DJ: Dave King must mastermind Rangers recovery from his desk at Ibrox...not from the end of a phone in Johannesburg

I actually felt that the position would have been filled by this stage in affairs.

The board has to tell Stuart McCall that he is being kept on permanently or bring in someone else because the players are going to be back training in three weeks' time or so.

It is common knowledge that the squad has to be seriously strengthened and you have got to give your manager, whoever it may happen to be, every chance to get to work on that particular task.

Supporters will be weighing up whether they plan to take out a season ticket for next term.

Bitterly disappointed after seeing their team fail to win promotion on Sunday, they need the Rangers board to come out, name the manager, detail the budget he is being given to bring players in and spell out their plans for the immediate future.

King has to come back into Glasgow to do that. We don't want the chairman on the end of a phone in Johannesburg. The board have got to sit down, as a whole, and let the Rangers fans know what the way forward is.

King has been the man doing most of the talking so far and it is better to hear what is coming next from the horse's mouth.

There is no question that Paul Murray is capable of standing up and delivering the message, but people want King to be hands-on and he has to be seen to be present at this important time.

The names of Mark Warburton and David Weir have been coming up for a while as a potential managerial team. Warburton did really well at Brentford and he is an interesting character, having left non-league football to go and work as a trader in the City before finding his way back into the sport through coaching.

Would he be good enough to see Rangers get back on the right track, though?

There is not a lot of pressure on you at Brentford, but that certainly would not be the case should he come up here.

You are going to have to start pretty much from scratch at Rangers next season and make sure of winning promotion with a rebuilt team. The pressure will be incredible.

I will give anyone a chance if they get the job, though. I don't think you can say Warburton shouldn't get it because he is not a big enough name. Who had heard of Ronny Deila before he came to Celtic?

He got slaughtered in the first few months as well, but he has come good for Celtic and has his own ideas. Celtic are starting to look like a team again.

Derek McInnes's name has been mentioned, too. He took Aberdeen to second in the league and I really don't know if he would want to take the Rangers job.

Of course, he cannot take Aberdeen much further. They are not going to win the SPFL Premiership, after all.

He is starting to get things right at Pittodrie, though, and this is the first time that club has been in this kind of position for many, many years.

They came second in a canter and I just don't know if he would want to leave everything he has built up there to start again at Rangers.

You would like to think he will give Aberdeen at least another year anyway.

Truth be told, I would be happy to see McCall get the job full-time.

I will feel sorry for him if he doesn't. He was asked to step in when the team was on its knees and asked to get on with it, unable to bring in any players of his own.

The task of getting Rangers back into the top flight was to be achieved with a collection of players who had underachieved for a couple of years.

He did so well in the Play-Off games against Queen of the South and Hibs and it was a simple fact that the players just didn't have it in them to go that extra yard against Motherwell. I don't put that down to McCall.

He did take the decision to put Kris Boyd back in the starting line-up for Sunday's defeat at Fir Park and it didn't pay off, but he should be criticised for making that choice.

There was a lack of heart within the team, as a whole.

The players have already commented on the difference he made at the club with his training methods and I think he should be given a chance.

He made Rangers better in terms of playing football and he would have the opportunity to bring in maybe a dozen players of his own this summer.

He showed at Motherwell that he has a good eye for a player and can recruit real talent without spending fortunes. He knows agents and I think he is right to talk himself up in that regard because he ticks all the boxes for Rangers as they look for a new boss.

We don't have a scouting system. You need a manager who knows people down south and knows who is going to be capable of playing for Rangers. He has been there along with his assistant, Kenny Black, and will be able to judge whether individuals are capable of handling the scrutiny that goes hand-in-hand with being a Ranger.

Whatever happens, it has to happen soon.

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