maineflyer
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Murray will never fire Smith. This manager gives Murray everything he wants, loyalty and acquiescence, However, it's possible Smith would find it impossible to stay if the fans turned on him en masse; he's still enough of a Rangers man not to want to lose everything he's achieved. Of course, whether that would lead to any improvement is doubtful, with McCoist already lined up as Murray's next trick
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Why would he surprise you? He's been manager of Rangers for nine years and has never been any different.
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You don't know where I'm coming from, so let me try to help you. I don't believe there ever was a snowball's chance in hell of Rangers joning the EPL. Neither do I think for a moment that there will ever be an Atlantic League, North European League, or any other name you want to use. The principal European clubs don't want it, UEFA doesn't want it and it's never going to happen. Which is why I believe it is entirely disingenius for the Rangers hierarchy to roll this out like some invented carrot every time they are under pressure or about to reveal the latest bad news. If it's not this old chestnut, it will be stadium redevelopment or some other "big news", handed out like a cheap thrill to the mugs in the stands. Let me assure you that is the last you will hear of a North European League until the next time some fairytale is required to pretend that the Rangers management still retains some ambition for the club. As for your question about who I would like to see Rangers playing, make no mistake it would be the top clubs in Europe. It might have escaped your attention but this is available to us right now via the Champions League - all we have to do is beat some clubs like St Mirren and Hamilton to secure that privilege. Unfortunately, as we have all seen, beating St Mirren seems beyond the current Rangers team, let alone annhilating them. So instead of fabricating false good news, the Rangers manager might be better applying himself to putting a Rangers team on the field that can actually compete with the likes of St Mirren. When he has achieved that will be time enough for him to think about wider horizons. Clearly you still haven't grasped how far down the ladder we have slid.
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Bait for Wilkie? Surely a mackerel to catch a sprat?
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I'd have thought we'd want a bit more than �£3m. I just hope to hell we don't sign the "veteran defender" Hreidersson.
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I disagree. I think those responsible for the planning and performance of the Rangers team last Saturday have to take responsibility. Continually making excuses for those in the front line is only perpetuating a situation that has been grossly unacceptable for years. The point you make about dropping points against other teams is valid enough but why are the points dropped against our main rivals for the championship suddenly more excusable. Everyone knew before the game how important it was to win - we didn't and it is almost universally recognised that the team selection and the performance of certain players was well below what was needed. We've simply got to stop settling for second best and fret less about being critical. Criticism may be an uncomfortable commodity for some in this pc age but it is the lack of it that has allowed our decline to happen.
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Finally, we're beginning to see what the future holds for Rangers. The culmination of all Murray's work, twenty years of mismanagement and self-interest, now coming home to roost. It's nothing short of a disaster and undoubtedly the end of Rangers as so many of us would like to know it. It's going to come as even more of a shock to those fans who have been so slow to see what's been going on for years and years, and who now have so little sand left in which to bury their heads. The same people whose compliance has allowed Murray to perpetrate his negligence for so long. 135 years and it ends up like this.
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:devil:No but he might be in the shit over the next few:devil:
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Agreed. If it's not out of control then the CEO's head should roll for gross negligence. If it is out of control then the CEO's head should roll for gross incompetence.
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...... should be used as convincing evidence of the job our management is capable of doing for Rangers. January has been scheduled for quite a while and has duly arrived on time. The weaknesses throughout the squad have been there for all to see and should be even clearer to Smith since he created most of them. He knows his budget and he has the means of raising funds at hand. So now, having had no shortage of time to prepare, we will see clearly if our manager has the intent and the ability to improve our situation. Despite the poverty of his player selection and squad building to date, Walter Smith now has his place in the spotlight to show everyone whether he is a manager or a muppet. I've written my prediction and sealed it in an envelope to be opened 1st February. It begins with an 'm'. No more excuses Walter.
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So the Bougherra injury still isn't resolving itself and nbo further explanation is forthcoming from the club. I could well be wrong about this but it's beginning to look like a carbon copy of the Cuellar departure, dishonest denial followed by blaming the player.
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Last post of the old year before I go prepare for a few festivities. I'd just like to wish all members a good New Year when it comes and hopefully 2009 will at last bring some upswing in the fortunes of the club we all hold dear.
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I did a little checking and, apart from my own wee experiment, it has been done before, although quite some time ago.
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If you go to the list of threads started by yourself, click on thread tools and select "delete thread" I believe that does it. Edit: Yes - that works.
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I'm sure you're right and Walter Smith was just an innocent bystander who doesn't deserve the criticism he's getting. It wasn't him, it must have been some other bloke. "Sure Walter, he's fukked right now but given enough time he's bound to be OK eventually. It's your call, I've got to go, Bernadette is in the nativity play this afternoon." Perhaps Basile Boli was wrong and Walter's coaching skills and tactical awareness weren't schoolboy standard after all.
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Sorry guys, in no way did I intend this to be understood that he had been coerced by admin into deleting his thread. If that's how it looked then it's simply down to me being unable to articulate the point. I've been here long enough to know that you don't operate on that basis. I meant nothing so formal as that, only that he took a fair bit of criticism for his word selection and (I assume) felt that the thread should go because he had offended a number of members. My point is that, whether I think his words were well chosen or not, the thread should have stood. He said what he did for reasons he believed were important, that much was obvious. He didn't labour the use of expletives or go on to use other personally abuse of WS. It looked genuine and understandable frustration to me and he should not have felt the need to remove an interesting debate from the record because of the sensitivities of a small number of posters. Jeez, if I'd done that when I first arrived here I'd never have got started. I think we could have been more tolerant of the odd inapprpriate word and he should not have felt pressure to delete a thread. I guess I just hate to see things deleted or censored, even if it is the OP doing the removing. More posts than those penned by Yieldshields were lost.
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Remember who signed Daniel Prodan. I rest my case.
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Earlier today, Yieldshields was persuaded to delete a thread he had started on here complaining about players who open their mouths to the press, offering advice about what's needed at Rangers only hours after themselves turning in deplorable performances on the park. It was claimed by several other members that Yieldshields had used unacceptable personal attacks on these players for their decision to make public statements. Yieldshields says he deleted the thread because the OP was made in anger. I just want to say that if the day has come when anger is no longer an acceptable stimulus to expression then it's no wonder that our enemies feel free to attack us at every turn. Perhaps honest anger is no longer palatable for our pc brethren? Anyway, it leads me to this. I feel very angry indeed about this latest public pronouncement by our manager Walter Smith and I think he continues to conduct himself like a complete idiot. A has-been waste of space, who is contributing nothing to the development of Rangers and who should remove himself from the manager's job as soon as possible. He would do if he had a shred of decency left. This may be deleted but it won't be by me.
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I found myself thinking about the McLeish years recently. At the time it seemed to me like we had downsized so much but, while he certainly collected his share of deadwood, he had at his disposal players like Ronald de Boer, Mikel Arteta, Lorenzo Amoruso, Stephan Klos, Michael Mols. Now here we are debating the merits or otherwise of Charlie Adam and Lee McCulloch, Kirk Broadfoot and Steven Whittaker. Wondering whether Webster might ever shake off his injuries or if Davie Weir's legs might last one more season. Our manager is wondering if he can offload five or six players to reduce the wage bill and afford Lee Wilkie. The McLeish years now seem like some halcyon period indeed when you compare them to the bereft mess we're sliding into today. So maybe some fan being so annoyed that he occasionally says something he shouldn't about a player is a matter that should occupy less of our time than the incompetence driving the complete demise of this club. If as much effort was put into protesting the mismanagement of Rangers as worrying about someone calling Charlie Adam an idiot then it would be a very fine day indeed.
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No, I think Adam has only attracted criticism because he has performed so badly - the correlation in surely unquestionable. There is no vendetta, only a recognition of the poverty of his talents. As for Cousin, he plays for Hull and is no longer of any concern to me, although I do remember he took enormous criticism towards the end of last season. Novo is all the things you say but he has also delivered some crucial goals for the club and made a very real contribution during his time at the club. He's no Pele but he's a long, long way ahead of Adam.
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I don't think he was called an idiot for what he does at training or how he performs in the tam. I believe it was for the absurdity of handing out public advise only hours after yet again failing to do the job he's paid to do. Behave like an idiot, risk being called one. For my part, while I hope he works hard at training, the only thing I'm in the slightest bit concerned with is how he plays on the park - and he's been grossly underachieving for the last year. As a supporter, I feel I have every right to express these opinions and certainly with more justification than Adam's public utterances. BTW, who is it you feel has been immune to criticism?
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There's no "will be". This is the Swanney, we arrived several years ago. The confusion is because it's a very monotonous landscape, drab and featureless whichever direction you look, and no paddles anywhere.
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That is a very decent proposition, Chilledbear. The big fella has pace, balance, control, can tackle and he can pass a ball.
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Whenever we're at a low ebb, along comes a Hately or a Butcher or a Johnstone to deliver some idiotic muppetry for the price of a newspaper fee. How is it that we managed to create so many complete farking shytebags among our ex-players?
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It's not so much the content of the statement that troubles me. It's more the fact that a player who has let himself and the fans down so badly on the pitch can suddenly appear all bright and breezy in the papers, advising what needs to be done to address the situation he has just helped to create. I might be increasingly remote from what makes the modern player tick but it seems totally inappropriate to be pontificating in the papers when you cannot manage even adequate performances at the job you are paid to do. He'd be better advised to keep his head down, his profile low, and his work rate high until his performances justify such public statements. Unless of course he's just another moron, devoid of class and whose ego is way too big for his abilities.
