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  1. Danny
    You almost sound like you have his best interests at heart
  2. Danny
    The problem Naismith has is he's best set in a second striker position - and that's Miller's slot. I mean he's versatile - he can play on the wings, despite what some think, and he's even reasonable as a CM, but with Davis on the right, Miller in the SS slot and the midfield we have, Naismith seems condemned to a bit part role. If he hadn't had all those injuries he may well have asserted himself in the side by now, but bad luck has curtailed him. I've never been too harsh on the lad - I think some have. He has something to give the team, as he showed on Sunday.
  3. Danny
    Took almost 2 years for the fans to chant his name - I don't Johnstone ever had his name chanted iirc. When Kenny Miller was on our radar far back as Spring 2008, well, we were all gutted weren't we? We all filled our heads with despair, that Walter and Ally had 'lost the plot', yours truly writing at the time that this was one of the biggest gambles of Smith's career. The day I saw Miller on our club's website in a Rangers jersey was a day which will stay with me. I was filled with horror, that this turncoat sub-par player was going to adorn our light blue. His club career had been littered with fairly average returns, with no period really standing out as good - Wolves, Derby, ourselves, and of course that lot over there had seen mediocrity with only the most sparing purple patch. I had a builder up, a fellow bear, and I mentioned to him my disgust at this signing - his reply was 'when's he been at his best?'. Answer? Scotland. Under the management of Walter Smith and Ally McCoist. I really didn't have a strong argument in protest - my feelings remained the same but he had a point and my mind was minorly open to Miller now. On Sunday he showed yet again why he's been one of the best signings Walter's ever made. He might not do it in every game, he might at times lose form (ok, *does* at times lose form) and occasionally his first touch is worse than Weir's punting. But he has never ever hidden, always works hard, has the stamina of a horse, and is 100% committed to the club he plays for. And when it really counted, and counts, he's produced the big moments on the big stage. Naismith's cross was fantastic, as was his run, but from that distance, getting a header as perfect as that took skill, guts, and sheer quality - and that's what Miller can be. Walter Smith and Ally McCoist get the best out of him, and truly now, having heard the fans chant his name, I hope he finally feels accepted. I got over myself by about October 2008 - looks like many of the rest of us are now finally following suit. There really is only one Kenny Miller and I am very, very glad I was so wrong about him.
  4. Danny
    Agree he was one of his best signings, but it's telling that 4 pages in and plenty of folk replying and no one else bar you remembered him. Cuellar did a dirty on us and that's sadly what I will always remember him for. Hence why I've forgotten him.
  5. Danny
    *rubs hands with glee* I'll look forward to it
  6. Danny
    Tripe. Presumably there should be repercussions for goalies if they make a mistake then? Or for strikers when they miss a sitter. This bandwagon is getting unhealthier by the day.
  7. Danny
    So you think Hearts and Aberdeen fans should be looking to win the league? You seem to be implying I've attempted to remove all emotion and am only looking at facts - which isn't entirely true - I'm just stating the way our history is, and why expectations which confound that are not realistic. I didn't say it was wrong, ill judged, or out of order. You were the one to attach that meaning to my words, not me. The truth is we will always hope to win the league year after year, and we'll always be looking to make our mark in Europe - the problem is expecting these things, demanding these things, and being ridiculous and knee jerk if and when they don't happen. It's not really the hope I have a problem with, more the fallout when things don't go our way as they frequently don't - and before you know it you have protests, calls for the heads of the management, a clear out of playing staff etc. The way you're implying, we should just expect that baggage as inevitable because it's only correct to hope for success.
  8. Danny
    Excellent post. We've never been great in Europe, and we've never uniformly dominated domestically either. As far as Europe goes like any other team we've had better campaigns and worse ones - the best Rangers team of my lifetime was the one you mention which came so close in '93, and the run to Manchester was special too, but this talk of 'progress' in Europe is a bit bizarre given we've well over 100 years of never being that great in Europe. Domestically we have 52 leagues - in around 140 years. It's a fallacy to assume we will and should win the league year after year - we do not have a monopoly and only those 2 fantastic stretches by Struth and Smith were ever the exception to the rule. Indeed, almost 30 of all our leagues came in those periods. Rangers and football will always be swings and roundabouts - some expectations are unrealistic and naive.
  9. Danny
    That dirty creep was the runt who said we didn't deserve to win the league last year. Misguided, delusional, and bitter - talk about a bad loser, and it was good to see our players like Nacho ram it right down his throat.
  10. Danny
    I must admit I used to, but then I realised McCulloch's worth to the team and began to realise this season just why he's so important to us. He's the 3rd name on the sheet along with Weir and Bougherra, if everyone is fit and available.
  11. Danny
    McCulloch did well enough in the SPL in defence, and had CL experience in abundance - it wasn't an unreasonable team selection to make. I doubt very much Walter would have done anything different even in hindsight, mainly because even with a Bougherra/Weir partnership, we still shipped 4 goals to Sevilla regardless. Let's face it, mistakes or otherwise, this Rangers team was out of its depth in the CL, no matter what players were picked. And that is why blame is not really on anyone in particular.
  12. Danny
    600K in a country which has no money in football isn't all that bad tbh.
  13. Danny
    So why did you say you'd be happy for him to stay despite what happened in the CL? That implied you were blaming him for our displays there. I'm not saying he's totally innocent, but you seemed to be inferring the opposite.
  14. Danny
    So was Thomson for months, and now look at him. Give them both time - neither player is in sparkling form right now, but the Thomson example, while extreme, should teach you patience.
  15. Danny
    I'd love to see progress in the CL. If not qualification for the KO stage, then a credible showing in the group stage. Something which can only be done with a better squad.
  16. Danny
    I'm not completely sure why Smith is getting the sole blame for our CL failure?
  17. Danny
    Sorry, but his first post is unreasonable. He's making an implied statement that with better finances and a healthier club, Smith couldn't make us any better than we currently are. That Smith is completely limited and to improve in tandem with better resources at our disposal, we need a better boss. I don't see how fair a conclusion that is to make about Smith who has done wonders in his second spell with fairly limited resources. The money he's spent he's generally spent extremely well, but I don't see how another manager under the same circumstances would do 'so much better for us on the wider stage'. Or why Smith with more to work with wouldn't. I just don't see why Smith is being described negatively in this thread. From struggling to be third under PLG Smith has turned us round completely - with more than just loyalty and dignity.
  18. Danny
    I would expect unreasonable views from wabash, but you seriously agree with him that Walter Smith is tactically poor and not pro-active? Goodness me, that draw to UTD has really turned some fans on the club in the past few days.
  19. Danny
    I'm not sure I agree. I'd suggest our failure was more down to the quality of squad and the financial limitations than anything else. The same manager overcame CL quality teams in 2007/2008 like Fiorentina, Werder Bremen, Sporting, Panathinaikos, Lyon, Stuttgart etc. Difference was back then we had quality like Hutton, Cousin, Ferguson, Cuellar. We don't have marquee players of that quality these days
  20. Danny
    This has been a very schizophrenic season - domestically it took us a while to go top of the league - the first half of the season seems to have been forgotten by many as it was Celtic who topped the table more than we did - it's only since December onwards that we've been top although the gap has steadily grown as Mowbray's management has taken full grip while Walter's experience and calm has aided us in the opposite way. But as gisabeer does say, the CL exploits were truly shambolic, even if a concession is that our squad, blighted by our finances, simply wasn't good enough and it wasn't really anyone's fault. Our ritual humiliation at the hands of Unirea was down there with Kaunas for me, and as imperious as we've been in the league in 2010 and tail end of 2009, our European failure is a significant blot on the season. I'd say, overall, though, a potential treble is a potential treble, and I just hope that next season's CL campaign, hopefully aided and abetted by the funding from a new owner, is a much more enriching experience.
  21. Danny
    Whether or not these accusations have foundation is not the point, as you rightly say it's basically disrespectful and undermining of authority to bleat on about things which go against you. Guys like John Hughes agreed not to complain about refs, and while he hasn't, to his credit, others like Mowbray most certainly have. Hateley's column was correct, the green end of this city have started a bandwagon and now any decision which goes *against* is complained about. It's worse this season in that respect than I can remember (though I am quite sure we're no angels in the past ourselves), and is it any coincidence it's the worst league performance by timmy since before the time of Barnes?
  22. Danny
    I didn't think either penalty was one. In fact, none of the goals scored were clean. Every single one was either luck, a mistake in defending, an invalid penalty or a deflection. But I also don't really care - it was a full blooded cup tie and a good match - and hopefully with the replay we'll properly put it to bed
  23. Danny
    Fair dues, but speaking as someone who isn't really a regular user of any of the big forums or of organisations like the RST etc, I'm none the wiser
  24. Danny
    Weir and Bougherra are the first names on the sheet when fit. Wilson is backup to them. Smith has to be diplomatic about it.
  25. Danny
    I'm with him on this one though. Boyd was extremely poor but earns points for his penalties, while Lafferty did absolutely nothing when he came on. So giruy
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