They were guilty of sleeping at the wheel for a fortnight. Maybe even longer. But - all of a sudden - the Rangers board sat up with a bolt and decided to kick manager Giovanni van Bronckhorst to the curb before this car crash of a season got any more gory. Better late than never they’ll say.
But the truth of the matter is their dithering and prevaricating has left them behind the eight ball at a moment of crisis, when there is no more time for them to lose. Even if they rush a new man into position at breakneck speed by comparison, there is now only three weeks for him to get to work on a squad of chronic under-performers before they have to go back to work against Hibs on December 15.
In other words, the odds are stacking up against him with each passing day all because the men in charge have abandoned any semblance of leadership. They ought to have acted swiftly and decisively back at the start of this month when Van Bronckhorst looked on helplessly from the sidelines in Perth as his team slumped to a spiritless defeat against St Johnstone. It became blindingly obvious to almost everyone else on that afternoon the Dutchman had run completely out of answers.
