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I don't get this Lee Wallace "legend" patter at all. I think he stayed in 2012 because he was on decent dosh and couldn't get better elsewhere. He used to be the fastest sprinter in the country. That was a long while ago.

As a captain - he was completely silent and a waste of an armband. As a player - journeyman level for me.

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14 hours ago, DBBTB said:

Dare I even say it but is there a case for McCulloch to be considered a legend?

His CV reads like somebody who could be considered in that regard - Over 300 appearances, 3 SPFL titles, 3 League Cups, 2 Scottish Cups and the lower league titles 

Obviously there is the caveat that a lot of fans grew frustrated with McCoist’s favouritsm to him in the lower leagues when he clearly wasn’t the player that he was previously but on the flip side of that if we were the outsiders looking in at another club who had gone through what we did and were being run like we were but they still had a boyhood fan who stuck with them when basically all his team mates fucked off and attempted to Captain them back to where they were previously then most people would look at positively or label it heroic or legendary.

I don’t think I would consider him a legend but I’m just putting it out there for discussion.

I’d have originally said no for the fact that his contract was pretty substantial for a guy in the twilight of his career. 

That post is a pretty strong case, though.

I’d maybe throw McLeish in there for discussion. His trophy haul, and the two titles he gave us were incredible. Obviously had a couple of stinkers too, though. 

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9 hours ago, Jimbeamjunior said:

Him and craig moore at the back, that mob dont score they two goals they did on sunday with moore in there, he'd have clattered some cunt 

Ian Ferguson played after the 9iar im sure, give me him last Sunday as well, he'd have booted fuck out of the likes of forrest, tierney etc

Boughie was 1 of the best 1 v 1 centre backs I've seen at Ibrox. He just seemed to time his tackles brilliantly and rarely got done by an opposing player the way Edouard made Worrall dance about the other day 

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6 hours ago, Blueteeth said:

You'd rather have McCulloch as a legend than Mols?

FFS, Boab Malcolm will be next :lol:

Legendary status can’t purely be based on ability, mols however if he hadn’t been chopped by that cunt Khan would be in there as a modern day legend just he didn’t hit the heights he started at 

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1 hour ago, East Enclosure Row N said:

I don't get this Lee Wallace "legend" patter at all. I think he stayed in 2012 because he was on decent dosh and couldn't get better elsewhere. He used to be the fastest sprinter in the country. That was a long while ago.

As a captain - he was completely silent and a waste of an armband. As a player - journeyman level for me.

He could have walked into any team in the English championship or possibly lower end Prem 

Hed have played for Scotland and got recognition for that 

He chose to stay and captain us on our journey back up to the top. He will ALWAYS be a club legend. The way we treated him after the Murty incident was a disgrace and Gerrard had better allow him the send-off at Ibrox he deserves before the end of this season.

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8 minutes ago, CF2 WINNIE said:

Legendary status can’t purely be based on ability, mols however if he hadn’t been chopped by that cunt Khan would be in there as a modern day legend just he didn’t hit the heights he started at 

Although a lot of people hate Khan because of the tackle, I would say it was more to do with Mols trying to jump and not land on Khan as the goalkeeper was sliding in that caused the injury.

Mols was operating on a different level from any other striker I've seen at Rangers up until that point, I could even say he's one of the best strikers I've ever seen full stop.

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5 minutes ago, psb07158 said:

He could have walked into any team in the English championship or possibly lower end Prem 

Hed have played for Scotland and got recognition for that 

He chose to stay and captain us on our journey back up to the top. He will ALWAYS be a club legend. The way we treated him after the Murty incident was a disgrace and Gerrard had better allow him the send-off at Ibrox he deserves before the end of this season.

Fully agree with this. Also there are loads of folk come out with this, never a captain, and just sat back and never defended the club pish. The guy was forever taking the press conferences and coming out defending the club at a horrendous time, when even the management and board were cowering behind their desks. Was a far better player and captain than tav will ever be.

Deserves a decent send off from the fans.

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38 minutes ago, psb07158 said:

He could have walked into any team in the English championship or possibly lower end Prem 

Hed have played for Scotland and got recognition for that 

He chose to stay and captain us on our journey back up to the top. He will ALWAYS be a club legend. The way we treated him after the Murty incident was a disgrace and Gerrard had better allow him the send-off at Ibrox he deserves before the end of this season.

100% this

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Firstly you need to define legend!

Most talented, biggest heart, most loyal, gave up big move elsewhere, stuck by us, left not to burden us with their top tier wages, what they won, what they nearly won.

For every loyal player, there’s an alternative view of a player who couldn’t get a move elsewhere or was raking it in where he was, etc.

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3 hours ago, RDB14 said:

Ferguson, Amoruso, Albertz.... maybe Klos.  That's it for me.  Mcculloch and Wallace didn't exactly have world class clubs in for them and they would have been on a good wedge. 

Albert not part of the end of nine in a row? 

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Few warriors who I loved like Novo and Prso and classy players like Numan, Klos, Mols & de Boer but Barry Ferguson apart I'm no sure I ever felt any have been true legends like the 9IAR team, there will be plenty to younger fans but 9IAR was my era, football changed in the 90s and by the time the Millennium came around it had changed beyond recognition, we always felt like a local club, a club where you felt you had a lot in common with the players, after Advocaat arrived and superatars appeared all that changed, then they social media boom and players distanced themselves from socialising with fans and public places in general.

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