Bill

Since this is actually a right midfield position rather than a winger, my vote goes to Ian Ferguson. Twelve years, 336 games, 42 goals, 18 major trophies including 10 league championships - how do you not include this man? It's inconceivable to me that any of the 3 players who won all NIAR championship medals won't be in this team. As for Laudrup, I'll be voting for him later. (Btw, Tommy McLean was a better winger than Cooper but Willie Henderson was by far the best RW I ever saw and possibly world class in his heyday)

Gazza could do really amazing things. He just did them too infrequently and for too short a time to ever be considered the best ever in any position.

This is going to be interesting when it comes to the forward line. Apart from McCoist and Laudrup, it's hard to see anyone from the last 45 years getting a look in. And I still can't accept Robertson in place of Caldow. I'm shaping up this way ...... 5 from the NIAR era, 4 from the great 60s side and 2 from the 70s treble winners. And zip from the last 25 years, which might be better represented by Egil Ostenstad 😉 Laudrup? - McCoist - Henderson? Baxter - McDonald? - Greig Robertson Caldow - Butcher - Gough - Jardine Goram

When comparing opinions from different eras, it's vitally important not to play the nostalgia card, intentionally of otherwise. The sobering truth is fans like @Scott7 witnessed the great players and teams of the 1960s and every Rangers team since. He is therefore in a privileged and valid position to have an opinion, one that offers comparison over time, whereas someone who only started watching Rangers in (say) 1990 has no basis to make an assessment of players he/she never saw. It's too tempting for the younger fan to simply assume that those players of an earlier generation had to be inherently inferior to those of his personal experience - while having little or no basis for that assumption. The upshot is always that polls like this will always be skewed towards more recent experience, even though that will inevitably mean choosing from a more limited sample and excluding many great/better players. Looking at the teams chosen so far, Gersnet is either a home for geriatrics or some people are selecting on the basis of unseen reputation alone. Personally, it's obvious to me that all members under the age of 60 should be barred from voting. 😉

It's strange how we forget true Rangers heroes. Gazza was a real talent but was only at Rangers for five minutes and did nothing in Europe. My pick instead for attacking midfielder is Alex MacDonald, who played over 500 games, scored almost 100 goals and won 12 major trophies, including being instrumental in our ECWC success. He was a tenacious forager but also supplied DJ with so many of his goals. If Greig was the leader of that great team, Doddie was the soul. A wonderful player in every respect.

Yes, Greig was primarily a right half. He was also everything else apart from goalkeeper.

Would it break our hearts if OF games had no away supporters?

Every ten years that pass, another decade disappears from the first hand experience of Rangers fans. We're now losing the 1940's and soon the 50's and 60's will follow them into the shadows of heresay. Before you know it there will be none of us left who saw us win our only European trophy. All of which leaves you wondering how many great Rangers players and teams are now just unknown anecdotes from our long history, lost from time and memory. And the Baxters, Greigs, Laudrups, Coopers, etc will all follow them in due course and become just names on paper. So whatever names we put in this hypothetical team, we pick only from a very small sample and none of us have any idea how our choices stack up in the long pantheon of Rangers players. Most of our one-time players are utterly hidden from sight. It's quite a thought.

Jo Potter has worked small miracles with the team this season. They're doing the club proud.

I'll shortly be shoe-horning John Greig as right winger 😁

New Poll - should Rousseau be sacked?

The position is left midfield. Only you called it a winger.

Jim Baxter. Simply the best. World class.

I remember thinking at the time that Dave Smith was very special - the sort of player that doesn't grace every generation. This is certainly an exercise that shakes the memory and reminds us how many really good players we've had.

The defence has turned out quite well, all things considered. I managed to vote for 3 of the 5, another I can happily accept and only 1 of the 5 seems to me to be way off target. I think midfield is going to be chaos 🤣

It's John Greig of course, any other choice would be ridiculous. (except for the juveniles amongst us who never saw him play and wouldn't feel right voting for him 😉)

If you're right then the only sensible thing to do is ban from the debate anyone under the age of (say) 60 on the basis they clearly don't have the supporting bandwidth to make a reasonable decision 😁. Regarding Sandy Jardine, I don't need videos to know how good he was and I think what you're saying is anyone who does is too young to have an informed opinion. Sounds fair to me. 😂

Touché. However I DID see Billy Ritchie and would have voted for him if not for Goram. I certainly would have chosen Ritchie over most keepers this century. So perhaps I overstated my doubts.

Anyone know what Beale's payoff amounted to?

Strange that some feel unable to vote for players they didn't see play live. I see nothing in the terms of this topic to say that should be some sort of limitation. Don't people watch videos any more? And will Jim Baxter, possibly one of only three really world class Rangers players since the war, be denied because someone couldn't be arsed checking why he gained his reputation? Some of the proposals so far are patently ridiculous to any Rangers supporter who's been around for longer than Greta Thunberg.

Greig, Shearer, Jardine, Stevens, Hutton ....... Sandy Jardine for me.

Bougherra was a better CH than Boumsong

Richard Gough and Ronnie MacKinnon One was the best I'd seen until the other took his place.

That will continue to be a significant problem unless we find a way to introduce young players to the 1st team on a consistent basis. If we can’t demonstrate worth then we’ll never command the price we need. It’s also the only way to achieve any kind of conveyor belt of player sales. It’s a hard ask and impossible without an intelligent football operation that understands the essential nature of player development and trading.

Are we using a new ad agency these days? Because that's actually quite clever and well produced.