On top of voting for Michael Beale’s future at Rangers, Ibrox fans have also been voting on another contentious issue – the captaincy.
With James Tavernier probably qualifying as among the very worst captains Rangers have ever had, Ibrox Noise wanted to know what the sentiment among supporters over his armband now was.
While Ibrox Noise has been accused of having an ‘agenda’ over Tavernier (yes, it’s called wanting a worthy captain) we can assure you that our desire to have a great Rangers and a great captain trumps all individual pettiness.
So we asked you, did you want to keep Tavernier as captain or appoint a new one.
The answer was emphatic. Of thus far 536 votes and counting, 407 said they wanted a new captain, and only 129 endorsed Tavernier’s leadership. We will update these numbers as they grow over the course of the next 24 hours but that’s a pretty clear answer.
Basically one in five Rangers fans wants to retain Tavernier as captain, while 4 want a new man to get the honour.
Of course, the next question is who?
To our minds, there are a few contenders:
Butland, Souttar, Balogun and Raskin.
We wouldn’t make it Connor Goldson in a million years, while Ryan Jack is clearly utterly finished as a player, and John Lundstram probably wouldn’t be a terribly popular choice. Todd Cantwell isn’t captain material.
Butland is big, vocal, respected and clearly good at his job. Rangers never made a goalie a captain, he wouldn’t be the worst place to start.
Souttar is the best defender at the club, and wants to be here – whether he’s a fully-fledged leader we’re not too sure.
The same applies to Leon Balogun – we like him and he’s big, and respected, but is he a captain?
And Raskin hasn’t been terribly good in preseason or at Killie, but we know the guts the boy has – Barry Ferguson was made captain in a similar position at a similar age, so it can work.
But safe to say fans definitely don’t want it to be James Tavernier anymore.
He’s had the armband far, far too long.
I didn’t see any poll, so I agree give the captaincy to someone else. Butland, Souttar or Raskin. I think Beale has got a new Captain in mind for future but the guy hasn’t played for us yet!! 💙💙
I don’t just want another captain I want another right back. Glad to see fellow bears are finally waking up! To the fact he might be a good penalty taker, he might score 1 in 15 or 20 free kicks in a scoring position and he may even put 1 good cross in every 5 into the box. But may oh my he is not a leader and he is costing us trophy after trophy with his atrocious defending & body language, lack of urgency when jogging up to take trow ins etc
I would love to see Lundstrum.
Sadly we are stuck with Tav till his contract runs out, he would never make it as a player in any other team, the same as the old logo muncher Brown from the dark side, it is frustrating to watch on how bad he is and gets played every single game for us, if l was Beale,, Tav would barely make it onto the subs bench, l would stop getting him to take penalties, that’s a strikers job, Tsv is absolutely gash and has been for years and yet he is the captain, he is an absolute joke, same as Goldson, we need real defenders now or the league is lost, even at this stage because playing Tav is worse than a man down
If it where up to me he’d be gone long ago,worst right back we’ve ever had🤔
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