Paul Ritchie on his time at Rangers

[mdingwall]

 

[bud_light]

Said hello then said goodbye.Weird signing

 

[PunkScott]

Our strangest ever signing surely.

at least he isn’t bitter about it

 

[gu_bear]

Kind of goes to show the extent of Murray’s ego.

What qualifications did he have to identify and recruit players?

 

[km_2083]

Clearly a Murray signing, least it never cost us a payoff like plenty of others

 

[Hideyorii]

Our strangest ever signing surely.

at least he isn’t bitter about it

Webster was a wierd one

 

[Artful Dodger]

Webster was a shitebag

Fixed that for you mate

 

[OohAhHuistra]

I liked Allan Johnston for some reason haha

 

[SDF]

Ritchie was harshly treated especially when you consider how much Konterman was allowed to blunder his way through the next 18 months under Advocaat and never once get dropped, even going as far as altering the formation simply to keep him in the team once Moore was fit again.

 

[Kowloon72]

Ritchie was a good player in a surprisingly decent Hearts team. Him, Naysmith, McCann, Cameron and Adam were all good players. Should have bought him a d utilised him, or not bothered.

Tl;dr: Murray was a bellend.

 

[Blue boy]

Said hello then said goodbye.Weird signing

Think he was a bit of a soft cell

 

[Mr Wilton]

Not sure you can class 10 min as having “time” at the club reflect on!

 

[Leo_Ger]

Ritchie was harshly treated especially when you consider how much Konterman was allowed to blunder his way through the next 18 months under Advocaat and never once get dropped, even going as far as altering the formation simply to keep him in the team once Moore was fit again.

The last paragraph of the article shows how perplexing his man management could be, especially that season. Got to the stage where he was dictating to players the exact size of shorts they had to wear.

Think a few players have spoken publicly about how it seemed there were different rules for the Dutch players.

 

[IrvineLoyal]

Ritchie was a good player in a surprisingly decent Hearts team. Him, Naysmith, McCann, Cameron and Adam were all good players. Should have bought him a d utilised him, or not bothered.

Tl;dr: Murray was a bellend.

Cameron would have been a decent signing for us at time.

 

[TCWNS1872]

What kind of man manager says to you less than two months after joining that ‘you can stay or go’?

And then signs Bert Konterman...

 

[Damask_Rose]

The last paragraph of the article shows how perplexing his man management could be, especially that season. Got to the stage where he was dictating to players the exact size of shorts they had to wear.

Think a few players have spoken publicly about how it seemed there were different rules for the Dutch players.

And it coincided with a complete collapse and trophyless season; something I still find unacceptable, especially given the cost and quality of that squad.

 

[TCWNS1872]

And it coincided with a complete collapse and trophyless season; something I still find unacceptable, especially given the cost and quality of that squad.

His attitude towards players who never bought wholesale into his regimen said it all. Think McCann v Albertz. He then made a Roger Hunt of things by trying to outthink Wibble by signing the likes of Russell Latapy.

Murray should have reined him in long before his eventual departure, which incidentally, was on his terms and not Murray’s.

No wonder Advocaat refers to Murray as a good friend. He weighed him in and took him out of the firing line at the same time.

Profligate doesn’t begin to cover the half of it

 

[bluetonic]

Ritchie was a decent player although in the 96 Scottish cup final was lucky to stay on the park after a few wild lunges , one in Gazza should have seen red

 

[Walter the Great]

I was happy when we signed Ritchie was a good wee Scottish player and I thought he’d kick on at Rangers and we needed to keep buying the best Scots - he wasn’t played and we got Konterman instead !
Not The Little General’s best decision

 

[DavieGF2]

Our strangest ever signing surely.

at least he isn’t bitter about it

That title goes to William Stranger

 

[RabSpackman]

Kind of goes to show the extent of Murray’s ego.

What qualifications did he have to identify and recruit players?

Colin Hendry was another one wasn’t he?

Murray had always seemed immune to criticism, so it was a strange turn of events in the summer of 1998 when the club was being criticised in some media quarters for signing lots of foreigners and then the chairman took it upon himself to buy up Scottish players without having his manager on-board with the plan.

Then you had Advocaat splurging on Ricksen and Konterman in 2000 when neither were really better than what we had already. Fair to say that hindsight throws light on a bit of a volatility between manager and chairman.

 

[SDF]

Colin Hendry was another one wasn’t he?

Murray had always seemed immune to criticism, so it was a strange turn of events in the summer of 1998 when the club was being criticised in some media quarters for signing lots of foreigners and then the chairman took it upon himself to buy up Scottish players without having his manager on-board with the plan.

Bizarrely Advocaat claimed he wanted to sign him for PSV which I find hard to believe

BBC News | Football | Rangers sign Hendry as Super Ally leaves

news.bbc.co.uk

 

[RabSpackman]

Bizarrely Advocaat claimed he wanted to sign him for PSV which I find hard to believe

BBC News | Football | Rangers sign Hendry as Super Ally leaves

news.bbc.co.uk

I’d never seen that before. I felt at the time, and certainly from any look back at it all, that Hendry was more given to Advocaat than wanted.

 

[SDF]

I’d never seen that before. I felt at the time, and certainly from any look back at it all, that Hendry was more given to Advocaat than wanted.

Agreed. Simply never fit his style of play at all. Murray making claims about the need to be "more Scottish" said a lot.