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03 Feb 2013 23:01:03
Ally should just take a leaf out the Swansea Ball boys book and lie on the ball when he's playing big teams. Between him and big red nose durranty they could hide them all. Well for 20seconds, give themselves a chance at least
Ally would only lie on it if it was a golden ball lol doug t. s. o
03 Feb 2013 22:34:46
bring in billy davies now I hate us booting the ball up field why can't we start playing football basics and let us enjoy passing with ball control we can come back with pride and beat all the crap i'm watching at present
And just exactly has Billy Davies ever done to warrant the tag of a manager who plays attractive football?
He has won nothing and his teams have never warranted the position at Ibrox, now Butcher is a different matter.
FFS why do you all these named managers would come to Rangers are you nut?
No chance of Butcher ever coming back to Ibrox
Read his book - bridges are well and truly burned
Think you'll find that Davies took a couple of unfashionable teams into the premiership which is a lot more than McCoist has ever done. What kind of Manager are you expecting? No top notch manager will touch us just now and for me Davies would be an ideal manager for our situation
03 Feb 2013 22:24:30
ithink Ashley is the only show in town with stadium name rights to come and shirt provider and sponser
Sept 21st, We are about to sign a deal with Adidas. C Green.
@1 lol magic : -)
I have heard that ONS will be the shirt sponsors next season, the Office of National statistics have been very impressed with the seat counters and attendance experts at ibrox that they have decided to reward them with a sponsorship deal! I am sure that the ibrox faithfully will be very happy as we all know how much they enjoy their dealings with government agencies lol
NaCS
03 Feb 2013 22:12:58
I am a Celtic supporter and my brother is Rangers through and through we do not see eye to eye on most football matters. I hope Gazza gets well and back to his jovial self again and condone any supporter of any club including mine who does otherwise. Football is a game and also a big part of most supporters lives but it never ceases to amaze me the hatred it causes by so many clubs supporters up here. For god sake get real there is nothing more precious than life and I hope Gazza come through it strong for all our sakes. Calum
Well said Calum. Most of th bears on here are fair minded people who I admire for sticking with their club. We all, all teams, have our persons. Such is life. As for gazza. Heartbreaking. My wife's a Geordie and she simply can't watch him anymore, we agave all liked a drink in our time, how bad would we be if it was an endless free bar night after night?
03 Feb 2013 21:33:14
wonder if the 20 year contract cg wanted to offer ally is in jepordy
It was a 25year one and it feckin better not be
Briggs
Lifers get less and i'm talking about the supporters doug t. s. o
03 Feb 2013 21:31:38
i know I will prob get ping for writing this but here it goes.
i have been going to ibrox since I was 4 and now I am 27 I has seen some amazing games and teams through out they years and yes this team is prob one of the worst however no amount of abuse towards ally or the team will change that would I have liked to still be in the C. I. S or the Scottish cup yes but our no 1 goal is to get back to the top flight where we belong and so far we have more or less got off to a good start ally knows there's a problem with the team but really you get rid of ally you still got same problem so my opinion is just follow on see what happens next season if you don't like it no one makes you watch it? this is the way it will be for the next few years we just have to grin and bear it because WATP
Ally knows there's a problem with the team? He has since game one but what has changed? Nothing, because he is a poor manager.
There are 2 kinds of virgos and ally is the other 1, the 1 that can't see he is doing any wrong in his eyes mystic doug t. s. o
When you are winning your div by a country mile, you should easily be able to mount even a good charge in any of the three cups, even the ramsden ffs.
Fact is ally failing at all levels - when he should have won Ramsden with ease.
Sorry but you aren't in a position to tell people if they don't like it don't watch it. Rangers are still in a very perilous situation and need every single fan through the door. In return the fans should be entertained which has hardly happened this season. Ally is clearly not the man for the job and why keep him when it will seriously hinder our longterm chances
03 Feb 2013 21:27:52
guess after the qp game next week the season is finished who is going to attend to watch meaningless games as league is already won
03 Feb 2013 20:33:28
McCoist seems to blame everyone but himself. It is always the players to blame? Who picks the team and determines the formation and the tactics?
Face up to the truth, you are not up to the job and never were, what were they thinking about appointing you manager?
Thanks for all you have done for RFC now make the ultimate sacrifice for the good of the club!
Its the only players we have to pick yes ally brought them in but come on it was hard enough trying to get decent players in SPL we are 3rd div now what do you expect from the guy we are 20pts clear give the guy a braek!
Rangers will easily win the 3rd Division but sadly, the young players are not enough to accomodate the standard of a higher level. I would think that Rangers will take at least for seven years before they can cope with the teams of hearts, hibs and even Celtic. Its a shame but that is the reality of the loss that Rangers have now occured/
Sheils, Black, Templeton and Sandazza all looked better players BEFORE they came to Ibrox. What does that tell us?
Let's face it, who thought they weren't 4 great signings.
Me, in a short career only players with limited ambition would have taken that step.
Dundee Utd not won game in months, and ally has 7+8 spl level players. Is paying more than Dundee Utd - has more fans, more income.
If he cannot win with these advantages - what can he win - a 5-a-side? A testimonial?
get real.
03 Feb 2013 20:24:23
I really hope ian black doesn't stay for his entire contract. He is just a lower paid scott brown - can't pass the ball 5yards and kicks his opponents and tries to start fights when he's bored
I think he has been really chilled out this season despite some of the tackles that he has been on the end of this year Ian Black!
No he's a lower paid excuse as a footballer brown is a higher paid footballer get it right
Mate Scott Brown is a hundred times the man, leader, grafter and footballer that Black is. Ian Black is absolute horse sh*t, so just say that, don't throw other people into it.
Black is a petulant flat track bully who has been exposed as an untallented chancer - even the Gers fans now acknowledge this
Please don't mention him in the same sentance as Broonie
No 3 scott brown when he was with hibs reminded me of kenny mc dowell, running about like 2 headless chickens doug t. s. o
Ian Blacks an arse. Celtic fan I am, but know for a fact after what he did to Jelavic the honest supporters will agree, total lug of a player and makes up for his lack of talent by kicking people. Shileds is the main man!
Chrisbhoy
03 Feb 2013 19:24:55
Alexander; Hegarty, Perry, McCulloch, Wallace; Crawford, McLeod, Hutton, McKay; Little, Naismith. At least there is a team of youngsters, with McCulloch thrown in for another year or two to bolster the team. They won't let Rangers down. We can then add the odd GOOD signing each year. Black, Shiels, Sandaza, Kyle, Cribari - all absolute rubbish. Perhaps we should entice Barry Ferguson back for a season and also Kenny Miller, to guide our youngsters through.
I can't believe how low things have become for Rangers. I know we will be back but it sure hurts right now and the good times seem a long way off. I also repeat my call for Ally to step down now. Maybe Lee McCulloch would do a job as manager?
Starts off good on the youngsters point then you want Ferguson and Miller back? Kinda defeats the purpose.
Mculloch thought div 3 was the same standard as spl. saturday showed how foolish that was. frying pan and fire are the words that spring to mind.
Still depending on marquee signings to paper over the cracks.
When are we going to learn that we must look forward and not back
Get rid of a failed management team.
Write of this season as a disaster and get a plan for the next two campaigns
Invest in youth - don't need to pay ANYONE half a million a year (managers or players) to progress though the dreggs of the SFL.
Keep Jig as club captain and bump Alexander Black Sheils Sandaza ect
Get someone with a vision who will develop a Rangers way of playing - not bumping high balls up to a lone striker!
03 Feb 2013 18:11:13
to the poster who said green and ally are having "crunch" talks on Monday they will need to do it on Skype as green is currently in Dubai and will be en route to Australia!
I so this is rubbish
Ally will be angry at this, he thoght it was crunchie talks and green was buying them
03 Feb 2013 18:10:39
Why didn't Charles boycott yesterdays match?You would almost think Charles is trying to split the unity that rangers fans have shown for the first time in years. Wonder what his opinion is on the fans who travelled to tannadice yesterday.
It was hypocritical of him to say the least.
Green stated weeks ago that he would be at the game due to directorial responsibilities. He said this around about the same time that he announced the boycott.
03 Feb 2013 17:49:21
Is there a Rangers manager in the history of our great club with a worse record than mcoist. .
Nope: McCoist is both the best and worst manager lol
03 Feb 2013 17:42:37
read earlier that it was an official boycott, well if that is the case then we can't even get that right. . . . . by the way it was never official as I support rangers not charlie whatever or ally the puppet
03 Feb 2013 17:08:54
i never thought things could get worse after last June but watching a pathetic group of players led by an inept manager ruining any credibility the name "rangers" still have is soul destroying.
Murray
Whyte
And yes Green - you have blood on your hands for what you've do my club!
What green done?
Much as he is not my cup of tea, but where would be if our existence was left to all the supposed 'Rangers men'. A total joke----every single one of them. Murray and Whyte, yes I agree let us down badly but Green is in it to make a few pounds, so effin what. He has never denied that, what about murray, his only motivation was ego and money and we, the fans, were led up the garden path. Murray used whyte with no thought to us, never forget it.
@1 green doing same as he done at Sheffield - open yur eyes. selling rangers down the swanee.
Sheffield were devestated once green had his way. Selling the family silver left right and center.
He says he listens, and sells anything for a quick buck.
Surely Saturday's result must finally put to bed the old excuse for poor results that the opposition play the Ibrox side as if it is a cup tie. If that's the case why didn't your team play a cup tie against superior opposition as if it was a cup tie?
Also, from comments since Saturday, many fans seem to have come to the realisation that your team IS a 3rd division side and not a SPL side playing in the 3rd division.
Al
03 Feb 2013 16:28:46
Regarding the game yesterday three things were glaring to me, before I put them for bears to look at let me state I AM A FAN OF ALLY WHEN HE WAS A PLAYER AND THE WAY HE FOUGHT FOR US.
The first problem I saw was we were not as they were, we were second to to many balls.
Secondly we had no heart for the fight no motivation no team spirit. We were 11 individuals not a team so they had us beat before we started the game. Eleven playing as a team would have fought for each other our lot didn't
Thirdly our management team WERE LOST WITH NO IDEA how to change the game my hero ally just stood clapping his hands, did they have a plan because the players either didn't know or disregarded any plan there might have been.
I am a season ticket holder and will always support the team as long as I believe they are trying but where do we go from here?
03 Feb 2013 16:24:46
I am sure Charles Green is now happy that Ally TUPEd his contract across. It makes Ally impossible to sack, as Charles has no money to pay up his contract. He is annoyed with players who refused to TUPE, as they had some worth that he could sell on. But Ally? Worthless, just a drain on the club.
03 Feb 2013 15:53:49
When will cups become important again? If not next season, then it maybe beneficial to make the announcement now. That way, bridges could be built with other Scottish teams by saying"We're not boycotting anybody but won't be turning up, home or away, as the competition is not important to us. " Would save a lot of angst and posturing, and also save the Bears a few bob. An announcement could be made prior to the start of each season to let the fans, the shareholders and media and commercial partners know the lie of the land.
Paddy Malarkey
As with most teams in most cups, it is NOT PRIORITY. Our priority is to get to the spl quick as possible, albeit a cup run would be nice but mot essential.
Anyway paddy. Shouldnt you be more concerned about who will be the next partick thistle manager.
WeaAre trying to ressurect John Lambie. (I know he's not dead but there are some doubters. ).
Paddy Malarkey
@1 Why don't you ask Green if a cup run is essential or not?It was the lack of cup runs that was a part of putting your old club to the sword! You have an inept and clueless manger who has done as much damage as the previous owners with his lack of cup runs
A lack of scottish and league cup games put rangers into liquidation?
Being eliminated from the champions league is a different ball game to the few quid generated by domestic cups.
Fact of the matter is our only priority is to win back to back to back league titles
Well playing against 10 men week in week out will get you that won't it! because you defo haven't cut it against 11 men over the last couple of weeks! And one of them was at home to a 3rd div team lol
It's ridiculous to come out with " the cups aren't that important" strange how excited McCoist was when Rangers beat Motherwell in the league cup. If it didn't matter that much then why was he celebrating ad much when we scored? A good cup run is vital to Rangers and I have never heard a chairman moan about doing well in a cup. Maybe the reason why cups aren't important to Ally is because he has the worst record of any Rangers manager in them
03 Feb 2013 15:33:46
I don't see ally as our long term manager. However, realistically, no one will want to manage us until we are at division 1 level, so until then, we will probably be stuck with ally.
With the league hopefully wrapped up, 19pts clear - and playing 2nd place next week, I hope that a lot of these duds are dropped, and the kids given invalueable experience, maybe even being dropped may force our poor performing highly paid players to improve. Wont be long until we see ally and the team lifting the league trophy.
Lifting the League trophy. The 4th Division League trophy? Wow!
The Rangers won't win their second league title in their second year. No way!
Lets be honest -- Ally doesn't care what we think - Nor does CG - Ally says his priority is the league! who is he kidding!- I have my reservations about this so called lead we have here because I have a feeling that he will blow it! - we should never have appointed him in the first place - especially when sandaza and kyle were his top targets -- why didn't he go down to the English Lower Divs and get young guys with - i'm glad we have a transfer embargo as I feel he would have brought in more crap than we already have.
Well let's hope there's not any over the top celebrations when it's won. That might be a touch embarrassing.
@1 Winning any division is a championship win. Of course in your obsessed state, you must of forgot formed in 1872, was the first club in the world to win more than 50 national league titles, currently 54.
Why is it embarrassing eh? a cup is a cup
So you find it embarrassing when clubs win their domestic league is below the spl? By your logic the english find it embarrassing to watch you win the diddy spl
03 Feb 2013 15:32:41
I might get slated but I would like Derek McInnes or Neil McCann as are manager, but I fear we're stuck with Ally, and this awful group of players for a long time. Allys signings have been awful Ortiz, Goian, Bedoya, Cribari, Argryiou, Black, Stella, Sandazza, kyle, shiels have all underachieved. The guy that said yesterday (sorry I can't find the post) that we need a complete overhaul of all coaching staff and scouts is spot on. I thought the Inverness game was a wake up call but yesterday was scary Gowdy54
You're right about the signings. ally and his staff wouldn't know a decent player if they saw one. the only decent signing that I remember during his management time was Aluko and he knocked on the door and paid to play for us.
McCann? Are you serious? has he ever managed any one? By your standards Craig Burley would be in with a shout.
Youve named 10players that probably cost us undr 1million combined fee!
@3: and what about the wages?
Ortiz 650k, Bedoya 300k, Goian 800k
That's 1. 75 million for a kick off.
And when you consider the wages they got aswell, especially Goian. shocking!
03 Feb 2013 14:22:06
Kudos to the 422 real fans who attended the match yesterday.
Real fans in whose eyes?
@1: they did what fans do - went to support their team. What's wrong with that? A boycott is totally unnatural behaviour for fans.
@ 2),
Celtic fans were crying boycott this and boycott that if Rangers weren't booted into the 3rd division. Fhey threatened to boycott every club who voted for Rangers to stay in the SPL. Nobody battered an eye lid, Celtic fans were all for it.
Yet Rangers fans are the bad guys for actually going through with their planned boycott?
If Celtic fans went ahead with their bpycotts we would be hearing how "powerful" and "wonderful" the Celtic support are for doing such an act of defiance.
Hypocrits, far too many in this country.
TTG
@1. In the eyes of anybody who knows anything about football.
@3: why bring Celtic into it. My post was about football fans in general and what they do. I mentioned nothing about Celtic, partly because I don't support them but mainly because they had nothing to do with my point.
Yet you did. Why?
He's obsessed mate!
422 real Rangers supporters went to the game. I'm not suggesting there are only 422 real Rangers fans just that those supporters done the right thing.
03 Feb 2013 13:46:29
I see Ally is saying that it is hard to attract players
of a similar calibre to the players we lost. Of course it
is, we are playing in div three. However I feel that
both the fans and it would appear the management
are living on past glories and they need to realise
where we are.
The fans seem to be judging players by comparing
them with the standard we have been used to. We
should not be signing players, even if we could, of that standard.
This embargo allowed us to sign under 18's, why have
we not done so, surely there are young, hungry players
that are playing in the lower divisions in England that
would be delighted to play in front of 45,000 every
second week. You may get a gem that in years to
come earns a few bob. We are in div three, let's look
at young players in div one, they would be delighted
at the money on offer. Never mind older guys, they
are not what we need. We need a team good enough
to win the leagues we are playing in, we don't need
overpaid players from SPL that are as good as they
ever going to be. No more Blacks ans Cribari's of
this world, let's get a young, fit team that can improve,
when we go higher we can buy better players, it
is crazy that we are paying £7k a week on players in
div three, we are putting the club in risk again.
Let's get young, hungry, fit players, currently on a
couple of hundred a week, give them a grand a week
Forget the cups, we ain't going to win them, so let's
wake up to the position we are in, and let us build
something for the future.
If you accept the idea then we need a manager and
coaching staff that can buy young players and
develop them. Can the current team do that?
I don't think so, we need an team that can find good young prospects and find bargains at the lower end of the
market.
Buying & selling young talent is the way forward in the Scottish game these days we definitely need a good blend of experience & youth with a better manager who is hungry & tactically sound to progress back to the top.
I thought that's what would have happened. Plenty good solid players, for that level, in division one and two who could have done a job. As you say a wage of 1k p/w and the big crowd would have guaranteed the pick of the divisions. Ally ran scared and went for SPL players who to tbh have been a huge let down. Alarm bells should have rung when Kyle walked in the door.
Ally stated that he's happy that the transfer window didn't impact on his squad, --- let's be honest Ally, who would want some of those STARS who YOU field week in week out,, safe to say no one in their right mind will want any of them
Re OP:
I know just the management team you need. . . .
proven record in unearthing young, raw, cheap talent - hungry to improve.
This management team have a proven record of improving young players and getting them in the shop window to sel lon at a profit.
Already made over £3M profit on a single player this season - with a potential £15M to come in the summer!. . . . .
but as you say, Green couldn't afford the compensation to get the Celtic management out of their contracts. . . . kbt1978
4) op here, I supposed I asked for that!
But all joking the Celtic model is way to go.
The celtic way they couldn't beat st mirren
As opposed to the Rangers way which couldn't beat East Stirling.
@6 eh was the debate not about young talent and making a profit, try to keep up old bean and don't let your childishness show.
Tam
@6. st. mirren was one game. barcelona another. celtic are doing just fine, happy people. st. mirren have beaten old rangers. new rangers would love the chance to lose to them. barcelona just a wild dream.
@6) As opposed to the Rangers way were you just sign players who immediately lose worth and never gain any sell on value for the club. Ffs mate you sure you weren't on the old board crunching numbers at ibrox
Like it or not the way Celtic are conduction they're business in the transfer market is safeguarding the long term future of they're club. They are in a position to turn down 4 multi million pound bids for a player on deadline day. How many years do you think it will be before Rangers are in a position to do that?
@7 Rangers have beat East Stirling 2/2 times this season maybe it was Stirling Albion you were thinking of
@11: that's the one. I was half right but you get the point.
03 Feb 2013 13:30:48
Does anyone know what the lads Gasparroto, Mcausland, Urquhart Burrows WitktorskI & Ntumba are like?
Our team needs a massive overhaul Cribari Black & Kevin Kyle should be released Dean Sheils has done little to impress me he plays off the striker & doesn't link up once he hides in the middle of the park & makes poor runs, Faure & Argyriou are 2 of the worst defenders we've ever had then add Cribari to that list these guys are struggling against Division 3 players Dundee Utd showed us up for what we are.
I really would rather we got thumped with a team of young boys than watch these overpaid pansies embarrass the rest of our team our manager & the fans. Alexander could maybe do with a few weeks on the sidelines i'd drop Sheils, Perry & Sandaza for a few weeks also, we badly need big Jig back to lead us and hopefully next season Bocanegra will pull the shirt on again at least for the the 2nd Division.
We need to Nurture the Talents of McKay, McLeod & Aird they're not going to be consistent every week but have been a big part of a good few of our goals this season hope Lewis recovers well from his Injury & Wee Barry can get himself on the team sheet along with Fraiser who seems to be forgotten about.
Larky Bear
The boy burrows is worth a punt he's strong, fast and knows where the goal is, this is the time to have a look at these players they can't do much worse than the present team
Bocanegra? Have you forgot the start to the season he had? He needs good players round him and I would guess his wages will be a problem
Witktorski left last week
I say Bocanegra as I can't see Ally Buying any good Centre Backs in looking at Cribari & Perry Jig & Boca at the back is mouthwatering the state were in lol I only seen Wiltorski play once and I think it was as a sub against Chelsea I might be wrong don't see why we're letting young players go I don't think our Coaches can tell there @rse from there elbow to be honest.
Larky Bear
03 Feb 2013 12:22:22
So cups not important. Potential new. Sponsors and kit suppliers will be delighted to hear this
Whens the new deals to be announced? Green said ten days from the fans meeting, what date was that? If he palms this off I would get worried, I can't see sponsors throwing money at a third division team
03 Feb 2013 12:00:24
The rangers fans that were at the game yesterday are a disgrace to the club. This was an official boycott and led from the very top of the club. These people should not be allowed back in ibrox again. The most important thing for the club at the moment is that we stick together one for all and all for one.
Every fan had the right to got to yesterday's game if they wanted to. That's why we fought to be a democracy.
Blueice
Could only be Ibrox wanting to ban fans for following their team. Next you will be wanting to boycot Ibrox
The fans that attended the game yesterday were no disgrace, quite the opposite, and to suggest this boycott was from the top is also incorrect, the fans asked Charles Green not to accept the ticket allocation and he went with the majority feeling, the club did not tell fans not to go and applauded the ones that did, fans are the lifeblood of any club and attendances at Ibrox prove that, we need to move on and build bridges within the game as we have done in the third division and gain back the respect lost by past mismanagement of the club, boycotts is not the way.
AJM.
You are one of the most despicable Rangers fans I've ever seen post on here. Well done to the fans that stood by the players on the park & went to watch that Rubbish its a Free country they can do as they please. As far as I'm concerned the men at the Top of our Club are @rseholes but they're the only show in town our players needed us yesterday and the whole club has ended up with egg on its face because Dundee Utd are now the team who will go on and make further Cash from the Scottish Cup and we have less much needed cash coming in. The last thing I want to say is a Junior Manager could've sent a team out with more fight & spirit yesterday like I've said before I'd rather we got thumped with a team of lads on the park than watch overpaid Monkeys like Cribari Black & Dean Sheils hide for 90 minutes even though the last 2 didn't last that long!
Stand by your manager then not
green he's only been here five mins and has alienated you from the rest of the country with this everybody elses fault routine time to build bridges not knock the few remaining ones down
Could you define 'official boycott'. also could you state the aim of that boycott?
finally can you tell us how that worked out?
Players quite clearly only there for the daft money that's been handed out. No heart no fight. Not for the first time this season either.
@5 Eh the manager backed the boycott, quite vociferously I would add.
Tam
Tam ally backed the fans right to boycott not the boycott its self ijust feel the guy needs a bit of loyalty/support the task he's been given is hard enough and your all supposed to be in it together gee the guy a break ffs
@9: what's hard about the task when he had more money that all but one of the teams in Scotland in the summer to build a team.
He's making it hard for himself because his management skills are so poor.
@9 ally did back the boycott, he agreed with chuckles, and green agreed with it, was him who started the crap about getting our own back so don't give your ill informed views
When you gonnae start doing walking away an give the rest of us peace you had to pay over the odds to get any one to go tp the third if it was down to just money and the rangers name a much better sidewould have been asembled that's why mcoist task is so difficult that and supporters whose damands are unrealistic he's got one hand tied trying to appease the mob that's why traynors been brought in
good luck ally if this is your support your gonnae need it
@9 Think your wrong mate Ally URGED the support to rally round and support the family. This was in the DR
Tam
03 Feb 2013 11:49:04
Allan Johnstone - Queen of the South and first season, manager rookie. Jackie McNamara - Partick Thistle - less than two full seasons in charge before his move last week to DU. And Fardner Spiers - Queens Park made up of tax inspectors, window cleaners and plumbers and who in my opinion have been the best team we have played home and away in SFL3 this season.
These three teams are all riding high in their respective SFL leagues. Partick have a wage cap of £500 per week whereas QOS and QP pay £125 to £200 tops. These three clubs with inexperienced managers (excluding Spiers) are playing exciting, creative football against similar standard of competition which our SPL standard superstars on their £7K's per week face yet we stumble and fumble to try and win against them.
Why is that?
Is it the Scouting System? Are we looking at the wrong type of player for the league we're playing in? After all Gretna and Livingstone had a very logical and successfully proven transfer and player strategy when they were on a mission to fast track their way up the leagues!
Queen's Park don't pay wages, just expenses, as they're an amateur team.
It seems at least three people don't think Queen's Park is an amateur team. Thought it was a well-known fact but maybe the doubters just can't take it in that amateurs ran their team so close a few weeks ago.
03 Feb 2013 11:42:55
I hope that Ross Perry & The rest of that overpaid Useless Lot are ashamed of themselves this morning. . This has to be the worst Team ever Ally & your backroom team Please do the best thing for All of us & The Club. ! Close the backdoor on the way out PLEASE!
03 Feb 2013 11:28:55
Will so called supporters stop using McCoist's serious shortcomings as a Manager to have snyde, ignorant digs at Walter Smith's record as Manager and specifically his style of play!
People have short memories. Smith turned the club around after the shambolic reign of PLG (remember Hemdani as centre half) and McLiesh's final season (just remember his entire signing policy)! But for the magnificent UEFA Cup run he would have won the league 4 seasons in a row - and every season he was in charge during his return! And he won't that by playing some great football!
Sure some matches the team was lined up not to lose e. g. Manchester United in the CL at Old Trafford but that was obvious. Sometimes you got to play to your strengths! Smith tried to appease those ungrateful supporters during our next return to the CL and you will remember the gubbings we got trying to play expansive, attacking formations! The fact is Smith had tactical nous and overall played great attacking football. Just look at the stats!!
You can bet the current squad would be better organised than what Super Ally is delivering!
SPM
The problem for Rangers in the past 4 or 5 years is we don't create anywhere near enough decent chances in big games we've lived off Scraps for years & now without Jelavic Naismith & Miller to make the best of poor play & put it in the net we are seriously struggling against all oppositions. Smith didn't know how to change a match either & it's certainly passed onto McCoist like ED039 is always saying this job is crying out for a young hungry manager & I'm afraid Ally's only hungry for a nice meal & a drink after the games.
Walter smith is the greatest rangers manager of all time
Walter, s football was mainly dull but very effective, Ally's football is even more duller but extremely ineffective, time to do walking away
2) I don't know about him being the greatest Rangers manager of all time but he certainly knows how to win a title.
03 Feb 2013 11:13:06
McCoist's comments in this morning's Sunday Mail should be sounding off the alarm bells to supporters - Charlie - and McCoist himself!
This is now the third Sunday this year - and there's only been 5 - where we awaken to read of McCoist "blasting" his under-achieving players for their performance on the park. Doesn't that tell him something? Does that not suggest his message isn't getting through to players who either do not respect him and/or are not exactly living in fear of losing their place in the team?
McCoist has always been good at saying the right thing to the mass-media but now his words are becoming a little repetitive and if not already, will start to fall on deaf ears. Clearly the players aren't listening and I for one have had enough.
SPM
P. S.
Before some of my fellow bears condone me for having a go at McCoist, if any of you have actually been at the games this season you will know that yesterday's result is not really the issue. This has been going on for months. . QOS, both Queens Park matches, ICT, Montrose etc
Your right we havnt improved at all since the season started
Always say the right thing in the media? You forget demanding James when he already knew them which got those people threats when they were just doing a job making them unsafe? And all this kicking us and everyone against us when he should have been focussing on the current club and not what's going on with the old one for its done now.
03 Feb 2013 11:02:29
comment from ally, wining the league is our only focus now, no rubbish i'm glad he let us into this little secret
03 Feb 2013 10:34:12
It's clear that lessons haven't been learned from last season. Rangers under McCoist are still paying average players far too much money and once again our wage bill is far too big for the league we are in. The signing policy that got us into liquidation last season is still being used and it's little surprise that the club won't make a profit. Did McCloist really need to sign Average SPL players good money to win Div 3? Surely there are players playing for Partick Thistle, Morton and Dunfermline that would have got us promoted comfortably without getting £7k a week. Watching the Rangers v QOS game earlier this season they had a couple of players that would have done a job for us and would be on a fraction of what the current players are on. It's really a myth that McCoist is playing kids as only McLeod & McKY have played consistently. I also don't buy Ally's line about the cups being a bonus. Again if that was the case then why sign all these SPL players with a wage bill of £8m a year just to win Div 3? The truth of the matter is that Rangers under McCoist are not going forward and the mistakes of the past are being repeated. The fans have been superb this season however our support should not be taken for granted and unless things improve then it could be a long time before Rangers are back at the top of Scottish football and playing in the champions league
03 Feb 2013 09:58:52
well done to te 422 true supporters who attended the match yesterday, because attending matches is why you are called supporters stay away fans take a long hard look at yourself and you must realise it achieved nothing at all, for the full game we just looked like a 3rd division team with a 3rd division support. are we really want to go back to the pre murray era with rubbish crowds week in week out
What rubbish crowds are you talking about because it is certainly not the fans that fill out Ibrox every week and will continue to do so. Now I have no problem with any fan who attended yesterday's game but please don't try to make out 99% of our fan base were wrong.
1 you must be too young to remember pre 9 in a row days the crowds were woeful and the club a joke now youve got full house at ibrox but sadly the clubs still a joke dubai arab
Thankyou dubai arab I must be getting old, all the silver spoon supporters think rangers were always well supported
At 2)@3) thank you very much but silver spoon don't think so bar 63years of age counts.
Well i'm 65 and remember games like cup replay against motherwell 5-2 defeat at ibrox with 80,000 and dundee at ibrox same crowd with ralph brand scoring a screamer at copland rd end, 2-0 defeat of celtic in cup early 60s willie henderson scoring 2nd goal at away end 95,000 and other games as I still have programmes and attendances marked on them doug t. s. o
03 Feb 2013 10:21:14
i will never be back a ibrox till mccoist is removed
, its the only way I will remain sane
If Ally resigned or was sacked in the morning would there be a single club in Britain wanting to take him on and pay him big wages?
Answer: Not. A. Chance
03 Feb 2013 10:19:49
great excuse from ally cups not important, let's just remember that it could be to our detriment thinking like that, ally not up to the job he should be out to win every game, or did motherwell just lay down to us, ok it would have been acceptable to lose but in the manner it happened and the attitude of mccoist, remember ally you refused to talk to your own support by not giving interview as we listen to radio too, for almost a year you have been very vocal, sometimes too vocal, so why not yesterday. hmmmmm I wonder were you angry, were you embaraced, were you pissed off, well so were the rest of us. now f off ya muppet or should I say puppet with cg pulling your strings
I think he might be realising he just ain't got it. Every post match interview seems to sound the same. McNamara was there two days and showed how to use your bench.
Cups not important?? The only decent performance was in the cup against motherwell. where we parted with our cash. . if Ally is still in charge next season I will think again about my cash
03 Feb 2013 00:13:16
morning bears from australia, now is the time for ally to go enough is enough let's get big tel back from inverness, he is the man to take us back through the leagues, can motivate players has ambition to do it poor ally is washed right out, we have got to thank super for all his goals, his obvious love of our great team and guiding us through these dark times but now he has done his bit for which we are all truly thankful for but please big terry come like you did when the souness era began and be our new LEADER, as for yesterday we were poor not a big fan of black but shouldn't have been booked with Gunning the united player that wen't down seconds before was a disgrace and didn't take wee Jackie Mac too long to remember his past jumping up and causing situation with 4th offical second foul was a booking follow follow from perth western australia
Ally can't go - it will cost a couple of years wages £1.5 million + bonuses to get rid. - then find manager and give hime signing bonus plus another £500k a year min. nope it cannot be afforded - rangers have ally for a long time. remember also he is major shareholder - he isn't going to sack himself!
Butcher won't drop to 3rd Div, get a grip! Ally is here for a long time end off.
If ally was to go do the rangers support believe any decent manager would risk tarnishing his rep by taking the post I have real sympathy for wee mcoist he's a descent guy with deep feelings for your club I bet he's hurting ten times more than most he's under unbeleavable pressure and I think you should remember this is amarothon not a sprint green will probably stick with him as long as he can progress through the divisions no matter how ugly this is utd are a much stronger outfit just now except it and show the wee man some support he showed it to you when no one else did one step at a time eh?
thommyj
Ally states that the cup wasnt important, - he states that the league is more important! - we have the second biggest wage bill in the country, for what? week in week out we hear the same old story that we have a young team and going in the right direction! is this guy for real? - You picked these so called SPL players Ally - you signed Sandaza ( top priority ) YOU signed Kyle - YOU signed Black YOU signed Cabriri - need I go on! - stop blaming the players week in week out and realise the truth is YOUR TO BLAME.
I have said for a long time Ally doesn't have it, even when Walter was leting him do cup games we often drew against lower league teams away from Ibrox and then won at Ibrox when in trouble he looked to the stand for help, Walter isn't their now. He should have gotten an old pro for a centre Half to help the kids one who knows the Scottish game, not somebody who can't speak English and never played in the UK. Shiels, Black and at times Templeton haven't turned up a better manager would have ripped into them. Hutton works better without Black beside himand Little isn't a right winger.
Can I ask why butcher?
Here's a good example Dundee utd IMO from next season will run a youth set like they do just now but will sell GMS Russell & properly daly to get money back in. This is more or less why PH left Dundee utd saying 30% wage cut & next to no money to play with.
Now jack mac has took over done 2/3 years at Patrick thistle & now in the spl. McCoist has done 6 years under smith & in his 2nd season just now. Now come the end if next season it would be good to compare mccoist to jackie come the end of next season.
That's what rangers need a young manager who will be on low wage to help then rattle up the leagues & make the right subs at the right times McCoist should be getting a cup run of sorts since taking over as manager. to have spl players playing in the div 3 on spl wages & playing like that falls on one man. the manager
Lenny
Was at the game your wrong about black both sendings off were justified. At the moment Big Terry wouldn't touch us he's happy at ICT, still a lot to be fixed out at Ibrox behind the scenes I'm afraid and the quicker it's done the better.
Bobby
A lot of bears have taken a big dislike to butcher after comments he made last year
02 Feb 2013 23:52:34
a question to older bears a lot older
who was/is worse
Valentine. or. . Cribari
they say Valentine was one of the worst defenders to pull on a Rangers jersey but was/is he. . les
To be fair Valentine played when celtic made a world record for the highest winning margin in a British cup final, 7. 1 but if The Rangers and Cribari met Celtic anytime soon, it could easily be double figures!
2 words alan hutton
Cribari guff but Perry is MUCH worse
02 Feb 2013 23:51:08
Did inverness boycott killie today? It looked like they had no fans at that game.
About the same amount you had at dundee ya fanny
So rangers with a boycott have more away fans than inverness do when riding high in the spl. Scottish football is dying and no1 is prepeared to watch it anymore
Including last saturday inverness have had to travel to hampden new st mirren park and kilmarnock, that's too much for ordinary fans in this present financial climate. jimbo