It wuznae Ally's fault

I'm not going to try to defend Mr McCoists spending, I think playing more youngsters, taking a bit longer to get back to the top tier and creating a footballing philosophy, that produced winning, but pleasing football to watch would have been the better way to go, too late now.


My point, however is this, if he hadn't spent the budget he was given, would not those greedy charlatans who have had their grubby mitts in the honey pot, not just have dug deeper and given themselves even bigger salaries/bonuses etc

"They were dire on the whole and i am not sure it was down to the players"

That'll be down to the fact the signings he got were usually his 4th or 5th choices.

"Not for where we currently are."

again bluenose

Fans were bleating about results not being good enough....when we fcking walked the league!!

We are waking it again, we havent lost a game, and stillfans are bleating about standard of fitba.

when the fck are some folk hapy, and do you think for a second half of these guys would have been happy if we signed second rate players for a pittance??

Absolutely not.

How many people lauded the signing of Templeton when it happened??? Dont hear folk saying that now.

Cake and eat it stuff mate

Fleshers hits the nail on the head wtih his second point.

Its those at the top level in charge of the purse strings that are at fault for our current predicament, and the amounts they frittered away and souwld have continued to fritter away regardless of what Ally spent, its not Ally's fault for spending the budget he was given

Do you really think he has spent it well Stevie?

The results last season weren't good enough for the most part, whether we won the league or not. The fact it took 4 months to record a win away from home was embrassing. As was losing to a team whose manager was away getting married. We might have won the league, but personally for the most part we were truly awful.

This season as well started well, and we were playing decent stuff at the start, but we've regressed since the middle of September. Before then we were playing much better, and putting these sides to bed, rather than struggling against them. In the past month, the only time we've played decently was against Dunfermline, in my opinion. Whether that is because it is a more familiar surrounding may have made that the case.

Also I'd argue we are signing second rate players at the moment, those who we were after in the summer didn't exactly have clubs knocking the doors down to sign them.

As for Templeton, he was literally the only bright spot of that summer. A lot of people were rightly excited at the signing of hum as well, as he had just scored at Liverpool, plus everytime he played us, he seemed to tear us apart. It's not happened for one reason or another, whether that be commitment, tactics, confidence or what not.

And I agree, the board should be telling him no, but they were too busy filling their pockets to really care either way. The amount of money we have spent/wasted on the playing side over the last 18 months have been nothing short of disgraceful, in my own opinion.

The amount of money we have spent/wasted on the playing side over the last 18 months have been nothing short of disgraceful, in my own opinion.
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Correct, but I wouldnt put down the money spent as Ally's fault.

If the club dont have the money or the board don't think money is being spent wisely then they should be telling Ally no. They didn't.

The money spent is down to the board. They agree fees and contracts with players, not Ally McCoist.

If those fees/wages players demand are too high, then the board should pull out of the deal. Simple as that.

Really? Do we have to rake up the start of last season when He had about 2 and half hours to sign enough players just to put a team on the park

Things are just so much more complicated than the lovely cut and dried versions we get on here.

I'm not Ally's biggest fan as a manager but there are loads of factors involved.

He had to build a squad from scratch without a scouting system. A squad that would hopefully gel to be strong and able enough to go through the leagues and be able to hit the ground running for the top league without changing large parts of the squad all the time.

Ally was given a budget and he spent it. Big deal.

For most of the past two years he kept Rangers together while all around him was falling apart. The club has been in so much turmoil with Ally in the middle of it I'm not surprised the quality of football has suffered.

Players signed from higher divisions asked to play in lower divisions will invariably get sloppy due to lowering their game. Conversely players from lower divisions playing bigger teams raise their game.

You can't (or very rarely can) have a successful team with only youngsters, regardless of how good they are.

We ARE winning and romping the league.

We are in a false position and the club is still in turmoil.

If and when the club stabilises THEN we can fully and fairly judge Ally and the squad.

"Do you really think he has spent it well Stevie?"

no I dont think he has spent it well....but that is not what I am arguing here.

How Ally spends his budget should only affect one thing....on the pitch performance.

Ally wasting x millions on the playing squad should not be the catalyst for the club to head for administration again...this is the ponit being made.

People appear to be blamig Ally for the state the clubs finances are in...saying he wasted this and that on players and look at us, skint.

that is totally unfair on the man, who is only a footbal manager, spending the budget he was given, and in the bigger picture, in terms of wages, that budget is a third of the clubs income...at almost any other football club, that is a very good ratio

Bottom line is 30% of turn over on player's salaries is good ! It's the other salaries and costs .that need cutting.