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Ray,
You shameless rep junkie........
Ah wid eat chips oot o' her knickers.
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Who is responsible for dictating fitness regimes, is there an all encompassing fulcrum, we look about as fit as your average amateur team.
Lock'n'load rock'n'roll Gullane Sands will give them something to think about other than their hole.
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McCall wid definitely get it and often.
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I don't have a problem with Boydy or his goals so there we psrt company.
I would explain about DJ but a quick look about the DJ thread by you saves my auld fingers.
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No one was questioning DJ's record at Rangers though so....
Also Derek Riorden is the third time top scorer in the SPL....great player though eh
Silly me,thought we were talking about past Rangers players, oh well each to their own. Are you the guy's agent can't he answer for himself ?
Let me repeat neither DJ's nor Boydy's Rangers records require any justification by anyone.
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True. You cant take that away from him but how many goals against the top teams? Celtic? Europe?
Like DJ, Boydy's Rangers record needs no justification or defending by anyone, wouldn't you agree ?
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You're not alone in that.
It's always best to try and ignore the personalities behind the player if the personality irritates. Goram is a prime example for me.
Not that Johnstone irritates me, I've seen him often enough at charitable events doing the right thing for example.
And, as a player, I loved the big guy.
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Eh I was actually, when not scoring Boyd offered hee haw to the team.
He was good at what he done RE putting it in the net with good players were around him, you stick him in a team like our just now he'd be fucking terrible.
Watching him live was so much more frustrating than watching him on the TV.
Thing is Boydy was crap, he only scored over a hundred goals for The Rangers and is sphell record goal scorer not very good at all.
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Ah for the distinct class of yesteryear, shown by all at The Rangers.
One of the great Gers captains, Eric Caldow, lost the captaincy in odd circumstances while Rangers embarked on the famous tour of Russia at the end of season 61/62. Caldow and 4 team-mates opted to go to the British Embassy in Moscow after their first match so that they could indulge in some “decent food and drink” rather than suffer a post-match “banquet” with their Russian hosts. His manager, Scot Symon, said nothing at the time but at the start of the next season his “punishment” was meted out by Symon. As the squad lined up for its pre-season official photo the manager simply handed the ball to Bobby Shearer, indicating that he was now the club captain. No words were exchanged by any of the parties concerned but everyone knew where they stood. Talk about tough times! Nowadays the player’s agent would be hammering at the manager’s door, looking for a transfer for his client – or an increase in wages!
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No doubting that DJ was a fantastic player for a number of years, but when he demanded the captaincy and to be played at Centre-half (after scoring 38 goals the previous season)my opinion changed,here was a player putting personal preferences ahead of what was best for the club.
Had he continued at Centre-forward, i'm convinced we would have retained our title and spared us what was one of the worst nights in our lives.
Since retirement he has done nothing to benefit the image of the club and fans as portrayed in the media.
From Hero to Zero imo.
He was eighteen years old when he played CH in the glorious '72 winning team in Barcelona, he in fact played the next two seasons mostly at CH. His Rangers career needs no defending by anyone.
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listen bawbag you might have or might not have started any threads but your a well known ally hater who brands anyone who defends against what you say a tarrier,so the bottom line is your a fucking idiot,by the looks of it your whole life revolves around RM,,i mean you average 14 posts a day since april and about 8 topics a week since april,,,,me thinks you need to get a burd mate and stop wanking over your topics,,,either that or your stalking someone on here,,either way your a idiot
What are you doing polluting another thread, must be your tarrier need to feel wanted or the wish to be a Bear rather than a trolling gray and shite hoopy priest sucker and wide receiver, shouldn't you be worrying a table leg or some other wooden icon.
The strangest thing is you confuse me with some one who gives a fuck about your taig views, you obviously have no idea of the word ignore or buttons. Taig school explains it in a bead rattlers way.
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Derek (uncle tom) Johnstone burned his bridges at ibrox long ago.
That said however his article is correct they do need a boot up the arse.
DJ may have burned your bridges he hasn't burnt any of mine, a Rangers legend in every sense of the word from his first cup final goal at 16 years old and a winning one at that and onwards.
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1: The only star is the team...
My greatest worry is the team. The collective effort. I have no idea where the physical aspect ends and the tactical/psychological aspect begins, but football encaptures both. I can't
separate the two, but what I can say is that football is not all about the physical aspect, it's about much more than that. In the grand scheme of things, the physical aspect is probably the least important element. Without organization and a talent in exploring the different tactical models of the game, your weaknesses quickly become apparent, regardless of how fit you are. - Jose Mourinho
Football is a team game. The emphasis should be on developing a group of individuals who can perform together to achieve success. However, many argue that we should be developing the individual to achieve, not the team. I understand that we must develop individual creativity, balance, technique and skill however ultimately, football is played with 10 other players (at 11v11) and therefore we must create a club environment that promotes working together, not working alone.
2: Tactics are worked on from day one...
The most important thing in football is to have a style of play, a set of principles that offer organisation to the team. For that reason, my focus is on tactics from day one. - Jose Mourinho
How can the use of tactics be a benefit of a grassroots club? Well, if your talking about actual tactics, then they will have (and should have) very little use. If a coach starts to work on tactics with any players below 16, then the technical development may suffer. However what a grassroots club could use instead of tactics from day one is implementing a style of play or a philosophy that each age group works towards. Too many times I see grassroots clubs having no real identity or way of playing. If everyone was working towards developing skilful, technical players, then the club and players would develop much quicker.
3: The Rui Faria Method...
Have you ever seen a pianist run around his piano before sitting down to unleash a masterpiece? In our methodology we don't send them on laps around the pitch either'. For Mourinho and his right- hand man/physical trainer Rui Faria, the gym is only for recovering from injuries. - Jose Mourinho
I have highlighted this many times on Twitter . How many times do you see warm-ups conducted of player running laps around the pitch? Sprinting from one cone and back, second cone and back. These methods are outdated, unjustified and harmful! A grassroots club should develop a philosophy that players become fit using the ball. If we are to develop future technical players, clubs must move away from old school methods. Educating the coaches to understand the modern day game - the modern player.
4: The ball is obligatory - Training sessions are no more than 90 minutes...
'My training sessions aren't long, they're dynamic and incredibly time-efficient. I like my team to learn to love the ball, and to know what to do with it once they win it back. Three hour training sessions will only serve to bore the players. They would quickly fall out of love with the ball'. - Jose Mourinho
Most grassroots clubs only have an hour to train once per week, therefore training for more than 90 minutes isn't an issue. However what is an issue is what occurs during that one hour period. Too many times club allow coaches to work on whatever they want - which sometimes means a game. Small sided games are fine, however there has to be an outcome and a reason as to why that session was conducted. Was it to develop running with the ball, attacking, defending etc?
5: A team with no peaks in form...
Weekly training sessions are solely focused on the next game. There's no plan to come good in December or May, no looking ahead. No plan to play better against the top teams. -Jose Mourinho
Grassroots clubs should never train in order to beat the opponent at the weekend. Therefore commandment number 5 may not link to a club lower down the leagues. However what a club could use here is developing players to perform and enjoy the game week in, week out.
6: Motivation comes from training, not from playing the big matches...
During his time in Portugal with Porto, there came a moment when the team were winning
everything domestically, with the danger of the players only being motivated for the European ties. Here's how he overcame that potential obstacle. 'With a 4-3-3 formation, space is perfectly occupied naturally, it isn't necessary for the players to be intelligent. They don't have to think too much. With a 4-4-2 they are required to think because the field is occupied irrationally, no-one is naturally open. With a constant need for tactical discipline
comes motivation, regardless of the importance of the match.' Real Madrid fans know what to expect there then. - Jose Mourinho
Commandment number 6 is crucial to the development of a player. Coaches should conduct sessions in an environment that not only challenges the player to become technically better, but also to motivate them to improve and to enjoy the session. Even at the highest level, player can become demotivated. Grassroots clubs should ensure that there philosophy is to develop player and to allow them to enjoy the game - Not to win trophies or medals. That will come.
7: Study your opposition, but never play according to your rival...
We analyze our rivals and we try to imagine how they will play against us. Using these thoughts we position certain players in certain positions according to the oppositions strengths and weaknesses. But these are only positional details. They don't interfere with our principles, or even with our system. - Jose Mourinho
Similar to commandment number 5, this may not have a direct influence on a grassroots club. However what could be used here is the use of player analysis. How many clubs record games and allow players to watch themselves and analyse what was good, what they might have done in this situation etc. With the use of camera phones, it's now easier than ever to record games for player development. This would obviously have to be approved with the other team for CRB purposes.
8: The creative players are first to defend...
For me defending well is defending during the least amount of time possible. It's to have the ball among your most creative players for as long as possible. Having the initiative for as long as possible. This takes away the need for defensive actions.
But when the need to defend arises, everyone has a role to play. There are those
that say the creative players should be liberated of defensive duties. They know nothing about football. All players need to know what to do with the ball and what to do without the ball'. - Jose Mourinho
Commandment number 8 is closely linked to the very first - The only star is the team. Sometimes coaches will allow the more gifted players to work less hard - giving them special treatment. This can have negative effects on the players as some will be getting treated better or different to others. Clubs must realise that every player should be treated in the same way, with the same respect.
9: We begin to recover during the games...
After each game I like to give the players a days rest. It may not be the most appropriate thing to do physically speaking, but it allows them to recover mentally. Unfortunately, with so many games during a season this is rarely possible.
If the team plays how I want them to, the players will start to recover mentally by having total control of the ball. Instead of finishing the match mentally exhausted, they would come off the pitch in a great frame of mind, raring to go once more. Therefore as incredible as it sounds, they need to start recovering during the game itself. - Jose Mourinho
Grassroots clubs must develop a philosophy and structure that safeguards children from exhaustion or injury through over-playing. The 9th commandment is how Mourinho allows his players to recover during matches. What's important for clubs lower down is to ensure training sessions are appropriately planned, ensuring safety at all times. It's also important there's enough time for recovery between training and match days.
10: One method fits all. From the first team to the youth team...
'The basic methodological concepts must be instilled in both the elite and the base. At Porto I regularly met with the youth and reserve team directors to explain exactly how all the different teams should play. That way no player gets lost when making the step up. Everything is already trained into his mind'. - Jose Mourinho
Personally, I believe this commandment is the most important for any grassroots club. As I mentioned earlier, many clubs have little direction and each team or coach is left to do what he or she wants. This lack of direction stops players from developing and improving. Therefore it's vital that clubs from the very youngest team to the oldest have a style and philosophy that everyone believes in. This ensures that when a team moves up an age group, they still play and train in the same way. Everyone should understand and believe in the philosophy so players can continue to develop at every age group.
Thanks for reading, I hope this has been useful. Thanks for reading
JOSE MOURINHO REAL MADRID CHELSEA 10 TIPS
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Calling a great Rangers servant a cunt, whatever next ?
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OK could you not have kept ALL of you questioning of Ally's ability to one of the many threads already in place ? including the ones you started ? and inculding this one?
Dear me not like you to deflect when your statements are found to be no more than trolling, let me ask you again which negative Ally threads have I started, show one post where I have called for his head, I take it you will be gone a long time for ever hopefully, lying will never win you anything you always get found out as you well know.
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Derek Johnstone: Rangers players are Third raters
By DEREK JOHNSTONE
I think there is no doubt that Ally McCoist will be given time to develop Rangers because of the way he conducted himself during the many dark days of the last eight months.
Derek Johnstone says Ally McCoist must get more out of his players
But he is a manager and he is well aware that the current run of results is not good enough.
I don't think he is getting to the stage where he is under pressure, but he knows those days will come unless he starts getting much, much more out of his players.
As an outsider, it seems to me that the players are too pampered, too used to the cosy SPL trappings.
One of the best things Ally could do for them is to take away all the luxuries; the fancy hotels before games, the comfy coach and get right back to basics. It is what the other clubs in the Irn-Bru Third Division have to do.
And it might just hammer home the message that these players are Third Division players because that is where the problem seems to lie – in their attitude.
There is simply no excuse to going out of the Ramsdens Cup to Queen of the South, penalties or not.
If you take a look at the players Rangers have at their disposal, they should be good enough to win it off the park.
We've put up with the poor away form, citing tight pitches and players getting stuck right in, but at Ibrox with all the space and the crowd right behind them, there was no obvious reason for Rangers to struggle.
It all comes down to hunger, to a determination to prove yourself and that is what the Queen of the South players had.
Rangers don't seem to have that at the minute and, if it keeps up, it won't be long before the grumbles start to grow a little louder.
Quite rightly, managers get all the praise going when their team is doing the business on the park, but that quickly sours when results are simply not there.
Managers go into the job with their eyes open. They know that this is a results-driven business and the talk, ultimately, is always done on the park.
Which is why Ally needs to get into Murray Park and start giving a few hefty kicks up the backsides to players who are too used to cushy, SPL lives.
They are in amongst it now in the Third Division and they have used up all their lives now.
It's time to start getting the results at all costs and start showing the fight and desire that is necessary to get out of this division.
The attitude to games has to be right and, given the amount of lessons that must have been learned from these first 10 games, it's high time that the players realised that.
It won't take long before the Ibrox crowd starts to get on their backs if they don't start lifting their game.
Guys like Ian Black, Francisco Sandaza, Kevin Kyle and Dean Shiels have all been over the course before.
They are experienced professionals, but they are not delivering just now. There needs to be a steep improvement and it needs to start on Sunday against Montrose.
Rangers are a Third Division club. It's imperative they drop their airs and graces and be prepared to get their hands dirty.
It is a long fight ahead to get back to the SPL and there is no-one who will give them an easy passage back to the top.
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He needs defending because there are idiots who start wave after wave of negative McCoist threads all the time - in fact how many have you started over the last two days.
If people are going to have a pop at our manager - it is valid to defend him in that those of us who believe in him can have a pop back at the detractors on his behalf!
I haven't started any negative Alistair threads unless you know better, unless of course asking perfectly valid questions is seen by you as negative, some people would call that censorship of the worst kind.
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It remains a draft, and no agreement has been reached between Sevco and the authorities.
But it appears Green’s firm were willing to accept some if not all of the draft – at least when the prospect of Division One football was on the table.
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The debt we owe him for the last 7 months is immeasurable, he literally held the club together in it's absolute darkest days, he worked for nothing, he took the strain on our behalf, and his contribution will be spoken of 100 years from now. The least we owe him is a bit of patience to turn this around.
I really don't know why people want to ignore the very real and very real problems we face and, indeed, are still facing and just focus on Ally. It's completely unfair on the man.
'Why does Ally need defending' What a breathtakingly stupid question. Why does it even need explained?
Why does Alistair need defending, I see a breathtakingly stupid poster decide to explain that it does not need explained, but then decides it is completely unfair to focus on Alistair, perhaps this extremely leg-end in his own lunchtime poster should have read the rider attached to the OP title.
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its been removed?
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Because people are attacking him.
That was easy.
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The question is, why when 75% of the threads on this place are promoting 'changes' in one way or another, and criticising the manager, do those who join in the criticism feel like they are the victims?
No, the question is why does Alastair need defending.
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Anyone who has seen the team play must have concerns as to the type of football on offer. Some say I don't care how we play as long as we win.................Whereas others(myself included) want to see us win and win with a good quality of football, not to much to ask for!
Ally need defending .........................I think most of the defending comes in the shape of............look what he has done over the last 7 months, fair comment ......no one denies that he has stood up to the mark, but it's as his position as a football manager that is being questioned. And we have every right to question his team formation and what seems to be a lack of ability to make changes to the pattern of play to combat the opponents.
So................the fans who take the defending stance with Ally must do this based on his outstanding position as being a Rangers man , as surely they can see that there is a major question mark over his ability as coach/manager.
Whereas the guys who attack Ally are attacking him purely on his football beliefs and not his worth to the club as a Rangers man.
So think there is confusion on both sides as to why people question Ally.
Common sense and a simple answer to a simple question, it will never catch on the derailers will make sure of that.
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Ah, ray, you've sort of failed at this since we moved on from FTTT's and what-not's. You're still fumbling around to be negative about something, and granted, there are somethings that are there, but you seem to pounce on them, and drag as much out of them as possible.
If you don't believe Ally deserves more time after everything he's been through, then you can't be helped.
Dear me, what exactly has that to do with the OP, apart from nothing whatsoever another airhead gum bumper, where do you all appear from ?
Stuart McCall
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