PoohBear

We were let off the hook there i think

Lucky not to give away a pen

Glad he’s walking, but doesn’t look in a good way. Don’t like to see it.

Hope he’s ok now, just our luck to find a goalscorer who then gets injured whilst scoring a goal.

Get on there, nice to see what Danilo can do!

1 hour ago, Gonzo79 said:

Did anyone ask him why so few of his Summer signings (specifically Danilo) started against PSV on Celtc?  Or why we sat off Celtc in the first half?  Or why he doesn't change things when they aren't working?  

It's the biggest failing of his so far. He has spent so much money and brought in 9 new players. However, he doesn't seem to trust them at all, if that persists then it's damning.

1 hour ago, Bill said:

I'm just amazed at how many are willing to ignore Beale's obvious failings in order to salve their own consciences about being seen to sack him "too soon". I take the view that the interests of the club come before such sensitivities or the needs of any manager or player. 

 

If you can't actually point to a specific basis for hope, what does it matter whether he is sacked now or in two months' time. You've watched him manage the team for 10 months, you've seen his signings, you've seen who he let go and who he kept, you've seen us lose half our league games and be embarrassed in Europe. The players look demoralised and disorganised. 

 

I will give Beale my fullest support if someone can point out a valid and convincing reason to do so.

I am thinking in the interest of the club, we may damage our reputation by not giving managers time to get things right. It's a self inflicted wound because generally our selection of managers has been dire.

9 hours ago, Gonzo79 said:

I'm thinking most of the No voters are either at the wind up or a bit mental.

 

If it's the former, it isn't funny.  If it's the latter, best wishes to your nearest and dearest.

I haven't voted and I'm on the side of thinking Beale can't turn this around. However, I'm concerned we are becoming a poisoned chalice, eventually most managers will not consider us worth the risk. On paper, when you look at Gio's sacking it looks quite extreme (although we all know how poor our domestic form was), he had just taken us to the Europa League final. Only Gerrard has had any sort of longevity in recent seasons and I think a lot of potential managers will look at that and wonder if it's worth risking their career over. In a way I feel the board has to give Beale time so that we don't look like a basket case club that sacks managers on a whim. It's not a great position to be in.

It kind of a bummer when I look at that squad and think what we spent in the summer. All that optimism wiped out. The defence looks very shaky if there are any injuries, and the forwards is chock full of players we don't play.

22 minutes ago, Bill said:

He could be our very own Berti Vogts

Christian! Christian!

3 hours ago, Bill said:

I think that's a wild exaggeration. We didn't appear to miss him when he was out injured for weeks.

 

If Rangers' fortunes are tied to Borna Barisic's presence then we're in deeper shit than I realised.

What was the wild exaggeration? That we will be much worse off? I never said anything about Rangers fortunes, that’s your exaggeration mate. I just think getting rid of our best left back would be extremely daft with no back-up plan. I’m not impressed by the current backup.

In my opinion I haven't seen anything of Ridvan to make me think he will be a suitable replacement for Barasic. If Barasic leaves then we will be much worse off.

24 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

RANGERS NEXT MANAGER CANDIDATES:

 

Kevin Muscat 7/2

Jesse Marsch 7/1

Ralph Hasenhuttl 8/1

Kjetil Knutsen 9/1

Marcelo Bielsa 10/1

Gennaro Gattuso 12/1

Graham Potter 14/1

Ruud Van Nistelrooy 16/1

Scott Parker 16/1

Andre Villas-Boas 20/1

Jon Dahl Tomasson 28/1

Derek McInnes 33/1

Sam Allardyce 33/1

Chris Wilder 33/1

Alex Neil 40/1

Frank Lampard 40/1

John Terry 40/1

Joachim Low 50/1

Dean Smith 50/1

Steven Gerrard 50/1

Gio Van Bronckhorst 50/1

Carlos Corberan 66/1

David Wagner 66/1

Paul Heckington 66/1

Michael Carrick 66/1

Darren Moore 66/1

Nigel Pearson 66/1

Neil Warnock 66/1

Paul Ince 80/1

Nathan Jones 80/1

Dick Advocaat 100/1

Duncan Ferguson 200/1

Barry Ferguson 250/1

Neil Lennon 1000/1

 

Quite poor odds on Lennon

Massive problem if true, and will only make our football more dour to watch.

The board are ina very tricky position now, he’s lost the fans but can the board really sack him after a handful of games in the season? I don’t think Beale can turn this around, but also I’m not sure that the board have the evidence yet that it isn’t going to work.

14 minutes ago, CammyF said:

Alfie still looking for a club. Just saying. 

No he’s not, he’s joined…..   Santos.

Unfortunately I think most can see that it will be very difficult, if not impossible for Beale to turn this around. It's damning when you can't trust your most expensive signings to play in your most difficult games. However, I dont think there is enough evidence of failure for the board to do something about it yet. For sure they should question Beale about the financial outlay on players who aren't getting time, but I think a sacking is a little way down the road yet. We are in a very strong position to win the League Cup, I think the board will at least wait to see how that plays out first. 
 

It's a worrying time though, for sure.

Claiming Dessers was fouled is a completely wild take to be honest.

29 minutes ago, ranger_syntax said:

Nonsense.

It's a literal fact 😂

3 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

OK. At the very least it's not conclusive or cheating, if we're disagreeing. 

 

I don't really care, to be honest. It's just distracting us from the poor performance.

This is the thing for me, Celtic we’re awful, truly the most awful Celtic team I’ve seen in a long time, and our players and manager let us down.

Just now, RANGERRAB said:

Did the VAR ref call Robertson over to have a look at it? It looked to me at the time he’d given the goal.

He had given the goal initially, but it isn’t unusual for refs to let the goal occur and use VAR as the safety blanket.

If you make contact with a player like that whilst you aren’t in control of the ball, arm on shoulder and tangling the feet then there is every opportunity for the ref to call a foul. I think it was soft but calling it cheating is nonsensical to me.

No chance Beale is going after that. He'll hang on and potentially even win the League Cup, but I think if we get beat in that then it'll be game over for him.

If I remember right Beale had a bad time at QPR for the last month or so. They were probably secretly delighted we paid for him. 6 points from 12 available is a disaster.