Murray/McLeish Fiasco

Here's my take on the desperatly dissapointing news from Ibrox last night. I posted this on the Rangers BBC forum this morning.

Lets get a few things straight. I will obviously continue to support the club the chairman and with great reluctance, the manager.

But there are a lot of fans on this forum with their heads in the sand.

Yesterday was a black day for the club. The lifeblood of the club, the fans have been deliberately misled by the chairman. Mr Murray has tried to give the impression that no-one was being lined up for the managers job. This is plainly not the case. Paul Le Guen WAS approached. Our current manager is not the first choice of the supporters and not the first choice of the chairman either. Mr Murray is trying to cover up for the fact that he failed to deliver the appointment most of us wanted.

As distressing as that is, we also have had to put up with mealy mouthed rubbish about how he’s re-structuring the clubs finances so we don’t have to rely on European qualification (just as well eh?) and that fans should expect less domestically if we’re doing well in Europe.

Mr Murray also admitted that our performances haven’t improved domestically. This was the criteria by which we were told McLeish would be judged. Instead, we are expected to swallow that a “gutsy” showing against a half-interested Inter Milan team (which coincided with Artmedia failing to score in their match purely because of the state of their pitch) was the upturn in performance quality that saved McLeish.

Who is he trying to kid with this? Everybody knows McLeish would be history if a decent replacement was available. So why not tell the truth? It’s perfectly acceptable to me that McLeish stays in these circumstances. If all we were going to do was trade him for a Burley or a Butcher, the move would be pointless. But Mr Murray wants to pretend that keeping McLeish was his decision; that it wasn’t made for him by PLG refusing his job offer.

And the bottom line is that we go to Rugby Park this weekend with a rotten team, a dud manager and every chance of losing.

And just a word for the posters who are calling disappointed Rangers fans glory hunters. Our club is in very serious trouble. Recognising this fact and voicing your concern does not make you disloyal. I’m not calling for Murray to go or even for McLeish to go. What’s the point? All I’m asking for is to be treated like an adult by the chairman of my club. All I’m asking for is the unvarnished truth.