Rangers have got to be honest with ourselves about one thing: most players don’t arrive at Ibrox and instantly look like the finished article. It takes time. Fitness, match sharpness, settling into a new city, and then the big one for a footballer, getting their head round the manager’s demands.
Even if a player has the right attitude and quality, there’s still that awkward early spell where everything looks half a yard off. Touch is a bit loose, timing in the press isn’t right, runs don’t get seen, and the crowd starts to get restless. That’s normal. It’s not always a sign someone “can’t handle it” or is a bad signing.
Ten-game judgement doesn’t work both ways
I’ve heard plenty folk say it can take well over ten games for a player to show their best, and that feels about right in football terms. The problem is we often don’t apply that patience consistently. We’ll write a boy off after a handful of appearances, then months later wonder why we’re still short in the same areas.
To be fair, Rangers is a hard club. The pressure is constant. Most weeks you’re expected to take the game to the opposition, break down a set block, and handle transitions without being naive. That’s not an easy environment for anyone who’s just arrived and is still learning names in the dressing room.
Constant turnover makes the job harder
Bringing in two or three new faces is manageable. You can bed them in, let them learn the patterns, build connections, and you’re not asking the whole team to re-learn how to play. But when it feels like we need to recruit a big chunk of the squad every year, it becomes chaos. New combinations, new relationships, new mistakes.
And it’s not just players. Rangers too often ends up in that cycle where the manager goes, then the whole plan goes with them. We throw the baby out with the bathwater and start again. It’s no wonder the team can look disjointed, because it basically is.
Sticking with Danny Rohl might be the change
The idea here isn’t to lower standards. It’s the opposite. If what we’ve been doing hasn’t worked, is it not worth trying something different for once? Stick with Danny Rohl regardless of how the season ends, keep the better players, and add smartly in January and next summer.
We’re always quoting the “definition of madness” line, then demanding the same reset the minute we don’t win the league. Maybe the grown-up move is accepting a rebuild needs continuity to actually become anything.
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