They were kept waiting to give Aaron Ramsey a warm welcome amid the snow flurries.
But it was the return to form of two far more familiar attacking threats which might just have given Rangers fans reason to hope that this season is not hitting the skids right before their eyes after all.
Put it this way, if Ryan Kent and Alfredo Morelos intend going on about their business in the manner they set about Hearts at Ibrox then Giovanni van Bronckhorst might yet recover from the mauling his reputation received at Celtic Park last week.