Alex McLeish
5:53 pm on the 5th of November, 2005Should he stay or go? I feel sorry for him, he’s done really well for Rangers, every season he’s gone through periods like this and often enough he’s pulled it off and won trophies. I’m sitting here listening to Jim Traynor on Radio Scotland, what an objectionable man, I can’t stand him, yet I find myself agreeing with him, some crackpot is on mouthing off saying all the players should be out the door tonight. Sounds like the sort of person who believes in the death penalty and sterilisation for those on the dole.
Who would we have to replace McLeish? Does it matter? I get a lot less worked up about football than I used to, I would just give up on it all and start supporting the Glasgow Warriors but the cost of watching them is about the same as SPL games and it’s on telly less than even the SPL. Maybe I’ll start going along to Firhill.
November 6th, 2005 at 5:11 am on the 6th of November, 2005
Wherein lies the problem in this?
November 6th, 2005 at 8:05 pm on the 6th of November, 2005
Yes, Alex McLeish is in trouble at the moment. If they hadn’t qualified for the champlion’s league, he’d be out by now.
I’m more interested in your lack of interest in football now. I too have no interest in the SPL any more. It’s too predictable (I don’t believe the hype about Hearts), too expensive and you can only watch it on an expensive channel. But I thought only non-Old Firm people got bored with it.
November 7th, 2005 at 1:41 pm on the 7th of November, 2005
Well, about September I thought he was about a game away from the sack. I don’t think he is now - unfortunately. I suspect that unless we get absolutely whipped by sellic he’ll stay and stay and stay. He was supposedly a game away from defeat 4 draws ago. He seems incapable of coaching forwards, getting them to link up. The strategy seems to be to stick em on the park and hope it works. Almost every successful manager I can think of, you can picture how their teams played - Ferguson’s best teams played with wingers, Wenger’s teams passed through the middle, Smith was based on hard-working players, four midfielders with the passers wide and the grafters in the middle, and the bigman-littleman strike pairing. Even Graham Taylor we knew was long ball. McLeish? I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again. I still don’t know. Every season, except his first , we end up 442, with two strikers playing wide, every season he tries to change it, every season it fails, we start badly and switch back to 442. Last year, we papered over the cracks and beat an aging sellic team with a distracted manager. That’s why he should go. His successes, and they are there, can’t disguise the fact he doesn’t seem to know where to take the team. I thnk he’s away this time. I suspect we’ll lose twice to sellic and away to Porto, then to Milan then he’ll go. And we’ll get Jan Wouters as interim til the end of the season, cos Martin Bain is more useless than Eck. At least Eck has some successes on his cv.
November 8th, 2005 at 7:59 pm on the 8th of November, 2005
I don’t thiknk he’ll go for a few months after that. David Murray seems to rate him, and said after they qualified for the group stages that it was enough in Europe, so he can’t well go sacking him for going out of Europe.
It;s one of these things, he’ll get through to the next stage of the Champions League, and suddenly he’s safe for a few weeks again, until it’s all gone for next season.
Not that I care, not being a dirty hun. It’s always nice to see the league open up, and I still hope Hibs can keep up and sneak above one of Hearts and Celtic. No money, a team based on young attacking footballers, has to be something you support.
November 10th, 2005 at 1:27 pm on the 10th of November, 2005
After last night, he can’t go soon enough.
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