Rangers fans were in decent spirits after the recent home win against Aberdeen, not least because we finally won a game we looked like dropping points in.

But if the Rangers board have had a habit of annoying the fans with misleading or overly-optimistic statements lately our new manager is swiftly replacing them in terms his ability to induce incredulity among the Ibrox faithful.

Not satisfied with trying find any excuse to drop goal machine centre forward Kris Boyd, PLG has, for the first time, genuinely infuriated the fans with his decision to drop outstanding young Scottish keeper Alan McGregor in favour of 30 plus blunder merchant and PLG signing Lionel Letizi.

It an inexplicably daft decision for so many reasons, the most compelling being that McGregor has shown himself to be the superior goalkeeper at home and in vital European matches. McGregor is also a better and more commanding communicator on the pitch.

McGregor is also running out of contract and will probably be away at the end of the season for nothing as a result of this action. A top prospect away to another club for buck shee. Sickening.

This leaves Rangers with two goalkeepers, the 33 year old Letizi and Stefan Klos, who?s 36 and off in the summer anyway.

It could also mean that we have to spend vital transfer funds on a keeper, when we?ve already got a perfectly good one already at the club.

This decision also sends out an awful message to young players and those on the fringes of the first team. Try as you might, the gaffer has his favourites so if you?re not one of them, why bother?

You?d think a man who?d won the player of the month award just last week would manage to keep his place in pretty much any team, especially one struggling for consistent form.

It appears though that our manager would rather chop and change, giving the impression that he is no closer to knowing his best 11 than he was when he arrived.

Rangers as an institution have made a habit of smugly flying in the face of the fans wishes in the last few years, fobbing us off and attempting appeasement with patronising platitudes and broken promises.

Par for the course at any club I suppose, but we?ll only tolerate this kind of treatment when we?re winning, which we ain?t.

Mr Le Guen was the fans? first choice and he?ll be given time by the majority of Rangers fans, but if he needs a reminder that a club are nothing without their fans he will get one tomorrow at home to Inverness when he hears 50,000 Teddy Bears chanting Alan McGregor?s name.

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