Rangers Fans Don’t Need More Division So Josh Windass Can Stay Well Away | OneFootball

There has definitely been a greater level of anger among Rangers fans in recent times ever since the appointment of Russell Martin and the timbre of signings. Ibrox Noise has received so much abuse the past few weeks to months over our perceived lack of positivity about the managerial appointment. Every single day we find tons of abuse on our social networks and on the site accusing us of either being tims or of being insufferably negative. We carried out a poll to this extent and found that the majority of fans who were not willing to comment necessarily claimed that we were somewhere in the middle of honesty and negativity. Around about 65–70% was the outcome of that one. If that was fair enough, we would agree that our comments and content in recent times have not necessarily been unifyingly inspiring, but it is very hard to be positive about this Rangers era. Rangers fans are stunned at the most bonkers Ibrox rumour this summer.

The news yesterday about Josh Windass being linked to Rangers and a return to Ibrox just about summed up where we currently are. A mediocre Championship player who wasn’t even that great for Rangers in the Championship itself and certainly didn’t impress in the Scottish Premiership when we got promoted is now being linked with a return when standards are supposed to be higher. He has been okay with Wednesday, not much more. He is basically an average player, an average forward who can score the odd goal here and there. We haven’t exactly watched a lot of him recently, why would we have? When he was at Ibrox he was the most divisive player we’d ever had, certainly since Maurice Johnston.

Yes, that bad. James Tavernier took over from that mantle once Windass left, but always remembered is just how split down the middle Rangers fans were over the now Wednesday attacker. And this is the theme of this pre-season and season ahead. Negativity, a lack of hope and signing lower level EFL players. It is hardly inspiring stuff. Now the funny thing is, for all the accusations we get of being tims, and yes we get them every day, in actual fact, is there any hint in our content anywhere that we are enjoying any of this? Not a hint of it. This is an awful period for Rangers. It’s a terrible managerial appointment, the squad isn’t great and the fans are angry.

Plus the new board and ownership aren’t exactly inspiring us much either. We are not enjoying any of it. If timmies were running this site they would probably be enjoying it. We are not. We are Rangers fans, we want to see Rangers at its best. And it’s just a low level of intelligence that when you see something you disagree with, you attack the man and call them various names such as tims. It is just a complete lack of education. Whereby the notion that an opinion is different to yours means the person is a complete nut job and a bad sort. Rather than just their opinion is different to yours and you respect that. No, we come on daily and we discover the latest line of abuse because we dare to be honest. And Josh Windass sums that up.

It’s a bonkers rumour. We certainly hope it isn’t true, but if we did sign him it would just about sum up this era of Rangers.

We saw a comment on X recently. We don’t have much of a presence on that app to be honest, on that platform.

But we saw a comment there recently pertaining to this entire Rangers era seeming utterly wrong, it doesn’t fit, it doesn’t work and it seems abnormal.

It just isn’t right. And that about sums our feelings up as well at Ibrox Noise.

Nothing about this Rangers regime fits.

Think about Walter Smith signing David Weir and getting us to the top of the table.

Think about Graeme Souness stomping all over every single opponent in the then First Division as it was back in the day.

Think about Dick Advocaat, admittedly with a bit of cash, signing a whole host of quality players and taking over the Premier League or the Premiership, whatever the darn thing was called back then.

Think about Walter Smith during 9-in-a-row, stomping over everybody in the league.

Think about Alex McLeish, Big Eck, securing a treble with absolutely no money except what he created himself.

These were proper times.

This is the standard that we expected.

We expected top quality players, Premier League England level players, the best of the Premiership, coming to Ibrox and dominating.

Yes, we didn’t necessarily win the league every single season.

We couldn’t.

It wasn’t possible.

But we expected to.

Nowadays, our fans fight over whether or not Josh Windass is a good player.

They fight over whether or not Russell Martin is a good manager.

It’s so embarrassing what we have been reduced to.

This is not the Rangers that we are used to, even five years ago.

It is embarrassing.

And if Josh Windass comes anywhere near Rangers, it will just sum up the malaise that we are currently in.

And what’s even more depressing is the give him a chance people.

Give everybody a chance.

And that’s why we’re in this state.

Because long-suffering fans keep on giving any old crap a chance.

Even Josh Windass, we imagine.