NeoGeo7

If only.....while we're at it Big Dado would be awesome too! Seriously though it's time to leave smith be, I think this would be too much for him anyway. I wouldn't mind Souness being around the training ground but not as interim manager due to his health. We need to replace McDowall but I want someone that will be the right long term assignment. I don't think that will happen before the season end so perhaps some choice appearances and words from the right folk might help. Could you imagine the look on the players faces if they turn up for training and saw Souness or Alex Ferguson there to help out??!! What is give for the fergie hairdryer treatment with our mob.

Hutton and Faure are the only two I'd keep. Both only offered another year. I'd like to see faure in central defence rather than right back and Hutton kept for a little bit of continuity and he appears to be one of very few who is actually trying to play for his future. I'd get rid of both keepers as jelly and mccrorie are capable in my opinion to be back up to bell, both are held in high regards. Up front I'd clear everything out and sign Gavin Reilly to go along with Clark, Gallagher and Walsh. I'd be selling law to anyone who would take him likewise shiels. I'd sell Wallace if a decent offer were made but we need to get someone in for this position. Make no mistake this summer will be one of the most important in our recent history.

it all depends on others results. We will be unable to win the title before then and it will be down to whether Hibs win all their games or not. Hibs are 20 behind and will have 7 games left after the hearts match. If we lose to hearts (assuming both Hibs and hearts win all their games leading to this point) the the gap is 23 with 7 left and hearts win the title at Ibrox. So it's simple to avoid is scenario we stop Hibs from winning against us provided hearts don't match that result. So it could happen unfortunately.

Totally agree and that's why I'm prepared to accept the worst just now to get something better and based on kings comments about getting a coach to work with and develop youngsters I think it will be an exciting appointment. For me personally someone like McCall would be a mistake in the long run, it's not bold enough. 3 years ago we took the easy option for every decision that had to be made, we tried to buy our way through the leagues and to win cups rather than take the more risky but ultimately more rewarding option to develop players. If we end up in is division next year playing pre-historic football then I can see us ending up in administration again. This is why people need to lay off the board and let them get someone in that is right for the future. If billy Davies came in and we end up getting promoted and he gets a 2 year deal we might do ok but the football is no good and we still don't develop young players, would we be happy then?

Lucky us, Alloa can only get to 45 points and livingston to 42 points while we are on 47.........pat on the back lads, great job(!)

I want to see these poor excuses of footballers gone as well however I can't see us cutting our options short whilst still paying their salary. It's been done with McCoist and that's bad enough. I doubt the players with a few months left would agree to it and even if they did I doubt there would be any significant savings from it. The harsh reality is we are most likely going to be stuck with the caretaker and the imposters until the season end. If we are still in the championship next year as long as we make the rig appointment and signings in the summer we should be in a much better position next year. If we can support mccoist and co in Div 3 we could surely support a Cathro (or alternative) in Championship.

There are two key things to consider here. What are the short term plans and what are the long term plans. IMO boards tend to think of the latter and fans the former. So I believe the board want the next appointment to be a permanent and long term manager that they see as being key to the future plans and successes for the club. If we had just finished the season I'm sure we'd all be ok with this approach but we are in desperate need of change if we harbour any hopes of promotion via play offs. I cant see Billy Davies or Stuart McCall turning down managing til the end of the season but I'm not sure that would help us achieve promotion. Perhaps if we were to invite Sir Alex along to a training session and Souness for a couple of sessions a week we might stir something in the players. However, to be brutally honest if you can't motivate yourself to play for rangers, to play at Ibrox, to see 35k fans turn up midweek to play QoS and failing that for personal pride the. You aren't fit to be a footballer never mind a Rangers player. I'd have given my left nut to play professionally and these guys treat it like a kick about with mates, it's sickening and its self inflicted i.e. Mccoist, McDowall and Durrant have been all pally wig the squad for the last 3 years and now we see the consequences. A bunch of unmotivated, unfit, overpaid, eat all you want slackers. The sooner the summer comes to purge the club of this dross the better.

Mccoist is to blame for the position we are in. While I think McDowall is totally incompetent as a a manager if McCoist were still here it would be just as bad. It was always going to happen. The only way forward is to pay them off for a reduced fee, I really can't see either giving up their pay day for the good of the club, and we get someone in on a short term basis to attempt to get promotion. They should just steady the ship, no new contracts and no pre-contract signings unless the long term manager is lined up and provides a list of players they'd like to sign.

Once again youngsters showing they want to make a name for themselves, while the "pros" are happy to just pick up their overinflated wage packets until their contract runs out. I said before we need to play the youth, they aren't going to be world beaters but I'm sure they'll have more about them than this pish. I'd play an experienced keeper, preferably bell who'd id keep for next season inevitably in the championship. Then I'd play the following (ignoring those out on loan) Sinnamon Faure Gasparotto Wallace Murdoch Hutton McKay Vuckic Templeton Walsh/Gallagher Not sure if Darren Ramsay is up to playing in central mid for first team, ideally it would have been Macleod and Telfer or Macleod and murdoch but Hutton and Murdoch is probably our best option at the moment. Make no doubt about it promotion with the current approach will not happen. If the board can accept another year in this division then they believe we can budget for it and survive financially. I want a new manager as much as anyone but I'd be prepared to wait til the summer to get Cathro as I doubt even mourinho could get this mob promoted.

Sorry but the way I read that interview it would suggest he sees Rangers as a good job for him, "being able to do something of significance at a club that leaves a structure and a system so that it continues to profit from beyond my period of time." This is exactly what we need , someone to lay down the foundations of a successful future. The piece about filling the stadium and exciting people, I think it's just a case of actually approaching him and he'd be willing to take the role.

It goes without saying that there would be a honeymoon period with a new manager, that might just be enough to get us over the line. I don't know enough about McCall's man management to know whether the players would buck up. What needs to happen is to knock the crap out of them mentally, break them down to the point where they feel so ashamed and are nearly in tears, to then rebuild their mentality in the correct way. The last 3 years have been like a school classroom where the teacher doesn't show up.....have a joke in training, eat what you like and as much as you like, stay at posh hotels the night before a game etc. etc. I think a poster mentioned the sand dunes......my thoughts exactly, this squad have been treated with kid gloves for far too long and someone has to lay into them. The alternative is dragging along as we our now watching the last faint hopes of promotion disappear and wait until we can get rid of everyone and start from scratch in the summer, giving Cathro his full pre-season that he stated he wanted. With a crystal ball we could see which decision is better in the long run and I know many think another season in the Championship would end us, maybe it will, or maybe it could be a blessing in disguise allowing the club to re-align correctly for long term success rather than short term gain. McCoist's signing policy from July 2012 showed a complete lack foreward thnking as he looked at the short term gain i.e. 3 promotions and to hell with it after that. I just don't want the same type of short sightedness coming back to haunt us in another 2-3 years.

If we had to finish second then I would say we don't stand a chance. Even if we finish 4th I think there is a slim possibility that we might get lucky in the play-offs but there will be no margin for error. Many have said if McDowall stays in charge we won't go up but I think even someone like McCall would struggle to turn this around. The players seem set in their ways so unless someone comes in and pulls the rug from under the team and starts to play younger players and more attacking and direct players e.g. templeton, then I can see us struggling to get the kind of performances required to get through the play-off schedule. What I do think will be happening now is some number crunching (after looking at our books of course to see where the money has gone/is going) to determine a budget for Premiership and also for Championship....hence the rallying call for fans to return to the matches.

A fair point to make, however I think the size of the rebuild and no doubt lack of money available to bring in players is just as equal a turn off if not greater for some of these "very good calibre" managers. I think for this very reason its going to have to be an up and coming manager who wants to make a name for themselves or someone that can see further ahead than the next season i.e. the bigger picture of European nights at Ibrox. Some managers would perhaps prefer a blank canvas and the freedom to redefine a club from the way they train to the style of play as well as establishing a solid youth development programme and scouting network. I doubt however you'd ever have seen Dick Advocaat walk into the managers position had we been in the position we find ourselves now. It's not an easy call and I agree with King saying they have to take their time for the appointment of the long term manager. It depends on how badly the current board want to get up this season. If they think that we can survive next year in the championship then I reckon they'll stick with McDowall until the end of the season. If they want up then I think the short term solution is Stuart McCall on a 3 month deal. If he exceeds all expectations then maybe give him another year, but personally I think a change of mentality is required at the club now that we can only do if we clear out about 75% of the personnel we have on and off the field (off the field needs to be 100% removal in my mind). This will take time, so it all comes down to wanting to get out of this division at the first time of asking......my money is on Cathro and Wotte/Magath in the summer with McDowall in charge til then.

Have you forgotten the small matter of the transfer window? I'd get shot of them right now as well if we could replace them but we can't.

We will now see mccoist speak out about a lot of what went on. I think they'll sit with him and agree a deal for him to leave permanently, ideally without taking any more money since it's no longer a case of withholding money from an incompetent board. We'll see if he does the right thing but as for being manager again forget it. Reading more into kings words I think given where we are and how the season has gone McDowall will be here to the end of the season, the tidal change of today and supporters returning is being seen as a potential to galvanise the team to perhaps pull it off. The way I see this going is that McDowall will be here til the end of the season, at which point Cathro and Magath or Wotte (would prefer Wotte) as the coach and DoF team. That gives Cathro his full pre-season and nearly a blank canvas to work with. If this is the case I'm excited for the changes we will see next year.

Got to love the hypocriscy on here, didn't many say we'd have accepted scraping division 3 with youth? Isn't that living within your means and lowering expectations? We got into this mess because some refused to do just that. Let's sign established players that we can't afford so that we can win the Scottish cup. Let's go to our away game the night before and stay at a posh hotel because we're Rangers. Lowering expectations is exactly what we needed to do 3 years ago so that we'd have been in better shape now. We need a reality check. We have a pish team, most of that pish team are out of contract in 3 months time, we have a caretaker who doesn't want to be here, we have boardroom unrest, fans boycotting games etc. etc. to rectify this in anything less than 3-5 years would be a miracle. Even with £100m pumped into the club we'd still be living beyond our means and it would catch up with us......did we learn nothing from Murrays reign? I'd say at least King is squaring up to the task at hand rather than deluding ourselves in dreams of winning the premiership next year.

on the topic of McCall I'd be ok with him getting a short term deal to try and get us up. If he fails he gets no automatic extension, if he succeeds then he does. I think he's decent but I think we could be more adventurous e.g. Wotte as DoF and Cathro as first coach. As for Law he's suffered the same fate as others, he couldnt care less when we drop points because that's the Rangers way to him and everyone else and where do you think they got that idea from? It all stems from the management. Dropping points is not what we do and if we do then we have sweat blood and tears in the process. How many times have we heard someone say we weren't good enough, we need to go on a run of wins etc. etc. law and mcculloch are the most frequent offenders. As far as his ability is concerned I think he's got something but his attitude lets him down big time and it's for that reason that he should be moved on. A new manager might get more out of him but why should you need someone else to get you to play for the jersey? You shouldn't and I'm sure we can find plenty of players that would. Giving your all can sometimes make up for having less ability than others for example nacho novo. Not the greatest striker to have played for us when you compare to the likes of Mols and Prso but what he gave you in work rate, determination and fight was what made him at Ibrox. This is why I stick up for Hutton, he gets a bum deal on the forums but in recent weeks he has stepped up, he wants the ball, drives forward and fights. In that same time what has law done? As a poster said earlier I'd rather have mediocrity with the right attitude than someone with more ability who couldn't give a toss.

I think we have to be clever about this. Get someone in now that can spark an instant reaction. Instill confidence, motivate players and is tactically sound i.e. a proven manager. Give them til the end of the season and if we get up allow for an extension. If we fail the we go to the drawing boards with DoF and a solid coach e.g. Wotte and Cathro. The short term goals will be to get the best out of this lot which I think is fairly straightforward. Increase training session intensity and quantity, those who want to play will show it in training. Play those players in their favoured position and increase our tempo during games. Personally I feel that when you eat better and train harder your state of mind is better than when you slack off, joke around and eat what you like. These players are professional by trade but not by their actions and any new manager needs to see to that. Also introducing youth to that type of set up will be damaging as they'll do what everyone else does to blend in, they'll pick up all the bad habits of the current mob. So we trudge on to the end of the season with the hope of salvaging promotion but at the very least some pride. We punt out the deadwood in the summer and start again getting players who have the right attitude and talent. Its not easy to do at any point in time but in the last third of the season in the championship is even more difficult than day 1 in division 3..........thanks ally.

They need valid grounds to refuse it I believe. The worry initially was that if angry fans turn up that it would give them an excuse to halt the proceedings, hence the call to vote by proxy. The one thing that makes me feel otherwise is Easdale walking away, he's going before it all comes caving in around them.

I'll state my case now that he will score a bagful from now provided the team stays as it is just now. Miller should have now played his last game for the club, give Clark a go with Boyd and you'll see both flourish. I don't think you can overestimate the importance of continuous game time for players and obviously for strikers breaking their barren spells with a goal however it comes. Same goes for Clark, had he scraped one in on Friday he'd probably have taken his chances. For the first time in a long while I am actually satisfied with the actions of the majority of the players and Boyd's brutal honesty really hits home with me and I wish other players would do the same. My respect for Boyd has certainly increased. On another note can we get Seb Faure to share his weight loss secrets with Boyd?

Would be interesting to see how they play following Tom Walsh's comments on their playing style change.

Can't say I believe duties calling the shots. Perhaps he has influenced the team selections (though remember many have been forced upon us) and perhaps he has influenced our playing style. The big difference for me is the attitude of the players now. They do seem to have found some spirit and determination from somewhere and it's definitely the driving force now. If we line up against Falkirk with the same team that played Raith minus mcculloch then I'd be happy.

I've been impressed by faures attitude, he's barely played and when played its out of position. Some players would let themselves go but faure has actually improved his physique and I believe he offers more than foster at RB. However, I don't feel I can truly judge a player until they get a good run in the team in their favoured position. The comments he is a better option than Sinnamon is a bit presumptuous as Sinnamon has never played for the first team unless I'm mistaken. Maybe he is better however he's not a RB but the trouble is he wont play at CB unless someone else plays RB....Foster? No thanks. mcGregor out of position? Pretty much the same deal as faure. Sinnamon? Will never get a shot I mean who's heard of a youth player being any good for us(!)

Strikers live on chances and confidence, he had chances tonight and the confidence only comes with a run in the team. For his first start in god knows how many games I was really impressed with this link up play with Boyd. I was also impressed with his work rate and determination, you can see he wants to play for the team......he needs to get a run and dare I say it with Boyd and I think the goals will come good for both of them.

If you're going to take two touches then at least have the kicker running first.....or here's an idea, why not do something that isn't predictable, dummy the usual free kick then pass around the wall. Anyway, was the softest back pass decision I've ever seen, the guy miscontrolled the ball with his toe. Would rather have had the penalty at 0-1, would probably have gone on to win from there.