GORDON SMITH has revealed how he and John Greig clashed from his first day at Rangers.
Gers legend Jock Wallace signed Smith from Kilmarnock in 1977 for just £65,000.
The midfielder hit the ground running at Ibrox, scoring 27 goals and winning the Treble in his debut season.
But while things were running smoothly on the park, he endured a strained relationship with the club's greatest ever player off it.
Smith was team-mates with Greig for a year before the Light Blues icon replaced Wallace as manager in 1978.
However, Rangers' record appearance holder was less than impressed with Smith's arrival and wasn't shy in letting the new boy know.
Smith told Open Goal: "I got on quite well with him. But two things happened which had significance.
"The first day when I joined Rangers; I arrived at Ibrox, I had just signed the day before, I had my first training session, and I walked up to the club and Sandy Jardine and John Greig got out of a taxi.
"Sandy Jardine says, 'Welcome to the club Gordon, that's good', and John Greig said, 'Hello, I don't know what we've signed you for!'
"That was the first welcome of my captain to Rangers. I goes, 'What do you mean?'
"He goes, 'Well we've got Cooper left wing' and I said, 'Well I'm not going to be playing left wing'.
"He went, 'Alright'. Maybe that's what he meant; we've got another left winger so I don't know why we've got you because that's where I'd been playing.
"But it was not exactly the best welcome!
"And then, the second point was in that first season, I was scoring really regularly when I came into the team at first and then I went about three games without scoring and that was the first team he said anything to me.
"He went, 'Ah you're not scoring now for us, eh?' I was like that, 'Oh, cheers.'"
Asked if he ever took Greig to task, Smith said: "You find it hard. I had so much respect for him because he'd been a club legend, a great player, he'd won the Cup Winners' Cup for them.
"You're thinking to yourself, you don't want to have an argument with him.
"I'm glad I never really went into detail with my arguments with him because then he became manager and I had to deal with that.
"But I never really got on with him that well when he was the manager either."
Gers legend Jock Wallace signed Smith from Kilmarnock in 1977 for just £65,000.
The midfielder hit the ground running at Ibrox, scoring 27 goals and winning the Treble in his debut season.
But while things were running smoothly on the park, he endured a strained relationship with the club's greatest ever player off it.
Smith was team-mates with Greig for a year before the Light Blues icon replaced Wallace as manager in 1978.
However, Rangers' record appearance holder was less than impressed with Smith's arrival and wasn't shy in letting the new boy know.
Smith told Open Goal: "I got on quite well with him. But two things happened which had significance.
"The first day when I joined Rangers; I arrived at Ibrox, I had just signed the day before, I had my first training session, and I walked up to the club and Sandy Jardine and John Greig got out of a taxi.
"Sandy Jardine says, 'Welcome to the club Gordon, that's good', and John Greig said, 'Hello, I don't know what we've signed you for!'
"That was the first welcome of my captain to Rangers. I goes, 'What do you mean?'
"He goes, 'Well we've got Cooper left wing' and I said, 'Well I'm not going to be playing left wing'.
"He went, 'Alright'. Maybe that's what he meant; we've got another left winger so I don't know why we've got you because that's where I'd been playing.
"But it was not exactly the best welcome!
"And then, the second point was in that first season, I was scoring really regularly when I came into the team at first and then I went about three games without scoring and that was the first team he said anything to me.
"He went, 'Ah you're not scoring now for us, eh?' I was like that, 'Oh, cheers.'"
Asked if he ever took Greig to task, Smith said: "You find it hard. I had so much respect for him because he'd been a club legend, a great player, he'd won the Cup Winners' Cup for them.
"You're thinking to yourself, you don't want to have an argument with him.
"I'm glad I never really went into detail with my arguments with him because then he became manager and I had to deal with that.
"But I never really got on with him that well when he was the manager either."