Hold My Hands Up on Danny Rohl

It’s a cracking time to be a Rangers fan when you can feel momentum building. I doubted Danny Rohl, and I’ll happily admit it. He’s making plenty of us eat our words.

I’ll be the first to say it: I got Danny Rohl wrong. I looked at the appointment and thought it could go the other way, that it might be a struggle, that we’d be back in the same old loop of promising starts and sticky spells. Instead, he’s fairly putting me in my place. And to be honest, I’m enjoying it.

Because when the manager is proving people wrong at Rangers, it usually means the club is moving in the right direction. You can feel it. Not in a daft, over-the-top way, but in that quiet sense that there’s a plan taking shape and folk are starting to buy into it.

It’s alright to admit you doubted him

There’s this thing in football where some supporters will never shift their stance. They dig in, double down, and act like changing your mind is a weakness. But it’s not. If you’ve questioned something and it turns out you were wrong, the healthiest thing you can do is just say it and move on.

That’s where I’m at with Rohl. I doubted him. I thought the job might swallow him up. Rangers is not a gentle environment. It’s constant noise, constant judgement, constant pressure for trophies. If you can handle that and still keep your head, you’ve got something about you.

It’s not just what happens on the pitch

Fans always talk about what we see on a Saturday, and fair enough, that’s the whole point. But management is bigger than 90 minutes. It’s how you set standards day-to-day, how you carry yourself when things wobble, how you communicate without getting dragged into every storm that blows through Glasgow.

So when someone says a manager’s impact is obvious on and off the pitch, I get it. There’s a difference between a guy who’s just picking a team and a guy who’s actually building something. A bit of identity. A bit of belief. A squad that knows what it’s meant to be doing.

Now comes the part that matters

Optimism is brilliant, but Rangers optimism comes with a condition: back it up. Keep improving. Keep raising the level. Keep finding ways to win when it isn’t pretty, because the league isn’t won on your best days alone.

That’s why I’m at the simple conclusion. I’m delighted to be wrong, delighted to be watching a manager make a proper go of it, and delighted there feels like there’s something to chase. So aye, Danny, I’ll say it plainly: sorry for doubting you. Now go and win the league.

Written by Sunshine supporter FC: 21 January 2026