Yes, Zebra’s gone bust.

A load of academy lads aren’t going to get 20 games, as an example I wouldn’t want Magloire to get them as I don’t think he’s ready and needs loaning out to toughen up, especially in the air.

You’re being a bit naive here.

They both have faults bluebruce, neither are PL quality as a result. Are we really going to get better than Hanley? I’d have him over the likes of Bauer any day of the week.

Hanley and Lenihan is exactly what we need. Darragh’s mobility combined with an actual no nonsense head it/kick it type.

Stoke fans think they are a ‘mess of a club’. Nope, just an average sized one that succumbed to a relegation, it happens. 

They are a properly run club, with decision makers on the ground.

Only our FA would give Aidy Fecking Boothroyd a new contract a week BEFORE a major tournament...

Some of the lads aren’t currently up to it Joe. Unfortunately Magloire was one of them, looked very weak. Wharton can’t get into 4th division sides. Tomlinson has had a host of off field problems.

The way it is with young players. Their obviously is a pathway, agree Travis took too long to get in the side, no arguments, but some of the others aren’t currently good enough.

Doesn’t sound like the club to me, they’ve always been very accommodating of that kind of stuff.

I’d check again using the examples in here. If you don’t get anywhere ask for the manager.

6 hours ago, Atko's Engine said:

There's nothing wrong with fair and constructive critique Matty, but when it creeps over into suggesting that he's manipulating the club / owners / fans for his own ends so he can get his kids through private school (for example) or that he's only interested in getting jobs for the boys (as another example), it goes too far and is disrespectful, which he doesn't deserve.

I'm sure he's thick skinned enough not to be too bothered, and is maybe less bothered than I am! But I think he ought to get more appreciation from many fans on here given the dire situation we were in when he arrived.

You didn’t say ‘manipulating the club for his own ends’ in that first post, you talked about people pointing out some of his poor transfer decisions, his own weaknesses like lack of ruthlessness/motivational skills etc as ‘sticks to beat him with’, I said it’s fair game to talk about them.

Of course the school stuff etc. is ridiculous tin foil hat nonsense, but that wasn’t the thrust of that first post.

He probably does have to take it, but a De Matteo style quick sacking, you’d imagine (without the trophies)

So people aren’t allowed to criticise Mowbray’s approach to transfers, the comments he makes, the mistakes he makes, his lack of motivational skills, his lack of ruthlessness, the tactics he employs etc (Atko’s observations, by the way) as it is ‘a stick to beat him with’ ? 

He’s the manager of a club who finished 15th last season, so he’s going to get critiqued just like every manager of every club on every forum. He’s fair game.

I’m getting a bit sick of the posting decency police (and I’m someone who thinks he’s doing fine, as it goes) deciding Mowbray should be off limits, should he buggery!

If Samuel had been fit he’d have been another striker resembling a fish on a bicycle out wide.

Big difference biffing 400 on flat tracks in a 5 match no context bilateral series, to a pressure cooker World Cup game on pitches with something in it for bowlers.

Yes. The Old Firm fanbases are full of glory hunters from outside Glasgow

. Ergo they are much bigger clubs than the rest as most towns in Scotland are rife with Old Firm fans to the detriment to that town’s football club. Plus there is the NI/RoI fanbases coming over for games.

Full houses prove the point. You honestly think most of the 100,000+ that watch them in the grounds come from Glasgow? Do you, by the way? For a supposed Scottish football expert I’m surprised that you don’t seem to be aware of the massive Celtic and Rangers supporters associations that arrange travel to matches from most towns in Scotland.

Good luck to them, but it is no surprise therefore that they have utterly dominated the game up there for 100+ years 

Says more about the ridiculously lopsided  Scottish game than anything else.

Coach loads of people from every town in Scotland going to Glasgow every weekend instead of supporting their local sides.

Surely there must be some team in Luxembourg or some such?

Rangers on General sale from tomorrow. £15. 1,000 initial allocation.

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2019/june/pre-season-ticket-news-rangers-a/

And some people observe issues with the manager, but you won’t accept that.

Good that the forum isn’t all ‘Rovers Rovers ra ra ra’, ay?

Get behind the club!

Raya was about 18 when he went to Southport. An absolute baby for a keeper. 

So there’s nothing to read into the fact they are non league.

I thought that comment was because he knew he wouldn’t get picked?

Did it show him refusing to play?

There is no evidence whatsoever that it only reaches 7 million with adds ons. 

The accounts show a 5 million down payment, with it in all likelihood reaching 7 in future instalments - as that is how nearly all transfer fees are paid.

Depends, Rangers don’t seem to give any club more than that little corner these days.

You think they would for this as you can’t imagine anything like a sell out in home areas. But a lot of clubs aren’t like us and don’t bend over backwards for away fans.

Always is, isn’t there?