SteveC

Just now, Tannochsidebear said:

 

Least of our worries just now, TB! Not a worry at all in fact

it was something like 4-0 in 12 minutes to them either side of HT. Just horrendous.  Going back over the last three years - the names on the shirts change but that's about all. Doesn't seem to matter one hoot if they are "Rangers men" or not.

5 minutes ago, Tannochsidebear said:

5-0 down and the tims bring on their best striker.

Bring him on to misbehave with impunity as he always does.

I think I'm going to have to switch it off. Feeling very ill.

4 minutes ago, the gunslinger said:

Murty should have been replaced after the cup game. Im not even sure he should be allowed out for the second half.

We certainly need change of some sort for our last 3 games or we will lose all 3.

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Can't see these players fighting at the sheep or HIVs, can you? they get brushed off the ball with ease.  (Admittedly if they tackle back they get booked) And our home record is pish.

So - winning any of the three will almost be a surprise. Can't be bothered with that just now - just hoping for non-record score today.

8 minutes ago, Big Jaws said:

Theres not much to say about that so far and its only half time but 7 goals against us for no reply in the last two games against this mob is simply not acceptable. We need to have a major look at ourselves from top to bottom.

I'm sitting here terrified that it's going to be seven or more today...and about how off-putting it is to any potential new manager

I'm watching it on a delay - I paused it in the build up and can't jump forwards - it's still 0-0 for me.

Should I just quit now?

1 minute ago, Bill said:

Same players (virtually), same formation - anyone expecting a different result? Me neither.

No, but there weren't many choices, really.  In defence I mean which is what is scaring me most.

32 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

I think I've managed to forgo all reason and convince myself that Gerrard will be a good move.

 

I'll have gone from 'Gerrard shouldn't be an option', to 'Stevie G's taking us to 55' on the announcement when it comes -- if it comes...

 

And If it doesn't come I'll be like...

 

Yes, I'm beginning to feel the same.  It's probably some sort of mass delusion but hey, ho....we're all punch drunk after the last six years.

1 hour ago, alexscottislegend said:

Don't care if we are camped in our own half for ninety minutes and then fluke a winner 10 mins. from time. Wish we still had Walter with one of his backs-to-the-wall Eufa specials.

 

We don't have the players for that.

2 minutes ago, Tannochsidebear said:

Official line-up;

 

Alnwick

Tav McCrorie Martin Halliday

Holt Dorrans

Candieas Windass Murphy

Cummings

 

Subs: Kelly, Hodson, Rossiter, Docherty, Goss, MOH, Morelos

Ta. And so it was leaked once again. Disgraceful.

Also that defence is so weak that we surely have to attack for as  much of the game as possible.

2 hours ago, compo said:

Maybe there are some on other forums who are not Rangers men , hopped infiltrators. 

I seem to recall one called something like "Kaiserbear" who posted many hundreds of times before slipping up by ending one with: "right I'm off to Parkhead to get my season ticket..."

What a way to spend your 'life'!

3 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

I just remember Bartley flying into a crunching tackle on Broonaldo, sending him spinning through the air. 

 

Is that enough to warrant a move? Yes; yes, it is!  

And pissing himself laughing in the lego-eater's face when that moron attempted "the stare" as Coker lovingly calls it.

You'd probably guess the source for this one.  The National!  I didn't know that their sister paper was the Evening timz...the word re finances came from a "source".....unnamed, obviously.

STEVEN Gerrard could become the next Rangers manager if certain financial assurances are offered by the Ibrox board.

The Evening Times understands that Rangers’ delegates, headed by director of football Mark Allen, met with Gerrard in Liverpool last Thursday in order to present a formal proposal to the former Anfield captain. He is currently mulling over the offer.

This is enough to make anyone hope he does become manager:

2 minutes ago, Dragosani said:

well there's always warnock

 

 Yes, but no-one's talking about him now and headlines like the following make it sound  like a done deal:

http://www.insidefutbol.com/2018/04/26/didnt-see-steven-gerrard-becoming-rangers-manager-coming-former-ger-admits/373710/

I'm slightly confused. Both STV and BBC are reporting that Steve G is just one name on a shortlist yet we (and others) seem to be talking about it as though he's the only contender.

15 minutes ago, Ser Barristan Selmy said:

If Neil Lennon was a good manager he'd still be in England. He seems pretty decent by Scottish standards, but that counts for little. 

Little things can make huge differences.  Neil Lennon's managerial career,  such as it was,  was saved by a referee giving a foul for a dive at Kilmarnock when they were three down.  He'd been a joke up until that comeback and, contrary to re-written history, it had nothing to do with his managerial input. They had shown no sign of playing any better after halftime and it was that decision that turned the game and allowed them to catch up.  Even then, Killie should have scored in the last minute.  We threw away three points that same weekend, scandalously, and the world then went completely upside down and Evil has stalked the Land e'er since.

3 minutes ago, ian1964 said:

You have to wonder, if this is true??, why was he not appointed before now? does it mean the board have only just decided on Gerrard?.

STV are merely saying that he is one of those on a short-list,  the "he'll be named before Sunday" press may have jumped the gun in the effort to produce a screaming headline and boost sales.

4 minutes ago, ian1964 said:

Out of interest! is this rumour only doing the rounds with the Scottish gutter press?

Hard to tell in internet days and any story with Gerard's name is going to be picked up and spread even if only emanating from  Scottish Gutter Press to begin with.  So, it's "everywhere" by now, as you can see by looking at the links listed on the site below

http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/Sport/Football/SPFL/Rangers

10 minutes ago, buster. said:

If you want to build something you start with a good foundation and it's the football operation as a whole that has to brought up to as high a level as possible, as quickly as possible. Then, you have to have a first team set-up that takes full advantage.

 

It's about getting value for money for every pound spent and adding value via improving footballers of all ages.

 

If you can get as close to this as possible, you may have a better chance of on-field succes at home and abroad.

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Agreed, but our chance to do that was after our illegally enforced demise and when we were working our way back. We've gone about it "arse over tit" and left ourselves boxed in with very few avenues of escape from a dire predicament.

9 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

No, we play in the SPFL Premiership!  

 

I understand it's not a priority, but I don't see why there can't be a manager that can do the job now, while also bring something, build something, that will see us progress in Europe. 'Progress' is relative; it doesn't mean Qualifying for the CL Last-16, merely being able to take on European sides without reverting to ultra-defensive, counter-attacking football; maybe go on a run in the Europa League. 

Fair point, I don't think I've ever used that, though .  Hell, I still think of it as the first division! 

I think "going on a run in the Europa league" is just about possible in my lifetime if we get lucky in the qualifiers and then meet teams with no interest in the competition.  I'm 60 this year though and they'll soon make qualifying harder, so it is a long shot.

5 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

I'm struggling to get excited about this Gerard link.

 

Inexperience shouldn't rule anyone out, but they have to demonstrate that they have ideas, and principles that they can implement; I'm struggling to see what his ideas are, his philosophy. Admittedly, I've not seen/ read anything about his work with the Liverpool Academy. 

 

I'd be more comfortable if I knew a little about what he'd bring. At the minute, it just seems like we're basing it on his playing career; stellar though it is, it doesn't necessarily translate into a successful managerial career.

 

And then the experienced #2 crap annoys me too. I really don't care if they are 'experienced' in the game. The game has changed. What worked for Gary Mac, doesn't work nowadays... IMO, of course. 

 

Admittedly, getting the players 'up for the game' -- as vague as that is -- is probably enough in this league, embarrassingly, with the gulf in quality and finances. However, it'll not beat a Rodgers side. And, it'll not do anything in Europe. 

 

Turned into a bit of a rant... sorry  

 

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If you are looking for someone who can "do anything in Europe" then you are limiting the search to..........no-one. It's the SPL we play in.  Europe's long gone unless the whole make-up of European football changes.    Getting through the qualifying rounds is now going to get as rare as reaching finals used to be and will probably get harder with each successive change to the rules.  The Europa league's champ's league place means that big clubs are starting to take it seriously a couple of rounds earlier than they used to do though there is always the chance - if we could ever get past the qualifiers - of meeting a few teams who play their reserves/try to lose to get out of the tournament in the opening rounds.

This one has gone from left-field to seeming to being so much a front-runner as appearing to be "imminent" to some.  He was a wonderful player though I could never take his endless late runs, if Liverpool weren't winning,  into the penalty area to fall over and get a penalty or, failing that, free kicks on the edge.  Then, after the game, say :"Everybody knows I'm not that type of player, I don't dive, me" This is what Wenger was referring to when he said the papers always go on about foreigners diving but the leading exponent at that time was English.  It's modern football, of course, and the likes of Drogba took it so far as to be even more ludicrous.  And it shows a will to win at all costs, I suppose.  I guess no-club has players who don't do this.  I see little of them but Sinclair seems to base his game around it, and we've had them, too.  Along with feigning injury, it's the main thing that's put me off football.   

Anyway - as manager =  hell of a gamble but if it paid off it'd be looked back on a masterstroke.  He'd bring an interest from a media that is not inherently and irredeemably biased against us (so far!) too.  He's certainly got lots of people he can call for advice. Daglish, for one  , but really he will have people whose counsel would be at the end of a phone.