Rangers are badly regressing back to 2015 and it must change | OneFootball

Rangers fans of a certain vintage well remember the 90s, with the glorious ‘paranoid tim’ whereby Graeme Souness then Walter Smith’s Rangers completely dominated Scottish football, 9IAR, regularly in the Champions League and all was generally well with all things Ibrox.

The paranoid tim was the Celtic fan obsessed with the idea that everything was against them in Scottish football – oh how we laughed at them.

Even after the attempt at 10IAR crashed, Dick Advocaat came in and brought domination immediately back to Govan with what was a world class team, bought for around £72M over a season or two.

This was a time Celtic won little, a cup or two, and were very much also-rans in Scottish football, even if Tommy Burns’ football during his era was admittedly rather good.

But Rangers were just too strong for Celtic.

Now, it’s abundantly roles reversed in a new generation – since Rangers’ fall in 2012, the club is not only going through what ‘they’ did in the 90s, but we are also going through our leanest statistical spell in history.

Just three trophies since 2011 is the worst-ever return in Rangers’ long and proud past, and it’s worse than ourselves in the barren 80s (by comparison that team was strong), Celtic in the 90s, and Rangers during Celtic’s real 9IAR in the 60s.

In short terms, many young Rangers fans are growing up seeing a very, very average Rangers side that wins so little, and is arguably, all-time, the worst Rangers we have ever been.

Even St Johnstone have won equal to us in the past 12 years, 55 aside, which is a literally abysmal state to be in for a club of the grandeur of Rangers.

Older fans are forgetting what it’s like to win things regularly, younger fans don’t know what it was like in the first place.

Celtic are miles ahead of us both on and off the pitch, and we can’t even currently settle on a controlled ownership or board system.

It’s safe to say Rangers fans, once used to being the daddies in Scottish football, are suffering a horrendous downtime.

55 was the big missed opportunity, and we do blame the board (and our fellow fans) for sleeping on that one – the Liverpool-esque arrogance (they thought it was all fixed and got cocky) came out and we acted like everything was sorted ourselves. We at Ibrox Noise warned against that as early as the February/March of that year before we even won, and still the club and fans sleepwalked into that trap.

And now we are absolutely nowhere – third in the table, rudderless, and still with no real vision going forward.

Unless something dramatically changes, this is how it will be for some time.

So let’s hope something dramatically changes!