Kris Boyd has his say on the boardroom liars

[K.A.I 36,183]

He’s 100% spot-on with everything even if it’s a tough read.

I’m on the phone so if someone could copy and paste?

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/football/2028823/Rangers-graeme-murty-celtic-old-firm-kris-boyd/

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'SORRY SHOWER' 

Don’t blame Graeme Murty if Rangers get a hiding from celtic..blame the Ibrox board, says Kris Boyd

Managers normally carry the can after defeats but Gers supporters should train their sights on a board which continues to drag their club down.

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By Kris Boyd

29th December 2017, 11:40 pm

THERE’S every chance Rangers could find themselves on the wrong end of a hiding at Parkhead on Saturday.

And if that were to be the case there is also every chance Gers supporters will be looking to vent their anger.

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Murty is not to blame if Rangers suffer a heavy defeat at celtic

The manager normally carries the can in these situations.

Woeful Old Firm capitulations eventually did for both Pedro Caixinha and Mark Warburton.

But, regardless of the outcome today, Graeme Murty shouldn’t be held responsible.

Instead, supporters should train their sights on a board which continues to drag their club down.

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The Ibrox board have failed to bring in a new manager

In the wake of Murty being named as manger until the end of the season I kept my powder dry last weekend because Kilmarnock were playing Rangers.

In the past I have been accused of firing opposition teams up with my comments.

Yet, if that’s what it takes to get players fired up then they need to have a long hard look at themselves.

What astonished me about Murty’s appointment was the comments from Rangers claiming they always believed him to be the right man for the job.

The boss they wanted at the helm all along.

Well, that’s complete nonsense for a start. They tried and failed miserably to get Derek McInnes.

I’m pretty sure they also spoke to other managers as well.

If they had turned round within a week of Caixinha being sacked and said the same thing, then fair enough.

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Derek McInnes turned down the chance to manage Rangers

But they waited two months and then gave Murty the gig on the back of defeats to Dundee, Hamilton and St Johnstone.

Why not wait until the winter break and then reassess?

What a coincidence the announcement of him getting the job coincided with less favourable news which broke about an hour beforehand.

For me, it was just another tactic to deflect from what is really going on at Rangers.

When Dave King swept to power he promised fans the earth. The majority of them bought into his grand masterplan and backed the club with their hard-earned.

For most of the past two years they have been prepared to give him and his board members the benefit of the doubt.

Now they are starting to see through his false promises.

When repeatedly asked to go to the well, supporters did just that in the hope it would benefit their club.

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King has failed to live up to his promises to the Rangers supporters

But, just what has King done for them since taking over?

Not a lot. His reign has been blighted by one cock-up after another.

There has been a real lack of class about the place in recent years.

There are far too many hangers-on and so-called Rangers men cutting about the place in brown brogues and blue blazers. The club needs proper businessmen regardless of who they support. Not punters who once had a season-ticket for the Copland Road.

Somebody needs to get a grip of the place and rid Rangers of the incompetence which is making them a laughing stock.

If you are not up to the task then you should be shown the door.

There are too many people within the walls of Ibrox who are not up to the task. They keep making the same mistakes over and over again.

There is no leadership, no direction of where the club is going.

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celtic have won six of the last seven Old Firm games

I hate to say it, but you actually fear for the club’s future under the current regime.

The fans are also starting to see through this sorry shower.

They can view the bigger picture and it does not look good on or off the pitch.

The current squad is even worse than the one Warburton assembled.

At least they had a structure of play under Warburton.

Would that have enabled them to end celtic’s dominance?

I very much doubt it. However as a team they were much better than they are just now.

They have spent millions in the summer and gone backwards.

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Former celtic star Virgil van Dijk is now the world’s most expensive defender

If you look at Rangers and celtic just now there is no comparison.

The £7.5 million celtic are set to receive from Virgil Van Dijk’s £75m move to Liverpool sums up the gulf between the Old Firm.

Rangers’ record sale was the £9 million they received from Spurs for Alan Hutton. celtic are coining in just £1.5 million less for a player who doesn’t even belong to them.

When you are running your club properly these things can happen.

celtic V Rangers: BET £10 WITH SUN BETS AND GET A FREE £30 BET

Too many mistakes are being made across the city all the way down to the youth department.

The amount of young kids who have been let go after being deemed not good enough or not big enough is alarming.

On the pitch it’s not much better. There are people picking and choosing when they play. That is not right.

Last Saturday Kilmarnock battered Rangers and, with all due respect, celtic are a million times better than us.

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Rangers fell to a 2-1 defeat against Kilmarnock

Given the money spent in the summer, Gers should be getting closer to their biggest rivals.

They shelled out fortunes in fees and wages. But they bought badly.

To try and overcome celtic’s dominance they needed to buy powerful athletes, guys who could maybe bully the other top teams.

That’s the way Rangers should have gone.

You can’t go like for like with celtic — you can’t possibly hope to match them in terms of footballing ability. Sometimes you have to go against the grain.

When Martin O’Neill took over at celtic he filled his team with big, strong, physical players.

That was to overcome Dick Advocaat’s free-flowing football team and it worked.

Rangers should have followed a similar blueprint last summer, but they didn’t. It’s left them with little hope of winning an Old Firm game for the first time in eight attempts.

But, whatever happens at celtic Park, don’t blame the manager because it’s the board who have thrown him in at the deep end without a lifebelt.

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"To try and overcome celtic’s dominance they needed to buy powerful athletes, guys who could maybe bully the other top teams.

That’s the way Rangers should have gone.

You can’t go like for like with celtic — you can’t possibly hope to match them in terms of footballing ability. Sometimes you have to go against the grain.

When Martin O’Neill took over at celtic he filled his team with big, strong, physical players.

That was to overcome Dick Advocaat’s free-flowing football team and it worked."

I've made this exact same point on here for months.  We should be going a 3-5-2 and going the big physical route in the eact same way MON did.  celtic are good on the deck but let's see how they cope when 5 or 6 big guys are in their box each time we win a free-kick or corner.  We have the attacking wing-backs who can put in a cross so let's get in a target man who can boss their CBs.  We can't afford the players needed to outplay them.

[Blue Avenger 22,567]

Bang on the money.

None of it new, but plenry of denial this end as many contnue to bury their heads in the sand.

[The Beast 9,226]

Boyd has it bang on. He could have lifted much of that directly from RM. 

It's heartening to hear someone with his profile and known aliegences step up to the plate to say something like this. 

Hopefully he will be the first of many and that will be a wake up call to the majority of fans who still see King and his henchmen as some kind of saviours.

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1 minute ago, THE_MIGHTY_BEARS said:

"To try and overcome celtic’s dominance they needed to buy powerful athletes, guys who could maybe bully the other top teams.

That’s the way Rangers should have gone.

You can’t go like for like with celtic — you can’t possibly hope to match them in terms of footballing ability. Sometimes you have to go against the grain.

When Martin O’Neill took over at celtic he filled his team with big, strong, physical players.

That was to overcome Dick Advocaat’s free-flowing football team and it worked."

I've made this exact same point on here for months.  We should be going a 3-5-2 and going the big physical route in the eact same way MON did.  celtic are good on the deck but let's see how they cope when 5 or 6 big guys are in their box each time we win a free-kick or corner.  We have the attacking wing-backs who can put in a cross so let's get in a target man who can boss their CBs.  We can't afford the players needed to outplay them.

Agree with that myself - they still have to be physical guys who can play football but big and physical none-the-less.

this is why the Le Guen’s, Warburton’s and Caixhina’s all fail miserably because they get too bogged down in intricate philosophical sound bytes and speil about working the football and pitch geography etc - Scottish football is a simple environment to play in, it doesn’t need over-complicating 

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Kris is obviously a frequent visitor in here........

[Daz-96 41]

Absolutely spot on. It's shocking. As said above if they are better football players then win the physical battles. We unfortunately regularly win neither. 

[The Beast 9,226]

It was also great to read his comments on the brown brogues and blazer wearers and also "people picking and choosing when they will play". I think we all know who these individuals are in both categories.

Well done Kris, you gave the bastards both barrells and scored a bullseye.

 

[BlueSuedeSambas 53,789]

Spot on.

[.Williamson. 82,224]

i actually like him even though he seems to always fuck us over 

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1 minute ago, The Beast said:

Unfortunately Boyd has it bang on. He could have lifted much of that directly from RM. 

It's heartening to hear someone with his profile and known aliegences step up to the plate to say something like this. 

Hopefully he will be the first of many and that will be a wake up call to the majority of fans who still see King and his henchmen as some kind of saviours.

Fuck, he's certainly piled on in there. Likewise, I'm surprised smeone with his profile went for it. Board will be raging at this. However it's been a long time coming.

Maybe this will now prompt SMSM to follow up on what they already know and think and start taking this board to task. LBH, King with his baggage and track record thus far, he has been given an easy ride and if they do go for him, it won't be pretty.

 

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@eskbankloyal not coming in to defend the board and 1872?

[siddiqi_drinker 14,635]

Not a great fan of ex-players greeting in the media but most of what Boyd says is pretty accurate and yet the silence from the, normally vociferous, fan groups is deafening. 

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4 minutes ago, Blue Avenger said:

Fuck, he's certainly piled on in there. Likewise, I'm surprised smeone with his profile went for it. Board will be raging at this. However it's been a long time coming.

Maybe this will now prompt SMSM to follow up on what they already know and think and start taking this board to task. LBH, King with his baggage and track record thus far, he has been given an easy ride and if they do go for him, it won't be pretty.

 

I think the SMSM know exactly where we are and are happy as fuck about it sitting in the peado dome.

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Kilmarnock player trashing us in the media and we're all cheering him on. What a fucking place.

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1 minute ago, siddiqi_drinker said:

Not a great fan of ex-players greeting in the media but most of what Boyd says is pretty accurate and yet the silence from the, normally vociferous, fan groups is deafening. 

1872 will be out with questions shortly don't worry.

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7 minutes ago, K.A.I said:

Agree with that myself - they still have to be physical guys who can play football but big and physical none-the-less.

this is why the Le Guen’s, Warburton’s and Caixhina’s all fail miserably because they get too bogged down in intricate philosophical sound bytes and speil about working the football and pitch geography etc - Scottish football is a simple environment to play in, it doesn’t need over-complicating 

A headed ball in the net is worth every bit as much as a silky passage of play.  Direct football with big physical players is a tried and true tactic and players required to pull it off aren't expensive.  Hopefully someone at the club will read Boyd's comments and the penny will drop.

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2 minutes ago, FSM said:

Kilmarnock player trashing us in the media and we're all cheering him on. What a fucking place.

He’s a Rangers fan speaking the truth - he’s trashing the board of proven liars not the club itself 

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20 minutes ago, The Beast said:

Boyd has it bang on. He could have lifted much of that directly from RM. 

It's heartening to hear someone with his profile and known aliegences step up to the plate to say something like this. 

Hopefully he will be the first of many and that will be a wake up call to the majority of fans who still see King and his henchmen as some kind of saviours.

And also a guy who is developing into a far greater presence as he settles into his ‘other job’ with Sky.

Not Neil McCann just yet, but making decent strides down that path.

I’ve said for a long time, there’s no excuse for not having the players to run over the top of Cellik, even if we can’t outplay them.

When we broke their 9 in a row run, the emphasis was very much on the Rangers ‘power play’, more than playing neater football than them.

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5 minutes ago, K.A.I said:

He’s a Rangers fan speaking the truth - he’s trashing the board of proven liars not the club itself 

And if celtic had signed him instead he'd be a celtic fan right now.

I honestly think if Neil Lennon had written this article you'd be cheering him on as well. Like I said, what a fucking place, happy to let any cunt have a go at us.

 

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6 minutes ago, FSM said:

Kilmarnock player trashing us in the media and we're all cheering him on. What a fucking place.

Not just ‘any’ Kilmarnock player, is he?

This week’s the anniversary of him breaking Larsson’s record, most of which were for us.

Shame you don’t hear so much of the likes of Brown or Rae about how well things are going.

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He's spot on.

 

[Muz333 359]

He’s spot on with that article. Hopefully this is the start of pressure being applied to the board to bring about some changes.

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2 minutes ago, FSM said:

And of celtic had signed him instead he'd be a celtic fan right now.

I honestly think if Neil Lennon had written this article you'd be cheering him on as well. Like I said, what a fucking place, happy to let any cunt have a go at us.

 

He'd never have signed for the scum he's been a Rangers fan since he was a kid not because he signed for them.