Tannochsidebear

Scott Allan is garbage who proved he couldnt cut it at a big club when failing spectacularly to make an impact at the bheasts. Why would anyone want such a reject at our club. Surely this has been our problem the last few years? We most certainly do need a good number 10, but it sure as hell aint him. We already have better than him at that position at the club before we look at who we may bring in. In saying all that, the story about him and Cummings going on holiday together is utter tosh. What they do on their own time, who they have been pals with for years is irrelevant (obvious exceptions like peodos, ira guys etc). To try to connect this to the MOH story is wildly sensationalistic claptrap by that gutter media outlet.

Stewart Robertson should start earning some of his large wedge and come out publicly calling for this guy to be sacked. No longer can we be seen to accept this type of rubbishing of our name, or quietly back-channel which has achieved absolutely nothing. So, Stewart, ensure this guy is removed, or remove yourself and let someone in who will take these easy victories when the opportunity arises to rid our game of another of Peter's friends and a Rangers hater.

Spot on. Both keepers have been out on loan to get some first team experience and should now be either knocking the door of the first team door, or released if not felt good enough. Both are highly thought of at the club, so lets back them to be the back up. Wes & Jak are decent keepers, but they are not at the level we wish our club to be at. Wes should command a good fee down south, not so sure about Jak, and I would hope they have both taken the hint that they are going to be further down the ladder now we have signed a proper keeper and be instructing their agents to get them a move. Both would leave with our thanks for their efforts during a very difficult time.

He looks to me as if he has clearly been playing out of position. He just doesnt look comfortable on that left touchline, and defenders know they only need to show him outside onto his left and the threat is greatly reduced. The times he has looked better is when he gets the ball 10-15 yards infield and can go both ways against a defender. It makes me think he would be much better in the hole, or a central position. His defensive workrate has been pretty average to date and not sure if this is a negative trait of his or just the way the team is set up, but he doesnt put in half the defensive workrate that Candieas puts in. Murphy is one of a number of our players that I believe are much better than we have seen this season, down to our poor management and tactics, and under a proper manager, coaching and tactics we should see a much better player. Whether Gerrard is the man to do this or not is of course impossible to predict, but if he can get it right, we are not too far off having a team that can challenge for domestic titles.

Fined the maximum allowed and put on the transfer list. Inform him he will be training on his own and wont be receiving the assistance from our support staff (physio, docs, nutritionists etc). He either gets himself another club or he misses a(nother) year of his career. Its that simple.

I suppose if we managed to push 43K last season to watch utter crap all season, it goes without saying that Bears are expecting that we have now reached the bottom and it can only improve so we might as well jump onboard and go again! Our loyalty with pure hard cash will never cease to amaze me, and is what makes us different from everyone else. 7 seasons without a major trophy for a club that is used to winning something every year or certainly every other year. That would see numbers fall away at every single other club in world football IMO. Ours are increasing. Now if only we could get our act together on the pitch, just think what we could achieve.

Delighted to have McGregor back with us. Still a top keeper, and if he is even 70% of what he was when he left it will be a 100% upgrade on our current options. Probably be on much the same money as Wes, so we have already made a change that will earn us 8-10 points a season for free. It is not always the amount of cash you spend, but how you spend it! Now if we can get this "reported" £3M for Wes we can certainly use that better in other areas. Wes would make a decent backup at the top end of the English Champ, or first choice lower down the champ or league 1. His inability to stop long shots, and make the big saves at crucial points in big games means he has no chance of becoming a top keeper. He has served us well and tried his best and I wish him nothing but the best and will look out for his results where he ends up, but it was always a level below what we needed to compete properly.

Well good riddance to bad rubbish that was season 2017/18. I used to hate the close season in years gone past, and that was when it lasted nearly three months. Now that it is only about 6 weeks before pre-season games start for us with our first game 60 days after our last, I despair that it is not long enough. The fact is, that for a match-going supporter, it has become a real chore to go and watch us these last six years since admin. I have follow followed everywhere apart from the piggery during this time, been to a lot of new small grounds during our "journey" and endured no end of humiliating results, from Stirling in 2012 to a 5-1 home defeat to the filth, with notable stops in Alloa, Raith Rovers diddy cup final, and of course, the worst result in our entire history, Luxembourg. For balance, some highlights include Warburtons first few months when we blew everyone away playing great football before opponents worked our system out, the cup semi penalties win, a couple of good wins v dolly, and eh thats about it. I have missed some games this season due to tv fixtures (didnt go to midweek long journeys like Dingwall & Aberdeen), work commitments and choice (piggery) and the one huge difference I find between going to the game and watching it on tv is that I dont feel the pain of a poor performance/defeat anywhere near as much if I wasnt at the game as I do if I am in the ground watching it. When the game is done, I switch off the coverage and get on with life. I find when I go to the games we have the discussions on the bus on the way home, and we are a passionate group of guys that have been going to games together for the best part of 30 years, and we can debate it, dissect it, and sometimes we generally agree, and sometimes we dont. But we never fall out because we know we are all Bears and all hurting the same, and we are always there again on the next trip with hope that this time we will see the real Rangers turn up and give the opponent a damn good thrashing. Deliberate match-fixing and cheating referees aside, to have come third with a budget many times that of Dolly and Hibs is a total embarrassment. Any players or staff taking bonuses, contractual or not, for this seasons efforts, should be named and shamed right out of our club. So we have to look forward to 2018/19 and another new manager, another set of players, and another set of excuses for the first two months or so about giving time to settle in. We just cannot afford that again. I know it is logical that this is what should happen, but we simply must hit the ground running, both domestically and in Europe, to avoid the possibility of us having groundhog day this time next year. If we lose to a complete minnow in Europe, and fall behind early in the league then this manager's reign will be like his predecessor, short, expensive, and painful. We must focus completely on our first 6 weeks of matches, and ensure we do enough to progress in Europe towards the play-off round for the group stages which is where we should expect to find our first proper side and be the underdog, and also domestically we must win every single game against the bottom 6, and win 80% of home games. This should be easily achievable given the gulf in resources between us and the bottom 6 in this league. Doing this will ensure we are clear of the pack and not looking at Dolly and Hibs for a Europa spot fight, but ensure we are in a genuine title fight. Its a big ask to win the title in the first season, but its not impossible as our opponent are hugely overrated with a manager who will implode under pressure, which will surely come via European defeats again this Autumn, hopefully compounded by us in the early title race. For now, I am just happy this season is over, and its a World Cup year which always makes the summer go quicker. Have a great close season Bears, by golly have we earned it!

Just renewed online today. I purposefully didnt renew until a new manager was announced, and even though I am deeply disappointed at hiring another massive gamble when an experienced manager was what we require, I will be back again, home away and abroad follow following in hope more than expectation. I still am completely bamboozled and astonished that we managed to shift so many season tickets last summer when we all knew the Pedro old pals act appointment was doomed to failure. How that happened will remain a mystery forever more! The fans, especially the younger ones, seem to be buying into the big name (as a player) appointment, and along with the numbers released so far, things are looking really positive as far as the fans stepping up, yet again, and stumping up a massive amount of cash in advance, are concerned. For me, I really just want a victory tomorrow and a draw at the piggery, then we can put this most horrible of seasons behind us for good with at the very least the comfort of knowing we got over the line in second despite having no proper manager all season, only finishing 11 points behind Brenda's immortals (just dont ask them about Europe!), so from that point of view surely the only way is up for next season.

That was the best half time interval I can remember in a long time. I think we had just scored before half time, and it was around Christmas time IIRC, so the Bears were in great spirits and great voice. I was at the other side of the stand from where the video was taken but there were bears singing and dancing all around. If we get anything close to that tomorrow, I will be well chuffed.

So are we saying that 13000 (around 30%) have not renewed (yet)? Is this not a little worrying? Was the deadline this early last year as well? It is truly staggering just how loyal we are given the unadulterated pish we have had to endure year after year this decade. Our board and players really have not earned this loyalty or faith. It goes to prove that Rangers fans are born, not manufactured, and that we use the "loyal" tag for more than one reason.

Unless we come second and Motherwell dont win the cup, we will be starting on 12 July 2018. Our potential opponents on this glorious of days include Derry City & Shamrock Rovers! (All facts courtesy of Bert Kassies)

The problem with them is that they think because they have the self-named best league in the world, and all their players are home-based, that they should be up there with the very best in World football. My issue with that is the best players in every team (Spurs apart) are not the English ones. The nest English players in every team are nowhere near as good in comparison. I cannot think of a decent English centre-half pairing (Smalling, Stones etc are nowhere near World class level) and they are not creative enough in midfield as they continue with plodders like Henderson. They dont have a world class keeper, and while they have a very good striker in Kane, he is not at the same level as Ronaldo, Messi, Neymar, etc If they can get out their groups (should happen) it could depend on how the draw shapes up, but I cant see them getting past the quarters no matter who they play. That should be looked at as a decent tournament for them.

So you dont think form, confidence, lack of management, and a broken dressing room has any influence on results? okay-dokey! I would normally expect us to beat all teams too, including celtic, but this annus horribulas (repeated) has shown that our players, better on paper as you rightly say than the opponents, rarely show the gap in quality on the pitch that matches the gap in pay/talent between them and their opponents. The realism is that we have no right to expect this group of players to go out there and beat our opponents, simply because there is so much evidence to the contrary. Hopefully the new management team can bring a new reality to our viewing for next season, I for one am just clinging on to the hope that we can somehow manage to get the combination of results that see us finish 2nd. Whether we expect it, or just hope for it, we can certainly all agree that we will be delighted if we get it.

I dont know how you can "expect" us to win these two games Gaffer? If the players were to have a positive effect from the SG news, surely we would have seen it yesterday, at home, against a team already on the beach mentally? My MOTM yesterday was Alnwick for a great double save which was the ONLY highlight (bar a late scrappy goal) of the game. The players were abject yesterday, especially the first half and I didnt see any additional effort from any of them from the last month. I really really HOPE we can find it somewhere to just get these 2 wins, scrappy or otherwise, in the next 2 games, but there is absolutely no basis to expect it.

I think Buster has nailed this pretty much spot on. We look like a totally broken side with a huge lack of confidence throughout, a dressing room who are already on holiday when we need to be fighting to give us the best possible scenario for next season, both financially with league placings, and length of pre-season depending on when we start in Europe, (IF we actually qualify at all). There seems to be nothing Jimmy Nich can do to restore a team spirit and confidence into our side, and we go to two very difficult venues this week with everything on the line. While Aberdeen have a history of bottling the big games, surely they will be right up for this one while we all know the hivs will be super-charged for this one, while the tims will be playign their second string against Dolly at the piggery. We have second place in our own hands only until kick off on Tuesday night, by Sunday night I expect us to be 4th and I dont think anyone could reasonably argue against that scenario given our performances over the last couple of months. We certainly can win these two games if you look at the quality in the squads and the probable line-ups, but unless we find some commitment, desire, fight, hunger and finishing we will be watching more disappointment. With some of the worst performances in our entire history coming this season from Luxembourg to the SCSF, it looks like a fitting end to this will be us actually having to rely on celtic winning back to back trebles (something we have never managed) to secure us a European place for next season. That makes me totally sick to my stomach to know this will be the likely scenario. Surely this should be the message (one of at least) to the players, a lot of whom are Rangers supporters, and if they owe us anything for their underachieving this season they at least owe us that they avoid this scenario for our support for them in huge numbers despite the continual disappointments. Cmon bears, lets finish the season properly with two wins and put these two scum teams with scum supports back in their holes.

There is not a hope in hell he will get 2 years without winning the title unless he has won cups, progressed into group stages of Europa, and ran the bheasts very close in the title race. In that regard he will be measured the same as all other Rangers managers in modern history. IMO he wont see out the season if he has the same performances and results as his immediate predecessors, but we can all agree we hope this is a completely irrelevant point. For any Rangers fan to suggest we should forget about a league race before a ball is kicked shows how the continued negativity of the last few years has worn some of us down. Understandable, but should never be acceptable. I absolutely agree with you in that it is far more important how he coaches and trains the players and gets his playing philosophy across to them and gets them to buy into it completely and without hesitation.

I'm clearly one of the few here that is not at all impressed that these Gerrard rumours have turned out to be true. A completely inexperienced youth coach trying to sort out the clusterf**k that is our current dressing room and squad. I thought we just tried that? Our position called for an experienced manager with knowledge of the bitterness of the Scottish game and the people within it. Neither our new manager or his assistant give us anything like that. Yes he is a well known name in football circles (a world star, really?) but only as a player. As a one club player he doesnt even have the experience of working at different clubs to get different perspectives. I am also absolutely flabbergasted at giving someone this big a gamble a 4 year deal. That is bordering on negligent from the board. How much does that cost us this time next year? One positive I can find is that we may be able to use his Liverpool contacts to get some good young players up here, either on loan or permanent, and we can just hope they can have a better impact than Rossiter. I am hoping that the announcement should give the players a lift, now they know they have a manager to try to impress in the last 3 games. What is wrong with getting right in amongst it right away and help us to win these 3 remaining games? Surely his influence in the dressing room, if not on the training ground, would help our deflated and confidence-sapped squad? Is he even going to be in attendance at our 3 games to see the squad for himself, or be sitting in a BT studio watching English stuff? It is a massive gamble we didnt have to take, and all those who were saying they had little or no faith in this board to hire the right man look to be bang on again. The timing makes you think his name has only come up in the last couple of weeks, so what have our board been doing through the Murty disaster of the last 7 months? It is not as if SG has been in a similar role and it would have cost too much to get him in while our season still had a chance of recovery. Come the start of the season I will be back paying my money and supporting the team. I hope to be inspired by the additions to the squad over the next 8 weeks or so before our vital European tie at the end of June (assuming we avoid disaster and not qualify at all of course!). I am sure he will talk a good game, but so did MW, PC & GM so that is the easy part in this game, it is all about getting the right players, formation, tactics, game management, substitutions, etc and I am absolutely praying to a god i dont believe in that this all comes off. Just like the punter in the bookies who bemoans his luck all the time, surely one time one of these big gambles has to come off? Why not 2018-19 and the mother of all parties when we clinch the title?

Taking aside that Spiers is long past worthy of thought, I take it the rumour is about Chris Graham being paid to do a certain job by Club 1872? Amongst the abuse back and forth, I didnt actually see anyone in the know deny this has happened. Surely not? If Club 1872 are having to pay someone like Chris Graham to do something for them, (as opposed to him volunteering to assist as a Rangers supporter and member) then this is a huge issue and one I am not at all comfortable with. Club1872 needs to pay lawyers, accountants etc, for all the independent compliance work and advice, it should never be paying a Rangers supporter anything, nor should any Rangers supporter even ask for payment. Either offer to help for free, or dont help at all. We have a big enough support with skilled fans in all areas to get anything required without payment. Can anyone clarify?

Well thank goodness it has finally happened. Like others I thank Graeme for stepping up and giving it his best shot to steady the ship, but the length of time he was asked to manage over was outrageous and is entirely down to bad decision making from the board. He should have, at most, seen us through to the end of December, with a new manager ready to take us to the USA in January before having a go at the title in the second half of the season. Clearly our board believed the Scottish Media and that the tims were untouchable for the title, gave up any hope of chasing them down or applying any pressure to the ego-maniac to see what he is made of, and fudged the decision to down the line. Replacing the interim with another interim with 3 games to go smacks of sheer desparation and a total unpreparedness for the shambles that we could all see unfolding since Luxembourg. Good luck to Murty, I hope he is not damaged too much by being thrown to the lions before he had developed any managerial capabilities, and I hope he bounces back to a good development manager or assistant manager at another club next season.

Its quite simple Pete, Forrest has had 33 shots at goal, while Candieas has had only 24 shots at goal. I would love to see the 223 "successful" crosses in a video montage, as I only see about 2 or 3 per game reach their intended target.

If that is not cancelled, or a full refund given to all in attendance, then there is no hope for us at all. A wake will be more fun than that tonight. Press will be all over it looking for reactions from fans getting into players faces. As we have seen, at the first hint of a fight, our players will run away and hide.

Thats just to appease and quash the anger at being beaten 9-0 in 2 weeks by a bang average side. Just like all this Gerrard rumours this week was to take the heat off the board after the SF defeat in the run-up to the obvious capitulation everyone knew was coming and has just happened. Who said we dont have good PR, we actually have great PR and always have had. It is just our great PR has always been focused on making our directors look good at the expense of our club.

Thank fuck that is over, just the 5, they really are a rotten bunch. The strangest thing is that after losing 5 goals to the bheasts, I can never think of any situation where the keeper would be our best player, but that was an absolute nail-on today - Jak was outstanding and saved us from a record defeat. I give him 7/10 The entire back 4 were dreadful, 1/10, into midfield and Holt worked hard to no effect and had one good shot well saved, 4/10, Dorrans, Murphy, Windass all completely anonymous 1/10, Candieas defensive work was dreadful but he worked hard and caused them some issues 4/10, Cummings missed one sitter and didnt really cause them any problems despite working hard, 3/10. Murty 0/10 - he takes full responsibility for the selection,. formation, tactics, and all were abject failures. He should never step inside any of our club again. Just 2 weeks after a horrific humiliation that all watching believed was as low as it could get, Murty manages (sic) to better it today. I dont care if they put the cleaner in charge, this guy must not be allowed to continue as interim manager. To continue with Murty for our game at Ibrox v Killie next weekend will be a massive slap in the face to every Rangers support the world over and will prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the guys running the club are far too distant from it to be in touch with the reality. I also call for the head of Stewart Robertson, the managing director who has overseen this clusterfuck this season without so much as a hint of achieving anything positive for his grand salary. 9-0 in two weeks against a scum side who are not very good in terms of a modern football side and have bang average players in almost all positions is entirely unacceptable and heads must roll.