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  1. Hildy
    Are suggestions on a messageboard less meaningful than suggestions which come from other sources? I have suggested something which is a reasonable way to proceed. I've heard it said that recent negative press comment on McCoist is the result of someone influential pulling strings. In other words, there may be campaign underway to pressurise the manager into chucking it. If there is, it is a less than honourable way to bring the manager's tenure to an end. My suggestion is an attempt to play by the rules rather than seeing the manager hounded out. It is not ideal, but it at least begins to tackle a problem that has so far not been adequately addressed. Should the RST call for the manager to be sacked? No. No fan group should publicly call for the sacking of a man who is still held in high regard by tens of thousands of Rangers fans. Many want to see him go without it becoming a media frenzy. They want to see him leave with his head held high, and as far as is possible, with dignity intact.
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    Many of us are sick and tired of the financial mismanagement of the club, but there is perhaps a reluctance to deal with the financial situation regarding the manager. If there really is a deferment as part of his contract, it is another area that we should be looking at, and as Rangers can't pay the manager off as things stand - it was suggested recently that it would cost around £1.6m to remove him from his post - I am attempting to address this situation. If anyone has a better plan, let's hear it. We complain endlessly about the variety of imperfections at Rangers, but just occasionally, we should try to offer solutions.
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    Do you think the situation regarding McCoist is tolerable? If you think it isn't, what should be done?
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    Correct me if I'm wrong, but if the wage cut Ally took is actually a deferment, in other words, were paying him a reduced amount but the remainder of his originally contracted salary will have to be paid to him in due course, the longer he remains as manager, the bigger the club's debt to him becomes. We all know that the club is in a mess financially, so why is this deemed tolerable? What is the point in complaining about financial recklessness in other areas of the club, and then turning a blind eye to this?
  5. Hildy
    We talk about little else. The mismanagement of Rangers FC dominates this forum. This thread, though, is about the manager.
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    If Ally walked it would be a problem solved. Many problems would still exist but a highly expensive one would have been removed. It is unlikely that his replacement would be inferior to him in the ways of management. It seems to be an open secret in football that football management is not one of Ally McCoist's talents. By putting him on notice now, he is effectively challenged to win a new contract, and if he can't do it, we can let him go having already paid him his due. If nothing changes at the top of the house, and if Ally fails to get Rangers promoted, Rangers will have no money left to let him go at the end of the season and the idea that we should give him a year's notice at that point is quite absurd. He has few friends left who can make a convincing case for keeping him, but if he flops this season, there won't be any at all - and we won't have enough money to fire him. Resolving this ridiculous management issue is a process that should begin immediately.
  7. Hildy
    The players will know that their future at Rangers depends on winning this division, or at the very least, being promoted. Not much changes for them if Ally goes on a year's notice period. With or without him they must succeed. If they fail, half of them, and possibly more, will follow the manager out the door. If Ally is put on notice now, the message is a simple one: earn yourself a new contract. If he can't cope with that, he has no business being here.
  8. Hildy
    Indeed. At every level, standards are unacceptable.
  9. Hildy
    That is a gaffe and a half. If Ally said this, you would expect a journalist to correct him. They both look daft now.
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    It's not working very well right now. If it was explained to McCoist that his year's notice was kicking in immediately, and with the possibility that he could win a new contract if the team wins the division, he has every incentive to perform. If, however, he was to fail in these circumstances, parting would be so much cheaper. Putting him in a position where he is given the opportunity to win a new contract should ensure that there is no slacking. If anything, it should concentrated minds and see a benefit.
  11. Hildy
    The proposal could be put to him but I doubt if it would get anywhere. I've yet to see one good reason why he shouldn't be put on a year's notice with immediate effect.
  12. Hildy
    There is a part-solution. As previously stated in another thread, put him on the year's notice that his rolling contract requires - now. This way, when he does leave, it'll be less costly when the day comes.
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    I imagine they thought that it would be an advantage to have a relationship with someone who has the clout, not only to change things, but to speed up the process. There has to be a good reason not to co-operate with people who are perceived to be powerful allies. I was never impressed by the King/Gough scheme but that doesn't mean that those who became involved in it should be condemned.
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    I really don't know. Ideas which are unlikely to have an effect are actually counter-productive. Card protests raise awareness initially and then become pointless. Marches and gatherings make people feel good for a while but they tend not to achieve very much. This latest idea is indeed ill thought-out.
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    Re statements, I believe that it is important to communicate information to the fanbase, and the UoF does this quite successfully. We are enduring a very depressing situation at the only club we'll ever have and it is about as complex as sending someone to Mars. At least there is a group of concerned people on the side of the support which is trying to keep us in the loop. I can't knock that. They may make mistakes from time to time, but so what? It goes with the territory. It is getting things right too. Imagine there was no UoF and no statements. That wouldn't be very encouraging at all. The UoF is an imperfect coalition. For the most part, it is doing a good job.
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    Indeed, and in our circumstances, if we boycott, there is another group across the city that will suddenly find that it wants to shop there. We seem to be limited in strategy. It always seems to come down to boycotting clubs, broadcasters, newspapers or businesses. Sometimes a point can be made, but too often the impact is negligible. If we expended the same energy trying to buy Rangers as we do trying to damage businesses that aren't liked, we might get somewhere, but it's easier to lash out than to act constructively and positively.
  18. Hildy
    Through the internet, and also due to our troubles, we have discovered that we are a broader church than many imagined. We have also discovered that we are close to hopeless at dealing with this crisis. The tribe that we are, or were, is splintering into factions, quite needlessly, and so there is no unity of purpose to supersede the growing bitterness between squabbling groups. It must surely be an eye-opener to those fans who believed that this horrendous situation could never happen. I'd been expecting a crisis for quite some time, but it was still difficult to come to terms with the reality when it eventually turned up. Like many Rangers fans, when I look at us, I find it impossible not to be disappointed. Perhaps because so many believed that our plight could never happen, we were too shocked to get to grips with the situation and constructively address it, but it's far worse than that. When I see 'never forget, never forgive' attitudes, it saddens me. If we are going to attempt to address the future with hatred to the fore, we will struggle. A positive 'can do' attitude is so much more helpful than a 'pay them back' approach because the latter compromises our judgement. Look at those Rangers fans who said 'do your worst' when it was clear that we were being removed from the top tier. They said this, for the most part, because they thought that our absence would be some kind of payback to Scottish football. The idea that our recovery could be seriously compromised wasn't entertained. I'm not interested in thoughts that are motivated by hatred and vengeance. I'm interested in the thoughts of those people who can put all that to one side: who can think clearly and rationally about how to set Rangers on the right course: who can act positively to heal Rangers and who understand that the term 'real Rangers fan' is a term that should be discarded forever if we are to build a future that is comparable to our past.
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    RF won't be accepted either. We have ground to a halt, stagnating in our our disorder. If the fan groups can't co-operate, as the UoF Is at least trying to do, we will be spectators at the club's funeral. God knows the club is in a mess, but parochialism within our own ranks is worsening an already desperate situation. The UoF should extend an invitation to this new fan board to be represented within its ranks.
  20. Hildy
    That's a reasonable summing up.
  21. Hildy
    Once the Assembly stopped being funded by the club, which cost around £35,000 a year I believe, it lingered on and became part of the UoF, but it had no real purpose or direction after that. If it had gone, we would hardly have noticed. Maybe it has gone - the club won't tell us.
  22. Hildy
    Indeed it is. Maybe we'll see some movement with regard to finding something to spend it on soon, to hasten its winding up.
  23. Hildy
    You'll notice I'm talking about the UoF here, of which the RST is a part. An attempt has been made by different groups to speak in a coordinated manner, which is surely a degree of progress.
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    There's a shock. Ready to listen but not ready to answer a simply question about its own group.
  25. Hildy
    The Assembly is into its next phase: the new fan board. Does the original even exist now? There is certainly confusion regarding fan groups, but that suits our dysfunctional club to a tee and allows it to add to the mess by creating this latest piece of junk. The Assembly was created because the club feared the fans having a voice through the RST, and now Assembly 2.0 has come along because the club wants to marginalise the various fan groups, have a degree of control over its in-house fan board, and cash in at the same time. While the club is in inappropriate hands, the only groups that have any value are independent of the club. If this new fan board came out with the kind of statement that the UoF just did, how long would the club tolerate it? As fans, we are quick to fall out with each other, but we are just as quick to bend over and let the club shaft us with its own dubious creations. With Assembly 1, we should have learned a lesson, and yet here we are again with Assembly 2.0 where we are actually participating with the very regime and board that few trust, hardly anyone wants, and after it wasted millions of pounds and put the club's future in serious doubt. The UoF may be imperfect, but it is independent and able to say what has to be said. Knock it for making the occasional error or misjudgement, but be glad of it, too. If we had to rely on a badly-run club's fan board to say what has to be said, we'd be as well chucking it.
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