Graeme Murty has made a startlingly bold claim about Rangers’ next manager. After today confirming progress has been made in the hunt for a new boss, Murty implored the importance of the right man to an even more significant level than perhaps fans have.
Most supporters have had a vision of a solid and safe pair of hands to take us to the end of the season and assess where we go from there, but Murty has suggested the board’s appointment is being viewed as something long term.
He said:
“I think that to get the next five, six, seven years right, we need to take our time now to get this appointment right.”
He is absolutely correct, in fairness to him. The last five or six years have been dreadfully wrong, with failed manager following dud signing time on time again.
Rangers’ board must get the next manager correct in order to finally move in the right direction.
He went on:
“If we take a little bit more time now to get this appointment right, we actually get the next five years of progress and secure the future of this football club at the top of the league, and that’s crucial.”
He makes a point here too. What would we rather, a quick appointment and a wrong one, or slow progress in order to secure the right man long term?
Of course, us supporters do not see it necessarily as black and white as that – we need to see something happen, and the complete radio silence with regards the saga has been a tad disappointing at best. The board should have communicated much better than it has, and Lee McCulloch makes a very fair point in accusing the board of hanging Murty out to dry.
We alluded to this earlier, and it is disappointing how the youth coach has had to tolerate the public glare instead of those who appoint him and who should be representing the club.
Incidentally, following his dreadfully painful post-Dundee media duties, Murty has done a stunning job regrouping himself and regaining his composure – his performance at Tuesday’s presser was much more self assured and he was back to his pre-Hamilton class and clarity. And we are glad to see it.
Whether the team will follow suit tomorrow night is another matter.
Yeah as you say makes some good points, but why the hell is he making these points, surely the board should be doing this, now today, after 5 weeks of nothing, the biggest hint that we are close to appointing a manager is from our youth coach!!!! Where the f**k is the board!!!!
I don’t care if we’re not hearing anything as long as we get the right man this time.How often have we said in the last 5 yrs. That we shouldn’t be washing our dirty linen in public & we should go back to the days when we went about our business quietly & with dignity rather than blabbing & giving our (many) enemies ammunition,then when we do this . it’s, we’re not transparent !! Please give these guys a break & let them sort it without pressureing them into a bad appointment.
Well said Blue Yonder. Its a good thing that nothing has leaked, keeps the media off the candidate's back.
Should a new manager be our focus? Or should it in fact be the board.
We need as strong a board if not stronger than Celtic and it just isn't there. Until we get powerful men on the Rangers board the manager will have one hand tied behind his back.
A successful AGM for me would see a swift change in Board personnel to strong and powerful men who demand results on and off the park.
They would be the men to choose our manager and for that reason my hope for this AGM is for that to take place.
A new manager could take the focus off the manager but our club needs more, a lot more.
It can be the only acceptable reason for such a long delay in the appointment of a manager, that a huge turnaround of the board is imminent.
i feel vindicated regards my previous post after reading this.
Bring back walter only way to stop 10
Yes we did everything wrong over the last five years trying to catch Selltic was the wrong thing to do,we wasted five years now it is going take another five six or seven years to catch them,we are going have games like we have now for a few years to come but we must stick together.
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