Simon Barker is the guest on this week’s post mortem-themed podcast, assessing where the season has gone wrong for the R’s and comparing it to the relegation he was involved in back in 1996.
Barker says the money invested by Tony Fernandes and the board should have prevented Rangers’ season of strife and says players must look at their own performances and ask if they did all they could.
Comparing it with his own time at Loftus Road he said: “Going back to 1995/96 we lost Les, he scored 23 goals that season before he went to Newcastle and Ray replaced him with Mark Hateley. We started the season with Danny Dichio and Kevin Gallen – Kevin got the same amount of goals he got the season before and I think Danny got 12. So we replaced the 23 goals with 12. Hateley came in at the wrong time with his ankle injury – he was a good lad, I know the fans didn’t take to Mark, we all liked him and respected him but he never hit the heights he did at Rangers. But we were never talking about a lot of money with Mark. Here in this situation there is so much money been invested this should not have happened.”
Host David Fraser is joined by regular panellist Paul Finney as well as guests Sandy Lerman and journalist Danny Lee.
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