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Steve Davis player manager, interesting!

Is a miracle not required?

You might just get Billy Reid.

She's cleared her throat though.

Leon King's potential has been well and truly crushed. The squads value is plummeting each day under GvB every single player is regressing at an alarming rate.

This is just soul destroying, there's more excitement watching paint dry that watching Rangers of late.

St Mirren 1 - 3 Rangers FGS - Tavernier

It's games like that that's got me starting to yearn for the grand ole days of yore with McCoist in the dugout and Daly and Kyle up front, the workaholic Nicky Law in midfield and the rock that was Emerson Cribari in defence !!

This is just turgid.

Rangers 3-1 Hearts FGS Tavernier

Former player at Arsenal and assistant to Pep Guardiola at City would've been enough to negate whatever was in the minus column though.

Wonder if he'll issue a Mea Culpa to those who swallowed "the Sports Direct damages are capped at £1m" nonsense he spouted and still does.

20 corners 20 times just lump it into the box 0 variation. Quite bizarre and symptomatic of simply going through the motions, oh for a leader of men!

That's the problem with contracts both sides have to honour them. He ain't lasting 2 and half years.

Aye but on the drip till they find something else (I know, I know!!) or their contracts expire. The cost of him staying in place will be far, far greater.

Gardening leave it is then.

I don't think it's currently a case of can we afford to sack the manager it's now a case can we afford not to sack the manager.

St Johnstone 1 - 3 Rangèrs FGS - Tavernier

Irrespective of the managers failings (like most Dutch dogmatism seems to ail him) the attitude and work ethic of many of our players has been to put it mildly simply woeful. At the arse end of last season we were playing 3 games in a week with 2 of them 120 minutes long all high tempo, that attitude and work ethic was awe inspiring, those traits must return. I doubt there's one single department at fault for that the blame should be collective and nobody failing short can be sacrosanct. The DoF has a hell lot to do to find some redemption far, far too many misses, far too many contracts handed out to those who should have been thanked for their services and patted on the back. The goalkeeping situation has been coming to a head for long enough it really should have been addressed and if Wilson really is a DoF then he owns that failure 100%. I get the notion of paying good wages to a decent Bosman Lundstrum, Lawrence and the younger projects like Bassey and accept there will be misses along with the hits but the proportion of hits must greatly and rapidly increase before he dan find some redemption. I concur with those saying we've been unlucky with injuries but it's down to more than luck and anyway as wiser man than me sang "when it comes to good luck you make your own.....". The conditioning and medical departments cannot go unscathed because the deterioration has been so severe so fast, some games when the hour comes we look done in. The dressing room really has to stop looking like the set of Causualty. The Board too have many questions to answer starting with one of my pet woes the eternal and bizarre PR and Communication shambles. They'd escape a gell of a lot of the flak aimed at them ftom the support of they actually had a functional proactive PR and Communication strategy. As I've touched on before they really should have been open and honest with the fans into just how bad the infrastructure at Ibrox and Auchenhowie was and how long it will take to bring them up to the standards desired let alone explaned what the costs will, they're eye wateringly painful. Nobody notices new roofs, new boilers, new pumps as they tend to be located out of sight erho out of mind but these things are both vital and expensive. Where I will give the Board some credit (apart from funding us through the pandemic which was no small feat) is their apparent determination to run us in a sustainable basis and not pandering to the spend,spend, spend mob. If any set of fans know the dangers in chasing moonbeams then surely it's us but I suppise some will never learn. It's fair to moan about the state of the toilets and it's fair to moan about the lack of options on the right wing but someone has to decide which one the priority is. This is probably the first Board in decades to have a long term stategic plan for the Club it's high time they did us and themselves a favour and shared it, and tell us the bits we don't want to but need to hear as well as the bits do want to hear. The vacuum is doing none of us any favours. We've just been handed a reality check let's hope some good comes of it. Oh and the glabrous one being constructive? Savour the moment savour it!

I csn easily live with coming bottom I don't think that in itself has shocked any of us the problem is the manner in how we did.

Indeed, we should have narrowed the gap not lengthened it. We were toe to toe with Frankfurt barely 6 months ago they were seconds away from topping their group where as we've become an abject laughing stock.

Remember to include a .... "I want a bag of f*&king cans, I want Stevie G back te..." option.

Boards don't tend to fall on their swords they're far more inclined to appease by offering up a sacrifice, you can't remove an entire squad and Wilson despite what he himself might think isn't a big enough head to offer up on a silver platter. It'll come down to ye olde filthy lucre and the Board with have a limit to the amount of value destruction they'll tolerate. Things may very well limp along a while yet but we all know what the ending is. Perverse as this may sound to some I have more belief in the Board than the manager, the DoF and the players.

Give me the number of your supplier because he's obviously punting quality stuff.

I can take being bottom of the group, what I can't take is the manner of how it happened not once, not twice but six f*&king times. We basically regressed with each and every game. Not one single player comes out of that campaign with any credit whatsoever not one single player.