Kris Boyd getting ripped into King

[K.A.I 36,183]

I've copied and pasted so you don't need to give that cunty rag anymore hits.

There will be Rangers fans who criticise me for writing this but what's going on at Ibrox right now hurts me just as much as it hurts any of them

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By Kris Boyd

16th April 2018, 10:32 pm

IT was a shambles, a disgrace and an utter humiliation for Rangers as a football club.

Graeme Murty and his players will have to take some of the responsibility for what happened on the pitch at Hampden.

Losing 4-0 to celtic was embarrassing all right.

No one in a Light Blue jersey can hold their heads high for the way they performed because, quite frankly, it wasn’t anywhere near good enough.

The dire display only proved that many of them shouldn’t even be there.

I’m sorry, though, the problems at Rangers right now start at the top.

Murty’s in firing line after thrashing

I have been saying it for months but, in my opinion, Dave King is guilty of gross mismanagement.

If you ask me, it’s high time he had some major questions asked of him.

Although maybe someone on that Ibrox board should just pay him the £20million he supposedly lost to David Murray and watch him go.

I just don’t think his chairmanship of Rangers has been good enough.

He sanctioned the appointment of Pedro Caixinha — which was doomed from the very beginning — and was then to blame in the negotiations with Derek McInnes.

Now Murty is being left to carry the can for King’s incompetence.

There will be Rangers fans who criticise me for writing this but what’s going on at Ibrox right now hurts me just as much as it hurts any of them.

Listen, in the season I played for the club in the Championship, I was a disgrace and was rightly shown the door.

But that was then the opportunity to rebuild — and yet here we are three years on and the club hasn’t moved forward an inch.

I know some people think I have a personal agenda against King but I couldn’t care less. Fact is, I hate seeing my old club the way it is right now.

And for me, those supporters who are paying their hard-earned money for season tickets are being appallingly short-changed.

All they’ve done throughout the years is plough their money into the football club.

I’d question where exactly their cash has been spent — and they should too.

It’s time for them to open their eyes and see what’s going on because what is happening just isn’t right.

Their loyalty in turning up every week, no matter what, has been remarkable in the last few years, genuinely incredible in my opinion.

But there’s definitely an argument to say they’re TOO loyal.

Gers looked lost during Sunday’s Old Firm defeat

Mark my words, there are things going on behind the scenes which should be setting off alarm bells.

Is there even a shirt deal in place for next season?

Rangers should have their jerseys manufactured by one of the big sports firms, not a smaller company — but that seems to be the way they’re heading.

Then there’s Mark Allen, the so-called director of football.

I’m sorry, but what does he actually bring to the table? What does he actually do to earn his big-money salary?

He’s meant to be building things for the future, so why did he allow an up-and-coming player like David Bates to sign for another club?

I’m told Bates got offered just a £250 pay rise so it’s little wonder he decided it was time to go.

It was similar with Danny Wilson.

People might argue about how good those two boys actually are as players but what worries me is the way they were treated, the way their contract talks were handled.

Do you think Wilson wanted to uproot his family and go halfway around the world to play in the MLS? But Allen seems to have mismanaged that situation and left him with no option.

The club tried to put a positive spin on things when they brought in a handful of players during the January transfer window but it wasn’t good enough.

I may have bought into it myself, if I’m being honest. I looked at the signings and talked them up, mainly because I wanted to see them do well.

But Rangers shouldn’t be signing so many loan players when they’re trying to bridge a gap with celtic, they’ve got to be bigger than that.

There are Rangers cheerleader pundits who point to the big money celtic have spent in comparison to everyone else.

Boyd says it’s little wonder Bates decided to leave after offer

But the money Rangers have spent is more than Aberdeen and Hibs put together — and Kilmarnock too for that matter — and yet they’ve only won four of the nine games against them.

When it comes to signings Rangers have guys on loan who can’t get a game right now and yet we’re led to believe they’ll be signing long-term deals in the summer.

How is that going to take Rangers forward? If you can’t get into that team now then how are you going to take the team to the next level?

The worry is that Rangers aren’t going to move forward any time soon, not with the current board and directors in charge. Or Murty.

He’s not responsible for the mess the club is in, but he’s clearly not helping the situation either.

The way the team played at Hampden was utterly shambolic and he has to hold his hands up for that.

He was quite happy to take the credit for drawing at Parkhead so he has to accept a certain amount of criticism now.

He was the man who came out and said the players in the changing room cheered when the draw was made and Rangers got celtic.

That was all just false bravado and Murty trying to act big.

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Just like the way he chucked Andy Halliday under the bus by substituting him two minutes before half-time.

Did you notice throughout the game, too, that Jonatan Johansson and Jimmy Nicholl stayed in the dugout for most of the 90 minutes? There didn’t seem to be a lot of togetherness there.

But that’s Rangers right now. From top to bottom.

Only bit I really disagree with is throwing Halliday under the bus. OK maybe it could have waited until half-time but who really cares? Halliday needs it rammed into him that performance was unacceptable and he's had too many chances already.

Other than that I think it's a good article that covers all the bases and hits the spot. 

Especially delighted to hear him say there's stuff going on at Ibrox that should be setting off alarm bells and that in an ideal world King would get his 20-million back and do one.

He's especially right at the very top that some Rangers fans won't be happy with him for the article. It's clear there's still far too many in denial, don't want to hear the truth, feel suffocated and start lashing out instead of stepping into the real world. 

[The Godfather 71,662]

Spot on

[K.A.I 36,183]

BTW the last bit is my own words, but it embedded it into the quote with Boyd's article for some reason. 

[Oaktreeloyal 1,422]

He's basically saying it as it is from a supporter's point of view and who could argue with any of it. Crunch time is coming for the board with its hiring of a new manager and the arming of funds for him. If they get it wrong this time around its cheerio and if they leave us in a perilous state they'll be hunted down. 

Come on Rangers WATP.

[Blue Avenger 22,567]

Can't argue with any of it.

I've a feeling the smsm may start start calling out this board.

[With Heart and Hand 8,949]

thank fuck someones said it. hopefully more to follow before the cowards try to silence them to save their false gods

[Bad Robot 21,133]

Good article and hard to disagree with most of it and I’m glad someone is calling King out as it certainly won’t be the hired hands 

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5 minutes ago, sondicklg said:

He's basically saying it as it is from a supporter's point of view and who could argue with any of it. Crunch time is coming for the board with its hiring of a new manager and the arming of funds for him. If they get it wrong this time around its cheerio and if they leave us in a perilous state they'll be hunted down. 

Come on Rangers WATP.

sadly no one hunted whyte down 

[Oaktreeloyal 1,422]

Just now, Bad Robot said:

sadly no one hunted whyte down 

His time will come and have you seen the before and after photos, he looks completely different and not in a good way.

[Bad Robot 21,133]

3 minutes ago, sondicklg said:

His time will come and have you seen the before and after photos, he looks completely different and not in a good way.

fingers crossed 

[Supersonic 4,654]

Absolutely spot on!

[Negri's lovechild 13,790]

That s a hard hitting piece there from Boyd. He is right with that one, and he is saying what a lot of us on here are saying about the situation. 

we are being mismanaged, and we are getting to the stage where something must change. Boyd will know the inner workings of the club better than most of us will, and if he is saying alarm bells should be ringing them he is right. (I've been critical of Boyd in the past but can't argue him here). £250 wage increase is ridiculous for Bates considering the vast amounts we have wasted on players who can't get into the team, and players who have left on loan. 

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42 minutes ago, Blue Avenger said:

Can't argue with any of it.

I've a feeling the smsm may start start calling out this board.

Can they do that? I was under the impression they had been gagged.

[bluenoz 30,646]

He's right even if he never kicked a ball in an old firm game himself.

[K.A.I 36,183]

1 minute ago, Negri's lovechild said:

That s a hard hitting piece there from Boyd. He is right with that one, and he is saying what a lot of us on here are saying about the situation. 

we are being mismanaged, and we are getting to the stage where something must change. Boyd will know the inner workings of the club better than most of us will, and if he is saying alarm bells should be ringing them he is right. (I've been critical of Boyd in the past but can't argue him here). £250 wage increase is ridiculous for Bates considering the vast amounts we have wasted on players who can't get into the team, and players who have left on loan. 

That was another good point he made that regardless of what you thought about the abilities of Bates and Wilson (he's basically saying they weren't the best) there's something to be said about the way their contract talks were handled by Mark Allen ... I believe Wilson was offered the same or reduced terms and Bates £250 a week rise, £250 a week on top of the first development salary he'd have been on since his move from Raith is a slap to the face and I don't care what anyone says and I'm not a Bates fan by any stretch. 

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3 minutes ago, K.A.I said:

That was another good point he made that regardless of what you thought about the abilities of Bates and Wilson (he's basically saying they weren't the best) there's something to be said about the way their contract talks were handled by Mark Allen ... I believe Wilson was offered the same or reduced terms and Bates £250 a week rise, £250 a week on top of the first development salary he'd have been on since his move from Raith is a slap to the face and I don't care what anyone says and I'm not a Bates fan by any stretch. 

Exactly. The guy was in and around the first team, and playing more regularly than a Portugal international. His ability isn't the greatest but by the game time he was getting, he deserved more than that. Wilson as well. 

Agendas are funny things. There is probably an end game that we haven't seen fully played out yet.

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We're going to end up with Lonsdale as kit manufacturer aren't we ?

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7 minutes ago, K.A.I said:

That was another good point he made that regardless of what you thought about the abilities of Bates and Wilson (he's basically saying they weren't the best) there's something to be said about the way their contract talks were handled by Mark Allen ... I believe Wilson was offered the same or reduced terms and Bates £250 a week rise, £250 a week on top of the first development salary he'd have been on since his move from Raith is a slap to the face and I don't care what anyone says and I'm not a Bates fan by any stretch. 

Mark Allen may not be as good as we all once thought.

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1 minute ago, Negri's lovechild said:

Exactly. The guy was in and around the first team, and playing more regularly than a Portugal international. His ability isn't the greatest but by the game time he was getting, he deserved more than that. Wilson as well. 

Agendas are funny things. There is probably an end game that we haven't seen fully played out yet.

Yeah I see it like an trainee skilled apprentice getting £50 a week for a year or two while in development then when he's established he's doing big jobs, a lot of extra responsibility and then only getting offered £300 a week for example - in relative terms, like what a cleaner or some kid flipping burgers at McDonald's would get as a weekly wage. It's not right or close to being good enough.

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1 minute ago, bluenoz said:

Mark Allen may not be as good as we all once thought.

Some never thought much of him to start with mate. An MTV executive with a business degree who had a job at Man City? 

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15 minutes ago, Sweetheart said:

Can they do that? I was under the impression they had been gagged.

After all the shite now going on tonight, I think the dam has burst!

[berkshirebear 2,771]

Boyd cares that much about the club that he couldnt be bothered in his second spell, and admits himself that he was a disgrace......

Hes part of the problem as well

[cushynumber 25,178]

I don't disagree with what boyd is saying. What I completely disagree with is a pro for another club current playing against us commenting on our players. That is not right. Ex player or not.

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11 minutes ago, Blue Avenger said:

After all the shite now going on tonight, I think the dam has burst!

Then I hope they do some real investigative journalism and let us know what's going on with our club, as nobody else is.

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1 minute ago, cushynumber said:

I don't disagree with what boyd is saying. What I completely disagree with is a pro for another club current playing against us commenting on our players. That is not right. Ex player or not.

That's the only bit that s always sits uneasily with me. I don't like that at all.