Transfer Deadline Day: Michael O'Halloran signs until 2020

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Even all that said, one of the reasons Rangers has been successful down the years is that when injury or suspension strikes, the player out can be replaced with another of similar ability. Warburton's plan changes this, and it'll be interesting to see whether the club, or the manager, changes over time.

 

How does MW's plan change things??? We all know he likes to have a lean squad, with players fighting for their places. I would also like to think that he has assessed ALL the players that he has available & decided that there is sufficient quality there to cover any injuries or suspensions.

 

Or should we go back to the days where we have a very large squad, on heft wages, with 1/2 of them hardly ever kicking a ball.

[andy steel 0]

How does MW's plan change things??? We all know he likes to have a lean squad, with players fighting for their places. I would also like to think that he has assessed ALL the players that he has available & decided that there is sufficient quality there to cover any injuries or suspensions.

 

Or should we go back to the days where we have a very large squad, on heft wages, with 1/2 of them hardly ever kicking a ball.

 

Hmmm. Maybe it would be nearer the mark to say Warburton's plan takes us back to a time before I was going to the football, and when an injured first team player would be replaced by a hungry talented youth. My experience, from the early 80's on, has been for injuries or suspensions to be covered almost always by experienced, more or less first team standard players - I remember Smith dabbled a bit with the likes of John Morrow or, err...David Hagen, and...too early...was there a Lee someone? Robinson? Anyway that stopped pretty sharpish and he built big squads of experience to cover all eventualities, and that kept on through to the McCoist tenure. Now it looks like injury/suspension will be covered by under-21 promotion. Not a problem as far as I'm concerned.

 

So while it might not be so different for the club historically, it's certainly different for me.

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Hmmm. Maybe it would be nearer the mark to say Warburton's plan takes us back to a time before I was going to the football, and when an injured first team player would be replaced by a hungry talented youth. My experience, from the early 80's on, has been for injuries or suspensions to be covered almost always by experienced, more or less first team standard players - I remember Smith dabbled a bit with the likes of John Morrow or, err...David Hagen, and...too early...was there a Lee someone? Robinson? Anyway that stopped pretty sharpish and he built big squads of experience to cover all eventualities, and that kept on through to the McCoist tenure. Now it looks like injury/suspension will be covered by under-21 promotion. Not a problem as far as I'm concerned.

 

So while it might not be so different for the club historically, it's certainly different for me.

 

Did Graham Souness not say he wanted to build a squad for the SPL and a squad for Europe?

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Did Graham Souness not say he wanted to build a squad for the SPL and a squad for Europe?

 

Last I remember it was Neil Lemmon that said similar - didn't work too well for him though