It’ll be nice getting called champions on Sportscene again won’t it?
Being back on the summit feels like a weight lifted off the club, a true indication that we are back where we belong, there is now a clear and definitive “job done” sense of achievement – there has been a plan in place for the last three years that has successfully evolved and been implemented – a far cry from the shambles of years gone by.
When we were first promoted back into the Championship, Ally McCoist put out what – on paper – looked like our strongest XI in a 3-5-2 formation, however, it was abandoned pretty quickly and after scraping through into the next round of the Challenge Cup, we never saw it again, lurching from one poor, clueless performance, to the next.
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— Rangers Football Club (@RangersFC) August 5, 2014
It was a horrible season, and with Hearts and Hibs in the league it seemed like we were “back” to proper football against real rather than part-time teams, and we failed miserably. There were figures within and around the club that clearly didn’t have the best interests of the club at heart and were out purely for self gain but the team that McCoist put out, and had available to him, was still better than that of the other teams in the league – we were just a mess.
Six years later on and we have closed a gap in finances that was pushing £100million between us and Celtic, we have a squad full of internationals and valuable players, and when Steven Gerrard warned us success wasn’t going to happen overnight, we should have listened – he clearly knows what he is talking about – title number 55 is more than adequate proof that the “journey” is over.