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Rangers supporters love the colour Orange and we wore Orange at a cup final to honour Dick Advocat when he was our manager. Tune in at 4pm on Sunday.

He was wanting to go after our defeat to Malmo. We snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. You could sense the drive ebb away from him. Pressers were beyond boring- same thing different day. We drew Motherwell at Ibrox in mid September and there were rumours that he was wanting out. I watched his presser today and he had the body language of someone not telling the truth about his approach timeline. Anyway, we got Gio today and the whole of the blue side of Glasgow and elsewhere are buzzing about it. It's always nice to employ someone as manager who has an affiliation with the club and the support. Wait till you see Hampden on Sunday. 43,000 Rangers supporters mainly wearing Dutch Orange. Good times ahead. Good luck for Saturday troops.

Nice to see @newhavenhibbycommenting on Rangers by way of calling us Sevco. The hurt is strong up here. In answer to his comments, Nathan Patterson has huge potential going forward as a RB. A left back? We currently have the first choice Croatian, Borna Barisic,but the spoonburners have Doig- that boy is a talent and he has youth on his side. We are a selling club up here. We won't give them away, but I doubt that we would be difficult to deal with. I'm going to be interested in who, if anyone, AV come in for. I can only see it being Ryan Kent. He's SG favourite.

Us Rangers supporters genuinely thought that SG would remain until the end of the season, regain the title, have a crack at the UCL- the ultimate test for any manager and indeed club. He had two transfer windows whereby he wasn't allowed to spend unless he sold. He has a "blindness" to certain players and will continue to select them despite their form dropping. No youth integration unless his hand is forced. I don't know if it was a fear or the youth aren't good enough. Jordan Milsom is a hard task master. The whole medical side will be turned upside down. He's not afraid to change and he ruffled feathers. He's quite fastidious in relation to diet and overall fitness. Pre season will be a killer for the AV lads. Culshaw deals with set pieces although they weren't overly successful imo. Scott Mason is a mate of SG, and I couldn't comment on what value he brought to us. Gary Mac is your loveable old school assistant. He gets involved in the training. Michael Beale is the brain. He sits in the stands and watches the game unfold and provides SG with instruction. AV will become a mirror image of Liverpool internally. They did that up here. At Rangers, SG was cosseted by the club from MSM. He wasn't pressed about defeats or draws. Media was, and still is fan led content so he never got a rough time up here. It's interesting to read that not every AV is on board which was the polar opposite here in Glasgow.

I agree wholeheartedly on all of those points. I'm just surprised that he went to AV and there's no disrespect meant, but I don't see AV getting European football for a while yet. SG isn't getting to Liverpool unless AV win an FA cup or get European football regularly and in particular UCL. Your owners will demand this.

You have paid for the brand. The Gerrard brand. Wait till you lose/draw against similar teams and hear his interviews. They are all the same. A lot of us switched off at times. In his first season we had a real opportunity to push on and win the league. We lost it in a 2-1 defeat at Kilmarnock with Joe Worrall selling both goals. Two seasons ago we were top of the league and crashed spectacularly allowing Celtic to win an incomplete league. We won 55 and I personally think that it was down to no crowds. The pressure playing for either of the old firm is intense. You need to be able to "wear the Jersey,". Not every fan is sad. He won 55 but it was stopping 10 for them that was the prize for us. 1 trophy out of 9 in domestic competition is and was poor. Getting put out by St Mirren and St Johnstone in the cups was down to the management team. We should have won a treble last season. AV have better players but he's not a magician.

He loves 433. There's really no change in that preference of shape. The team moves as a unit and don't be alarmed when he allows opposition to take receipt of the ball at throw ins. The team is then instructed to regain the ball in packs and start again. To be fair we had a "back to the walls" game against UFA from Russia. Down to 9 men but Jon Flanagan was immense that night. We outplayed Legia, Benfica ( bad game management cost us 3 points) Porto we played really well and Braga both home and away we upped it second half. Leverkusen totally outplayed us. They were smarter,quicker and were fabulous to watch. Slavia Prague knew exactly how we played. They bullied us all over the park. We were incapable of change. Malmo despite going 1-0 in the first half and them down to 10 men, simply out smarted us in the 2nd half. That cost us UCL and £30 million. Teams know how we play in Scotland under SG. With better players he should be able to shape the team but if you watch how we have played over the last 3 years this will be your template.

You have really not grasped the concept of how big a club Rangers are. Look at the results we got in Europe pre pandemic. SG and Mick Beale got a team playing well above their league status with some fantastic results in Europe. It's all relative. The fan base that we have in the UK is only dwarfed by Man Utd and Liverpool imo. Our revenue is relative to our fan base. It's TV money that keeps us down. So you are correct in revenue but take that TV money away from ANY Premier League club and the fans couldn't keep them solvent.

Hi there. Rangers supporter here. Got to disagree with your summary of managing in Scotland and in particular Glasgow. The pressure to win up here as one of the old firm is intense. A draw, particularly at home, is a disaster. Radio, MSM, social media all go into hyperbole. SG wasn't tested greatly up here. What I would say is that there is no plan B. His coaching team are incapable of change during a game. He's a winner and it will be interesting to see how his personality fares not winning.

New poster here. Rangers fan first and foremost. Was wanting to join just to give you Villa fans a bit of insight into not only Stevie G, but Mick Beale, Tom Culshaw, Jordan Milsom and the rest.