Gerrard To Rangers

[Steward]

Glad to see he's started low

[Wedgie_pie]

Some good night clubs up there😀

[Airborn Pie]

Can never understand this phenomenon, history is littered with good and even great players who acheived mediocrity or worse as managers but clubs still appoint them before they have any managerial experience, why?

[jackal2]

Can never understand this phenomenon, history is littered with good and even great players who acheived mediocrity or worse as managers but clubs still appoint them before they have any managerial experience, why?

Baffling on that level, and also from Gerrard's own point of view. It's a poison chalice job in a dead league.

The reason Rangers can't compete with Celtic is because they cannot afford players good enough to do so, but the support base and possibly the directors can't admit that to themselves, so they continually hail new managers as the messiah and then crucify them when they can't deliver a miracle.

All the Rangers fans were on social media at the weekend berating the team for having no passion and being spineless, when the obvious truth is that the quality of the players is a complete mismatch. Celtic have personnel generally equivalent to an upper level Championship or lower level Premiership side, while many of Rangers' players are probably no better than Notts County's level. Perhaps a good manager could inspire them to give Celtic a closer match, but Celtic will still come out on top 9 times out of 10.

Scottish football is dead on its feet, and the only way it can revive is if the bigger clubs come into the English League and get the benefit of the TV money available down here. As and when they reached the premier league, Rangers and Celtic with their support and the selling point of the Old firm Derby could command enough TV revenue to join the 'Big six', given time. Probably won't happen though, because the big clubs down here don't want to share their cash bonanza, and Scottish 'pride' means a lot of fans up there would sooner see their teams continue to die by starvation.