Sorry John - I was wrong
I’m on holiday next week (visiting the in-laws if that counts as a holiday?), so you can get next weeks tribulations a bit early…
I learnt two things this week. The first is that you cant just cut and paste your blog from word into the blog section without getting all you punctuation screwed up. I blame Ron (hmmm – a recurring theme to my blogs… That’s interesting). The second (although I probably knew this for a while, but didn’t want to admit it) is that I was wrong.
Tonto wrong? Never! I hear you cry Perhaps not, but I do admit I was wrong about JG. When Waddo was being let go and JG’s name first came up I was more than a bit worried. He’d been out of the game for a couple of years, there had been all those shenanigans at Derby and he was GP’s mate. That added up to disaster to me.
But its not time to say that I was wrong – very wrong. JG I salute you, you have performed minor miracles since you arrived. A+ for effort and B+ for results too, there’s very little I could argue against you other than the daft Christmas Tree formation, but even then I’ll give you credit for trying something a little different.
In the transfer market, I don’t think I can fault you. Cullip and Bolder were the difference between us staying up and going down. The two youngsters from Chel$ki were handy and this summer Barker and Nardiello look like good signings and both were free. In the meantime, I think its very difficult to argue against anyone you let go. We had far too many duds clogging up the training ground or being Billy Big Bowlegs about the place. Its noticeable that since they went how much happier the place is.
Off the filed, with the exception of the Chinese Brawl, things have improved markedly as well. Harford and Neil mean we have a proper looking coaching team for the first time in years (probably since Jackett left). The wages saved now that the big earners have gone will surely help the financial stability of the club, yet the quality of the players hasn’t dipped.
For the first time in a while, there is optimism on the message boards (with the obvious exceptions of Smiffy, Chairman of the Board and MatthewRanger on Rivals, but they are not easily pleased!). My only hope is that that optimism doesn’t translate into over ambition and they don’t expect play-offs as a minimum. Comfortably mid-table would be an achievement in my opinion.
Well done John, with you in charge, I’m actually a happy Rangers fan
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