RANGERRAB

Do tell us what these millstones are.....

At long last we have a manager who makes us look like a 21st century football team. As we progress he will want more resources and there is nothing untoward in asking where these resources(financial) will come from.

It was a mistake. Can't think what else they could say other than why the nearside assistant referee didn't advise the referee it was clearly outside the penalty box.

You mean the likes of Shiels, Templeton, Bell etc. Only guesing but I think they'll all get released when their contracts expire

I genuinely hope he does & the rumours I have heard are nonsense.

Of course every transfer is a gamble. I'd never dispute that. However if we wish to challenge the yahoos for the title again then we will need to spend on better quality players than we've currently got. My question is where that money will come from. Mr King? Does he have the financial resources the SOS, RST led us to believe he had? Of course McCoist is gone(thankfully) but I'd guess the contracts Foderingham, Kiernan, Tavernier etc are on aren't much different from those Shiels, Templeton and(unfortunately) Bell got

McCoist was a poor manager with little tactical expertise who was found out big style in the lower divisions. These players suffered as a result when part-time managers out-thought McCoist and they were made to look bad.

Of course it will but I dont want to see us shelling out excessive transfer fees & thousand p.w. on wages for these players only to discover they're not as good as we'd hoped. Sign Crawford by all means but not on the sort of contract McCoist handed out all too often

A better manager than McCoist would have got more from these players.Much more. They all didn't suddenly become bad or mediocre players.

So are we now looking for players at the same places as hibz, hertz, aberdeen etc ? If so we'll be back to the early 1980's before we know it?

Relying too much on a youth policy will see us slide further back to the mediocrity of the early 1980's. Remember then? We were churning them out. We had the likes ofDave McPherson,, Kenny Black, Kenny Lyle,etc. How many made it to the level we want to see Rangers aspire to? It was only when Graeme Souness arrived in 1986 we saw better quality players getting signed.

I don't think he's anywhere as good as them otherwise someone would have signed him by now I still think this shows a distinct lack of ambition by us looking at Scottish-based players

And he wonders why there was no rush of clubs to get him after he left the yahoos? Truly vile individual indeed.

As I've said countless times these games provide little indication whether a youngster will be good enough or not. It is only when they step out of their age group into the first team it becomes more apparent whether they're good enough or not. As for not having to win games......... Can you imagine what Jock Wallace would have thought about this?

Providing the first team with more players ? They're not providing it with very many then are they? And the ones they do provide aren't good enough anyway.

LOL. That's the worst excuse for losing I've heard in years. No wonder we produce so few youngsters good enough for the first team if it's true

Miller and Clark aren't suited to the system we now play under MW. They need replaced

What mentality is that?

Signing someone like Ali Crawford would show a serious lack of ambition IMO.

And after reading all that we see our Youths got beat 2-1 by St Mirren youths. That should be the main talking point.

Is Hardie good enough?

I don't think we can expect the FB's to continue to score as many as they were at the start of the season. Others need to contribute too. Also teams now know the threat Tavernier was having and he now gets marked as soon as he crosses the halfway line.

I think the world class coaches such as Gardiola would prefer to go to Chelsea or Man City in English football. They may well need to look closerto home unless they want another LVG-type appointment which always looked to me like a coach whose best days were well behind him.

It is vital we get our tactics & team selection right for the Hibz game. We need to start scoring more goals again. The GK &back four ar more or less decided with the only decision being Ball or Wilson at CB. In MF I'd like to see Haliday, Holt, Law & McKay out wide supplying two strikers. I'm no fan of Miller or Clark but they're all we've got at the moment. I've not seen enough of young Hardy to say whether he should play or not. We urgently need at least one top notch striker next month if we're to go up as champions. I'd prefer Waghorn, Oduwa and Zalelam sat this one out. None are really contributing at the moment and I feel Law offers more of a goal threat than either Oduwa or Zalelam. Waghorn,despite the creditable number of goals so far,has shaded a bit and has become very much a hit or miss player at the moment. Mostly miss unfortunately. Hibz are easily beatable. They're mediocre at best but they always look well-organised to me and if we do get our tactics & team selection right we will win.

I always thought Man Utd were unprepared for SAF's decision to retire and have now made two rushed appointments neither of which has been successful. Not sure Mourinho would fare any better. Mark hughes might be a better bet but I doubt they'll get Gardiola who's supposedly joining Man City next season.