Rangers Banter Archive March 09 2014

09 Mar 2014 22:49:52
I know today was a poor performance but its hard to believe we are being ridiculed by fans of clubs who can't even reach the quarter finals.

Whatever makes you feel better Gaz. Keep your head firmly in the sand

As the saying goes. Youve got to be in it to win it

Im not on here to defend Ally as that was poor yesterday to say the least but the players get an easy ride on here they have to take a long hard look at themselves Templeton had another shocker when has he done anything for us McCulloch is way past it Daily has been poor for months Aird lots of pace but poor on the ball Law had a poor game Black wasnt much better Mosni worked hard but isn't good enough Sheils was poor so to sum it up these players should hang their heads in shame but remember we have not bought a player they are all players who were out of contract with their clubs and we had to pay over the odds to get them but they are not good enoughdont know how we can replace them as we don't have the money don't see the point in sacking Ally right now it would only cost us money we don't have we will be promoted into the Championship so i'd give hime another year to try and get us back up to the top league if it does not improve next year or it looks like we are strugling then he would have to go but we can't just just to howl at the manager for every bad result without letting the players know they are as much to blame they were rotten yesterday and have been for months the pace they played at was far to slow we need to move the ball they are payed to entertain if they think we should be happy with that performance well their wrong and as for our board they must go and let men in who can raise investment we need to bring in players who can raise the standard of our game but as I've said i'm not defending Ally just can't see how we can afford to sake him in a bad place

Cooperboy - the statistics would go some way to backing up your assessment of the players performance

33 attempts on goal! don't know how many corners and I can only think of one decent save the keeper had to make, when he tipped over big billys shot from 20yds

our finishing was dire

the strikers and midfield couldnae hit a coo on the erse wi a banjo

and jigs header across his own 6 yd box, enuff said

JG

And yet we score more than any other team in uk.

N5 not when it comes to cup games

09 Mar 2014 21:02:37
That was the mastermind at work today lads. Halfway through the second half n a goal down, the brain brings on a defender for a centre forward. What goes through his nut! Appalling performance today, have to say but, I did expect it the way recent performances have been of late. Exciting times ahead.

Jon Daly was absolutely awful today hard to believe that's the same guy who put us to the sword in the same cup 2 years ago! Mohsni moved upfront took the ball round a defender & played a lovely ball out wide right away holding the ball up as a line striker should he actually made a difference & I think it turned out a good decision from McCoist. Law & Black in the middle is not working we can only play down the left it's god awful!

{Ed039's Note - Last year Daly helped KO us)

Apologies Ed I'm just home from the pub seems an age ago. Before I get pelters I'm in no way sticking up for Ally I just think that was the only thing we could really do I'm unsure who else was on the bench but bringing on Little & moving Moshni upfront was really the only option Sheils & Daly were awful. A Crawford or Peralta wasn't going to change the game. We really do miss McLeod big time. I had to laugh today when Rangers had a corner Albion left 2 men a little but up the park even when they were 1 up when Albion had a corner we were all in the box that changed in the 2nd half right enough I can't remember if it was Aird or Little stayed up once I had to look twice at first I thought it was a fan who had took to the pitch. Embarrassing display today & to add to that embarrassment a bird sh*t on me in my 1st visit to the main stand in years I'm unsure if it brought us the luck we needed or not lol I'd like to thinkso as at 1-0 down with a big shoulder covered in sh*te I was in a very low place!

They were to obvious with the play, get it to Lee Wallace. Foster should have been playing in Aird more on the right rather than going it alone to cross the ball. We do miss McLeod any word on when he's due back?.

10 Mar 2014 14:26:14
Firstly if u think rangers are remotely good enuf to beat any of the other teams ure not understanding how bad this team is. amC seems to think black is a good player. He thinks aird and little are good? He believes daly is a gr8 striker. He took him off yesterday and brot on faure? That delies any logical football management thinking. He got very very lucky 2 mins later. Mcoist has now managed to show a complete lack of tactical knowledge. So much so he thinks himself and hately are up front with gazza. laudrup. steven. stevens. coop. robertson and gough behind him. He has lost the plot m8. And so it seems have you
tomblue

09 Mar 2014 19:31:26
Another poor performance. I know Gers have won all but two of their league games and are in the final of one cup, about to win the League 1 title and are still probably favourites to reach the Scottish Cup semi-finals, but this standard of football is dreadful. All these over-hyped, over-paid players and where are the youngsters? They can't all be injured! Shocks do happen as with Man City against Wigan today and Morton against Celtic and Forfar v Rangers but McCoist simply cannot be allowed to remain in charge once we are in the Championship. We could be vying against Hearts, Dundee, Falkirk and Dunfermline next season to get up to the SPL and that won't be easy. Only 23,000 today for a Scottish Cup quarter final. Even if we do win through, Dundee United's 5-0 win over Caley is a cause to worry.

23,000 today if mccoist stays it will less & less every week.

Game was on a sunday and telly counts for nothing. 6 mates and myself all season ticket holders no desire from any off us to go watch what we thought would be a walk in the park. Count it Wednesday night when Rangers are playing for the championship. As for the tactical comments earlier, McCoist deserved credit for flinging Moshni up he knew balls were coming in from corners and he knew there was a chance the big man could get on the end of one. He was stinking at the back, Daily was up awful and Moshni did play as a striker and has scored a barra load of goals since joining so I do not see that arguement I think you need to give McCoist a little respect. Everything is McCoists fault we win the league on Wednesday undefeated and have a cup final and potential further cup final. You need to be realistic we are not the Rangers of yesterday, McCoist is making the most of what we have. GET REAL!

09 Mar 2014 18:26:08
Totally inept performance - in truth, today reflects the season. Totally tactically inept - reflects the season. I do not expect to win every match - or even perform at an exceptional level - but I do expect commitment and desire in every match. totally awful today.
Football is crap; Boardroom is crap; Chancers who 'have the best interests of the club at heart'. heard enough; Time to leave the building.

09 Mar 2014 19:59:15
Ive never been so embarrassed by being a Rangers fan in nearly 50 yrs, Mcoist please walk away for gods sake, He was utterly clueless today, and Black? well he is an empty jersey, Moshni ran past him all the game, maybe he, s like a heedless chicken but he tried all game, Black wanted into a fight, and McCoist should have done the proper thing and replaced him at h/Time, after he had got himself booked again, We seem to have got it into our heads that guys like Daly, little, Sheils, Templeton are good players? they are not, they're what nobody else wanted, AMC is so out of his depth its scary, no width, no tactics and we couldn't even score when the opposition were falling down like flies, altho I suspect sum of that was tactical, I really had hope fore AMC and his backroom team, now I know they don't know what they're doing
Tomblue

I said on this blog before that there were Skeletons in the cupboard, Numpties in the Dug out and half wits on the Pitch. You can add a deteriorating stadium and a disgrace of a pitch.

Unless someone like Dave King starts an absolute 100% overhaul! embarrassing afternoons will be the norm. 20 quid a week players hungrier for a 50/50 challenge than 7,000 quid a week professionals.

Clear the Boardroom, clear the Dugout and have someone competent to have an honest look at the dressing room please Mr King.

Tomblue your post should have read amc thinks these guys are good players lol

09 Mar 2014 17:49:49
Questions have to be asked about ally today! Shocking performance. Why take of sheils for little rather than taking off someone like foster? And going 343? Then daly for faure? What was going through his mind? Been the same story all season no tactical awareness

I have a question about Ally, why so upbeat at the post match interview, it was like a guy standing in a hurricane saying the weather was fine.

When your center forward is hitting the corner flag from a clear shot on goal ten yards out who is to blame?

We had enough chances to win three games the finishing was terrible, nobody can keep a shot under the height of the bar and the goal big jig gave away was even worse

Albion should get some credit for the way they battled though

JG

I agree that this is dire but ironically the tactical switch worked! Can someone please explain what Dean Shields actually does? Again we look suspect at the back (sorry but McCulloch is a legend but is now past it), no creativity in midfield and Temps had another off day. Can anyone actually hit the target with a shot? I am grateful to Ally for all he did from Feb 12 onwards but we are a laughing stock both on and off the field. Dundee Utd will murder us and having watched the first hour of their farce against Caley our top division is akin to the fourth tier of the English game. It's heartbreaking, particularly when you read the schism between our own supporters. keep me away from anything sharp until the end of the season, please!

Dundee Utd. if we manage to to survive the replay with the mighty rovers.
Ffs the young guy who came on near the end works part time in Asda.
Utd must be quaking in their boots at the prospect of their semi final opponents, not sure what team they'll fear most getting through.

09 Mar 2014 17:33:58
Worst team, manager and board of all time. A forward off for a defender then a defender up front.

09 Mar 2014 18:21:14
Ally's the worst Rangers manager ever by a country mile, let's face it he only got the job through being so pally with Walter and he's only kept the job because he's helped the spivs sell season tickets and did everything Charles Green told him to do to help promote the IPO.

Lucky to get a draw at home with Albion Rovers, whose manager I hear receives only £90 a week for taking charge of his part time team - and with a refereeing decision that if it had been the other way round would have had the conspiracy theorists on here having a field day.

Please walk Ally as you must know by now that you aren't remotely the man for the job. If you really love the club you would be penning your resignation latter tonight.

Then the defender scores, shocking!

Don't you know big billy played up front on several occasions with his last club?

I would ask though,

Don't our midfield get embarrassed when he is running past them standing static on halfway line, trying to get something going in attack?

JG

JG

JG, you telling me that was ally's managerial master stroke? Pure luck. So he played up front a few times before, where's he been playing all season? Centre half. I sat there stunned when faure came on

Inverbear worst manager, did the defender not score? although it should not have stood, foul on the keeper
Tam

{Ed039's Note - I don't think it was a foul)

@4 Take the blue specs off ED if it had happened at the other end, you would be screaming blue murder, even big Gough thought it was a foul
Tam

{Ed039's Note - If you read enough of my posts over all of the sites Tam you would see that I have often and for a long time critisised refs for giving goalkeepers too much protection, so you can give it a rest with the blue tinted specs thing ....... tell me, would you say it was a foul if it was a challenge on the centre back?)

@5 Yes I would ED a foul is a foul, no matter who it's on
Tam

{Ed039's Note - Your right, putting your arms around a players neck and dragging them to the ground is a foul)

@6 So me Wee Neil and Big Goughie got it wrong along with a couple of thousand other's.
Tam

Tam - you should watch it again, big billy jumped and won the ball fairly, in fact if he hadn't scored it would have been a penalty as the keeper had his arms around him and dragged him down

JG

Got to agree ed ime pretty sure if it had not been a goal any good ref would have awarded a penalty kick

09 Mar 2014 17:25:54
A Domestic treble is still possible guys, what other scottish club can say that? Mon the Gers!

{Ed039's Note - Gaz, I admire your optimism mate, I would like to know where you get it from)

If I can't see the brightside then I will lose my ability to sit and watch this dross so yea, hopefully another treble winning side!

{Ed039's Note - fair play mate)

@ OP A pint of what your on please

09 Mar 2014 13:47:26
With teams left in cup we are out in next round, only a fool would say otherwise

{Ed039's Note - Its not set in stone sweep but I would concede it will be very difficult .... remember we also have to win today)

Sweep did you see st Johnston play? Did you watch the Dundee game are aberdeen brilliant? You talk pi*h boy

Then I'm a fool.

There is no way this is a 6 million quid team, and Ally is not a manager.

Listen its not certainn we will be in the next round this is total mince plan high ball in for daly plan b high ball in for daly usual nae width we must take ball wide and try to get round them