buster.

I think we'd respond quite well to winning 6 league games IAR (and counting) and beating celtic.

Apart from seeing no hope, can you see any candidates out there that fit the bill for you ?

As I've said before, it's Clarke for me but I don't think he'd want the job.

Jacko will be typing as we speak................

I don't know much about Hoddle in recent years but I agree re. McLaren. Bringing in 'Mr. Hair Island' would be like adding yet another layer of hilarity for the rest of Scottish football.

Whoi would 'do it' for you ?

Yes, but the same goes for whatever the specific I.D. of that kind of appointment and even moreso if they have no real previous connection to the club. At a guess, I think it's heading towards an English Championship level manager who is probably out of work, eg. Steve McLaren or similar.

A good example of 'the type of manager who could deal with the pressure' BUT ignoring his age/retirement for a moment,......if you told him you'd need to do it on a limited budget then I doubt that he would want the job.

Rather than just concentrate on names, we need to see the board need to come together and show leadership and honesty wrt the current situation and realistic timescales. Pressure and football management at Rangers go together like ham and eggs but the scale of pressure that is immediately on top of any new Rangers manager is getting to be of a level that is way out of tune with reality. Even the type of manager who could deal with it would need a level of finance that probably isn't there at present.

Talking about St.Mirren and managers. You'd need a young strong willed Alex Ferguson rather than Ross. IMO Jack Ross would crash and burn under the intense pressure and immediate expectation. If we want someone who'll turn this around immediately with limited finance, perhaps we aren't being realistic.

Re. RangersObserver tweets Opportunity to end the Miller problem at the end of last season wasn't taken. It appeared clear that Pedro didn't really want him but succumbed to pressure to go with Miller for an extra year. That said, the problems weren't just down to Miller.

A pertinent question might be......How does a prospective incoming manager view the squad in relation to demands/expectations and how much finance would be required to overhaul it to a 'satisfactory level'......The follow-up being, will that finance be available ?

More than anything,............we need a manager with the authority, credibility and backing to start building a team. Until that happens we'll have a collection of individuals (some good players) winning some and losing some.

Re. Focus: That is the natural progression and we aren't short of fans who'll see this as opportunistic to lay into the board because of deep-rooted positions. That said, the board are obviously deserving of being asked searching questions and more importantly coming up with answers. I think it'd be wise to pre-empt the current mgmt. problem and replace Murty. However, to simply put another assisstant in charge might have very little effect. It's an extremely challenging situation but one that the club has been heading toward because of a series of poor decisions.

Much of the focus is presently on Murty but if he remains and Sunday goes badly, then it will move to the boardroom.

You'd have to know exactly how the 'going mental' manifested itself but the crux is that Murty had no real authority (even less now). Nor now does he have credibility left in his current role and if manager on Sunday will have to depend on the players motivating themselves.

Immediate thoughts have to be with ST sales and that on the face of this story, Murty looks like being in the dug-out for the Hearts match. The later has the potential to get ugly and further slow down renewals. The one plus is that Hearts have nothing to play for in terms of league position. I wonder if Keith Jackson will get less 'exclusives' from Ibrox now.

Are you saying Clarke has peculiar gardening skills that previous Kilmarnock managers didn't have ?

Bill, who is your (realistic) candidate that wouldn't be a gamble ?

Might suggest something is happening that will come with an annoucement but then I might be trying too hard to see something that isn't there.

You are very good at finding fault but it would be more interesting if you could put forward solutions as well.

The two Scottish managers to have beaten Celtic this season (Clarke and Levein) are pragmatic and don't care if labeled boring. One of those (Clarke) can also achieve consistency of result, 6 League wins IAR (the next best is 4). Clarke also knows what it is to work at the top level and has shown this season that he can have an immediate effect in the Scottish top tier, even before he got to a transfer window and has yet to be beaten by Rodgers Celtic. Almost reminds me of someone.......

I've never seen a worse 45 minutes in a big game. It was almost as if our players were on an end of season jolly and had been on a brewery tour at lunchtime.

Are you going to buy them out or do you know of someone who will ? They deserve criticism and in part it's been omnishambolic at times but what would your alternative plan be ?

The point I'd take form the return to form of Kris Boyd is that he has openly admitted he was considering "chucking it" at the beginning of the season because he thought himself that he was done. However, the appopintment of Steve Clarke dramatically changed his outlook, his form and his goal tally. The later because the team started to make more chances.