And it doesn’t get much more desperate than plastering TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE and SECURE YOUR SEATS on the backing board to promote Ibrox sponsors.
That is exactly what happened on Wednesday when Derek McInnes was discussing the Europa League tie against Jagiellonia.
In the old days managers would talk things up in a bid to boost the crowd. Matches weren’t all-ticket, only a couple of thousand Season Tickets were allowed to be sold.
McInnes had a catalogue of misery to share with the nodding dogs of the Scottish media
- Sunday lose to Hibs
- Monday get compared to Jurgen Klopp
- Tuesday Youssef Chermiti out with an ACL
- Wednesday McWinless shares the misery while asking fans to spend more money
Naturally no one in the media conference asked for McInnes’ thoughts on the comparison to Klopp. Was he flattered or embarassed?
That back drop with “tickets still available” is one of the most tin pot things I’ve seen. https://t.co/x0xAjiqj8U
— Empire ? ? ? ? (@Empire1872) August 12, 2026
McInnes then went on to bemoan that nine summer signings isn’t enough.
Apparently the club is playing with a fire with the squad thinly spread.
McInnes has signed three defenders. Young Ross McCrorie, Ben Godfrey and Olwethu Makhanya.
It seems that a muscle injury to Tuur Rommens has alerted the Ibrox boss to the fact that he only has one left-footed defender.
THE ISSUES AT IBROX CLOSE IN ON MCINNES
Tonight McInnes goes out looking for his first competitive win in charge of the Ibrox Tribute Act.
From last week’s defeat in Poland he has lost Rommens, Chermiti and Mohamed Diomande.
The Poles are bang average but have a fighting chance at Ibrox due to two factors.
The inability of McInnes and the seething anger of the home fans.
Ibrox was half full for the pre-season friendlies against St Etienne and West Ham.
Less than 40,000 are expected for tonight’s match, even the uber-fans are beginning to question if being staunch is good enough.
If it’s not it won’t be long before McInnes goes the way of Russell Martin and Danny Rohl, lasting less than a season in charge.
If Jagiellonia win through tonight the fall out will be incredible.
The European outcomes would then be six Conference League fixtures or blank Thursday’s!
Who thought it was a good idea to “tickets still avalaible” on the sponsor board ffs
Very bad optics from the club https://t.co/hfREc9j0fE
— Alex (@alegil2101) August 12, 2026
That’s an absolute embarrassment
— Scotty (@ScttC72) August 12, 2026
It sums us up, shambles
— Fraser naeLcM (@frasermclean71) August 12, 2026
Scotland and Scottish Football is completely failed by The Laptop Loyal Lapdogs of the SMSM slavishly sycophantic soft questioning of Ibrox Managers whilst avoiding any kind of pertinent relevant questions. Only in Scotland!
Yurgaun Plopp is shitey but staunch and very cheap.
Even the dumbest fans in football are at last beginning to suss him out.
C’mon Jagiellonia !
Let’s hope Plopp Plopp is Shitey Shitey again tonight !
How many more times do this lowlife scum club embarrass themselves and the rest of Scottish football also embarrassing is nobody in the Scottish media has the balls to ask fake tan the hard questions..hope them scumbags get walloped tonight
It’s strange how certain staunch SMSM publications were at pains to let everyone know that Mo Diomande was sold for £4.5 million sovs ( or thereabouts) yet theRangers review have his fee as ‘undisclosed ?’ Another case of never let a good opportunity to punt another 8 or 10 extra copies of papers and sell the gullible who buy such dross another load of piffle bollox fairy tales ?
Hope they end up in the Conf.
Thurs Sunday schedule would kill them & they’d only earn a pittance for their trouble.
The fake tan fuddite won’t last long.
Every Tom, Dick or Imran that walks up the marble staircase gets a free ride all the time with the SMSM. Before every manager unveiling at crumbledome the SMSM are slabbering over each other’s suit jackets. It’s like waiting for the gushing bride to make an entrance. Sycophants everyone of them.