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Brown: Smith and Davies the Ibrox 'dream team'

WALTER Smith and Billy Davies would be the "dream team" at Rangers, according to former Scotland manager Craig Brown. Speaking in Glasgow at the screening of BBC Alba's new documentary, Tartan Pride, as a stormy Rangers AGM was taking place a few miles away at Ibrox, he said "I would bring back Walter Smith (right). "I would go and plead with Walter and say to him, 'Walter you have had ups and downs here but you are the man for Rangers.' "I would knock Walter's door down until he said he would do it for three years although Walter wouldn't do it unless he was happy with what was happening (at the club).

"I think Billy would countenance being number two to Walter. That would be a dream team for Rangers in my opinion. Billy Davies is outstanding as a football manager. "England has been a hard shift for a lot of managers from Scotland, they have found it difficult but Billy has been successful at Preston, Derby and Nottingham Forest. "Billy is excellent on the training ground, in team meetings, in the dressing (room) and his knowledge of the game - I have the highest regards for him as a football exponent."