A preseason of signing young, professionally ambitious players coupled with the media running with tales of a large spending fund for the new Manager did to some degree build up the hope, expand it and turn it into hype.
Hype is understandable, especially within football in the West of Scotland and in some ways can be a good thing, reading too much into it will ultimately prove foolish though and it would seem that some fellow supporters have got themselves into bit of a state by overdosing in it and expecting perhaps a bit too much too soon.
There is no doubt that 99% of the time I would expect Rangers to beat the likes of Dundee Utd, Dunfermline and Kilmarnock and failing to do so has been slightly jarring to say the least, but lets not all start panicking, let's take a deep breath and actually look at what is happening at the club at the moment, both on the park and off it.
Firstly off the park, well its minus three years and counting to the exit of Mr Murray (but since he was the man with the three year plan, this is probably also subject to change) and no surprises that suddenly financial responsibility seems to be fashionable.
So forget talk of the JJB money being given to the manager, much better to pawn off the lucrative retail chain to make the books look good in the interim to entice those wanting to invest in a football club. As to what happens when the JJB deal finishes, well lets not ask too many questions, we'll probably be too busy with our gambling problems at the ibrox casino anyway to be buying Rangers merchandise…
Also a mention to the fine work that Mr Bain is doing, surely the most qualified man in the football world at writing payoff checks to unwanted overpaid ‘players' living out the days of their badly thought out contracts handed to them by, wait a minute, yes Mr Bain.
The financial reality have obviously impacted tremendously on Le Guen's plans and as to what he could've done with the money that even McLeish got, while purely speculative, surely gives him some leeway straight off.
Le Guen, a newcomer himself to football in this country, coupled with footballers foreign in every sense as to how we do things in these parts, is it any wonder that not everything is going as smoothly as some forecasted it was going too?
This piece isn't intended as a ‘we have no rights to question' pass for Le Guen and his signings, and I'll be truthful in saying I've been slightly embarrassed on behalf of fellow bears on the internet and at Ibrox as to their fawning over the new manager. I'll also hold my hands up to be already very cautious about several of the players he's brought in.
All in though this season has hardly started, we've got a new manager, several new players so let's give it a bit of time before we throw the rattle out the pram. In any other line of employment a new employee gets a probationary period whereby both parties get to learn how things work and see how they fit with each other, let's just try and make this probationary period as smooth as possible from our end eh?
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