Another klaxon jaxon misery piece.

[Negri's lovechild 14,289]

4 minutes ago, tam57 said:

Why isn’t he critiquing the scum PR department,who use the tactic of if you tell a lie often enough it becomes a truth.

The scum supporters lap it up.

They have been told that their current players are worth multi millions over and over.

Im still waiting for one of them to bring in the big money.

but that wouldn’t suit his agenda.

For some reason most of the press have a love for the scum. They don't even hide it. They also know playing to the gallery sells papers and gets site hits. 

[Theulstervolunteer 1,859]

A fenian bastard that even even fenians don't like ....

[KeyserSoze 14,650]

2 hours ago, backup said:

On Friday Gerrard will clock on for the first time as the new manager of Rangers. And when he walks through the doors at Auchenhowie flanked by his old friend and long-term mentor Gary McAllister, the pair of them will be stepping into the single biggest challenge of their combined careers.

Forget half-time in Istanbul 13 years ago, the night Gerrard pulled the biggest prize in club football out of the fire to confirm his status as a living legend at Liverpool. 

And for that matter, the penalty miss at Wembley in Euro 96 that might have been McAllister’s defining moment had he not found the desire and wherewithal to recover from it and go on to enjoy one of the most spectacular Indian summers English football has ever seen. 

Five years later, at age 35, McAllister joined Gerrard at Anfield and within 12 months they had won a League Cup, an FA Cup and UEFA Cup together. They had also unwittingly allowed fate to have the deciding say on their futures.

Which is why they are about to find themselves here, embarking on a new journey that almost no one else could possibly have seen coming.

But what they will find waiting for them may come as a surprise, even for two men who probably think they have experienced just about everything football’s gods could ever throw at them. All that was before they got to Govan.

If they do not already realise the full scale of the task they are taking on then the reality will soon dawn on them. The outstanding professionalism they will bring with them to the job after so many years spent operating at the highest level will ensure it.

They are likely to be shocked at what they discover. From the bottom up this is a club in need of urgent, radical reform.

A youth department that fails consistently on its duty to deliver players fit for the first team. A director of football not remotely qualified or equipped for the position. A managing director who can’t decide what colour of underpants to put on unless he’s told in an email from Johannesburg.

A board without a chief executive that brings new meaning to the word dysfunctional but refuses to give up any of its power for the betterment of the club. 

An absentee chairman on permanent combat mode who also happens to be locked in a long-running feud with the Takeover Panel which could yet have very serious ramifications all round. A chaotic backdrop of internal squabbling, uncontrollable egos and personal agendas which all seem to come before the actual job of putting a winning team on the pitch.

Overseen by a PR machine that belongs to Soviet Russia.

And that’s before Gerrard and McAllister have even made it across the training complex and into a dressing room that is awash with averageness and littered with no-hopers, clinging for dear life to the kind of contracts no other club in football would have been daft enough to give them. Damaged good such as Carlos Pena and Eduardo Herrera who continue to take home more than £40k a week between them. 

That’s £2million a year wasted right there. Add the wages of Bruno Alves and the total reaches around £3.5m. 

Gerrard and McAllister will have to find a way of wading through all this wastage and cleaning it up to the satisfaction of their own professional standards.

And they will also require help from above when attempting to bring in their own reinforcements, which is where things may become even more complex.

That Gerrard will aim high in the transfer market is a no-brainer. What would be the point in bringing in a man of such a global standing if he is unable to dip into his own personal contact book for the benefit of the club?

Gerrard would surely not have agreed to take on this monumental challenge on the back of a promise that Scott Arfield, Allan McGregor and Jamie Murphy would be waiting for him on his first day.

That’s not to say all three of these signings do not represent decent business. On the contrary, McGregor could prove to be a particularly inspirational character and the sort of stalwart around which Gerrard will look to build a side.

But the new manager needs a whole lot more which is why he went to the bother of engaging with old pal Martin Skrtel some weeks ago, before he had even officially put pen to paper on his own Rangers contract.

This whole Skrtel business remains something of a mystery. Gerrard will have known even before he picked up the phone that the Slovak was being paid a small fortune by Fenerbahce. 

He either believed Skrtel was wealthy enough and therefore willing to take a huge cut in wages or he thought Rangers might be better able to accommodate his salary at the full whack of somewhere in the region of £60k a week.

Perhaps the truth lies somewhere in the middle but what seems certain, however this pursuit came to its end, is that someone somewhere made a massive miscalculation.

It will be fascinating to see if Gerrard will now revise his initial list of targets or if he’ll continue to go after the kind of players who would otherwise have been out of Rangers’ reach.

Brighton’s third-choice centre-back Connor Goldson is not quite in the Skrtel category so Gerrard will not expect Rangers to have any difficulty getting that deal across the line. That negotiations have already being ongoing for longer than seems necessary is just another indication of the difficulty this Rangers regime has in getting things done.

It’s believed two bids have now been rejected and that Brighton are holding out for around £1m more than the £2m offer on the table.

The smart move would be to get this deal done and dusted before Gerrard and McAllister turn up for work first thing on Friday morning. At the very least, it would be a gesture of goodwill before the really hard graft begins.

Meh

Fair assessment. Not much different to what’s been said over and over in here. 

[WCPRANGERS1 2,997]

Waddell yesterday Keef today......roll out the negativity......

[Frank de Bear 11]

Painful to admit, but Jackson's pretty much spot on.

The Board have already failed to deliver Skrtel who was arguably Gerrard's number one target and left us looking like the boy that Santa forgot.

[OhW 4,676]

Pena and Herrera on more than £40k after tax between them? Does he actually know this to be a fact?

[Frank de Bear 11]

17 minutes ago, Theulstervolunteer said:

A fenian bastard that even even fenians don't like ....

 

The 70's is that way  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >

[Frank de Bear 11]

We're struggling to sign Brighton's third choice centre back ffs!

If this is the Board's behaviour and the level of player we're trying to attract to topple celtic then this is not going to end well.

[Theulstervolunteer 1,859]

2 minutes ago, Frank de Bear said:

 

The 70's is that way  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >

So is Disco fever and yer maws hairy beaver .... yer fether should of worn a durex ya mongo....

[Frank de Bear 11]

1 minute ago, Theulstervolunteer said:

So is Disco fever and yer maws hairy beaver .... yer fether should of worn a durex ya mongo....

You represent everything that's wrong with Rangers Media.

An unadulterated bigot with no respect for fellow Rangers supporters.

[GWR1979 1,968]

11 minutes ago, Frank de Bear said:

Painful to admit, but Jackson's pretty much spot on.

The Board have already failed to deliver Skrtel who was arguably Gerrard's number one target and left us looking like the boy that Santa forgot.

How do you know what Gerrards number 1 target is ? 

[GWR1979 1,968]

2 minutes ago, Frank de Bear said:

You represent everything that's wrong with Rangers Media.

An unadulterated bigot with no respect for fellow Rangers supporters.

You wont last long.

[Theulstervolunteer 1,859]

1 minute ago, Frank de Bear said:

You represent everything that's wrong with Rangers Media.

An unadulterated bigot with no respect for fellow Rangers supporters.

I think you would be more suited over at FF.... where you will be treated fairly with respect dignity and maybe some moron might agree with one of yer shite posts...

[DrLaudrup 4,705]

I dont have issue with some of the content. We’ve been saying the same on here about funding and transfers. The general tone though seems quite personal which to me indictes his agenda. Some of the stuff about youth players is just wrong too. 

[Frank de Bear 11]

Just now, GWR1979 said:

How do you know what Gerrards number 1 target is ? 

I don't.

That's why I said ' arguably ' as I knew someone like you would be looking to pick up on it.

[Deanzmeanzheinz 4,312]

So what was Jackson meant to write??? 

The board have been brilliant these last few years?

the squad is ready to win him the league?

stewart robertson chooses his own underwear? 

he has unlimited money to ensure it will happen? 

The job is a piece of piss? 

Pena, Herrera, and Alves are worth every penny?

the youth system is a never ending conveyor belt?

traynor is amazing? 

We should have paid Skrtel the 60k a week he asked for? 

Anyway, thanks for sharing another DR piece hope the OP gets the likes he’s whoring for! 

[KeyserSoze 14,650]

1 minute ago, Deanzmeanzheinz said:

So what was Jackson meant to write??? 

The board have been brilliant these last few years?

the squad is ready to win him the league?

stewart robertson chooses his own underwear? 

he has unlimited money to ensure it will happen? 

The job is a piece of piss? 

Pena, Herrera, and Alves are worth every penny?

the youth system is a never ending conveyor belt?

traynor is amazing? 

We should have paid Skrtel the 60k a week he asked for? 

Anyway, thanks for sharing another DR piece hope the OP gets the likes he’s whoring for! 

Exactly this. 

This place is turning to fucking shit. 

[GWR1979 1,968]

1 minute ago, Frank de Bear said:

I don't.

That's why I said ' arguably ' as I knew someone like you would be looking to pick up on it.

Someone like me, your the new poster on here decrying the Rangers Board because we didn't get a guy on 60k a week, and then having a wee freak out because we haven't signed a young talent from Brighton. On the back of a KJ article. You then got annoyed at a poster cause he said a bad word which offended you and people like you.

 

[Frank de Bear 11]

 

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It will be fascinating to see if Gerrard will now revise his initial list of targets or if he’ll continue to go after the kind of players who would otherwise have been out of Rangers’ reach.

 

Erm...... I'll go for revising his targets.

He'll soon realise that King is full of hot air and not a man to be trusted.

If you sent him for a chinky he'd come back wae a pot noodle.

[KeyserSoze 14,650]

3 minutes ago, Frank de Bear said:

 

Erm...... I'll go for revising his targets.

He'll soon realise that King is full of hot air and a man not to be trusted.

If you sent him for a chinky he'd come back wae a pot noodle.

<<<<<<<<<< 70’s is that way 

[Frank de Bear 11]

3 minutes ago, GWR1979 said:

Someone like me, your the new poster on here decrying the Rangers Board because we didn't get a guy on 60k a week, and then having a wee freak out because we haven't signed a young talent from Brighton. On the back of a KJ article. You then got annoyed at a poster cause he said a bad word which offended you and people like you.

 

So much wrong going on in here I really can't be arsed picking it apart.

[GWR1979 1,968]

Just now, Frank de Bear said:

So much wrong going on in here I really can't be arsed picking it apart.

Bye then snowflake

[ritchieshearercaldow 22,219]

53 minutes ago, Negri's lovechild said:

That's the campaign started. The slow drip, drip of negativity against the Gerrard regime before the guy has even started. It's a prelude to war from the hacks that started with Waddell the other day. 

we may or may not agree with some of what is in this article, but it is most certainly not done with the intention of spirit of what is best for our club. 

every recent manager we have had, has been subject to scrutiny and maliciousness from the scottish press. They will find a way to try and put extra pressure on Gerrard right from the off. He will be asked in his first press conference about assurances, have they been met,how far the budget goes, have we any money, how is his relationship with king, allen, the rest of the board. Then there will be "dressing room unease" stories (from "sources" none the less) , lies designed to divide support and playing staff. 

That's how it will go, and people should wake up and see that the things the press rip into are the things they are most worried about. We don't know if Gerrard will be a success or not, but we will be behind the man 100%, and so will the club.

Traynor may be an ass amongst many things, and we may not agree on the way that our press releases are worded, but he goes for them, and to quote corporal Jones "they don't like it up em". 

Everything in that piece is puff and opinion. There is no fact at all. "A youth  department that fails consistently". Rubbish. Where have the McCrorie brothers come from? Barry McKay? We haven't had one or two a season, but bear in mind that 4 years ago we didn't have a youth system. Fuckers like Jaxon know this. They are selective in their truth , and we need to be wary. 

And didn’t our youth team pump the scum youths recently?

[Frank de Bear 11]

Then the Board went one further by denying we had any interest in signing Skrtel in the first place.

Lying bastards!

 

[Carsons Dog 9,878]

2 hours ago, plumbGER said:

You would be forgiven for thinking he was feeling a bit left out of the big story in Scottish football.

Now that Paul Murray has gone his information will have dried up.

Did we ever get clarification on why he left btw?