forlanssister

13 hours ago, Rousseau said:

We need a new fitness coach. 

 

And a set-piece coach. 

 

And a new coach. 

I'm struggling to fathom whether its actual fitness levels or players that simply can't be arsed to play for the manager, probably a but of both. Either should be cause for alarm.

We'd be as well with Liz Truss in the dugout. 

This cannot continue much longer it's utterly excruciating. 

Just wtf was that?

Rangers 4 - 0 Dundee

FGS Wright

1 minute ago, ascender said:

Its weird that we're back to the Kent & Barisic overlap as our only apparent tactic.

Aye but without doing much actual overlapping.

This is even worse than the Leicester v Palace borefest yesterday. 

Motherwell 1 - 3 Rangers 

FGS - Tavernier 

1 hour ago, RANGERRAB said:

Some of signings this year have been horrendous. With one injury prone CB (Helander) on our books we go and sign another-Souttar. Didn’t take long before the inevitable happened did it? Whose decision was it to sign Souttar ?? Not only did we sign Souttar but we let a perfectly good CB( Katic) leave for a modest fee to FC Zurich where I’m led to believe he’s doing well. Now Goldson’s out for months we’re really struggling at CB.

(I won’t mention the Ramsey signing or diallo loan. Least said the better) 
Then there’s the Ridvan signing. He may well go on & become a great signing but for us to pay out the high transfer fee(by our standards) & have him benched makes no sense to me and is not good business.

Everyman and his dog knew Souttar's injury record but he was a relatively cheap Scottish punt something we've always done and always will do.

I wouldn't rush to confer legendry status upon Katic I don't think he lived up to the hope, he had some howlers for us one away game at Perth in particular.

I really doubt we've forked out the rumoured fee for Ridvan. In his admittedly sparse cameos so far he's shown some promise and may well yet come good. He'll get his chance but whether he takes it or not time will tell.

1 hour ago, RANGERRAB said:

But for me there are two main issues regards our DoF:-

1) why do we continue to sign so many players with a bad injury history ?

Helander,Roofe & now Souttar to name 3.

2) why have we got a situation where we have so many key players out of contract at the end of the season? To me that’s bad planning. Kent,Morelos, Jack, Arfield, Helander,McGregor all out of contract. Presumably they’ll all need replaced but will there be resources to do so?

 

Not saying it’s all Wilson fault but questions now need asked about his role & its influence in my view

 

I remember when we signed Mark Hately complete with his horrendous injury record when he was returning from a near career ending injury, sometimes it works out but sometimes it doesn't something we have to live with it. The Roofe signing left me puzzled too if it's any consolation.

Kent and Morelos should both have been sold according to our alleged model and it's probably best to punt them in January for something rather than nothing if they aren't going to re-sign.

Out of Jack, Arfield, Helander and McGregor I think only Jack might get another yet but that's not guaranteed. It really isn't unusual to have that many players out of contract at once lots of clubs will be in the same situation. McGregor should already have been replaced and the fact he isn't is a major failure.

Nothing wrong with questioning what's going on in fact it should be encouraged however we should be wary of creating scapegoats as deters scrutiny in other areas where some sharw of the blame may lay.

1 hour ago, RANGERRAB said:

I’m of the opposite opinion. I think Ross Wilson is simply not cutting it here.

I’ve always been someone with a cynical view of a DoF. Do they have too much say when signing players? Do they sign players without the managers consent ? Do they research players backgrounds enough? 

 

Name the last team to win anything of note without a Director of Football, Sporting Director or whatever label you want to put on it. I doubt we'll change from that now as it would be a backward step.

I'm probably in a minority in thinking Ross Wilson is doing a decent enough job over all.

However we probably lost the league last season because we signed to many players who simply weren't ready to play when they signed Ramsay being the prime example while across the city they signed players who were fit and ready to play (the Japanese contingent etc) and yes you can perfectly reasonably attach blame to Wilson for that. Also we need to note the difference between projects i.e Tillman and the finished article Colak while you can argue Tillman may have long term value to us (should a permanent deal arise) there's little doubt Colak's current value to us is many,many times that of Tillman's even if at his age any sell on value will be minimal. Perhaps a better balance between those 2 categories needs to be found 

I really think we have a decent of squad size wise and quality wise, certainly good enough to win the SPFL and have a decent crack at the EL, however much it hurts we really have to admit we're simply not currently good enough for the CL no matter how sore that is to accept. Everyone points to Club Brugge but seem to forget they took their fair share of hidings for a number of years before finding their feet.

I certainly think questions need to asked on the medical side not only in regards to the unusually high number of injuries but also why the recovery times seem to be so long.

We certainly don't appear to be as fit as previous seasons but I'm at a loss at the reason for that if it is indeed the case. I can only put that down to application or perhaps a change in brand of coffee at Auchenhowie. 

I'll refrain from making a managerial comment there's plenty other threads for that snd don'twish to derail this one.

He should have known better.

Rangers 2 - 1 Liverpool 

FGS Tavernier 

2-2

Tavernier 

Kudos for telling wheelchair fans to pick up their tickets from a non wheelchair accessible building. Plus ça change! 

1 hour ago, buster. said:

Lawrence who was "close" is now out until some unknown date after the World Cup.

 

Gio talked of a new injury.

 

Give Lowry a go....

 

People should be more concerned with the medical side of the business at Auchenhowie rather than the scouting. Irrespective if this is a new injury or an aggravation the recovery times for our players are pretty horrendous. 

Really need to kill games off. At 2 up against 10 men we should have showed no mercy. The horseshoe just slows things down and removes the momentum. 

Hearts 1 - 3 Rangers

FGS - Tavernier 

You can access practically every Pemier game and many Championship games for diddly squat as it is, takes a special kind of stupid to turn down the opportunity of getting paid for something that's free for anyone who can be arsed to look for it.

Every English League game is available as are many non-league games.

Hell even Highland League teams make money streaming games.

3 minutes ago, Bill said:

A lot of water has flowed under the bridge since then but wasn't there was some issue about payment terms/deferred payment or some such. Perhaps cash on the nose was important to Laxey at the time.

I think it was more a case of they'd done their homework and simply opted not to deal with King, it could be advocated that they believe subsequent events proved that to be the correct decision. 

3 hours ago, buster. said:

You learn something every day. I don't think I can blame my memory, just a detail that passed me by.

 

 

Who bought them from LP ?

Can't be GL, DP &/or GT then, can it, in part...?

From whom did King source his shares?

It was indeed GL, DP and GT they split Laxey's holding between them. Iirc King had offered 2p per share more than Laxey accepted from The Theee Bears. That was a very peculiar decision from Laxey not typical behaviour and quite telling in its own way

4 minutes ago, buster. said:

Thanks !

 

Yes, that is what it looked like and what he said himself.

 

King did some important things prior to and during his second time on board.

 

Buying the Laxey Partners shares was a game changer.

His strategy of constructive losses and the Steven Gerrard appointment also come to mind.

 

However, taking on Mr.Mash and the SD empire got away from him and he (and Rangers) appear to have got burnt.

 

Now this all to obvious 'collusion' with (elements of?) C1872 has went the same way. 

 

Just WTF did C1872 think when deciding to go down this path ? That Rangers supporters are buttoned up the back ??

 

 

 

King never bought Laxey shares. Laxey point blank refused to sell to King and accepted an offer of less per share than King was offering, very, very unusual behaviour froma hedge fund but I guess they had their reasons.

21 minutes ago, gaspard said:

Don't be fooled by @forlanssisterand his fancy wordies.

 

He's from Peterheid and rough as a badgers arse.

 

I'm little better, but at least I don't cherry pick a thesaurus before posting 

 

The landed gentry speaketh!

59 minutes ago, gaspard said:

No much wonder,  you asked me to take it back, get refund, put on a burka and sunglasses, go back in and buy it again. 

A wig on your glabrous pate would have sufficed.

45 minutes ago, buster. said:

Between that and the reported Ashley pay off, it will reduce profits on merchandise by a fair wack.

 

Very poor but DK can take some/much* of the blame for this, not only the current board.

 

* Anyone who knows more is welcome to correct me @forlanssister

Very much King's baby.