SteveC

Yessssssssssssssss Candeias!!!!!!!!!!!

Bugger it - just after an incorrect offside when we were right through, too

That was absolutely brilliant. It's taken me all these minutes to be able to type, I was so excited.

Probably Jock Wallace saying we should go back to proper Rangers' socks and we should get back to the proper Rangers place in the table.

Yes, JohnMc, I would imagine that is the case. However, if the manager, or indeed anyone, tells the directors such a change will increase the chances of success then they are likely to go along with the proposal, I'd have thought. Especially at that time when we were so desperate to catch you know who (who wore white socks). I remember reading it (the bit about the benefits of white) in a piece trying to allay criticism from 'traditionalists'. I'm afraid it is all a bit vague though. Well, I read it about 50 years ago and wasn't expecting a question on it, to be fair to me. It's also, vague though it be, a clearer memory than 5 days ago!

At the time it was said that the change was made because there was a theory that white in the socks made it easier to pick out team-mates to whom to pass. Studies had been done on this. Unfortunately, I cannot remember who it was amongst our staff who said this but I presume it was the manager.

Hi all, It may just be my age talking here but that second goal felt like sex............ Bet you missed such pearls of wisdom, eh?

Hi, Self-imposed exile briefly broken to wish you all a Happy New Year and to say "hello" to upgraded forum/new platform. I have a pal who for various reasons knows a lot about QPR and sees them every game. So, I aked him re our latest signing, and he replied: "So glad our clubs are doing transfer business ! This guy may be our revenge for Bob Malcolm. Goss is actually a bit more complicated. He impressed as captain of Manchester United's U23s and that got him a move to Loftus Road a year ago. U23 football is played on pristine surfaces against other bright young things and is nothing like the real world. Or the world of Scott Brown. He has had precious few opportunities in the Championship and when he has he's struggled. The pace and the physicality of the man's game has been too much for him. Famously and idiotically Olly suddenly decided to give him a turn in the hectic Griffin Park derby (think Old Firm) in April and soon had to withdraw him. He is about six feet two and about 10 stone and now has to realise that there is more to football than spraying passes while under no pressure. At 22 he should be playing first team football somewhere. On the plus side there is a player in there waiting to come out. His left foot is a wand. He can certainly lay a pass. That side of him makes you think of Michael Carrick. The R's fans are less impressed that he turned down a loan move to Yeovil in August. And his oversized SUV with its G055YT0SSY style plate has also drawn comment. He is a midfielder and just because he has filled in as a CB in a three occasionally does not make him a defender. Falco, Hately, Francis, Spackman, Woods, Wilkins, Malcolm, Goss....any others spring to mind?" Yes, you were all correct, it is hard to stay away!

That's very kind of you to say but it's rather moot as I couldn't find a way to delete my account.

"Right now it is beyond parody that the manager and his team who hits post and bar twice each and has a keeper barely stopping the ball on the line gets slaughtered for "not being good enough"." "Folk like you", eh? WTF? You should only generalise about people you know and understand or who only ever repeat the same things. Say, for example, always defending everyone at Ibrox be they leeches there to kill us, dud managers or useless players. If you look back over my history you'll find variety; you, however, have been the same from my first to last post (which this is) here. Just a couple of points on this quote, before I go: "Right now it is beyond parody that the manager and his team who hits post and bar twice each and has a keeper barely stopping the ball on the line gets slaughtered for "not being good enough". It's beyond parody that you refuse to read that to which you are replying . I stressed I was talking over the long term. A team can be unlucky in some games but not regularly, which is what you parrot. Eight points from seven home games against appallingly poor opposition is not good enough. Also, why do you keep talking about hitting the bar and the post - again season after season you have written this, game after game - as though it is a good thing? It is not. It is failure! Failure to score. "hits post and bar twice each " = four misses. Four hundred times each would equate to the same thing = not a goal. If we hit the woodwork many times in the upcoming games our opponents will not care, we will achieve no points for doing so. It's scoring that they don't want us to achieve. Hitting the post and the bar "isn't good enough" - what's beyond parody in that ? It's a fact. I don't have time to keep up with the board and it makes me fractious to try so I'm leaving now. It's been wonderful, despite the recurrent pain on the pitch, to have been with you. I joined when we were deep in the brown stuff. I leave with us at least in the hands of Rnagers supporters but, I fear, with a very bleak looking future unless something truly dramatic happens. When we were criminally attacked from outside and inside the game and found ourselves in the bottom division we had the chance to restructure the whole club and build a football philosophy for the future. That was our only chance of recovering from the devastating attack on our club unless a billionaire with money to burn was to be found. None were, and so we were left with option one but, lamentably, we went down the Ian Black and Kevin Kyle route instead. This is easily the best forum, but then you don't need me to tell you that. Best wishes to you all and to our beloved club.

"at times, football is football"? Yes - but what we have are systemic, repetive failings and we don't play in a country where "football" is any kind of the real thing. Continually missing chances to score is not bad luck; it is bad play, and bad play that has gone unaddressed for far too long. Scoring goals from decent chances is a basic footballing skill, many would say the most basic and the most important. We are shite at it, as we are at many other basic footballing skills. We routinely miss the target or put it close enough to the keeper for him to save when there is no need to do so. Then we ludicrously laud their keeper for having a "world class game", week after week. In Scotland. Aye, right. We are in an atrocious league, truly abysmal in fact, and, alas, we fit right in. Support apart, we are a useless team from a useless league. The Europa Cup ahows year in, year out where Scottish football is. We even managed to be more embarrassing than the rest of the SPFL there.

Home form in the league so far this season: Sat 12 Aug 15:00 Scottish Premiership Rangers 2-3 Hibernian Sat 19 Aug 15:00 Scottish Premiership Rangers 0-0 Hearts Sat 9 Sep 15:00 Scottish Premiership Rangers 4-1 Dundee Sat 23 Sep 12:00 Scottish Premiership Rangers 0-2 Celtic Wed 25 Oct 19:45 Scottish Premiership Rangers 1-1 Kilmarnock Sat 4 Nov 15:00 Scottish Premiership Rangers 3-0 Partick Sat 18 Nov 15:00 Scottish Premiership Rangers 0-2 Hamilton Eight points from a possible 21 Plus Sun 22 Oct 14:30 Scottish League Cup Rangers 0-2 Motherwell Stunningly poor.

I was surprised, I must say. They are a basket case of a club but then again........we are trying to attract managers and I'm pretty sure we are also seen as a basket case of a club. Our last 5 years are considerably scarier than Sunderland's. Not only that but we are in a country where we are despised and everthing is stacked against us.

Certainly hasn't in mine and that takes us us back to the '50s. Yep. Truly depressed by this.

Not looking likely, is it? Have Hamilton ever beaten us at Ibrox in the league? Doubt it somehow.

What a state to be in. Timz with a potentially tricky tie away today. They win as both we and the sheep trail by two at home. Might as well just hand them the freaking title now

Have a brilliant day. I'll be thinking of you and recalling my first trip to Ibrox, over half a century ago now. Yikes. The first of hundreds of times my dad took me, home and away. That and the first night game (not Rangers, actually, but rather Scotland v Spain (0-0 but for me electrifying)- surrounded by Bears of course as was the norm then ) have moments of memory far brighter than whatever the f@ck it was I did yesterday PS Don't worry about my language - I'm not going to be there.

Don't say things like that, please, even hypothetically!

Thanks for it. A fine piece and very moving at the end. All the very best for you and yours, pal.

Most unusual to have McCoist and Boyd backing King. Unheard of, I'd say, since King's reurn and non-appointment of He Who Thought He'd Waltz Back In.

I know what you mean, but I think the former would upset youknowwho even more than the latter.

That bit worries the beejesus out of me. Just the kind of kick in the proverbials that's been happening to us constantly for 5 years...

Some fans are never happy, as we see from here and other Rangers forums. They've complained about McInness before and at times vociferously.

It is an absolutely crucial appointment and we have to get it right. And he'd be a big gamble. However: Everyone else mentioned, and anyone we might attract, would also be a big gamble. I also think that this is a bad time to change manager. I don't think the January window is a good time to buy even though we will want to. We may not have any money to do so in any case, come to that. Were we to announce 'Murty to the end of the season and then we'll see' it would not actually stop the media focusing on McInnnes, and so might continue to unsettle the sheep.

Looks like a proportion of the sheep would be happy to see the back of him. http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/rangers-target-derek-mcinnes-sends-11467959.amp I can't copy and paste - or at least not from my phone - due to embedded tweets. Admin please delete it if is considered too heinous a link.