Kenny Black delighted to catch his breath after whirlwind start to life at Rangers

Black's feet have hardly touched the ground since he was appointed assistant to Stuart McCall at Ibrox.

But he has relished the chance to work with the first-team squad for a whole week ahead of tomorrow's Championship clash with Cowdenbeath.

Black said: "It was a little concern for us just how quickly the games came about once we joined.

"Once we were given the green light we wanted to get in as quickly as possible.

"The Livingston game came around very quickly and the Alloa game followed very soon after that.

"It was two games in a division that we didn't really have much awareness of because the last time we worked here it was in the top division at Motherwell.

"We had to hit the ground running and the Livingston and Alloa games didn't go the way that everyone would have liked, but against Hibernian they certainly did and it was much more like it.

"Every club gets a wee lift whenever there is a new management team, because there is a new voice and something different to what they had become used to."

Despite only having two days to work with the squad before their first game, Black did have some prior knowledge of some of the Light Blues squad after working with McCall at Motherwell and Craig Levein at Scotland.

He told the club's official website: "Rangers had a lot of players who I have never worked with when I arrived, but there were one or two that I have - when I was involved with Craig Levein at Scotland.

"I had worked with guys like Kenny Miller, Lee McCulloch, Lee Wallace and Ian Black to an extent too.

"We'd worked with Nicky Law at Motherwell and obviously knew all about him.

"We'd seen these players from afar, but we know that they are good players and confidence will have been a big factor for them.

"There has been potential here, however I think the players had gotten themselves into a little bit of a rut, giving away a lot of cheap goals which was giving teams encouragement."