BEARGER 1,830 Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 From BBC website. Couple of statement in bold that gives his detractors more ammo. Rangers: Ally McCoist defends squad's four-star hotel stay Rangers manager Ally McCoist has defended the club's decision to book his squad into a four-star hotel before their win at Forfar. The players stayed at the Carnoustie Hotel before Monday's League One game at Station Park. "I can understand people questioning it," said the Rangers boss, whose club reported losses of £14.4m for the 13 months to July. "But it's my job to give our players the best opportunity to perform." “ It's my job as Rangers manager to give our players the best opportunity we can to perform ” Rangers manager Ally McCoist Chief executive Graham Wallace is aiming to reduce costs at the cash-strapped club and last week proposed a 15% wage cut for the playing staff, which they rejected. McCoist, who recently accepted a 50% cut to his £825,000 salary with the League One leaders, backed his players' decision to reject the wage cut. And he said the decision to stay at the hotel was simply a question of "preparing professionally". "We are still Rangers Football Club and have always attempted to be as professional as we can," he said. "That will never change as long as I'm manager. "To give the players the opportunity to play as well as they can you have to prepare as well as you can. We will continue to do that until I'm told otherwise." 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplythebest 0 Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 Well if that was their best opportunity to perform.... 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darthter 542 Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 Imagine what the performance would have been like if they stayed at a Premier Inn.... 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilledbear 16 Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 With a ' Training Schedule' being posted in certain places, there seems to be a bit of a campaign being started. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calgacus 8 Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 With a ' Training Schedule' being posted in certain places, there seems to be a bit of a campaign being started. Yep, blame McCoist and the players for our financial problems - that seems to be the new mantra from the spivs 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilledbear 16 Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 Good cop, bad cop. Wallace and Irvine. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zappa 0 Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 Aye and it's got nothing to do with golf Ally. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrahimHemdani 1 Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 McCoist needs a reality check. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian1964 10,723 Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankie 8,562 Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 The alleged training document is totally as expected while not mentioning individual schedules such as physio, gym, masseur, science work for afternoons. When I trained full-time for Dundee Utd (under Jim McLean 1990-1992) the first team would only train in the morning during most parts of the season depending on the match schedule. In the summer/pre-season, they would do afternoon work; usually in the gym or running. The winter usually involved more games so training was decreased as a result although some players would still be required to work themselves or with the reserves/youths depending on their fitness and/or squad position. All this is nothing new and people really are making a mountain out of a molehill. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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