29 Mar 2014 23:29:53
Have posted same for some time now and believe boy I wish not, but under ''our man'' IT IS GETTING WORSE EVERY GAME. Please please let's not have the usual responses 31 games undefeated, this would get football stopped and if continues there will be no debate about holding season ticket money simply because to the majority of us this is a major expensive, and to be brutally honest after some 40 years I am beginning to think would be better spent on dentist bills.
O. P agreed and also agree with the analogy about the dentist's chair. After some of the 90 minutes you feel as washed out as you would be after 10 fillings and a root canal with no anaesthetic.
I agree that the football is dire. I find myself hoping that we are just getting dragged down to the level of the other teams in this division and that this "safety first" percentage football will be magically transformed into slick one touch passing football when we play on "proper" pitches. However, the displays at Ibrox would contradict this. At home, on many occasions we have seemed even more timid, nervous and
sometimes downright clueless. I have no idea why Dundee Utd are making such a fuss about coming to Ibrox, as I fear a real hammering. None of the youth or the fringe players look any more talented or hungry than the usual suspects. Like so many Bears, I would dearly love to see a young, homegrown Rangers team, successfully playing attractive, possession football. I had hoped that was going to be the ethos of "the journey". All I can say is that I do think McCoist was a unifying figure from Feb 2012 and I am grateful. It would appear that we are stuck with him and his back room staff, but at least we still have a football club. The current squad should be more than capable of winning the Championship and we are back at the top table after only three seasons. Imagine, if you were a Leeds, Pompey or Luton fan, this would be some kind of nirvana. I am glad that this forum exists. It allows us to share, ideas, opinions and information and allows us Bears to let off steam, be critical of the Board, the Team and the tactics (or lack of). However, we as a club were guilty of massive arrogance in the not too distant past, if we can learn anything, then please let it be humility. I don't care whether you agree with DK or SOS or the current board, or that would rather see McInnes or Davies in charge. I just hope we, collectively are truly worth the epithet of "greatest supporters in the world" and continue to support The Famous Glasgow Rangers.
Macoist and his lack of tactics is a bigger danger to the financial future of the club than anything else its that bad the chairman at least I think he is sees macoist and his signings are hopeless and actually made a rare comment
30 Mar 2014 14:58:53
I must say I find all the talk of stopping Celtic winning 10 in a row a bit strange, let's face it from what I've seen of them this season against Karagandy and others in Europe and taking into account their defeats to Morton and Aberdeen in cups, they really aren't all that good. As another example, their main strike threat comes from a player who only a couple of months ago was struggling to get a game for Wolves in the 3rd tier of English football.
Saying all that, if Ally was to be kept in charge of Rangers for the next 7 years then I might worried.
Luckily that won't be allowed to happen. Anybody with any sort of football brain now realises Ally is a hindrance to the progress of the club.
@ 2 A good thoughtful post and I agree with most of it. Two small points though by not learning from the first financial collapse and needing £17m IPO money plus a further loan of £1.5m Ally and his directors have not learned anything including humility. Surely when you go bust so utterly spectacularly as we did you try and live within your means and use the best Youth development facility in Scotland?
It's all about opinions but "the best supporters in the world"?
At the moment my award for Scotland's best goes to Hearts who also probably have just about the best club song in Scotland.
And having watched their game against Hibs I think both these teams would prove too much for us never mind Dundee United.
But hey in a one off game if United have a complete off day similar to their mid season blip who knows?
I ain't betting my house on it though.
Good OP and thereafter the comments are reflective on our current position. Any TEAM has a basic system that works to the strengths of the players and it can be adapted to suit events on the park. Our system, if you can call it that, is the long aerial route with no alternative.
The union of fans are highly critical of the board, and rightly so at times, but they must reflect on their backing of DK when anything he proposes, includes backing the current coaching regime.
Before a penny is spent on the playing staff a complete overhaul of the structure is essential.
Comparisons are difficult, but today Hearts worked to an adaptable system and all this with a very young team and an inexperienced coach. I will not even mention Liverpool because if we are watching football, they are playing another game.
Ive never seen so many moaners in my life we won again but you wouldn't think so your even moaning about where the team bus stopped. If you read all the posts on here you would think we were at the bottom of the league instead of going up into an exciting league where real questions will be asked of us and i'm sure we will rise to the occasion what will yous find to moan about tomorrow? Yes Allys tactics no youths ect change the record will you and why not talk about going a whole season undefeated in the league or winning our first cup final since dooms day or how well Aird is shaping up try being positive for once it feels a lot better.
@7
How can you possibly defend this rubbish we are watching? Are you happy watching a team that costs £6-£7m struggling to beat part time teams? Doesn't bother you that some of our players on big wages can't do the basics? I have read a lot of your posts on here and I am undecided about you. You are either on the wind up or totally delusional. Which one is it?
@2, one of the best posts I've read on this site.
A couple of posts asked the question of whether or not we should be resting players for the cup ties. Their question has been answered, yes. We now have a possible 5 of the starting 11 injured.
I have a suspicion that we'll play well against teams wanting to attack and we'll play the best two matches of our season to date in the next 12 days.
Re 8) I believe the answer is neither, my own thought is that it is Ally's PR man in disguise.
As a season ticket holder with my better half for many years, I am sad to say I will not be renewing either of our tickets this year. I haven't been to a home game since October, when I thought the football couldn't get any worse. I was wrong! watching the last couple of televised games only show us to be going backwards in EVERY sense of the word. But then again tomorrow is April 1st & we are already in silly season £50 mill? - Madjid Bougherra? - stopping 10 in a row?.
The growing number of very long term season ticket holders I have spoken to in the last 3 months or so who are not renewing, not for any other reason than what is being dished up is so poor that they fear for the future of our great club, and simply do not enjoy going to the games any more.
We had a chance to start again properly and build a team over a few years - we have lost that chance, which I am afraid will be very sorely proven against Dundee Utd.
@11, No surprise, as a poster correctly said a few weeks ago, Ally continuing as manager will lead to dramatic reduction in ticket money and our worst fears.
@11 you've hit the nail on the head. like u don't know your age, but me and my friends are between 50 and 65 and lifetime supporters but there is no value in watching this type of football, mince is to good a word for it, and I hear someone saying would I have been happier winning 8-0 everyweek? The answer is yes but I also would be happy winning 1-0but playing good football, as for aird he has been poor for a month before his 2goals of late, and does anyone in here believe moshni is good enough, for me he losses Concentration to easily and lee is to slow to play next to him I thank all players for what they have done, but tell me a player who has got better since joining us I thought law was going to be amazing but nope. Right am away for ma medication :)
Ally is the biggest danger to rangers than anyone I am quie certain the pesent regime are keeping him for some mis begotten idea he will sell season tickets the chairman slated him last week with one of the few statments he has made hopefully they are beginning to see through him as far as competeing with championship clubs or mediocre s p l clubs another man at helm would work wonders wih the present squad although ally has a high wage his money and his staffs wages are all in he budgets get a manager on less money do a deal wih macoist his payoff would not be an unsurmountable problem considering how big a problem his contiued management will cause and how much of a lift it will give supporers and players alike