Rangers to "majorly overhaul" scouting department.

[Loyal72 12,497]

To me it looks like the board are trying to do everything but address the issue of the manager.

 

[Blue Nosed Babe 21,092]

Too fucking late

[Somemightsay7 2,624]

7 minutes ago, Loyal72 said:

To me it looks like the board are trying to do everything but address the issue of the manager.

 

Completely different things. 

Our scouting department was desperately needing an overhaul.

[bluenoz 31,359]

Between this and Chris Jack's article, I can't help but think Bisgrove and Co are trying to calm things by deflecting.

The fans are not that silly to these boardroom tactics

[Loyal72 12,497]

1 minute ago, Somemightsay7 said:

Completely different things. 

Our scouting department was desperately needing an overhaul.

While true, should've been done before letting a relatively inexperienced manager have a crack at spending £15m.

Just opens them up for the shots now as well as Beale.

[Somemightsay7 2,624]

1 minute ago, Loyal72 said:

While true, should've been done before letting a relatively inexperienced manager have a crack at spending £15m.

Agreed, but at least it's finally being done.

[Jimfanciesthedude 25,088]

Overhauling the scouting department doesn't fix the fact they allowed a 6month manager to pick his own players to spunk 15mill on

And if our scouting dept said that dessers and lammers would be good high cost purchases rhenywe should burn them at the fucking stake

[chris182 6,372]

This worries me tbh

[Loyal72 12,497]

1 minute ago, chris182 said:

This worries me tbh

Depends what sort of route we go down. Data driven analytics can be a double edged sword.

[Somemightsay7 2,624]

24 minutes ago, Loyal72 said:

Depends what sort of route we go down. Data driven analytics can be a double edged sword.

Our current scouting department is prehistoric. 

Just having a handful of guys scouring the world for players explains why we end up with what we do.

[PromDeAnglais 5,815]

1 week after the window shuts.

[Loyal72 12,497]

3 minutes ago, PromDeAnglais said:

1 week after the window shuts.

Amazing eh? We like tying our arms behind our back.

[the goal machine 7,826]

This type of article usually came out about 10 years ago about a club. We seem to have been very old school.

[rossco87 712]

Got to assume this means the board have decided to move forward without appointing a Sporting Director / Director of Football.

 

Would be madness to undertake an “overhaul” of a department we are planning on bringing someone in to oversee. 

[SeparateEntityMyArse 54,492]

Stevie from IT in charge of scouting.

Sound.

[6superbarry6 14,281]

Who’s making these decisions when we have no DOF, no football men on the board and an absolute buffoon in the dug out? 

[6superbarry6 14,281]

3 minutes ago, rossco87 said:

Got to assume this means the board have decided to move forward without appointing a Sporting Director / Director of Football.

 

Would be madness to undertake an “overhaul” of a department we are planning on bringing someone in to oversee. 

Or hopefully we have somebody lined up 

[rossco87 712]

46 minutes ago, 6superbarry6 said:

Or hopefully we have somebody lined up 

There is a scenario where the inaction on Beale (either publicly backing him or sacking him) and now this reshuffle is because there is an appointment imminent of someone whose remit will be to oversee all of it (call that job title whatever you want); and their first direction from the board is to sack Beale and appoint a new manager with the process of speaking to candidates already underway.

 

From bitter experience of recent years I just don’t think that is happening and we are going to start this overhaul of scouting, not have someone who has the knowledge or skills to oversee our entire footballing operation, let Beale struggle on for another couple of months until the league is effectively out of reach, sack Beale and bring someone new in who will be the easy / most talked about candidate within the fan base and then find ourselves in exactly the same position in 12 months time…

 

Hopefully that is just me being overly pessimistic and I am going to be pleasantly surprised when we actually start operating like the major football club we are.

[esquire8 43,854]

48 minutes ago, 6superbarry6 said:

Who’s making these decisions when we have no DOF, no football men on the board and an absolute buffoon in the dug out? 

I fully expect a new SD to be in place soon to oversee these changes.

[Kents_Hook 1,527]

i'll file that under bullshit along with youth setup

[siamthedanger 2,869]

Did we actually have a scouting dept to overhaul? 

[Laudrupsleftfoot 11,440]

Oh look, what can I complain and hand wring about today.

[KingKirk 25,889]

Are they trying to piss the manager off just sack the fuckin idiot and be done with it ffs. 

[GA1972 9,864]

I mean that to me looks like an admission that they think the guy they handed all the recruitment power to has absolutely fucked it  

[Gman36 3,462]

What the fuck does this even mean? 

How in the fuck have we been scouting players up till now? 

The big data and video stuffs been around for years now, are we seriously behind the times in not using all that? I thought we'd been talking about overhauls in all this even back in Warburtons time, so what 7 or 8 years ago? 

Warburton era I thought this was sorted, Pedro was something of a laptop/ PowerPoint manager, Gerrard was supposed to have introduced stuff from the very top of the game... What in the fuck is going on? 

We are a complete and utter joke at times, and have been for sadly a long time now. 

And they're admitting they just gave beale money to spend.... FUCKING HELL... A committee on here would've worked out a better way of spending cracking on £15m.... JESUS FUCKING WEPT.