Hopefully he emulates SAF and goes on and cleans up now.I will like the others I’m sure hold my hand up and say he has thankfully proved me wrong. At the time I would have stood by my opinion but it just shows how things can change over time. He has taken us to the top and I will be forever thankful for that
Well things look to be lining up nicely for us to go on a really good run for the next few years. Recruitment over the next two years will be key to progressing rather than stand still like they didHopefully he emulates SAF and goes on and cleans up now.
Refreshing to read someone who admits he was wrong as opposed to the few trying to defend their comments or to fulminate against the thread bump.I will like the others I’m sure hold my hand up and say he has thankfully proved me wrong. At the time I would have stood by my opinion but it just shows how things can change over time. He has taken us to the top and I will be forever thankful for that
I agree, he's done well for me as wellGerrard is a failure domestically.
He's done for me.
If only we could go back far enough into the archives to dig out threads where some prominent (and currently chortling) posters wanted Walter papped 6 months after a Euro final and 5 months before the beginning of a 3 in a row period of dominance
Anyone who wasn’t questioning Gerrard at that point probably sleeps with a 8x10 glossy of him. We’d made very little progress domestically, that’s a fact. The players crumbled, that’s also a fact. The gaffer made repeat mistakes, another fact. I’m just content I never actually once asked for him to be sacked and was always willing to give him another season. It’s important to realise some of these are posted in the heat of the moment immediately after defeats too.
He's under discussed on here IMO mate. You could see the total disintegration of the guy through his posts during that 16/17 season.Ahh Gio Loyal remember him.
Was it something along lines of he would hate Rangers fans and never forgive them for chasing Warbuton out haha.
He was a sensible poster outwith the Warbuton obsession wonder if he still posts.
Spot on. Was over in Braga and played well,brilliant result! Fast forward 3 days to Tynecastle was like a different team. Looked as if they had been bevvyin for 3 days! Then Hamilton on the Wednesday????Oh FFS!That performance 3 days after Braga was inexplicable.
A bit naughty bumping a post that was made on the back of 2 consecutive defeats by Hearts that effectively ended our season
Half the support probably thought the same that day.
I was in Braga as well (one of the best trips ever) and it was as complete a performance away from home in Europe as you’re likely to find at that lever.Spot on. Was over in Braga and played well,brilliant result! Fast forward 3 days to Tynecastle was like a different team. Looked as if they had been bevvyin for 3 days! Then Hamilton on the Wednesday????Oh FFS!
Some difference this season!
But we were told right at the start that this was not a quick fix, one or two season wonder.In normal circumstances a manger that loses 6 trophies on the trot to their Old Firm rival is facing the sack. That's the way its always been and will probably go back to that once Gerrard leaves.
So did i.Checks to see if I posted....
Thank %^*&
The squad was thin but the drop in performance levels from our European games/pre Xmas to January onwards twice in a row wasn’t good enough, let’s not rewrite history.Because it's funny that folk are completely irrational and won't accept any mitigating circumstances, when it was pointed out in various threads at the time that our squad was thin and we couldn't cope with key players being injured etc they were told to %^*& up and stop being 'happy clappers', when it was obvious it was the truth and nothing except time and patience would fix it.
Ripping it up and starting again was as mental a suggestion back then as it would be now.
I was of a similar mindset.The squad was thin but the drop in performance levels from our European games/pre Xmas to January onwards twice in a row wasn’t good enough, let’s not rewrite history.
I imagine for lots, the repeated nature of it was a big concern. I said at the time that I was concerned but also wouldn’t want to see Gerrard relieved of his duties because there was still an improvement regardless.
Probably had something to do with the fact that youth coach Steven Gerrard was leading us to the title and James “He’ll NEVER lift a trophy as Rangers captain” Tavernier was on his way to getting player of the year.Out of interest, why did you abandon the Danger Zone username and re-invent yourself as @Scaramanga as recently as last December? That's not intended as a 'trick' question by the way, just curious.
I don’t really see what bumping this thread achieves. Our collapse in the league post-Christmas last season was unacceptable and there were rightly questions being asked of Gerrard for it.
Thankfully, he has more than answered every one of those questions. I’ve no doubt the Bears who expressed concerns 12 months ago will all be delighted at this moment.
Absolute fanny. Clearly know the square root of %^*& all about football!Good luck asking for Gerrard’s head on here. I did it after St Johnstone and was asked to ‘spare us such keech’. Funnily, that quote is how I and imagine many others are feeling right now towards Gerrard and the team. Still, can imagine Admin will be handing a few bans out again tonight to anyone asking for him to go.
Probably had something to do with the fact that youth coach Steven Gerrard was leading us to the title and James “He’ll NEVER lift a trophy as Rangers captain” Tavernier was on his way to getting player of the year.
This thread does nobody any good.
Pulling your leg mateOr it was because of a perma ban on a political thread. Given that I’ve made no effort to hide my identity or change my posting style I think a you could do with reinventing yourself under a more apt guise.
I don’t really see what bumping this thread achieves. Our collapse in the league post-Christmas last season was unacceptable and there were rightly questions being asked of Gerrard for it.
Thankfully, he has more than answered every one of those questions. I’ve no doubt the Bears who expressed concerns 12 months ago will all be delighted at this moment.
Pulling your leg mate
mentally challenged myth,lockdown did not save Gerrard's job.This whole forum was a different place this time last year. After that Hearts game pretty much everyone was in agreement that Gerrard wouldn’t last much longer, like it or not lockdown saved his job.
Thank fu,ck because I was genuinely gutted that it had fallen apart for him, so glad he’s turned us around. The sign of a great manager.
Correct. There isn’t a chance the board would have pulled the triggermentally challenged myth,lockdown did not save Gerrard's job.
You do not sack a manager who's in the last 16 of The Europa League.
Exactly time to change the narrative back on to us let them wallow in thier tainted titlesAnother point to raise is that the cause of the anxiety was the thought of them winning 10IAR. That fear is now gone. Forever. It's time everyone moved forward together and left the yahoo drowning in our slipstream.
Haha...I'd forgotten all about that little spat with Danger Zone.Not sure but I think you might have won this one.
aye awright you're milking it nooHaha...I'd forgotten all about that little spat with Danger Zone.
It goes without saying that I thought he was wrong then and I KNOW he was wrong now!
Of course he was entitled to his opinion on Gerrard but I think it's safe to say he lost that particular argument big style!
Maybe next time he might not get quite so personal when he's discussing the relative merits of our manager and players.
Brilliant Gramps - this thread was like a match day one when we are not 2-0 ahead after 20 mins.What a bump