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35 minutes ago, yuddie said:

McInnes in the studio tonight. Read anything into that?

Edit: I'm dense.

Is Jack injured?

9 minutes ago, Sutton_blows_goats said:

Won the league at Genk and Brugge 

He seems by far and a way the best candidate. Not that I had ever heard of him before.

I actually think a more useful poll would be that you could vote for as many candidates as you like. Limiting it to just one vote per person makes it very hard to see the favourites.

2 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

Don't be silly - he still needs to have a good Rangers man on his staff.

I thought Lampard was a good Rangers man?

Fine, bring in John Terry too.

Give it to Lampard, but only on the condition that we don't hire a DoF and we give him all the money to spend with no oversight. 

I’m not convinced we will appoint anyone if we win the next two games. Out of the candidates we have a chance with Clement seems to have the best CV. A lot of the others have periods of glaringly terrible results which are unacceptable, I can’t look past Muscats period in Belgium where he achieved 2 wins in 15 games. Voting for Gallardo seems to be alike activating cheat mode, but fro what I can gather he will not be within our scope or reach.

We have serious problems if Lampard is the front runner. I’m starting to think searching for a dof should be the priority, not a manager. I just don’t trust them to appoint an appropriate manager. I do not want us to be in this same position next October.

13 minutes ago, alexscottislegend said:

I was banned from Follow follow for being racist - quite funny when you think I brought up 2 mixed race kids.

I got banned waaaay way back in the day for sticking up for McCoist (this was before he came back with Walter), loads on the board were calling him a shyster and an uncle tom. Madness.

5 hours ago, Rousseau said:

Are people forgetting that we actually play with three forwards? 

 

Personnel is not the (main) issue, it's how they're deployed and used. 

when you say personnel is not the issue, do you think we have a strong enough squad to win the league? I think Butland has been a brilliant signing, Cantwell too, but so far the others haven't produced enough for me and I'm concerned they are poorer than the players they've replaced.

3 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

He's just a caretaker. 

You don’t think the board are crossing their 11 fingers and eyes and balls and whatever else they can in the hope that Davis is a blinding awesome manager that they can install long term?

Maybe they aren’t.

Just now, Gonzo79 said:

Literally, aye?  

 

At least I’m glad you’ve shared your pearls of wisdom about Davis doing the best he can in the job. If that is the requirement then I might have a chance too. Wouldn’t actually put it past this board to install me as manager to be honest.

2 minutes ago, Gonzo79 said:

Reminds me of your match thread comments.  Constant reactionary negativity.

 

The board made the correct decision getting rid of Beale - he was a joke.  None of us know how Davis will do, how long he'll be manager or who is lined up to take the role on a permanent basis yet, so chill yer beans.

Literally my whole point. 

5 minutes ago, Gonzo79 said:

Overly dramatic, with nothing to back it up.

Pretty sure the latest appointment backs it up, as did the rest of my post that you chopped off.

Those making the decisions have no clue what is going on. We’ve just appointed our newest manager, interim or not, and guess what? It’s another complete risk. It’s the only thing the decision makers know to do, flip a coin and hope for the best.

1 minute ago, CammyF said:

Well the rumours are that McInnes and Clarke are the preferred options. Both who have previously turned us down. 

 

Hopefully unfounded rumours buy nothing would surprise me. 

 

Clarke would be a good appointment in my opinion.

Going into an away Europa League match with a completed untested management team.

👍

The board simply need to undertake a massive consultation period with experienced people to understand how to move forward. We just had Alex Ferguson in the studio, I hope to god that the board used some of his time to discuss football matters.

13 minutes ago, BlackSocksRedTops said:

I don't get this understanding the club stuff. Its way overstated. Celtic won the league 2 years running with the aid of 3 Japanese players who probably didn't understand what Celtic was. What they did understand was that hard work wins over fans and reaps rewards. They also understood a manager with a clear plan and structure. For me it's that bloody simple.

It's fair to have your own opinion, but Celtic have had two Scottish captains at the core of their team during all their success. Of course you need quality, but there is no point in filling the team with people who don't understand that we need to win every match.

37 minutes ago, BlackSocksRedTops said:

Would signing Scottish talent, eg. Shankland and Nisbet, mean more goals? We are a team set up to not make chances. It's criminal. I'm done watching Tav continually hit those floating and aimless crosses to no one.

Actually it probably would mean more goals, but that wasn't the point I was making. The comparison of strikers was to illustrate the point. There is no core of players that understand the club, I believe we really miss that.

3 minutes ago, Bill said:

Has anyone actually said that?

Honestly, I'm not really sure what you guys are arguing about then. Perhaps it's just the anger of the situation spilling into all of our posts. 

I really don't get why people aren't agreeing that the board are making severe, dire errors? It's been obvious over many years now, even their appointment of DoFs is riddled with errors. They really need some consultation with experienced parties before appointing anyone else.

Personally I think the appointment of a new manager at this stage will just put a plaster over our problems and the plaster will come off again at the start of next season. I think we are missing much more than a new manager.

- We need a complete clear out of the squad, I thought this was happening during the off season but I was dismayed to realise that the same players that have failed year on year still make up the bulk of our first team for our games this season. A huge failure, and I still can't get my head around getting rid of Colek who was our most efficient striker.
 

- We need to re-establish what it means to be Rangers within our dressing room. How do we do that? I believe we absolutely need to revert this snobbery of overlooking the best Scottish talent. Beale should be sacked alone for his remarks about Scottish players not being good enough and then signing Dessers and Lammers. Not only are these players a long way from the required ability we need, they are a long way from understanding what Rangers are. We need to start bringing in the best Scottish players again, and maybe the best Scottish coaches.

I could rant all day actually, but I have to make scrambled eggs for my kids now.