bmck
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I just find it hard to hear ucb say he is above petty intersite squabbles as a means of undermining criticisms of the trust - some petty, some pointed - when the biggest perpetrators of this mentality arent those spouting negativity from the oblivion of the internet but the trust themselves. You would expect it of the anonymous internet, but not supposed leaders of men. To blame the media for the peaks and troughs when the trust is doing its best to create and use them seems fundamentally skewed. Everytime UCB posts I find myself agreeing, and then as soon as I read something in the paper or hear something said by them on FF about the rest of us I just think FFS, WTF is going on here. -
I can't see it. The only bit I can imagine is the 'only show in town' list of three which is just pretty funny. The point is surely that he's done a service that benefits all Rangers fans, even RST members, and allows them to make better informed decisions. The article didn't even say anything like absolutely-dont-support-this-guy, it just gave you the facts as they are known while admitting there were things unknown. Seems totally reasonable. I honestly just don't understand it at all. Usually when people get petulant when criticised, instead of just responding like someone-who-actually-knows-better, they're petulant, and don't actually know better. I got all caught up in the spirit of revolution and community from Tannochsidebear's thread the other week, but with every passing day I remember why it is the RST just cant be trusted to take the lead on anything.
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The criticism isn't overstated in that article. I wonder what Union City Bear thinks of that article, because if people are being harassed for that kind of research you've really got to wonder...
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Heh, didn't realise I capitalised the 'h' in heather there. Hmm. All valid points, but I don't think he's going to bring the kind of mentality we need. I'm not sure we need another 'lets get stuck in and battle it out' manager, harking back to the good old days of nine a row. If we're going to go forward I think we need someone with either the will or, preferably, the experience of bringing through youth players and with a decent knowledge of cheaper footballing markets. Maybe I'm still indulging the dream that if we started properly doing this youth thing, and producing our players we could be like Ajax and eventually come to hold our own in europe. Maybe given that that's folly, someone like RG may be ok.
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He never really set the proverbial Heather alight at Livingstone, did he?
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Have the RST criticised boss for this article?
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Any excuse for the polis to start administrating probes
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telling comment. there have been quite a few players (and even the manager) who have bemoaned either subtly or explicitly the fans getting on their back. at least some players are motivated by the fans desire for excellence. i think his next line was unfortunately correct - they have to bemoan it because its not there
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Panacea: An Answer or Solution for all Problems or Difficulties
bmck replied to Frankie's topic in Rangers Chat
the time it took me to get served it would have probably aged another few years and went up in price -
Panacea: An Answer or Solution for all Problems or Difficulties
bmck replied to Frankie's topic in Rangers Chat
Given the proximity on the ol' keyboard I could lie and say it was a typo. In truth, I'm quite happy that I got the second bit right given I've never seen it written and have only ever heard it said in rap music. The only way I'll ever get to drink some doM perignon in this life, I imagine, is if it's stolen -
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bmck replied to Frankie's topic in Rangers Chat
I know all too many of those people. 2k'll get you loads, but not after you've already got plush dinner, some don perignon and hookers! -
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bmck replied to Frankie's topic in Rangers Chat
Wow, that's some night out. I suppose, cocaine's quite expensive -
I think part of the thing about the basics is that individuals can't do them, only teams can. We look and we see Naismith play a poor pass, but 90% of the ease of that pass is created by the person running off the ball. I think most of the time when we get annoyed at a player not being able to do the simple things its another way of saying the players as a whole aren't doing the simple things. I think part of the running-into-space that makes the simple things possible involves playing players in roughly their right positions - years knowing where the smartest places to run to get behind defenders/cover opening gaps/get the ball out wide is what makes a player. To me its reasonable that naismith doesn't know where to run in central midfield, or who's likely to be running where when he does get the ball. That's why I think WS has to take his share of the blame - not because he's an awful manager, or any of these things, but these are things you can get right, and you would expect players of this callibre to get right. Naismith was excellent upfront against Seville; I'd like to see a Boyd/Naismith actual-upfront pairing. There's enough power, pace and guile there to cause teams problems. With Fleck playing just in behind, I think that would be a decent attack.
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Firstly, no-one asked you for an explanation. Secondly, given that you managed to put it in context in your second sentence there, it doesn't seem wildly over the score. You might've went for that instead going straight to the Rangers-haters comments. If we had went out and humped Aberdeen playing lovely football you would have been well entitled to a where-are-the-prophets-of-doom? post. You can hardly count the times you've argued that good results are ignored by the pessimists to fit their gloom.
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Didnt see anything in the opening post that suggested he was happy. Its hardly madly over the score to ask people who have defended WS emphatically to offer their explanation for the result and how it isnt as bad as it seems.
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Man, 17 plans dont make themselves. I would rather they took their time and came up with something decent enough to tempt me from my skepticism.
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well argued post maineflyer. there are a million different hats you can adopt when you talk about this stuff. the man under the hat worn watching that game the other night would have had them all shot, walte smith included, because how hurtful it was to watch. when i get back home, i stick on the pragmatics hat, and think about wider factors and all that. when i think about smith with a managerial analyst hat, i just dream of replacing him with an astute tactician with an overarching philosophy, and will and energy and drive to bring it into being. i think about how good it would be to see people routinely run into open space. and when i think about us and where we could be in ten years i want him out asap, so that the future can happen more quickly. and then i stick on my good-of-the-club hat and the in the immediate future i think it would be completely ridiculous to folow the plans of the guy thinking ten years ahead because there is league to be won and walter smith gives us a great chance of doing it. we arent really debating the facts here, mostly, but really just the most pressing concerns to conceive the problems in.
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if there is floundering in water going on, lets have it spelled out why, and what the significance is for the actual issues being discussed; or if there is irony ringing dull-ly, lets have it spelled out and why its important to the debate. not in a moderating sense, just for the sake of worthwhile reading.
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whats this about petrescu wanting the job? do you mean if he theoretically wanted the job we should give him it or has he actually mentioned something ive not read? cheers
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I would have no interest in the whole universe in meeting the queen. Much less skipping something actually important to do it. There's no excuse for him not coming back.
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Check your private messages.
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I'll be honest, I still have no idea what this difference between a supporter and a fan actually is.
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My thoughts on WS are completely schizophrenic. He is a great ambassador for the club and has that level of personal integrity that makes him hard to criticise. But it wasnt until I read the Everton fans assessment of him the other day there - and I didnt follow his time in Everton - that I realised that all the reservations I had about him are mirrored exactly not just in another fan, but in another fan in a completely different environment, far away from Ibrox. All that guys comments, positive and negative, were 100% what I think of WS. The 451, eight defenders on the pitch, aversion to the young, unecessary unadventurousness, and all the rest arent figments of our collective imaginations, and though to focus solely on these things, and ignore the good, would be wrong, these are managerial flaws. its not wrong to point them out.
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Woo! I get to agree 100% with you at last. :spl: Klos is one of the most under-rated goalies, players even, I have ever seen.
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aye, thats more like what i was trying to get at in the last post. this seems like a good thing to me. we need to start, as a support, building up a contempt for the super rich leagues. once we stop wanting to be them, things will get better. this could happen across the board in the future and put us ahead of the game