Poll: have Rangers fans run out of patience with star?

If there has been one overwhelmingly staggeringly negative
response to today’s outstanding display, outwith the disappointing Niko
Kranjcar, it has been fan reaction to Bruno Alves’ departure after 20 minutes.

Social media and the fanbase at large have been awash with
smears on the man, attacks on his character and a level of hate Ibrox Noise is
surprised to see, given the level to which we have criticised him in the past;
most responses disagreed with our assessments.

The overriding sense is that he ‘sh*t’ it again, and that
for all the big matches, the man either is not fit to start or limps off after
a few minutes.

Now we have been a little more positive about him recently, praising
what he does bring to the side, in our opinion, and even though we accept he is
just not at the level of a Carlos Cuellar et al, even we are surprised by the
slightly poisonous reaction to his injury.

Very few fans have defended him, accusing him of faking it,
even though manager Graeme Murty has confirmed he is now on crutches.

It appears Bruno Alves is in a very strange place – we have
been castigating of him most of the season, but we felt he improved the past
month – yet today’s events suggest fans have had enough of him and are not
convinced.

But we still remain very surprised at the level of spitting
hate being aimed at the guy, who, we have to say, has represented the club
well, with class, and has done a lot of unseen work within the charity sector
of Rangers.

That said, we also admit that while there are some fans who
think the sun shines out his rear end, there has been a growing number who have
not been convinced by him.

And that boiled to the surface today with his early exit –
compounded, curiously, by a stunning MOTM display from David Bates.

It seems Rangers fans have had enough of Alves, if today’s
mini meltdown is anything to go by.

So we will open it to you lot:

Do you rate Alves and want to keep him?