pete 2,499 Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 On reading a post on FF the discussion was that the last striker to come through the Rangers ranks and play a lot of games for the first team was Derek Johnstone nearly 50 years ago. There have been a few who done reasonably well at championship level in England but nobody has played more than 30 games for Rangers. According to FF is Robert Fleck on 28 games the best after big D. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Dynamo 128 Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 Have we ever really been great at bringing striker's through, though? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete 2,499 Posted October 2, 2018 Author Share Posted October 2, 2018 3 minutes ago, Crimson Dynamo said: Have we ever really been great at bringing striker's through, though? I am from the Stein Johnstone era so I will let the older guys answer that. Certainly not in the last 40-50 years. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unicorn 206 Posted October 3, 2018 Share Posted October 3, 2018 Andy Little? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnMc 2,851 Posted October 3, 2018 Share Posted October 3, 2018 Barrie McKay is a forward player and played over 100 matches for us but he's not an out and out striker. John Spencer and Gary McSwegan didn't make 50 appearances between them and they're the last forwards of any talent I recall us producing. Before that it was Fleck and John MacDonald before him. Not exactly a stellar record. To be fair we've not got a stellar record developing young players full stop, although we're not alone in that. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
buster. 5,366 Posted October 3, 2018 Share Posted October 3, 2018 Consistently scoring goals for Rangers is a huge pressure to bear for young players coming through and selecting young players to do so is and continuing to do so when going through the inevitable dry spell is a difficult/brave/unwise (delete as you see fit) choice for managers. Only exceptional players who are exceptional from an early age will make it as a Rangers centre forward, eg. Derek Johnstone. A player who at an extremely young 16 years old as a centre forward, could score the winner at a domestic cup final against a Celtic team who had made the European Cup Final and 19 months later as a centre-half played in a winning Rangers team in a European final. Four years after that, he scored 41 goals in a treble winning season. Today, the probability for a route to success might start via the loan process. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Barristan Selmy 222 Posted October 3, 2018 Share Posted October 3, 2018 (edited) Edit - posted in error Edited October 3, 2018 by Ser Barristan Selmy 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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