Jacko Gives Rangers A Kick Up The Jacksie

[billmcmurdo 462]

http://billmcmurdo.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/jacko-gives-rangers-a-kick-up-the-jacksie/

[Chef 436]

No berating ally, no using blogs for swaying fans opinion. I like your blogs but I don't like reading blogs that look like they try to sway public opinion on ally.

[scarkev 3,540]

No berating ally, no using blogs for swaying fans opinion. I like your blogs but I don't like reading blogs that look like they try to sway public opinion on ally.

I haven't read a single blog that tries to undermine or sway opinion on ally...mostly it is genuine concerns from fellow bears.. We as a support are to defensive and do have a chip on our shoulder (rightly regarding attacks at our club) but we have to differentiate between the club and the team...and it's the team that needs the most work...I love ally and have not once called for him to go but there are to many who blindly believe ally can do no wrong and will use every excuse under the sun to defend our performances...until we all learn to accept constructive critisim of our team and the direction they are going it will be very difficult to affect change.

[Chef 436]

I haven't read a single blog that tries to undermine or sway opinion on ally...mostly it is genuine concerns from fellow bears.. We as a support are to defensive and do have a chip on our shoulder (rightly regarding attacks at our club) but we have to differentiate between the club and the team...and it's the team that needs the most work...I love ally and have not once called for him to go but there are to many who blindly believe ally can do no wrong and will use every excuse under the sun to defend our performances...until we all learn to accept constructive critisim of our team and the direction they are going it will be very difficult to affect change.

iv seen no one say ally can do no wrong iv seen it mentioned constantly by others as it's the norm now when someone backs our manager, who thinks ally can do no wrong?

[crabbit bear 139]

Well there's nothing like reading a good old Rangers bloggers blog to cheer you up after a shit weekend ehh!!!. Ffs are you fckn joking, wtf now your telling us to buy the daily rhebel, have you lost the fckn plot.

[Spacecowboy 92]

Dean Sturridge

Daniel Sturridge.

who proof read these?

[KingKirk 25,643]

Sadly that's how far we have fallen still down over the weekend. just glad I still have a team to support.

[BearAbroad 42]

Here is the Keith Jackson article in the Rhebel... as for the football side, there is not much I disagree with in there

SOMEWHERE amidst all the fog and fury of the last 12 months, Rangers Football Club has lost its sense of direction.

A once proud giant of Scottish football stumbles around from pitch to pitch, forgetting where it came from and with no idea of how to get back there.

Today’s Rangers is in a state of deep confusion. The brutal events of the last year have left it so ravaged and traumatised that it can now barely be recognised. It is exhausted. It has become a ghost of a club.

The initial rush of pain and anguish which set in on administration day, last February 14, was quickly followed by a head-spinning mix of anger and resentment at the rest of the world. You can’t blame Rangers for that. It was an understandable, human reaction to a truly desperate situation.

They had been battered in their sleep by Craig Whyte and then, as they lay sobbing and bloodied with an outstretched hand, others took it in turn to boot them into the gutter. In their darkest hour, they found no friendship or sympathy. Only more hostility and hatred.

No wonder then that these events took such a heavy and lasting toll.

But amidst all of these powerful, blinding emotions, Rangers have also lost sight of what they are supposed to be about. They are engulfed by self-pity and resentment.

For their own good, the time has come to stop playing the victim card and to get on about their business because, both on and off the park, today’s Rangers is seriously lacking in class and in danger of self harming all over again.

It’s bad enough on the park, where Ally McCoist and his players have been blundering around the lower leagues since August, from one sub-standard performance to the next.

On Saturday they returned to far more familiar territory at Tannadice and yet, from the moment they arrived, they could not have looked more lost or out of place.

In fact, the defeat brought the curtain down on a chaotic week of back-biting behind the scenes which could yet prove to be far more damaging to the club’s long term revival than McCoist’s aversion to staying in cup competitions for any respectable length of time.

Word has it the chief executive is at loggerheads with his chairman, Malcolm Murray, and that their relationship has broken down. It’s likely that they will be forced to call a truce for the greater good and in order not to frighten the life out of those institutional investors who ploughed £17million into the coffers little more than a month ago.

So the two of them will be told to limp on for a while, although probably only until the summer, but the fact that things have become so strained and so volatile in a brand new boardroom is another major cause for alarm.

It could be that Murray, a long-standing Rangers supporter, is finding it increasingly difficult to recognise his own club in its current, angry guise. If so, who could blame him? Rangers are indeed a baffling business.

How can it be that a team of highly-paid professionals, earning more than any other in the country with one obvious exception, perform so amateurishly? So regularly?

Why has McCoist been so ready to abandon the standards which have been embedded into the marble foyer of Ibrox since the beginning of time?

Never in his life has McCoist allowed himself to lower the bar to such a level but already it is hard to see him ever soaring high again. Rangers under McCoist are now truly a Third Division team. That’s the ultimate insult.

Yes, they might be well clear at the top of the table but is this seriously to be considered as any kind of triumph when, in fact, they are grinding out results by the odd goal and often failing to do even that? Should today’s Rangers really be proud of that?

No, what they are really doing here is blowing an opportunity to reinvent themselves and the way they play the game. McCoist has been given a blank canvas and right now he’s making an almighty mess of it. It’s time for him to get a grip before he too falls out with Green and an even bigger mess is created.

Yes, McCoist never imagined having to manage at this lowly level but now that he is, he should be operating with a bit more style.

If a club like Swansea can rise up like a beautiful phoenix from their own financial abyss, then shouldn’t Rangers aspire to do the same?

McCoist should be busy rebranding this team and introducing a contemporary passing game. He has time to tweak his template as Rangers rise up through the leagues, recruiting better players on the way. And he should have this new, slicker Rangers ready to hit the ground running in the SPL when that day arrives.

In the meantime, Rangers should be ripping through the lower levels, blitzing their part-time opponents aside like football’s answer to the Harlem Globetrotters. They should be making a show of it. Instead, they are making a spectacle of themselves.

Maybe if that positive mentality had prevailed from the start, they might not have looked so overwhelmed at a place like Tannadice.

But standards are not what they once were inside Ibrox. And McCoist alone is not to blame.

On Saturday, Yorkshire’s one-man circus rolled into Tayside and the Rangers chief executive did about as much to enhance the reputation of his club as his players. As if his ill thought out endorsement of a boycott of the cup tie was not quite mean spirited enough, Green refused to shake hands or break bread with United’s directors or chairman Stephen Thompson.

Instead, he waited until just before kick-off then bustled in through reception to take a seat in a private box.

Green will no doubt have taken some satisfaction from giving Thompson the cold shoulder. After all, the United man has previously acted in the same spiteful manner, preferring to sit on his own in an empty team bus outside Ibrox rather than to go inside and press pre-match flesh in the boardroom. Pathetic.

But even if Thompson had it coming, Green’s behaviour will nonetheless continue to alienate Rangers from the rest while perpetuating the feeling of victimisation amongst his own. He is presenting such a snarling face that it is hard for others to feel any kind of compassion for what his club has suffered.

Green’s raging bull act is becoming a bore. It’s doing more damage than good at a time when grown up conversations about the state of Scottish football are required. After all, what would be the point in restoring Rangers to its former self if huge chunks of the competition are not fit for purpose by the time Green’s club returns?

Time to change the mood music, Charles. It’s simply not healthy to stay so angry at so many for

so long.

[crabbit bear 139]

What a load of shite. Once again it's all Rangers fault, or it's CG's fault. He tells you how we were treated and then still blames us for being upset about it, l'd like people to treat him like that even though he'd done nothing wrong and see how he would react. Fckn rocket.

[ForeverBlue_Since91 2,895]

Who is Dean Sturridge?

[billmcmurdo 462]

Who is Dean Sturridge?

Deliberate mistake

[simplythebest 11,453]

Green and Murray stuff sounds like mischief making.

[OLE SUPER WILBERT 2,475]

Who is Dean Sturridge?

Oldham left back, good player.

[GWR1979 1,964]

The record need no invitation to have a go at Rangers, He has a point about on the park and the standard of players, I can accept not being great but not being fit is unacceptable.

Jackson uses our poor performance on Saturday to open up on us on all fronts, I am proud of the Club, we have came out the other side of oblivion battered but still alive and kicking.

We now have a CEO who wants to engage with the fans and take the club forward, he has annoyed the media because he will not turn the other cheek and roll over and long may it continue.

[MosesMcNeil 1,664]

http://billmcmurdo.w...up-the-jacksie/

Jackson's mince is full of half-baked, poorly written rhetoric and outright falsehoods. Should we expect more? This, after all, is the very man who told us that 'financial whizz-kid' Craig Whyte was a 'self-made billionaire'.

I'm surprised you found much to agree with in that nonsense.

[Nemesis 277]

The one part he gets spot in is the mess being made of things on the park.

Ally has delivered turgid football that lacks cohesion and purpose.

That must stop. Immediately.

[CanadianBacon 2,088]

Jackson's a fanny.

Oh.....and fuck the SPL.

[JM1872 3,708]

No wonder then that these events took such a heavy and lasting toll.

But amidst all of these powerful, blinding emotions, Rangers have also lost sight of what they are supposed to be about. They are engulfed by self-pity and resentment.

For their own good, the time has come to stop playing the victim card and to get on about their business because, both on and off the park, today’s Rangers is seriously lacking in class and in danger of self harming all over again.

Laughable. Fucking laughable. How the fuck are we supposed to just get on with it? Attack, after attack, after attack by the media and particularly you, Keith. How can we move on when every day we are drawn back to the past by the indespicable lies that are written day in day out?

"Keith Jackson - Sports Writer of the Year" Bull fucking shit.

[Uncle Fester 186]

He gives with one hand and stabs you in the back with the other, the football is not great and we all know it! but spouting negative propaganda about Charles Green only reinforces what I already knew, that Jackson is a snake.

[CanadianBacon 2,088]

Laughable. Fucking laughable. How the fuck are we supposed to just get on with it? Attack, after attack, after attack by the media and particularly you, Keith. How can we move on when every day we are drawn back to the past by the indespicable lies that are written day in day out?

"Keith Jackson - Sports Writer of the Year" Bull fucking shit.

It's said his nickname at school was "Keech".

Pretty much sums him up.

[Davey_RFC 122]

Awful article from Jackson based on nothing other than rumour and speculation.

I do however agree with him regarding rebranding our style of play and the criticism of our performances this season.

[harlands plater 16,975]

Regarding "playing the victim card", he must be confusing us with the club who are celebrating playing the victim card for 125 years.

The mhedia don't like the fact we are now standing up for ourselves after decades of dignified silence, which got us nowhere.

[TheOriginalHobo 34]

Has no one noticed he referred to a rangers fan as a creature ?

[D'Artagnan 13,319]

Perhaps Jackson should address some of the issues which give rise to that victim mentality.

But nope as I said in my blog a few weeks ago they just want us to forgive, forget and move on.

Quite simply it just wont happen. The forgive & forget brigade really need to walk about in our shoes for a bit.

[Reformation Bear 6,453]

His job is to sell newspapers and to sell newspapers controversy (real, imagined or contrived) is the stuff that gets newspapers sold. Articles will doubtless be spun or given emphasis to suit the requirements of the paymaster. It sort of matters and it sort of doesn't matter. Matters because of the potential to influence and to stir-up more anti-Rangers baiting and attitudes. Doesn't matter because all that Rangers and Bears should really be concerned about is (a) is Charles and the Board taking Rangers back to financial and commercial strong health and communicating well with Bears and acting as the sort of responsible CEO and Board that defends and promotes Rangers' interests with all energy and determination and skill?; and (b) Do we have a team and a style of play that is doing the business on the park and which, as we develop through the leagues, will restore us to the point where we put all other clubs firmly at our feet? The answer to (a) is 'yes' in my view and no reservations whatsoever. The answer to (b) is no - not yet and there is a heap of work to do there and think most folks know that and Jackson's article adds nothing new here.