Fan Advisory Board / RFC Leadership meeting

[CammyF 8,965]

Minutes of the meeting are available here 

 

https://assets.ctfassets.net/39646iezddpk/4amYKBuDzvKEFvhRKm6tns/7482d128de6c78a820b08e9dbd40472e/FAB_Meeting_5_February_2025.pdf

[Rousseau 11,228]

Thought this deserved its own thread. 

[Rousseau 11,228]

"[Nils Koppen] clarified that this would mean we recruit towards a club blueprint of player and playing style, and not towards the style of any given coach or manager." 

 

[ranger_syntax 4,588]

A very silly idea.

[DMAA 3,695]

1 hour ago, Rousseau said:

"[Nils Koppen] clarified that this would mean we recruit towards a club blueprint of player and playing style, and not towards the style of any given coach or manager." 

 

This is what we have wanted for years but I do not feel that we have seen too much evidence of it. What type of player are we buying for what style? Propper was a personal contact for one, and really quite a key signing. 

[Rousseau 11,228]

17 minutes ago, DMAA said:

This is what we have wanted for years but I do not feel that we have seen too much evidence of it. What type of player are we buying for what style? Propper was a personal contact for one, and really quite a key signing. 

Koppen has mentioned it a couple of times. I can't recall style, but there were three categories of players ('The recruitment strategy will continue to focus on a balance of core, investment, and impact players'), that would mix youth and experience.

 

Jefte, Nsiala, Fernandes and Igamane are projects and investments. 

 

Cerny and Propper are impact players; quality or experience to give the team a boost. Propper may have been a personal contact but still fits the profiles outlined. 

 

Scots, like Barron, Souttar, Kelly, Cameron are more core players and investments. The plan is to sign at least one Scot a year, IIRC?

 

Core players would be Diomande, Bajrami, Kasanwirjo, Kelly maybe?

 

I've been happy with the general approach, but I have been critical of the lack of first-team players of quality. 

[compo 7,572]

1 hour ago, Rousseau said:

"[Nils Koppen] clarified that this would mean we recruit towards a club blueprint of player and playing style, and not towards the style of any given coach or manager." 

 

I'd love to know the Rangers style 

[alexscottislegend 2,519]

I'm a little more encouraged by that, after all  the doom-mongering.

[DMAA 3,695]

2 hours ago, Rousseau said:

Koppen has mentioned it a couple of times. I can't recall style, but there were three categories of players ('The recruitment strategy will continue to focus on a balance of core, investment, and impact players'), that would mix youth and experience.

 

Jefte, Nsiala, Fernandes and Igamane are projects and investments. 

 

Cerny and Propper are impact players; quality or experience to give the team a boost. Propper may have been a personal contact but still fits the profiles outlined. 

 

Scots, like Barron, Souttar, Kelly, Cameron are more core players and investments. The plan is to sign at least one Scot a year, IIRC?

 

Core players would be Diomande, Bajrami, Kasanwirjo, Kelly maybe?

 

I've been happy with the general approach, but I have been critical of the lack of first-team players of quality. 

Style is critical to the whole thing though. It’s much more important than simply signing a mix of young, experienced etc. My understanding of this kind of thing is that for each position we have types of player with certain attributes that we sign to fit a pre-defined system. A player with attributes x, y and z has a very high likelihood of succeeding in our chosen system and we recruit accordingly. 

 

For example, I think we should be targeting centre backs who are aggressive and dominate in aerial and ground duels primarily. Have we ever had a success at centre back who didn’t tick those boxes? Propper’s stats clearly showed he wasn’t those things. The wide forward positions should be either goalscorers or creators/dribblers or ideally both, and left footed for the right wing and right for the left. Cerny fits this but we have a very low chance of keeping him. Our major permanent signing in this position was a very weird profile. No real outstanding strengths. Mediocre across the board and almost rock bottom statistically defensively, aerially and physically. It’s just a bizarre style of player to spend so much on for the position. If you consider him a 10, the same point applies. I could go on to other positions but you get the idea. 

Edited 1 hour ago by DMAA

[Rousseau 11,228]

1 hour ago, DMAA said:

Style is critical to the whole thing though. It’s much more important than simply signing a mix of young, experienced etc. My understanding of this kind of thing is that for each position we have types of player with certain attributes that we sign to fit a pre-defined system. A player with attributes x, y and z has a very high likelihood of succeeding in our chosen system and we recruit accordingly. 

 

For example, I think we should be targeting centre backs who are aggressive and dominate in aerial and ground duels primarily. Have we ever had a success at centre back who didn’t tick those boxes? Propper’s stats clearly showed he wasn’t those things. The wide forward positions should be either goalscorers or creators/dribblers or ideally both, and left footed for the right wing and right for the left. Cerny fit this but we have a very low chance of keeping him. Our major permanent signing in this position was a very weird profile. No real outstanding strengths. Mediocre across the board and almost rock bottom statistically defensively, aerially and physically. It’s just a bizarre style of player to spend so much for the position. If you consider him a 10, the same point applies. I could go on to other positions but you get the idea. 

I am happy with the approach, although I would agree we haven't quite got it right in terms of our core targets, as I said above. 

 

In fairness, I believe there were more immediate targets (reducing wage bill, reducing squad age, etc.) that have taken priority this season, as NK outlined - part of the reason why I had written it off. 

 

I'm hopeful we'll see improvement in this area in the summer.