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3 minutes ago, Ross. said:

Alternative view there is that you had a stadium and training ground for £5.5m, get 45k+ a week in gates and have overspent by around £10m a year just to finish ahead of a tinpot club. Not sure who that makes more tinpot?

Well that's a very reductive way of looking at it. Anyone with a logical mind can see the strides forward we've made under Gerrard. 

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13 minutes ago, TavTastic said:

Well that's a very reductive way of looking at it. Anyone with a logical mind can see the strides forward we've made under Gerrard. 

Those strides anything to do with spending loads of money you don't have on your team?

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13 minutes ago, TavTastic said:

Well that's a very reductive way of looking at it. Anyone with a logical mind can see the strides forward we've made under Gerrard. 

If pointing out economic reality regarding spending massively more than you generate is 'reductive' then I suppose so.

A few months down the line and you will be a mess of tears and snotters saying 'why didn't anybody warn us?'

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1 minute ago, JTS98 said:

Those strides anything to do with spending loads of money you don't have on your team?

What you mean board members investing in our club as they always said was the plan? You do realise most clubs run at a loss including the near entirety of the English Championship often to a far more significant extent? You're not making any logical point here.

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5 minutes ago, TavTastic said:

What you mean board members investing in our club as they always said was the plan? You do realise most clubs run at a loss including the near entirety of the English Championship often to a far more significant extent? You're not making any logical point here.

The English Championship is indeed a financial basket case. Financial emergencies are hardly rare down there.

There's a team called Bolton you might want to read up on. Another team spent a lot of money trying to get into the Championship and aren't playing football any more.

You'd think Rangers fans would have learned their lesson. The idea of the Hearts support tolerating the club being put at risk financially is ridiculous, but Rangers fans seem to be happy to sleepwalk into oblivion.

The spivvs fooled them once, and Rangers fans seem keen to be fooled again. Imagine playing in the Europa League and still losing more than ten million quid.

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Just now, JTS98 said:

You'd think Rangers fans would have learned their lesson. The idea of the Hearts support tolerating the club being put at risk financially is ridiculous, but Rangers fans seem to be happy to sleepwalk into oblivion.

The spivvs fooled them once, and Rangers fans seem keen to be fooled again. Imagine playing in the Europa League and still losing more than ten million quid.

If you actually think that we are "sleepwalking into oblivion" with a wage to turnover ratio of 63% then you really need to do some research because you don't know what you are talking about. I don't think you do actually believe that incidentally.

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2 minutes ago, TavTastic said:

If you actually think that we are "sleepwalking into oblivion" with a wage to turnover ratio of 63% then you really need to do some research because you don't know what you are talking about. I don't think you do actually believe that incidentally.

Your turnover will never be higher than Europa League level, barring a big player sale, and you still lost more than ten million quid.

It's completely unsustainable. Yet Rangers responded by throwing good money after the bad.

Failing to stop Celtic get 9 and 10 in a row will kill your club. Like the old one.

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25 minutes ago, TavTastic said:

Well that's a very reductive way of looking at it. Anyone with a logical mind can see the strides forward we've made under Gerrard. 

I don't disagree. Largely though I think finishing behind Aberdeen 2 years running was a sign of monumental mismanagement, rather than Gerrard being a fantastic manager. You are now where you should be, given the resources made available.

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Just now, JTS98 said:

Your turnover will never be higher than that and you still lost more than ten million quid.

It's completely unsustainable. Yet Rangers responded by throwing good money after the bad.

Failing to stop Celtic get 9 and 10 in a row will kill your club. Like the old one.

Oh dear bud quit while you are only slightly behind. You've had an absolute shocker here.

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1 minute ago, TavTastic said:

Oh dear bud quit while you are only slightly behind. You've had an absolute shocker here.

Haha!

It's like 2010-11 all over again.

'Nothing to see here, nothing to see.'

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2 minutes ago, Ross. said:

I don't disagree. Largely though I think finishing behind Aberdeen 2 years running was a sign of monumental mismanagement, rather than Gerrard being a fantastic manager. You are now where you should be, given the resources made available.

Yeah I fully agree on the mismanagement. Problem was the hugely expensive Pedro disaster. Although I think you are doing Gerrard a great disservice here. Getting through a full set of qualifiers twice in a row was a big achievement and his European record is unarguably strong. 

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Just now, TavTastic said:

Yeah I fully agree on the mismanagement. Problem was the hugely expensive Pedro disaster. Although I think you are doing Gerrard a great disservice here. Getting through a full set of qualifiers twice in a row was a big achievement and his European record is unarguably strong. 

Last season I think he done what I expected, there were no real big scalps in Europe. The results against Porto were impressive, I'll give him that.

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Just now, Ross. said:

Last season I think he done what I expected, there were no real big scalps in Europe. The results against Porto were impressive, I'll give him that.

Yeah that's fair although the consistency of results in qualifiers is another factor in his favour. Very common for Scottish sides to slip up in qualifiers against weaker sides. Better Rangers/Celtic teams in the past have done that too.

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1 minute ago, TavTastic said:

Yeah that's fair although the consistency of results in qualifiers is another factor in his favour. Very common for Scottish sides to slip up in qualifiers against weaker sides. Better Rangers/Celtic teams in the past have done that too.

I suppose there is a deep irony in that the results have been carried by a Pedro signing.

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