TheUKCrazyhorse 96 Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 3 minutes ago, Rousseau said: When you're caught up in the excitement but then read @Tannochsidebear's post... You actually read it? You're a better man than me if you did. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveC 150 Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 (edited) 10 minutes ago, Rousseau said: When you're caught up in the excitement but then read @Tannochsidebear's post... Well, he has a point - was probably hoping for Kenny Miller as player-manager, after all I get all the doubts and worries and I know it is a huge risk but I'm tired of feeling down about us all the time and want to share in the excitement of the day. it's just lovely to come home and hear our name is being spoken about in the way it used to be in UK wide coverage. rather than for what the last 6-7 years have brought. Edited May 4, 2018 by SteveC 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChelseaBoy 2,232 Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 Great news. Having seen Stevie G up close many times at the Bridge, he comes across as quietly effective and someone who leads by example. He often dragged an average Liverpool side to greater things (CL and FAC winners) and I'm sure with the right backing he can get more out of the existing players, develop some of the youngsters and attract some quality through his contacts. All in all a win/win for Gers I think. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
buster. 4,808 Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 Better add this here as well............ Pearce is local Liverpool Echo reporter dedicated to Liverpool FC 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tannochsidebear 2,306 Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 44 minutes ago, buster. said: I'm not so sure he'll bother trying to talk the same "good game" week in, week out. I tend to think he'll be more bothered about winning games. He didn't come accross as a great communicator but today it worked in his favour. What is more important is how he and his staff communicate with the players outwith the scrutiney of cameras and tape recorders. Forget about the league next season. Give him some leeway to build, learn, start to put a team together and improve on recent years. Aslong as he wins the league in his first 3 years, I'll be happy. There is not a hope in hell he will get 2 years without winning the title unless he has won cups, progressed into group stages of Europa, and ran the bheasts very close in the title race. In that regard he will be measured the same as all other Rangers managers in modern history. IMO he wont see out the season if he has the same performances and results as his immediate predecessors, but we can all agree we hope this is a completely irrelevant point. For any Rangers fan to suggest we should forget about a league race before a ball is kicked shows how the continued negativity of the last few years has worn some of us down. Understandable, but should never be acceptable. I absolutely agree with you in that it is far more important how he coaches and trains the players and gets his playing philosophy across to them and gets them to buy into it completely and without hesitation. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranger_syntax 3,761 Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 58 minutes ago, Tannochsidebear said: I'm clearly one of the few here that is not at all impressed that these Gerrard rumours have turned out to be true. A completely inexperienced youth coach trying to sort out the clusterf**k that is our current dressing room and squad. I thought we just tried that? Our position called for an experienced manager with knowledge of the bitterness of the Scottish game and the people within it. Neither our new manager or his assistant give us anything like that. Yes he is a well known name in football circles (a world star, really?) but only as a player. As a one club player he doesnt even have the experience of working at different clubs to get different perspectives. I am also absolutely flabbergasted at giving someone this big a gamble a 4 year deal. That is bordering on negligent from the board. How much does that cost us this time next year? One positive I can find is that we may be able to use his Liverpool contacts to get some good young players up here, either on loan or permanent, and we can just hope they can have a better impact than Rossiter. I am hoping that the announcement should give the players a lift, now they know they have a manager to try to impress in the last 3 games. What is wrong with getting right in amongst it right away and help us to win these 3 remaining games? Surely his influence in the dressing room, if not on the training ground, would help our deflated and confidence-sapped squad? Is he even going to be in attendance at our 3 games to see the squad for himself, or be sitting in a BT studio watching English stuff? It is a massive gamble we didnt have to take, and all those who were saying they had little or no faith in this board to hire the right man look to be bang on again. The timing makes you think his name has only come up in the last couple of weeks, so what have our board been doing through the Murty disaster of the last 7 months? It is not as if SG has been in a similar role and it would have cost too much to get him in while our season still had a chance of recovery. Come the start of the season I will be back paying my money and supporting the team. I hope to be inspired by the additions to the squad over the next 8 weeks or so before our vital European tie at the end of June (assuming we avoid disaster and not qualify at all of course!). I am sure he will talk a good game, but so did MW, PC & GM so that is the easy part in this game, it is all about getting the right players, formation, tactics, game management, substitutions, etc and I am absolutely praying to a god i dont believe in that this all comes off. Just like the punter in the bookies who bemoans his luck all the time, surely one time one of these big gambles has to come off? Why not 2018-19 and the mother of all parties when we clinch the title? I think you are too pessimistic on this occasion. I think we can see more than one positive if we look. Gerrard will have gained a breadth of knowledge from a number of different managers at Liverpool. Pretty sure his managers will have taken different approaches. Not to mention the knowledge gained on international duty. His playing experience is miles ahead of almost all of the players in our squad. The players are guaranteed to give him respect. A lack of respect for the manager has been a problem for the last two at least. I wouldn't be surprised if his playing experience gives him the knowledge to manage our team well. As for the last three games he explained that he had other commitments. It's easy to describe it as a gamble and I probably have done myself. During the press conference I started thinking about it. The board are unable to make an appointment free of uncertainty. Every appointment is a 'gamble'. Finally he talks a much better game than Warburton, he is more convincing than Caixinha and Murty doesn't even come close. The last thing I'm thinking about is getting some scraps from the Liverpool table. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darthter 542 Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 Listening to Talksport on way home, very amusing. 1st caller I heard was a ceptic fan & tried to spout the usual stuff, and couldnt understand why SG would go anywhere near us. The host then possed the question "are you saying SG doesn't know what he's doing?". Mr Unwashed then started going on about kings tax history....only to be closed down immediately & referred back to the question that had been asked. The call then ended. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
les186 271 Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 Has Kenny Miller sanctioned this appointment . 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barebear 37 Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 1 hour ago, SteveC said: What happened? Tanner was the one who asked "what level of gamble is this? You are both taking a punt, really!" 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
buster. 4,808 Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 Just now, Barebear said: Tanner was the one who asked "what level of gamble is this? You are both taking a punt, really!" How many times did he ask the question ? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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