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2 points lost due to the red card that they now say should never be given. Theres also the question of goal difference. Aberdeen have got of really lightly, but the real winners are celtic. 2 points clear already through the “ineptitude” of the Officials. We have effectively been handicapped on the very first day of the season. This could hurt us big time at the end of the season. Furious.

Gerrard has inherited a total mess from a succession of Management Failures, McCoist, Warburton, Paedro C and Murty (I will omit McCall from the list). You do not undo such a mess in one short Lut of season summer. The reality is that this could have been another embarrassment, both for the Club (we have rather been getting used to these sort of failures lately) and possibly even more so for Gerrards reputation (which is so far unblemished). So well done Gerrard for negotiating this first hurdle. In the interview Gerrard comes across as professional, honest but seriously pissed off with the performance, and I am sure that will be transmitted to the dressing room. However he is an intelligent man and knows that ripping into the Squad in public is not clever in the long term. He needs the players onside with him, he needs them motivated and at the end of the day, he needs to maintain there market value as much as possible so should he get rid of them he can get as high a va.ue as possible unlike some of his predecessors who managed to completely destroy the market values of the players they got rid off to the detriment of the Clubs finances. His earlier comments ref Josh Windlass are to me a case in point. Clearly Gerrard and his team have a long way to go, and he needs time and we need to be patient and realistic (some hope). Ibrox is not going to be rebuilt in a day, and the better the foundations the better the future longevity. So he’s building from the back- finally, we have been screaming for this for years. The significant performance within these two games was the fact we kept a clean sheet. But yes we do need a proven striker.

The only losers out of this deal is the poor bloody Australians.

This really does not upset me. What we need to focus on is getting our game together. I have never liked BF as a person,but as a player he gave his all. Would love to see a Rangers team today with a few players of his quality and with his passion. Time to get our own House in order.

Jimmy Nicholl was the one Manager we had this year who behaved in every instance exact,y as a Rangers Manager should. Clearly in normal circumstances he would never have had the opportunity to Manage Rangers at this point in his career, but he did the job to the best of his ability and in my mind ensured we at least took 3rd place in the League. By the time he actually took on the role, securing 2nd was effectively out of his control. It’s been one of the worst seasons that I have endured at the Club, but Jimmy stopped it becoming worse. Thanks Mr Nicholl.

We all have our opinions. IMO Paul Murray successfully undermined the previous Board and replaced one individual with a dubious reputation but incredible wealth with another individual with a dubious reputation and not enough wealth. King has invested no money into Rangers directly since taking over, but instead has the Club by the balls with the supposedly soft loans. Unless King pulls off a master stroke and actually has real investment into the Club organised rather than plans to add even more debt to fund the new Manager and their Football budget requirements, then I fear the Club is, under his stewardship, heading in a far worse direction. I just hope Murray is leaving because King has real investment lined up and is not a rat leaving a sinking ship.

The key question is what does King mean by investment. Any cash other than Ticket and other fan income during his tenure have been in the form of loans. To date, since he took over there has been no new investment.

This is an absolute disaster and one that has been in the making ever since Dave King took over. Yes the players are wrong, yes the manager has obviously lost the respect (if he ever truly had it) of the players and as such has no future. But this he is the third manager in succession (and all employed during Dave King’s tenure) to be proven to be unable to manage individual egos within the Rangers Squad. The people who should be first in the firing line should be the Directors. It is just one continual humiliation and fuck up after an other these days.

Andy Halliday gets a big pay cheque to wear the Rangers shirt. He was picked to play and failed to deliver. He was then replaced. What is the problem. You could argue that Murty had given him a massive opportunity and that it was Halliday that threw Murty “under a bus” by his failure on the pitch, Halliday’s subsequent behaviour was an absolute disgrace in which he further dishonoured the Shirt that he has been given the privilege to wear.

King is a disease that is slowly killing our Club. The only cash that is truly going into our Club comes from the supporters. Loans for shares is all about control and has nothing to do with proper and planned investment. I am in despair as to how this will pan out.

Murty is finished. But he is the just one part of the mess that King has created. King has got every significant decision with regards Rangers wrong since he took control. Murty has to go. But with King still running the Club we can expect more disasters to follow.

Who ever comes in is going to need to be given cash to spend. So more loans I.e, more debt unless there is a change in Club ownership. Some how I think changing Manager is not the most significant position that requires new blood.

King and this board appear to have no ideas as to how to get the Club back on a financially secure fitting. They have through bizarre managerial appointments managed to throw significant sums of Club money down the drain. The 2 things that are keeping the Club afloat are 1) Season ticket cash and 2) Soft loans. Unless some entity with enough cash to clear the Clubs debts arrived on the scene- if either the season ticket cash or the soft loans dry up, then we as a Club are in a potentially disastrous position. Therefore we as a support are in a no win position, we either risk killing the Club by withholding season ticket money or we risk watching a slow painful decline as described by BA. However I fear that withholding season ticket money could prove to deliver a certainty and is hardly going to encourage any serious business people to look at investing/ buying into Rangers as a positive deal.

King prior to taking on the role of chairman of Rangers had through his past actions and indeed at critical times, inactivity,demonstrated, that he was not fit for the role. Since becoming Chairman he has proved his unfitness beyond all reasonable doubt.

I am really pleased with what Murty has achieved given the state of things when he took over. I really cannot see any serious alternative to Murty unless there is a massive injection of cash funds into the Club- as things stand I don’t see that happening but hope I am proved wrong. The big question ref Murty is whether or not he can learn from mistakes and evolve on the job into a true Manager rather than a convenient/ handy/ cheap gap filler.