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Support from Ally McCoist's pals only adds to ire of fans as Rangers struggle to measure up to Championship

UNLESS Ally McCoist and his players can start winning in style by producing quality performances MICHAEL says all the friends in the world won't be enough to get the under-fire boss out of trouble.

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WHEN you’re down and troubled and you need a helping hand. When nothing, whoa, nothing is going right.

Close your eyes and … da da da …

James Taylor, eh? What a tune. You’ve Got a Friend. Could put a lump to the throat of Wellington’s statue.

Old James warbled about the need for your pals when you are in a spot of bother and while it strikes the right chords, the classic ditty can’t be applied to Ally McCoist at the moment.

He’s down and he’s definitely in trouble and no doubt could do with a helping hand but it’s not friends the Rangers boss needs right now – it’s results and performances.

McCoist has plenty of mates. It’s understandable. He’s a friendly guy. Not many have a bad word to say about him and even Neil Lennon couldn’t stay mad at him for too long.

It’s little wonder McCoist folk queuing up to defending him in the media whether they are journalists, pundits or former team-mates.

No one wants to shove their granny off a bus or throw their mate under it for that matter.

They point to him holding his club together through the most difficult period in their history.

They’ll bring up the stats (hey, went through last season unbeaten, still in the title race this season) and they will insist it is ludicrous to talk about their buddy getting the bullet. Some of the points are fair enough. It has been a nightmare few years. McCoist has steered Rangers to two promotions.

They did go unbeaten in the league last year. It is still early in the season and the defeat to Hibs on Monday doesn’t have to be catastrophic.

But those friendly voices are not doing him any good at the moment. If anything they are making the situation worse.

McCoist’s mates are only riling up the punters more as the growls from the stands are growing louder by the week.

The football has been torture. The signings have been mince. Expensive mince. The tactics are bewildering and one dimensional. There’s no long-term strategy in place.

All of those things have been brought up for two years but it was like Usain Bolt running in the primary school sports day with a sore ankle.

It might slow him down but he’ll still win by a mile.

Only now it’s a limping Usain competing at the Commonwealth Games. Never mind how he’d cope at an Olympics. Problems that were blatantly clear but without consequence in the part-time leagues have now been brought right to the fore in the full-time, full-throttle environment of the Championship.

Losing at home to Hearts and Hibs is not good. Not good at all. The alarm bells are ringing so loud they are handing out ear plugs in the Broomloan.

For the past couple of years Rangers fans feared it would be the off-the-field shenanigans that halted their march back to the top.

They have dreaded the prospect of another administration, more points deductions or and even

gruesome doomsday scenarios.

Moving through the leagues was taken as a given. Not any more. Some bookies have installed Hearts as favourites for the title. There’s a reason you never see bookies at food banks you know.

Even the play-offs look perilous to this current Rangers set-up given the fact more times than not when they have faced half-decent sides they have been found wanting.

The buck stops at McCoist. It’s his squad, his tactics and in the end it is his job on the line.

Fans are now asking what would the likes of Derek McInnes, Stuart McCall, Derek Adams, all earning a fraction of McCoist’s salary, would do with a £7million annual budget?

Many suspect they would romp promotion, win a few cups and eventually be comfortably the second best side in the country.

Maybe even compete for the title. Which is what Rangers fans demand and yet they are a million miles away from it at the moment.

You suspect if the Ibrox board had a pot to pee in a decision might have been made already. But it could get to the stage where it’s too big a gamble not to change.

It’s not at that point just yet but there needs to be radical change at Ibrox. They are only six points off the top and the clocks have not yet gone back so there is time.

McCoist needs points and performances. He needs players who are hungry, not around to fatten up their wallets. He needs to start winning in style and needs to beat St Johnstone in the League Cup last eight.

Otherwise all the friends in the world won’t be able to get McCoist out of trouble.

Should Ally McCoist be the boss of Rangers?

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On RC they were saying "the fans are slowly but surely turning against him" - Wit? A large part of the support has wanted him gone before admin, even more after 3rd and 2nd div, id say 90%+ want him gone, RC and the media either have no clue or are just hoping Ally stays to see us suffer.

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It's no suprise polls on a neutral site will be high for him staying.

Every tim and Rangers hater in the land wants him to stay here as he's the worst manager in football today.

He is putting us back years and that can only be good in their eyes.

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On another Rangers website, the poll was 100% in favour of McCoist being fired or to resign. Not one person wanted him to stay as manager. I repeat - not one.

Anyone on here and elsewhere who thinks McCoist will pay one single solitary heed to any and all of this is sadly mistaken.

You couldn't give the dugout dud a red neck with a blowtorch.

Nope............'The Legend' wants the big pay off.

No walking away for him.

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its obvious now that these guys are reading RM - some of the text is almost verbatim from forum comments.

Almost a certainty mate, as the only other stories these muppets can relate to, are bedtime stories and fairy tales.

It is annoying though, that, when they get it right, it comes from us, at grass roots level, but if the source is a good one then that will be the outcome.

Pity they can't be more consistent, and listen to "The People" more often.

I now await, with baited breath, his full and unabridged expose of the dark side's murky dealings, concerning state aid and council corruption.

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