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  1. Hildy
    A good manager could win this division without bringing in any new faces. We should not be employing anyone whose intention is to bring in players to reach the playoffs. The division must be won. Nothing less will do.
  2. Hildy
    If Jackson wanted to please the Celtic-minded, he wouldn't be writing articles like the above. The Celtic support wants Ally to be given a ten-year contract with a ten-year option. The last thing they want is to see the subject of him leaving Rangers raised. They are worried that we might actually bring in a good manager.
  3. Hildy
    There is a word in the Rangers lexicon that is frequently used to do fellow fans down. The world is 'loyal'. I remember reading somewhere that this word was 'given' to supporters clubs who had backed the club after a major fall-out between club and support. Only those supporter clubs that had backed the club were permitted to use the word in their title. I don't know what the issue was or even when it happened, but I did read this somewhere although it was such a long time ago, I'm not sure where it was that I read it - probably in a Rangers book.
  4. Hildy
    I have no problem with the tone. The Rangers support too often gets bogged down in who the messenger is - and there are certainly some dubious messengers out there - than in what the content of the message is.
  5. Hildy
    I welcome articles that say what has to be said.
  6. Hildy
    Ashley is loaded but he is lending Rangers money - not gifting it to us.
  7. Hildy
    Giving an eight-year contract to any manager is unwise. In the modern era, we tire fairly quickly of managers. They eventually run out of excuses and too often have little tactical variation. They also become repetitive in the dressing room and players learn to ease off under the poorer ones. Already we're at the stage where Ally's utterances infuriate every time he opens his mouth. Whoever we go for next, contracts like this should be out of bounds.
  8. Hildy
    We don't. We should invite applications and take it from there, but if the club actually moved Ally on within the next few days, we may need a caretaker for a few weeks, months or perhaps the rest of the season. I've just spotted your edit and I inadvertently gave you a tick for your post. I would not want Billy Davies anywhere near Rangers. We're agricultural enough.
  9. Hildy
    Meanwhile, over at Hearts: “The players are back in tomorrow morning at 9:30, but I’ve given them a day off on Monday. It’s a special treat for winning today. Well, only some of them are off, not everyone!"
  10. Hildy
    McCall was beginning to dread matchdays as Motherwell manager. He cares and his heart is in the right place, but I'm not convinced McCall could handle being manager at Rangers. If he ever came in, I would expect it to be as an assistant - not as manager.
  11. Hildy
    Fair comments here. We could do a lot worse than the two Jimmys.
  12. Hildy
    Do I trust this board to adequately replace McCoist? No, I don't, but a Dave King-dominated board with Walter Smith advising would have Ally in charge for years to come and with excuses being trotted out for every predictable failure. This board, trusted or not, should be ready to replace the management right now. If it has any sense it will find someone with no Rangers connection who knows how to get teams playing football in an entertaining and attacking manner - and there should be no McInnes, no McCall, no Davies and no taking advice from Walter Smith.
  13. Hildy
    I wouldn't either. The time is now to make the change.
  14. Hildy
    We are heading for the playoffs and we'll make them even with no manager at all. This is the moment to get the sackings done. A new manager could still win this division but he will do no worse than the playoffs. We really need to go flat out to win it and that means new management - now. This is a bad day but it is also an opportunity to do what is absolutely essential - bring in new management.
  15. Hildy
    I would hate to see Smith back at Rangers in an influential position. Ally would be secure indefinitely and the football would continue to provide people with a reason to do something else on a Saturday afternoon. This would be the downside of Dave King gaining control. Quite frankly, Rangers needs to leave the likes of Walter Smith and Graeme Souness in the past and embrace more enlightened methods, and with brand new personnel.
  16. Hildy
    I wouldn't be too sure about that, but even if you are right, it could become unrecognisable as the football club that drew tens of thousands of people to it. The Labour Party has changed. People who used to habitually vote for it have deserted it. Rangers has changed too, and if the club effectively becomes Sports Direct Rangers, the attachment that many had to it will fade and disappear.
  17. Hildy
    There won't be a boycott on an organised grand scale, but it is foolish to deny that several thousand individual boycotts are already taking place, and Rangers is not going to properly recover until the off-field issue is resolved to the satisfaction of those who are no longer attending. Essentially, if nothing changes, the future is for Rangers to be a weakened club with a diminished support. People can trumpet their loyalty endlessly but thousands of fans have moved on from proclamations of faith to demanding answers to searching questions. Until the ownership/boardroom issue is fixed, Rangers is going to be a club operating several degrees below its potential, and the longer this situation continues, the potential for Rangers to be as powerful as it used to be will diminish. The choice is fairly simple: continue as we are and be a shadow of what we used to be, or bring the whole thing to a head - and there is risk attached here - and attempt to get the club operating normally again.
  18. Hildy
    It would appear that he's suggesting that the club's future is in serious doubt if fans continue to back the current regime. He has to explain why it would not be in doubt if there was a massive boycott. I would not be uncomfortable with a total boycott. I think this matter needs to be brought to a head and if a boycott does that, it is worth doing, but I would like to know the thinking behind the '140 years of history at risk' assertion.
  19. Hildy
    England won with a bit to spare. They were a class apart. The teams looked like they belonged in different divisions. England were stronger, faster and more adventurous. They also closed Scotland down well and panicked our guys into making hasty decisions. We tried hard but lacked the quality, guile and aggression to seriously trouble our southern cousins. England were deserving winners.
  20. Hildy
    It's communication. It's better than no statements at all. We may not be happy with things as they stand, and we may believe that things could have been done better, but I'd far rather have statements being traded publicly than nothing at all.
  21. Hildy

    Ally's CV

    Hildy replied to Gribz's topic in Rangers Chat

    There have been some poor results, but it's much more than that. The style of football has long since past its sell-by date. Many were sick of it under Smith and even more are sick of it now. The signings have been unimaginative and safe. They have been tried, tested and elderly rather than young, exciting and up and coming - and Lee McCulloch is undroppable. The money that is being paid to the management team is another sickener. We're all in this together? It doesn't feel like it. People are tired of funding an exercise in mediocrity, because that's what they perceive Rangers to be and they aren't going to do so indefinitely. Longstanding fans have packed it in. They not only don't go any more - they have stopped caring. Just look around you at Ibrox. In this the most competitive of the lower divisions, fans are bored rigid with the poor fare on offer - as anyone with a pulse would be. It's not just Ally, but Ally is most definitely a reason why many Rangers fans have had enough. Going to Ibrox is a triumph of loyalty over discernment. This cannot go on indefinitely. If Hearts beat us and go nine points ahead, it should be game over for our management team.
  22. Hildy
    At season ticket renewal time, McCulloch spoke about playing for Rangers in Europe again. If McCoist remains as manager, it's hard to imagine McCulloch ever leaving. A coaching role at Rangers will surely come along when his playing days come to an end. It's no wonder Rangers fans have had enough. Paying towards the retention of unimpressive management, and players well past their peak, eventually becomes so unpalatable that people can no longer justify doing so.
  23. Hildy
    People keep saying that it would cost a fortune to get rid of the management team, and it would, but the process should already have begun. The one-year notice period should have been instigated some time ago - and I did mention this on here several times. With every week that passes, this one-year period remains in place instead of running out. It should be running down right now.
  24. Hildy
    If Smith had never chucked it, we'd have had the same brand of football to endure since dropping to the bottom division, and similar signings too. By now, the fans would have been screaming for managerial change. Ally has to go - very few doubt this now - but he's been sticking to the Smith template, and it's the template that is all wrong. When change happens, we will need a manager who has a fresher, bolder and completely different approach.
  25. Hildy
    I think Andy is meaning that it would be harder to pursue the club - politically - if there was fan control. The entity would be the same but a substantive change in its ownership could see a more benign attitude from HMRC. HMRC might have to be persuaded to back off, but they would be more likely to do so if they were about to bankrupt a club that a hundred thousand people had jointly invested in.
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