The way I see it, a lot of the noise around Rangers right now forgets one simple thing: we’re winning games. Not always in a way you’d frame on the wall, but the recent run has been far better than what we were watching under Martin, when players looked short of confidence and the results followed suit.
Results first, style later
The last spell has brought plenty of wins, clean sheets, and that basic feeling that we’re harder to play against. That matters in this league. You don’t get bonus points for pretty triangles in the middle of the park if you’re dropping daft goals at the other end.
And that’s the thing: even in the games where it’s felt a bit flat, we’ve still found a way. There’s a calmness to the defending that wasn’t there before, and you can see a team that at least knows its jobs without the ball.
Motherwell: ugly on the eye, decent underneath
The Motherwell match is a good example. It didn’t exactly fly off the page, but we had far more efforts than they did, and worked their keeper more often too. Outside their goal, he actually had saves to make, which tells you we weren’t just passing it about for the sake of it.
On another day, with a bit more composure in the box, that’s the type of game you score three or four in and nobody’s talking about “uninspired”. That’s football sometimes. It’s why I’m not panicking when the performance isn’t sparkling, because the chances are still appearing.
The Hearts blip doesn’t need to define everything
Hearts was disappointing, no getting away from it. But it looks like one proper blip rather than a pattern. Other teams slip up as well. Hearts themselves went and lost to Hibs, and nobody’s writing their whole season off because of one bad result. In this league, sides raise their game, especially in the big fixtures, and you can get caught if you’re not right at it.
The bigger point is we’ve started to claw back ground since Danny Röhl came in. Not huge, dramatic swings, but small gains. That’s what you build on.
January matters, but it’s not a reset button
I keep coming back to this: a few key additions in January could lift what’s already here and give Röhl the tools to gradually shape the team into what he really wants. Not a complete overhaul, just the right bits in the right areas to add a bit of spark and authority.
And on the loan defender debate, I get it. If a player’s not good enough, having them on loan is actually a cleaner outcome than being stuck with a long deal you can’t shift. The squad needs smart decisions, not expensive baggage.
Truth is, the players will keep learning the demands and the pressure that comes with Rangers. If we’re still collecting wins while that bedding-in happens, I’ll take it. It’s not pretty, but it’s points.
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