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The All New Sevco Back in Yer Bin Thread; Taking out the trash
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Topic Started: 29 Apr 2018, 04:24 PM (2,086,669 Views)
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markybhoy75
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1 Jun 2018, 07:46 AM
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https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/lee-wallace-kenny-miller-set-12629773
We going to hear about the dressing room battle in Court? 
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1 Jun 2018, 07:49 AM
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- garioch
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- WolfieBhoy
- 31 May 2018, 09:27 PM
- Belgrano
- 31 May 2018, 08:46 PM
'outwith'  Traynor probably doesn't even realise that no-one outside of Scotland even knows what that word means before he fabricated this latest statement.
Just confirmed this is a Scottish thing. I had no idea. Thought it was overly formal if I'm being honest. Not quite on a par with the shock of discovering it isn't really called an oxter, but surprising nonetheless.
I only found out with the advent of spellcheck, couldn't understand why it kept on trying to correct it. It is however a valid and accepted word in the English lexicon... as is oxter, it's just we're the only ones to use them. Yep,
Sometimes when writing formal company letters it’s best to depersonalise them. I used to get identified as the author, by the use of ‘outwith’.
‘Timeous’ was another perculiarly formal Scottish marker word.
Signing off ‘Yours faithfully (ya dobber) , was also sometimes a give away.
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1 Jun 2018, 07:52 AM
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Bring On The Empty Horses
Michael Curtiz csc. One for the film buffs. Edit. Another famous utterance by Curtiz, who was Hungarian, ......” you guys think I know fu@cking nothing, well let me tell you I know f@ck all. The ,Bring on The Empty Horses quote was used by David Niven as a the title for the second volume of his memoirs and refers to Curtiz’ request for the riderless horses during the filming of The Charge of the Light Brigade. As you were. The moons a balloon
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1 Jun 2018, 07:59 AM
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- 31 May 2018, 06:49 PM
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''over the next week or so, I will be engaged in work and activities outwith Auchenhowie...''
i.e.....don't bother me while I'm off earning some money somewhere
No way Gerrard is saying 'outwith', that's Scots not Scouse. Nice catch. I was never aware of this until it was pointed out to me by someone from down south
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1 Jun 2018, 08:09 AM
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- 1 Jun 2018, 07:36 AM
BBC Online Gossip page has Stevie G considering a swoop for...... Dylan McGeoch Didn’t him and his brother both play there as youngsters ? I could see it happening, but I can also see Billy not being overly welcoming.
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1 Jun 2018, 08:19 AM
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"That means from the moment his car pulls up in the car park this morning, everyone inside that building is going to have to be on their toes – players, staff, everyone". How did that pan out Barry? " The smart money says he’ll try to emulate the high-pressing style Jurgen Klopp has installed at Liverpool and I can’t imagine there’s a Rangers fan out there who isn’t drooling at the prospect of that". Pity there's no smart money at Ibrox.
Steven Gerrard will fix Rangers from top to bottom and I can't wait to see his style - Barry Ferguson Barry admits he is like a kid at Christmas waiting for the Gerrard era to get underway for real at Ibrox.
Spoiler: click to toggle ByBarry Ferguson For Rangers fans, this morning feels a bit like waking up on Christmas Day. It’s hard to imagine a better present than Steven Gerrard starting his work as the club’s new manager. Excited? I feel a bit like a schoolkid again. I still can’t quite believe a man of Gerrard’s stature is about to get to grips with the job of restoring Rangers and bringing back the standards I grew up with. Over these last few weeks since his appointment a lot of people have been going on about his inexperience for the position because this will be his first crack at management. But I don’t see it that way. This is a guy who has gathered more personal experience of what it takes to operate and succeed at the highest level of the game than most folk will get in a lifetime. I’m not in the slightest bit worried about how he’ll handle this new challenge – I’m absolutely fascinated by it. I can’t wait to see the changes he makes and the way he goes about bringing Rangers up to the kind of levels he demands. Who else will come in with him? Who will be the first out of the door? And most importantly, what brand of football is he going to play? Right now it’s a guessing a game because no one can say with any certainty what his philosophy will be. The smart money says he’ll try to emulate the high-pressing style Jurgen Klopp has installed at Liverpool and I can’t imagine there’s a Rangers fan out there who isn’t drooling at the prospect of that. I wish the first game of pre-season was this afternoon, I’m so excited to see it for myself. And it’s not just what he does inside the first-team dressing room. Today’s Rangers is a very different football club from the one I always knew. It saddens me to admit standards have been allowed to slip in every department of the football operation. I’ve watched it happening from afar over these last few years and I find it hard to recognise the club I left behind. But there is no doubt in my mind Gerrard and Gary McAllister are the men to fix it. Gerrard looks to me like the kind of guy who will not focus only on first-team affairs. He’ll want to be the kind of manager who is in control of the entire club – and that’s exactly the way it should be. That means from the moment his car pulls up in the car park this morning, everyone inside that building is going to have to be on their toes – players, staff, everyone. There are a lot of people holding positions in there who like the idea of representing Rangers but who don’t have the first clue what it really means. I can’t imagine they’ll last long under Gerrard and McAllister. There was a feeling some of the previous managers were just happy to be there. I remember meeting with Pedro Caixinha not long after he got the job. I left thinking to myself the guy could hardly believe he’d managed to pull it off. But there’s no doubting the credentials of Gerrard and McAllister. These are proper football men who know exactly what is required at the highest level. It may be their first day in the job but they already know more about what it means to represent a club like Rangers than a lot of folk who’ve been inside the place over the last few years. It kills me to say it but there’s a feeling things have been allowed to become a bit lazy and complacent. There are people who take being at Rangers for granted. Even worse there are others who think the club owes them a living. I don’t expect Gerrard will stand for any of that. So there will be a lot of players in that dressing room who will need to raise their games dramatically if they want to hang around under the new management team. But the same rule will apply all across the training complex, in all areas and all aspects of the club. Gerrard will raise the bar for all of them. I’ve heard some fans talk about the possibility of him pulling the boots back on once he’s assessed the rest of the squad. Even at 37 he’d probably be head and shoulders above every other player in his dressing room. In fact there’s a good chance he’d be the best player in the whole country. I understand why Rangers fans would love to see him out there wearing that shirt. But I hope it doesn’t happen. When I took the manager’s job at Blackpool I was at a similar age. I’d just had an operation and the surgeon had warned me it was time to give it up if I wanted to be healthy enough enjoy the later years of my life. But things were going badly for the team and we were in danger of relegation and I couldn’t help myself. Next thing I knew I was naming myself in the starting 11 for two games. After them I felt like I just played 200 games. I’d only been out for five months. Gerrard retired a year and half ago. Even after that I did it again when I took over at Clyde. I played for 45 minutes against Annan but I knew after 10 I’d made a terrible mistake. My body wouldn’t do what I was telling it to and that wasn’t fair on the team or the fans. Most importantly, it wasn’t fair on myself. So I don’t think it would be the right thing for Gerrard to do. When I was only 18 or 19 older pros used to say to me, “Your body will tell you when it’s time to quit”. I’d look at them as if they were half daft. “Your body doesn’t f*****g talk!” But now I understand exactly what they meant and Gerrard knew it 18 months ago when he called it a day at LA Galaxy. Yes, he could still be the best player in Scotland by a country mile. But I think he’ll put all his efforts into trying to be the best manager. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/steven-gerrard-fix-rangers-top-12629678
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1 Jun 2018, 08:29 AM
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Signing off ‘Yours faithfully (ya dobber) , was also sometimes a giveaway.
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What hunnic shenanigans await us this morning I wonder? Mr Gerrard going for the treble?
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1 Jun 2018, 08:41 AM
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Hey ho, let's go Shoot'em in the back now What they want, I don't know They're all revved up and ready to go
Stevie Dee Dee Ramone
Psycho Therapy is probably more fitting. Blitzkrieg Bop.....Blitzkrieg.....German bombers guided by celtics floodlights. It's a timmy conshpiracy!
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1 Jun 2018, 08:45 AM
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"That means from the moment his car pulls up in the car park this morning, everyone inside that building is going to have to be on their toes – players, staff, everyone". How did that pan out Barry? " The smart money says he’ll try to emulate the high-pressing style Jurgen Klopp has installed at Liverpool and I can’t imagine there’s a Rangers fan out there who isn’t drooling at the prospect of that". Pity there's no smart money at Ibrox. Steven Gerrard will fix Rangers from top to bottom and I can't wait to see his style - Barry FergusonBarry admits he is like a kid at Christmas waiting for the Gerrard era to get underway for real at Ibrox. Spoiler: click to toggle ByBarry Ferguson For Rangers fans, this morning feels a bit like waking up on Christmas Day. It’s hard to imagine a better present than Steven Gerrard starting his work as the club’s new manager. Excited? I feel a bit like a schoolkid again. I still can’t quite believe a man of Gerrard’s stature is about to get to grips with the job of restoring Rangers and bringing back the standards I grew up with. Over these last few weeks since his appointment a lot of people have been going on about his inexperience for the position because this will be his first crack at management. But I don’t see it that way. This is a guy who has gathered more personal experience of what it takes to operate and succeed at the highest level of the game than most folk will get in a lifetime. I’m not in the slightest bit worried about how he’ll handle this new challenge – I’m absolutely fascinated by it. I can’t wait to see the changes he makes and the way he goes about bringing Rangers up to the kind of levels he demands. Who else will come in with him? Who will be the first out of the door? And most importantly, what brand of football is he going to play? Right now it’s a guessing a game because no one can say with any certainty what his philosophy will be. The smart money says he’ll try to emulate the high-pressing style Jurgen Klopp has installed at Liverpool and I can’t imagine there’s a Rangers fan out there who isn’t drooling at the prospect of that. I wish the first game of pre-season was this afternoon, I’m so excited to see it for myself. And it’s not just what he does inside the first-team dressing room. Today’s Rangers is a very different football club from the one I always knew. It saddens me to admit standards have been allowed to slip in every department of the football operation. I’ve watched it happening from afar over these last few years and I find it hard to recognise the club I left behind. But there is no doubt in my mind Gerrard and Gary McAllister are the men to fix it. Gerrard looks to me like the kind of guy who will not focus only on first-team affairs. He’ll want to be the kind of manager who is in control of the entire club – and that’s exactly the way it should be. That means from the moment his car pulls up in the car park this morning, everyone inside that building is going to have to be on their toes – players, staff, everyone. There are a lot of people holding positions in there who like the idea of representing Rangers but who don’t have the first clue what it really means. I can’t imagine they’ll last long under Gerrard and McAllister. There was a feeling some of the previous managers were just happy to be there. I remember meeting with Pedro Caixinha not long after he got the job. I left thinking to myself the guy could hardly believe he’d managed to pull it off. But there’s no doubting the credentials of Gerrard and McAllister. These are proper football men who know exactly what is required at the highest level. It may be their first day in the job but they already know more about what it means to represent a club like Rangers than a lot of folk who’ve been inside the place over the last few years. It kills me to say it but there’s a feeling things have been allowed to become a bit lazy and complacent. There are people who take being at Rangers for granted. Even worse there are others who think the club owes them a living. I don’t expect Gerrard will stand for any of that. So there will be a lot of players in that dressing room who will need to raise their games dramatically if they want to hang around under the new management team. But the same rule will apply all across the training complex, in all areas and all aspects of the club. Gerrard will raise the bar for all of them. I’ve heard some fans talk about the possibility of him pulling the boots back on once he’s assessed the rest of the squad. Even at 37 he’d probably be head and shoulders above every other player in his dressing room. In fact there’s a good chance he’d be the best player in the whole country. I understand why Rangers fans would love to see him out there wearing that shirt. But I hope it doesn’t happen. When I took the manager’s job at Blackpool I was at a similar age. I’d just had an operation and the surgeon had warned me it was time to give it up if I wanted to be healthy enough enjoy the later years of my life. But things were going badly for the team and we were in danger of relegation and I couldn’t help myself. Next thing I knew I was naming myself in the starting 11 for two games. After them I felt like I just played 200 games. I’d only been out for five months. Gerrard retired a year and half ago. Even after that I did it again when I took over at Clyde. I played for 45 minutes against Annan but I knew after 10 I’d made a terrible mistake. My body wouldn’t do what I was telling it to and that wasn’t fair on the team or the fans. Most importantly, it wasn’t fair on myself. So I don’t think it would be the right thing for Gerrard to do. When I was only 18 or 19 older pros used to say to me, “Your body will tell you when it’s time to quit”. I’d look at them as if they were half daft. “Your body doesn’t f*****g talk!” But now I understand exactly what they meant and Gerrard knew it 18 months ago when he called it a day at LA Galaxy. Yes, he could still be the best player in Scotland by a country mile. But I think he’ll put all his efforts into trying to be the best manager. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/steven-gerrard-fix-rangers-top-12629678 Jesus wept. He probably wrote that in crayon
The last few paragraphs about Gerrard coming out of retirement are priceless. The carrot is actually serious
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1 Jun 2018, 08:45 AM
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Your future signings will be Celtic fans ha ha ha
The standard of ‘names’ being linked with Sevco is fair going downhill quickly. What a pumpkin Skrtel is - this is all down to him respectfully nodding no thanks.
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"That means from the moment his car pulls up in the car park this morning, everyone inside that building is going to have to be on their toes – players, staff, everyone". How did that pan out Barry? " The smart money says he’ll try to emulate the high-pressing style Jurgen Klopp has installed at Liverpool and I can’t imagine there’s a Rangers fan out there who isn’t drooling at the prospect of that". Pity there's no smart money at Ibrox. Steven Gerrard will fix Rangers from top to bottom and I can't wait to see his style - Barry FergusonBarry admits he is like a kid at Christmas waiting for the Gerrard era to get underway for real at Ibrox. Spoiler: click to toggle ByBarry Ferguson For Rangers fans, this morning feels a bit like waking up on Christmas Day. It’s hard to imagine a better present than Steven Gerrard starting his work as the club’s new manager. Excited? I feel a bit like a schoolkid again. I still can’t quite believe a man of Gerrard’s stature is about to get to grips with the job of restoring Rangers and bringing back the standards I grew up with. Over these last few weeks since his appointment a lot of people have been going on about his inexperience for the position because this will be his first crack at management. But I don’t see it that way. This is a guy who has gathered more personal experience of what it takes to operate and succeed at the highest level of the game than most folk will get in a lifetime. I’m not in the slightest bit worried about how he’ll handle this new challenge – I’m absolutely fascinated by it. I can’t wait to see the changes he makes and the way he goes about bringing Rangers up to the kind of levels he demands. Who else will come in with him? Who will be the first out of the door? And most importantly, what brand of football is he going to play? Right now it’s a guessing a game because no one can say with any certainty what his philosophy will be. The smart money says he’ll try to emulate the high-pressing style Jurgen Klopp has installed at Liverpool and I can’t imagine there’s a Rangers fan out there who isn’t drooling at the prospect of that. I wish the first game of pre-season was this afternoon, I’m so excited to see it for myself. And it’s not just what he does inside the first-team dressing room. Today’s Rangers is a very different football club from the one I always knew. It saddens me to admit standards have been allowed to slip in every department of the football operation. I’ve watched it happening from afar over these last few years and I find it hard to recognise the club I left behind. But there is no doubt in my mind Gerrard and Gary McAllister are the men to fix it. Gerrard looks to me like the kind of guy who will not focus only on first-team affairs. He’ll want to be the kind of manager who is in control of the entire club – and that’s exactly the way it should be. That means from the moment his car pulls up in the car park this morning, everyone inside that building is going to have to be on their toes – players, staff, everyone. There are a lot of people holding positions in there who like the idea of representing Rangers but who don’t have the first clue what it really means. I can’t imagine they’ll last long under Gerrard and McAllister. There was a feeling some of the previous managers were just happy to be there. I remember meeting with Pedro Caixinha not long after he got the job. I left thinking to myself the guy could hardly believe he’d managed to pull it off. But there’s no doubting the credentials of Gerrard and McAllister. These are proper football men who know exactly what is required at the highest level. It may be their first day in the job but they already know more about what it means to represent a club like Rangers than a lot of folk who’ve been inside the place over the last few years. It kills me to say it but there’s a feeling things have been allowed to become a bit lazy and complacent. There are people who take being at Rangers for granted. Even worse there are others who think the club owes them a living. I don’t expect Gerrard will stand for any of that. So there will be a lot of players in that dressing room who will need to raise their games dramatically if they want to hang around under the new management team. But the same rule will apply all across the training complex, in all areas and all aspects of the club. Gerrard will raise the bar for all of them. I’ve heard some fans talk about the possibility of him pulling the boots back on once he’s assessed the rest of the squad. Even at 37 he’d probably be head and shoulders above every other player in his dressing room. In fact there’s a good chance he’d be the best player in the whole country. I understand why Rangers fans would love to see him out there wearing that shirt. But I hope it doesn’t happen. When I took the manager’s job at Blackpool I was at a similar age. I’d just had an operation and the surgeon had warned me it was time to give it up if I wanted to be healthy enough enjoy the later years of my life. But things were going badly for the team and we were in danger of relegation and I couldn’t help myself. Next thing I knew I was naming myself in the starting 11 for two games. After them I felt like I just played 200 games. I’d only been out for five months. Gerrard retired a year and half ago. Even after that I did it again when I took over at Clyde. I played for 45 minutes against Annan but I knew after 10 I’d made a terrible mistake. My body wouldn’t do what I was telling it to and that wasn’t fair on the team or the fans. Most importantly, it wasn’t fair on myself. So I don’t think it would be the right thing for Gerrard to do. When I was only 18 or 19 older pros used to say to me, “Your body will tell you when it’s time to quit”. I’d look at them as if they were half daft. “Your body doesn’t f*****g talk!” But now I understand exactly what they meant and Gerrard knew it 18 months ago when he called it a day at LA Galaxy. Yes, he could still be the best player in Scotland by a country mile. But I think he’ll put all his efforts into trying to be the best manager. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/steven-gerrard-fix-rangers-top-12629678 I imagine that will be the next article pinned up in the Celtic dressing room. Barry 8 , total walloper.
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"That means from the moment his car pulls up in the car park this morning, everyone inside that building is going to have to be on their toes – players, staff, everyone". How did that pan out Barry? " The smart money says he’ll try to emulate the high-pressing style Jurgen Klopp has installed at Liverpool and I can’t imagine there’s a Rangers fan out there who isn’t drooling at the prospect of that". Pity there's no smart money at Ibrox. Steven Gerrard will fix Rangers from top to bottom and I can't wait to see his style - Barry FergusonBarry admits he is like a kid at Christmas waiting for the Gerrard era to get underway for real at Ibrox. Spoiler: click to toggle ByBarry Ferguson For Rangers fans, this morning feels a bit like waking up on Christmas Day. It’s hard to imagine a better present than Steven Gerrard starting his work as the club’s new manager. Excited? I feel a bit like a schoolkid again. I still can’t quite believe a man of Gerrard’s stature is about to get to grips with the job of restoring Rangers and bringing back the standards I grew up with. Over these last few weeks since his appointment a lot of people have been going on about his inexperience for the position because this will be his first crack at management. But I don’t see it that way. This is a guy who has gathered more personal experience of what it takes to operate and succeed at the highest level of the game than most folk will get in a lifetime. I’m not in the slightest bit worried about how he’ll handle this new challenge – I’m absolutely fascinated by it. I can’t wait to see the changes he makes and the way he goes about bringing Rangers up to the kind of levels he demands. Who else will come in with him? Who will be the first out of the door? And most importantly, what brand of football is he going to play? Right now it’s a guessing a game because no one can say with any certainty what his philosophy will be. The smart money says he’ll try to emulate the high-pressing style Jurgen Klopp has installed at Liverpool and I can’t imagine there’s a Rangers fan out there who isn’t drooling at the prospect of that. I wish the first game of pre-season was this afternoon, I’m so excited to see it for myself. And it’s not just what he does inside the first-team dressing room. Today’s Rangers is a very different football club from the one I always knew. It saddens me to admit standards have been allowed to slip in every department of the football operation. I’ve watched it happening from afar over these last few years and I find it hard to recognise the club I left behind. But there is no doubt in my mind Gerrard and Gary McAllister are the men to fix it. Gerrard looks to me like the kind of guy who will not focus only on first-team affairs. He’ll want to be the kind of manager who is in control of the entire club – and that’s exactly the way it should be. That means from the moment his car pulls up in the car park this morning, everyone inside that building is going to have to be on their toes – players, staff, everyone. There are a lot of people holding positions in there who like the idea of representing Rangers but who don’t have the first clue what it really means. I can’t imagine they’ll last long under Gerrard and McAllister. There was a feeling some of the previous managers were just happy to be there. I remember meeting with Pedro Caixinha not long after he got the job. I left thinking to myself the guy could hardly believe he’d managed to pull it off. But there’s no doubting the credentials of Gerrard and McAllister. These are proper football men who know exactly what is required at the highest level. It may be their first day in the job but they already know more about what it means to represent a club like Rangers than a lot of folk who’ve been inside the place over the last few years. It kills me to say it but there’s a feeling things have been allowed to become a bit lazy and complacent. There are people who take being at Rangers for granted. Even worse there are others who think the club owes them a living. I don’t expect Gerrard will stand for any of that. So there will be a lot of players in that dressing room who will need to raise their games dramatically if they want to hang around under the new management team. But the same rule will apply all across the training complex, in all areas and all aspects of the club. Gerrard will raise the bar for all of them. I’ve heard some fans talk about the possibility of him pulling the boots back on once he’s assessed the rest of the squad. Even at 37 he’d probably be head and shoulders above every other player in his dressing room. In fact there’s a good chance he’d be the best player in the whole country. I understand why Rangers fans would love to see him out there wearing that shirt. But I hope it doesn’t happen. When I took the manager’s job at Blackpool I was at a similar age. I’d just had an operation and the surgeon had warned me it was time to give it up if I wanted to be healthy enough enjoy the later years of my life. But things were going badly for the team and we were in danger of relegation and I couldn’t help myself. Next thing I knew I was naming myself in the starting 11 for two games. After them I felt like I just played 200 games. I’d only been out for five months. Gerrard retired a year and half ago. Even after that I did it again when I took over at Clyde. I played for 45 minutes against Annan but I knew after 10 I’d made a terrible mistake. My body wouldn’t do what I was telling it to and that wasn’t fair on the team or the fans. Most importantly, it wasn’t fair on myself. So I don’t think it would be the right thing for Gerrard to do. When I was only 18 or 19 older pros used to say to me, “Your body will tell you when it’s time to quit”. I’d look at them as if they were half daft. “Your body doesn’t f*****g talk!” But now I understand exactly what they meant and Gerrard knew it 18 months ago when he called it a day at LA Galaxy. Yes, he could still be the best player in Scotland by a country mile. But I think he’ll put all his efforts into trying to be the best manager. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/steven-gerrard-fix-rangers-top-12629678
Jesus wept. He probably wrote that in crayon The last few paragraphs about Gerrard coming out of retirement are priceless. The carrot is actually serious I suspect tears before bedtime then
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1 Jun 2018, 09:12 AM
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McGinn to us from Hibs.
McGeogh to them from Hibs.
Has this kind of thing not happened before...?
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1 Jun 2018, 09:14 AM
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When Ge55ard wrote "Let's go" at the end of his st Atement to let the Huns know he wasn't coming this now.
You could feel the awkwardness of huns posting 'lets go' instead of watp in reply.
Will Steve g buy into the watp pish or not? we'll see.
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1 Jun 2018, 09:16 AM
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These boots were made for hunbustin'
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McGinn to us from Hibs.
McGeogh to them from Hibs.
Has this kind of thing not happened before...? Just need Dave King to dot the Ts and cross his eyes.
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Hun captain sells dugs!
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/rangers-star-james-tavernier-slammed-12630142
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1 Jun 2018, 09:22 AM
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Jesus that latest GASL statement is fantastic. Who know he read the Irish newspapers?
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Remember the legendary Spikey Golf Shoes piece by The Gub prior to season 2000/1? This is what that über Hun had to say about MON fulfilling his TV duties before starting with us
“Quite simply, if the roles had been reversed and we had finished miles behind last season. Had saw our rivals strengthen an already far superior squad still further. Had put in a new manager in place, only for him to swan off to an International tourney, then I would be in a white jacket with 5ft sleeves by now.”
We can but hope.
A good warning from history though. Complacency is our main enemy. I don't think our management team will suffer from it so hopefully we're ready to go for the jugular upstairs. Any worries on that score are eased every day though. I think the madness of king david will have galvanised us more than them.
Fair point. If it's indeed true that Dermot Desmond finally decided to take the gloves off and splash the cash on the team because of tawdry behaviour of scummy hun directors at that SC Semi they 'won' on penalties, then that decision was taken on a whim, and whim's can be reversed. It's a great story - our Irish billionaire main man is so outraged by hun bigots he decides it's time they were slapped down - but it should have happened years ago. He & Lawwell should have done more to keep the top players WGS and Lenny didn't want to lose, and should have freed up the proceeds of sale for decent replacements - team sheet before balance sheet - and should not have embarked on the Deila Austerity Years. This 'speculate to accumulate' era we are currently reveling in is rare. Pre and post Fergus, the biscuit tin mentality has accurately characterised Celtic's historic approach to spending. We've seldom been big spenders, never built from a position of strength, so it's daft to assume those days are behind us. Old habits die hard: who's to say the suits won't take their eyes from the ball and back to the balance sheet again? Who is to say they won't get complacent again, and underestimate the expectations of supporters (and the ability of opponents to challenge us) by thinking they can slash spending yet still challenge for a CL place? I won't take that for granted. So you're saying that we should have spent money we didn't have on players that we couldn't afford? Just to keep our main nasty rivals in their place !
Yip I suppose there's no evidence to indicate that plan wouldn't work!!
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1 Jun 2018, 09:28 AM
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Nothing to worry about with any investigation into EBT's or the way Dave deals with business.
The Rangers International Football Club PLC is a holding company. The Rangers Football Club Ltd is the operating company (or owner). The Club (Rangers Football Club) is owned and operated by The Rangers Football Club LTD, which, in turn, is a subsidiary of The Rangers International Football Club PLC
The club and the team that it puts out on the park is what we all support. The club was formed in 1872. Companies are just companies. RangersMedia
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