Welcome to the New Season! - July 24, 2006
And a big welcome back to the daily blog courtesy of me its good to be back doing this now the season is about to start and I look forward to writing my daily words of wisdom this season so here goes.
The turnover of players has been one topic that has seen lots of debate over the close season. The players we have lost will, mostly not be missed I am referring mainly to Soti, Zura and the mullet whose erratic form did them no favours for the most part and it must be said that they will not be players fondly rmeebered years from now. Lovenkrands though I was sorry to see go as he scored many an important goal for us particularly in big games but then all too often he was nowhere to be found when things got tough. mind you a lot of the time he was playing on the wing which is not where he was at his most effective. Marvin Andrews did an honest job for us and while he is by no means the greatest centre back we have ever had he is not the worst I have seen in my years of watching the gers so a big thank you goes out to him too. Hopefully too some others will leave such as Novo, Malcolm, Fanfan and Bernard who are nowhere near Rangers class and less said about them the better I feel. Ricksen though will be on his way make no mistake about that he was out of order but on the other hand if he is having mental problems the club need to support him throughout but if its a case of him going back to his wild ways then we should cut our ties with him for good and free up the wage bill a bit.
The guys who have come in so far seem to be ok but as the saying goes the proof of the pudding is in the eating so lets just wait and see before we make an informed judgement.
The pre season results were good and it seems like the players did ok but I think that we should have tried to get stiffer opposition. Much as Linfield are a club we have good links with and we have such a loyal support over in Ulster they are not much of a test and I'd rather see us play higher level opposition but hey it could have been worse and the fans seemed to have a great day out and the atmosphere at Windsor Park was immense. Again lets see how it goes competeively before we get too excited. As for the Bolton fiasco, well what can I say? The Greater Manchester constabulary should take a long look at themselves over this. If there was a problem why didn't let it be known sooner rather than the last minute? The inconvenience caused was out of order and they have scored a major PR own goal with this and are guilty of double standards as they have no problem with other clubs who have an 'unsavoury' element in their support.
I was surprised at the seemingly lack of funds I thought we would have had more but I suppose a lot of that is down to the fact that we are not in the Champions league this season and we have to cut our cloth accordingly but to not go 200-300K higher to get aplayer smacks of the biscuit tin mentality of Celtic and I thought we were above that. In saying that though we only broke even last season with that Champions league rum so its better to play it safe than run up big losses again.
So expectation time then. I expect a good run in the UEFACup and us to win the league with at least one domestic cup too. Not too much to ask is it?
So here goes guys the ride may be bumpy but lets hope its an enjoyable one.
Peace out and follow follow!
The turnover of players has been one topic that has seen lots of debate over the close season. The players we have lost will, mostly not be missed I am referring mainly to Soti, Zura and the mullet whose erratic form did them no favours for the most part and it must be said that they will not be players fondly rmeebered years from now. Lovenkrands though I was sorry to see go as he scored many an important goal for us particularly in big games but then all too often he was nowhere to be found when things got tough. mind you a lot of the time he was playing on the wing which is not where he was at his most effective. Marvin Andrews did an honest job for us and while he is by no means the greatest centre back we have ever had he is not the worst I have seen in my years of watching the gers so a big thank you goes out to him too. Hopefully too some others will leave such as Novo, Malcolm, Fanfan and Bernard who are nowhere near Rangers class and less said about them the better I feel. Ricksen though will be on his way make no mistake about that he was out of order but on the other hand if he is having mental problems the club need to support him throughout but if its a case of him going back to his wild ways then we should cut our ties with him for good and free up the wage bill a bit.
The guys who have come in so far seem to be ok but as the saying goes the proof of the pudding is in the eating so lets just wait and see before we make an informed judgement.
The pre season results were good and it seems like the players did ok but I think that we should have tried to get stiffer opposition. Much as Linfield are a club we have good links with and we have such a loyal support over in Ulster they are not much of a test and I'd rather see us play higher level opposition but hey it could have been worse and the fans seemed to have a great day out and the atmosphere at Windsor Park was immense. Again lets see how it goes competeively before we get too excited. As for the Bolton fiasco, well what can I say? The Greater Manchester constabulary should take a long look at themselves over this. If there was a problem why didn't let it be known sooner rather than the last minute? The inconvenience caused was out of order and they have scored a major PR own goal with this and are guilty of double standards as they have no problem with other clubs who have an 'unsavoury' element in their support.
I was surprised at the seemingly lack of funds I thought we would have had more but I suppose a lot of that is down to the fact that we are not in the Champions league this season and we have to cut our cloth accordingly but to not go 200-300K higher to get aplayer smacks of the biscuit tin mentality of Celtic and I thought we were above that. In saying that though we only broke even last season with that Champions league rum so its better to play it safe than run up big losses again.
So expectation time then. I expect a good run in the UEFACup and us to win the league with at least one domestic cup too. Not too much to ask is it?
So here goes guys the ride may be bumpy but lets hope its an enjoyable one.
Peace out and follow follow!
posted by RangersMedia @ 3:20 AM
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