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17 minutes ago, CammyF said:

Sure is, or 3 snookers. 

Steve Davis player manager, interesting! 

1 hour ago, CammyF said:

Is he not in Jesus And The Marychain? 

Is a miracle not required?

5 hours ago, CammyF said:

Looks like Graham Potter might be available soon 🤷‍♂️😀

 

Shows changing the manager doesn't always guarantee an upturn in fortunes.

You might just get Billy Reid.

13 minutes ago, Malangsob said:

The fat lady ain't singin yet. 

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 

2 hours ago, Sutton_blows_goats said:

Interesting that Levekusen appointed Xabi Alonso from (i think) Real Sociedad youth team management straight into a, not elite club but still top job.

 

Will be watching his progress with interest. I wonder how these teams identify promising young coaches before appointing them. Arteta at Arsenal is similar. Never managed before but straight into a top job.

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

3 hours ago, CammyF said:

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!

26 minutes ago, CammyF said:

Can't see us paying Gio and his staff for 2 years with them sitting in their houses. Easy life.

That's the problem with contracts both sides have to honour them.

He ain't lasting 2 and half years.

10 minutes ago, CammyF said:

Still have to pay them and their replacements. 

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.

35 minutes ago, CammyF said:

Heart and Hand reporting it will take £6M to get rid of Gio and his staff. 

 

Gardening leave it is then. 

St Johnstone 1 - 3 Rangèrs

FGS - Tavernier 

15 hours ago, buster. said:

 

Moving on........

 

Substantial overhaul required by the end of summer 2023

- Players

- Mgmt. & Coaching staff

- DoF ??

 

 

How do you finance that ?

What level of manager/player will be able to bring in?

 

 

UEFA CL prize money this season....... was LESS than UEFA EL prize money last season.

Figures don't include market pool (TV money)

 

Unless we somehow pull a series of rabbits out of the hat we are destined for another difficult period.

 

When Celtic imploded a couple of seasons back, they pulled the rabbits from the hat to take advantage of our return to inconsistent league form. However, they did that with a relatively major outlay.

 

I don't see who the players are who are going to bring in eight figure fees or anywhere near it.

 

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! 

23 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

 

Even the game against Leverkusen several years back: it was clear there was a gulf in quality, but it wasn't a humiliation. 

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.

19 minutes ago, ranger_syntax said:

Going to start a poll about getting Gerrard back.

Remember to include a ....

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

12 minutes ago, duffman1872 said:

On paper and taken in isolation Gio's record as manager is actually pretty decent which is hard to believe as discussed by the lads on a couple pods, for me the board won't sack him on the back of this, it's gonna come down to domestic success, do I believe he's the man for the job, hmm not really but if he doesn't win the league or even a cup (don't think that's enough to save him) by end of season then I don't see him being here next year, Wilson, board and players got to take responsibility for this shambles as well though 

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.

1 minute ago, Graeme Ro55 said:

I'm still behind Gio 100%. I do not believe anyone could do any better with the players who were available.   WATP

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.