Is it maybe too random to suggest that Rangers manager Mark Warburton is losing the plot?

There are quite a few, arguably now the majority, who believe the previously popular and respected Englishman has lost the plot after what was a strange interview on RangersTV, a platform where he was hardly going to be grilled by Jeremy Paxman.

Warburton spoke of randomness being to blame for bad results, which doesn’t actually make any sense, and then trotted out statistics about kilometres covered and shots on goal, or to put it another way chances missed against Ross County, you almost wanted to reach through the screen and stop him from talking.

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“I think randomness is a big thing,” he said when looking back to Saturday and yet another poor performance. “I learned a lot from our previous owner at Brentford. He’s a mathematician and we learned a lot from him in terms of how he looks at games.

"The randomness; the ball goes to the back post Kenny (Miller) heads it Jon Toral and it could go in. Joe Garner’s header pops off the goalkeeper, it could go in. Joe in the first-half at the far post is a stud away.

“There were so many random natures that didn’t go our way. Was their goal offside? I don’t know, it was tight. Not worth complaining about now. So these are the random natures you look at and you hope over the course of a season they even themselves out But at the end of the day we dropped points at home against Ross County.”

There is much to plough through but, for me, the quote which jumped out of what was a rather rambling four-and-a-half minute chat was about maths.

The owner Warburton spoke about was Matthew Benham, a businessman who made a fortune from statistical evaluation and gambling. This is just one nugget of what he thinks about football.

“I am not just talking about whether a team wins or loses or scores or not because there is a huge amount of what we call noise in that statistic. I want to look at the number and quality of the chances they created. If I am looking at a striker I absolutely do not care about his goalscoring record. For me the only thing that is interesting is how the team do collectively, offensively and defensively within the context of an individual’s performance.”

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You can see where Warburton gets his soundbites from. It's a nonsense.

Benham actually sacked Warburton after he had somehow taken Brentford into the Championship play-offs. Why? Well, and this is apparently true, despite Brentford being fifth, the owner’s data told him suggested they had been lucky and in fact eleventh was their ‘real’ position.

And here lies the problem. Stats are not unimportant but, come on, it is not random corners are not defended, shots from inside the box don’t beat the keeper, players put in positions which don’t suit them and that the transfer policy has been awful.

It’s not at all random, it’s routine.

“The key point as far as the fans are quite rightly concerned is that we dropped two points to Ross County,” said Warburton. “I quote the stats and, as always, you get misquoted. The fact is we had 15 corners, 26 shots, 18 on target and nine times out of ten we win that game of football.

“The fact is we have to be clinical in the final third, we need to trust our technique and take our chances. There were lots of good things but there is no denying the fact we dropped two points at home.

“It’s not that we can’t be clinical. Last year we were scoring goals for fun. It’s the nature of the game, but I think the fact of the matter is we get into good areas and need to take our rewards.

“The fans, at the end of the day, come to see goals and goal change games. There is no denying the fact that for our dominance in the game, we didn’t get the just rewards, so to speak.”

It was then Warburton spoke of the fact randomness did for his team, as if it was only one bad Saturday when his strikers haven’t scored and defensive line has been breached. The supporters are not blind. They know Ross County should have been at least 2-0 up at half-time. It happens almost every week.

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“They want to see their team win,” said Warburton when asked about the booing at the end. “What I don’t think they can do is accuse the team of lacking effort and desire. Look at the stats again and will tell you that our midfield three, for example, ran 12k each. These are high numbers in central midfield.

“The whole work ethic is there, with the full-backs the work ethic is there, they ran 11.4K, so the numbers are there. There was no lack of desire. The fans come and pay their money to see Rangers win. Rangers is a club used to winning.”

There is pressure on him and he knows it, although Warburton insisted it came from outside the club.

“Listen, you can read the papers, you can read the media,” he said “I flew home on Saturday after the game. Had some great chats with some of the Rangers fan who were tremendous, they had great assessment, they could see the bigger picture.

“You are always under pressure as the Rangers manager, as a Rangers player. If you draw a game of football it’s a disaster. If you lose it is a disaster. We have to recognise that. It comes with the territory, being at a club of this stature.

“But as I say, the thing that bothers me is we don’t appreciate the demands of the club, we don’t appreciate the backing we receive. We full appreciate the demands every association with Rangers.

“What we have to do is win games of football.”

At last he made a bit of sense.