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Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Calamity

A travesty. Hopeless failure. Truly scraping the barrel.

None of the above comments come close to truly capturing how bad Rangers have currently plummeted. The bowels of mediocrity have been surpassed and we now reside in a hopeless pit of embarrassing and shameful despair.

Tonight was a critical game, and nothing less than a decent victory over a first-division team would be adequate, and clearly Le Guen understood this and sent out a pretty strong team with the notable exception of our captain. Unfortunately the performance he and 30,000+ supporters witnessed at Ibrox took our atrocious season to its lowest ebb yet, and our club to the brink of sheer chaos.

By full time, St Johnstone had strived to achieve a pretty easy 2-0 win, which in reality could have been even more, and should have been.

A protest was apparently staged at the end of the game, and while protests of this nature are never pretty and muddy the reputation of the club, it is clear that the motivation for it is sound.

We are currently a shoddy outfit, being beaten by the likes of Dundee Utd and St Johnstone – it is staggering to consider the steps backward the club has taken since the appointment of Le Guen.

We lie third in the table, but not convincingly, and have been turfed out of the CIS Cup which we had a chance of winning given Celtic’s exit last night, but instead put in an abysmal display and were overcome by a team who normally would have been put to the sword.

Le Guen said in post-match interviews:

"I am very disappointed and I apologise to our supporters. We did well for 30 minutes and created many crosses and some chances.

"After that though we lost our organisation and St Johnstone deserved their victory.
"It's a difficult period but we must stick together. I will try to carry on.”

He then added it was up to him to find a solution. Regrettably he’s said this many times before and we continue to slide down the toilet.

"The only way to get through this is to stick together. I have lost many games before but this is one of the lowest."

Le Guen is right, this is one of the lowest, although perhaps he is being generous by not advocating it as the worst result in Rangers’ recent history.
We are in a dark, dark place right now, with only our Uefa Cup exploits preventing our season from sinking without a trace.
How much longer this blatantly dire trend will be allowed to go on is anyone’s guess.
Murray must speak to the fans soon. Le Guen is arguably on borrowed time already.