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The fact is these people largely own Rangers. They paid their money and they're entitled to make their choice. While some fans think they own the club and should decide who sits on the board and who manages the team, they don't. Fans can vote with their feet and they can voice their opinion but no one is compelled to respond as supporters demand. Turning our ire on the board is a futile occupation and always a last resort.

HELP PLEASE!! I left two tickets for tonight on the passenger seat of my car and some scumbag broke the window and left me another two. (Ah'll get mah bunnet and shawl.)

I can spot a dud a mile off. 😂

Bastard....i'll put my 2 up as a reward.

I thought GVB and Beale were lazy appointments. GVB did well in the EL but struggled domestically. Beale started off okay but this season things have definitely taken a turn for the worse. I doubt many of us had seen much of Lammers, Dessers and co, so any joy at their signings was more down to optimism than knowledge.

A film about weemin's fitba', I surmise....

I would honestly be grateful if one of the 25 could describe what they see in this managment team and draught/draft of new recruits that inpsired them to vote as they did. I honestly find it baffling.

Says a lot about the quality of our transfer business that losing Matondo is an obvious blow. The lad deserves credit for a reasonable contribution this season but we're extremely short in creative, wide players.

It's telling that we're even considering not winning.

Struck the fiercest shot I ever saw, a volley from about fifteen yards at Tynecastle. Didn’t score but the crossbar that got in the way shivered for what seemed like ages. Actually, five seconds. Poor McNeill. Thought Millar was out of the way for a while and along came Forrest.

Forrest was denied the opportunity to fulfil his Rangers destiny, it was a terrible decision. He was McCoist but better. We are seeing so many old heroes pass away

There's always an element of luck involved when it comes to managerial appointments. The Souness 'revolution' directly benefited from the English club ban from European competitions. Any new Rangers manager has to deal with the EPL completely dwarfing Scottish football, so those halcyon days of 1986 and 9 in a Row are long gone, as are the days of players training at Gullane Sands, Super Ally, John Greig booting opposition players up in the air and all the rest. Winning domestic titles should be our number one priority. We don't need a revolution for that - we just need a good manager and some better players.

Good draw.

Few times a midfielder or forward had the ball and instead of looking for a forward pass, they immediately turned back. Seems to be part and parcel of modern football but we need to be a bit braver, particularly against teams like Livvy.

Not bothered about thinking it's a foul, it's the "if that has been the other way round the referee would have given it" which is imaginary bullshit that shouldn't be allowed.

Champions at passing it around. Were lacking creativity and penetration though.

And so - the opportunity to play Bailey Rice goes a-begging; instead let's leave it to the group who have failed us so far...😒

Scot Symon was treated every bit as badly as Forrest and Willoughby. He brought huge success to Rangers and was ditched in shameful fashion. These awful decision probably cost us a European trophy and opened the door to Celtic's NIAR.

Not everyone was overjoyed about Beale being the new manager, I asked if he was signed why did they let him leave. A few on here mentioned the fact we were signing forwards who did not score goals.

On both counts I was not 'over the moon'.

I definitely didn't want him and said so on here.

I attended my first Rangers match at Cathkin Park in 1962, Jim Forrest was our centre forward. Jim was prolific, he had a plethora of very good inside forwards, wingers and, half backs supplying him. Mercurial is the best word to describe him, a fluidity that was most difficult to contain. His end at Rangers was most undeserving. In fact if he and his cousin, Alex Willoughby had been retained, we would have won the European Cup Winners Cup in Nuremberg in 1967. We lost 1-0 to Jock Wallace's Berwick Rangers in the third round of the Scottish Cup at the end of January'67 and the then Chairman, John Lawrence demanded scapegoats. Forrest, Willoughby and, George(the Dandy)McLean were deemed het. They were sold for comparative peppercorn fees to Aberdeen and Dundee. Jim notched 145 goals in 163 games.

A dreadful few weeks...

I've only ever heard good things about Forrest. He was still attending Rangers matches long after he left the club. It seems some rash decisions were made after the Berwick debacle.

Jus get out there and play them off the park go for goals from the first kick of the ball give the fans something to cheer about something to sing about MON THE GERS

Would have been the greatest striker in the clubs history if the manager at the time would have stood up to the chairman a whole career unfulfilled by panic in the boardroom and a silly little thing was we shared the same birthday R.I.P.

A goal machine, by all accounts, and records, who was treated very shabbily, after Berwick, taking the blame for the debacle. I have a feeling that this cost the Club, big time.

What is the 23-25? I've just realised what you mean and share your angst.

Willie Rae. Never going to replace McColl or Cox but stayed for years. Played when required for the odd game or a run of games and never failed.

23-25... I'm now not surprised the club is in this state.

Won't be long until some in our support will want him back at Ibrox.....😆

Yes, but keeping the club solvent and making the correct decisions for football on the pitch are two different things. For instance you can bring money into the club by arranging friendlies with Celtic in their managers country, great economic decision and a pretty poor football one. In my opinion nearly every manager since McCoist has been a knee jerk risk, even Gerrard was honestly. I'm glad it worked out for us, but Gerrard was a completely unknown quantity when it came to management. There is a history of the board making risky appointments with little interrogation of the options so it seems fine to me to point the finger at the board and ask why they keep making the same mistake? It's lead us to a situation where we are potentially becoming a poisoned chalice. We won't be touched by any reasonable manager as we keep having ti sack them and the support is turning on them in an instant.

I don't know what's worse. Matondo being injured or the fact that we're taking about a player who appears vital to our team but was basically on the way out the door 2 months ago. Man City are currently playing without Stones, De Bruyne and Silva yet have started the season with 6 wins from 6. I get that they are on an altogether different level but IMO it just emphasises that a team/squad with a true playing identity will not suffer as much when players are injured. On the other hand, it's no great surprise that our aimless playing style which relies on small moments of quality here and there will be heavily impacted by a few injuries.

Jinxed it. Watch all 3 get injured tomorrow 😆

I know exactly what the board think.

Buying players, for the sake of it, it seems, in the belief that they will fit in.

75 % possession, 9 corners or the like, yet virtually end product. Because we play our football around the centre circle and hardly anyone thinking forward bar our attackers. Once Roofe is trying to get the ball 5 or so meters either side of the halfway line, you know what up. Yes, we might have expected Livingston to be far more physical and aggressive, but they offered next to nothing. One might have expected from our midfielders to go further forward then, but no. Jack stood back, Lundstram too. The front three ran their legs off, but get next to no real support. Thanks to Collum, we got a goal, which Sima took well.

Frankie's crystal ball strikes!

I may not have wanted GvB - his style and limited experience concerned me - but I don't think he was a lazy appointment. It just didn't work out. I believe @compo was calling him a 'Dutch dud' after two games!

Willoughby wasn’t in the team for the Berwick cup-tie so was spared the threat of the axe. He played the following week in a league match against the Hearts and scored three. He left Rangers at the end of 68/69.

I know how you feel. Watching Rangers just now is a form of punishment.

Rest easy Jim - my Dad still raves about Forrest.

Bring him home. It’s safe. O’Neill’s gone.

And going on about Tavernier after every game.

Quicker than the points

Whatever happened to the days when you replaced an injured player with the bloke from the reserves

If we stick with Beale, our ambitions are way below that level of success.

There is an irony that despite our players dropping like flies Roofe, Soutter and Ridvan the 3 worst injury prone players are fit. However things can change quickly.

Excellent contribution on the McKinnon/McNeil debate from FollowFollow by the very knowledgeable MO_TxTruBlu. (How much of a transfer fee could Frankie pay to get this chap on here?) “Even today it is often discussed, sometimes hotly disputed, as to who was the better centre half during that period.Here is my take on it. Billy McNeill was a very good Centre Half, commanding in the air, an inspired Captain, a good leader, and he chipped in with a few important goals over the years. As a defender, he had his weaknesses though, he was often destroyed by the sheer power, strength and guile of Jimmy Millar and he was taken to the cleaners a few times, by a speedy two footed teenager called Jim Forrest. As much as Stein saw the leadership qualities in McNeill, he was smart enough to see his weaknesses as well, and set about playing the unheralded, but vitally important, John Clark behind him, as a sweeper. Even with all his experience and aerial command, McNeill (along with Jim Craig), could not prevent a 16 year old from out-jumping them both, to head the winner in the 1970 League Cup Final Ronnie McKinnon was an excellent Centre Half, a cool, composed, determined, intelligent player. He tackled fairly and often, he had great pace, and also knew when to kick the ball clean out of touch, to yon folk up there in the seats.McKinnon was very good in the air. He read the game very well, and did his job with precision, rarely exposed, he would collect that ball, feed it to Greig, Baxter, Dave Smith, and let them do the rest. It was Jock Stein (Whilst manager of both Celtic and Scotland) who gave Ronnie McKinnon his International debut, at the expense of McNeill.....and this was no meaningless Friendly, to bring in the untried, this was a must win World Cup Qualifier at home to Italy. The previous match had seen Stein go with McNeill in the World Cup Qualifier v Poland at Hampden. McNeill with 19 Caps had now fashioned Scotland's Centre Half berth as his own, having been selected in all of the last six internationals. Indeed it was McNeill who opened the scoring, after only 5 mins to give Scotland the lead and well on our way to England 66'. Unfortunately, two errors in the last 5 mins, gave Poland a surprising, and devastating 2-1 win. Scotland's next match was a must win, and Stein opted to drop his Captain, and introduce Ronnie McKinnon of Rangers, to International football. McKinnon did not disappoint, as he and his fellow team mates Greig, and Provan restricted the Italians to zero. It was John Greig who scored that famous winner in the 88th minute. Despite the competition around at the time, Billy McNeill, Jackie McGrory, Ron Yeats, Ian Ure, Frank McLintock etc.Ronnie McKinnon was above all of them, and would get the nod in 17 of the next 19 Internationals that Scotland played between that World Cup qualifier v Italy in Nov 65' until the WCQ v West Germany in April 69'. And lest we forget, He was very much a part of that fantastic Half Back Line of Greig, McKinnon, Baxter, that annihilated the World Champions 3-2 in their own backyard at Wembley 67'. Despite McNeill picking up all the trophies, and accolades during that period, there was simply no contest, as to who was the better Centre Half. After missing out on the Home Internationals in May 69', McKinnon returned to national service in Sept , and would start in all the next 9 Games for Scotland, between Sept 69' and April 71'. Once again he would miss out on the Home Internationals in May 71', as Frank McLintock, who had led Arsenal to a historic Double, for only the second time it had been achieved so far, that Century, was brought in. Scotland failed miserably, drawing 0-0 with Wales, losing 0-1 to Northern Ireland at Hampden, and losing 1-3 to the English at Wembley. McKinnon was back in the Scotland team for the European Qualifier v Denmark in June 71', and for the friendly v Russia. On November 3rd 1971, Ronnie McKinnon suffered a double fracture of the right leg, in a European Cup Winners Cup tie. His career was abruptly ended! During the time that both Billy McNeill, and Ronnie McKinnon were vying for that Centre Half spot for Scotland, the much less decorated McKinnon, won four times as many Caps for Scotland. Ronnie McKinnon collected 28 Caps, between 1965 and 1971 whilst McNeill won 7 Caps during that well decorated span of his career. Of McNeill's other 22 Caps, 19 came before McKinnon had played for Scotland, and 3 more came in the 72' Home Internationals after McKinnon was finished. Billy McNeill got 29 Scotland Caps, in an 11 year International career, from the time he made his debut in that 3-9 Loss to England in 61', until a much more respectful 0-1 loss to England in 72' Ronnie McKinnon got 28 Scotland Caps, in half that time, between Nov 65' and June 71'. They were both good, but McKinnon was better, far better!”