Rangers Discussion Posts

09 Mar 2026 15:40:59
For the debate on managers

I just wish we would stop being a project club for managers who lack experience or know the game up here

We needed real leadership in that dressing room and someone who knows the Scottish game
It's not a coincidence most of our history of being successful has been under Scottish managers who knew the game up here

Are those days now gone and in the past.

09 Mar 2026 16:29:26
I am a believer in getting whoever is determined to be best for the role, Stig.
Nationalities do not come into my thinking.

Of course, my recommendations will always be heavy on certain nations because those are the areas I have knowledge of.

09 Mar 2026 16:30:25
Leadership should start from the manager, Stig. I hope Rohl is a leader; we have yet to see it, imho.

09 Mar 2026 20:41:09
Been saying for years, need experience.

McCoist, rookie.
Warburton, rookie.
Caixinha, no main man, Euro experience.
Murty, rookie.
Gerrard, rookie but world football gravitas.
Gio, relative rookie, more experience than others, unfairly treated.


Beale, rookie.
Clement, good man, wrong backing and background support.
Ferguson, rookie, would have done better than Martin.
Russel, faker Martin. No other words.
Rohl, rookie.

Don't know about you guys, but I see a trend there.

09 Mar 2026 20:48:04
I would have gone and got Derick McInnes at the beginning of the season, but that's beside the point and in the past now.
I still believe, stronger than ever, that under Danny we can win the league this season.


If the worst happens and we're not able to, I'm convinced he'll deliver the league next season given the opportunity to put his own stamp on the team.

09 Mar 2026 21:25:59
Bleedblue, was Walter not a rookie? Souness was too, I believe. Was Bill Struth not a relative rookie?

Jose Mourinho, Pep Guardiola, Julien Nagelsman, Zinedine Zidane were all rookies.

09 Mar 2026 21:52:41
Rohl needs longer. We've improved in his time. He's hardly in the building, and going out on penalties after his team was in full control of that game yesterday. I don't believe Celtic even had any shots on goal, or even off; they never even troubled us.

You need a bit of luck for things to go your way occasionally, but we're definitely all out of that.
Over 70% were giving Rohn next season on Saturday. I wonder what his percentage would be right now. Fickle fans, man.

09 Mar 2026 22:40:50
Aph, Walter was an exception and learned under a tough man in McLean, and also had around ten years in diff capacity before Rangers, and Souness, for me, was a front man or figurehead with Walter doing a lot of the work.

Gio 5-6 years
Murty 5 years
Gerrard 1 year
Caixinha more experience in coaching, granted.
Warburton some around 8 years, but not as high a level as Walter.
McCoist two years as Walter assistant, Scotland, which is pretty much part time compared to club football.


Look, I'm not saying Rohl is the wrong man. I've stated a few times on here that I think he deserves to take us forward into next season. I was just stating that I would prefer a more experienced guy when Rohl was first appointed. I've been solid on that opinion for a fair few years now. You only have to look at the diff with Oniel in charge of that Celtic team compared to Nancy, and I think the point is valid.

Do you want to give an opinion as to why things have not worked out for previous managers as a whole and justify it, Aph?

09 Mar 2026 22:43:37
Mystar, I'm totally behind you on Rohl. As I've said, I backed Rohl when results were going against him. That doesn't mean you can't point out where you think he's gone wrong, or where I think the club has gone wrong in the past. It's only an opinion or opinions.

And one of those opinions is, I believe Rohl is the right man to take us forward.

09 Mar 2026 23:16:14
A lot of the managers named above were assistants to some great managers, apart from one or two, but had respect in the game for what they won as players, like Souness and Gerrard. I believe Rohl has been an assistant, or in some other coaching role, to some excellent managers in his time, and now we'll see how much he has learned within our game and the current squad he has, and hopefully he'll kick on next season with his own playing staff.

09 Mar 2026 23:18:13
It's actually at 80% on Rohl staying. I would never have thought that with some of these posts the last 36 hours.

09 Mar 2026 15:25:15
I have never seen an Old Firm policed as bad in my life, before the game you could see trouble was coming their were Celtic buses up with the Rangers buses at the broom land road end which resulted in fights breaking out before hand and riots after the game, policing to let Celtic fans without tickets within a 100 m of the broom land is easily preventable but they did not and for some crazy reason they did not have a police line in front of broom land when pens started, the stewards have no chance, some are 7 stone women, leaving the west enclosure yesterday their were about fifty vans filled with police doing nothing, all of this was preventable and who ever was running the show needs their arse kicked.

09 Mar 2026 17:09:26
Fans' fault, end of. People should be able to be with opposing fans. Watch the rugby. Any other thing is excusing thugs behaving badly. Get coverage of every fan on the pitch and a lifetime ban.

09 Mar 2026 17:23:37
Obviously, the fans' fault, but this would happen at every Old Firm game, plus other games up and down the country, if not policed right. I've been going to them since the early 80s and have never seen how bad policing was at the game yesterday.

They failed miserably. As for Old Firm fans being the same as rugby gies peace, are you an inspector of Police Scotland? Because he must have thought the same as you.

09 Mar 2026 17:34:21
As I said, fans' fault. You blame the police for the fact fans can't act like human beings. Get rid. Decent fans don't want them. No one. No, I am not PS, but I am, and always have been, someone who knows how to behave in public.

I came from my parents knowing right from wrong.
Never needed PS or anyone to tell me how to do that. Would be embarrassed to be any different from that.

09 Mar 2026 19:02:16
Agree, Coopersdad. Said something similar on another thread.
Fans are to blame, but the Police are not without fault. Police are there to ensure order and safety of all who attend. They were too late to take charge when you could feel something was brewing.
Ban the fans involved, but the Police need to learn lessons as well.

09 Mar 2026 19:09:26
So, nae police in future then, just let it ride out then. 🙄 Decent fans, there are lawyers and doctors at these games on both sides who are worse than some of the young men, and anyone with half a brain could see that this would not have happened if policing was done correctly.

09 Mar 2026 20:45:48
Police got used to smaller numbers of fans, totally underestimated the situation, and handling was bad. But I agree fans need to take the brunt. For me, ban Celtic fans from this season's remaining cup games, and ban Rangers fans the same amount next year.

Also reduce future final allocations to 50/50 regardless of teams. There has to be a long-term punishment.

Also an inquiry into SFA handling, as Rangers did not want these numbers but were pretty much hand forced by the Celtic-supporting SFA.

09 Mar 2026 21:02:40
Correct, Angus. Sick and fed up of people trying to make excuses for those pathetic little persons. Every one of them should be banned, both sides; they are at fault, no one else.

09 Mar 2026 22:44:39
Again, I agree there are people to blame, but we can't let the SFA off the hook. They pushed this when the club did not think it was the right time.

09 Mar 2026 23:09:38
I think the Police have to take some of the responsibility for yesterday. Yes, we have an element of idiots that just want to cause disorder in the name of both clubs, but how come when we play semis or finals at Hampden and get a 50/50 split there are very few incidents within the stadium.
Ban all the morons anyway. Better for the club in the long run.

09 Mar 2026 14:13:18
I know what I want and like it's a matter of opinion I get that.

09 Mar 2026 14:08:47
Floyd

I'm not just talking about our manager regarding the penalty misses. I'm being more general. I just don't see a winning MENTALITY from our manager or captain. Too passive. Give me someone who knows how to win things. Someone who is a born winner. Souness Gerrard, someone in that mould.

09 Mar 2026 13:44:41
Since Rohl came in we have arguably played 1 great game Hearts at home and 2 good half's of football once at parkhead 2nd half and 1st half at Ibrox last week.

You could say killie as well but they had ten men for most of the game.

We rarely control games we did yesterday didn't win.

Right at this min can anyone tell me what style Rohl is going to play?

He is very inexperienced as a head coach you can have brilliant experience as assistant but that doesn't mean he will make a good head coach.

I think he should get pre season and another window but I honestly don't see him seeing out next season.

09 Mar 2026 22:47:25
It's hard to tell right now. Storm is really down to the large number of recruits we will need in summer, 6 players on loan before we even speak about guys like Matondo, Tav, Bajrami, Aasgaard and others not contributing or able to be trusted from the bench.

09 Mar 2026 11:16:08
The one thing proven yesterday is that we don't have a winning mentality in the squad. The leadership of this squad is fragile and not strong enough. We need players who, as cliche as it sounds, are willing to bleed blue for this club.

Im not itk, but from the outside looking in, our leadership group is tav, Butland and Souttar.
Tav has been a stalwart and a very successful player in terms of individual stats, but mentally he is not a winner. he's done nothing of note in his time here bar the invincible season.
Butland is either incredible or bang average. he's not here for the club, he's here for his own ego. Has won nothing his entire career and will continue to do so.
Souttar. New contract and that's him absolutely phoning it in. He wasn't an outstanding player to begin with but his fall off has been crazy.
Clear them out, bring in players with a winning mentality.

08 Mar 2026 23:39:03
Aphe I notice you like to point out those who wanted Gerrard back, and use it to an extent to back up your arguments on manager debates

So here is my take

I was one of the people on here who wanted Gerrard back.

Think about what he took over when he first arrived and where our results were in Europe at that time. Gerrard brought recognition and standards back to the club. Whether people think he's a good manager or not doesn't change what he brought back to Rangers.

I was also vocal early on about wanting him gone, and I own that. But he won me over and changed my attitude with what he actually achieved at my boyhood club.

He put us back in contention with Celtic, had us competing in Europe again with some great results, and helped bring belief back to a support that thought we wouldn't see success for a long time. He changed the mentality, and when he left, he left us in a much stronger position than when he arrived. No one can deny that.

People forget how far we had fallen before he came in. Domestically we were miles off the pace and in Europe we were struggling to even get through qualifiers. Under Gerrard we started beating strong European sides again, getting out of groups, and restoring some pride in how we performed on that stage.

Some of the things he brought back to the club have drifted since he left. Gio carried on the great European run, but since then we've gone backwards especially this season. In Europe we're starting to look like a shadow of the side we'd become over the previous four years.
Then there's the league title. Stopping Celtic's run and winning the league the way we did unbeaten and with one of the best defensive records the league has seen wasn't just success, it reset belief across the club.
So the pull and temptation of Gerrard coming back last summer did feel right at the time, given the mess we found ourselves in again.

Whether, with the backing of the Americans, he could have got us playing well again and competing with and beating Celtic like we were when he left no one knows.

The same way no one knows if DM would have us top of the league if he'd been appointed at the start of the season. And no one knows if the current Motherwell manager would do any better than Röhl either right now or in the future.

At the end of the day, every appointment is a gamble.

But what Gerrard did do was put us back in contention and turn us into a very good side by the time he left. No one can take that away from him.

That's my take and my opinion.

We still don't know if Röhl will be the right appointment, so let's see how we kick off next season.

09 Mar 2026 09:35:09
Stig, I understand that, and in no way have I used Gerrard as a slight.

All I said was we were in a mess comparable to Gerrard due to the poor management of Martin and the poor decisions of the executive.

That resulted in three dismissals after around 4 months of the season.
Recovering from that is no quick fix, and the club, rightly or wrongly, are now building for the future.



I am the first to admit there have been too many mistakes at the start, and this is unacceptable, but we move on and prepare.

Danny will be given the tools, and next season he must deliver.
I understand the jury is out, but I will defend against any notion that the chopping block should be out.

I hope this clears things up for you, Stig.

09 Mar 2026 09:45:57
One thing is clear: every manager has been afforded at least a preseason. Gerrard was afforded 3.

All I am defending against is those wanting dismissals without even a single preseason being allowed.

09 Mar 2026 09:46:25
It's going to be an interesting summer, Aph, that's for sure.
Another good few players turned over, and Rohl and his team will need them readied for the season kicking off.

Possibly a worry could be the World Cup, with timings of recruitment of players making it difficult, but I'd like to see us do our business as early as possible.



It's another big summer window coming up; let's hope Rohl gets who he wants and needs, and we see us kick off the new campaign strongly.

09 Mar 2026 10:05:50
Gerrard or Lampard are surely better than Rohl. He's not tough enough and tactically inept. No winning anything with him.

09 Mar 2026 10:15:51
Stig, it definitely will be interesting, and I just hope we get some leaders in during the summer.

The manager has made mistakes, yes, and I am not asking for him to be allowed to sign 60+ players like Gerrard did, but he needs to be allowed more than just a January window.

Leadership and proper player integration is what is missing from Rangers; it is why Hearts and Motherwell are doing so well.



That needs to change, and change quickly.

We need to build a cohesive unit, and in my opinion, I think we need to dismantle the so-called leadership group that have been part of our continuous failure.

09 Mar 2026 12:09:58
I wanted Gerrard and was very disappointed when he turned the job down. Gerrard gave us that edge, especially in the big games. He would have been well backed by the present board. A chance missed imo.

I'd take Lampard as an alternative, as he's done a brilliant job at Coventry since taking over.
To be fair, Rohl has done well to an extent, and was let down badly yesterday by poor finishing.

09 Mar 2026 16:32:48
Seeker, absolutely no chance Lampard is leaving Coventry for us.