Rangers Fan View: The board must deliver a winner after Caixinha experiment failed

It felt like the end last night. The Rangers players looked like they had zero interest in playing for Caixinha. Today he was relieved of his duties. When the manager loses his players, there is only one outcome. He talked about reactions before that pitiful display last night and in truth, he got nothing.

So, it wasn’t a surprise to me when he was let go today. However, there must be questioned raised of the people who appointed him in the first place.

I must admit, I was rather miffed that we had gone and brought in someone who was managing in the the Qatari league. I had no idea who he was, in all honesty. But as you do, you give the man a chance to prove himself.

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Unfortunately, the board’s judgement has been wrong again. It hasn’t worked out. Furthermore, I think the Progres result in the Europa League qualifiers was always going to haunt him and the 5-1 defeat to Celtic didn’t win him any goodwill from the fans neither.

I do think we have the nuts and bolts of a decent side on our books. But now is the time for the board to stop faffing around and appoint the best man possible. Go big or go home as they say. The fans have backed the club in their thousands with season ticket sales. Now is the time for the board to give something back in terms of winning team on the grass. No more vanity projects.

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If we are serious about mounting any sort of title challenge in future seasons they must do what Celtic did post-Ronny Delia: get a manager who is capable of handling the job. One who has a bit of gravitas and an aura about him, one who will command respect and a guy who is capable of winning.

However, going back to Pedro. I think he was a nice man, and he understood what he wanted to get from his team. That being said, it’s not often nice men win things in life. For Pedro, I felt that too often his team looked confused as to what he was asking them to do on the park. Then we have the fallouts with Kenny Miller and the apparent others when that sort of thing happens the writing is usually on the wall.

I can’t help but think the performance against Kilmarnock and penalty situation summed up Pedro’s reign in one minute of football: unbelievable, ugly, crazy and complete mess ending in subsequent failure. To be honest, I still can’t believe that the situation itself transpired with us drawing the game, in all honesty. It’s taking me some time to process it.

Looking forward though, I think the season is still salvageable; we still can achieve something. The big decision of who takes over from Caixinha is one that lies with the director of football and, the board. They must fix this mess they created and quickly.

The players themselves owe the fans a result and a performance on Saturday too after some of the shabby displays we have witnessed this season. Hopefully this is the start of turning things around as we close the page on another ridiculous chapter in our mad recent history.

But right now, I don’t see any light at the end of the tunnel. It feels like we are sleepwalking from one mistake to another.