Rangers Banter Archive November 22 2014

22 Nov 2014 23:00:52
I am sick to my stomach with this thing that used to be the mighty Glasgow rangers please get Steve Clarke and Ian Ferguson in as quick as possible to sort the rabble of bodies out before we are really embarrassed by them across town in January like seriously does McCoist not realise that the wee 9 year old guy who applied for the bolton wanderers job would do better at least he shows passion for his club.

Please this can't go on anymore.
Very very disillusioned bear.

22 Nov 2014 21:06:17
How embarrassing for our once great club? Hearts are no great shakes but they have a couple of things we don't have, one is team spirit and the other a decent young manager.
When will we realise this current situation is untenable we have no desire no passion no ambition and currently not one member of our so called management team can hold there heads up and honestly say they are doing a good job.

My thoughts on Ally have been well documented and I have always said give him a chance HE is a legend HE is NOT a football manager I now feel he and the rest of the Dream team must move on for the sake of the club and support. You can't take away Ally's history with the club and his records he holds but the last 2 years have been a disaster, it is NOW time to move on and find someone who can sort this shambles of a team out and either shape up or ship out, we all want the best for our great club so somebody needs to make the call!
RR

22 Nov 2014 19:14:38
We should remember that Rangers let slip a 15 point lead pre-admin and lost the league to Celtic. I agree McCoist is clueless but I do think the problems 'upstairs' must be sorted out urgently as it can only have a positive effect on the pitch. I also still think that Hearts will hit their own bad patch sooner or later. Still, dire stuff again today.

Aye we did let 15 points slip UNDER MCCOIST! Should have been sacked back then

Almost 3 years and on and many posts later mccoist is still clueless and out his depth in management at this level. The majority I'm sure want him out but the continuing shambles at board level covers up his incompetence. He needs to be sacked asap otherwise we have no chance of making up 9 points with him in charge

22 Nov 2014 18:29:08
I was one of the thousand or so rangers fans who was at tynecastle this afternoon and although I agree our manager ally mccoist's tactics, starting line up & substitutions were yet again baffling to say the least there was no need for some so called rangersfans name calling of the rangers manager which I and many other rangers fans thought was absolutely disgusting & way over the top, it actually caused arguments amongst us, now I'm not on to defend our manager in the football management sense by any stretch of the imagination but he's a rangers legend and there's no way he deserves that sort of abuse, the greatest ranger of all time couldn't make it as a rangers manager, that happens to be life and this is happening to ally

Legend? Get a grip. Top scorer but he is judged on the hard earned fan's money he takes each month without blinking an eye. The guy is feckin hopeless. FFS get him to F now. The excuses are dry.
Feckin laughing stock. Three weeks in a row utter pish.

Ally ally ally. out out out

John Grieg was voted greatest Ranger of all time not McCoist. Ally is fast losing respect from a lot of fans and the sooner he goes the better. It's shocking how poor we are under him and his long ball tactics are driving people away

How you can defend Mccoist is beyond me. get McCall in NOW before it's too late to win this league

Mccoist will never make a manager in a million years, if he happened to find himself out of a job tomorrow how many clubs in Britain would be offering him a job (none I bet) and he knows that. and as for McDowell and durrant they must be laughing themselves to sleep every night, knowing that they are getting the easiest wage they've probably earned in their lives. On tv today they had in my opinion two men who would make a great management duo in Davie weir and Stuart McCall, they would soon sort out the men from the boys and restore a bit more pride into what was once this PROUD club.

22 Nov 2014 20:04:24
@3 The OP said the greatest Ranger never made it as manager(meaning Greig)and the same is happening to McCoist,that's how I read it.

Royalblue:Davie Weir is no2 to the guy I'd love to be our new manager Mark Warburton at Brentford. Young team fast, attractive football, think they are 4th in Championship.

Good shout gkk, I live down in England and I know that mark Warburton is getting great reviews, so his stock is rising by the day, and I heard him on the radio the other day praising Davie weir to the hilt for the work he's doing with Brentford. I would love Rangers to have a manager who could spot a player and develope him, I know its easier to do that down here but for some reason more difficult in Scotland. but yes an up and coming manager like Mark Warburton would be great, but will it ever happen.

Royalblue:No chance mate, if he gets Brentford to the playoffs he's for the bigtime. Just wishful thinking on my part.

McCoist deserves a lot worse than a bit of abuse, as l have said repeatedly none of the other crooks in the boardroom could have got away with what they have but for McCoist, he alone is responsible for dividing the supporters, he has lied from day one about everything, as far as l'm concerned he is no legend to the once great Rangers but an invaluable part of sevco or whatever they are called, and like sevco he is an embarrassment to Rangers in particular and to football in general. The sooner he is gone the sooner Rangers can truly rebuild, the crooks won't last long without the vile McCoist spewing out his WATP rhetoric to drive sales up so they (and he) can be paid exorbitant wages for dragging Rangers through every gutter and all at the expense of the club and the supporters he says he loves!

22 Nov 2014 17:19:24
think we can forget it now might as well go in to admin and take the point deduction and start again- A poll ed???

{Ed001's Note - I will do that for you mate.}

Is your opinion due to today's result or the long running backroom problems? If it is because of the football result, you do realise that there will be a play off at the end of the season. If you think the league has gone, surely it makes sense to keep pushing to ensure runners up spot at least. There have been league titles won with far more than 9 points deficit too. Surely people are not giving up on promotion in November.

Cullin72 I think (maybe wrong) mullad is meaning may be the fact that everyone is now starting to open their eyes and see what is really going on at our club.
No more blind loyalty. follow follow,, its time to, act. Not keep on going down the same old road. leading nowhere.

22 Nov 2014 16:36:36
I have bitten my tongue for far too long in regards to poor performances and tactics. Foster is mince, he only ever played well for us in a few champions league games in his first spell and has given us nothing since but I am getting side tracked back to today.

McGregor is never a right back. McCoist is not being fair to him by playing him out of position. I was raging at the start of the year when he started him a right back. A new player who has never been close to a club the size of Rangers you want to make his transition as easy as possible but no we play him at out of position at right back so any nerves he already has are multiplied by 10. It could have ruined the guy's Rangers career before it even started but in his defence he battled back and has been our best centre half. So what do we do for our biggest game of season. Move our best centre half to a position he is not comfortable in. Total madness.
We have a number of midfielders who could have played today but no we pick a left back to play midfield. Again crazy! (even if you absolutely had to play smith and Wallace, surely it would make more sense to play the more attack minded Wallace in the midfield and smith at the back). Whether Smith deserved a red or not is debatable but the fact is he was giving us nothing before the send off. In fact before the red he had given the ball away several times already or had hardly found one of our own with a pass.
Then, as wee bill in a post below had said, we bring on foster for miller. WTF! I could understand the thinking behind possibly deciding to try tightening things up and maybe holding for a draw but Foster is not a good enough defender to justify that thought, wasted substitution, again madness.
We need a goal so we bring on Boyd (too late on may I add) you would think for Daly, straight swap but no we take McLeod off for Boyd leaving us with 2 static centre forwards. Hello, earth to Rangers coaching staff!!
I try every week to understand some of the thinking behind our tactical decisions and I honestly try and see things through the eyes of those in the dug out and just can't for the live of me work it out.
Another thing can anyone please, please, tell me why we put every one in our box when defending corners? It absolutely does my nut in. Miller does nothing when defending corners anyway so surely it makes more sense leaving him on half way. He can hold the ball up and would at least give us an out when we cleared the lines rather than the ball being cleared straight back to the opposition unopposed. This way of defending corners does not work for us and just adds more pressure so surely we could try changing it.
Sorry for the rant lads but it has been building up since we played a holding midfielder to protect the back 4 when playing away to Forfar in a Monday night game last year.

22 Nov 2014 17:33:01
We have imposters at boardroom level who don't know what the feck they are doing and the same at team coaching level.
McCoist is clinging on as he will not get another job in football which pays him a tenth of what he takes from our once great club. Sad but real fans could not give two fecks anymore.
Crowds will be below 20,000 soon.
Good.
We are NOT the people.

Bobsta 73 you have nailed it with that post. take a bow. I'm honestly up for getting protests sorted to get Mccoist out before it's too late

22 Nov 2014 23:35:59
Well said Bobsta!

22 Nov 2014 14:44:14
At least we Seen fiht from the players today. why do spl refs keep refereeing championship games?

9 points isn't too much

22 Nov 2014 16:12:55
Is there any manoeuvre Ally can use to put off the semi, like bombscare Mohsni being away at the Africa cup??

What we saw was a lump up the park to Daly in the hope of getting a knock on. Predictable tactics from a woeful mamager

22 Nov 2014 14:49:50
if I was to ask any two players to pull me out of a deep hole, the last two players would be S. smith and I. black. those two alone smith especialy have in my opinion contributed nothing to rangers since being signed. Black nips in with the occasional good goal when the gmes won, smith on the other hand is rank rotten. realy can't believe he thought Smith would save his ass.
McCoist as a player legend. can't continue as manager, even though the sending off did change the game but too many exp players let the team down today.

Its all been said to death man, but enough Ally come on? In his defence though we had five non - triers on the park, MacLeod was chalk white when he came onto the pitch. Not his type of game with the tackles, but he was hiding. I still think we'll win it but Ally has to go, I think he'll chuck it.

22 Nov 2014 15:21:13
It's just been unreal these past couple of years, it seems no matter who we sign they r as bad or worse than the one before, today was a joke against an average team, I have been looking at the cups the past couple of years hoping we would avoid Celtic and would rather take a fighting defeat against STJohnstone than having to face them, Who wants to get thumped 5 or 6-0 by them in the semis? Thanks so much to the people who put us in this position as Rangers should never want to avoid anyone but there you are. Looking ahead who do we fancy for the play offs? Motherwell? Probably, Ross County? St Mirren? Difficult to know if we should be confident.

@2

In order to get any of these teams we would first probably need to beat Hibs and judging by the score line earlier this season and Ally's record in the big games I wouldn't even be confident of facing an SPL side

22 Nov 2014 14:17:17
Looks like we are going 9pts behind a very mediocre hearts team. how much longer are we going to have to suffer this complete person of a mangers inept team selections and tactics. ok it's no his fault smith got sent off but he shouldn't even be a Rangers player never mind in the team. canny believe we will have to go through the embarrassment of the play offs. get him sacked now and get in alex Neil to save our season

Bigcol1872: Not so sure I would call the play offs an embarrassment, yes we could probably ideally never envisaged that but with Hearts in the league it was always going to be difficult, Hearts are not great but we just don't seem to have the fluidity that they have, Hibs although they can produce the odd result like at Ibrox have shown to be worse than most teams in the league.
The main thing is to get up and we'll take that through the play offs if that is what must be looking at how poor we have been for most of the season.

22 Nov 2014 17:32:22
Got a funny feeling griffiths or stokes will be back to hibs on loan before the end of the season.

22 Nov 2014 12:09:06
That's my bet ruined then. Moshni's playing today. I wish I'd known that before I put my money on Rangers winning. At least Daly is in for Boyd but Smith playing too and no room for Templeton and Aird other than on the bench.

Mohsni, most important game of the season God give us strength.

22 Nov 2014 12:55:04
C, Mon the Gers, tora tora tora!

Smith sent off, just waiting for black to join and get pumped.

22 Nov 2014 13:25:15
Anyone else wonder if Ashley even knows Rangers are playing just now?, smith off, but here have dominated, stupid tackle but Patterson rolled around as if he been shot, didn't get touched, wxxxxr

Tommy come on it was a red card lucky it wasn't down to 7 miller Boyd and black should have had reds be honest

@5 correct mate, Miller defo should have walked. Like the name BTW

@2

Very ironic post with the Tora Tora Tora comment as Smith committed footballing suicide in the 20th minute

22 Nov 2014 08:26:03
I beleave Craig Whyte is the innocent victim in this whole charade. Here is a man who was honest enough to admit it was the misfortunes of rangers football club he was trying to turn round.Not like chuckles green who started all the kumpony/cloob nonsense.I think it's this fella who should be starting legal proceedings as he was the one who was truly duped,only then will he have any chance of retriving the pound he was conned out of.

22 Nov 2014 09:45:18
So Mr Windbag Lawell says he wouldn't give Rangers a hand up to the Premier League, a) I wouldn't want this as it wouldn't be right b) Defo wouldn't dirty my hands accepting it from him. Why do reporters ask certain people nonsensical questions, what else would he say? Having said that, knowing him he probably brought the subject up himself, wouldn't surprise me.

Haha very good thommy. you should have your own show👏👏

You beat me to it Bigcol, his talent is wasted on here.

Gkk, haha he's nearly as funny as smith and moshni playing in the most important game of season today.