Official: Gio confirmed as Rangers manager

[ian1964 10,724]

 

[CammyF 8,131]

13 minutes ago, ian1964 said:

 

FFS Tav....

[CammyF 8,131]

11 minutes ago, ian1964 said:

 

Says the ex-manager who took gardening leave for how long ?‍♂️?

 

(Btw- I still think of Super as a Rangers legend before anyone starts ? )

[Rousseau 10,655]

1 hour ago, ian1964 said:

That's what I've been saying mate! but was told I was acting like Tim!!.

 

49 minutes ago, Uilleam said:

I don't think that you have acted in this manner.

I could suggest who has done so, but I think you know.

I was kidding! 

[ian1964 10,724]

 

[Rousseau 10,655]

I don't understand the 'timing' criticism?

 

Was he supposed to turn down Aston Villa because we were half way through a season? And then leave at the end of the season when there''s no job available?

 

And then the 'he took all the backroom staff' criticism. Well, yes, that's how it works nowadays; managers have their team around them. 

 

It just sounds like jilted lover stuff to me. 

[Bill 13,717]

Against a backcloth of a team that has seemed stale and poorly motivated for some time, comes the resignation of Steven Gerrard and his entire backroom staff. We are expected to believe that these people were all approached, negotiated personal terms and concluded contracts in the short time between Dean Smith being sacked on Sunday and Aston Villa revealing their new management team 4 days later. Much more likely, this group had been approached well before Dean Smith was sacked and it was merely a matter of allowing a decent few days to pass before making the announcement. We all know this is almost certainly the case.

 

However, it raises another question. Were Gerrard and his staff entertaining previous approaches from other clubs while still in place at Rangers and could that to some extent explain or have contributed to the decline we've all seen on the park these last 3 months? Was it known among the players that the management team wanted out? Conspiracy theory or plausible possibility? One thing seems sure, their move to Aston Villa was a little too smooth and seamless to naively believe it came out of the blue and, if that's the case, then Gerrard and his staff have indeed shown enormous and unforgivable disrespect to a club that only ever treated them well.

[CammyF 8,131]

We all knew SG would leave Rangers, we all knew this as soon as he signed up as our manager. 

 

When is a good time to leave? He is hardly the first Rangers manager to leave during a season.

 

If someone said to me the day SG signed that he'd leave after delivering 55 and reinstating us as a decent European reputation, I would have taken that.

 

Let's remember the mess we were in when he took over. Being Scottish Champions felt like it was miles away, and as for Europe, well it was an nightmare. 

 

He's gone, as we knew he would, the circumstance and merits of his departure could be discussed long into the night, but what's the point? 

 

Id rather focus my energy on the future, we have a league to win, and it is winnable, we are in pole position despite being a shadow of the team we know we can be. 

 

Rangers are bigger than any one person, Rangers have survived and prospered worse situations than we find ourselves in at this moment in time.  

[Uilleam 5,948]

41 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

I don't understand the 'timing' criticism?

 

Was he supposed to turn down Aston Villa because we were half way through a season? And then leave at the end of the season when there''s no job available?

 

And then the 'he took all the backroom staff' criticism. Well, yes, that's how it works nowadays; managers have their team around them. 

 

It just sounds like jilted lover stuff to me. 

Don't be so wet.

He has just ripped the piss out of the Club in organising his move, he has left it in a very deep hole with a stuttering and confused group of players, with no one -at all- to take charge, with very important games on the horizon. Thus we now have a Board having to replace an entire coaching team, in very short order, and with those replacements having to hit the ground running, and running hard.

I don't care about his reasons. I care only about the impact of his decisions on the Club, and I fear that he may have fucked it royally, at least as far as this critical season is concerned. 

Forgive me if I don't wish him God speed and good luck. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[ian1964 10,724]

1 minute ago, Uilleam said:

Don't be so wet.

He has just ripped the piss out of the Club in organising his move, he has left it in a very deep hole with a stuttering and confused group of players, with no one -at all- to take charge, with very important games on the horizon. Thus we now have a Board having to replace an entire coaching team, in very short order, and with those replacements having to hit the ground running, and running hard.

I don't care about his reasons. I care only about the impact of his decisions on the Club, and I fear that he may have fucked it royally, at least as far as this critical season is concerned. 

Forgive me if I don't wish him God speed and good luck. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

100% agreed mate