GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - FEBRUARY 12: Rangers legend John Brown joins fans to promote The Rangers Youth Development Company and their Union Jackpot half-time draw product at Ibrox Stadium, on February 12, 2024, in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Ewan Bootman/SNS Group via Getty Images)
John Brown delivered a stinging half time address to Danny Rohl’s title flops.
Bomber as he is affectionately known is a club Ambassador, representing the views and attitudes of hard line fans.
Those brought up on the ill-gotten successes under Dave Murray when Her Majesty and 275 other creditors were bumped to put a winning team on the park.
Adjusting to playing by the same rules as other clubs has been traumatic for many bears.
The old values are gone. Mercenary players can no longer be attracted and retained with the offer of offshore trusts.
Failure has bred failure.
Things are so bad that James Tavernier is discussed as a Hall of Famer. Winning three trophies in eleven seasons. All won while Crawford Allan was Head of Refereeing.
At least the club has shown the sound judgement not to award Captain Disappointed a Testimonial Match.
Standards at the club formed by Charles Green in 2012 are unrecognisable to those set by Murray.
Although there was a huge price to pay in 2012 Murray gave Ibrox fans the happiest days of their miserable lives.
THE MISERY IS NON STOP FOR SUFFERING BROWN
With Motherwell at Ibrox yesterday Ambassador Brown was expected to deliver a rousing half time battle cry.
Trailing 2-0 it turned out a little differently.
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It’s a massive frustration. Any Rangers team has to show energy and get right in their faces, and we have got to show that in second half.
Danny has got a big job there. To be given the chance to win your game and go onto win a league, we need more than that performance.
Brown added:
Some boys are just not tracking runners. There is enough on the bench to have an impact and take the game to Motherwell’s defence.
That turned out to be a highly accurate prediction for the second half.
While James Tavernier was chasing a glorious winning goal Stephen O’Donnell raced 30 yards clear to set up Emmanuel Longelo to score the winner with the help of Manny Fernandez.
Brown played when the team sheet was mainly filled with real Rangers men like Ally McCoist and Ian Durrant alongside others who adapted like Andy Goram and Richard Gough. It is doubtful if Rohl has even heard of those players.
Yesterday there were no Scots in the Ibrox side until the 85th minute when Connor Barron replaced Thelma Aasgaard. When the former Aberdeen midfielder, without a goal in two years, is the standard bearer for traditions you know that you have problems.
Barry Ferguson is also a club Ambassador. In his Daily Record column this week he will explain how the defeat from Motherwell would pure motivate him to run through brick walls to get a win against Hearts on Monday.
Had an encounter with Brown in a local Supermarket car park as he drove into a space I was reversing into and answered my protests with an angry shrug and a “ What! What are you going to do?” Apparently well known locally as a horrible angry man. Same as the angry violent hordes who adhere to no rules he milks for his income these days…
The guys a first class PONCE,still draining the wage bill at sevco full of his hatred.
He’s an ALKIE the klub know it and so the fans of that klub,but he’s one of them,as BIGOTED as ever.
It’s the same with wee Quark aka Alex Rae from Deep Space 9,he was papped out an AA meeting for trying to use his religious BIGOTED shite at meetings,he was told to F**K OFF politely and never to return to said meetings.
MO will have watched how their wingers NEVER track back and that doubling up on both full backs is there biggest weakness.
One sitting midfielder and two further forward also had them struggling.
HH