Beaujolais

2 points lost due to the red card that they now say should never be given. 
Theres also the question of goal difference. 
Aberdeen have got of really lightly, but the real winners are celtic. 2 points clear already through the “ineptitude” of the Officials. 
We have effectively been handicapped on the very first day of the season. This could hurt us big time at the end of the season. Furious.

Opening game of the season, a high profile game between two teams who don’t like each other, loud atmosphere, in front of a large watching audience  and a couple of physical players have a bit of tit-for-tat in the opening stages. What is it they say: “play the game, not the occasion” Surely that applies to referees too?
I mean i’m no referee but even a blind man could see that the sensible thing to do would be to pull both players aside and have a word with them because what he did there could easily have led to temperatures boiling over and him losing control of the game.
It was awful, awful officiating.

Gerrard has  inherited a total mess from a succession of Management Failures, McCoist, Warburton, Paedro C and Murty (I will omit McCall from the list). You do not undo such a mess in one short Lut of season summer.
The reality is that this could have been another embarrassment, both for the Club (we have rather been getting used to these sort of failures lately) and possibly even more so for Gerrards reputation (which is so far unblemished). So well done Gerrard for negotiating this first hurdle.
In the interview Gerrard comes across as professional, honest but seriously pissed off with the performance, and I am sure that will be transmitted to the dressing room. However he is an intelligent man and knows that ripping into the Squad in public is not clever in the long term. He needs the players onside with him, he needs them motivated and at the end of the day, he needs to maintain there market value as much as possible so should he get rid of them he can get as high a va.ue as possible unlike some of his predecessors who managed to completely destroy the market values of the players they got rid off to the detriment of the Clubs finances. His earlier comments ref Josh Windlass are to me a case in point.
Clearly Gerrard and his team have a long way to go, and he needs time and we need to be patient and realistic (some hope). Ibrox is not going to be rebuilt in a day, and the better the foundations the better the future longevity. So he’s building from the back- finally, we have been screaming for this for years. The significant performance within these two games was the fact we kept a clean sheet. But yes we do need a proven striker. 
 

Gerrard has  inherited a total mess from a succession of Management Failures, McCoist, Warburton, Paedro C and Murty (I will omit McCall from the list). You do not undo such a mess in one short Lut of season summer.
The reality is that this could have been another embarrassment, both for the Club (we have rather been getting used to these sort of failures lately) and possibly even more so for Gerrards reputation (which is so far unblemished). So well done Gerrard for negotiating this first hurdle.
In the interview Gerrard comes across as professional, honest but seriously pissed off with the performance, and I am sure that will be transmitted to the dressing room. However he is an intelligent man and knows that ripping into the Squad in public is not clever in the long term. He needs the players onside with him, he needs them motivated and at the end of the day, he needs to maintain there market value as much as possible so should he get rid of them he can get as high a va.ue as possible unlike some of his predecessors who managed to completely destroy the market values of the players they got rid off to the detriment of the Clubs finances. His earlier comments ref Josh Windlass are to me a case in point.
Clearly Gerrard and his team have a long way to go, and he needs time and we need to be patient and realistic (some hope). Ibrox is not going to be rebuilt in a day, and the better the foundations the better the future longevity. So he’s building from the back- finally, we have been screaming for this for years. The significant performance within these two games was the fact we kept a clean sheet. But yes we do need a proven striker. 
 

Gerrard has  inherited a total mess from a succession of Management Failures, McCoist, Warburton, Paedro C and Murty (I will omit McCall from the list). You do not undo such a mess in one short Lut of season summer.
The reality is that this could have been another embarrassment, both for the Club (we have rather been getting used to these sort of failures lately) and possibly even more so for Gerrards reputation (which is so far unblemished). So well done Gerrard for negotiating this first hurdle.
In the interview Gerrard comes across as professional, honest but seriously pissed off with the performance, and I am sure that will be transmitted to the dressing room. However he is an intelligent man and knows that ripping into the Squad in public is not clever in the long term. He needs the players onside with him, he needs them motivated and at the end of the day, he needs to maintain there market value as much as possible so should he get rid of them he can get as high a va.ue as possible unlike some of his predecessors who managed to completely destroy the market values of the players they got rid off to the detriment of the Clubs finances. His earlier comments ref Josh Windlass are to me a case in point.
Clearly Gerrard and his team have a long way to go, and he needs time and we need to be patient and realistic (some hope). Ibrox is not going to be rebuilt in a day, and the better the foundations the better the future longevity. So he’s building from the back- finally, we have been screaming for this for years. The significant performance within these two games was the fact we kept a clean sheet. But yes we do need a proven striker. 
 

Gerrard has  inherited a total mess from a succession of Management Failures, McCoist, Warburton, Paedro C and Murty (I will omit McCall from the list). You do not undo such a mess in one short Lut of season summer.
The reality is that this could have been another embarrassment, both for the Club (we have rather been getting used to these sort of failures lately) and possibly even more so for Gerrards reputation (which is so far unblemished). So well done Gerrard for negotiating this first hurdle.
In the interview Gerrard comes across as professional, honest but seriously pissed off with the performance, and I am sure that will be transmitted to the dressing room. However he is an intelligent man and knows that ripping into the Squad in public is not clever in the long term. He needs the players onside with him, he needs them motivated and at the end of the day, he needs to maintain there market value as much as possible so should he get rid of them he can get as high a va.ue as possible unlike some of his predecessors who managed to completely destroy the market values of the players they got rid off to the detriment of the Clubs finances. His earlier comments ref Josh Windlass are to me a case in point.
Clearly Gerrard and his team have a long way to go, and he needs time and we need to be patient and realistic (some hope). Ibrox is not going to be rebuilt in a day, and the better the foundations the better the future longevity. So he’s building from the back- finally, we have been screaming for this for years. The significant performance within these two games was the fact we kept a clean sheet. But yes we do need a proven striker. 
 

Jimmy Nicholl was the one Manager we had this year who behaved in every instance exact,y as a Rangers Manager should. Clearly in normal circumstances he would never have had the opportunity to Manage Rangers at this point in his career, but he did the job to the best of his ability and in my mind ensured we at least took 3rd place in the League. By the time he actually took on the role,  securing 2nd was effectively out of his control. It’s been one of the worst seasons that I have endured at the Club, but Jimmy stopped it becoming worse. Thanks Mr Nicholl.
 

We all have our opinions. IMO Paul Murray successfully undermined the previous Board and replaced one individual with a dubious reputation but incredible wealth with another individual with a dubious reputation and not enough wealth. King has invested no money into Rangers directly since taking over, but instead has the Club by the balls with the supposedly soft loans. Unless King pulls off a master stroke and actually has real investment into the Club organised rather than plans to add even more debt to fund the new Manager and their Football budget requirements, then I fear the Club is, under his stewardship, heading in a far worse direction. I just hope Murray is leaving because King has real investment lined up and is not a rat leaving a sinking ship.

We all have our opinions. IMO Paul Murray successfully undermined the previous Board and replaced one individual with a dubious reputation but incredible wealth with another individual with a dubious reputation and not enough wealth. King has invested no money into Rangers directly since taking over, but instead has the Club by the balls with the supposedly soft loans. Unless King pulls off a master stroke and actually has real investment into the Club organised rather than plans to add even more debt to fund the new Manager and their Football budget requirements, then I fear the Club is, under his stewardship, heading in a far worse direction. I just hope Murray is leaving because King has real investment lined up and is not a rat leaving a sinking ship.

We all have our opinions. IMO Paul Murray successfully undermined the previous Board and replaced one individual with a dubious reputation but incredible wealth with another individual with a dubious reputation and not enough wealth. King has invested no money into Rangers directly since taking over, but instead has the Club by the balls with the supposedly soft loans. Unless King pulls off a master stroke and actually has real investment into the Club organised rather than plans to add even more debt to fund the new Manager and their Football budget requirements, then I fear the Club is, under his stewardship, heading in a far worse direction. I just hope Murray is leaving because King has real investment lined up and is not a rat leaving a sinking ship.

We all have our opinions. IMO Paul Murray successfully undermined the previous Board and replaced one individual with a dubious reputation but incredible wealth with another individual with a dubious reputation and not enough wealth. King has invested no money into Rangers directly since taking over, but instead has the Club by the balls with the supposedly soft loans. Unless King pulls off a master stroke and actually has real investment into the Club organised rather than plans to add even more debt to fund the new Manager and their Football budget requirements, then I fear the Club is, under his stewardship, heading in a far worse direction. I just hope Murray is leaving because King has real investment lined up and is not a rat leaving a sinking ship.

The key question is what does King mean by investment. Any cash other than Ticket and other fan income during his tenure have been in the form of loans. To date, since he took over there has been no new investment. 

We all have our opinions. IMO Paul Murray successfully undermined the previous Board and replaced one individual with a dubious reputation but incredible wealth with another individual with a dubious reputation and not enough wealth. King has invested no money into Rangers directly since taking over, but instead has the Club by the balls with the supposedly soft loans. Unless King pulls off a master stroke and actually has real investment into the Club organised rather than plans to add even more debt to fund the new Manager and their Football budget requirements, then I fear the Club is, under his stewardship, heading in a far worse direction. I just hope Murray is leaving because King has real investment lined up and is not a rat leaving a sinking ship.

We all have our opinions. IMO Paul Murray successfully undermined the previous Board and replaced one individual with a dubious reputation but incredible wealth with another individual with a dubious reputation and not enough wealth. King has invested no money into Rangers directly since taking over, but instead has the Club by the balls with the supposedly soft loans. Unless King pulls off a master stroke and actually has real investment into the Club organised rather than plans to add even more debt to fund the new Manager and their Football budget requirements, then I fear the Club is, under his stewardship, heading in a far worse direction. I just hope Murray is leaving because King has real investment lined up and is not a rat leaving a sinking ship.

This is an absolute disaster and one that has been in the making ever since Dave King took over. Yes the players are wrong, yes the manager has obviously lost the respect (if he ever truly had it) of the players and as such has no future. But this he is the third manager in succession  (and all employed during Dave King’s tenure) to be proven to be unable to manage individual egos within the Rangers Squad. The people who should be first in the firing line should be the Directors. It is just one continual humiliation and fuck up after an other these days. 

This is an absolute disaster and one that has been in the making ever since Dave King took over. Yes the players are wrong, yes the manager has obviously lost the respect (if he ever truly had it) of the players and as such has no future. But this he is the third manager in succession  (and all employed during Dave King’s tenure) to be proven to be unable to manage individual egos within the Rangers Squad. The people who should be first in the firing line should be the Directors. It is just one continual humiliation and fuck up after an other these days. 

This is an absolute disaster and one that has been in the making ever since Dave King took over. Yes the players are wrong, yes the manager has obviously lost the respect (if he ever truly had it) of the players and as such has no future. But this he is the third manager in succession  (and all employed during Dave King’s tenure) to be proven to be unable to manage individual egos within the Rangers Squad. The people who should be first in the firing line should be the Directors. It is just one continual humiliation and fuck up after an other these days. 

This is an absolute disaster and one that has been in the making ever since Dave King took over. Yes the players are wrong, yes the manager has obviously lost the respect (if he ever truly had it) of the players and as such has no future. But this he is the third manager in succession  (and all employed during Dave King’s tenure) to be proven to be unable to manage individual egos within the Rangers Squad. The people who should be first in the firing line should be the Directors. It is just one continual humiliation and fuck up after an other these days. 

This is an absolute disaster and one that has been in the making ever since Dave King took over. Yes the players are wrong, yes the manager has obviously lost the respect (if he ever truly had it) of the players and as such has no future. But this he is the third manager in succession  (and all employed during Dave King’s tenure) to be proven to be unable to manage individual egos within the Rangers Squad. The people who should be first in the firing line should be the Directors. It is just one continual humiliation and fuck up after an other these days. 

This is an absolute disaster and one that has been in the making ever since Dave King took over. Yes the players are wrong, yes the manager has obviously lost the respect (if he ever truly had it) of the players and as such has no future. But this he is the third manager in succession  (and all employed during Dave King’s tenure) to be proven to be unable to manage individual egos within the Rangers Squad. The people who should be first in the firing line should be the Directors. It is just one continual humiliation and fuck up after an other these days. 

This is an absolute disaster and one that has been in the making ever since Dave King took over. Yes the players are wrong, yes the manager has obviously lost the respect (if he ever truly had it) of the players and as such has no future. But this he is the third manager in succession  (and all employed during Dave King’s tenure) to be proven to be unable to manage individual egos within the Rangers Squad. The people who should be first in the firing line should be the Directors. It is just one continual humiliation and fuck up after an other these days. 

Andy Halliday gets a big pay cheque to wear the Rangers shirt. He was picked to play and failed to deliver. He was then replaced. What is the problem. You could argue that Murty had given him a massive opportunity and that it was Halliday that threw Murty “under a bus” by his failure on the pitch, Halliday’s subsequent behaviour was an absolute disgrace in which he further dishonoured the Shirt that he has been given the privilege to wear.
 

Andy Halliday gets a big pay cheque to wear the Rangers shirt. He was picked to play and failed to deliver. He was then replaced. What is the problem. You could argue that Murty had given him a massive opportunity and that it was Halliday that threw Murty “under a bus” by his failure on the pitch, Halliday’s subsequent behaviour was an absolute disgrace in which he further dishonoured the Shirt that he has been given the privilege to wear.
 

Andy Halliday gets a big pay cheque to wear the Rangers shirt. He was picked to play and failed to deliver. He was then replaced. What is the problem. You could argue that Murty had given him a massive opportunity and that it was Halliday that threw Murty “under a bus” by his failure on the pitch, Halliday’s subsequent behaviour was an absolute disgrace in which he further dishonoured the Shirt that he has been given the privilege to wear.
 

Andy Halliday gets a big pay cheque to wear the Rangers shirt. He was picked to play and failed to deliver. He was then replaced. What is the problem. You could argue that Murty had given him a massive opportunity and that it was Halliday that threw Murty “under a bus” by his failure on the pitch, Halliday’s subsequent behaviour was an absolute disgrace in which he further dishonoured the Shirt that he has been given the privilege to wear.