Derek Johnstone: Rangers boss will have stewed for a fortnight ... now Queen's Park must feel team's frustration

I'd imagine the last fortnight has dragged in for the Rangers manager as he awaits the opportunity to try and get his team back to winning ways in the Third Division.

When you suffer a disappointing result, the last thing you want is an international break. You want to get back out there as quickly as possible to put things right in the next match, but unfortunately for the Ibrox club that wasn't possible.

So McCoist, his backroom staff and more importantly the players have had almost two weeks to take stock in the aftermath of their embarrassing 1-0 defeat away to Stirling Albion.

You'd like to think it was a result they haven't managed to get out of their heads since.

It was completely unacceptable and what it did do was bring a lot of criticism to the door of the manager as is always the case in these situations.

He knows there would have been a lot of the Rangers fans making their way home from Stirling extremely frustrated at the performance they had just witnessed and the fact their team had just lost to a side at the bottom of the division.

He is also wise enough to know, on the back of their terrible away form, that some supporters might decide he is to blame for the performances and results on the road.

There are always some who will say Ally isn't the man for the job, but I believe the overwhelming majority are behind him.

Ally was a rock during the most desperate times. He refused to walk away and offered the fans hope when it looked as though there was none. I don't think anyone will ever forget what he did at the end of last season and during the summer.

However, Ally will also want to be judged on his record as manager and he'll be the first to admit there is certainly room for improvement.

No-one expects Rangers to win every game in the Third Division because there will always be days when the team just doesn't perform. But they should be winning the vast majority.

At Ibrox, they have been very convincing and even although they have lost the opening goal on a couple of occasions they have always come storming back to win by more than a few goals.

It is away from home that they have failed. I don't know what it is other than the players just haven't done well enough.

They are already a couple of months into the new season and some of them still don't seem to have got their head around the fact they are playing Third Division football.

Even if it means playing a team full of kids, Ally as to make them realise they can't decide to turn it on when they feel like it. When you play for Rangers you have a duty to turn up every week – no matter what stadium you are playing at.

It has been a difficult job for Ally in the sense he has had to bring in so many new players at once, no doubt having to take a chance on many of them because there wasn't enough time or money to sign the players he would have wanted to.

But he needs his players to start winning regularly home and away – starting against Queen's Park tomorrow – otherwise he will find supporters voicing their concerns.

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