30 Jun 2014 10:48:53
I see the posts slagging Ally McCoist continue. I am not an Ally supporter, far from it, but he has had to work under extreme pressure, and under the strangest of situations. He has had to work with Duff & Phelps, Whyte and then Greene, and now the Easdales.

My job has pressures, my life has pressures, but none would come even within a whisker of the pressure that Ally has come under. I remember my exams at uni, and thinking that the pressure was intolerable, but compared to Ally's pressure it was a cake walk.

Now I know a lot of you will come on a attack my post and then point out what Ally has not done or done, but it will not deflect from my position as having sympathy for the man.

Do you all remember his first year in relegation when his signings were leaked - I do not think one of them came on board. I think that was the wake-up call for Ally, when he realised that players did not want to sacrifice their careers in the lower leagues. Please remember that Ally's first and foremost remit is to win the leagues and get back to the Scottish Premiership without fail, nothing else matters, this is his only goal, the rest is icing on the cake.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, he may have won most of his games playing mostly youth players, but he did not want, and could not take the chance.

As I have posted earlier if Souness, King or whomever comes on board and takes charge I do not think Ally will survive, but one thing in his favour is that it is him who stood tall and was counted when all around was falling apart, and if he was not there at significant periods I think it would have been much worse for the club.

Once Rangers are back at the top where they belong and all the various investigations and court cases are put to bed, I for one cannot wait to read the official and unofficial books about what went wrong and who done it!

Just some thoughts from a passionate supporter of the best fxxxxxg team in the world, and beyond.

1.) 30 Jun 2014
You raise a lot of very good points. My worry over the last two seasons has been around selecting the best 11 possible for each and every match.

Sir Alex was able to do it and to blood youth and it wasn't rocket science. It was about confidence and management skills and Ferguson didn't get these from Glasgow University. If " wee Blackie " or " big Jig " are off form, they're dropped and if a Gasparroto or the likes deserve their chance, they play. We haven't seen this from McCoist yet.

2.) 30 Jun 2014
Talking about the investigations, does anubody know what's happening on that front?? all seems quiet and yet d & f, cw, hmrc, and the rest all seem to be going about their daily business without a care in the world!!

3.) 30 Jun 2014
I agree, the slagging of McCoist is unrealistic and unhelpful, he held the club together and deserves a statue in his honour. He may not be the greatest manager but he's been there for Rangers and I think the Boyd signing is fantastic, I am looking forward to the championship. People talk about youth but if you don't have the right guys in now to take us to the premiership you don't have a future for the youth or the club as a whole.

4.) 30 Jun 2014
OP, I wish I had his pressures with his ridiculous salary. Pressure is when you operate a business and wonder where next week's wages for your employees are coming from. Not our ALLY, he just spends, and no matter what, his salary will still be there.
Also, forget all the peripheral crap, he is still a poor manager.

5.) 30 Jun 2014
I have always wondered why Rangers 'hierarchy' have never raised a grievance against D&F and CW, especially CW for misappropriating of funds.

Also, what has happened to the police investigation into who leaked HMRC paperwork which led to our freefall in football and the rest. If not for the HMRC case, which we won, we would perhaps not have got into this fine mess. At the time we owed the bank £18 million, whilst the press inflated the HMRC Tax case from £20 million to £140 million. Owing the bank that amount was not unsurmountable and could have been managed quite comfortably.

It was strange that fillmagobup got the information firsthand, not once but on several occasions.

Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we flatter to deceive!

6.) 30 Jun 2014
30 Jun 2014 21:42:34
The remit of any Rangers manager should be to win the leagues and build a team fit enough to challenge Celtic in the top league. There is no evidence that the current Rangers team will challenge Celtic and even less evidence that a team is being built. All that's happened is that over paid journeymen players have been signed with the intention to get us back to the top league but then what? Daly, McCulloch, Boyd, Miller, Black, Foster, Hutton, Smith, aren't players with a longterm future or players that are capable of challenging for the top league. I fear we will be battling for a top 6 spot and with Ally's record in the cups won't be winning them either. Wonder how all the Ally's fans will feel when we are 20 odd points behind them in the league and fail to qualify for Europe? Y

7.) 30 Jun 2014
N4 billyb n5 bbar and n6 stewie all very good posts and very well put imo

8.) 30 Jun 2014
30 Jun 2014 22:31:39
@5 I think had the other bidder "the Blue Knights" (or should it have been the Blue Squires) been successful a lot of the actions most of us expected/ hoped for some of which are listed by you may have happened. The wrong guys got the club of that there is little doubt.

9.) 01 Jul 2014
01 Jul 2014 08:46:22
@5 bbab if you're seriously trying to suggest that it was "leaked paperwork" which led to our demise then it's you that's doing the deceiving mate. I also see some other classic tried and tested delusions crop up in your wearisome post - for the umpteenth time, the £140m wasn't a figure inflated by the press, it was published by D&P. It was the total of the £70 odd million that we potentially owed HMRC (a case which has yet to reach its final decision, as you seem to have forgotten) plus the £70 odd million we definitely did owe to creditors up and down the land. It wasnt just made up. We were badly badly in debt with no way to repay it, regardless of the bank debt (£18 mill on top of all that) and the hmrc case. Those creditors got stuffed by our club when we went bust, have some respect. The further we get from those sorry times the more most of us can simply accept that our demise was no-one's fault but our own. The club will just end up in the same sorry state again if people like you keep clutching at straws and trying to rewrite history. Man up and accept what actually happened pal.