Those that hired him, should've followed him straight out the door.
Some of the worst ever results, set us back years, money wasted, still impacting us today.
Head shaking, embarrassing stuff!
I mean, when it was PLG, I was excited, his pedigree, I could see why we went for him. I was even quite surprised when we got him, happily so.
But Pedro, WTF!!!
Total incompetence, and i'm not just talking about him here ….
Difference is Ipswich are selling to a direct rival on the back of him having a great season last season. We were essentially offloading him as our then manager didn't fancy him and he was out of form and low in confidence.
At 14 years old I lost a watch at a home game, it was advertised in the lost and found section of the Rangers news, I phoned the number and was told to come to ibrox to pick it up.
I dodged school and headed up to ibrox, on arriving at the main doors, I am pretty sure there was a small window (ticket window). I told them why I was here.
i was promptly brought inside, and sent up the marble staircase and told to go in a room at the top, on entering the room I was stunned to see big Jock with my watch and Davy Cooper (my two hero’s), big jock said “is this your watch” and handed it to me.
After getting there autographs I left and floated along Edmiston drive, only to see the reserves coming back from training at the Albion. A few autographs later I headed home. Couldnt believe what had happened.
to Top it off the next game was at love street, I was in the corner near the main stand, and coop comes up to take the corner. I yell out Davy (as if he is my mate), he looks up and gives me a nod.
They were the days when the players attended supporters club POTY on a Saturday, we as junior members were allowed to go at beginning of night and get autographs.
yes things have changed...
Its 22 years to the day since Jock Wallace sadly passed away and Iv just came across this article from a few years back in the guardian.
It is an immutable law of pub talk that if you introduce the topic of Brian Clough, you will hear at least one of the following cliches within 60 seconds: He was the best manager England never had, he was the best manager of all time, and he could not have thrived in the modern game. . What you are less likely to hear is an exploration of the uncomfortable paradox, that Clough was exceptional then but would be unsuitable now, and to what extent that reflects poorly on modern football.
Fans regularly lament the extinction of the hard man, yet just as striking is the disappearance of the hard manager. If Clough's instinctive idiosyncrasy was his major strength, then his regular demonstrations of the toughest love were also integral to his unparalleled success. He would regularly get his players to run through nettles, and once slugged Roy Keane to the floor as punishment for playing a backpass.
Clough's mentor was Harry Storer, a man who proudly boasted: "I have a team of bastards, and I am the biggest bastard of them all." This was an era when masculinity was an extreme sport, when household items like tea cups, plates and hairdryers found an alternative use or an alternative meaning. It was not just a British trait. The legendary Internazionale coach Helenio Herrera once ordered two players to walk six miles back to the team base because they were 20 seconds late for the coach.
Nobody encapsulated that school of management better than the late Jock Wallace, one of Rangers' greatest managers. Wallace was a chillingly hard man with a granite face, an even stronger will, and a voice that rarely softened from its default growl. His army background shaped so much of his management. Wallace was stationed in Northern Ireland and the Malay peninsula in the 1950s, engaged in jungle warfare and surviving by eating what he called "monkey steaks".
Wallace's militarism was such that his dressing room might have been a scene from the film Full Metal Jacket. Gary Lineker recalls a reserve game at Leicester when, at half time, Wallace threw him against a wall. Leicester were 2-0 up. Lineker had scored them both.
His most famous act at Leicester was to introduce a gloriously sadistic form of pre-season training. During his time at Rangers, while having a picnic with his wife, Wallace stumbled across the sand dunes of Gullane, jauntily entitled "Murder Hill". He made his players run up and down the hill until they could run no more – and then he made them do it again.
When he got to Leicester, Wallace scouted a similar incline. There is a wonderful clip of the Leicester players panting their way through a session with Wallace barking "Hands off that bloody sand!" every two seconds. Pre-season training should have been called Wallace and Vomit: players were frequently sick as their bodies surrendered.
Some will comfortably dismiss Wallace as an antiquated barbarian, yet it is difficult to reconcile that with the fact most of his players adored him. Ted McMinn, who Wallace took to Sevilla when he managed them in the 1980s, described him as "everything to me, a dad really". Wallace could inspire most players to run to the ends of the earth – or, worse still, up Murder Hill. "I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Jock Wallace," said Manolo Jiménez, who played under Wallace at Sevilla and later managed them. "He was a great, great manager who instilled in me my belief and fighting spirit."
He also instilled a winning mentality. At Rangers, Wallace ended celtic's run of nine consecutive titles, and then won two trebles in three seasons. In a TV interview before the 1984 League Cup final against celtic, Wallace announced: "I fancy us very strongly. We've got the battle fever on today." They won 3-2 and the phrase stuck, a mantra for Rangers fans.
Wallace's focus on fitness made him something of a visionary, even if his methodology was emphatically of its time. He was the Arsène Wenger of his day, only armed with sand rather than pasta.
John Greig, perhaps Rangers' greatest ever player, says Wallace's regime was the reason he was able to play until he was 35. Others felt the value of the training was as much psychological as physical. Wallace may have made some of his players vomit, but then there could be no battle fever without sickness.
He also knew that hardship begot hardness. Wallace was obsessed with character-building, having built a deceptively complex character of his own. In many respects, Wallace was a gentle beast. On the day Rangers won their first title for 11 years, he sent on a palpably unfit Greig for the last two minutes so that he could drink in the moment and collect the trophy. Wallace also forged a friendship with Johan Cruyff and nearly persuaded him to join Leicester in 1981.
"They don't come with giant character and personality like 'Big Man' Jock Wallace any more," wrote Sir Alex Ferguson – and that was in 1994, before the game really started to change. Wallace would have no chance with the whirligig of snidery that is modern football, particularly with player power rampant. But he is a perfect reminder of an age when football well and truly had the battle fever on.
This squad has had more than £20m spent on it in the last 3 seasons. The lack of return we have had from that outlay, for a variety of reasons is a disgrace.
We can only afford players that will be on the fringes of their current teams or trying to break through.
Better get used to it because it’s not changing anytime soon.
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