15 Aug 2019 14:38:42
Many will remember our lower leagues and many posted on McCoist missing a trick and not playing youth. He did say youth won't win leagues. Fact is he did play plenty, the two standouts being Lewis McLeod and Barry McKay. The McLeod being a sad story being transferred to Brentford getting injured and in recovery falling into a rabbit hole walking his dog in London! Fact is none of the youth he had has amounted to much. I think we should take a step back and realise what good Ally did for us under near impossible ownership circumstances.
15 Aug 2019 14:55:18
Pretty sure and pub league manager could have came in and won those leagues with those players tbh. ian black getting 10k a week. kevin kyle, joh Daly and all the other guff. when we werenin 3rd division our wage bill was still far greater than any other team bar celtic.
15 Aug 2019 15:20:20
Paul86 it was not ally Maoist who negotiated the contracts.
I would say ally was a very poor manager with little tactical knowledge.
I remember when guys like aird, Mckay, Mitchell, Mcleod, little etc played Dalziel said not one of them would make SPFL with Rangers, how correct was he.
15 Aug 2019 15:34:36
I stand by my opinion that we did it all wrong on the way back up. Should have invested in youth I stead of throwing large sums of cash at SPL veterans.
15 Aug 2019 16:14:41
Mccoist should have took the best players from div2 to win div3 and then the best from div 1 to win div 2 and so on. woulda been much cheaper than giving jobs to wage thief’s like black, kyle, sandaza etc. This way we could have unearthed a few jems like Andy Robertson . Ally mccoist will forever be one of my heroes as a player, but in no way should he be praised for his managerial tenure at ibrox as it was nothin more than a man totally out his depth. any decent junior manager woulda done a better job with the budget we had. no praise from me. some of the worst put together makeshift teams and performances iv ever seen from our great club.
15 Aug 2019 17:38:07
Many will laugh at this but I honestly thought McCoists first signing when we went down should have been Rory McAlistair. That's his level and he would have seen us ok up to the championship. What a waste of money it was on Daly, Sandaza, Kyle etc when there was a proven scorer at that level available for a fraction of one of those player wages.
15 Aug 2019 18:27:04
J1985 not laughing, u r correct re mcallister
I remember through a Hamilton player, we wanted canning for Div 3 we signed poor foriengers instead.
Canning would have done us a real turn div3 and2.
15 Aug 2019 18:47:32
Spot on j1985. My point exactly.
15 Aug 2019 19:37:10
Original post is correct. The youth was sh$t at the time apart from a couple.
16 Aug 2019 05:11:53
Rory mcCallister has no interest in leaving part time football. he's happy making the wages he's on aswel as a plumbers wage.