we can get our shooting boots on we will be good to go. We had same defensive probs last year but we scored a bucket load. Until we get our defence sorted I still believe the best form of defence is attack. 🔴⚪️🔵.



27 Sep 2016 21:03:27
The best form of defence is for our defenders to concentrate on their defensive duties first. With MW's Plan A our slow CBs are continually being left isolated. We have enough creative mids that we shouldn't need to rely on our wingbacks just now. Also if our wingbacks stay back more then our wingers won't be continually looking for the overlapping run. Might free them up to actually run at and beat a player more often.



27 Sep 2016 18:28:29
Just thought I'd commenting the fact that some of our so called fans are a f#cking disgrace. Trashing the tin shack toilets and now ripping up seats at Pittodrie. Why do these muppets even go to games pretending to be supporters. Hopefully they will get what's coming to them. No place for that sort of carry on at our football club.



27 Sep 2016 19:37:49
I agree it's terrible the way the minority of our fans are behaving and wish we don't take the bait. We are receiving a lot of provocation and hatred at minute starting from hibs, Celtic and Now Aberdeen. The management team and players know this, so hopefully we can start to kick on and beat teams under this pressure n hostile environments.



27 Sep 2016 19:47:38
Thought I'd comment on the disgraceful vile abuse on our team bus mocking ian durrant and the ibrox disaster. Are the hanging rangers fans at parkhead.



27 Sep 2016 20:05:09
what I've seen is broken seats flying from the aberdeen fans end.



27 Sep 2016 20:38:32
I seen a pic of the toilets and it was a photo of the toilets of the arsenal and spurs game that got wrecked. don't know if it's true but don't always believe what you see or hear. I'm more interested in what happens on the pitch. bad result, but we must move on.



28 Sep 2016 02:27:40
What kind of person disagrees with the original post? Really!?

The idiots in singing bigotry, smashing up toilets and throwing seats are scum.



28 Sep 2016 08:10:19
no toilets at Pittodrie were damaged just celtic fans making stuff up.

again when's the last time you heard a sectarian song at ibrox? not in a long time granted the daftys who go to away games do it but at home can't remember the last time we did. although I am sure a celtic fan will remember it down to the last second.



27 Sep 2016 14:57:51
Lots of posters have short memories. Is MW the only Rangers manager ever to get 9 points out of 21? No. Is he the only Rangers manager to try and rebuild the team fit for the SPL after some of the worst years in the team's history? Yes. Is he the only manager in recent decades to challenge for a SPL title on limited funds? Yes. Give him and the players a break. Your negativity and pessimism is boring the life out me.

I've still got the chill on the back of my neck from the freezing cold sitting in the enclosure on a frosty winter night in 2013, watching my beloved club playing a Sunday pub team. That I'll never forget.



27 Sep 2016 17:39:02
Given our budget, we should be putting teams like Killie and Hamilton to bed. Regardless of which stage on our journey we're at.

It's not just this season either. The very same problems were highlighted against lesser opposition last season. Those problems were not addressed and we would be foolish not to ask why.



27 Sep 2016 18:34:51
Some amount of accountants on here. Budget this and budget that. Think about it for a second. If I took the entire Killie or Hamilton squad and signed them for Rangers. How much do you think their wages would increase just because they are signing for Rangers? Do you think I could keep the same wage budget? No. Each players wages would increase exponetionallly. You'd get either the Killie or Hamilton current squad for the same price as our team relatively speaking. Rangers are a big club with revenue greater than most of the SPFL clubs so wages reflect that.



27 Sep 2016 19:12:53
Monty, you have Kilmarnock standard players just now.



27 Sep 2016 20:59:18
10 men Kilmarnock standard.



27 Sep 2016 21:27:40
There is a lot of reference to the quality of our players and the predictability of our 4-3-3 system. Something that concerns me is the fact we don't even try to play a settled team. Warburton appears to consider certain groupings of players to be interchangeable and selects based on "loading" and accumulated playing time! In 50 years of following football I have lost count of the number of times a team has performed above it's perceived ability to great affect by playing a settled team utilizing a limited number of players. Leicester last season for a start, Chelsea's title winning teams under Jose and their Champions League winning team. Then there's Ron Saunders Villa, Clough's Derby and Forrest and so the list goes on. Let's pick our best 11 and play them. Let's stop over intellectualising everything and concentrate on sticking the ball in the opponents' net.



28 Sep 2016 08:10:36
you can't win every game.



28 Sep 2016 23:43:53
Monty, he is probably also the only manager not to be fully backed by his Chairman, King has a big mouth but by all accounts a little cheque book!



27 Sep 2016 14:27:02
Is anyone familiar with criticism of Warburton from Harlee Dean who played centre half under Warburton.

Suggested Warburton was responsible for their failure to get into playoff final due to not doing a single training session on set pieces all season.

Makes me wonder.



27 Sep 2016 18:08:34
Must have done something right though, to gain promotion and get to the plays offs in the first place. I tyake it, it was the players that got them there, and the manager who got them 'ejected'. Makes me wonder.



27 Sep 2016 18:30:13
well Warburton is to blame for them even getting that far! it was a miracle they made the play offs.



28 Sep 2016 02:30:10
I'm not saying he didn't do a good job there, just wondering if he doesn't practice set pieces here either.



28 Sep 2016 08:12:18
well these are grown men who have played football all their lives they should probably know how to do a set piece.

although it's obvious we do practice them not remember some of the goals last year with low balls into the box with runners etc. harlee deans obviously looking for someone to blame and let's be honest Brentford aren't half the team they were under Warburton now.



29 Sep 2016 00:29:00
Think he means defending them cee, which to be fair it doesn't look like we do sometimes although apart from that stupid first goal defence was a bit more solid sunday.



27 Sep 2016 09:15:18
I know we need to be realistic with our goals this season but our current form, extending back to the latter stages of last season, is unacceptable.

A lot of people saying we've just come up and we need to adapt to a higher standard, which would be fine if we didn't have a budget that dwarfs anyone except Celtic's.

Given the wages our players will be on and, if what I'm lead to believe is true, the signing on fees some players have picked up, then we should expect to be performing to a much higher standard.



27 Sep 2016 10:05:23
I've followed gers from the 60s and I know we've never been liked but there is an unhealthy hate of rangers out there . Even the clubs with snide remarks on websites and club programes I'm up for a bit of banter but it's getting serious now . Players getting attacked team bus getting smashed up think maybe time to boycott away games.



27 Sep 2016 10:38:21
I would say with the recent bad exposure of our fans with toilets and seats you might find other clubs would welcome a boycott.



27 Sep 2016 11:31:09
Aye cause that's a way of making loads of new pals. What about possibly stop trashing away grounds you go to? Would be a good start.



27 Sep 2016 11:40:45
Boycotting away games does not help the team, but agree
something has to be done regarding the morons who call themselves fans (ALL CLUBS ) .
Courts have to come down harder on them .



27 Sep 2016 11:42:57
Johnny g I agree there's an element in our support that need looked at as well but Celtic games whether we like it or not something will happen the broomloan rd end will have very little seats left after Hogmanay its not rite but that's how it is with the ones who are put to cause damage but it's spreading through Scottish game this hatred of gers from fans and clubs it's just my opinion.



27 Sep 2016 11:51:46
Johnny G they already do boycott away games biggest crowd we've had at Ibrox this season was queen of the south.



27 Sep 2016 12:28:12
a celtic fan giving it big kicks about trashing away grounds haha! do you not remember the state you left fir park in? what about the Amsterdam arena? didn't see that in the daily rebel.

Aberdeen fans should count themselves lucky after what they did to the team bus although the disgusting vandals will be caught as all park buses have cctv:)



27 Sep 2016 12:34:18
I've also been following Rangers since the 60's, and toilets getting trashed, buses and playersbeing attacked is unfortunately nothing new. Ibrox and Parkhead don't make a big deal about it because it happens on both sides& both pick up the costs (£50 a ticket? )
Agreed the morons who get up to this sh1te, need to find a new hobby, half of them don't even know why they do it - they run in packs and and go and give the rest of us a chance to support the team in a proper very noisy manner.



27 Sep 2016 13:01:45
Cee it is exactly your not us it's them attitude that is the problem.

Let's get our own house in order, rather than only paying attention to what's done to us.

The racist and sectarian singing that a significant section of our support continue to engage in does nothing to help our club.

Smashing up toilets does nothing to help our club.

Throwing chairs at opposing fans does nothing to help our club.

Our fans joining a pitch invasion to fight does nothing to help the club.

Perhaps we would have the moral high ground if we dealt with our own idiots.

The club itself has released several statements in last year that rightly condemn bad behaviour by other clubs but wrongly completely ignore our own fans shameful behaviour.



27 Sep 2016 13:34:07
Totally agree mate there's only so much of gelling the team together patter that I can listen to, I do understand we have came up a division but most of our starting 11 were playing for us last season and should be up to speed on how it works now.

I still think our problems are coming from the 4-3-3 system we are playing in this top league it's so easy for other teams to counter it and our usual 60min subs, we are so predictable to other teams, warburton must adapt his style or I fear it will cost him his job in the end, and before I get pelters I actually like warburton and hope he does turn us round, but I feel he is going to stick to his guns.



27 Sep 2016 13:37:24
Jaws exactly mate, I've been calling for boycotts since the middle of last season mate, let's see how much they miss the blue pound, some of the songs (from our lot as well) are way over the top, when asked for en explanation they say its only banter.

I've even told my daughter not to take her daughter, my grandaughter, as the wane was starting to ask for explanations of some songs, and i don't want the wanes head poisoned.



27 Sep 2016 15:20:29
Jaws i agree fans from all clubs need to be brought to task for what they do and sing. my point is people on this page playing the victim card in one post and then stating everybody hates us we don't care or in the next like a badge of honour. and love the fact we are Rangers we sing what we want. we do what we want but don't dare do it to us.



27 Sep 2016 15:01:15
Jaws, you bring it all on yourselves. Since your club has entered the top flight it has brought nothing but negativity and destruction to other club's grounds. SPL clubs don't have the money to waste on unnecessary repairs caused by your thugs and your club clearly has no intention of picking up the tab.



27 Sep 2016 15:02:36
No one likes us because we are the mighty Rangers and we dominated Scottish football in the 90s. Still fresh in their memories. No other clubs or their fans got a sniff. Just pure and blatant jealousy. And it won't be long until we are dominating again. So enjoy you're tainted league success while you can :)



27 Sep 2016 16:51:35
New bhoy, The whole league are fecking hypocrits. sing we are not rangers anymore but are fighting for the blue dollar. you don't like the gers but want everything that comes with us. full houses and money.

The top league fecking hypocrits. You cannot have 1 without other. Your all only here to see the gers. And for all the so called Rangers fans on here not all may i say but most. we DO need time. we have every nomad in english football who are still bedding and will take time and as for kicking our manager is shamefull and i'm ashamed at times ti say i'm a rangers fan.

Reallity check 5 years gone but we are back with a new team manager and owners. get off there back and start showing your support or go support your local team. sick to the back teeth with it all.



27 Sep 2016 16:58:56
On this issue I would like to make the point that our fans are going to cost our club money we can't afford to pay. No doubt both Aberdeen and Celtic will be billing us for these damages.



27 Sep 2016 18:19:19
Johnny g didn't mean our supporters haven't got a bad element in them . I don't agree with what some of them sing but just felt that it seems to be getting toxic from other clubs since we are back now mate.



27 Sep 2016 18:37:37
No BossHogg. That's not how it works. Been happening for decades from all supporters. Clubs deal with it internally. You're beginning to sound like a broken down record. Drop it.



27 Sep 2016 19:32:32
Frankly, the problem does not lie with Rangers or Celtic, the problem lies with the way Scotland's education system is structured. If Children were all educated together rather than the lunatic and costly system of segregation that operates from age 4 to age 18 then there would be a lot less sectarian related problems in Scotland.

In terms of the hatred spreading it pretty much runs in line with the spread of Republican Nationalism that is haunting Scotland these days. That unfortunately is a more difficult evil to remove.



27 Sep 2016 19:19:17
there is no place in the age we live in now for damage to stadiums or buses years ago the arrests at oldfirm games used to be in the hundreds and many more thrown out we are now living in a more tolerant society where different religions mix and should anyone see any acts of violence or vandalism should report what they have seen to the relevant authoritys.



27 Sep 2016 19:11:14
Just giving an opinion to why the fans of other teams don't like how things are at the moment, they feel they weren't listened to when the biggest decision was made and the SFA bent over backwards for your current team but certain sections of your support think that you were hard done by.

Just gets annoying that you feel there's a conspiracy against you when all you have had is more help than any other club in the leagues history.



27 Sep 2016 21:29:44
Rangersman1872, i agree and i'd go as far as too say i wish every club in the top league would bar all rangers supporters from visiting their grounds, problem solved.



28 Sep 2016 08:13:24
celtic fan talking about us and conspiracys jeess go ask Hugh Darlaston if his heads alright.



28 Sep 2016 19:41:03
Cee just noticed the agree / disagree to your comment
regarding the Hugh Dallas one, for anyone to disagree to
that shows how many sad timalloys are on our site!
So we are the only club with supporters that are badly
behaved ( unreal )
Every club worldwide has an element that will cause trouble, maybe cause we have the biggest support in Scotland we attract that bit more, which we ALL should try and stamp out .



27 Sep 2016 08:55:52
Performance was a lot better on Sunday believe war button is starting to get players going only a matter of time before they click.



27 Sep 2016 10:17:53
It's all very well saying the performance was better but it's all about results, we can be better than every team and have been, apart from the celtic game but if we can't win them, then something has to be done.



27 Sep 2016 12:28:37
I'm fearful for the next celtic game, can we take another doing?



27 Sep 2016 13:23:30
Really? Do you think it's in the gameplan to have most of the possession but not trouble their keeper?



27 Sep 2016 13:48:32
we will take another doing against selik if we don't get the defence sorted out and our strikers scoring a better percentage of goals to shots.

we need a goal scorer that doesn't need 10 chances to score 1 and a good cb.

sum1 said tav had a stinker the other day I didn't see what they saw I thought he had a pretty good game and had to cover lee wallaces arse a few times.
1 good c/ b and for one of our strikers to go on a run of good form.

wishfull thinking I know but the season is over and we will be lucky to finish third the way we play.



27 Sep 2016 18:31:35
defence and forwards sorted? what about the midfield who offer no protection and create nothing!? forwards won't score if they don't get chances.



28 Sep 2016 23:14:14
James stirling I agree with you 100% and part of our problem is that our Captain does not lead the team. A leader leads from the front, he takes the game by the scruff of the neck when the going is tough, he leads by example, he motivates the players, cajoles them, he kicks them up the ars* when necessary, he sticks up for his team mates and is in the referees face when decisions are poor or players are booked for no reason! Wallace is like the invisible man!

King should have invested significantly in the summer in a centre back that could also captain the team and should have brought in a goal scoring striker, not a bunch of geriatrics like Barton, Kranjcar, Hill and Senderos!



27 Sep 2016 00:31:20
Why is it that many fans think that now we're in the top league we should immediately be able to compete and be back to pre 2012 form. A lot of us need to let go of nostalgia abd take a reality and the levels we used to perform to, giving the management team time to get the recipie right. We have a young team and relatively inexperienced when it comes to the speed and intensity of Scottish football. I do agree that we could be more adaptive in our formations and systems to encounter all challenges but it will come good. Changing manager will only further cause more instability at the club and delay our progress. Put it this way it's the same in all walks of life, when we start a new job we are not expected to hit the ground running immediately, we are all given time to adapt and grow. 11 new players in. They need their chance!



27 Sep 2016 06:33:23
You obviously did not hear Warburton, King and Miller come out and talk about how we had a squad capable of challenging for the league and that we could compete with Celtic.

Perhaps if they had all kept their powder dry then the fans would not have thought we would compete this season.



27 Sep 2016 07:28:21
Challenge doesn't mean win.



27 Sep 2016 08:22:09
Do you think we're challenging RossW1995?



27 Sep 2016 09:19:33
Don't you think, given our budget, we should be able to beat teams like Hamilton, Killie and Ross County?

9 points out of 21 and no win in 4 games in unacceptable!



27 Sep 2016 10:16:25
I believe Kenny miller said we were better than Celtic and that the aim was to win the league.

Dave king said our objective is to compete for the title this season.

Mark Warburton said rangers have enough quality to challenge Celtic for the title.

It does not matter if you personally believe them, the point I am making is Warburton, King and Miller only have themselves to blame for the fans believing we would be challenging for the title. So don't blame the fans who thought we were going to challenge for the league, blame the people who said we would.



27 Sep 2016 12:24:54
Boss your correct mate they did say that but let's be honest they are not going to say anything else before a ball was kicked. Season tickets had to be sold mate. Simples.



27 Sep 2016 12:29:15
what do you want them to say? that we are not good enough? that celtic are far better? that's a sure fire way not to get the players up for it.



27 Sep 2016 13:31:11
You are out of step with reality in respect of 'New jobs'! When you are headhunted into a Company, (especially one with problems), you are not only expected to hit the road running but in a relatively short space of time you are expected to make a major improvement in the Companies bottom line and then build on that. The same is true when you go into a Company that is in development mode.

In a turnaround situation you have a wide range of objectives from replacing non performers to growing the top line and cutting expenses and you need to get it right first time in terms of targeting who you will keep and who you bring in. (This generally means having a budget for new hires and, in case of need a budget for redundancies) .

If I attempt to draw parallels then in year one the new manager exceeded expectations by winning promotion and getting to a major cup final. The people that he brought in to help him do the job certainly improved the 'business'. So in year two he is expected to build on that but for me that is where the comparison with business ends. In business you bring in a team that you know with some confidence will deliver your business plan objectively for the next 3 to 5 years.

Budgets are already agreed based on financial achievements. Warburton's budget could not be determined by that for two reasons,

(i) there is little financial benefit in the short term in moving to the Scottish Premier Division from the Championship for Rangers, (since they generally secure high Home Gates and the only increase in income in the short term comes from price increases) .

(ii) Warburton did not have the financial support of the Board to build a team to win the Championship that could progress to be in the top 2 or 3 in the Premiership; that, rightly or wrongly had to be deferred until Summer 2016).

Warburton has to be seen as being successful in securing the two Accrington Boys but the fact is that to put a team on the pitch that could challenge Celtic and be confident of a top two finish significant investment was required. This was not forthcoming.

So if you want to draw a comparison with business, having turned the Company round, the guy in charge of operations was not given the budget to take the Company to the next level and as a result it stagnated. In Warburton's case we will never know whether he saw Hill, Barton, Krancjar and Senderos as his preferred choices or even second choices. I suspect it is highly unlikely.

What is more, he has been let down by players that performed to a reasonable level in the lower league but are struggling for whatever reason in the slightly better top league. Personally I have serious doubts about the personnel that the manager has at his disposal including all of the aforementioned, his two centre backs, Wallace, (in respect of his leadership qualities), new acquisitions, Rossiter, Crooks and Windass in terms of their fitness and McKay in terms of his ability to cope with the step up.

Warburton deserves time, assuming that he can get eleven fit players and the funds to bring in the players that he really needed in the summer and that included a leader!



27 Sep 2016 13:53:19
boss hogg got to agree with cee and lance mate what is it u expected to come out of the mouths of rangers players .
"we would be happy to finish top half of the table this season!

fans would have gone aff their nut .
plus you have got to believe that when u play for a team like rangers or celtic .

if u don't then u don't get a game.



27 Sep 2016 17:07:15
I totally understand why it was said but my point still stands, if people at the top of our club are saying these thongs publicly, then they need to accept it will raise fans expectations and if they don't deliver they will come under pressure.

Surely it would have been more sensible to say - it is going to be extremely difficult to catch Celtic but we will try our best. But our main aim this season is to consolidate our place in the SPFL and to get back into Europe. By doing this fans wouldn't have felt lied to and our fan's expectations would have been more realistic. Not only that the manager, players and Dave king would be under less pressure right now.



28 Sep 2016 23:21:00
It is the manager's job to motivate the players and to get the support onside so I can fully understand his comments. It is the Chairman's job to provide the resources to support the Manager. King has been full of hot air for a long time, if anyone is to blame for filling the support with the belief that we would finish top two and would have the players to do so, it was him. For me he is just another David Murray! Full of moonbeams and empty promises. As a Chairman you don't say that you are going to front end load the funds to allow the manager to bring in the quality needed and then end up where your 'Marquee signings are three geriatric freebies!

Warburton can only use the tools he has been given and I doubt that Walter Smith would have done any better with some of the players that we now have at the club.



 
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