Record Back Page - Ally, I Need New Players

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Frightening.

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Oh, I'm not saying they're always capable of doing it. However, they will try to. Or should be anyway...

 

Like I say, if I was a chairman or player and a possible manager said otherwise (and had demonstrated this) then he'd be low on my list of possible colleagues for sure.

 

It's a key ability of a football manager to improve and develop players. If they can't do it (and that's a fair question of McCoist) then they'll have a short career. I'm amazed anyone would say otherwise.

 

I don't disagree mate, but I was drawn to part of dB's point (which was mostly missed in the replies I read) where he differentiated between developing younger, less experienced players and elder more experienced ones.

 

Ally's made it easy for himself to win the lower league titles by keeping and bringing in a lot of elder, vastly experienced pros, but by doing so he's made it difficult for himself to show that he's capable of improving and developing players.

 

At the end of the day, Ally's been able to sign a fairly large number of players over the past 25/26 months and rightly or wrongly he's mostly chosen the safe option of bringing in experienced pros as opposed to the riskier option of developing younger, less experienced players.

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I don't disagree mate, but I was drawn to part of dB's point (which was mostly missed in the replies I read) where he differentiated between developing younger, less experienced players and elder more experienced ones.

 

Ally's made it easy for himself to win the lower league titles by keeping and bringing in a lot of elder, vastly experienced pros, but by doing so he's made it difficult for himself to show that he's capable of improving and developing players.

 

At the end of the day, Ally's been able to sign a fairly large number of players over the past 25/26 months and rightly or wrongly he's mostly chosen the safe option of bringing in experienced pros as opposed to the riskier option of developing younger, less experienced players.

 

Ally's big problem is that he never anticipated getting HERTZ 'n' HIBZ in this league thus making it that much harder to get the three successive promotions back to the top division using older experienced pros mostly.

Having already lost to both of them at home it's not difficult to see we're in a very difficult situation indeed now.

Unless funding is sourced from somewhere to get 3 or 4 better quality players in january promotion this season will be no certainty . And of course regardless of who owns Rangers in january would they be prepared to let Ally spend money? I wouldnt.