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I'm willing to stick my neck out and say i think he's the man for the job, I think he's a great coach who will end up a great manager and potentially in a few years would be out of our league, so this is the time to go for him. Bring it on, canny wait to see us playing football like we did the 55 season. 💙

With the Beale appointment imminent it's time for everyone to get behind him. He knows exactly what is required! he knows exactly what is expected! he knows the challenge ahead! so you could argue he is the best choice opposed to a manager who doesn't know all that he does that comes with being the Rangers manager.

I just voted no. I never realised this poll was from 4and a half years ago!!

I believe too many people are underestimating Michael Beale. He's a widely respected coach who clearly wants the job, everyone accepts that. But I think there's less recognition that Beale has real strength of character that will see him take back control of the dressing room, which is where our problems of recent months stem from. I think he may do very well as Rangers manager. I certainly hope so but I'll do my judging a year or two down the line.

Ahhh...had a lovely Thanksgiving. Come back to see that Beale is the frontrunner. Rangers need NEW...NEW. Outside of the box Rangers...OUTSIDE. Almost as silly as re-hiring SG. He will be gone in a year or less.

I had the misfortune to have to listen to SSB this afternoon when they were discussing Michael Beale and his imminent appointment as Rangers manager. They were saying he was inexperienced & how would he handle transfers, contracts and everything else that goes with the job. Much of that nowadays ( as I believe) is done by the DoF/Sporting director allowing the manager to focus on the squad and prepare them for the games, arranging tactics etc. Beale should be fine with that. It’s our DoF I worry about and what his role has been in these last 2 transfer windows. My advice to Michael Beale would be to ensure he has full control of signings.

I would not be lauding it. I'm not interested in winning like that. What's the point if you can't win properly?

That's just a fashion thing. We're faster to jump on passing bandwagons than flees between dogs. Anyway, it seems pointless to criticise an appointment that appears to be all but done and dusted - do we really think it helps Rangers if we undermine a manager before he even starts the job?

I feel a bit flat, to be honest.. same as with the GvB appointment.

For me depends how much backing in the transfer market he gets. A cup and a few wins v them and we will be looking good for next season IMO

Of course they don’t guarantee anything but they do give an idea of a candidate’s experience & suitability.

The problem with appointing Beale is that there are clearly other candidates with much better CV’s.

I wonder what the net profit or loss on merchandise is since 2015, including the money that has been spent one way or tuther on court cases. We (mostly DK I think) have taken a legacy issue dating from pre 2015 regime change and seemed to make it worse.

I will, absolutely, get behind him at the games, but I really don’t see the evidence that he is a top class coach. One of our biggest complaints in the SG era was that we were really poor at in-game tactics when if plan A wasn’t working our coaches didn’t very often influence a change. SG & MB would stand or sit for ages discussing what to do and often did nothing or when they made changes they had no effect. This seemed to continue at Villa when both moved there. I have heard how good a coach he is time and time again but I tend to judge players and coaches with my own eyes rather than what I read and by the time both moved on I don’t think there was much of a case to say he was an excellent coach. There are mitigating circumstances of coarse and he may have been pleading to SG to make certain changes and kept getting overruled. Time will tell, we may be able to tell quite quickly if he adopts a different shape and style from the SG era. It’s essentially the same players after all as it was only a year since he left us. Maybe I’ve just always been the kind to say if you leave Rangers of your own choice you don’t get to come back and this is playing on my mind too.

Amen to that @ian1964 👍

Kinda diggin this Denmark team. They are pretty decent, and most of the team are actually Danish people. France and Belgium...good lord...like Camp of the Saints.

People will still be saying stuff like this when we get in to the Champions League group stages next season.

In all honesty, I don't think my opinion or anyone elses on this forum undermines any potential manager. Poor results are the only thing that can do that.

It will be interesting to see who will be in Beale’s coaching staff.

Been monitoring the chat in recent days and seeing Beale being the front-runner according to media outlets and thinking, it’s ok, the front-runner never gets the job and there is no way our board, as incompetent as they are, would give our job in the state we are in to a guy who was a big part of a regime that was failing fast in front of our eyes only 12 months ago. If, as now seems almost certain, Beale is announced as our manager (still can’t believe I’ve typed that) then the board has just gone down even further in my estimations and are now hovering only just above the spivs, Green & Sir Duped. Gone for the cheap lazy option with their fingers crossed. I will wish the new guy all the very best of luck, and call for the heads of Robertson & Wilson, and hope Park Snr & jnr chuck it asap. I imagine we will be running this thread again in under a year.

He will most certainly get a bounce in performance, and player health status. I think a lot of these 'injuries' are a result of Gio losing the locker room. Players know, and like Beale...so wounds will Biblically heal. However, it is already plowed ground with Beale. It will take about five minutes until SPL managers pull out their 'Gerrard Era' classics to find solutions. I think he could limp it to season end with a strong...er finish, but next season...10--12 games in? The bed shall be shat upon.

I could do with that bloody penalty going in after all.

This will not end well...but we wont have to wait long.

Yeah, all thats missing now is the "I've just seen (insert one of our reported targets names) in Homebase, or Asda Govan etc.... 😁

We seem to take forever to do anything. Other clubs turn this around far quicker. If we could have moved quicker appointing Gio we might not have been skelped by Hibs in the LC semis. That’s still on the board for me.

I’d like to be a fly on the wall at the interviews. Especially if it was Robertson & Wilson doing the interviews. And any serious candidate who’d done any research on rangers at the last two transfer windows would have had plenty questions to ask

I'd like to know what really goes on behind the scenes with these appointments. Wishful thinking, I know but...

The problem with appointing Michael Beale is that we have(allegedly) interviewed candidates with better CV’s. Gerrard Seaonne for one.

Every single one of us, had it been a Rangers game and a Rangers player that did what Suarez did, would be lauding it, and rightly so. If it was a Rangers game and a Rangers player and he let it go in, we would be screaming for him to never wear our jersey again, and rightly so. Yes, definitely unsportsmanlike - but you do whatever you can to give your team the best chance of winning. He did the right (but wrong....) thing

By jings England were poor tonight

Blinking Welsh should stick to rugby and singing £50 gifted to the turf accountants this morning

Borrowed from elsewhere. Having worked in the St Enoch Store under Elite, this is my definitive understanding of what is going on. Disclaimer; this is my understanding mixed with my opinion and some logic. Happy to be corrected on any matter as I’m just passing on what I’ve gathered. Rangers entered into the deal with Elite, who are partnered with Hummel, and are Hummel’s exclusive UK supplier. The deal went against our (at the time)current deal with SD, as we didn’t give them a chance to match the deal before accepting Elite’s offer. Now I think the club were trying to be sneaky here, as from my understanding, they entered into 2 seperate deals. Deal one was a 3 year kit supply deal, in which Elite would provide kits manufactured by their partner Hummel. We also entered into a 5 year retail deal with Elite, in which Elite would run our retail operations, by way of shops and online. The sneaky aspect of this, was that Elite would be classed as a “Non exclusive Retail Partner”, which I think the club hoped would be a loop hole surrounding SD’s monopoly on the “exclusive retail partner”. Obviously SD challenged this and in 2018 an injunction was granted which, as Hummel/Elite are now claiming, prevented Rangers from fulfilling their end of the contract. However, it didn’t stop Elite, who, to begin with we’re happy to carry on with their fulfilments, based on assurances from Rangers that they would beat the SD injunction. Obviously I wasn’t privy to whatever Rangers’ obligations were, but I know there was a lot surrounding club premises, branding, advertising, etc etc Over the coming seasons Elite grew impatient as Rangers seemed to be not making any great waves in the SD case, but seemed happy to receive the benefits of the deal that Elite were fulfilling. (2 shops open, online shop up and running, kits supplied and money paid for season 1 and 2, not to mention a totally separate but in good faith naming sponsorship deal for the training ground). So come the beginning of season 3, Elite with hold the upfront payment in defiance of Rangers apparent lack of effort to perform any obligations of the contract. Rangers decide to take legal action, and that is the £2/3m that we are suing Elite for, as we claim them withholding money is a breach of contract. From what I was told, it was then Hummel who made the call to end the kit deal as they were angry at Rangers for taking legal action due to breach, when Elite/Hummel felt Rangers were in breach first. This is what then led to the new deal with Castore, who took on a new Kit Deal and new “Exclusive Retail Deal” (seemingly at the approval of SD). However, the 5 year “Non Exclusive Retail Deal” with Elite was never terminated. This is why the store in St Enoch remained open for so long. It was running legally under the “non exclusive” contract, along side the “Exclusive” Castore deal. (Which ultimately was Rangers goal to beat SD, have it run along side SD’s “Exclusive” deal which ofcourse the court injunction foiled). The store in St Enoch only closed when the majority of staff left and they knew they couldn’t hire anyone else to work in it, it wasn’t forced shut by Rangers or anything. So from that I gather that now Hummel/Elite are suing for loses relating to season 1 and 2, in which they feel they would have made more money had Rangers fulfilled their advertising and branding obligations as well as providing a stadium premises. (Which the SD injunction prevented). Season 3 break down of the contract, they blame rangers for the breach of contract leading to the contract break down. Season 4 and 5 they probably assumed they of gotten a renewed Kit deal due to the coinciding retail deal but even had Rangers not renewed and went with a new supplier, Elite would claim they could still have made money as a retail partner, even with a different kit manufacturer. So that’s where we are.. we are suing for lost kit sales in S3, blaming Hummel/Elite for the relationship break down due to breach, they are suing for lost sales in S1,S2, S3 and potential sales in S4 and S5, and blaming Rangers for the break down due to breach! I’ve heard rumours that Elite are going into admin, the Southampton and Millwall statements seem to support it. This being brought back to the forefront is perhaps a last throw of the dice to recoup some money before it goes tits up.