It’s the beginning of the end for Gerrard and a few of this team. It’s easy to be pragmatic in February, we still have to live through them actually winning the league again and they are odds on for another treble given our form and there’s. I’d also expect recent performances to be repeated, we’ve shown nothing that suggests we can play our way through this.
I’ve never seen a Rangers manager turn round form like this in my lifetime. Advocaat, McLeish, PLG, McCoist, Warburton and Pedro all went one way. You could argue McLeish turned it round at the start of the 04/05 season I suppose.
The signs aren’t good, he’s refusing to budge on tactics and personnel, is criticising the players in public and from some comments appears to be losing patience with the fans (this isn’t totally unjustified to be fair).
There just seems to be an inevitability about how all this will turn out. I think even the staunchest in our support have to be asking questions about how it’s gone so badly wrong in the last few months.