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    Super Ally?

    in Jimmy Bell's Kitroom

    Posted

    Would anybody take Ally back as manager for the OF game?

    I'm sure with conditions of garden leave his services can be called upon at any time.

    With Ally I did actually think we had a chance, where Ally could have got one over on Delia (or whatever his name is).

    I wonder what Walter's doing?

    Less Than Two Weeks Until The Old Firm

    in Jimmy Bell's Kitroom

    Posted

    SAF to come to Rangers until the end of the season? :lol: :lol: :lol:

    The sad thing is it would probably take something of that magnitude to turns things around and get the team playing in a way that would actually give us a chance against the tims.

    I'd imagine if SAF was to turn up at Ibrox and offer to manage the team for free the board would turn him away, as SAF managing the team for free would be a positive step moving us forward, and I don't think the board would like something like that.

    Can we really judge Ally McCoist’s performance as manager?

    in Jimmy Bell's Kitroom

    Posted

    Also, whatever has been happening in the boardroom, is absolutely NO excuse for the type of "football" we have played over the past 3 seasons.

    Has the boardroom palavar meant that Ally has to use the same team / tactics every game even when it's clearly not working?

    Did it mean we need to have the same substitutions game after game that we all know will take place before a ball is kicked?

    Did it mean that players needed to be played out of position time after time even when there was no need to do so?

    And I say all of this as Ally's biggest fan in his playing days.

    Quite simply, he does not have what it takes to be a good football manager.

    Again, extraordinary circumstances, that I believe had to affect things on the pitch.

    Every managers tactics etc. are questioned when results go the wrong way, in this instance it may not be the entire root of the problem.

    Also I believe, that if Ally had been manager under "normal" circumstances we may have seen a very different manager.

    Can we really judge Ally McCoist’s performance as manager?

    in Jimmy Bell's Kitroom

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    "McCoist must be the biggest mistake of Walter Smith's managerial career and doubly so by recommending him to follow as manager, what did Smith see in McCoist that we have failed to have shown to us."

    I read the above comment is another thread.

    Well I imagine Walter probably saw what the rest of us saw at the time, a new and inexperienced manager being given the chance to take on the top job after years of mentoring from Walter himself. Similar to the opportunity that Lennon was given with Celtic the year before. And so we all though over these past few years we would have been watching the two young managers go head to head for the title.

    It all started extremely well for McCoist, with Rangers taking (if I recall correctly) a 15 point lead (albeit Celtic having two games in hand) over a Celtic being managed by an ever increasingly erratic Neil Lennon.

    Now imagine if the entire financial meltdown hadn't actually happened. If Whyte hadn't been a crook, if there had been no Administration, etc. etc.

    Would we have won the league that year? I would imagine so, and possibly by quite a considerable margin. What would have been the opinion of Ally then? Rather high I imagine.

    How would Ranger then have performed under Ally the two following seasons? We'll never know, but could Ally have taken three in a row instead of Lennon?

    I'm sure there's every chance.

    And I doubt Lennon would have stayed in the job as long as he did, instead he got to coast through on easy street, cutting his management teeth, knowing that Celtic were guaranteed the title each year.

    The meltdown of course did happen, and along with the 10 point deduction, it had to affect Rangers top to bottom, down through the management and the playing staff and on to the park. Since Whyte announced Administration on the steps of Ibrox that day, the circus has continued on and on and on, and not stopped. It has been one farcical and unbelievable thing after another.

    This is not the situation that Ally or any other Rangers manager should ever have been working under. And the situation appears to be getting worse and worse on an almost daily basis, again this has to have had a knock on effect filtering down onto the performance on the pitch. There is simply no way it couldn't have done.

    Ally has done the job through the most unthinkable circumstances, circumstances which has probably made the job beyond the realms of difficult, but probably out right impossible. So with this unprecedented and incomprehensible situation that McCoist has been placed in, can we really judge how he has performed?

    I'm finding it difficult.

    Ally McCoist - was, is, and always will be a Rangers Legend.

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