Today's performance is deserving of all the criticism that will come their way.
The manager was today's biggest culprit and that,I can say, is the first time I've doubted him.
It’s hard to argue with any of this.
Yes, “we will follow on” and I get and believe in the mantra of getting behind the team through thick and thin. That also has to be within the context of the absolute sh*t show that supporting Rangers has been for the last 8-9 years.
I say all this as someone who started following the team in the mid 80s. Yes, I lived through the 9 in a row, they spend a fiver we’ll spend a tenner years. Even before we went into admin I’ve witnessed some crushing disappointments. However nothing can compare the the almost trudge each season has been for 8-9 years solid.
We’ve had a multitude of false promises, false dawns, and horrendous results. And that’s not even mentioning the cluster f*ck off the park.
We all expected (not unrealistically) a fairy tale return to the top flight. Blooding young players, building a youth set up that would see us playing exciting football and quickly challenging for top honours, with sponsors and investors desperate to be part of the story.
The reality was:
P*ssing money away on journey men pros looking for a final pay day and way past their best who struggled to compete and turn in results against some of the poorest teams in the country.
Repeatedly turning in poor results and poor performances that saw us get to the 2nd tier in successive seasons in anything but an exciting and entertaining fashion.
The shambles and embarrassment that was the Challenge Cup final.
Failing miserably to get promotion from the 2nd tier at our first attempt and another result and performance that was nothing short of embarrassing, in a showpiece game in front of the entire nation.
An amazing chance for our first major trophy in the SC Final completely blown against a distinctly average Hibs side.
2 seasons of being the whipping boys for the scum who gleefully lorded over us as they regularly stuck 4 or more goals past us.
2 seasons of getting nowhere near 2nd place, never mind first place, and having a team like Aberdeen able to run our noses in it.
Getting horsed out of Europe by a team of semi pros from a nation you can only describe as football minnows.
You may or may not admit it, but there’s no getting away from the fact the last 8-9 years, have in the main, been horrific for the Rangers support.
Yes, we have had the odd amazing high. The odd result against the scum. Some great European results. Getting to the top of the top tier table. But all these have done is to give us hope. Hope that the major successes we crave are now just around the corner. A hope that has, every single time, been very quickly crushed and stamped into the ground.
Add in that the majority of the rest of Scottish football seem to revel in any failure we have and IMO you can’t blame supporters for getting frustrated and venting that frustration at the very people they are pinning all that hope on. People who are actually being paid very handsomely to deliver that success and certainly being paid a lot more than those players they are allowing to deny the team that success.
