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Archibald P Treadwhistle
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30 Apr 2018, 10:57 PM
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STEVEN'S JOB NOT SO 'ARD
New boss will be relaxed about his task at Ibrox says Matthew Lindsay
There have been some harsh words written about the 5-0 loss suffered by Rangers yesterday but manager in waiting Steven "Ger" Gerrard would have seen plenty encouraging signs as he plots the downfall of Celtic next season.
On the face of it, a five goal defeat would seem a heavy one but the home side must be kicking themselves at not scoring more, and really they let their support down by not trying for the last 40 minutes or so.
They should also have been down to 10 men after Mikael Lustig impersonated a police officer whilst celebrating a goal, a deciding factor in this pulsating game.
Had striker Odsonne Edouard been on the bench, as he normally is at the start of these affairs, there is no way he would have scored his two goals and the match would have taken a different complexion. Gerrard would certainly have noted this glaring fact as he plots the destruction of the very fabric of the club formed in Glasgow's east end to give people slops for tea.
Much has been said of James Forrest's display, but his "goal" owed more to luck than skill. His run through the entire Rangers defence and finish saw him celebrate like he had just scored his first goal against the light blue giants. You can just imagine new supremo Gerrard marking the little runway-pissing scrote's card for the stunning treble Rangers winning campaign next year.
And the former Liverpool giant would have been stroking his pencil at the incredible support given by the Ibrox legions, who streamed out of the ground after the third goal went in with a show of staunch defiance.
Celtic may have won this particular encounter, but the war has just started.
You know, I’ve read enough of these to know better but for the first time in a while I had to go back to the start after a couple of paragraphs just to make sure.
The metre, vocabulary and pace of these parodies make them near indistinguishable from the real thing and it’s only the ‘in-jokes’ that make them recognisable. That’s their genius and long may it continue to be so. I consider myself a bit of a ‘wordsmith’ at times but this really is tinsoldier’s domain.
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1 May 2018, 08:06 AM
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Ralston's in pain, broken pumpkin in aisle three! "If success has a thousand fathers and failure is an orphan then Graeme Murty has become the nobody’s child of Edmiston Drive".
Graeme Murty should quit Rangers NOW because these directors have treated him like a patsy – Gary Ralston Gary argues the 'broken' Ibrox boss should leave now for his own sake.
Spoiler: click to toggle ByGary Ralston Go now Graeme. It won’t be a sign of weakness, it might just be the bravest move you ever make. The Rangers boss is a beaten man and if he doesn’t step down in the next 24 hours the Ibrox club have a duty of care to take the decision for him. Dismiss completely the notion Rangers did not put Murty up to face the media in the wake of his side’s 5-0 humiliation against Celtic out of an act of petulance. Murty was broken after this latest capitulation, so distraught there were genuine fears for his emotional wellbeing if he faced the cameras and microphones. His suffering will only become greater, more public and more painful to watch if Rangers fail to secure results against Kilmarnock, Aberdeen and Hibs in the coming two weeks and finish fourth. No.2 Jimmy Nicholl, a wise old head, should really have stepped up to the plate at Parkhead when he saw his younger colleague suffering. Murty didn’t speak post-match ... and neither did Jimmy Nicholl He did not need to use the media room at Parkhead as an audition for the Graham Norton show, simply congratulated Celtic on their title success, apologised for the abject poverty of his side’s display and vowed to do everything in their power to clinch second place with three games to go. He did not, which only serves to underline the confusion that currently reigns from the top of the marble staircase to the pits of despair in the Ibrox dressing room. If success has a thousand fathers and failure is an orphan then Graeme Murty has become the nobody’s child of Edmiston Drive. Rangers directors stuck around after watching their side trounced just long enough to congratulate Peter Lawwell and Co before heading for their cars ahead of the Celtic fans exiting from their latest Parkhead party. The media room at Ibrox, situated next to the playing tunnel, has afforded us a sight in the past of board members heading into the manager’s office to backslap Murty after a victory, albeit they’ve been few and far between this calendar year. How many Rangers directors offered Murty support after the latest hammering? How many of them took the time to consider his fragile state on Sunday afternoon and headed towards the Parkhead dressing rooms to offer emotional support as the demands of a job they should never have awarded him threaten to drown this decent man completely? Don’t be surprised if it’s the same number as the aggregate amount of goals Rangers have scored against their old foes over the past fortnight in a fixture that is now only a rivalry in name. Murty has been deserted by directors who have been happy to use him these past six months as a patsy for their own appalling mis-management of their club, not least their failure to nail down a permanent boss in the light of the Derek McInnes debacle. Chairman Dave King allowed his name to be put at a delicate stage of the campaign to an appalling letter to season ticket holders that all but ruled out Murty’s chances of getting the job at the end of the season. Director of football Mark Allen has been sweet talking Steven Gerrard behind the scenes for the past few weeks in an act of courtship involving a Scouser that hasn’t been seen since Cilla Black fronted Blind Date. Club captain Lee Wallace and veteran frontman Kenny Miller have been suspended for undermining the manager in front of his own squad with a foul-mouthed rant that left him on the verge of quitting. The rest of the squad have lost faith, maybe even respect, while they bank big cheques with little regard for the builders and brickies who sweat to pay for season tickets that fund their executive lifestyles. And as for Alistair Johnston’s claims the Light Blues are ahead of the curve? That isn’t a curve Al, it’s a wave waiting to smash your rudderless Ibrox project into footballing flotsam. Sure, Murty could have been tougher and, yes, he’s made mistakes. However, he was brave enough to step into the position in the first place, even though he harboured doubts about his ability to cope in a job that’s matched in terms of pressure in Scotland only by the position of First Minister and Celtic head coach. (A week into the job last November, before his permanent appointment a month later, Murty said: “Why the reticence? It might be that self-belief thing.”) The former Under-20 boss could not say no to a golden ticket, but the second half of the season has cruelly highlighted his future remains as an educator of kids because he lacks the confrontational edge to go toe to toe with senior pros. Rangers have found that to their cost, but it’s a price they will be forced to fork out as long as they continue to invest in rookies and be swayed by pipedreams laid out by sweet-talking technical area salesmen. However, the highest cost of all could yet be paid by Murty if he isn’t removed from the front line in the days ahead. Nothing’s worth the turmoil, Graeme, certainly not the glorious nonsense of Scottish football - and especially not these Rangers directors. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/graeme-murty-should-quit-rangers-12455906
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1 May 2018, 08:17 AM
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- Archibald P Treadwhistle
- 30 Apr 2018, 10:57 PM
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- 30 Apr 2018, 10:34 PM
STEVEN'S JOB NOT SO 'ARD
New boss will be relaxed about his task at Ibrox says Matthew Lindsay
There have been some harsh words written about the 5-0 loss suffered by Rangers yesterday but manager in waiting Steven "Ger" Gerrard would have seen plenty encouraging signs as he plots the downfall of Celtic next season.
On the face of it, a five goal defeat would seem a heavy one but the home side must be kicking themselves at not scoring more, and really they let their support down by not trying for the last 40 minutes or so.
They should also have been down to 10 men after Mikael Lustig impersonated a police officer whilst celebrating a goal, a deciding factor in this pulsating game.
Had striker Odsonne Edouard been on the bench, as he normally is at the start of these affairs, there is no way he would have scored his two goals and the match would have taken a different complexion. Gerrard would certainly have noted this glaring fact as he plots the destruction of the very fabric of the club formed in Glasgow's east end to give people slops for tea.
Much has been said of James Forrest's display, but his "goal" owed more to luck than skill. His run through the entire Rangers defence and finish saw him celebrate like he had just scored his first goal against the light blue giants. You can just imagine new supremo Gerrard marking the little runway-pissing scrote's card for the stunning treble Rangers winning campaign next year.
And the former Liverpool giant would have been stroking his pencil at the incredible support given by the Ibrox legions, who streamed out of the ground after the third goal went in with a show of staunch defiance.
Celtic may have won this particular encounter, but the war has just started.
You know, I’ve read enough of these to know better but for the first time in a while I had to go back to the start after a couple of paragraphs just to make sure. The metre, vocabulary and pace of these parodies make them near indistinguishable from the real thing and it’s only the ‘in-jokes’ that make them recognisable. That’s their genius and long may it continue to be so. I consider myself a bit of a ‘wordsmith’ at times but this really is tinsoldier’s domain.
took me two takes as well
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1 May 2018, 08:34 AM
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"stroking his pencil" had me Nice one TS
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1 May 2018, 09:11 AM
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- 1 May 2018, 08:06 AM
Ralston's in pain, broken pumpkin in aisle three! "If success has a thousand fathers and failure is an orphan then Graeme Murty has become the nobody’s child of Edmiston Drive". Graeme Murty should quit Rangers NOW because these directors have treated him like a patsy – Gary RalstonGary argues the 'broken' Ibrox boss should leave now for his own sake. Spoiler: click to toggle ByGary Ralston Go now Graeme. It won’t be a sign of weakness, it might just be the bravest move you ever make. The Rangers boss is a beaten man and if he doesn’t step down in the next 24 hours the Ibrox club have a duty of care to take the decision for him. Dismiss completely the notion Rangers did not put Murty up to face the media in the wake of his side’s 5-0 humiliation against Celtic out of an act of petulance. Murty was broken after this latest capitulation, so distraught there were genuine fears for his emotional wellbeing if he faced the cameras and microphones. His suffering will only become greater, more public and more painful to watch if Rangers fail to secure results against Kilmarnock, Aberdeen and Hibs in the coming two weeks and finish fourth. No.2 Jimmy Nicholl, a wise old head, should really have stepped up to the plate at Parkhead when he saw his younger colleague suffering. Murty didn’t speak post-match ... and neither did Jimmy Nicholl He did not need to use the media room at Parkhead as an audition for the Graham Norton show, simply congratulated Celtic on their title success, apologised for the abject poverty of his side’s display and vowed to do everything in their power to clinch second place with three games to go. He did not, which only serves to underline the confusion that currently reigns from the top of the marble staircase to the pits of despair in the Ibrox dressing room. If success has a thousand fathers and failure is an orphan then Graeme Murty has become the nobody’s child of Edmiston Drive. Rangers directors stuck around after watching their side trounced just long enough to congratulate Peter Lawwell and Co before heading for their cars ahead of the Celtic fans exiting from their latest Parkhead party. The media room at Ibrox, situated next to the playing tunnel, has afforded us a sight in the past of board members heading into the manager’s office to backslap Murty after a victory, albeit they’ve been few and far between this calendar year. How many Rangers directors offered Murty support after the latest hammering? How many of them took the time to consider his fragile state on Sunday afternoon and headed towards the Parkhead dressing rooms to offer emotional support as the demands of a job they should never have awarded him threaten to drown this decent man completely? Don’t be surprised if it’s the same number as the aggregate amount of goals Rangers have scored against their old foes over the past fortnight in a fixture that is now only a rivalry in name. Murty has been deserted by directors who have been happy to use him these past six months as a patsy for their own appalling mis-management of their club, not least their failure to nail down a permanent boss in the light of the Derek McInnes debacle. Chairman Dave King allowed his name to be put at a delicate stage of the campaign to an appalling letter to season ticket holders that all but ruled out Murty’s chances of getting the job at the end of the season. Director of football Mark Allen has been sweet talking Steven Gerrard behind the scenes for the past few weeks in an act of courtship involving a Scouser that hasn’t been seen since Cilla Black fronted Blind Date. Club captain Lee Wallace and veteran frontman Kenny Miller have been suspended for undermining the manager in front of his own squad with a foul-mouthed rant that left him on the verge of quitting. The rest of the squad have lost faith, maybe even respect, while they bank big cheques with little regard for the builders and brickies who sweat to pay for season tickets that fund their executive lifestyles. And as for Alistair Johnston’s claims the Light Blues are ahead of the curve? That isn’t a curve Al, it’s a wave waiting to smash your rudderless Ibrox project into footballing flotsam. Sure, Murty could have been tougher and, yes, he’s made mistakes. However, he was brave enough to step into the position in the first place, even though he harboured doubts about his ability to cope in a job that’s matched in terms of pressure in Scotland only by the position of First Minister and Celtic head coach. (A week into the job last November, before his permanent appointment a month later, Murty said: “Why the reticence? It might be that self-belief thing.”) The former Under-20 boss could not say no to a golden ticket, but the second half of the season has cruelly highlighted his future remains as an educator of kids because he lacks the confrontational edge to go toe to toe with senior pros. Rangers have found that to their cost, but it’s a price they will be forced to fork out as long as they continue to invest in rookies and be swayed by pipedreams laid out by sweet-talking technical area salesmen. However, the highest cost of all could yet be paid by Murty if he isn’t removed from the front line in the days ahead. Nothing’s worth the turmoil, Graeme, certainly not the glorious nonsense of Scottish football - and especially not these Rangers directors. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/graeme-murty-should-quit-rangers-12455906 They’re trying to resign him to avoid any compensation.
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1 May 2018, 09:16 AM
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Ralston's in pain, broken pumpkin in aisle three! "If success has a thousand fathers and failure is an orphan then Graeme Murty has become the nobody’s child of Edmiston Drive". Graeme Murty should quit Rangers NOW because these directors have treated him like a patsy – Gary RalstonGary argues the 'broken' Ibrox boss should leave now for his own sake. Pish ByGary Ralston Go now Graeme. It won’t be a sign of weakness, it might just be the bravest move you ever make. The Rangers boss is a beaten man and if he doesn’t step down in the next 24 hours the Ibrox club have a duty of care to take the decision for him. Dismiss completely the notion Rangers did not put Murty up to face the media in the wake of his side’s 5-0 humiliation against Celtic out of an act of petulance. Murty was broken after this latest capitulation, so distraught there were genuine fears for his emotional wellbeing if he faced the cameras and microphones. His suffering will only become greater, more public and more painful to watch if Rangers fail to secure results against Kilmarnock, Aberdeen and Hibs in the coming two weeks and finish fourth. No.2 Jimmy Nicholl, a wise old head, should really have stepped up to the plate at Parkhead when he saw his younger colleague suffering. Murty didn’t speak post-match ... and neither did Jimmy Nicholl He did not need to use the media room at Parkhead as an audition for the Graham Norton show, simply congratulated Celtic on their title success, apologised for the abject poverty of his side’s display and vowed to do everything in their power to clinch second place with three games to go. He did not, which only serves to underline the confusion that currently reigns from the top of the marble staircase to the pits of despair in the Ibrox dressing room. If success has a thousand fathers and failure is an orphan then Graeme Murty has become the nobody’s child of Edmiston Drive. Rangers directors stuck around after watching their side trounced just long enough to congratulate Peter Lawwell and Co before heading for their cars ahead of the Celtic fans exiting from their latest Parkhead party. The media room at Ibrox, situated next to the playing tunnel, has afforded us a sight in the past of board members heading into the manager’s office to backslap Murty after a victory, albeit they’ve been few and far between this calendar year. How many Rangers directors offered Murty support after the latest hammering? How many of them took the time to consider his fragile state on Sunday afternoon and headed towards the Parkhead dressing rooms to offer emotional support as the demands of a job they should never have awarded him threaten to drown this decent man completely? Don’t be surprised if it’s the same number as the aggregate amount of goals Rangers have scored against their old foes over the past fortnight in a fixture that is now only a rivalry in name. Murty has been deserted by directors who have been happy to use him these past six months as a patsy for their own appalling mis-management of their club, not least their failure to nail down a permanent boss in the light of the Derek McInnes debacle. Chairman Dave King allowed his name to be put at a delicate stage of the campaign to an appalling letter to season ticket holders that all but ruled out Murty’s chances of getting the job at the end of the season. Director of football Mark Allen has been sweet talking Steven Gerrard behind the scenes for the past few weeks in an act of courtship involving a Scouser that hasn’t been seen since Cilla Black fronted Blind Date. Club captain Lee Wallace and veteran frontman Kenny Miller have been suspended for undermining the manager in front of his own squad with a foul-mouthed rant that left him on the verge of quitting. The rest of the squad have lost faith, maybe even respect, while they bank big cheques with little regard for the builders and brickies who sweat to pay for season tickets that fund their executive lifestyles. And as for Alistair Johnston’s claims the Light Blues are ahead of the curve? That isn’t a curve Al, it’s a wave waiting to smash your rudderless Ibrox project into footballing flotsam. Sure, Murty could have been tougher and, yes, he’s made mistakes. However, he was brave enough to step into the position in the first place, even though he harboured doubts about his ability to cope in a job that’s matched in terms of pressure in Scotland only by the position of First Minister and Celtic head coach. (A week into the job last November, before his permanent appointment a month later, Murty said: “Why the reticence? It might be that self-belief thing.”) The former Under-20 boss could not say no to a golden ticket, but the second half of the season has cruelly highlighted his future remains as an educator of kids because he lacks the confrontational edge to go toe to toe with senior pros. Rangers have found that to their cost, but it’s a price they will be forced to fork out as long as they continue to invest in rookies and be swayed by pipedreams laid out by sweet-talking technical area salesmen. However, the highest cost of all could yet be paid by Murty if he isn’t removed from the front line in the days ahead. Nothing’s worth the turmoil, Graeme, certainly not the glorious nonsense of Scottish football - and especially not these Rangers directors. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/graeme-murty-should-quit-rangers-12455906
They’re trying to resign him to avoid any compensation. Whit they like?
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1 May 2018, 11:50 AM
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HunBelievable...just put on Sly Sports football channel and the hun cheatfest from 1999 on
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1 May 2018, 04:02 PM
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HunBelievable...just put on Sly Sports football channel and the hun cheatfest from 1999 on Now have them beating QOTS
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1 May 2018, 07:13 PM
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HunBelievable...just put on Sly Sports football channel and the hun cheatfest from 1999 on repeat on now...they have no shame.
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Jim Duffy on BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound saying that the new Sevco manager will need "tons of money or tons of time" but that Sevco "don't have tons of money and he won't get tons of time."
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2 May 2018, 05:33 AM
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Jim Duffy on BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound saying that the new Sevco manager will need "tons of money or tons of time" but that Sevco "don't have tons of money and he won't get tons of time." Did he give any hints why he parted company with Morton?
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2 May 2018, 07:29 AM
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KJ, "Despite reports claiming all hell broke loose inside that Hampden dressing room, there was no bust up between this pair (Wallace and Miller) and the manager", "Before the former England and Liverpool skipper stakes his reputation on this lot, he should consider the mess they have made of Murty’s career". Keith not happy with Dave King and the board.
This is a Rangers board that replaces professionals with patsies in the name of self-preservation – Keith Jackson Keith reckons the feckless and reckless Ibrox board destroyed Graeme Murty but he must also take a share of the blame.
Spoiler: click to toggle ByKeith Jackson At least yesterday was a step in the right direction. With the release of yet another statement, Rangers Football Club moved from an unmitigated disaster to an un-Murtygated one. Finally, Dave and the Dysfunctionals – this accident prone collaboration of boardroom cabaret acts – realised what should have been evident to them from the outset. That Graeme Murty is no more qualified to call the shots as manager of Rangers than they are as decision makers in chief. There’s no point now in wiping their hands of the mess they have made and throwing Murty to the floor like a dirty rag. It was only because of their utter incompetence this man has been forced to endure such a tsunami of reputational damage. Their mismanagement has caused Murty a trauma from which he may never recover. That’s not to say the man who agreed to mind the shop can be absolved of all blame for his own failings. Murty didn’t need to have an arm shoved up his back when he stepped back into the breach following Dave King’s catastrophic handling of the Derek McInnes saga in November. Somehow the King of calamity managed to talk McInnes out of accepting the one job he has coveted since the day he swapped his boots for a padded gilet, even though the former Rangers player had already made up his mind to return to Ibrox as a replacement for Pedro Caixinha. Ah, the Nutty Professor. What a farcical appointment that was. What an abdication of King’s chair that he allowed Graeme Park to head up a selection committee comprising of Stewart Robertson and Andrew Dickson which plumped for the guy in charge of the fifth-best team in Qatar. It must have made sense to someone inside that room. But so unchecked are some of the egos around King’s table it’s little wonder they believe they know better than anyone else. Even after Caixinha oversaw the most humiliating European result in the club’s history – in fact that Europa League exit at the hands of Luxembourg’s Progres Niederkorn will go down as one of the most embarrassing episodes ever to befall any Scottish club – they stuck stubbornly to their vanity project. Worse still, they pumped another £10million into it, hoping against hope that recruiting cast-offs such as Carlos Pena, Eduardo Herrera and Dalcio might prove their judgement to be sound. This was beyond any buffoonery which had gone on before but when the board was finally forced to confront reality and pull the plug on Caixinha, one candidate emerged which was so blindingly obvious even they could see it. It was only when King revealed his arrogant and untrustworthy streak during a final round of discussions McInnes realised he was in danger of making the biggest mistake of his managerial career by leaving Aberdeen. Even then, McInnes had to battle against a huge emotional pull to rely instead on his instincts and experience. He reached the conclusion that King’s way of running Rangers might leave him exposed and ultimately on a hiding to nothing. Step forward Murty. Incredibly it was decided he was the only man for the job. Murty, inevitably, would make all manner of mistakes over the ensuing months. For a while, this carelessness was tolerated by a support just grateful to see the back of the last guy. What they had no sight of however, was Murty’s man management behind the scenes which was arguably every bit as corrosive and divisive as Caixinha’s. Suspensions for Lee Wallace and Kenny Miller were the start of the end and another indication of the depth of Murty’s desperation to stay in control. Despite reports claiming all hell broke loose inside that Hampden dressing room, there was no bust up between this pair and the manager. Rather, it appears more likely that Murty could not handle hearing home truths about the nature of this club’s declining standards, from the mouths of the only two professionals in his ranks in any position to pass comment or draw comparisons. This is a board that replaces professionals with patsies in the name of self-preservation. A regime which promised to be open and transparent but which has proven to be almost as clandestine and Machiavellian as those which clung to power before. Murty is no more than a willing accomplice to their glaring inadequacies and now he’s paid the ultimate price for it, the chalice has been passed to Steven Gerrard. Before the former England and Liverpool skipper stakes his reputation on this lot, he should consider the mess they have made of Murty’s career. If it is King’s intention to keep hold of his throne – if sheer selfishness prevents him from abdicating and appointing professionals capable of running the club – then Gerrard will be walking into a disaster waiting to happen. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/rangers-board-replaces-professionals-patsies-12460587
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KJ, "Despite reports claiming all hell broke loose inside that Hampden dressing room, there was no bust up between this pair (Wallace and Miller) and the manager", "Before the former England and Liverpool skipper stakes his reputation on this lot, he should consider the mess they have made of Murty’s career". Keith not happy with Dave King and the board. This is a Rangers board that replaces professionals with patsies in the name of self-preservation – Keith JacksonKeith reckons the feckless and reckless Ibrox board destroyed Graeme Murty but he must also take a share of the blame. Spoiler: click to toggle ByKeith Jackson At least yesterday was a step in the right direction. With the release of yet another statement, Rangers Football Club moved from an unmitigated disaster to an un-Murtygated one. Finally, Dave and the Dysfunctionals – this accident prone collaboration of boardroom cabaret acts – realised what should have been evident to them from the outset. That Graeme Murty is no more qualified to call the shots as manager of Rangers than they are as decision makers in chief. There’s no point now in wiping their hands of the mess they have made and throwing Murty to the floor like a dirty rag. It was only because of their utter incompetence this man has been forced to endure such a tsunami of reputational damage. Their mismanagement has caused Murty a trauma from which he may never recover. That’s not to say the man who agreed to mind the shop can be absolved of all blame for his own failings. Murty didn’t need to have an arm shoved up his back when he stepped back into the breach following Dave King’s catastrophic handling of the Derek McInnes saga in November. Somehow the King of calamity managed to talk McInnes out of accepting the one job he has coveted since the day he swapped his boots for a padded gilet, even though the former Rangers player had already made up his mind to return to Ibrox as a replacement for Pedro Caixinha. Ah, the Nutty Professor. What a farcical appointment that was. What an abdication of King’s chair that he allowed Graeme Park to head up a selection committee comprising of Stewart Robertson and Andrew Dickson which plumped for the guy in charge of the fifth-best team in Qatar. It must have made sense to someone inside that room. But so unchecked are some of the egos around King’s table it’s little wonder they believe they know better than anyone else. Even after Caixinha oversaw the most humiliating European result in the club’s history – in fact that Europa League exit at the hands of Luxembourg’s Progres Niederkorn will go down as one of the most embarrassing episodes ever to befall any Scottish club – they stuck stubbornly to their vanity project. Worse still, they pumped another £10million into it, hoping against hope that recruiting cast-offs such as Carlos Pena, Eduardo Herrera and Dalcio might prove their judgement to be sound. This was beyond any buffoonery which had gone on before but when the board was finally forced to confront reality and pull the plug on Caixinha, one candidate emerged which was so blindingly obvious even they could see it. It was only when King revealed his arrogant and untrustworthy streak during a final round of discussions McInnes realised he was in danger of making the biggest mistake of his managerial career by leaving Aberdeen. Even then, McInnes had to battle against a huge emotional pull to rely instead on his instincts and experience. He reached the conclusion that King’s way of running Rangers might leave him exposed and ultimately on a hiding to nothing. Step forward Murty. Incredibly it was decided he was the only man for the job. Murty, inevitably, would make all manner of mistakes over the ensuing months. For a while, this carelessness was tolerated by a support just grateful to see the back of the last guy. What they had no sight of however, was Murty’s man management behind the scenes which was arguably every bit as corrosive and divisive as Caixinha’s. Suspensions for Lee Wallace and Kenny Miller were the start of the end and another indication of the depth of Murty’s desperation to stay in control. Despite reports claiming all hell broke loose inside that Hampden dressing room, there was no bust up between this pair and the manager. Rather, it appears more likely that Murty could not handle hearing home truths about the nature of this club’s declining standards, from the mouths of the only two professionals in his ranks in any position to pass comment or draw comparisons. This is a board that replaces professionals with patsies in the name of self-preservation. A regime which promised to be open and transparent but which has proven to be almost as clandestine and Machiavellian as those which clung to power before. Murty is no more than a willing accomplice to their glaring inadequacies and now he’s paid the ultimate price for it, the chalice has been passed to Steven Gerrard. Before the former England and Liverpool skipper stakes his reputation on this lot, he should consider the mess they have made of Murty’s career. If it is King’s intention to keep hold of his throne – if sheer selfishness prevents him from abdicating and appointing professionals capable of running the club – then Gerrard will be walking into a disaster waiting to happen. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/rangers-board-replaces-professionals-patsies-12460587 I can’t quite remember but was Keith as disparaging about the appointment of Pedro and the signings of the likes of Pena, Herrera, Dalcio and Alves at the time? All I can recall in the press was the lionising of the bull-fighting Bond-alike Caixhina - similar to the championing of Craig Whyte and Charles Green.
Change of tack for Keith if he’s being circumspect about the potential appointment of Gerrard.
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2 May 2018, 10:15 AM
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Jim Duffy on BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound saying that the new Sevco manager will need "tons of money or tons of time" but that Sevco "don't have tons of money and he won't get tons of time."
Did he give any hints why he parted company with Morton? Didn't hear him say anything about Morton
But, to be honest, I wasn't paying close attention
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- 2 May 2018, 07:29 AM
KJ, "Despite reports claiming all hell broke loose inside that Hampden dressing room, there was no bust up between this pair (Wallace and Miller) and the manager", "Before the former England and Liverpool skipper stakes his reputation on this lot, he should consider the mess they have made of Murty’s career". Keith not happy with Dave King and the board. This is a Rangers board that replaces professionals with patsies in the name of self-preservation – Keith JacksonKeith reckons the feckless and reckless Ibrox board destroyed Graeme Murty but he must also take a share of the blame. Spoiler: click to toggle ByKeith Jackson At least yesterday was a step in the right direction. With the release of yet another statement, Rangers Football Club moved from an unmitigated disaster to an un-Murtygated one. Finally, Dave and the Dysfunctionals – this accident prone collaboration of boardroom cabaret acts – realised what should have been evident to them from the outset. That Graeme Murty is no more qualified to call the shots as manager of Rangers than they are as decision makers in chief. There’s no point now in wiping their hands of the mess they have made and throwing Murty to the floor like a dirty rag. It was only because of their utter incompetence this man has been forced to endure such a tsunami of reputational damage. Their mismanagement has caused Murty a trauma from which he may never recover. That’s not to say the man who agreed to mind the shop can be absolved of all blame for his own failings. Murty didn’t need to have an arm shoved up his back when he stepped back into the breach following Dave King’s catastrophic handling of the Derek McInnes saga in November. Somehow the King of calamity managed to talk McInnes out of accepting the one job he has coveted since the day he swapped his boots for a padded gilet, even though the former Rangers player had already made up his mind to return to Ibrox as a replacement for Pedro Caixinha. Ah, the Nutty Professor. What a farcical appointment that was. What an abdication of King’s chair that he allowed Graeme Park to head up a selection committee comprising of Stewart Robertson and Andrew Dickson which plumped for the guy in charge of the fifth-best team in Qatar. It must have made sense to someone inside that room. But so unchecked are some of the egos around King’s table it’s little wonder they believe they know better than anyone else. Even after Caixinha oversaw the most humiliating European result in the club’s history – in fact that Europa League exit at the hands of Luxembourg’s Progres Niederkorn will go down as one of the most embarrassing episodes ever to befall any Scottish club – they stuck stubbornly to their vanity project. Worse still, they pumped another £10million into it, hoping against hope that recruiting cast-offs such as Carlos Pena, Eduardo Herrera and Dalcio might prove their judgement to be sound. This was beyond any buffoonery which had gone on before but when the board was finally forced to confront reality and pull the plug on Caixinha, one candidate emerged which was so blindingly obvious even they could see it. It was only when King revealed his arrogant and untrustworthy streak during a final round of discussions McInnes realised he was in danger of making the biggest mistake of his managerial career by leaving Aberdeen. Even then, McInnes had to battle against a huge emotional pull to rely instead on his instincts and experience. He reached the conclusion that King’s way of running Rangers might leave him exposed and ultimately on a hiding to nothing. Step forward Murty. Incredibly it was decided he was the only man for the job. Murty, inevitably, would make all manner of mistakes over the ensuing months. For a while, this carelessness was tolerated by a support just grateful to see the back of the last guy. What they had no sight of however, was Murty’s man management behind the scenes which was arguably every bit as corrosive and divisive as Caixinha’s. Suspensions for Lee Wallace and Kenny Miller were the start of the end and another indication of the depth of Murty’s desperation to stay in control. Despite reports claiming all hell broke loose inside that Hampden dressing room, there was no bust up between this pair and the manager. Rather, it appears more likely that Murty could not handle hearing home truths about the nature of this club’s declining standards, from the mouths of the only two professionals in his ranks in any position to pass comment or draw comparisons. This is a board that replaces professionals with patsies in the name of self-preservation. A regime which promised to be open and transparent but which has proven to be almost as clandestine and Machiavellian as those which clung to power before. Murty is no more than a willing accomplice to their glaring inadequacies and now he’s paid the ultimate price for it, the chalice has been passed to Steven Gerrard. Before the former England and Liverpool skipper stakes his reputation on this lot, he should consider the mess they have made of Murty’s career. If it is King’s intention to keep hold of his throne – if sheer selfishness prevents him from abdicating and appointing professionals capable of running the club – then Gerrard will be walking into a disaster waiting to happen. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/rangers-board-replaces-professionals-patsies-12460587
I can’t quite remember but was Keith as disparaging about the appointment of Pedro and the signings of the likes of Pena, Herrera, Dalcio and Alves at the time? All I can recall in the press was the lionising of the bull-fighting Bond-alike Caixhina - similar to the championing of Craig Whyte and Charles Green. Change of tack for Keith if he’s being circumspect about the potential appointment of Gerrard. This. I also recall the media support for the tremendous signings they made in January and the wonderful job Murty was doing. They were back (again). Not so much now, eh?
Perhaps an esteemed member of the media pack will pen an emotional piece on how shameless reporters such as Jackson are, rather than turning their hindsight to maximum and stating what was blatantly obvious (at least to those of us without blue tinted specs) at the time the events happened.
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2 May 2018, 11:01 AM
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Jim Duffy on BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound saying that the new Sevco manager will need "tons of money or tons of time" but that Sevco "don't have tons of money and he won't get tons of time."
Did he give any hints why he parted company with Morton?
Didn't hear him say anything about Morton But, to be honest, I wasn't paying close attention pffft well that's you bombed out of a possible job with MI5
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X2 Pretty much stopped reading at "Un-Murtygated disaster" though.
Did someone say SMSM was on it's knees? They are a mess & we've seen this show a hundred times from them.
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2 May 2018, 11:17 AM
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Jim Duffy on BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound saying that the new Sevco manager will need "tons of money or tons of time" but that Sevco "don't have tons of money and he won't get tons of time."
Did he give any hints why he parted company with Morton? He said on RS last night that Crawford Rae recently took over from Douglas Rae (his father) as chairman and told him he was no longer required.
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Didn't hear him say anything about Morton But, to be honest, I wasn't paying close attention
pffft well that's you bombed out of a possible job with MI5 Think he mentioned that the long term Chairman left, and his son took over and that had something to do with it. But I wasn't paying much attention either, so I could have thought I heard that!
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KJ, "Despite reports claiming all hell broke loose inside that Hampden dressing room, there was no bust up between this pair (Wallace and Miller) and the manager", "Before the former England and Liverpool skipper stakes his reputation on this lot, he should consider the mess they have made of Murty’s career". Keith not happy with Dave King and the board. This is a Rangers board that replaces professionals with patsies in the name of self-preservation – Keith JacksonKeith reckons the feckless and reckless Ibrox board destroyed Graeme Murty but he must also take a share of the blame. Spoiler: click to toggle ByKeith Jackson At least yesterday was a step in the right direction. With the release of yet another statement, Rangers Football Club moved from an unmitigated disaster to an un-Murtygated one. Finally, Dave and the Dysfunctionals – this accident prone collaboration of boardroom cabaret acts – realised what should have been evident to them from the outset. That Graeme Murty is no more qualified to call the shots as manager of Rangers than they are as decision makers in chief. There’s no point now in wiping their hands of the mess they have made and throwing Murty to the floor like a dirty rag. It was only because of their utter incompetence this man has been forced to endure such a tsunami of reputational damage. Their mismanagement has caused Murty a trauma from which he may never recover. That’s not to say the man who agreed to mind the shop can be absolved of all blame for his own failings. Murty didn’t need to have an arm shoved up his back when he stepped back into the breach following Dave King’s catastrophic handling of the Derek McInnes saga in November. Somehow the King of calamity managed to talk McInnes out of accepting the one job he has coveted since the day he swapped his boots for a padded gilet, even though the former Rangers player had already made up his mind to return to Ibrox as a replacement for Pedro Caixinha. Ah, the Nutty Professor. What a farcical appointment that was. What an abdication of King’s chair that he allowed Graeme Park to head up a selection committee comprising of Stewart Robertson and Andrew Dickson which plumped for the guy in charge of the fifth-best team in Qatar. It must have made sense to someone inside that room. But so unchecked are some of the egos around King’s table it’s little wonder they believe they know better than anyone else. Even after Caixinha oversaw the most humiliating European result in the club’s history – in fact that Europa League exit at the hands of Luxembourg’s Progres Niederkorn will go down as one of the most embarrassing episodes ever to befall any Scottish club – they stuck stubbornly to their vanity project. Worse still, they pumped another £10million into it, hoping against hope that recruiting cast-offs such as Carlos Pena, Eduardo Herrera and Dalcio might prove their judgement to be sound. This was beyond any buffoonery which had gone on before but when the board was finally forced to confront reality and pull the plug on Caixinha, one candidate emerged which was so blindingly obvious even they could see it. It was only when King revealed his arrogant and untrustworthy streak during a final round of discussions McInnes realised he was in danger of making the biggest mistake of his managerial career by leaving Aberdeen. Even then, McInnes had to battle against a huge emotional pull to rely instead on his instincts and experience. He reached the conclusion that King’s way of running Rangers might leave him exposed and ultimately on a hiding to nothing. Step forward Murty. Incredibly it was decided he was the only man for the job. Murty, inevitably, would make all manner of mistakes over the ensuing months. For a while, this carelessness was tolerated by a support just grateful to see the back of the last guy. What they had no sight of however, was Murty’s man management behind the scenes which was arguably every bit as corrosive and divisive as Caixinha’s. Suspensions for Lee Wallace and Kenny Miller were the start of the end and another indication of the depth of Murty’s desperation to stay in control. Despite reports claiming all hell broke loose inside that Hampden dressing room, there was no bust up between this pair and the manager. Rather, it appears more likely that Murty could not handle hearing home truths about the nature of this club’s declining standards, from the mouths of the only two professionals in his ranks in any position to pass comment or draw comparisons. This is a board that replaces professionals with patsies in the name of self-preservation. A regime which promised to be open and transparent but which has proven to be almost as clandestine and Machiavellian as those which clung to power before. Murty is no more than a willing accomplice to their glaring inadequacies and now he’s paid the ultimate price for it, the chalice has been passed to Steven Gerrard. Before the former England and Liverpool skipper stakes his reputation on this lot, he should consider the mess they have made of Murty’s career. If it is King’s intention to keep hold of his throne – if sheer selfishness prevents him from abdicating and appointing professionals capable of running the club – then Gerrard will be walking into a disaster waiting to happen. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/rangers-board-replaces-professionals-patsies-12460587
I can’t quite remember but was Keith as disparaging about the appointment of Pedro and the signings of the likes of Pena, Herrera, Dalcio and Alves at the time? All I can recall in the press was the lionising of the bull-fighting Bond-alike Caixhina - similar to the championing of Craig Whyte and Charles Green. Change of tack for Keith if he’s being circumspect about the potential appointment of Gerrard. IIRC the bold keech was the main media cheerleader and mouthpiece during the takeover by the 3 hairs.... which funnily enough might just be an event that ruins the GASL
You just can't make this shampoo up.
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