Bill

I’m sorry but if I go by what I’ve actually seen from Dessers I have to conclude he’s the perfect on-field version of the manager who signed him. Fucking useless.

Where's Philippe Clement?

Hope springs eternal.

Tavernier has seen off an awful lot of managers. Just saying

That’s essential- I’ve had the last Beale poll enlarged and framed with the No voters in gold letters along the bottom.

As long as McInnes is in your poll

After the last poll do you really want to do this? 😂

I'm always wary of smokescreens in these matters but if that did happen to be the list then surely Clement would be an easy choice.

Worryingly, the inability to spot that Beale was an imposter, despite him being at the club for several years previously, says a lot about the care shown in managerial appointments.

The thing is, conjecture is all that's available to any of us right now and it's a bottomless well. No matter how any of us (or the board) go about identifying Beale's successor, nothing is ever guaranteed where people are concerned. Only when looking back over our shoulder on some future date will any of us know whether a good decision was reached and the right man was appointed. I sway between the need to appoint the most experienced candidate available, with the most glittering track record, and the knowledge that many of our most successful managers didn't have that profile at all. Symon, Wallace, Souness, Smith, McLeish all came from relative obscurity in managerial terms but all had something about them that led to their success. They also delivered 24 league titles and 35 cups between them (and 3 European finals). Could Stuart Kettlewell follow in those illustrious footsteps? No one knows but not all inexperienced managers have been failures.

I bet Hagi had a moment of satisfaction when he heard Beale had gone.

He only does questions

Lampard, Wilder ..... has the world gone insane. People like that should be nowhere near Ibrox.

Nope, I don't think that's it at all. You're literally being intentionally too literal. Allot of people do that.

I'm not sure we can say that. It would be ideal if that were to be the case but there are so many variables involved, some of which are beyond the club's control. If an appointment hasn't been made by 21st October then it's unlikely the world will come to and end. In any case, it's not as if a new manager is going to deliver an instantaneous transformation.

I don't think he's asking that at all. People might not got to games or buy as much merchandise but no one is going to stop supporting Rangers.

Can't you?

The speed with which the support condemned Beale should be your guide. Seems to me this isn't like the departure of Pedro or Gerrard or GvB. We're entering different territory where fuses will remain very short and any sign that the board are repeating the same mistakes will, I believe, see many immediately vote with their feet. The end of the collective tether is in sight.

In the end, leadership is almost everything

So is the return of Christ but I wouldn't hold your breath waiting.

Yes you have a point there. However he soon ran out of steam. Looking back, I think Alex McLeish emerges from the last 25 years with considerable credit. He might have inherited some of Advocaat's team and he was guilty of signing Olivier Barnard but he did achieve enviable success on a very modest budget.

No, you're right but that crutch won't be available at Rangers.

"Follow Follow" - now there's a name from the distant past. I haven't seen that awful place for many, many years. In my view the only thing more misguided than FF and RM are the people who perpetuate them by continuing to log in to these rats' nests.

Oh Christ NO. Bennett wouldn't be that stupid, would he. He'd be as well re-signing Aaron James Ramsey.