William from Ayrshire lit up the airwaves on Super Scoreboard on Monday with a highly aggressive defence of Phil Clement that left Gordon Duncan, surprised, shocked and amused.
According to William, Radio Clyde is at the front of a sinister plot to undermine the current Ibrox boss, led by their Celtic minded panellists such as Scott Allan.
That claim took Duncan by surprise but William was adamant, the former Hibs midfielder was a traitor after signing up to a lucrative four year contract offered by Celtic in 2015.
Before finishing most comments with ‘know what ah mean’ William jumped to the defence of Clement with the less than rock solid argument that you can’t keep sacking managers.
As Ross McCormack and Roger Hannah pointed out you do sack unsuccessful managers otherwise their reign of failure will continue. Sticking with a failing manager isn’t suddenly going to make them successful.
James Tavernier can provide expert analysis on the issue, the former Wigan man is getting ready to welcome his seventh permanent manager since moving to Ibrox in 2015.
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Duncan: Does that encourage you, what is your take on it. I see all this stuff about ‘people of a Celtic persuation’ are lamenting Clement. William, I don’t know what circles you keep but by far the people that are most critical of Philippe Clement are the Rangers fans, obviously
William: What do you mean by what circles I keep Gordon?
Duncan: As in how many people you’ve spoke to who are Rangers fans last week, they are the ones
William: No, what do you mean, what do you mean circles?
Duncan: I just mean which Rangers fans do you speak to?
William: What do you mean by what circles I speak to Gordon, what do you mean, what do you mean circles?
William seemed very defensive about his circles, as if it was some sort of strange, secret society with bizarre rituals that the outside world was to be excluded from.
While the trio in the studio pointed out the faults and flaws under Clement William just dug in.
He claimed that there was a witch-hunt against the former Monaco boss with Super Scoreboard providing a focal point for the critics.
There was one phrase that struck the rawest of nerves with William- circles.
After exhausting that area of discussion the call was wound up, after finally getting a bear that backs Clement to phone in the lines were alive with other fans taking Clement and William apart.
Regardless of what they are saying on SSB Clement looks to have weathered the storm caused by the Scottish Cup defeat to Queens Park.
Clearly new CEO Paddy Stewart doesn’t have the authority to sack a failing manager signed up onto a long term contract.
With that being the case media anger is now turning to Stewart who has yet to realise that sharing some good news among the messengers ensures an easy ride for whoever is in charge at Ibrox regardless of results.
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It seems that the silence from Ibrox following the Scottish Cup defeat from Queens Park has pushed Kris Boyd over the edge. That and Jota’s impressive return to Celtic.
Out of the multitude of problems at Ibrox it is impossible to see any in which the solution would be Sir David Murray!
That is exactly what Boyd is suggesting in The Sun, ironically enough on the 13th anniversary of Craig Whyte putting Rangers into administration. The denial of the events of 2012 are at the core of the problems riddling Charles Green’s Tribute Act.
Spending more than you bring in is the most basic business problem, 13 years of that is catching up on those at Ibrox with Paddy Stewart expected to come up with the answers while putting a halt to Celtic’s domination.
According to Boyd some soothing words on Monday morning from Sir David would have resolved the issues of the Queens Park defeat, clearly the phrase succulent lamb has never been explained to the Sky Sports expert.
Murray’s media management ensured that there was no scrutiny of what was going on inside Rangers.
The media messengers, the big hitters in the newspapers were kept in the transfer loop so well that they never required special instructions to spin for their hero.
French vineyards, oak panneled offices, business empire and private jets were routinely thrown into football stories to underline the brilliance of the man piling up debts at Ibrox.
Spending £10 for every £5 spent by Celtic was a sign of strength while deals with NTL and JJB Sports were greeted as revolutionary as Murray shuffled the deck chairs to cover his growing debt mountain.
The consequences were dire. Or wonderful, depending on your viewpoint.
Only Third Lanark, Gretna and Airdrie fans have felt the pain of losing their club, watching a death at close hand. In 2012 Rangers fans experienced that pain.
But after losing to Queens Park the man that received £215,000 free of Income Tax and National Insurance is pining for some old fashioned spin and moonbeams to dull the pain.
Boyd told Sun readers:
After what happened last weekend, going to ground and saying nowt was not an option.
The Rangers supporters deserve better. They also deserve answers.
The domestic season is over by early February and those in charge have a responsibility to engage with the fanbase.
As I’ve stated before, maybe it’s me in the wrong here.
Maybe the standards and expectations I believe Rangers should strive for — and did in my playing career — no longer exist.
But I can guarantee that if this had happened in my first spell, there wouldn’t be silence from those in charge.
Sir David Murray would have been out first thing on Monday morning addressing the situation.
Clement would have been relieved of his duties and the club would have moved on.
It sums up the multiple issues facing the new CEO Stewart that doing things the Murray way could be part of the solution.
Despite the death of their club in 2012 there is very little criticism of Murray with fans grateful for the ill-gotten successes that he delivered- at an incredible price.
The nineties are the only decade in the last seven that Celtic haven’t dominated, other than those days generations of bears have only known Glasgow being Green and White with success.
Boyd probably saw the media as a happy place to move into when he could no longer get into shape to play the game, discussing the possibility of six Celtic trebles over a nine year period wouldn’t have been anticipated when he started accepting cheques from Sky Sports.
On Sunday Boyd will be at Tynecastle for Sky Sports, sharing his expert opinion on the 13 remaining SPFL friendlies for Phil Clement’s exciting young side.
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by Valentine's day massacre
If anything…it’s the daily Record sports scoops team , led by Inaction Jackson , who is at the forefront for any sinister plot to oust Mr Clem- on . That mob are hurting so badly at the mess and shambles their current clumpany is in that it’s the only story in town …get Phil filleted !