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Lee Wallace has retired from playing. One of the good guys imo, wish him all the best.

I was just about to reply that Southgate was actually a centre half, then i realised what you meant..doh!!!

Why should the board be telling the fans anything

Quite an interesting point - considering I take more note on England than Scotland these days I certainly think its worth a football chat. I dont even recognise half the scottish squad now and when someone like McGinn can be a few caps off someone like Souness then something has went far wrong with international football. However your point - who cares - if you didnt you wouldnt need to post anything. But England certainly intrigues a large quanity of our (Rangers support). Considering the majority of the football I watch is Premier League being overseas then I certainly take an interest and I like to see England in a tournament - although getting knocked out around the Quarters / Semi's is a preference. I know there are plenty Tartan army who simply support anyone who plays England and I dont like that type of view - I personally lived down south and went to school there and made a lot of good friends so can relate more to them. As for now I think with the right manager in charge they could be serious contenders for World Champions, under Southgate I cant see it for a few reasons. Anyway - just saying - Because I actually care.

Agree do the boards of major companies tell anything to their customers(fans in uor case)?.

I agree he has been let off lightly after a poor club albeit short stint. I think he is the FA's dream though and much more of a Director of Footbal - although Im still trying to work out that role half the time especially Mark Noble is now Sporting Director at West Ham. You cant look past Englands run to the Semi's at the WC and the Final of the Euro's - both were pretty simple and the Euro's were practically at home. I just think England have a cracking squad and havent had this amount of talent for a long time, they could be wasting a WC with Southgate at the helm. If 'Arry Redknapp was 10 years younger he would be brilliant for this crop and just let the handbrake off them.

1-2. Shields sent off first half, Buckie ahead in the second, Linfield score twice in two minutes.

The thing is who could we get to do the job

One of the more obscure stats from the Napoli game was that their players ran almost 8km more than us. One of the things that has caused the conspiracy nutters across the city to go into apoplexy these last 2 years has been our incredible levels of fitness, stamina and effort. What's happened this season? I don't think despite a different managers pre-season preferences that there's been a collective collapse in our fitness and conditioning department. I think on the whole the players are fit enough, Morelos aside and how that situation developed the way it did is a failure of both player and management. Players are simply going through the motions their actions or rather inactions speaking louder than words, and that cannot be allowed to continue and fester.

I really don't see any case for any more disharmony in the dressing room than there was last year. I just think Gio doesnt have the chops to motivate nor can he get out team playing exciting football. I guess we'll see, the writing is on the wall for him regardless.

Can we afford not to ? A significant number of players should be finishing up at Ibrox in the summer. That would be the obvious time to bring someone in, if they didn't fancy coming in immediately #caretaker A counter argument might say, let Gio bring in his own players. Personally, I don't think he has the personality to command respect in a dressing room.

We can’t afford to attract anyone else to take over id imagine. Both in terms of salary and backing in the transfer market.

I've already said that numerous times in this thread alone. Much of the current opprobrium being flung in the Boards direction could have been avoided simply by them communicating, the fact they're currently firefighting is a problem of their own making. An effective PR and communication department allied with something resembling a customer service department would go a hell of a long way to preventing a recurrence. We allegedly appointed a new head of customer service but all we seem to have seen is the Ask Rangers stuff which is basically a list of faq's, honestly begs the question what was the point?

We're currently addressing 40 years of infrastructure neglect, millions have been spent on repairs which were absolutely vital but people simply don't notice i.e new roofing on 3 stands which would have resulted in the refusal of a safety certificate if not attended to. You may recall a section of the Govan Stand roof becoming loose and fans having to be shifted during a game. I remember on one occasion a dozen or so wheelchair fans had to leave a game before half time because they were absolutely drenched because lumps of water were cascading down from the Club Deck roof onto them, when I complained to Jim Hannah the following week he said "Ach it's ok they hadn't cleaned the gutters but they'll be cleaned now." Maintenance doesn't come much more basic than that that's how far we had fallen, I also remember a conversation with the guy who recorded the videos of the training sessions for analysis he said his work was being hampered because he couldn't get a new battery for his camera as every item of expenditure costing over £100 had to be personally authorised by Stockbridge. After the sp.ivs the Club was in a far worse state than imagined way, way worse than the Three Bears believed. It's still going to take tens of £m's and years to catch up yet. That's something that could and should have been communicated far better than it has been. One example is the new wheelchair facilities that will be installed something that could and should have been addressed decades ago and will now cost £m's to rectify and result in a significant ongoing reduction in stadium capacity and the associated ongoing revenue reduction. Have the Board made mistakes? Absolutely, should they be criticised for thst? Absolutely. Personally I think they got their priorities wrong i.e. refurbishing the tunnel area and dressing rooms which could have been delayed and the monies put towards ticketing and customer service areas of failure which are now biting them on the arse along with their cack handed attempt to address the PR shambles which after a promising start has regressed. While we were being raped left, right and centre by various owners those across the city had a free ticket to European riches, their player trading model (I concur with your point about it being exaggerated) has been ongoing for over a decade while as Bennett pointed out ours is six months old, we'll be playing catch for quite a while yet too something we really have to learn to accept. There is also the 10k stadium capacity shortfall which is often forgotten, it's to try and mitigate that which is behind the high cost of CL tickets etc. It's correct to scrutinise the Board and it's fair to highlight their shortcomings and to criticise them where it's, merited. They are not infallible. However some of the stuff I've been reading of late (not on here it has to be said) is pure off the scale batshit mental and totally detached from reality. With Rangers there appears to be only heroes and zeros when in reality there's a world in between. Boardrooms like teams are organic and evolve over time, sometimes both need revolution as opposed to evolution we had the revolution we're now in a period of evolution and we should be thankful for that. The current board (along with King it has to be said) not only stepped up and played they stepped up and paid over and over and over again. The torches need to be extinguished and the pitchforks returned to the barns. People need to be careful what they wish for because they just might get it. The AGM should be fun with the likes of William Stanch ESA, DLA, PIP lecturing successful billionaire businessmen and a group of self made millionaires on how to successfully run a business.

That's a big part of it. When we have a successful team, no one mentions the board. Our first XI being largely the same as it has been for the past three years is a problem and supporters aren't sure where to point fingers.

Emperors new clothes. We can all see the state of the squad with our own eyes. Maybe the experts can explain to us how all these multi million pound injured players are suddenly going to get fit and start contributing. Perhaps they can tell us why we shouldn't worry about the contracts and lack of performances from Morelos and Kent. Perhaps they can explain why they spend 8 million on Davies and Yilmaz (not a criticism of the players) when other areas of the squad had been crying out for investment for years.