Walter is starting to seriously annoy me now. I understand that he is very loyal to Ally McCoist which is commendable, but if he can't accept that the players fitness, attitude and lack of good coaching, as well as many just not being the players required for last seasons debacle, then he should just keep quiet.
Is it just loyalty, or is it because he is his prodigy and therefore any criticism of McCoist would reflect badly on him as his mentor?
Either way, Walter, I don't want to hear your excuses for McCoist and the rabble he put together and 'worked' with. Yes there were some issues off the park last year, but the wheels were off the cart long before the worst of it.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/walter-smith-hits-back-mark-6205984?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Walter on Rangers last year
posted on 7/8/15
Exactly, Denis. To be honest, Walter isn't the only one of the former players, etc who have stuck up for McCoist's managerial tenure. In these sorts of instances, it may be seen as the Rangers 'family' pulling together through periods of adversity, but rather than helping, these sorts of things can be counter-productive, providing endorsement to failure and exascerbsting the problem.
As I've found here, though, speaking out against 'legends' is considered a major betrayal, no matter the circumstance.
Legendary status is a privilege which is earned, but the club should come before the individual, legend or not, and closing ranks to protect one of your own, whilst commendable, often causes more problems than it solves. That was the issue with McCoist over the last 2-3 years; nobody with Rangers links and with the status was willing to put their head above the parapet and criticise McCoist, so he was given free range to run the playing side of things into the ground. Now Walter is trying to re-write history.
Not good enough.
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I don't expect him to publicly slate McCoist. I would have expected him to have taken the blinkers off, seen that things were going wrong whilst McCoist was in charge, and had a quiet word.
Even now, I don't expect him to denigrate McCoist; there are any number of ways he could have got round it, but what he has said has, I believe, demeaned a lot of the good work which Warburton has done. He should have lauded the way the new manager had turned things around, not made excuses for the old one.
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comment by Curly - "We're all doomed" (U1103)
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Not even going to read the sensationalist nonsense in the record and will judge Walter on his achievements
Some fans just don't deserve the success he gave us
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By the way, Curly, the link is to the record, but it comes from Walter's blog with Ladbrokes.
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Seems a bit masonic to me.
posted on 7/8/15
Yet another reason why Walter is correct
Never dis a brother
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Duke