neutralscot 0 Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 Regarding Walter Smith, I suppose you have to weigh up if playing attractive football and not making progress in the CL, is better than playing negative football and making the UEFA Cup final. Difficult one. There seemed to be a Largs football philosophy at the time championing quite a negative style 4-5-1. I think Smith's style in Europe at times was ridiculously defensive, but if he had employed better counter attack methods it would have been more palatable. Personally. if I were a rangers fan I would have been accepting of Smith's later tactics in Europe as they produced results. And I don't mind watching busses being parked, if one team is attacking. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhunter 0 Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 Regarding Walter Smith, I suppose you have to weigh up if playing attractive football and not making progress in the CL, is better than playing negative football and making the UEFA Cup final. Difficult one. There seemed to be a Largs football philosophy at the time championing quite a negative style 4-5-1. I think Smith's style in Europe at times was ridiculously defensive, but if he had employed better counter attack methods it would have been more palatable. Personally. if I were a rangers fan I would have been accepting of Smith's later tactics in Europe as they produced results. And I don't mind watching busses being parked, if one team is attacking. The tactics were fine for playing away from home in Europe Against middling teams and dross it shouldn't have been adopted at home. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
der Berliner 3,219 Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 Desperate stuff. More like people having come to see any clearance and ball up front as a "hoof" no matter what. No-one is saying that we play silky stuff and have great passers, but there's a limit the other way as well. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Real PapaBear 0 Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 Regarding Walter Smith, I suppose you have to weigh up if playing attractive football and not making progress in the CL, is better than playing negative football and making the UEFA Cup final. Difficult one. There seemed to be a Largs football philosophy at the time championing quite a negative style 4-5-1. I think Smith's style in Europe at times was ridiculously defensive, but if he had employed better counter attack methods it would have been more palatable. Personally. if I were a rangers fan I would have been accepting of Smith's later tactics in Europe as they produced results. And I don't mind watching busses being parked, if one team is attacking. I don't think it's difficult at all. Who remembers all the attractive teams that got dumped out of the CL? We have to look at the two Smith periods seperately. In the first period we did play very attractive football at times, both domestcally and in Europe, but Smith too often got his tactics wrong and/or our big names didn't turn up on the nights - but, apart from the first CL season, we did nothing at all in Europe and were on the wrong side of a few humpings (Ajax, Juventus anyone?). Smith part two saw us play some turgid stuff at times, but we were successful beyond anything we had a right to imagine both domestically and in Europe given the quality of players we had. And the reason was that, this time, he got his tactics, spot on - in all except the last game against Zenit, when we should have gone for them. As far as Walter goes, you have to ask the questions; could any other manager have taken us to 9 in a row? Possibly. Probably, in fact given the money we had available. But could any other manager have won 3 in a row, come witing a gnat's ba' hair of four in a row and taken us to a European final with the squad we had? That's more doubtful. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Real PapaBear 0 Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 The tactics were fine for playing away from home in Europe Against middling teams and dross it shouldn't have been adopted at home. I think he's talking about Hibs, neutralscot 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
neutralscot 0 Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 You are aware that Hibs beat rangers 5-0 in er, 1912 aren't you? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott7 5,108 Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 Five breakaways and all of them offside according to my grannie. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Real PapaBear 0 Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 You are aware that Hibs beat rangers 5-0 in er, 1912 aren't you? a mere decade after you won your last Scottish Cup 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Real PapaBear 0 Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 Five breakaways and all of them offside according to my grannie. ..who lifted you over the turnstyles that day. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Barristan Selmy 222 Posted September 13, 2014 Author Share Posted September 13, 2014 Our situation has become such a mess again that I'm not sure if there's any point replacing Ally any time soon. I have been wanting us to open the position up to applicants from day 1 but with potential administration round the corner I'm not sure who would be interested. Then again I still think anyone would be an improvement. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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