Off Topic Pointless point-scoring thread

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If his critics had had it all their way over the past couple of years, Ally McCoist’s role in life would have been more akin to Kindergarten Cop than that of the manager of Rangers.

Each time the blue juggernaut has deviated from its path, the accusation invariably levelled at the man at the wheel is that his alleged aversion to blooding young players is the root of the problem.

In McCoist’s view, there is only one small problem with that well-worn theory, however. That it has absolutely no foundation in fact.

The Rangers manager makes no apology whatsoever for welcoming 30-somethings Kenny Miller and Kris Boyd back into the fold. Nor does he blink an eyebrow at running the rule over former Hearts defender Marius Zaliukas in Brora over the coming days.

Yet just because McCoist has turned to tried and tested operators in order to guide Rangers out of the Championship at the first time of asking, it doesn’t mean the manager has bolted the door on the Murray Park youth wing. Far from it, in fact.

‘We are not ignoring kids — it’s a nonsense to suggest otherwise,’ McCoist said. ‘You can’t flood your team with kids and then expect to get through two divisions like we’ve done. It wouldn’t have happened.

‘If we’d fielded a team of kids in the Third Division, we wouldn’t have won the league. It’s an unfair criticism levelled at the league.

‘There has never been a case in recent Old Firm history where five or six kids have come through the ranks and into the first team.

‘Other than at Manchester United in the early 1990s, it hasn’t happened anywhere."

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Sally comparing the Premier League and the Scottish Premiership to playing plumbers and postmen in the bottom leagues.
 
Each time the blue juggernaut has deviated from its path, the accusation invariably levelled at the man at the wheel is that his alleged aversion to blooding young players is the root of the problem.
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<laugh> Aye, that's right: when they got beaten by Raith, everyone said it was because they weren't playing the kids, and not because they're just ****e.

And when United pumped them, that too was because there wasn't enough 18 year olds on the pitch <ok>
 
He looks as though he's gearing up to play Santa at Christmas time.
 
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