Danny
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I expressed my opinion and pointed it out as a minor gripe. You both have tried to persuade me, with bluster, how wrong I am. If that makes me a hypocrite, so be it.
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And I'm sure they'll listen to their cup winning caretaker manager.
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Been a colourful debate and I don't have the will to keep it up, but I'll address this point. Where do I slag off Walter Smith? All I said was it was a significant criticism. I'm sure plenty of fans have 'significant criticisms' here there and everywhere. Both you and Ally are putting a bit too much importance on your own opinions here, if I may be so bold as to say. I have a small gripe, and I've made it public. You're almost saying 'how dare you'.
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That OF game has the potential to be really surreal. I remember the match Boyd scored his only OF goal, despite us already having lost the league - there was a fair crowd at Ibrox regardless. Parkhead will be much quieter by comparison.
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Rothen was never my favourite.
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This smacks of 'Walter knows best' and we really shouldn't question him. I don't deny at all that he does know more than us, and he's the best man for the job, but you're implying here that we shouldn't question anything. It's not a daft point at all, and the fact I'm curious as to its answer does not mean I'm not looking at the bigger picture. In fact, if I was taking this debate as seriously as you think I am, I would not also be pointing out that I trust Walter and consider him an excellent manager. By your logic, you can't ever ask a single question of his management, otherwise you must ask EVERY question of his management. That, to quote you sir, is a 'daft point' and I demand you give me 20. Right back at you. I'm highly dissatisfied by your post. If this was school I'd have you doing lines as a punishment exercise.
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It smacks more to me of a player who hadn't been given any sort of explanation as to why he WASN'T playing. Not sure I agree at all. Rothen was brought in as a CL specialist, yet the team has a shocking CL campaign but he's made the scapegoat. None of the players were impressive, including the similar wage Pedro Mendes, but it's Rothen who's made out the villain of the piece. tbh I don't like him going to the press like this, it's very immature. But that in itself does not explain why he was frozen out after Unirea. About the only thing I agree on. The reasons why he didn't justify his wages may vary between us, but we can agree that it didn't work out regardless.
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Could well be a very reasonable point in Rothen's case, but not one which explains Buffel and Gow. I do with Rothen hadn't gone to the press though, makes him look very bitter and a snitch/gossip.
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Obsess? I was curious about the situation when we were DIRE in the CL and second in the league. Funnily enough folk were asking the questions of the management back then. I still want to know the answers out of sheer curiosity, nothing to do with obsession, and everything to do with this thread reminding me. Just pure conjecture - you're making assumptions. Every? This is only one thing I'm asking about. A bit slippery slope there Ally.
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But I'm allowed to criticise, right? I mean, it would be silly if I wasn't allowed to make a negative comment over something I deem worthy of it. This doesn't detract from how excellent over the piece I believe Walter's been for us. I would just like to know the good reason then. Rothen: I explained my logic behind this one. Gow: He was superb in a pre-season friendly but never featured for us at all in the league. How did he show 'us' anything when he was never picked? Buffel: Has to be said the fans were screaming out for him when our form was poor, and in the few meagre sub appearances he got he showed plenty of ability. He just wasn't fancied by the management. So, it's unnacceptable when it's Gattuso done by DA but ok when it was Rothen/Buffel/Gow by Smith for no good tangible reason aside 'in Walter we trust'? Any negative attitude which came from Rothen (and I assume he's the one you mean because I don't recall any problems with Buffel or Gow) came as a result of being frozen out. Not the other way around. Why is there being an assumption made that Rothen was a passenger? I can accept he didn't fit in with Walter's plans, mainly because it seems he wasn't signed by Walter, but I'm less sure how he was a passenger.
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He wasn't exactly Messi but he was no worse than anyone else during that time when, lest we forget, we were second in the league, playing terribly, and we got humiliated in the CL. My point has always been why he was made the scapegoat when no more guilty of poor form than any other player in the team.
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Sour grapes from him but he was treated extremely unfairly and rather badly. As he says, he got frozen out after the defeat to Unirea, and there was never any explanation why. Walter's got previous for this with similar types of player in the past - Buffel, Gow. It's one significant criticism I have of Walter. And it would leave a grudge on the part of the players he treats in such ways.
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Corrected that for you Jim/Robbie.
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That's why the ref overuled it. One of the worst pieces of officiating I've seen yet. As much as I dislike Liverpool it would have been a shocker if that call had stood.
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I personally take the stance that I read almost everything online with a large cannister of salt, hell including my own posts half the time () and if/when something comes to fruition I can then say 'such and such was right'. There's no right, wrong, pointscoring or otherwise. But I do ignore everything wabash says.
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I find there's an alarming number of fans with little or nothing to say about the football, and everything to say about the running of the club. tbh I can't really be bothered with fans like that.
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It's only not original because Peter Crouch 'perfected' it. It's not exactly an overused way to celebrate, though I agree he looked a bit of a dufus.
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It was a bit odd - a drunken robot? He obviously lost his mind for a second but who can blame him
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Papac has been mince for months now but gets picked by default it seems. As for the goal, I personally blame Whittaker - how he didn't clear that is beyond me.
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Rangers 3 : 1 Aberdeen - Player Ratings and MoM Poll
Danny replied to Frankie's topic in Rangers Chat
motm was Lafferty - how Davis got it is beyond me. -
He looked like he was enjoying himself, and frankly he deserves to after the crap he's taken for long enough.
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I remember a piece in some rag which said the same thing years ago, maybe a decade ago. It compared Ferguson with Beckham and it was Ferguson who had the better overall distribution rate.
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Probably because there was a lack of definition of roles there. Mendes supposedly as the deep lying creative playmaker with an eye for a pass, Ferguson as the deep lying creative playmaker with an eye for a pass. Yet Mendes is better as a pure DM, while Ferguson is best as a CM. They were two players who didn't suit being partnered in vague roles. Bowyer is more attack minded than Ferguson, who sits in more as Bowyer goes forward more. It's a partnership which blends unlike Mendes and Ferguson.
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Let's hope he doesn't end up at the SFA then
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I decided to be understanding and not raise it