Norris Cole

He inherited one of the worst squads in the club's history, a mutinous captain and a pathetically impatient support. As I've said before, I thought Le Guen underestimated what Scottish football was all about, yet I'm confident he would have learned had he been given the time. To our long-term detriment he wasn't. His ideas were always going to be new FFS, that's what the support had demanded for years. I believe Walter Smith set a new club record today. Not in our 137-year history have we failed to score in three consecutive league matches. Is that Le Guen-esque form? Or do we continue to give Walter special treatment?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/8276427.stm

Still trying to get my head round that one to be honest. Not sure I've ever implied "it was everyone else's fault". Merely trying to apply some rare even-handedness to The Great PLG Debate. A simple "Le Guen was shite" just doesn't cut it for me. We failed to see the bigger picture at the time and it would appear that remains the case with some today.

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Interesting stats. Must be galling for the anti-Boyd brigade that the deeper you delve, the more damning their argument becomes. Then again I've never quite understood the anti-Boyd argument.

I find it incredible how people can continually come to such a conclusion when the man was given only six months to transform the club.

We Can Bounce Back LEE MCCULLOCH was gutted that Rangers could not get back to winning ways against Aberdeen at Ibrox. But the club's versatile star is hoping that a positive result against Seviila on Tuesday night can spur his team on to greater things. Lee McCulloch wins a header against Aberdeen at IbroxJig is fully aware that the Light Blues have failed to hit the form they produced last season on their way to a memorable double. But he insists that two massive games in the next eight days can provide a turning point in the club's fortunes. He said: "Big games can help players, if you can do well this helps your confidence, without a doubt. "Hopefully we can get a positive result on Tuesday and that will set us up nicely for the Old Firm game. "It's difficult to say why things are not quite clicking in to place right now. "It's maybe just a lack of a killer instinct in the last third or maybe we are just lacking that bit of composure we had last season. "I think we are probably just going through a tough spell and we need to get to get back on the training ground and try to iron it out. "We just need to work even harder and the Celtic game perhaps comes at the right time in terms of the league. "It's a game we need to do well in and there is no bigger occasion. "We need to be up for it and I am sure we will be." Lee is looking forward to getting back in to Champions League action this week but knows Rangers are facing one of Europe's top teams. He added: "I think getting a result on Tuesday could give us a massive lift although it's a very tough game against Sevilla. "A lot of people are underestimating them; Spain has Real Madrid and Barcelona but they are not far behind. "They are right up there and I think it will be a great game. "Hopefully we will have Steven Davis back for that one, he has been brilliant for us and we need all our best players in the team for the games we have coming up." http://www.rangers.premiumtv.co.uk/page/Headlines/0,,5~1809345,00.html

Hear, hear. The country has gone fucking mad.

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All well and good, but something clearly needs to change to get us clicking again, wouldn't you agree? One suggestion would be to replace Miller with someone who can at least hit the target from elementary chances.

Nope. He's getting picked on because he's a waste of a jersey. You can try and come up with as many reasons as you want but that's ultimately what it boils down to. Boyd doesn't get abuse because, while he goes missing in games, he scores goals to compensate. Miller, on the other hand, offers nothing whatsoever to the team.

Is it time to accept that, trier though he may be, this guy simply isn't good enough to wear the shirt? Woeful again today.

By using Le Guen's mispronunciation of the word Rangers and difficulty with the language you've just shown how weak your argument is. However I'll assume your French is as impeccable as it is fluent. By contrast to the peculiar point you're trying to get across in putting the guy down, I thought Paul Le Guen conducted himself in the best traditions of Rangers during his tenure, and he hasn't had a bad word to say about the club since he left, despite what must have been the most trying period of his career. That in itself is indicative of the guy's class. After the traumatic events of McLeish's last season, Le Guen was just what the club needed. The fans knew a revolution was what was needed and Le Guen was the man to provide it. His actions with Ricksen and then Ferguson showed he was the right man to give the club the boot up the arse it so desperately needed then and still needs now. Unfortunately they couldn't give him half a season before turning on him in favour of mutinous neds like Ferguson and Boyd, who ultimately ended his career as Rangers boss and in doing so put the club back a decade overnight. Or perhaps the anti-PLG brigade feel six months is more than enough time to change a club. After all, Sir Alex did change Man Utd overnight. Let's face it, you'd have used his mispronunciations as a source of endearment had he been given a fair crack at the whip and succeeded.

The enigma is that he remains an enigma to some.

Is there a 'print' option for that STS/TBB thread?

Thought so. If FF were to drop the belief that they're the centre of the Rangers support's universe it would once more become the great site it was four years ago.

Incidentally the Gerald article says Alistair Johnston is attending his first game as chairman tomorrow. http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/rangers/rangers-contract-talks-for-broadfoot-and-novo-1.922004?localLinksEnabled=false

Is No. 1 basically an outlet for all sites except FF?

As in last possible minute before Jan 31 I mean. Boyd's own actions during the last couple of transfer windows suggest they'll have to drive him down to England at gunpoint a la Hutton.

Both deserved IMO. Boyd won't get offered a new deal until the last possible moment given his status as a saleable asset.

Not if they're as good as last night's.

Why anyone would still believe a word that comes out of Torbett Towers regarding injuries is beyond me.

Absolute load of horseshit. That said, Walter prefers the stand anyway.

Put it this way, if Aberdeen weren't so keen to keep up their cup comedy act, we'd be on our way up to Pittodrie.

Can't complain at getting the one non-SPL team. I'll take it.