Should Ally have played the Forfar team vs Dundee instead of the new signings?

[Boab 73]

The Forfar was a cup game and very important and so playing that team would have had it got used to each other as a blend, no?

Or is does the Forfar loss just have no excuse, and we should have won anyway? I think I agree with the opening title and this sentence!

But surely 60 minutes would have been a good idea vs Dundee in view of Forfar to go with Forfar's team starting at Dens?

[kplfishtank 4,656]

probably but hindsight is great . still should have beaten Forfar with the players we had on the pitch

[Wilbert 416]

Welcome back Boab

[AlBear. 8,499]

The new signings have to have some sort of competitive matches before they can play in September.

Plenty of other sticks to beat McCoist with right now.

[peter huistra 1,740]

Aye the line up should have been a warm up to the Forfar game ideally , with a few new players brought on to rest certain players for the game on the Saturday .

Its awright saying that in hindsight after the games , we should have been able to put out the team from last season given the proper tactics and won the game easily imo .

[Thommo 708]

The team that was planned for the Forfar game should have definitely played at least 1 full half together against Dundee.

[StrongbowLoyal. 36]

It does not matter what 11 played not beating fucking Forfar is a fucking shambles.......

[Cos88 283]

Possibly. It was a fucking ridiculous decision to play Hegarty and Mitchell though considering they haven't featured at all in pre-season.

[50ShadesofBlue 667]

He shouldn't of started Hegarty and Mitchell over match fit McAusland and Aird imho.

[dougaaley 28]

If he had only played those who were available for the Forfar game, everyone would have started whining about not getting their money's worth and demanding to see all the new boys even though it would have made sense to give the actual team practice.

Then they would have started calling for Ally to be sacked - he just can't win.

[Big Al 55 9,249]

I think he should have played closer to the team, although his options were pretty limited and I understand trying to minimise the chance of injuries

[SE5 107]

Can you imagine the abuse he would have got had he lost to a team managed by Bomber Brown, friendly or not!

[SeparateEntityMyArse 53,722]

Ally knew from the summer that August was going to be difficult due to the non registration rules. He said as much though didn't comment on the fact that it was his responsibility to overcome this.

He's had the pre-season he desperately wanted, and got plenty players in that he wanted. But he's also known all along Saturday's game would be played with last season's squad.

So difficult as it is, his job was to get a team from last season prepped to win on Saturday without the assistance of the new boys at the same time as moulding a team for post September 1st. On the first part, he's failed miserably. And we're out of a cup because of it.

If he's around come September he sure as hell better make sure his chosen and prepared team hit the ground running and in style or he'll have failed miserably in using a pre-season other than for fitness.

Managing Rangers cannot and should not come easy, but such significant failures cannot be accepted when despite the obstacles we have so much more in our locker than the likes of Forfar.