Every Rangers fan knows you don’t dish out praise lightly, especially when you’ve watched a team chuck goals and points about like confetti. But this is one of those moments where it feels fair to say it plainly: thank you, Danny Rohl.
In a short space of time, he’s taken us from that horrible stretch where it felt like there was a new crisis every week, to a place where you can actually see a team building something. Not in a dreamy, “everything’s fixed” way. More in the real sense: we’re competitive again, we look like we belong in the fight, and the noise around the club has shifted from dread to belief.
From chaos to control
The big thing for me is stabilising the club. That’s the word. It’s not always glamorous, and it’s not as simple as telling players to “want it more”, but you can feel the difference when a squad stops panicking and starts trusting what they’re doing.
A few weeks back, plenty of us looked at the fixtures and thought, if we can just string a run together, we might drag ourselves back into the race. I was hopeful too. But even then, I didn’t expect us to come through some of those games in the way we did.
Belief is back at Ibrox
Getting a result away to Celtic is the kind of thing that can change a season’s mood on its own. Backing that up through matches like Hibs, St Mirren, Motherwell, and then Aberdeen, is where it starts to feel like more than a flash in the pan. That’s not luck. That’s a team learning how to win again, even when it’s not flowing.
The Hearts game is the obvious sore one in the middle of it, but even there you can argue it was the sort of day where we could’ve nicked something if a moment goes our way. That’s not an excuse, it’s just the truth of football.
Still work to do, but credit where it’s due
None of this means the job’s finished. Far from it. There are still gaps in the squad, still areas that need sharpened, and still nights where we’ll have to grind it out rather than play pretty stuff.
But whatever happens from here, Danny Rohl deserves real credit for taking over a mess and making us look like Rangers again. A couple of good signings in the right areas and then, to be fair, who knows where this can go?
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