BrizOz

How significant was the game, which I didn't see? Dunfermline seems to occupy a rock hard bottom of the table position. One would have thought a second string Rangers side would slaughter them. So does the game tell us anything about Ally or the first string team?

Given his match time and the lack of a recent international, the odds against his playing very well would be considerable. And McCoist would not be forgiving.

Similar in the Brisbane paper.One gets the impression that the Roar's Indonesian owners want him for his abilities and power to put bums on seats. They would be able to buy him as a marquee player and not have his salary limited by the A-League salary cap. However the manager with whom lies the final say has never seemed as keen on having him back.He would appear to have ideological reservations against star players ( his system comes first ). Perhaps even more significantly I think he was rather resentful over a key player, his captain and a playmaker departing at a late stage in the preparations for this season. Such players can't be replaced overnight, whatever Ally may believe.

He answered a question on differences between Roar and Rangers training and gave what one imagines was a truthful answer.Should add that this was fairly early on before he had been sent to Coventry.

Don't quite understand the 1M. The transfer fee was what, about a quarter of that? Admittedly Roar fans were convinced the club had been done by Matt and Rangers.Or are you adding salary - but I find that difficult to believe.

Continue? Are we a force after the summer, and with the team?

Suspect that there could be a number of Roar supporters hoping to get more on the possibility (?) of Matt returning to Brisbane on loan.

It's a postion that enabled him to use Rangers rather than his own resources to go to law to defend his business reputation - which struck me as passing odd.

Answering from almost complete ignorance but tempted to ask didn't that make it even easier?

If he were to go to an SPL team why not St Mirren. When they played Rangers they settled into the passing game that would suit him.

If you've only seen his SPL games you haven't seen him.

As several suggest you have to define what is meant by big before you can answer the question.Just have to argue that trophies can hardly count. Most trophies for Rangers would be Scottish and usually they are essentially for beating one team, Septic. What EPL team can be in a competition with those kind of odds?

The Oz season was well and truely over. He played in the Grand Final, the last match.

Not sure if this has been posted. Perhaps nothing new about a "mystery" surrounding McCoist's footballing judgement. http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/sport/tom_english_ally_mccoist_s_reputation_at_risk_over_guerra_1_2049753

They might have looked at the content as well as the appearance. If you look at his profile McKay is still down as having played for Skelmersdale and Chester before coming to Rangers - months after his arrival in Scotland.I'll soon begin to believe the stories of Celtic moles. Not a great advertisement for the site or the club.

Just found out that Moore is listed as Australian consultant on the website of Matt's agency. Brings up some questions. Was he so employed when he recommended Matt to McCoist? If so did this introduce any conflict of interest between his postion in the firm and his friendship with the Rangers' Manager? Anyone got any info?

Ally will no doubt play him to prove by one game how right he's been all along. Matt must be as rusty as a Roman nail given the number of first class games he's had. Remember that Ally gave him his only chance in a game shortly after he'd returned from a week or so's travel to Oz the Gulf and Thailand and two 90 min internationals in hot humid draining conditions.

God, you've got a point.Only explanation of some of his selections.

McCulloch and Matt are two very different players - McCulloch seems to me to be a defensive hard man, quite lost in a creative mobile midfield. Matt can defend but he would be most valuable in an attacking creative mobile midfield. I think Ally is insecure and therefore goes for McCulloch.

Well at the time he was being signed it was suggested on the Roar forum that we should spread a rumour that he was a strong Catholic, and I think that he had been involved in talks with Celtic during their visit. Perhaps Ally has finally caught wind of this, actually believes it and has forgotten that times have changed at Rangers.

I take it you mean every game for Rangers?As I have pointed out before, Matt's treatment has meant he is desperately short of serious game time - his Australian season ended in March and he has had only the handful of internationals Oz has played give him that time. Oh to be fair I think He got decent time in a Rangers friendly or two and a reserve game. He did get one genuine opportunity starting in an SPL game - but straight after what amounted to a round the world trip to play for Oz in two hot and humid exhausting games - one in the Gulf and one in Thailand. Ally just has not given you the opportunity to see the real player. That said, boy does the Roar need him back.

My wife:When the Australian national team won 2-0 against Germany in a friendly this year, McKay was one of the key players who created Australia's chances for goals. It's mind-boggling that such a player is hard to get to play in a team with the qualtiy of players I have seen. I just wonder whether the Rangers players are not good enough to play pass and move football, and thus McKay's skills and technical and tactical abilities are wasted. After all, football is played by 11 players. If adapting to McCoist's game means for him a simple game of defence and attack monotonously sending long balls to a striker, then he is wasting his time in the SPL.

I think in the one serious game Matt started he had just returned from The Gulf Thailand and Australia (much greater travelthan any of the other internationals ) after playing two games in hot humid conditions.And his games have been largely confined to internationals since March. Almost as though Ally is energetically trying to ruin him. You are yet to see the true player in the flesh, and doubtless you won't while Ally adopts an ultra defensive policy.

Didn't realise we'd reached April 1 so quickly

Not me, I'm in enough trouble myself, but my wife: I agree. There must be some reasons why he has not even gradually been blooded. I have no intention of denigrating the SPL. But, let's face it Matty is not playing for a club in the EPL, Serie A or La Liga. We are after all talking about the SPL football. From my observation from the games I've seen the Rangers and other SPL teams play, in terms of generic abilities as a footballer, he should stand out as one of the best in the team. To explore hypothetical reasons for this mystery (1) Rangers are yet to pay the Roar transfer fee (2) Matty's "football" does not suit McCoist's/SPL's "rugby" type ball game (3) McCoist does not have a clue as to how to play a passing game and lacks confidence to adopt types of football other than the formation consisting of defence, wings, and a physcial lone striker (4) McCoist is not interested in adopting a style of football to entertain and give pleasure to fans. (5) McCoist is incapable of adopting entertaining football as WINNING is everything for him (6) Rangers' players do not have enough technical skills to play a tactically and technically more demanding passing game (7) Matty is suffering from some kind of culture shock Intelligent and educated in one of the top Brisbane public (aka private)schools and one of the top universities McKay is struggling (8) Matty refuses to play (9) The rangers got him to play specifically for the CL/EL (10)He's a Mummy's boy