Much has been made in the last 24 hours of the ‘Bealeball’ bounce on the Ibrox dressing room. New managers making an instant impact is no new thing.
But Rangers are needing something far greater than a quick jab at this stage of a troublesome season and nobody will know that better than the new man in charge. No matter how invigorating Michael Beale 's sessions at Auchenhowie may be or how refreshing his game plan is there remains a bigger issue in that dressing room.
It’s the question of whether the very people tasked with carrying out those tactics - already dubbed Bealeball by an excited corner of the Light Blues support - still have it in them. Ardent fans have accused some players of taking the Michael this season. Harsh perhaps. But it ultimately cost Beale’s predecessor his job. The new man needs to work out pretty quickly who he can trust in his squad. And who he wants to keep alongside him for the journey.
