How Good is this Rangers Team

[maineflyer 0]

In the same way it's always been, we'll see what kind of team we've got next weekend. Good Rangers teams win at the piggery. Valencia is a welcome distraction but only a distraction.

[Guest PTB]

I think the bonding involves the fans as well - when we have gone behind the fans have stuck with it and driven the team on to victory.

 

Being honest though if we had gone behind against Hertz and the sheep at Ibrox i'm not sure the home crowd would have reacted the same as the away fans.

[ian1964 10,720]

We are a very good team

[bluedan 93]

I can compare the club to the team i play for in Melbourne. Although they're on totally different ends of the scale, there are many similarities. At my club we are the only team in the league that doesn't pay players (rangers are skint). Theres guys in my league on $1000 per week. But at our club we are purely there for the love of the game and the bond in the club right through to the reserves is fantastic. You rarely find that in football.

Even the fans at my club, we've got a guy whos missed 1 match in 28 years,and that for for his daughters wedding. Rangers,best supporters in the world.

 

Walter first and foremost has done an amazing job, his track record at building a fighting spirit amoungst players is clear but guys like Coisty and Durrant play massive roles too. Us as Gers fans have been fantastic, we're sensing that although not the most gifted side in terms of skill, we do play good football and we'll never surrender. We kick every ball with them and the players know and apprechiate it and its showing through the results.

 

So to sumise, i think this is one of the best Rangers teams, it feels a lot more personal, we are in it together more than ever before and long may it last.

 

WATP :robbo:

[Totti 0]

We're not skint though in SPL terms. We're 10 times as rich as any spl team outwith celtic

[Gribz 826]

We're not skint though in SPL terms. We're 10 times as rich as any spl team outwith celtic

 

Depends what way you look at it. Hearts have around the same level of debt as us and Hibs might be in the black.

 

See your point though, in assets, size, potential and turnover terms. We maybe have a T/O more than 10 times the others.

Edited October 29, 2010 by Gribz

[Totti 0]

Slightly off topic but I think this is the first time since 02/03 that we've had a really good side that correlates with the size of our club. We don't have as many big names as then but we have a very good and balanced side and now very much play the Rangers way. We were strong a couple of years ago but in a different way and the standard of football was often not very pleasing on the eye. In fact you could even say it was often not far off abysmal. How many times do we play the long ball now? Not often. Having natural width in our side combined with creativity in the final third and players who like the ball kept short on the deck has worked wonders.

 

Interesting times ahead. One can only hope that we only get better.

[Gazza_8 233]

Slightly off topic but I think this is the first time since 02/03 that we've had a really good side that correlates with the size of our club. We don't have as many big names as then but we have a very good and balanced side and now very much play the Rangers way. We were strong a couple of years ago but in a different way and the standard of football was often not very pleasing on the eye. How many times do we play the long ball now? Not often. Having natural width in our side combined with creativity in the final third and players who like the ball kept short on the deck has worked wonders.

 

Interesting times ahead. One can only hope that we only get better.

 

The transition between WS leaving and AM taking over the managers job has to be worrying no matter how well we're playing now as, although AM has worked under the guidance of WS over the last 4 or so years, every manager has his own way of doing things.

 

FIngers crossed though.

[Totti 0]

Normally I'm not a fan of good British players getting top jobs early on in their career, it often ends in disaster. Particularly in England where coaching training is inferior to foreign countries. Ally though has plenty coaching experience and has been hands on in the first team.