EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - MAY 04: Rangers head coach Danny Rohl (L) and Sky Sports pundit Kris Boyd before a William Hill Premiership match between Heart of Midlothian and Rangers at Tynecastle Park, on May 04, 2026, in Edinburgh, Scotland. (Photo by Craig Williamson/SNS Group via Getty Images)
Danny Rohl has accused is players of being lazy during the 2-1 defeat from Hearts.
At a club that changes manager every 10 months Rohl is on dangerous ground with that claim. Or maybe just working his ticket.
After a bang average first half Rohl’s side led Hearts 1-0 at the break through a deflected Dujon Sterling shot opened the scoring.
The next day the former Chelsea starlet was picking up a 12 month driving ban.
Hearts upped their game slightly after the break, scored twice and held out comfortably for all three points.
That leaves Rohl’s side seven points adrift with three matches left to play.
Back-to-back defeats from Motherwell and Hearts has sent Ibrox fans into the pits of despair.
The managers and players change but the loser mentality seems to be in the DNA of the club formed by Charles Green in the summer of 2012.
DANNY ROHL- MANAGERIAL MEDIOCRITY
Rohl is hardly an inspiring figure.
At the age of 37 he has virtually nothing on his managerial CV.
Ibrox fans and their media messengers demand success, trophies.
When that isn’t forthcoming they want reasons or sackings.
Rohl’s reason will be thrown back at him when the inevitable happens.
Lazy bears have no place at Ibrox.
How frustrating is that for you to watch?
At first, I asked myself after the game what was wrong, what we could change. And then you look back at the game back and then you find some answers. And sometimes they are very simple answers. It’s not about the shape or this or this.
You find then some patterns that we should not do. You see some individual decision-making where you think normally the players don’t do it. You see that in some moments we are too lazy to recover, we are overplayed, and we are working instead of defending now, we need a clean sheet.
And these are the things that we have to improve and this is what I demand. I was clear yesterday with the group. We showed direction on the training pitch, but it’s all about Sunday to bring it down on the pitch again.
Rohl is well into the cycle that chewed up and spat out Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Micky Beale and Phil Clement.
Russell Martin lasted eight matches in the SPFL before being chased out of Falkirk.
Having given the Ibrox support hope Rohl now has to deal with the repercussions of that.
From being title favourites it is now being highlighted that Rohl has won just six out of 14 matches against teams in the top six of the SPFL.
If Rohl makes it three defeats on the bounce on Sunday it is unlikely that he’ll be in charge of the Tribute Act next season.
Offt ! – Calling them lazy behind closed doors is one thing…
Doing it in public is although another for sure…
He’s probably trying a ‘prove me wrong’ type reaction…
It might work, but equally it could just as easily blow up in his face as well…
Hopefully it does blow up in his coupon tomorrow !