[Official] John Bennett steps down with immediate effect for health reasons

[CammyF 8,079]

8 hours ago, RANGERRAB said:

The standard of football in the lowland league is shocking

So what do you suggest for the B Team? It can't play in the league structure so we can only play friendlies. Hardly ideal for development. 

[CammyF 8,079]

8 hours ago, RANGERRAB said:

Reported by which red top rag?

Gillespie was never offered the Rangers CEO position I’m told. Presumably after we did due diligence on him 

Wasn't he? You know that for a fact? 

[CammyF 8,079]

So looks like the new Sports Bar at Ibrox will have to be renamed as G51 name has been trademarked by Craig Houston from Sons Of Struth.

[onevision 1,568]

18 minutes ago, CammyF said:

So looks like the new Sports Bar at Ibrox will have to be renamed as G51 name has been trademarked by Craig Houston from Sons Of Struth.

I'm sure he has said he won't object to G51 being used.

[Rousseau 10,602]

54 minutes ago, CammyF said:

So what do you suggest for the B Team? It can't play in the league structure so we can only play friendlies. Hardly ideal for development. 

The idea was to play competitive games against the top youth sides in the world. Other B team focused clubs do similar. I felt like we were doing that but it seems to have dried up. 

 

I do think pulling the B team was a little short-sighted. The level was poor, but playing regular games against men was the main objective. 

[RANGERRAB 3,653]

58 minutes ago, CammyF said:

Wasn't he? You know that for a fact? 

Do a bit of research & you’ll find out a bit about Gillespie & his current role(at the kibble). Not someone you’d appoint 

[JohnMc 2,750]

Hearts are a great example of a well funded, well run football club. Why investment from someone with no feel or care for the club is being welcomed is beyond me. 

 

There's a bigger question regarding what kind of club we want. It seems some would welcome us becoming part of a larger 'football organisation', owned by an American hedge fund or Arab state investment arm. Rangers would simply become a stepping stone club, somewhere to 'park assets' in the hope one day they'll be good enough to play for Wolves or Al-Ittihad. Fuck that. If that's the future for Rangers I'm not sure I want any part of it. 

 

I'd argue we were a decent centre forward away from winning the league last season. Certainly the margins were small. This season we've started poorly, but it's early days. Of course panic has set in, that's what we do as a support, but the season is long and it's got twists and turns to come. It's far too early to judge anything yet. 

 

On the B team in the Lowland League, the standard is simply not good enough. The idea was interesting, but the reality is different. We've 3 young players starting regularly for us currently. One played 59 games for Aberdeen, one 96 games in the Danish top flight and one 31 games in the Cypriot top flight. That's the level we need our B team players at if they've got any chance of progressing to our first team. We'd be far better off finding clubs we can loan our younger prospects out too. Or even do deals where they literally join a club with a guaranteed buy-back in place. 

Young players make mistakes, lose concentration and can be dominated by experienced players. All this talk of a player trading model overlooks the fact that a sizeable percentage of our support will rise with fury at a series of misplaced passes far less a run of games where someone is trying to play their way back into form. 

[yuddie 1,693]

13 minutes ago, JohnMc said:

Hearts are a great example of a well funded, well run football club. Why investment from someone with no feel or care for the club is being welcomed is beyond me. 

 

There's a bigger question regarding what kind of club we want. It seems some would welcome us becoming part of a larger 'football organisation', owned by an American hedge fund or Arab state investment arm. Rangers would simply become a stepping stone club, somewhere to 'park assets' in the hope one day they'll be good enough to play for Wolves or Al-Ittihad. Fuck that. If that's the future for Rangers I'm not sure I want any part of it. 

 

I'd argue we were a decent centre forward away from winning the league last season. Certainly the margins were small. This season we've started poorly, but it's early days. Of course panic has set in, that's what we do as a support, but the season is long and it's got twists and turns to come. It's far too early to judge anything yet. 

 

On the B team in the Lowland League, the standard is simply not good enough. The idea was interesting, but the reality is different. We've 3 young players starting regularly for us currently. One played 59 games for Aberdeen, one 96 games in the Danish top flight and one 31 games in the Cypriot top flight. That's the level we need our B team players at if they've got any chance of progressing to our first team. We'd be far better off finding clubs we can loan our younger prospects out too. Or even do deals where they literally join a club with a guaranteed buy-back in place. 

Young players make mistakes, lose concentration and can be dominated by experienced players. All this talk of a player trading model overlooks the fact that a sizeable percentage of our support will rise with fury at a series of misplaced passes far less a run of games where someone is trying to play their way back into form. 

I reckon that's why we've had a slow start tbh, aye it's been a big turnover but we've got a lot of young and inexperienced players in the XI and match day squad now.

 

I'm quietly confident that we've got the beginnings of a decent side. Let them live a European campaign and title challenge this season and they'll be better for it.

[Gonzo79 15,292]

1 hour ago, CammyF said:

So looks like the new Sports Bar at Ibrox will have to be renamed as G51 name has been trademarked by Craig Houston from Sons Of Struth.

That was discussed last week.  

[ranger_syntax 4,316]

57 minutes ago, JohnMc said:

Rangers would simply become a stepping stone club, somewhere to 'park assets' in the hope one day they'll be good enough to play for Wolves or Al-Ittihad.

Can one the more diplomatic forum users help John get up to speed?