Bill

Clancy and Collum are in a class of their own, to the extent I think there's been an element of deliberate bias in their decision making (aka cheating). Beaton has had some shockers right enough but I can also remember games when I thought Beaton did an excellent job.

I've seldom had issues with Walsh as a referee. He seems to maintain a relatively low profile for the best of reasons.

After an OF defeat it usually takes me a few days for the initial disappointment to subside and more considered thoughts to emerge. For some reason, Sunday's humiliation is having quite a different effect and I find myself growing more concerned and dispirited as time passed. I think this is because, after changing manager twice in the last 15 months or so and continuing to display the same old failings, it is now beyond question we are carrying some constant factors that are stopping us moving forward. It might be a coincidence of the three managers, each of whom either doesn't understand the problem or is incapable of fixing it. It might be the DoF or it might be the senior board. Or it might be the senior players who are poisoning the dressing room and holding back the squad. Whatever the problem or problems, it's undeniably systemic and deep rooted. And that is a really huge basis of concern.

He returned from the World Cup and realised he had real competition at left back, since them he's been an improved player. Prior to returning from Qatar Barisic was abysmal.

Rangers 3 Kilmarnock 0 FGS - Čolak

I find it's those moments when it dawns on you the hope you had was an illusion. I had that moment when I logged in on Sunday and saw Beale's team selection. So many others saw it too ... that we were in the hands of another manager who would never deliver.

I agree with every point you make and I have no answers to the questions you ask. It just feels like the board is consumed with caution in the short term and is incapable of radical action. It's an approach that seems to be permeating the whole club. Perhaps the board simply lacks the confidence required to be bold. Whatever the case we are, as you allude to, stuck in a rut and refusing to make the decisive changes needed to boost the club forward.

Beale should have appointed a new captain the day he arrived back at Rangers ... but he didn't, and so signalled his priority, at least in the short term, was stability rather than revolution. To an extent his results show he has achieved that aim but in the end the upshot is the gap in the league race hasn't closed at all and the first trophy up for grabs is sitting in the Celtic trophy room. If that revolution doesn't come in the summer then Beale would be better joining the growing list of Rangers ex-managers who didn't know what they were doing. The appalling and inexplicable decision not to start his winter signings on Sunday and then not to use them when it became clear what was happening has understandably shattered confidence amongst the support.

Yet more worthless apologies for yet another weak-kneed capitulation in a cup final and it will be the same story next time too. Are we looking at serial losers? Do we need the biggest clearout in years?

Tavernier is a complete liability in defence. If we have to play him then make it further forward where he can do less damage.

For some mysterious reason our Hall of Fame fullback and captain is contracted until 2026 so I understand it's difficult financially to get rid of him - but for God's sake can we please stop playing him in a defensive role that he has NEVER been any use at. Our other fullback I would sell at the first opportunity. We constantly play with half a back four.

I think Compo should be suspended😄

Who knows what Kamara and Lundstram are doing here? Answers on a postcard please. And watch Tillman dancing around being as effective as wet toilet paper.

I want to disagree to some extent. I don't believe they are asleep at the wheel. I think there are only two realistic possibilities.... 1. The board does not know how to push on from 55 and is floundering for a solution. 2. The boards does have a coherent plan for success but it's based entirely on sound finances that will takes several years to establish and is limiting the pace at which we progress. Personally, while I sometimes move between which of these options I chose to believe, I prefer to think the latter is true. We have owners who are painfully aware how close the club came to oblivion and are determined those risks will never be taken again. Some might call that chickenshit but perhaps time will prove otherwise. In any case, you pays your money and you takes your choice ... they stepped up when desperately needed and have bought the right to chose the business plan. This was always going to be a long game.

Yup, we remain in their shadow and the evidence shows we're effectively as far behind them as we were when Gerrard arrived. Albeit our perilous financial history cannot be corrected overnight, when so little progress is achieved over what's now a 5 year period, I'm afraid it suggests a leadership deficit at the highest level within the club. Everyone realises the risks involved but it's hard to see things improving significantly without a change of ownership bringing major new investment and a whole different level of ambition.

There's nothing like a public platform and an inflated sense of self-importance to persuade people to embarrass themselves.

That's been a trademark of GvB and Gerrard before him.

Every manager has days when it doesn't work out the way he planned but this was such an obvious mistake that I think we're all feeling the first pangs of doubt about Mr Beale ... and maybe that's the biggest disappointment of all today.

Ah, I see 😁

Why don't you take a big brave breath and share the wisdom only you have.

The coach is not the problem, at least not the current one.

I thought Jack was excellent when he came on today and made a huge difference.

The simple truth is some of our players have spots that cannot be changed. We've seen this same lackadaisical approach under three different managers now and except in dire emergency they should be nowhere near the starting lineup. I don't have to name them, we all know who they are and so should our manager.

There's no such thing in football as a "good side". There's only better or worse. Right now, as we all saw today, Celtic are a better team than we are. Not by much but they are still ahead of us. Why deny it?