ZX750 31 Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 Nice guy, shite gaffer.2-2 away to Livingston with Marvin Andrews upfront on a freezing cold wednesday night.Thank fuck walter can defend. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tumshie 205 Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 Nice guy, shite gaffer.2-2 away to Livingston with Marvin Andrews upfront on a freezing cold wednesday night.Thank fuck walter can defend.When did that happen? No recollection of that whatsoever Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
50ShadesofBlue 667 Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 I know his daugther pretty well so it's fairly easy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruixranger 72 Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 I remember him as the guy who was a friend of neil simpson and who broke terry butchers leg.thus stopping us from winning twelve in a row .... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmrfc1873 48 Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 I remember him as the guy who was a friend of neil simpson and who broke terry butchers leg.thus stopping us from winning twelve in a row ....so you don't like eck because he had no control over what his friend done ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmrfc1873 48 Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 Nice guy, shite gaffer.2-2 away to Livingston with Marvin Andrews upfront on a freezing cold wednesday night.Thank fuck walter can defend.he was a brilliant gaffer who won 7 trophy's in 5 years with little to no money. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan_1 1,136 Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 I remember him as a manager who brought great sucess to our club, during a very tricky spell. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueSuedeSambas 54,867 Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 His last season was a farce Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
barcelonabear 23 Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 During a time when we were attempting to stop haemorrhaging money he done very well. Due to our financial difficulties at the time 70% of his signings were loans or free transfers and only 5 times was he able to spend over a million pounds on a player.He was only able to bring in the likes of Ostenstad; Emerson; Capucho; Vanoli; Alex Rae, guys who had experience of playing in big leagues and who you'd have hoped would have been able to do a job (clearly they didn't though). McLeish was working with his hands tied behind his back when it came to trying to bring players in due to the finances, and so is it any wonder we went through bad patches under him when these players were meant to replace Reyna; Kanchelskis; Numan; Caniggia; Amoruso; McCann; Arteta (still criminal how little we sold him for! shows how bad the money problems were); and the de Boers. Yet he still managed in 4 and a half seasons (the half season of course already being beyond us when he joined) to deliver 2 league titles that will live long in the memories, 2 Scottish Cups and 3 League Cups. With a treble in there for good measure. What McLeish done overall deserves to be lauded imo. He done a similar job to the one Walters doing now with less resources, so it's no surprise that some of the performances weren't as good as the stability of the ones under Smith. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryH 15 Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 Brought me some of the happiest days of my life, can't fault the big man done a class job with almost no money!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amac9 2,060 Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 The fact that he won so many trophies with the budget he had was amazing.He had plenty of ups and plenty of downs but I will always remember him for winning 2 cups in his first 6 months in charge, winning the treble, Helicopter Sunday and making us the first Scottish club to progress to the last 16 of the CL! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemc 306 Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 :marv: helicopter sunday says it all for me Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poetry_In_Blue 1,043 Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 For a manager who was also on a very tight budget and limited with his signings I remember him fondly for the trophies he brought us, and for making us the first Scottish Club to qualify from the group stages of the CL. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gogzy 31,195 Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 a great guy who got us winning with no budget.some of the bargins he picked up were awesomei think he done a decent job as gers boss tbh Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben10 2,294 Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 Didn't he win the same amount of trophys as O'Neill during his time in charge ..... including a treble?he sure did, O'neill was vastly overrated IMO, mostly because the time's he did win the league he won them by being miles infront, I remember Big eck as a successful manager who was always under pressure, the big man's a legend He's supposed to be a big rangers man, any truth in this ?? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz52 11,837 Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 Big Eck was a superb manager. I will always remember him for the good times he gave us Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmrfc1873 48 Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 Didn't he win the same amount of trophys as O'Neill during his time in charge ..... including a treble?he sure did, O'neill was vastly overrated IMO, mostly because the time's he did win the league he won them by being miles infront, I remember Big eck as a successful manager who was always under pressure, the big man's a legend He's supposed to be a big rangers man, any truth in this ??big rangers man yes Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SammyEnglish 48 Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 i liked big eck, felt a bit sorry for him but thought he done a good job for us. won us a treble, last 16 of the champions league n signed big dado Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbm26896 995 Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 he was the manager who gave us 2 SPL titles on the last day of the season - 2 days we will never forgetfor me he was a huge success at Rangersand is proving his worth in the EPL Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewisrfc93 470 Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 Nice guy, shite gaffer.2-2 away to Livingston with Marvin Andrews upfront on a freezing cold wednesday night.Thank fuck walter can defend.when did this take place? cant remember anything about this Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the goal machine 7,825 Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 Great servant for the club. Like all managers though, he made some mistakes.Signed some really effective players on a tight budget such as Prso, Novo, Boyd, Andrews, Hemdani, A. Rae, Boumsong. And he spent his money quite well also. Selling Boumsong and buying Buffel, Kyrgiakos, Ferguson and Waterraus was very good business in my opinion. He also gave us two great title wins and numerous cup wins. There was low points though. 2003/2004 and 2005/2006 were bad seasons for us and to replace quality players with cheap, low-quality foreigners is unforgivable. Players like Bernard, Ostenstad, Capucho, Mladenovic, Maniero and Jeffers were terrible and dampened Eck's reputation. From selling Numan, Arteta, Ferguson etc and replacing them with the names above was awful.Overall, I liked him as a manager but he stepped down at the right time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimfanciesthedude 25,084 Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 when did he loses seven games on the bounce to celtici remember the bad times under eck, but the good times more as the money situation was just as bad, if not worse than now Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WVB 2,560 Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 A good bear, and, a true gent, performed miracles under the conditions murray gave him, and, got far too much abuse from the fans that in the main wasnt deserved. I will always have utmost respect for the man I think he has unfinished business at Ibrox. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLUEDIGNITY 33,790 Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 Legend - Helicopter Sunday - Nuff said ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bashfulblueorange 21 Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 i met him after the Dundee utd game at Ibrox when we lost 1-0 ( Helicopter Season ) and he was saying all sorts of things ...one thing in particular was " BIG MARV ,,,KEEPS US BELIEVING " and so did we Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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