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Can’t see past Negri and Boumsong although Negri lingered on making no impact whatsoever. On a different level, Drinkell, Wilkins, Spackman. Maurice Johnston played two seasons and his impact on Scottish football as a whole was mighty.

Colin Stein....almost 3 hat tricks in first 3 matches....then his second spell goal at easter road to clinch the title.

I'm not convinced it's all down to great management, he happens to be managing at a time when he has some half decent players to choose from .

Just all a bit needless. Noise for no real reason.

I think he set it up, so never followed it anyway. The profile pic change and omission of his job from his Insta profile resembles some kind of statement but God knows what it actually means.

All jokes aside, this is a massive week for us. IMO, if we wait we can say bye bye to the league as this team needs a turnaround of Biblical proportions.

Michael Beale has shown that, if determined, a manager may achieve these ends, even under the strictures of a Transfer Window.

Nah.

For a Rangers' Manager, that would be conduct sufficiently unbecoming to warrant dismissal, (in my humble opinion).

Google "out of work football managers" then click on the Transfermarkt Available coaches site for a huge list of managers. There are loads of really good ones waiting to be snapped up. And I agree that we should be looking upward at guys like Gallardo, Lopetegui, Vitor Pereira, and not at more experimental guys. We are Glasgow Rangers and we can offer managers a chance to compete for two cups, a national league and european football every season. But we have to be prepared to pay the cost for a real boss.

Two more than Beale

Winning trophies in two different countries plus the afc with Australia is experienced in my book how many managers can say they have won titles in two countries and a continental trophy with a national team. For Gallardo who knows if he would come or not but I was using him as an example there must be managers of similar ilk around the world, we should have a department at Rangers who look at managers around the world their style of play, man management, pressures at previous jobs, budget they have worked with, success and availability and constantly be scouring everywhere not just when we hit a major problem then we start searching.

Not sure why but you seem to be forgetting the nine months prior to this season. No. Decent manager but I don't want pretend victims anywhere near Ibrox.

Are you saying we're all getting our hopes up and overreacting over nothing? Nah...

Ugo Ehiogu's unforgettable goal probably merits a mention...

Aaron Ramsey?

Is Michael Beale trolling us all? Kinda get that feeling.

Nathan Patterson, if we're talking about time spent with the first team squad. Or maybe Nell McAndrew when she modelled our Diadora strip - my heart fair skipped a beat at that.

Very few teams have sustained success by playing awful and aimless football. Teams can adopt a certain style in knockout football (as we did on the run to Manchester) but that won't cut it in the long haul of a league season.

as long as its not pansy Potter

Some guy called Potter? You're getting me excited...

Pedro Caixinha Such an impact that we can still spell his name.

Mervan Celik if this fanny was a football player I'm a ballet dancer

He's also just changed his Grinder profile...🙄

Because, of his nine new posts only one had any likes 😆

Gazza, had a massive impact on Scottish Football and everyone and everthing that came into contact with him.

Hateleys return

Of course, the biggest impact was Josh Windass. Forever in our hearts...

Someone like Negri, perhaps? Or Boumsong? Big impact, yet (virtually) here for months. Tillman? Andy Dibble?

Yeah, that's one of the DoF's main jobs, IMO. It's frustrating we don't have one yet.

His free kick assist was for their 4th goal. They were already 3-0 up when he came on.

You're all getting me excited. I don't do excited...

He has changed his Instagram profile pic from him in official Rangers gear to him at a QPR match and it no longer refers to him as Rangers Manager. It may be nothing but I doubt it. Hopefully people are respectful of him, whatever happens - he's had a fair bit of unnecessary abuse on social media, which is disgraceful.

Inside info? Gut feeling? Reading between the lines? Or all three?

They got it right with Ange he had won things in his managerial career his style of football was non stop pressing for basically all of his games, how is this unrealistic. Marcelo Gallardo is a proven winner at river and his style of play employs high pressings why is this to much to ask for.

Nothing to do with the thread but Bobby Brown did well at St Johnstone and would have done well at Scotland if it wasn’t for English teams withdrawing key players

I think we should always have a list of potential replacements for managers and players and constantly keep it updated.

He would not come to Rangers, he is also doing well with the national team and he would not come to a club he has a disdain for. We need an experienced winner who has won trophies and has overcome difficult spells in their career plus a good style of play that gets the fans out their seats, we need aggressive non stop pressings everything must be done with intensity.

Clarke has worked under some excellent managers and he seems to have learned how to make the most of what he’s got to work with and seems to get their respect of course people will probably come up with some kind of Celtic connection so he’s to be avoided at all costs.

Don't necessarily disagree and he'd be a very unpopular appointment. However, there are Rangers fans who want the current Kilmarnock manager appointed, who has previously turned us down and doing a worse job at Killie than Clarke. All I want in the next Rangers manager is one who can make us successful domestically for a sustained period of time.

Should Steve Clarke be added to the list of possible replacements? Say what you want about him and / or the national team, he's doing some job.

I voted No, currently and collectively there are 19 of us. We hope. It’s a variant of faith and requires no actual evidence or coherent analysis, merely a belief that if we do nothing our malfunctioning manager will ‘come good’. By what means, none of us knows. Bold and decisive action is terrifying for us and must be put off until such time as either the redeeming miracle turns up or the situation gets so bad that it’s safe to be judgemental. Or, maybe we think 4 league games into the season is too early to condemn the poor bloke.

Even if it means starting in league two. Abso 'bleeping' lutely. This might piss off a few kids in the class. Just keepin it real. The fear... The knowledge that we will no longer be a big fish in a small pond...just another fish. Battles for league supremacy will be uncertain, perhaps not even a possibility. Kiss European qualification goodbye for quite a few years...if lucky. We will just be, average, for a while. Maybe even bad. The whole 'most successful team in the world' moniker may ring a bit hollow as we are forced to truly fight for survival for the first time. Identity Identity Identity... Our duopolistic cartel would be dissolved and a HUGE part of our identity with it. Thus there will be a gaping hole left in the visage that took over a century and a half to create. As much as no one likes to admit it we are intrinsically tied in identity, culture, and image to them...our arch nemesis...the scum. A bit redundant to be a pro-crown, UJ waving 'Loyalist' club...in England. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but the whole point of that image is in antithesis to a broader, rebel Scotland. Missing the Pain... Finally, as much as everyone loves to complain about the SPL, refs, the press...THEM and their meddling, they love it. Deep down they love the Hell out of the consistent BS. Call it abused spouse syndrome, but like many abused spouses, it has become, partially, who we are. Doubt me? The financial collapse of the club over a decade ago...Allies? Proponents? Support? Votes for clemency? Nearly every substantial club and fanbase in the country wanted us destroyed, leveled, and deleted from existence...'SMACK!' A political, financial and legal frog stomp from an entire footballing nation...'SMACK'! Kicked out in the rain with a handful of lint and pair of Irish sunglasses. But what do I know...I am just that cousin in America telling you to pack your bags, for your own good.

I would agree. I don't think they have their heads in the sand. They must be working through processes so that we're not starting from a position of denial to having to hire a new manager when that time comes.

The worst of all worlds for me is that we win the next few domestic games but it's the usual struggle and we continue to play badly ....... allowing Beale to cling to his job while solving none of our problems and further delaying the day when squad morale sinks to the point where the whole thing implodes in a series of draws and losses. How many times have we seen this happen?

I maybe alone in thinking that was a penalty. Not the harshest, but not the softest either. Maeda, not only barged Cantwell but he then smashed him with his arm in the process. If you look at the line Maeda was going in, it was a barge and no attempt to get the ball. Definite penalty for me.

Maeda was a dirty bastard and the ref continually spoke to him (warned him at least 4 times) but refused to book him.