Blue Bear

Just for the sake of argument ... what if its true? Are we happy for some players to be clubbing the night before games, turning up with hangovers, taking a chance with injuries? Do we have professional standards at the club or are we content with a pub team mentality? I just wondered ..... (beer) Glug!

It#ll be that or he can't count to 25!

I was just wondering why Boyd decided to salute the deposed Captain and not Charlie Adam who was also dropped. Any ideas? <clack>

How about Chris Woods and Andy Goram as goalkeeping coaches with Billy Thomson. Then David Robertson, Arthur Numan, Terry Butcher, Graham Roberts and John Grieg to sort out the defence. We can have the De Boer twins, Gazza, Stuart McCall, Gio, Albertz and Durranty working on the midfield and leave the forwards to learn something from Laudup, McCoist and Hately! Or am I losing it here? <scared>

Souness is a bear? I would have argued he was a scouser? His playing career was Liverpool, and he only joined us as player/manager at the end of his playing career. And then he walked away at a critical time for us with the League coming to its climax (luckily Walter led us to victory). He then wasted Liverpool, Blackburn, Galatasaray, Newcastle ... fill in the blanks. No, he's not the answer.

Aye THREE players, that will take us up to a total of - what? - five, assuming Barry gets a game!!! (header) Its a start.......

Andy Webster as Captain??? <bouncy> <bouncy>

Well, that's it sorted. Give Roberts the job, he's the cheapest option and he'll also lead the choir - lots of the right experience.

Barry wants to stay. Barry was totally shocked when this happened. Barry didn't see it coming, and so on ....... Do I feel patronised? Just a bit. Ok, he wants to stay - well prove it, show PLG you are big enough to respect the manager's right to pick the team and set the tactics. Apologise for ignoring his request to defer a Christmas night out. Be a big man and admit you got it wrong and that you are prepared to be part of the team. I would be absolutely delighted if he stayed, he is still our most inspirational player but we were not getting enough of the right stuff from him. Let's see if Barry, his brother and his agent can find a way back in to the team and meet the standards of behaviour and professionalism expected of him by the manager and our great club.

Hey Guys, never let a good rumour get in the way of the facts! When Boyd made his stupid sign (his brains are in his feet anyway) Dado and Burke are in front of him so they can't see it. Check out the video clip. "PLG has lost the dressing room" - C'mon, the conspiracy theorists live in the East End of Glasgow, gie's a break!

What does Ferguson's brother know about the mentality of PLG or the Scots - he's hardly Scotland's top psychologist! Perhaps part of the problem is that some people, in certain places (Ferguson's brother?) are a bit too quick to offer their opinions to the Press, on or off the record. That too is likely to undermine a manager. And don't the fine fellows of the Press just love to run with a wild rumour, the more its repeated the 'truer' it gets!!!

Ha. ha. PLG must laugh at the so-called salute. He's worked with Boyd, he knows that all his brains are in his feet! If we took away all Boyd's goals we would be 6th - by the same token if we took away 18 points from Them we would be top - lets work with the facts, Boyd won't be sold unless he does something stupid. Hmmm!!!

The problem for some Rangers fans is that they let the "tat newspapers" do their thinking for them.

Great assessment Shear. So, Barry is our best player, he often plays out of position - then our best player playing out of position is not making the best contribution to the team. The manager looks at how the team might make the best of the available players and asks them to play a role - if one or more players ignores that, it disrupts others, then it affects the whole team. Maybe Barry tries too hard, for a player of his experience he should perhaps understand it better than it seems. Also, as captain of Rangers he should have the team's interests first (and maybe he believes he does) but his manager is telling him he wants something different but is ignored - result, he, the whole team, the club and fans are affected. Some of the best Rangers captains were true leaders, they led the team on and off the park, they worked together with their respective managers. But Barry should remember Souness and Butcher, Souness and Roberts, Advocatt and Amorouso - all great captains who differed from the manager (and IMHO Barry is not as good a captain as any of those) and what happened next? Barry has been great at times this season (IMHO not as good as the season before he left for Blackburn) but he is not a one-man team. In my view he has lost the professional perspective on things and it has cost him/us dearly. There must always be room for passion, even the often over-hyped "playing for the jersey" but we need the team captain to be an inspirational leader, not a disruptive influence.

Cheer up guys - we are RANGERS. Of course players, including quality players, will sign for us. We have had troubles in the past, usually short term ones and we've still attracted big names, home and abroad. They want to play in Europe every year - and we should do yhe Champs League next season despite our temporary position now. They want to play in a great stadium, we've got Ibrox- its the best, and Murray Park - pure quality. And they all want to play before the best fans in the world - we are the People!