It only took a single goal victory over Hearts to restore the noise level at Ibrox.
While the fans sat in miserable silence, only broken to boo Kyle Lafferty and Steven Naismith, Jak Alnwick is planning on becoming a party pooper.
The former Port Vale shot stopper was called in to replace Wesley Foderingham and feels that his demoralised team-mates can get a win on Sunday at Celtic Park.
Last Sunday Alnwick watched from the bench as the cheers of the dressing room when the draw was made descended into fear as Celtic crushed the tribute act 4-0 without hitting top form.
It doesn’t take much to restore delusions at Ibrox with the back-up goalie fully subscribed.
Alnwick told the Daily Record: “Is the only thing that helps make up for what happened at Hampden a win? It is, yes. That, and finishing second.
“I don’t see why not. We’ve come close, apart from the semi-final, so if we go there and play how we did against Hearts we have got a chance. We just need to play our own game and we will see where it takes us.
“We know our aim at the start of the season wasn’t to finish second. We wanted to win a cup as well but you’ve got to look at the whole season and if we were to win on Sunday then it could lift things going into the end of the season as well as next season.”
Graeme Murty didn’t go into detail about Foderingham’s injury but did admit that he could be a doubt for the visit to Celtic Park.
Bruno Alves is again an injury doubt for a game against Celtic with the Portuguese defender managing to pick up a hamstring strain during his brief appearance as a substitute in the 4-0 Hampden hammering.