Beale is a symptom of a disease at our club. The following is not a defence, just a call for a change to our collected perspective on a far bigger illness. It goes way beyond his shortcomings, which are clear to us all, but I regard as being almost pointless in the grand scheme of things without first dealing with a far more damaging set of circumstances at a level above that poor mug.
WARNING ON WHERE WE GO FROM HERE
Opting for change limited at a team-coaching level is so far from being adequate here that I'd be highly confident that us forcing a coaching switch would be swapping the unacceptable for something even worse. Most seem to think this is unimaginable, but it is very possible and highly likely indeed. Do you trust a board of repeated failures, at a club without recruitment, to get success out of changing a name? Why should they continually walk away, without examination of their role, after each crisis results in a managerial switch?
Do not think for one minute here that you can replace the name Beale with any other random punter, and not end up with another avoid-at-all-costs GvB-style freefall collapse set of circumstances. They've a proven track record in doing so, and they haven't even put the basics in place as far as fixing the team is concerned.
Beale hasn't brought the reversal we so dearly hoped for, but he has slowed our rate of decline/collapse immeasurably. Sometimes you have to be grateful that bad flu isn't ebola, and this is one of those unwanted set of circumstances.
Be afraid. Be very afraid. You could multiply this current hell by a million. Would you offer such a gamble to a shower of utter incapables? They don't even see any recruitment set-up, let alone a capable one, as an essential for a squad overhaul. That's crazy! How can this be? Why aren't we losing the plot over this? It's Murray £98,000,000 debt in terms of red lights flashing and klaxons going off.
Rangers board members - You are guilty, you cannot be trusted, you should be shit-scared due to fans refusing to accept your appalling custodianship of our enormous and beloved football club. Only our fans willingness to give you a free ride and a sad-yet-predictable ability to have our eyes diverted away from the boardroom is letting you away with it, but for how much longer?
Had you been running our rivals, their loonballs would've had you needing security guarding your homes. I can never justify that, but I'm not without understanding of that sort of anger, even if it is acted upon in their trademark crackpot way.
If Bears were bombarding phone-ins and revealing banners with messages signifying brutal-condemnation, what defence would you board members have? None. Provided it didn't cross the line of acceptability, it'd be as fair as fair could be.
Board bums, you should be massively grateful of the benefits you get from Bears viewing board-criticism as something the tims do. This questionable approach from our support very nearly killed our club. The few who dared to protest Murray were spat on and punched by those who think Bears don't criticise their boards - and look where that got us.
Seriously, this is a club set up by failure, run by failures. Beale may need replaced, but not until fixes are performed higher up the chain. I certainly wouldn't pull that lever without first recruiting a serious recruitment figure, or figures, first. I'd regard it as blowing your wages in a bookies, and throwing your last £20 at a random number in a dog race.
As I said, I'm not fronting a Beale defence campaign. I'm just less convinced than most that he's the root cause of this current shit-show, and highly doubtful a successful change is possible given everything else that needs to be taken into account and sorted before even thinking about a faltering Beale.
Full responsibility for recruitment sounds like an early excuse from a board without recruitment in place. He should know all possible names in UK, but after that it's a guessing game given his other duties. A board being as unfair to Beale as Beale is in expecting the incapable Dessers to fulfil a one-up-top role. No Helander replacement, no wide man, and no successful striking recruit could well be caused by a board leaving a team coach to fumble around in the dark. Sure, he has the final say, but what if the list of names was limited to likelier-lose-you-a-job-than-succeed options?
Even if we've concluded the boss is a dud, we must factor in the board's role in offering him zero support, which set him up to fail. Without that, you've a likely-incapable rather than a proven failure. It's not a defence, merely an additional factor that we have to take on board. The board's guilty as sin, and all-eyes-Beale is excusing their latest addition to a catalogue of crimes.
That board needs the frighteners on it, forcing a capable set up before a change could possibly work. Also worth reminding ourselves of that Anyone/Everyone shambles where they accused us of things we've never even considered. Even the biggest journo-jungle sort wouldn't have tried getting away with shitting on the Bears collected reputation like that. That wiped out the goodwill generated from taking control of the club. Now they're asking for a justifiably angry outpouring given what's followed it.
It's not "Sack the Board", it's just a forceful message to get the bare essentials in place. That's hardly asking for the moon on a stick, is it?
Scared? If you're not, you really should be. Don't fixate on Beale. You're merely excusing the root cause of it all.
WARNING ON WHERE WE GO FROM HERE
Opting for change limited at a team-coaching level is so far from being adequate here that I'd be highly confident that us forcing a coaching switch would be swapping the unacceptable for something even worse. Most seem to think this is unimaginable, but it is very possible and highly likely indeed. Do you trust a board of repeated failures, at a club without recruitment, to get success out of changing a name? Why should they continually walk away, without examination of their role, after each crisis results in a managerial switch?
Do not think for one minute here that you can replace the name Beale with any other random punter, and not end up with another avoid-at-all-costs GvB-style freefall collapse set of circumstances. They've a proven track record in doing so, and they haven't even put the basics in place as far as fixing the team is concerned.
Beale hasn't brought the reversal we so dearly hoped for, but he has slowed our rate of decline/collapse immeasurably. Sometimes you have to be grateful that bad flu isn't ebola, and this is one of those unwanted set of circumstances.
Be afraid. Be very afraid. You could multiply this current hell by a million. Would you offer such a gamble to a shower of utter incapables? They don't even see any recruitment set-up, let alone a capable one, as an essential for a squad overhaul. That's crazy! How can this be? Why aren't we losing the plot over this? It's Murray £98,000,000 debt in terms of red lights flashing and klaxons going off.
Rangers board members - You are guilty, you cannot be trusted, you should be shit-scared due to fans refusing to accept your appalling custodianship of our enormous and beloved football club. Only our fans willingness to give you a free ride and a sad-yet-predictable ability to have our eyes diverted away from the boardroom is letting you away with it, but for how much longer?
Had you been running our rivals, their loonballs would've had you needing security guarding your homes. I can never justify that, but I'm not without understanding of that sort of anger, even if it is acted upon in their trademark crackpot way.
If Bears were bombarding phone-ins and revealing banners with messages signifying brutal-condemnation, what defence would you board members have? None. Provided it didn't cross the line of acceptability, it'd be as fair as fair could be.
Board bums, you should be massively grateful of the benefits you get from Bears viewing board-criticism as something the tims do. This questionable approach from our support very nearly killed our club. The few who dared to protest Murray were spat on and punched by those who think Bears don't criticise their boards - and look where that got us.
Seriously, this is a club set up by failure, run by failures. Beale may need replaced, but not until fixes are performed higher up the chain. I certainly wouldn't pull that lever without first recruiting a serious recruitment figure, or figures, first. I'd regard it as blowing your wages in a bookies, and throwing your last £20 at a random number in a dog race.
As I said, I'm not fronting a Beale defence campaign. I'm just less convinced than most that he's the root cause of this current shit-show, and highly doubtful a successful change is possible given everything else that needs to be taken into account and sorted before even thinking about a faltering Beale.
Full responsibility for recruitment sounds like an early excuse from a board without recruitment in place. He should know all possible names in UK, but after that it's a guessing game given his other duties. A board being as unfair to Beale as Beale is in expecting the incapable Dessers to fulfil a one-up-top role. No Helander replacement, no wide man, and no successful striking recruit could well be caused by a board leaving a team coach to fumble around in the dark. Sure, he has the final say, but what if the list of names was limited to likelier-lose-you-a-job-than-succeed options?
Even if we've concluded the boss is a dud, we must factor in the board's role in offering him zero support, which set him up to fail. Without that, you've a likely-incapable rather than a proven failure. It's not a defence, merely an additional factor that we have to take on board. The board's guilty as sin, and all-eyes-Beale is excusing their latest addition to a catalogue of crimes.
That board needs the frighteners on it, forcing a capable set up before a change could possibly work. Also worth reminding ourselves of that Anyone/Everyone shambles where they accused us of things we've never even considered. Even the biggest journo-jungle sort wouldn't have tried getting away with shitting on the Bears collected reputation like that. That wiped out the goodwill generated from taking control of the club. Now they're asking for a justifiably angry outpouring given what's followed it.
It's not "Sack the Board", it's just a forceful message to get the bare essentials in place. That's hardly asking for the moon on a stick, is it?
Scared? If you're not, you really should be. Don't fixate on Beale. You're merely excusing the root cause of it all.
