Rangers FC Thread

surfbum · Jun 3, 2012

List of Rangers F.C. Managers

This is a list of Rangers Football Club's managers and all those who have held the position of manager of the first team of Rangers, in its various gises, since their foundation in 1873. Each manager's entry includes his dates of tenure and the club's overall competitive record (in terms of first team matches won, drawn and lost), honours won and significant achievements while under his care. Caretaker managers are included, where known, as well as those who have been in permanent charge. As of the start of the 2009–10 season, Rangers have had twelve full-time managers and three caretakers. As well as having a long line of great managers at the helm, Rangers have also had invaluable back room staff such as directors, coaches, physios and doctors, to help with the running of the club.
Managerial history

The most successful person to manage Rangers and longest-serving manager is Bill Struth, who won eighteen Scottish League Championships, ten Scottish Cup's, two League Cup's, seven war-time league championships, nineteen Glasgow Cup's, seventeen Glasgow Merchant Charity Cup's, as well as a host of other honours.

The club has, on average, appointed a new manager every seven and a half years. The club's directors have only ever dismissed two of their managers, namely Davie White and Jock Wallace (during his second spell). The others have left through of their own accord or by mutual agreement, except for William Wilton, who died whilst still manager of the side.
Tenure

William Wilton: 27 May 1899 to 2 May 1920 (20 years, 340 days ) Winning percentage: 66.29%

Bill Struth: 20 May 1920 to 15 June 1954 (34 years, 26 days) Winning percentage: 66.83%

Scot Symon: 15 June 1954 to 1 November 1967 (13 years, 139 days) Winning percentage: 65.64%

David White: 1 November 1967 to 27 November 1969 (2 years,26 days) Winning percentage: 63.06%

Willie Thornton: 27 November 1969 to 8 December 1969 (0 years, 11 days) - caretaker Winning percentage: 100%

Willie Waddell: 8 December 1969 to 31 May 1972 (2 years, 175 days ) Winning percentage: 56.49%

Jock Wallace: 31 May 1972 to 23 May 1978 (5 years, 357 days) Winning percentage: 65.25%

John Greig: 24 May 1978 to 28 October 1983 (5 years, 157 days) Winning percentage: 53.07%

Tommy McLean: 28 October 1983 to 10 November 1983 (0 years,13 days) - caretaker Winning percentage: 25%

Jock Wallace: 10 November 1983 to 7 April 1986 (2 years, 148 days) Winning percentage: 45.92%

Graeme Souness: 8 April 1986 to 16 April 1991 (5 years, 8 days) Winning percentage: 63.18%

Walter Smith: 19 April 1991 to 31 May 1998 (7 years, 42 days) Winning percentage: 63.53%

Dick Advocaat: 1 June 1998 12 December 2001 (3 years, 194 days ) Winning percentage: 67.53%

Alex McLeish: 13 December 2001 to 31 May 2006 (4 years, 169 days ) Winning percentage: 65.96%

Paul Le Guen: 1 June 2006 to 4 January 2007 (0 years, 217 days) Winning percentage: 51.61%

Ian Durrant: 4 January 2007 to 10 January 2007 (0 years, 6 days) - caretaker Winning percentage: 0%

Walter Smith: 10 January 2007 - 1 June 2011 Winning percentage: 74.29%

Ally McCoist: Present -

surfbum · Jun 3, 2012

Charles Green Statement

CHARLES GREEN, who is leading a consortium to purchase Rangers Football Club, issued the following statement today.

He said: "On behalf of the consortium purchasing the Rangers Football Club, it is my firm view that it is vitally important for the current issue of the SFA player embargo to be resolved and neither I nor my investors wish to see an outcome that would be to the detriment of Scottish Football.

"Throughout this process, the Club, the Administrators and most importantly the supporters have taken the view that any sanction against Rangers - due entirely to the misdeeds of individuals no longer at the Club - should be proportionate.

"We and the Administrators did not want to take the matter to a civil court at all.

"Unfortunately, the route to apply to the Court of Arbitration in Sport was not open to the Club because the SFA's own articles fail to include a specific provision permitting appeals to CAS and the Judicial Panel Protocol contains a rule which prohibits any form of appeal to CAS or any other body.

"Our position has been endorsed by Lord Glennie in the Court of Session. The Club was prohibited from appealing to CAS by the SFA's own rules.

"The Judicial Review was not an appeal rather it was the Club exercising its right under Scots Law to have the court review whether or not the imposition of the transfer embargo was within the power of the tribunals of the Judicial Panel.

"All of the appeal points put to the appellate tribunal relating to the harsh and excessive nature of the embargo were dropped as it would not have been appropriate to have taken those to the Court of Session"

"Rangers is wholly committed member of the SFA and SPL and fully respects their structures.

"Lord Glennie has referred the matter back to the Appellate Tribunal which heard the Club's appeal and we note a hearing is due to take place in due course.

"Either party has 21 days to consider an appeal. It is the Club's view that the matter should in fact have been referred back to the original tribunal which imposed the transfer ban because the appellate tribunal in its written judgement made clear the view they held on the appropriate alternative sanction to be imposed in the event that the transfer ban was successfully challenged.

"We are fully aware that one of the sanctions available to the Appellate Tribunal should the matter be referred back there is the suspension or termination of Rangers Football Club membership of the SFA.

"That in our view would be a disaster for Scottish football and a major setback to our plans to take Rangers forward after a particularly difficult period in its history.

"Equally, the alternative sanction of expulsion from the Scottish Cup is itself a very serious punishment which would also have a severe impact on Scottish football as well as on our Club.

"We will be considering with our legal team the best way forward after the public holiday."

surfbum · Jun 3, 2012

HOOPS AXE COACH THOMPSON

Alan Thompson was fired as Celtic first team coach

Monday June 4,2012
By Iain Macfarlane

ALAN THOMPSON has been sensationally axed as Celtic first team coach.

The bombshell was delivered to Thommo in a phone call by gaffer Neil Lennon.

Thompson was last night said to be devastated at the decision weeks after the 38-year-old had helped the Hoops win their first SPL title in three years.

Thompson was cherry-picked from the Newcastle United academy by Lennon when the Northern Irishman was confirmed full-time in the Celtic manager’s role in 2010.

The pair had been team-mates under Martin O’Neill and Thompson was seen as a key coaching asset with Garry Parker and Johan Mjallby.

It’s as yet unclear if the move was dictated by the Parkhead board or if Lennon felt the time was right to part company.

Thompson attracted some off-the-field headlines during his two-year coaching stint – a drink-driving charge and a split from his wife made front page news.

Thompson was last night said to be devastated at the decision

However, the former England international has been reunited with his family and he has always enjoyed a strong working relationship with Lennon.
Express.co.uk - Home of the Daily and Sunday Express | Sport | Football

surfbum · Jun 3, 2012

Alan Thompson joins Paul Lambert at Aston Villa as assistant manager.
i would have posted this in the celtic bit but a canny lol

J · Jun 3, 2012

such good news has to be reported twice lol

Heartbroken wife of Celtic coach Alan Thompson blows whistle on split and blames his midlife crisis - The Daily Record

surfbum · Jun 3, 2012

The SFA response to Greens statement, ridiculous
They dont know their own rules!

In a swift response to Rangers' statement, the SFA issued one of its own on Sunday evening.
It read: "Referring the matter to the Court of Session, Rangers FC utilised the court's right of Supervisory Jurisdiction contained within Scots Law.
"Given that any two parties can seek arbitration, the club was not 'prohibited from appealing to the Court of Arbitration for Sport', as was claimed.
"Indeed, no representation was made by the club to the Scottish FA to discuss the possibility or the process of seeking arbitration via the Court of Arbitration for Sport before Judicial Review was actioned."

Just to nail down what the SFA are saying. Here's a link to Lord Glennie's judgement. The relevant paragraph is para 8:

http://www.heraldscotland.com/sites/default/files/glennie%20report.pdf

For ease, it states:

This matter is, in any event, to my mind, made clear by Rule 15.8.3.6 of the Judicial Panel Protocol to which I have referred which provides that the Appellate Tribunal's determination 'shall be final and binding on the parties and there shall be no further right of appeal.' That excludes any appeal, including an appeal to the CAS.

Simples - unless the SFA are saying Lord Glennie is wrong, and if so they should go back to Court.

J · Jun 4, 2012

Any word on why septic sacked monkey yet?
There's a few rumours flying around.

buzzer · Jun 4, 2012

J said:
There's a few rumours flying around.

what rumours?

spill the beanz.. lol

surfbum · Jun 4, 2012

One source said: "Alan had been trying to get Neil on the phone but his calls weren’t being returned. And then this last night.

"It is thought this has something to do with Alan's lifestyle. For whatever reasons there may have been deep concerns about that but he shared a similar lifestyle to Neil and with him.”

The source added that Lennon may have been under heavy pressure from the Celtic board to take action and then said: "The thing is, Alan knows where the bodies are buried."

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surfbum · Jun 5, 2012

Monday, 4 June 2012
REGAN, THE SFA AND THE THREAT TO LEE McCULLOCH

STEWART REGAN has escaped proper public censure for his collusion in a Twitter threat to Lee McCulloch, thanks to a disgraceful cover up by Scotland’s newspapers.

Neither of the top two selling papers in the country, the Sun or the Daily Record, carried the story about Scottish Football Association chief executive Stewart Regan’s disgraceful Twitter antics when he made a favourite of a Tweet which called for Rangers and Scotland star Lee McCulloch to be hanged.

Actually the words used on the Tweet which appeared on SFA supremo Regan’s official Twitter account, said something about wanting to see McCulloch hung.

The poor English led many to believe it had been posted by Stewart Regan, a man whose interviews are sprinkled with bad English.

The Rangers Trust pounced on Regan’s disgrace and issued a press statement condemning it and calling for action to be taken against Regan.

Any journalist worth his salt would testify to the newsworthy nature of this as a story.

But this seriously sensational story was ignored by both the Sun and Record. Their snub has now led the Rangers Trust to seriously question the news objectivity of the senior news executives on both papers.

And today I can add to their concerns.

The Sunday Mail, the Record’s sister paper, also abandoned proper journalistic standards in covering and projecting the story, when what is building towards the Regan Scandal took took a fresh turn.

That came when it was revealed by Lee McCulloch that Stewart Regan had made a plaintive plea for forgiveness in a desperate telephone call to him.

Regan was trying to get off the hook.

The decision of what to do with such a revelation and quote is not a hard one for any newsman. It is to give the story prominence on the news pages – almost certainly on Page One.

The first paragraph, the all important intro, actually writes itself.

“Stewart Regan has made a humiliating apology to Rangers and Scotland star Lee McCulloch.”

Did the Sunday Mail do that?

No chance!

The Sunday Mail buried this sensational story as two throw-away paragraphs added to the end of a run-of-the-mill interview with McCulloch, in which he said he would be staying at Ibrox next season. And the story was carried on the sports pages.

I would love to hear the editor of the Sunday Mail try and explain that away. Just as I’d be pleased to hear the head honchos at the Sun and the Record explain on what news value judgment they based their decision to ignore the story on.

However, I can now reveal that if Stewart Regan thinks he has got off the hook over his blatant apparent collusion in an obvious and sinister on-line threat to the Rangers and Scotland player, I can put him right.

My information is that the content of Scottish Football Association chief executive Stewart Regan’s official Twitter account, has been brought to the attention of Strathclyde Police.

And that means police now have a legal duty to investigate the whole issue. That is something which will involve questioning Stewart Regan and demanding access to his Twitter account so they can trace the origin of the threat to McCulloch which carried sectarian undertones.

I can also reveal that police investigations into such online threats are now under the personal command of a Strathclyde Police Assistant Chief Constable and that he has a team of experienced detectives at his command.

I can also reveal that furious Rangers supporters, angry at the way this story has been covered up by the Sun, by the Daily Record and by the Sunday Mail, are now ready to call in political big guns and create the sort of storm even the fearties in the editorial chairs of the Sun, Record and Sunday Mail will not be able to ignore or bury away.

Scotland’s Scottish National Party First Minister Alex Salmond and his deputy, Govan MSP, Nicola Sturgeon, can expect to be contacted by Rangers Supporters Groups to ask what view they take of Stewart Regan’s involvement.

After all, after Regan led the witch hunt to sack Hugh Dallas, he went on record as saying that SFA employees should take great care when using new technology and social networking sites.

There have already been plenty of examples of stupid sectarian rants and sinister threats online leading to police warnings, charges, court cases and prison sentences.

With all of that evidence and precedent available in the public domain, the question which is now being posed by a variety of people in journalism, politics and football – many of them with no connection or allegiance to Rangers – is this.

If such a Tweet had been made about wanting to hang a Celtic player, and had it been made a favourite by Stewart Regan on his own official SFA Twitter account and left there for over four months, would the Sun and the Record have ignored the story?

And had Regan telephoned the Celtic player with a groveling apology, would the Sunday Mail have been so keen to bury the story?

If Rangers supporters groups make the right moves over the next 24 hours, then this story will soon make headlines. It will gather pace and run and run.

Putting the already beleaguered and increasingly erratic Stewart Regan in the eye of the storm and under more and more pressure.

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