Bearman

Oh.., well maybe a couple of years ago he could have shown you something, but....

I know...It's the Record and they need to sell papers...but here goes.

So sad... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlL0VvFeElQ

I'm not quite sure yet what is wrong with Rangers right now...I've whittled it down to 2 separate possibilities. 1. Attitude 2. Ability Frustratingly I'm leaning more to # 1.

GRAEME SOUNESS is far removed from the cash-laden goldfish bowl he called home as the Rangers manager some 30 years ago. Geographically speaking, the fresh-faced 63-year-old now spends most of his weekends sitting in a sharp suit in front of a camera in a warm studio, analysing the various rights and wrongs of the top players in the world’s self-proclaimed finest football league somewhere south of the border. Metaphorically, the distance is even greater. It was from his position at Sky Sports HQ – the telly channel and the actual HQ – that Souness spoke of a distant world up the road. A precarious heartland that is barely recognisable to the land of milk, honey and champagne that was associated with not just Rangers but Scottish football during his five years as the Ibrox manager, propelling him into the club legend as one of the key men in the Glasgow side’s history. Once a top flight that allowed Souness to attract England captain Terry Butcher to Govan, now sees the man that occupying the manager’s chair at Ibrox fishing in the lower leagues of England for players. Mark Warburton has come under fire for the way his team has performed – or underperformed this season – but Souness argues he has not been given the investment by Dave King that makes the task of getting close to Celtic feasible. “It saddens me,” he said while speaking at the telly giant's London base. “It might seem like a long time ago I was at Rangers. Thirty years ago may seem like that but it’s not a long time in the history of the game for a club who could outbid Man United and everyone else in England, pay the same wages as Arsenal to where they are today. “It’s really unkind to not just them. All the money is poured down here to English football. They’ve not managed to get into an English league for all the right reasons if you are a Norwich, Blackburn or Burnley. It’s just the way it has unfolded for them and I think our national game has suffered. Every team in Scotland has suffered. “I don’t think the manager has had a lot to work with. He’s not been given much to work with when you are buying players from Accrington Stanley. “I’m buying players from top English clubs when I’m there, it’s a million miles away from the job I had to the one today. I’m buying the England captain and he’s buying a different level of player altogether.” During a half-hour chat Souness admits he has never met King, the man who is now tasked with guiding Rangers from the gloom back into the light. Yet that fact hasn’t stopped him being critical of the money offered up by the Rangers chairman to boost the playing staff. Talk of £30million investments and doing ‘whatever it takes’ has raised expectation levels that heavy funding was to be ploughed into the Gers first-team. These are claims which Souness, who came close to taking over the club along with Brian Kennedy back in 2014, reckons have gone unfulfilled. “If you make promises to football supporters it makes life double difficult if you don’t keep them,” he said. “Along with Brian Kennedy we were very close, we actually thought we had it. There was going to be a hard sell, that’s one of the things we were going to say on day one. “This is not going to be a short or easy road, there’s a long way to get it back anywhere near where you want it to be because you can’t spend money you don’t have. “That was the message we’d have put across on day one and every day we needed to say it. “Where the problem arises for Rangers supporters now is if the owner has come out and said he’s going to put money in and he hasn’t, then he’s caused himself a problem.” Souness is clear investment is needed at Ibrox if Rangers are to mount any sort of challenge in the coming years. In the eyes of many Light Blue supporters, this campaign was always going to be one of consolidation after being promoted from the Championship, even if the heat of the moment has raised hopes of something more. But it remains unclear how much longer this club will remain in a state of transition before the natives start to become even more restless. “I don’t think there’s any surprises,” said Souness. “Celtic bopping that at Parkhead early in the season, predictable. Rangers narrowly losing to them in the cup, predictable. “Hopefully they can go one better on Hogmanay. Is it impossible? No. Is it likely? No. That’s reality for Rangers and their supporters. “I don’t think the manager has been given any chance.” He added: “You can’t look into a crystal ball but what you can say is if money is put on the table and you get half your signings right then you are going to be better next time around. “If there is no money put on the table and you are buying the same types of players and that’s your market, then you won’t improve. “There is no coach out there that could take that group and make them into Barcelona.” http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/sport/rangers/14941757.Graeme_Souness_on_Warburton__Dave_King_and_the_future_for_Rangers/?ref=rss

My first visits to Ibrox consisted of Martin in goal and Provan at LB, with an ever fading memory I think I just missed out on Billy Ritchie between the sticks back then. Davie Provan was definitely LB and Kia was RB Only with the help of an old book on Rangers can I say Davie had to fill in for Bobby Shearer or Eric Caldow on occasion before cementing his own position as a regular in the LB position only when firstly Shearer and then Caldow's time was up. Some time later Billy Mathieson took over his role at LB. Davie played his last game for Rangers on October 4th 1969 at Muirton Park, a week later Norrie Martin bowed out in a home match vs Hibs. Gerry Neef with some serious pressure from Peter McCloy took over in goals. RIP Davie.

Surrender or you'll dry....for we are the Bully Bully Boys...!

We really should be putting teams like Partick Thistle to bed...it's a traditional thing!

It's not strange, not 'stirring the pot' is probably a more dignified way of dealing with these idiots in the current climate. We are having to deal with lot's of problems from what happened years ago. We have to accept what's going on just now until we are in a position to challenge them. We are getting there albeit gradually. Dave King will be just as furious as any Rangers fan at what happened after the final whistle at the 2016 Scottish Cup Final. We could drag up all the misdemeanours against our club but that would deflect from the main job of our Board...Getting us back to where we belong. That's the most important thing above all the negativity that's thrown at the club from the MSM.

It probably won't happen, but if it did I wouldn't complain as long as they didn't change our colours. RB Rangers is still Rangers...Red Bull Stadium is still Ibrox, our crest is iconic and wouldn't be forgotten, rival fans would see the same in anger. Bring it on!

Saw them on the telly off and on tonight against Kilmarnock. They are so far ahead it's bloody scary, Scott Brown looked dreadful as usual but the rest of them looked really professional and way above where we are. It's time our club stopped living in the dark ages and start taking things very seriously...no kidding.

It's also now easy to see how we get deflected from the main issue...why are we so shite nowadays with easily the 2nd best resources in the country?

I don't care of lame excuses being made of where we are due to what happened 4 years ago...that's all in the past now, we are are the 2nd best supported club in Scotland atm with the 2nd best resources in the land yet find ourselves floundering in the depths of mediocrity amongst the dross that is Scottish football? I care about who is in charge of my club....and getting fed up with the results they keep producing. Rangers fans deserve a whole lot better than what is being delivered...Time for change.

Beginning like yourself, thinking of bad signings all round...Barton was a complete failure, Dodoo hasn't had an earthly of getting into the starting line-up, Crooks is nothing but a hospital case, Garner couldn't lace even Jim Denny's boots and Senderos? Don't start me on him! Waghorn has went from top goal scorer to picking on schoolboys, (it's only social media nowadays HA!) The rest ponce about like they deserve to be here under Mark Warburton! Time for a clear-out on a massive scale...do it! Get spending some money on guys of the calibre who play football under the guidance of proper management ffs! We are a fckin joke right now!

I used to go to watch Scotland at Hampden, hardly missed a game in my youth, went to Wembley twice but never watched them abroad. Years on I hardly even bother to watch them on telly now (admittedly I did watch the last game). Strachan should have been sacked after his failure to qualify for Euro16 - most outsiders would agree! It's up to the SFA to make decisions on hiring and firing not the fans...the SFA have failed big time here and it looks like we will just have to accept it. Anyway as I've already said, I'm not really a fan of our National team so my opinion certainly doesn't count. I will add though...if the SFA hadn't made the decision they made today I probably might have watched our next game in March on the telly.

Tomorrows opponents will be the 21st league meeting of the 21st century between the sides. Of the previous 20 Rangers have lost only once, that came on 14th March 2001. Dick Advocate's injury ravaged side lost 0-2 at Ibrox where Claudio Caniggia opened the scoring on 14 minutes, Stephen Milne netted the 2nd goal deep into stoppage time. The defeat left Rangers 16 points behind leaders Celtic Missing the game through injury or suspension were Arthur Numan, Jorg Albertz, Ronald de Boer, Peter Lovenkrands, Tugay, Claudio Reyna, Fernando Ricksen, Michael Mols, Neil McCann, Tony Vidmar, Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Rod Wallace and Kenny Miller. Rangers team that night: Klos, Moore, Wilson, Amoruso (Kaupilla 83), Porrini, Carson (Dodds 46), Konterman, Ferguson, Johnston (Malcolm 50), Gayle, Flo. Subs Not Used: Christiansen, Leven. Craig Moore saw red on 48 minutes, Lorenzo Amoruso was left with a hole in his thigh after a challenge six minutes from the end, the injury would keep him out for a month. There have been three cup meetings over the same period with Rangers winning all 3. A superb run of results against them in recent history P23 W19 D3 L1. Going back a little further Dundee were a bit of a bogey side for us (In fairness almost every side were our bogey team during this period!). From April 82 through to Sept 86 we met them 17 times on league business gaining just five wins, they also ended our Scottish Cup hopes in 1984 and 1985. How things go tomorrow is anybody's guess, all we can hope is that we produce the same performance last time we played them at Ibrox. Am I hoping for too much?

At-a-glance highest/lowest clubs...

Escaping the jaws of Lawwell seems a million miles away...this is the guy who went on a 'jaunt' to the Middle East to sew up a deal for 'Lawwell/Ceptic during the awful international break...a guy of no interest to the well being of Scottish football. A fckwit individual with only one thing of importance...Himself.

Access to Scum hut at London Road to remain closed until further notice...Liewell and cronies at GCC creating escape tunnels from Big Jock statue to graveyard under porkhied stadium. Will show his face at a Co-op Superstore soon with beaming face complete with Jap eyes. No announcement yet is expected regarding the cover up of historic child abuse at the club during the 60's/'70's.

Probably saying this in the wrong thread...but Waghorn played for the development team today against Ross County and suffered a bad injury, his value has bombed in recent months for whatever reason and now meantime his value goes from bad to worse. Hope the injury isn't critical for Rangers sake.

I'm gutted that Waggy is a preferred 'rid of' player now...why has our top scorer become a demon in the same way as the disaster Barton bloke? Martyn Waghorn is entitled to have preferences in which way he wants to style his career but leaving Rangers says all is not good at Ibrox...this is of great concern to me.

Harry Forrester I like...but if the rumours are true then playing in front of 50,000 every other week is a step too far for him unfortunately. Can't handle the professionalism that goes playing for a big club. What a waste!

Mark Warburton's original signings were 'brilliant' of that there is no dispute (Kiernan?) , okay it was only the Championship, but it 'earned' him the title of 'Magic Hat'. Forrester and O'Halloran coming in the January window cemented things a little and everything was rosy. General feeling amongst Bears is that the top half of the Championship clubs and the bottom half of SPFL sides are basically round about the same quality. This seasons transfer window though has turned out to be a bit sour for MW for a lot of reasons, the most distasteful was Joey Barton obviously, no-one in their wildest imagination would have predicted a 'circus' of such magnitude. His other captures like Rossiter & Crooks have been struck down by injury at some stage and hardly had any opportunity to excel/show why they were brought in the first place. News of Kranjcar getting crocked for the season 3 months into it just made things go from bad to worse. Along with Barton his 'bad' signings so far appear to be Senderos Dodoo and Garner, it could be said that Dodoo has yet to be given a run in the side and in fairness to the player that might be the case. Hodson has been a good signing I think, from what I've seen of him, the blunder against St Johnstone is best forgotten. Clint Hill? I'm not sure about him, I'm not a fan of his anyway, admittedly he's done very well recently... The problem therefore is in his 'original' signings...In particular Waghorn, a revelation who scored a lot of goals for us in our promotion bid who was then this season struck down by an unfortunate injury which seems to have cost him all his ability in a matter of months?? Holt - another important player who also since his injury hasn't found any form resembling anything like last year yet either? Tavernier and Halliday and to an extent Foderingham have been pretty consistent carrying on from where they left off. Which brings us to the guys who were here before Warbs arrived. Wallace: I love his commitment and remember last season how he suddenly after years of trying found his true ability and deserved his POTY award...for some reason he isn't the same player now. McKay: Last year we were accepting the 'fact' we would lose this player soon to the EPL, the fear was he would be sold below his market value...well, - our best player imo last season has bombed big time...hopefully soon we can all witness a resurgence back to what he's very capable of. Disappointed in him in particular this campaign as I thought he was easily the best young player Scotland had produced in years. Miller: Without a doubt last year in the Championship was going to be his swansong, after 20 years in the game he was going out on a high, he would be a bit player in the SPFL this season and spend most of the time warming the bench and barking instructions from that area. If we can sign ONE, just one player in the next window regardless of their preferred position with the application and desire of Kenny Miller, we'll be in a good place come May. Oh...and, please don't swallow Barton's tweets where he thanks Rangers fans and all that. He doesn't really mean it - he's the biggest arsehole ever to wear a Rangers shirt.

He's free to apply for credit ?