buster.

How many times did he ask the question ?

“......A manager or coach can say different things in the dressing room pre-match to try and motivate and organise their group but when the players get out in front of the fans they have to take personal pride in their performance......" Jimmy Nicholl today (Link in Ians post above) Sounds like a familiar disclaimer of sorts Difficult to know what to expect, several ways you could look at it. Guess we'll know soon enough. The probable absence of Windass (picked up knock??) will enforce a fresh look about our attack.

Better add this here as well............ Pearce is local Liverpool Echo reporter dedicated to Liverpool FC

One for Rousseau to get his teetth into

I'm not so sure he'll bother trying to talk the same "good game" week in, week out. I tend to think he'll be more bothered about winning games. He didn't come accross as a great communicator but today it worked in his favour. What is more important is how he and his staff communicate with the players outwith the scrutiney of cameras and tape recorders. Forget about the league next season. Give him some leeway to build, learn, start to put a team together and improve on recent years. Aslong as he wins the league in his first 3 years, I'll be happy.

This is a Rangers forum, keep on topic please...........

A little can go along way if spent wisely (and visa versa).

Impossible to completely forget but we can heavily reduce the constant comparisons if the club itself and Gerrard in particular blanks those angles.

FORGET the team from the East for 12 months. Let's concentrate on improving Rangers to the point where we can revisit issues with confidence.

Enjoy it, you only live once !

Can't really understand this and I'm a cautious Bear. Time for reservation (or "dread" ) is past. There are positive angles to take from this and if you ignore those and keep concentrating on the negatives, then it's a strange mindset from a football supporter. It's now about listening to what the man himself has to say. I hope for cautious and measured ambition for a project that has to be built from near to scratch. Next to no mention of the team from the other side of the city and no talk of 55 or promises that the media will note down.

If Raman Bawbag says it's done, it's done

I'd say it'll be more important how he spends it. Wasting piles of cash in football is easy, spending it wisely brings relative success.

Whilst those doubts were based on reason, we now have to forget them and get fully behind the appointment. Even I'm fairly excited

Interesting times. Back in March 2015 I said we needed to employ some Patience and Realism , any of it quickly evaporated. Whilst exciting, we need some more of that particular P&R and it'd be good if Gerrard himself came out and asked for it, even if indirectly.

Programme presenter. Pod link https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0665p50#play

Listening to the sportsound podcast from yesterday and apart from the general negativity (MacIntryre, McLaughlin, Commons) on a potential Gerrard appointment (tbf Ian McCall did strike a more balanced view)....further into the programme there is an interview with Malky MacKay about youth football, when Kenny MacIntryre comes up with this beauty.......... ..."SG has been heavily linked with the Rangers job, we're told he's interested, talks are at an advanced stage...Yet, we keep hearing that he will ...be able to bring young players from England, from Liverpool up to Rangers. Thats got to be a concern....." .

Aslong as this doesn't become a case of reuniting all the old players that SG played with/knows. IMO we need a core of players in the 22-28years old bracket, two or three more experienced and a handful of 18-21s. edit Safe prediction: This thread is going to be crazy this year. .

Re. Thomas Isherwood You have to wonder why other clubs passed on him. I think you need legs and energy in a team these days but central defence is probably the one position I'd prefer experience. The real issue for the club/football operation is we need to start improving more players but how many years have we been saying the same. Until we do, promising youngsters will still tend to make it somewhere else, once they've left Ibrox.

Daily Star had it right a week ago This video on the BBC confirmed it for me at 1 min 05 seconds https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/43981612

Lennon and Rodgers both very publicly sounding off about something that is none of their business in an effort to discourage managerial candidates. If Lennon was really that concerned, he could have called Graeme Murty without the need to tell the world about it. -------------- Can't recall so much being made of a managerial sacking wrt the 'pity angle'. It's usually the 'this is a brutal results driven business' line and move on.

Good to see StevieG is using the Ferry Inn. I hear it's an excellent establishment.

It's obviously the old double landing bluff to throw the press pack off the scent. He's actually arriving at Waverly railway station in Edinburgh on the sleeper tomorrow morning and will be met by John Greigs girlfriend. When you've read this post, burn it so no-one else knows.

There is a huge margin to reduce it

I've said it best to forget celtic for 12 months so I am going to have to make a point of practising what I preach from here on in.