Clearly shocked in seeing his side cough coughs on cough and eventually opened wide by a Motherwell team that smells blood during a chaotic second half, Ranger's head coach Russell Martin did not go hard enough in his saving of the egos, fragile mentality and hide and seek champions with a point.
This is a team that needs almost all old guard. A team that specializes in bottling and being missing in domestic games.
Martin sees that now. Know it now. And his sports director Kevin Thelwell needs to speed up the outputs and perhaps to make plans for a few more recruits after this absolute mess.
Forget all the things about changing styles and needing patience. Martin's side, earned more several amounts of money than their Motherwell opposite, just fell apart against a lively, adventurous opponent and went completely in their shells. They went out when it became difficult.
Martin called them afterwards, to be honest. He is a team that is still full of the losers who have seen the boss after the boss of the building. And maybe he may also see him unless he sticks to his harsh words after the game and she starts leaving behind forever.
With the establishment of opportunities that became a serious problem after a decent start, Rangers just did not succeed in showing for the start of the second half and from that moment he played the second violin to the last whistle – seeing an early lead of captain James Tavernier canceled by Emmanuel Longelo time.
It was more than pathetic. These are games that Rangers have to win if they want to justify Martin's confidence on Friday in having a starting XI that is ready to compete for the title. They didn't do that. They got the painful face that they deserved and Martin ended up with egg on his.
Indeed, if goalkeeper Jack Butland made a crucial rescue of Home Sub Tom Sparrow in the fourth minute, this would have been a defeat of the opening day. It should have been.
Their backline was so often jumped on the countertop that it started to feel like Groundhog Day. Needless to say, it is exactly how the last-gasp opportunity occurred. Simple things. Too much for Rangers to handle.
LONGELGO took the ball to the left, played a forward pass and Sparrow ran behind a static rear guard to spend one-on-one.
What a chance it was, but Fair Play to Butland because he is long and saved, as he did a number of times during the three competitive matches of Rangers so far. It is impossible for the Ibrox side. Martin's side is just so open, so porous, so skilled in playing his way to the effort.
Their season will quickly unravel spectacularly if they find no way to tension, while they continue to strive for the style and strategy that their new leader requires. However, they must also appear.
Seven of the starting XI are remains from the old regime. The bank contained even more. As witnesses of many occasions in the past term, an non -opportunity and an inability to defend cannot be expensive and will be expensive.
It is not an excuse for the performance that is delivered against a Motherwell side that does not deserve the credit for passing football and the dedication to attack under the new coach Jens Berthel Askou, but Wingers Oliver Antman and Mikey Moore, who looked from the stand, should make a difference for the forward line.
Kieran Dowell is certainly not the answer. Danilo is not either. He showed little at the park during his hour. Cyriel Dessers appeared too late, but Rangers have to sell him or Hamza Igamane and spend the money on a good center-forward that they can trust.
A new left back is needed to enable Max Aarons to go to his right position and replace James Tavernier. It's just going on. There are salable assets in this team in Mohamed Diomande and Nico Raskin and they should not be safe either.
Thelo Baasgaard will soon come back from an injury to take the left -sided role of a midfield three and, at the moment, it is not certain where Raskin, picked up yesterday, will fit in Martin's first choice XI.
What made the day all the more disappointing for Martin is that it started pretty well.
A clear start saw a tavernier free kick wide by goalkeeper Calum Ward and a beautiful passing movement end with Djidi Gassama, in for his first start, which sent a low effort wide.
Danilo then hit the bar with a smart chip before Rangers took the lead. Paul McGinn gave a corner, Rothwell sent a great delivery of the left and Tavernier rose unark to feed a downward header in the net. Ward got a hand in the ball, but could not prevent him from exceeding the line.
However, the most important criticism of the home team was the failure to tackle the Tavernier run and the failure to take on him a challenge.
That should have been the ideal platform to build, but Martin's men came dangerously close to admitting an equalizer halfway through the first half.
A ball Binnenveld from Johnny Koutroumbis was poorly treated by Tavernier in a central position and gave Elliot Watt the chance to play LONGELGO on goal with a first pass.
His oblique effort was poorly beaten, but visiting keeper Jack Butland immediately spilled the effort to Apostolos Stamatelopolous. The Aussie had more time than he might thought and shot his efforts directly to Butland. It was a happy escape.
In that phase, the game had become completely more competitive with the early dominance of Rangers. When the second half started, the visitors just fell completely from a cliff.
At 51 minutes, Callum Slattery Elia chose just unark on the back post. All he had to do was lead the ball home from Close-Range. Instead, it bounced from his note and went wide.
Moments later, Slattery created destruction again. A Sliderulebal from midfield caught that High Ranger's defensive line square and stamatelopolous ran through the center to find itself with a clear view of the goal.
The long legs of Nasser Djiga, however, quickly returned to make a saving challenge.
Golf after wave of attacks from the home team flowed in and it took a nice rescue with one hand from Butland to stop a low curling effort from McGinn that found the far corner. Souttar Hacked the loose ball clearly with a number of desperate defense, while Stamatelopolous prepared to dismiss it home.
Motherwell desperately came close again with 20 minutes to play. Stamatelopolous Beat Souttar fired in the air in a curly cross, just over the bar went off from just a matter of meter.
It was not a shock when the level arrived, please note. It was a long time ago. It's just a miracle that Rangers did not let the roof fall completely in the.
They were terrible. Martin was right to mess. But this turning around becomes a monumental task.