It can always be dangerous to look too much into pre-season games. And when it’s only half a game? Even more dangerous. But that is all the Rangers fans have to go on after their first friendly match of the summer ended in farcical circumstances as it was abandoned at half-time due to a floodlight failure at the Estadio Municipal de Albufeira.
New players are often written off on the basis of a poor performance in pre-season as snap judgements are made on that big money signing - only to then flourish when the real action begins. It can be very harsh at times but it has always been the way.
The Rangers players will have plenty of other opportunities to impress the boss but, aside from the training sessions in their warm weather training camp in the Algarve, Giovanni van Bronckhorst only has 45 minutes to go on against Sunderland and that will be the case until their trip to the seaside to face Blackpool on July 16 followed by home friendlies against West Ham United and Tottenham Hotspur.
