Jack Butland challenges Ibrox cohort to meet Rangers demands and heed 'reminders of the success'

Jack Butland has challenged his Rangers teammates to meet the standards set at the club quickly as they slip further adrift of the league leaders.

Rangers drew at Ibrox with Dundee United, allowing Celtic to open up an eleven-point gap at the summit of the Scottish Premiership, three clear of Aberdeen in second. Many Gers fans have been disheartened of late not only by the side’s results but the lacklustre and flat nature of their performances.

Keeper Butland has been one of few in Light Blue who fans are able to get behind, and he has now called out his fellow Ibrox teammates to understand the “demands” that come with playing for the club. Butland is adamant that his fellow squad members also need to take note of the “reminders of success” throughout the club.

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He said: “I hope so. I hope so. It’s something that we try and reinforce all the time. If the building and the training ground aren’t reminders of the success, then I don’t know what can be.

“It’s not like any other club. It’s a special place, and it demands it all the time, day in, day out, from us all. That’s what it needs to be. I think for most, it’s been there the whole time.

“Others, if they haven’t learned it, they need to learn it quick. That’s on guys like me, and everybody, to step up and do better because that’s what the shirt deserves.”

Frustrated Gers fans booed their side off at the interval but they levelled in the 66th minute through a well-worked goal from winger Vaclav Cerny, after Sam Dalby put Jim Goodwin's side ahead.

Butland was also quizzed on if he still believed Rangers were in a title race and he replied: “People might not think that. You won’t catch us not thinking that.

“The reality, we know what it looks like. We know we need to perform better if we want to be in a title race. By no means are we out of it, but we’ve given ourselves way too much to do at this point.

“We need to start closing that gap and performances like that aren’t going to help us.”