A very well placed Ibrox source took me down memory lane today.
He reminded me of the Quintessentially British WhatsApp Group.
Dear reader, you may recall that was a thing in the Ibrox dressing room during Poor Pedro’s reign of error.
Well, there is a new one in the stadium that John Brown played for and that isn’t a good sign!
I’m told that Sevco’s goalie didn’t see the funny side of things last night.
He definitely didn’t think that his defence was comedy Goldson against the Accies.
So much so that there was almost a coming to together after their most recent defeat.
The thing is that Mr McGregor is used to better.
When he played for the original Rangers, he had a financially doped back four protecting him.
Now he has whatever the basket of assets can scrape together.
Overall I’m told that it isn’t a happy dressing room and Mr Let’s Go is at something of a loss about what to do about it.
So much so that a dignified member of the Sevco backroom set up expressed the following view to the Serious Professional last night:
“The dressing room is gone, and the manager is gone”.
One thing that is an open secret is that Mr Let’s Go appears to have a hierarchy in his squad.
The shitshow in Dubai established the fact that some players enjoyed diplomatic immunity.
This has led to a resentful element and, of course, Alfredo.
Those who are not among Mr Gerrad’s favourites have coined a name for them:
“The Stevie Ps” as in “Stevie’s pets”.
After the winter training camp, a delegation from the new “WhatsApp Group” approached a senior member of the backroom staff to heal this schism.
Of course, it should not have happened in the first place and this is management 101.
However, it is something that a rookie manager usually has to learn in the sad school of experience.
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when the media say it’s closer, – it’s about the same in terms of win ration with Warbola and on a bad week, Pedro Guardiola.
but one thing that is DEFINITELY new, is the “honest” and “upfront” style of the Ego One most interviews and pressers. It’s alright trying to Fergie, but when he slates his team WINNING cup final, when you’ve just beaten Real Madrid in a European Cup Final. the ship on that type of management is shifted.
Even Jose is given an eye roll when he’s moaning about something…… the style is not working thankfully for us. He is also sounding more Scouse, when his emotions are pressed…sure sign he is drowning.
The comments today: this job is tough even when you are winning!. is and should be alarming to Sevconuts. The constant back of the head, claps he gives himself, when asked a question, is what psychologists and behavioural analysts refer to as: Self Soothing.
It goes back to when the Infant Primates were still caressed by their mothers…..unfortunately for him there is another type of primate dragging their knuckles that might not be as affectionate
I’m looking forward to the next development; the one where they can’t sack him because it would cost too much so they try to force him out and he sues them for constructive dismissal, they lose and go bankrupt like Rangers. I’ll miss the entertainment, though.
Obsessed.
Other perfumes by Calvin Klein are available too, of course!
Criticism levelled at Tavernier for handling pressure comments in match day pamphlet.
Ditto for Kent stating they prefer to be underdogs.
Is Jabba too busy attacking Celtic in the media that he doesn’t do his day job of vetting what the players say or write? Jabba should be sacked as incompetent for this lack of media oversight regarding these damaging releases.
I’m surprised Kenny Miller doesn’t sympathise more with James Tavernier.
Tavernier now has the rotten job of apologising after every game on camera to fans. The same job Miller used to have.
I suppose pieces of silver in hand and a dream of perhaps being a Sevco manager in the future turns his head.
We were told Hamilton has only beaten Rangers twice in 94 years by the SMSM and pundits. Another casual lie rolled out as a fact. Rangers died in 2012. It’s true, every newspaper printed it.
Were else will wee get oor laughs the fact that am waiting for ipox news before my own beloved club is a laugh in it’s its self… please carry on n keep calm🤣🤣🍀
For fucksakes leave gibbering Jabba exactly where he is. We can’t abide him, they can’t abide him, he must be doing something positive for someone…….somehow…….somewhere!!!
2 players from the same team Bournemouth one is linked with sevco and is praised to highest limit you can get and would be ideal for them even though he can’t get a game at Bournemouth and he signs for sevco with all the fanfares that goes with it . The other is now linked with a move to Celtic in the summer but is described as an outcast double standards from the Scottish press still trying to keep on the good side of sevco and for the sake of selling a few extra copies .
Another one of Slippys pals wheeled out today Trevor Sinclair as it was Danny Murphy last week telling us that Mr Me Me is doing a great job at ibrox . He said Slippy is getting closer to Celtic not at this moment in time but he is getting closer how that makes sense only he knows . That’s 2 pals of the sevco nightmare manager still talking him up. I wonder who will be wheeled out next to talk him up .
Minty Moonbeams Knew.
It reminds me of the closing moments of the late Frank Skerrett’s show on Radio Clyde. Every time, Frank would close the show with this Nat King Cole song…
https://youtu.be/IJthTSCYJ7g
Even playing amateur football, when a manager has his ‘blue eyed boys’
– who always start games when off form, or always get a game if they’ve missed training –
it’s the recipe for squad unrest, resentment and disinterest.
We all learned that as teenage football players: it’s not exactly rocket science.
Mibbees Gerrard’s brains are still in his feet, and he just doesn’t possess the intellect to manage staff, of any type?
And what would you expect for only £2.5M a year… 😉
All they are doing here is delaying the sacking of another dud hired to halt 9 and 10 in a row. The thing is there is no way back from this for the Poundland coach or the Carry On At Their Convenience board . Everyone is coming out of this in a bad way over .Gerrard as a failure the players as failures and the board running on empty on the financial side also failing . Make no mistakes the Klan will rebel it’s just who they turn their on anger on that’s the question . Watch for big Wattie making a special guest star appearance to rally the Klan at a cost .
I think Julien wasn’t entirely comfortable in lenny’s 2-5-3 formation.
I agree. 2 at the back alone, Lenny doesn’t work.
Yeah u got 61% v 39% possession but you let two in.
Yeah you got 13 shots versus 5 but you let 2 goals in.
Bad formation Lenny. Don’t do it again.
Lenny to blame. Setting up team to be weak at the back.
You have got a point about Julienne in splendid isolation. Bitton made effective use of the ball throughout but he did seem to be playing well in advance of Julienne and Ajer. I thought I was seeing things
Even Celtic aren’t good enough domestically to try on 2-5-3. It’s disrespectful of opposition and you will get punished, you isolate the two poor guys at the back and pile pressure on them.
To try it as a new formation, whilst away from home, plus playing on plastic u were previously beaten on, is a triple error.
Maybe at home on grass Lenny. But I hope never again tbh.
The day after the latest SEVCO crash, Jabba can only put a story in the DR that Odsonne is a target for PSG and likely off and not remaining for 10.
Sellick fans who still buy the DR should hang their heads in shame.
And, didn’t celtic get Eddy “on the cheap” because a certain French club, based in Paris, needed to offload players in order to comply with UEFA FFP regulations? I wonder who that club was that we bought him from? Hmmmmm!!
Why would any club sell a player for “only” £9 million, only to buy that same player back at a considerably higher sum? Using that logic, sevco will let Morelos go for “only” £50 million, then buy him back around 2023 for £500 million!! Knowing sevco, they probably would – they already paid vastly-inflated sums for Kent!! 😂😂😂
Pogba? Sold for £3m bought back for around £80m. Stunning bit of business that!!
Hang on!!! Didn’t WE pay PSG for him?