Hyped up by myself and others as
the biggest Old Firm ever, today’s match had so much anticipation leading into
it.
Truthfully though, all Bears knew
deep down we did not have a hope – Celtic had everything to lose, we had
nothing to lose, and it was Celtic who came out the traps flying.
The selected team was pretty weak
– predictably McCulloch remained in defence while the equally useless Foster
started on the right. Those two were, as one would expect, abysmal, and sadly
the generally decent Darren McGregor showed how poor the Championship is by
displaying how utterly out of his depth he was v Griffiths and Commons.
That the opening goal saw both
Foster and McGregor fail to get near the tiny Griffiths as the ball sailed over their heads
conveyed the reality of how abject this Rangers team really is.
The rest of the selection was
alright at best and weak at worst. A 3-prong attacking midfield featuring
Smith, Aird and Law was unable to produce a single decent attack, managing zero
shots on target, and Miller alone up top did not even have scraps to feed off.
The sitting pair of Black and
Hutton were bullied embarrassingly by MOTM Scott Brown, who, for all his
loathsome attributes, is the kind of tough guy Rangers sorely lack. He is the
player Bears love to hate the most, but he far outclassed anyone in our ranks.
That he alone had the better of our entire sitting midfield summed it up.
Admittedly 2-0 was not the
biggest drubbing, and quietly a lot of Rangers fans will be pleased the score
was merely that, but the horrible truth is this vile and weak Rangers team with
next-to-no football ability is the legacy left by Ally McCoist’s abysmal
regime, the remnants of which are still haunting us today.
He is the one who signed that
rubbish, and who let the poorest youth players through (Aird, Hutton) while
ditching all the decent ones such as McKay, McAusland, Gasparotto et al.
And now we are left with this
turgid, embarrassing mess that is not fit to wear the jersey.
If Rangers are judged by their
displays and results v Celtic, this team does not have a single player who is
even remotely of the class expected. Even Lee Wallace has fallen away horribly
and was terrible today. While he once was a worthy selection, now he appears
weak and disinterested.
But I am far from picking on him.
The whole team and management is so painfully far off where Rangers need to be,
and it is hard to see when anything like a true Rangers team will emerge from
the embers of this mess.