The slowest strike partnership in football history

[Danger Zone]

Remember when Walter paired Velicka and Boyd up front for a few games? Feck me that was hard to watch, two strikers who couldn’t really do anything other than finish and always looked like they were wading through treacle wae an anchor tied to them. I think injuries meant options were limited at the time but I still thought it was such an odd pairing, but in the end it was vintage Walter because ultimately it got the job done, as Walter teams generally always did.

That was a high octane strike force.

 

[Ubik]

i know played at different times but imagine an Amato/Salenko pairing?

 

[TamS-RFC]

I remember a game in the run up to the 08/09 season, Velicka was pretty much unplayable. Against hearts at Ibrox iirc

 

[giogaddi]

James Beattie made Boyd look like an Olympic level sprinter. Think it was his debut against Motherwell he went through on goal with a 10 yard head start and the defender caught him!

 

[Ubik]

James Beattie made Boyd look like an Olympic level sprinter. Think it was his debut against Motherwell he went through on goal with a 10 yard head start and the defender caught him!

i thought beattie would have done well up here, massive let down.

 

[ElBarrileteCosmico]

Ive got some horrible flashbacks of Daly and Boyd appearing together in one game. Could just be PTSD from McCoist’s reign in general.

 

[Barbarossa]

James Beattie made Boyd look like an Olympic level sprinter. Think it was his debut against Motherwell he went through on goal with a 10 yard head start and the defender caught him!

Couldn’t stand him, god he was awful

 

[a_weir]

i thought beattie would have done well up here, massive let down.

I don’t think there’s a person who wouldn’t agree with you. A shame but hey ho.

 

[kilbirnie bear]

Egil Ostenstaad brings back bad memories

 

[iaatpies]

I'll go for any forward partnership featuring Mark Yardley

 

[Talktalk]

i thought beattie would have done well up here, massive let down.

He is by far my biggest disappointment in a signing as I was delighted that we signed him, it didn’t take long to see his legs were shot.

 

[giogaddi]

de Boer and Amato weren't exactly blessed with pace but they more than made up for it with their movement and guile in possession.

 

[BobbyShearer]

I like threads like this-I hope those with poor memories and the under 35s who continually criticise the level of the team read them and realise that our successful teams of the past weren’t reminiscent of Guardiolas Barcelona and swept all aside.

Cos they fucking act like it.

 

[Danger Zone]

I like threads like this-I hope those with poor memories and the under 35s who continually criticise the level of the team read them and realise that our successful teams of the past weren’t reminiscent of Guardiolas Barcelona and swept all aside.

Cos they fucking act like it.

It’s crazy when you think about it, people used to whinge about Walters teams regularly, all the while we were winning trophy after trophy. I know the style of play was tough to watch at times but it goes to show how spoiled a lot had become.

 

[YorkshireBlue]

Did Daly and Kyle ever play together?

 

[dh1963]

Did Kyle and McCulloch play together up front in Division 3?

 

[Albertz89]

Jesus, I forgot about jon daly. Him and Sandaza? Can't mind what Sandaza was even like as a player, his face gave me nightmares.

 

[dh1963]

It’s crazy when you think about it, people used to whinge about Walters teams regularly, all the while we were winning trophy after trophy. I know the still of play was tough to watch at times but it goes to show how spoiled a lot had become.

Walter's quote about putting Rangers first and it's the only time being second is acceptable is a rarely quoted one, but sums the great man up perfectly.
He just got it. Rangers exist to win trophies.

 

[Ubik]

He is by far my biggest disappointment in a signing as I was delighted that we signed him, it didn’t take long to see his legs were shot.

i dont think he'd feature in my top 20 signings for us who turned out disappointing to be honest

 

[ElBarrileteCosmico]

Did Kyle and McCulloch play together up front in Division 3?

Two up front in Division 3!? You gung-ho maniac.

 

[55 and counting]

i thought beattie would have done well up here, massive let down.

1st time I watched him I knew he was done.Legs had completely gone.

 

[Go_Bert_Go]

Not for Rangers, but I remember Hibs coming to Ibrox with Darren Jackson and Evans (I think - ginger lad?) up front. You'd think the pitch was wet tar looking at that pair.

 

[Homelander]

Sure we had ostenstad and capucho up top a few games

Yikes

 

[prussian blue]

Did we not sign Kevin Drinkell to make Andy Gray look fast.

 

[Talktalk]

i dont think he'd feature in my top 20 signings for us who turned out disappointing to be honest

I used to love watching him play in his prime and thought even an 80% shift would have cut it.

 

[Steviegee55]

i thought beattie would have done well up here, massive let down.

He would've scored for fun if we got him a few years earlier. He was done by the time he came up. Legs were gone

 

[The girvan lighthoose]

Egil Ostenstaad brings back bad memories

Kevin Kyle to......feck me.

 

[Glasgow Rangers (Sco)]

I liked Velicka.......

 

[Crispy Bacon]

Two up front in Division 3!? You gung-ho maniac.

Every man back for corners....

shiver.

 

[Danger Zone]

Kevin Kyle to......feck me.

He’s a unit so you better find something to bite down on

 

[Professor Yaffle]

What a great thread for a fucking Monday.

Heebie jeebies inducing

 

[g/hillger]

Did we not sign Kevin Drinkell to make Andy Gray look fast.

drinkell signed before AG did he not?

 

[BSPECIAL]

James Beattie made Boyd look like an Olympic level sprinter. Think it was his debut against Motherwell he went through on goal with a 10 yard head start and the defender caught him!

He was like Crisp in the 1973 Grand National for us old enough to remember

 

[songsofglory]

I’m sure Velicka had quite a good goal to minutes ratio.

He was hardly a speed demon mind you.

 

[Papasmurf]

Sorry in advance. John daly in the challenge cup final against raith. He literally couldn’t run.

 

[Square and compass]

Did Daly and Kyle ever play together?

Aye in the toilet

 

[Square and compass]

Did we not sign Kevin Drinkell to make Andy Gray look fast.

Drinkell was foil for mccoist, like fleck and others

 

[Square and compass]

i know played at different times but imagine an Amato/Salenko pairing?

I quite liked oleg salenko

 

[themightyi]

Sorry in advance. John daly in the challenge cup final against raith. He literally couldn’t run.

McCoist ran him in to the ground in that first season even when the league was done.

It was a shambles.

 

[Alex Venters]

I remember a game in the run up to the 08/09 season, Velicka was pretty much unplayable. Against hearts at Ibrox iirc

Velicka and unplayable in the same sentence. There's something I never thought I'd see.

 

[Papasmurf]

McCoist ran him in to the ground in that first season even when the league was done.

It was a shambles.

I’d be surprised if he ever recovered. All for a undefeated season in div 2

 

[GeeGee]

Chesney thought Boyd and Scott MacDonald were going to get him into the EPL with Middlesbrough.

 

[Ubik]

I quite liked oleg salenko

he wasnt bad at all just slow.

 

[subversive_bear]

I feel like Velika and Boyd both scored during the same game (Motherwell?). The ball broke to Boyd about 30 yards out and he just leathered it past their goalie.

 

[TamS-RFC]

Velicka and unplayable in the same sentence. There's something I never thought I'd see.

When you put it like that, AV...

 

[Commodore Carbuncle]

James Beattie made Boyd look like an Olympic level sprinter. Think it was his debut against Motherwell he went through on goal with a 10 yard head start and the defender caught him!

I remember that. There was a collective “holy %^*&” all around me and people turning and looking at each other in disbelief.