FRAN ---------------------BY DOTHEBOUNCY Philisophic ‘ally’ speaking BY NONOTONE – POSTED ON NOVEMBER 23, 2014 allyI’ve tried outrageous anger after the shambles at home to hibs, I tried humour about our lack of passing football against anybody in the last 3 years, especially against Alloa last week, and even noted we beat Falkirk 4-0 despite playing rubbish football….’utter ****’ was one description I heard, so now I turn to some philosophy…. We have lost 2-0 to Hearts, to the league leaders, to the team who were relegated last season a team that is unbeaten, a team that has the best defense in the Championship, and a team that was in the division above last season whereas we were in the division below. All that seems to point that a home win was expected, that this was the runaway top team against stuttering second place side, and the fact Rangers are the most successful club in human history doesn’t matter a jot. I do though have to submit the following in evidence that maybe we are under performing and have been for three years but results have hidden the fact until we encountered half decent teams this year. Today’s defeat and the manner of it was almost the worst result for those of us who see Ally’s limitations as a manager, a brave display after being the best team for 20 – 30 minutes before the sending off of Stevie Smith. For those of us who think Ally isn’t the right man for the job we wanted a convincing win today to prove us wrong or at the back of our minds (it will be hard to admit but come on let us be honest) a poor performance that meant defeat to prove we were correct; and please read on before throwing the bric bats. So to explain to those still with me, a brave effort in adversity was the worst of both worlds. However analysing today’s game we can see when we really needed inspiration, miller was exchanged for Foster, and later Boyd is sent on when all is lost as we continued with plan A. This also hides the fact that we should have been bolder from the start, the team picked played well, had the best of it early on, closed down, ran hard and stopped Hearts playing. However a different more attacking team may have won this game long before it became a war of attrition, and this is why Ally has failed, played three lost three is his record this season against the Edinburgh teams, and those are the nine points we are behind. Sadly it appears Ally sees a big game looming on the horizon and goes into 2008 European mode and sees the 4-5-1 tactics of that team as the ‘go to’ answer. It was then because a) we had Walter Smith in charge and b) we had the discipline and quality of players to make it work, and also the opposition was organised and of good quality so we needed to be ‘conservative’ in approach. This is the Scottish Championship, the 2nd tier, we have the 2nd largest wage bill in Scotland, we have the attacking flair of Shiels, Templeton, Aird, Clark etc not being used. Also we have a massive (in relative terms to other Scottish teams) investment in Murray Park and developing youth players and yet we can only get onto the pitch McLeod, while Hearts manage to get 8 of their development players on the pitch, why are we spending all the money and loaning out our talented young players when Hearts are out stripping us with their’s ? I know some of our ‘big’ signings have been a disappointment, Dean Shiels had his dream move and I know how much it hurts him to have not carried on where he left off 3 years ago when he was the most exciting player in Scotland, and being Northern Ireland Supporter I wanted him desperately to become an Ibrox legend. David Templeton still can be that legend, and all in all hasn’t let anyone down, but he needs to play, he needs to be picked and given licence to do what he is best at not left on the bench when clearly the team is crying ou for some creative influence. Most of all we need to start playing football, we all know Rangers have a pragmatic past, built from the protestant worth ethic, and the battle mode that is we hold what we have then we strike cleverly and clinically. People can remember Laudrup’s legendary goal against the ‘on the runs’ in 1996 that epitomises this style of play, and it is a rare and beautiful thing when it is used at the right time and all the players are bound into the idea, which is why I reference that 2007/8 European campaign. That is what has brought us success and may when we are up against top opponents again in the future but at the moment we are being out passed by all and sundry, Cowdenbeath…..I repeat Cowdenbeath had more possession than we did in our last encounter with ‘The Blue Brazil’ sadly it hurts me to say nothing demonstrates why Ally McCoist should no longer manage our and his beloved club than that.
Posted on: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 13:38:35 +0000
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