Trooblue
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A defeat in this game would have guaranteed the sack for every manager in our history. McCoist would survive due to the off-field chaos.
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And we better get a fucking public apology tomorrow, an absolute fucking disgrace
Ally thinks this performance is 'OK' so he'll not be apologising, just taking his fat salary, joking with the lads, presiding over a backward 'coaching' set up, and looking to spend more money on substandard players.
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At game today - sitting a few rows from me. Just smiled when people asked him if he is about to sign ...
Can't see what he would add at this stage of his career, apart from a big hit on the wages bill.
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The Councillors who voted through these deals should be referred to the Commissioner for Ethical Standards in Scottish Public Services for investigation. If they failed to declare their interests, as Celtic season ticket holders and/or share-holders, they would be open to sanctions.
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Because wee Barry won his battle against modern coaching methods and fitness systems (see his tabloid boasting today) and the club was stuck with 'traditionalists' and 'Rangers men' who knew (and know) nothing about proper modern coaching.
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Because McCoist and the 'coaching staff' are not up to the job.
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Ferguson thwarted the modernisation of the club and contributed to the obsession with 'Rangers men' who know next to nothing about tactics, modern training systems and real 'standards'. Stick to the Monster Munch son and keep your nose out of our club.
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A) why are we hearing this via a source outside the club?
B) if it's true, some credit to Ally, but why has he spoken about it to this source?
C) Even if it's true it would be better to hear of job cuts cut rather than a salary cut, as we need to get rid of the whole managerial and coaching team. They are not up to the job either on the pitch (see the standards of our performances) or off the pitch (see the lax discipline that allows standards of behaviour amongst the playing squad that past Rangers managers would not have tolerated).
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I got one too. My complaint was about Spence and the reply mentioned him by name. We'll see what happens next.
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Partly, this looks like McCoist once again being the players' pal. It's about time we had a manager who is less concerned with laughing and joking with the lads and more interested in getting them to behave professionally in relation to training and their public roles for the club.
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If McCoist is trying to defend the club in public, he needs to be a lot smarter than this. It could well be the case that this is yet another example of the SFA vendetta against us, but we still can't ignore the fact that it is a serious issue. If gambling is widespread in the game (and that seems to be the case), it is right to argue that there needs to be a general inquiry into the matter, and not just the selective targeting of a guy who wears a blue shirt. However, it is simply foolish to produce a 'dossier' compiled out of hearsay produced by 'our lads' - that will never stand up to any kind of scrutiny. It is also foolish to publicly admit your ignorance of some of the basic rules governing the sport you operate in.
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McCoist's statement to the press on this is an embarrassment to the club. He claims to have a list of gamblers across Scottish football produced by 'our lads', and goes on to say that, despite being a professional manager of a football club, has no idea about the rules regarding players' gambling. Out of his depth and shooting from the mouth yet again.
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Under no circumstances should it be Shiels. No track record, huge ego, unstable.
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McColl's interview looks like total bluster to me. He provides not a scrap of evidence to support his sweeping generalisations. There's also a rather distasteful whiff of nationalist xenophobia - ' a group of opportunists from another country' indeed! These 'opportunists' stepped up with the money when the wonderful Scottish businessmen and entrepreneurs (ie the types who had run the club into the ground over the years) were nowhere to be seen.
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Yet another member of the old guard who mismanaged the club in the past re-emerging to have a pop at those who are trying to clear up the mess they made.
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Ally needs to be reminded that he is an employee of the Club (a seriously overpaid employee at that). He lost the plot on this and clearly used Green as an excuse for the bad result (along with the wind). Our CEO should remind Ally that his comments need to be restricted to football matters and that it is not his position to criticise major shareholders. He has previous for this from last season when he went off on a rant against the shareholder who owns an electrical company. The trouble is both the electrical chap and Green were correct.
Yesterday's tactics were all wrong, same as last season. At 70 minutes (set your watch for it) Ally and McDowall chatted over the clip board as usual. It was obvious long before that time that changes were needed. If I see the same pathetic ineffective free kick routine again, I think I'll throw up. What do we practice at Murray Park?
Green was correct to suggest we should expect a cup win (probably Ramsden) as well as the league. Ally should have agreed with him. One of our own players was quoted last week that we were good enough to challenge for 4 trophies. Ally appears to think that is not the case.
I expect Ally to be given until the New Year as long as we are leading the league and still in remaining cups. Judgement on improving football should then be taken into consideration.
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McCoist has been saved so far due to his legend status as a player, his loyalty last year, and the fact that his mentor, Walter, is there to protect him. However, yesterday's result, on the back of last season's appalling team performances, and a long series of cup disasters, plus the press conference meltdown, should mean that his time is up. He's not up to the job, and should be removed immediately. I can think of no other Rangers manager who would have been allowed to continue with this record, and with behaviour which is clearly bringing the club into further disrepute. I suspect he'll be saved again, though, due to the off the field civil war that seems to have erupted. It's going to be another long season.
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A lot of good sense here, but I'm afraid that the events of the past couple of weeks mean that we are stuck with the old guard and their cronies for a while yet. A great chance to modernise the club's financial management and coaching culture has been thrown away.
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We can't afford to allow this guy to spend more money. In the two seasons before we move back to the top league, we need a new coaching culture at the club to have bedded down. That needs to start now. A new Chief Executive should gut the back room and management set-up, and get started on a whole raft of key appointments, beginning with the manager's post, and working down the system. Money will be needed for that. Once the leadership and coaching is sorted, we can think about investment in the right type of players.
That's what should happen.
What will happen is that McCoist, Durrant and the rest of the good old boys will be given 'another season', will waste more money, will continue the laugh a minute approach to coaching and tactics that produced the spectacle of our unfit and tactically backward team being humiliated by Peterhead, and this time next year we will still have failed to address the fundamental problems. By which time we'll have lost the opportunity to get real change in place in enough time to make a difference before going back to the top league (assuming we can even get there by then).
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I would rather have FA membership than SFA membership, thanks very much!
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We had enough of the wonderful 'Scottish entrepreneurs' running the club - no more thanks! This bear is very happy with the honest Yorkshireman.
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The reaction to the LNS judgement should leave us no illusions about the capacity of Scottish football to 'move on' and leave Rangers alone. It's not going to happen. The 'journalists' and 'commentators' need to keep the story going because it easily fills space and time that they would otherwise have to work hard to fill. The other clubs, and the SPL/SFA, who were of course so keen to get Rangers to 'move on' when they thought the title-stripping exercise was a foregone conclusion will now try to keep the issue alive, one way or another (give them a few days to catch breath, and we'll see what their next move is going to be, but let's not kid ourselves that they are going to drop their anti-Rangers pro-title-stripping campaigns).
'Moving on' for Rangers should involve pursuing the long-term goal of getting out of the corrupt swamp that is Scottish football, and, meantime, continuing to be much more proactive in managing the news agenda (some signs that this has improved since Traynor arrived), and working for the removal of Doncaster and Regan. Additionally, are we (fans not club) allowed to ask why the trend for investigation of past scandals (Saville etc) does not apply to the scandal which was covered up by a 'sporting institution' in the east end of Glasgow? The same 'sporting institution' that does not and will not accept the judgement of LNS and will continue it's campaign to destroy Rangers.
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Another three points in the bag. How soon can we win this league now?
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Surely it would be the worst defeat, not just one of the worst. The manager and his 'coaching staff' would survive it though - saved by the current circumstances surrounding the club. Sad but true.