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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.

I think both us and them have a large margin for improvement on this league season. We need to be thinking about building a hungry, competitive squad with legs and energy and forgetting about them for 12 months.

Candeias signed an extension which takes him up to 2020. edit to insert link https://rangers.co.uk/news/headlines/daniel-candeias-signs-new-deal/

We need more players with their careers in front of them instead of too many experienced 30+ years old players. If we want to be an energetic side with 'legs', we can't keep buying relative oldtimers. We need a core that has a couple of real leaders, especially central defence and central midfield.

We have 65 points with three games to go,............. last season we finished with 67 points. I don't think there will be much in the way of improvement on our side after those 3 games. What has happened is that Celtic have went backwards in terms of points/ consistency of result, I think the most league wins IAR for them this season is THREE (we are 4 (x2) , Kilmarnock had a 6). The feature for us has tended to be that when we do receive a set-back we don't get back off the canvas quickly. Our fragility shows, our confidence goes and we lose more points right away. Celtic on the other hand, nearly always bounce back with a win. What I'm saying is although the points difference (us v them) isn't as vast this season, we still have huge margin for improvement but after a relatively poor league season, so do they.