Kris Boyd is being reluctantly dragged towards accepting that Giovanni van Bronckhorst is heading in the same direction as Liz Truss and Steven Gerrard.
The writing had been on the wall for those two for a couple of weeks, on Thursday the inevitable happened with the former Prime Minister relieved of her duties a few hours ahead of the Aston Villa board doing the right thing.
Reaching the final of the Europa League last season earned van Bronckhorst massive credit, enough to overlook throwing away a six point lead in the SPFL to Celtic.
Reaching the group stage of the Champions League should have strengthened the position of the current Ibrox boss but it has only served to highlight the limitations of the Ibrox squad and management team. Even Boyd and the media cheerleaders can’t spin goal difference of 1-16.
4-0, 4-0 and 3-0 are hard to argue around, pitch in a 7-1 defeat and punters screaming about turgid, predictable football and the pressure builds on the current Ibrox board.
Responding to the Liverpool defeat with laboured wins over Motherwell and Dundee kept some of the criticism at bay.
Today’s 1-1 draw at home to Livingston allowed Celtic to stretch the gap at the top to four points but it is a run of matches against Napoli, Aberdeen and Ajax that could force the Ibrox board into following the example set by Aston Villa.
Kris Boyd fears Rangers end game for Gio as club hero pinpoints key reason for Ibrox fan backlashhttps://t.co/eTnyoG1mcQ pic.twitter.com/vqtieMN3zh
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I think the performances haven’t been great but he’s managed to win games of football. Livingston at home, it’s an opportunity to get a few goals and the confidence back ahead of an away trip to Naples.
But it was another lacklustre performance from Rangers. Flat, lack of creativity again, and I think that’s been the main reason why the fans have been acting the way they have been.
Livingston were organised and when Rangers got into the final third, the balls were poor. You expect Rangers to be a class above the rest in the Scottish Premiership but it’s not been the case.
Everything seems to be a struggle in this moment in time and it’s like everything else, if you don’t win games of football then there’s added pressure on the manager. I’m sure that will be no different at Ibrox. It was a real flat performance at Ibrox, and that’s why the pressure will start building on Giovanni van Bronckhorst.
Rangers hero Kris Boyd slams ‘lacklustre’ Livingston display as he questions Gio van Bronckhorst’s Ibrox futurehttps://t.co/GRAvwcJdPf
— Scottish Sun Sport (@scotsunsport) October 22, 2022
