15 Jun 2026 09:40:54
Does anyone else feel like we are Rangers again, like we have our identity back?
It's great to have a Scottish manager and now he will build a Scottish spine. And by that I mean a team of proven SPL players. Kyziridis Braga, I would welcome the likes.
Derek McInnes here we go ??.
15 Jun 2026 09:57:38
Not quite there yet, but certainly on the right track again finally. Let's see how the recruitment goes first.
??⚪️? is back.
15 Jun 2026 10:10:10
"Scottish" "Scottish" doesn't matter if they're not good enough. Braga & Kyziridis were Jamestown signings, not McInnes'. I hope I'm wrong, but we all seem to be overhyping someone who just bottled the league & it's going to end in disaster. None of the "Scottish" players we are interested in fill me with confidence, as all are bottom 6 players.
15 Jun 2026 10:23:03
Nope, I don't and don't buy all must be Scottish rubbish. I'll cast your mind back to when PC left. Who got put in charge BF with Scottish backroom staff, how did we do? Not very well. ? Being Scottish means nothing.
15 Jun 2026 10:35:35
All successful Rangers teams had a core of Scottish players, glad we're going back this way, DJB. No manager in our league would get Hearts as close to winning the league with his squad of players.
15 Jun 2026 10:38:16
To quote that fine Edinburgh guy, Renton.
"It's ? being Scottish! We're the lowest of the low. The scum of the f*****g Earth! The most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash that was ever ? into civilization. We, on the other hand, are colonized by w*****s. Can't even find a decent culture to be colonized BY. We're ruled by effete "a" holes. It's a ? state of affairs to be in, "
Some what sanitised to pass approval.?
15 Jun 2026 10:44:31
Quite strange, for years, fans who backed having a Scottish core got tore a new one. Now it's happening, it's like it's what Rabgers fans have wanted all along, but we all know that's not true.
15 Jun 2026 10:45:17
I like the idea of having a Scottish manager and Scottish players but only because we are a Scottish club.
I do not think hiring Derek McInnes has anything to do with identity and do not think it means all of a sudden we are going to be successful, for that we will have to wait and see.
If we are to sign more Scottish players, they have to be good enough and not just for the sake of having a Scottish spine. As it has been mentioned, Barry Ferguson was not exactly an overwhelming success despite being Scottish and having played for Rangers, albeit McInnes is more qualified.
15 Jun 2026 10:48:05
Letsdothis, tore a new one? I clearly wasn't on the site then.
15 Jun 2026 10:48:40
imo we'll have our identity back when we start winning trophies.
15 Jun 2026 10:50:23
We still need quality from abroad to succeed imo.
15 Jun 2026 10:58:58
We're back to square one.
New manager / squad rebuild / no idea how it'll go. Need convincing.
Agree with Strom re Scottish / Gers blinkers being applied here. Good enough players is all that matters.
15 Jun 2026 11:06:09
A core of Scottish players, obviously, we'll sign quality from abroad, letsdothis.
Penrice lb.
McCrorie rb.
Squad players that will be fighting it out for starts.
Barron, McCrorie, Penrice, Graham, Milne, Souttar, Curtis, Cameron. All squad players.
Lewis Ferguson walks into our team.
15 Jun 2026 11:06:20
No, Storm, you're correct. Being Scottish isn't the be all and end all, but for me, we need a spine who knows the expectations of our club and can handle playing in Scottish football, and there's Scottish talent we should be going for that absolutely would improve us, Storm.
? We need signings that have the full package, and I think a Scottish spine that are good enough and know what our club is all about is the correct way for Derek McInnes to go, no doubt about that for me. ? ??
15 Jun 2026 11:07:26
The attitude of some fans always amazes me. To say McInnes bottled the league with Hearts, considering he beat us three times last season, and we all saw the blatant poor referring decisions that led to Celtic even being able to win it on the last day.
McInnes knows the expectation and many around the game have said he's a great man manager.
We don't need to keep dipping into the foreign market for players to be a success, that's just nonsense, and over the past 4-5 seasons it's shown that hasn't worked.
Scottish core from back to front is what we need, just like Walter had with Weir as CB, Ferguson and Thomson in the middle and Boyd and Miller up top, it worked.
15 Jun 2026 11:06:56
DJB. McInnes didn't 'bottle' the league as you state, he and Hearts were robbed by the corrupt SFA and SPFL officials. Hearts should have been awarded the game at the midden heap when the moronic Celtic fans invaded the pitch and Hearts players were taken off for their own safety.
I for one welcome him joining the Famous. He is Scottish, played for the club and knows the Scottish game. We have had too many foreign freeloaders recently who have no passion for the club. We need Scottish players with the passion of Barry Ferguson, John Greig, et al.
15 Jun 2026 11:14:58
8/9 Scottish players out of a squad of 28.
15 Jun 2026 11:29:18
Lewis Ferguson ain't signing for Rangers.
15 Jun 2026 11:31:09
Agreed, Doiger, about the passion, we had a player smiling the second after the final whistle when our league campaign ended.
15 Jun 2026 11:32:45
All this nonsense around "we must have a core of Scots, how many are fans looking for?"
In the past, Non Scots would have run through brick walls for the jersey:
- Butcher
- Numan
- Rickson
- Hateley
- Prso
To be fair, not many in recent years, though.
15 Jun 2026 11:34:18
Has he told you this, Letsdothis?
15 Jun 2026 11:41:17
Blue, yes, but we've got nothing like them now.
15 Jun 2026 11:41:07
Has he told you he is signing?
15 Jun 2026 12:18:36
AB93, this business about VAR and ref decisions was covered plenty at the end of the season. I may be wrong, but someone posted the figures, maybe MPH, as he's the good stats man, that showed that Hearts had benefited from more dodgy VAR decisions than both Rangers and Celtic last season.
15 Jun 2026 12:23:15
Nope, just the same as he hasn't told you he isn't, Letsdothis, you're just getting confused with your thinking and evidence.
15 Jun 2026 13:12:41
I could say that the Souness era was driven by a core of English players and Advocaat by a core of Dutch players. Yes, there were Scottish players in the team, but they all had quality and improved the team. So, unless there are Barry Fergusons, McGregors, Gorams and that level of players in the Scottish market that we can afford, then being Scottish in itself doesn't work.
We weren't good then because of nationality, we were good because we bought the best of wherever we could and who would sign for us.
I think we are blaming lack of Scottishness for the reason we have been unsuccessful, without remembering fully what made us successful in the past. That wasn't being insular.
15 Jun 2026 13:24:17
You would need to define "core". Gerrard's team was successful and it only had McGregor, Jack and Arfield, plus occasionally Scott Wright. If you count that as a core, next season we have Kelly, Souttar, Barron, Shankland, and Curtis, and maybe Cameron.
Is that enough of a core of Scots? Isn't the core we need good Scottish players alongside some real talent from England and abroad to be successful? Isn't that what Souness, Smith and Gerrard did to build winning teams.
15 Jun 2026 13:25:53
But we still had a core of Scottish players in our squad back then, Angus, Nisbet, Broodfoot, Cleland etc., without mentioning Gough, Ferguson, Weir etc.
15 Jun 2026 14:23:24
Coops, I agree, but they need to be good enough. I don't care where anyone is from as long as they are good enough. A bit like Souttar, he is Scottish and nowhere near good enough.
I have a feeling McInnes will like him, though, and play him a lot (hope not tho)
Also, as Angus put it very well about Souness era, etc., we just need a good squad.
15 Jun 2026 14:23:32
Star, sorry if you are claiming that those first 3 were the reason Rangers won trophies and that the non-Scottish players weren't the driving force then I just give up. They were Scottish and were part of a successful team. Not sure you could even claim they were driving standards as 2 of them from memory weren't even regulars.
So, player who drove the standards in any good Rangers team. Yes there were Scottish players there but I bet I can name 4-5 times as many non-Scots that would be driving the standards more.
And for managers, did Adviacaat drive standards less than McLeish? It is just becoming ridiculous if you ask me.
15 Jun 2026 14:34:58
Angus, what is becoming ridiculous is not having 8/9 Scottish players in a squad of 28.
I claimed nothing, I only highlighted we had many Scottish players in our squad back then, now we have a handful at best.
15 Jun 2026 14:43:50
Angus, you must be forgetting Advocatt had double figures of Scottish players in his squad.
15 Jun 2026 16:57:18
DJB, he didn't bottle the league, he had it cheated from him. Remember the non pen against Motherwell, and the 96th min pen the other mob got against the same team.