Loyal bear explains how Walter’s Cardigan inspired McInnes to victory over St Mirren

One high profile bear has revealed the magic ingredient to Derek McInnes’ first win in charge at Ibrox.

It wasn’t dropping captains Lawrence Shankland and Dan Neil to the bench.

It wasn’t switching from 4-4-2 to 4-3-3.

The reason was more simple than that.

All that was required was for McInnes to slip on a grey cardigan and suddenly everything fell into place. A 5-1 home win and some bears are anticipating a treble success and taking over George Square in May.

Inspired by the spirit of Walter!

The Empire is a big noise on Follow Follow, when he messages other bears take note.

Clothing is one of those strange Ibrox ‘traditions’ that are held onto in the absence of trophies and success.

Ally McCoist and Stuart McCall never looked comfortable in club suits, some suspected that McCall was handed down the XXL suit worn by McCoist before he bailed out on gardening leave.

When Russell Martin was appointed a year ago he turned up for his first media conference wearing a pair of trainers.

Martin apparently had an allergy to wearing a shirt and tie. His reign lasted 123 and seven domestic matches.

Danny Rohl went all in when he took over from Martin.

The gangly German never looked comfortable in the brogues and blazer but his main attribute was that he wasn’t Martin.

After the breakthrough win against St Mirren expectations are sky high that McInnes is about to deliver success.

THE SIGNINGS PILE UP AND UP FOR MCINNES

A fixture list of Jablonec home and away followed by a trip to Pittodrie will test the powers of Walter’s Cardigan to the full.

So far McInnes has signed 10 players to add to the shambles that he inherited from Martin and Rohl.

Another four or five are expected but that could be dependent on moving others out.

John Souttar was left out of the pre-season squad but is hanging onto his inflated Ibrox salary.

With Manny Fernandez playing like a League One defender all hope of a bumper transfer fee rests on Nico Raskin.

Celtic’s £22m fee for Arne Engels means that Raskin is likely to stay on at Ibrox since no club will go anywhere near matching the Engels fee.