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Irrespective of the managers failings (like most Dutch dogmatism seems to ail him) the attitude and work ethic of many of our players has been to put it mildly simply woeful. At the arse end of last season we were playing 3 games in a week with 2 of them 120 minutes long all high tempo, that attitude and work ethic was awe inspiring, those traits must return. I doubt there's one single department at fault for that the blame should be collective and nobody failing short can be sacrosanct. The DoF has a hell lot to do to find some redemption far, far too many misses, far too many contracts handed out to those who should have been thanked for their services and patted on the back. The goalkeeping situation has been coming to a head for long enough it really should have been addressed and if Wilson really is a DoF then he owns that failure 100%. I get the notion of paying good wages to a decent Bosman Lundstrum, Lawrence and the younger projects like Bassey and accept there will be misses along with the hits but the proportion of hits must greatly and rapidly increase before he dan find some redemption. I concur with those saying we've been unlucky with injuries but it's down to more than luck and anyway as wiser man than me sang "when it comes to good luck you make your own.....". The conditioning and medical departments cannot go unscathed because the deterioration has been so severe so fast, some games when the hour comes we look done in. The dressing room really has to stop looking like the set of Causualty. The Board too have many questions to answer starting with one of my pet woes the eternal and bizarre PR and Communication shambles. They'd escape a gell of a lot of the flak aimed at them ftom the support of they actually had a functional proactive PR and Communication strategy. As I've touched on before they really should have been open and honest with the fans into just how bad the infrastructure at Ibrox and Auchenhowie was and how long it will take to bring them up to the standards desired let alone explaned what the costs will, they're eye wateringly painful. Nobody notices new roofs, new boilers, new pumps as they tend to be located out of sight erho out of mind but these things are both vital and expensive. Where I will give the Board some credit (apart from funding us through the pandemic which was no small feat) is their apparent determination to run us in a sustainable basis and not pandering to the spend,spend, spend mob. If any set of fans know the dangers in chasing moonbeams then surely it's us but I suppise some will never learn. It's fair to moan about the state of the toilets and it's fair to moan about the lack of options on the right wing but someone has to decide which one the priority is. This is probably the first Board in decades to have a long term stategic plan for the Club it's high time they did us and themselves a favour and shared it, and tell us the bits we don't want to but need to hear as well as the bits do want to hear. The vacuum is doing none of us any favours. We've just been handed a reality check let's hope some good comes of it. Oh and the glabrous one being constructive? Savour the moment savour it!

I csn easily live with coming bottom I don't think that in itself has shocked any of us the problem is the manner in how we did.

Indeed, we should have narrowed the gap not lengthened it. We were toe to toe with Frankfurt barely 6 months ago they were seconds away from topping their group where as we've become an abject laughing stock.

Remember to include a .... "I want a bag of f*&king cans, I want Stevie G back te..." option.

Boards don't tend to fall on their swords they're far more inclined to appease by offering up a sacrifice, you can't remove an entire squad and Wilson despite what he himself might think isn't a big enough head to offer up on a silver platter. It'll come down to ye olde filthy lucre and the Board with have a limit to the amount of value destruction they'll tolerate. Things may very well limp along a while yet but we all know what the ending is. Perverse as this may sound to some I have more belief in the Board than the manager, the DoF and the players.

Give me the number of your supplier because he's obviously punting quality stuff.

I can take being bottom of the group, what I can't take is the manner of how it happened not once, not twice but six f*&king times. We basically regressed with each and every game. Not one single player comes out of that campaign with any credit whatsoever not one single player.

All of the above gets my vote.

How can you go from being one of the fittest hardest working teams around to this embarrassment in the space of six months? No hunger, no desire, bereft of leadership, no belief, a complete destruction of player value. It's as if we've swapped double expresso's for mogadons.

We let the best option leave as part of a job lot.

The Marianas Trench I fear.

Tis scary just how far out of our depth we are.

Rangers 3 - 2 Ajax FGS - Tavernier

After today's stupendous display why not go along to Ibrox on Tuesday to watch Rangers rout Ajax, ah it's sold out you say! We have a few spares in the Govan Rear section 5 level with the centre circle, can be configured to suit as adult, concessions or juveniles and can seat multiples together or just singles. All face value.

You'd think they'd address the boardroom concerns closer to home first rather than lecture others. Perhaps they view their members to be an irrelevant inconvenience in govetnance matters.

Just another cheap publicity stunt. Do they not realise they have next to zero credibility with the average Rangers fan?

Tis only a Poundland version compared to the Harrods ones elsewhere. Better than nothing but should be better.

Was'nt Murray's purchase of us mainly simply a case of him taking over the overdraft rather than a cash purchase?

They should be investing directly in Rangers surely?

The handball was never a penalty, his arms were by his side he didn't make his body intentionally bigger and in any case the ball came off his own foot.

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I note it being reported elsewhere that our erstwhile Chairman threatened to put us into adminstration unless his loan was repaid, the one with tge 8% coupon iirc. I'm sure he had the clubs best interests at heart though.

Whilst Kings public utterances are certainly more consumer friendly a look under under the bonnet may result in a different conclusion. Personally I'd opt a strong well known high profile person from the business or peferably political spheres. As much as it grates the Fritzl doppelganger appointing Dr Death was an extremely astute piece of business. Like you I'd love an open and frank AGM but such beasts don't appear to exist anywhere nowadays.

I get what you're saying I really do. However I view the current Board as just another stage of our recovery I don't view them as permanent fixtures, they like players should be viewed as organic constantly changing in a sort of evolution rather an endless revolutions. Obviously the pandemic and it's consequences drastically altered what would have been the Boards plans (I concede the same applies to all clubs). I think part of the current anti Board sentiment can be laid at their own door as it was never fully explained just how big a mess the club was in every single department something that goes back to the days of our old friend Murray. That's not an excuse for the current Boards shortcomings however I think we can all agree compared to their predecessors they're relatively minor and certainly don't threaten the clubs very existance like the 3 previous regimes. I'm inclined to lean towards better the devil you know for now, change will come in the Boardroom it's foolish to argue otherwise but surely we need to make sure the baton is passed on to the right people as we all know the consequences of what can unfold. I share the same frustrations as everyone else at our regression under GvB which is undoubtedly rolling towards the inevitable conclussion. What I don't share is the clamour for return of King the notion of him wanting to invest more in Rangers is hilarious or the belief that there's a sugar daddy willing to pump £m's into a Scottish club or even that some consortium of investors led by Ms Fox will lead us to glory. I suspect you feel pretty much the same. I honestly think that the covid crap not occured the Boardroom would indeed have a different complexion that it currently has but by the same token I'm grateful that they didn't all bugger off and try and get their money back and even of them stayed and dug deep just yo kerp us going. I'm certain your wish for change will be fulfilled at what rate that change will arrive I honestly don't have a clue but it will.

Whilst it's incumbent that we keep an eye on the Boardroom I'm reluctant to compare what we have now to the Murray regime. For starters they're playing with their own money not the banks, there is no one with an overwhelming dominating shareholding, they are in the main Rangers fans and contrary to what people think they actually get it. They won't take us down the same road as Murray and we should at least thank them for that. I was way to late to start questioning Murray, it took the spunking of £12m (of someone else's money naturally) before I realised it was only going to end one way. I totally get where you're coming from and don't dispute that concern is genuinely held. I myself have felt the wrath of the masses for not running with the herd, it can put you in a lonely place.