/ Christopher Union Jack, Group Senior Bum-Fluff Writer / @unionsharkjump
IT is a short-term roll with ham and cheese, but not quite a world class breakfast. The orange juice might be immediate, but the rambling promises of investment will last until the next season ticket campaign.
With a maximum of 17 quid left before administration, and that is assuming Rangers* can replicate their successful home draw run against the diddiest club left , to the Scottish Cup final, time is of the essence at Ibrokes.
The firing, erm, resignation (insert latest lie/spin) of one time god’s gift to football and “future England coach” (©Chris Jack) Mark Warbiola on Friday evening saw Rangers* once again fall into a state of flux and uncertainty. In the coming days, the board will pretend to provide leadership to cover their usual nonsense and insanity ahead of a defining run of fixtures.
Having been caught like a rabbit in the headlights and onto the touchline on Sunday, Graeme Murty may well have to take a step back at Dens Park this weekend. If he does, he will be satisfied that despite having no influence on the dressing room, enough players will need a new job soon that they managed to scrape the caretaker boss a one goal victory over championship 4th placed Morton.
It will be Murty that puts the Light Blues squad through their paces this morning but he could well have picked his first and last starting line-up as chairman Dave King and his board pretend to be looking for a solution to the latest problem whilst counting the short term savings in the monthly salary bill.
The Under-20 boss may have a win under his belt but he is totally out of his depth and unlikely to be the man to lead Rangers *into the final sequence of Premiership fixtures and to potential Scottish Cup glory or riots/possible pitch invasions.
King confirmed on Monday that the board could look to appoint an interim manager to handle affairs between now and the end of the season and it is Alex McLeish that is the front-runner for a potential Ibrokes return.
The 58-year-old is the obvious candidate as he desperately needs a job and would be willing to have his hands tied in the coming weeks. Well aware of the demands by creditors and standards at the club, McLeish will still have some change left from 1.7M in illegal EBT’s, so may be willing to risk making a fool of himself by claiming he has what it takes to ensure that Rangers* clinch second/third/fourth spot in the Premiership.
He has admitted that it would be tough to turn down Rangers* should they make an approach to bring him back eleven years after he brought the curtain down on his EBT funded, illegally won, trophy-laden spell. The surroundings will be familiar – despite the holes in the roof, but the lies will different.
Whoever the next man in the dugout is, they will inherit a squad that has more old men and crocks than your average sheltered home and a team that is in need of a run of results not influenced by randomness. A new voice and fresh approach may be the catalyst required to bring out much-need improvement from a group of players that have won 11 matches by a single goal and lucky to have as many points as they have gathered to date.
The mission of finishing second in the Premiership is not an impossible one if enough honest mistakes go their way, but the chances of achieving it aren’t plentiful. A pat on the back and a funny handshake for the men in black is as good as it could get.
By the time next season kicks-off, the man who occupies the manager’s office in the coming weeks will probably be replaced by an administrator.
The role of interim manager may offer no long-term employment, or even short term, or wages, but the job is still an important one for Rangers*. Whoever the Ibrokes board put their faith in, it must be dead cheap.
The problems are clear but we in the media will do our best to hide the truth and twist the facts to fit our agenda. Rangers* are a side that concede too many goals that could have been chalked off and don’t get awarded anywhere near enough penalties compared to last season. Both issues must be addressed if they are to see off Aberdeen and Hearts and S Johnstone to finish best of the rest.
This is a squad that has had Warbiola’s 4-3-3 philosophy drilled into it for months but even supporters as thick as ours could come up with tactics to expose the vulnerability in our defence, plus a few goals by anybody other than Miller might come in handy. However, there seems little point in continuing with any plan as we’re so close to financial collapse there’s no way out.
Happy Valentines/Admin day Hunny Bunnies!
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