Between him and Brenda the city of Glasgow will have enough gaslighting to trigger a Just Stop Oil campaign…
Rangers under RM Lose every Old Firm game. Win every game against the other 10, except an inexplicable 4-0 defeat by Livingston despite having 89% possession. Somehow have the 4th worst defence in the Scottish Premiership despite challenging for the title. Out of Europe the instant Rangers play a club from a serious league. But at least they were brave.
I'm not sure how much possession based football Scottish fans get to see but my feeling is they will be comatose after a few games under Martin. From what I've seen from both Rangers and Celtic is they like to go at teams from the start, I think it's expected being so much better than the rest. (Even though Rangers are in the doldrums just now they still finished 17 points above Hibs in 3rd.) I don't think faffing around in their own half, too frightened to lose possession against St Mirren will be tolerated for long. He will need to get results straight away because his style won't win the fans over. Admittedly, he will be in a different position at Rangers to when he was with us but even in the Championship some of our performances were dire.
I can see him doing well here but mainly because of the low bar he will be set. Don't think Rangers will ever match Celtic but this is a good appountment for Martin.
Martin at Rangers seems an odd fit. Assuming he plays the same way as he did with us, then I don`t see the fans having the patience for endless passing about at the back - they`ll want the ball moved back to front as fast as possible.
Rangers have won more domestically than Celtic so wild to assume they couldn't get back to the top again very soon. Edit.. Just checked and they are now level for league titles
The fans will want to win and as his team will be considerably better in every game (except against celtic) then they will likely win often.
Rangers plc were liquidated in 2012. Beats me how they are allowed to historically claim trophies for the period of their financial irregularities for which they went bust.
I think there's some (understandable) revisionism around RM. Yes, the endless passing back and forth between the centre backs could get dull, but there were times during that unbeaten run when our play was scintillating. I for one wish him well.
He's an arrogant tosspot. His absolute refusal to adapt his style of play despite the amount of stupid goals we were conceding was nothing short of ludicrous. Sorry but I've lost all respect for him - he put himself ahead of the club.
"We're not here to try and grind out results" A manager actually stated those words when rooted to the bottom of the table in December after 11 defeats out of 14. Incredible.
Quite entertaining reading the Rangers forum. Martin really needs to hit the ground running there. The Ibrox crowd won't be as passive as the St Mary's crowd in making their feelings known.
Its been a while since we’ve gone into the start of a new season, only having to pay the actual current manager.
His performance in the PL and refusal to put the club ahead of his half-baked philosophy ruined his reputation. I don’t wish him ill but can’t stand his smug face. edit: Tom beat me to it!
I’m at that place too. He picked us up, took us on a 25 game unbeaten run and gave us a day at Wembley (that perhaps we shouldn’t have needed). But his refusal to see how just a small change would make us more competitive (read competitive full stop) is unforgivable.
