IN an ideal world, Rangers would get their permanent management team in place sooner rather than later.

If they are going to go with a Director of Football and a Head Coach, then you would like them appointed quickly to give them as much time as possible to prepare for next season, as well as focus on the job in hand this term.

But not everything is ideal and it is a tricky situation for the board right now. They have a lot to consider and they know they have to get this decision right.

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The man they want to be manager may not be available right now so they are right to give themselves a bit of breathing space to sit down and think about what they do next.

I don’t think they will leave Graeme Murty in charge until the end of the season. Doing that is maybe a bit unfair on him.

It would put a lot of pressure on someone that it shouldn’t be on. The only task he should have right now is preparing our young players for a shot at the first team, not trying to get the club back into Europe.

I don’t have a problem with someone coming in until the end of the campaign but there is an issue come May when we need to start looking ahead to next season.

If we get to the Scottish Cup final, we would only have a couple of weeks before we will be playing Europa League qualifiers.

When you consider everything that a manager will want to do in terms of preparation and bringing players in, only having that short window is far from ideal.

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So if the board can get their preferred structure in place sooner rather than later, that would undoubtedly be a benefit.

The manager then has time to work with the squad, assess players and look at who he wants to keep, who he wants to let go and who he wants to bring in.

You want to start that work as quickly as possible but if Rangers can’t get the right man then they have to hold off. The board can’t afford to jump in if they are not sure.

This is a massive decision that they are making and they have got to get it right. In the meantime, Graeme will continue to take the team.

I thought he handled the game against Morton very well. I watched him from the stand and he was out there directing the team and getting his message across.

The good thing for me was that he changed the way that the team played and that is something that hasn’t happened often enough for the last 18 months.

There were times when we had four men up the park, with Kenny Miller and Martyn Waghorn through the middle and the wide men pushed right up.

Graeme has taken to it well but it is still a big ask for him to be kept in place until the end of the season. He has been thrown into this situation and he will do his best.

All of a sudden he is in charge of the first team at a time where there is a lot of pressure to get results.

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Rangers could be six points behind before they play Dundee on Sunday so there is a big burden there on someone who is only a stand-in manager.

I think the players will react to Graeme and the supporters will be happy with how he went about his business against Morton.

Going to Dens Park, this is not down to Graeme Murty. It is down to the players.

I have said before in this column that the squad have to stand up and be counted. The jersey is too heavy for a lot of them, but they will find it heavier now because Aberdeen are favourites to finish second and the pressure is really on Rangers.

Mark Warburton is gone and the players have to accept that. Whether they liked him or not, it doesn’t matter. The man they have got to impress now is Graeme Murty.

This is a second chance for a lot of players. There will be a few that are disappointed with how the season has gone so far but now they have a new man in charge.

The aim this season is to finish second and Dundee on Sunday is a massive game for Rangers. They may be near the bottom of the table, but this will be a really tough fixture.

It is up to the players to get fired up for it and to show that they have what it takes to finish second in the Premiership.

The fans have been bitterly disappointed this season so Rangers need to get the win on Sunday. It is not about playing well now, it is about getting results.

Aberdeen put a marker down with the 7-2 win over Motherwell on Wednesday night so Rangers have to respond. We will see if they have it in them to go to Dundee and win the game after what has happened in the last week.

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It would have been a shock for the squad on Friday to find out that they had lost their manager and assistant manager. But what goes on behind the scenes is nothing to do with them.

Their job is to get results for Rangers, to ensure we finish as high as possible in the league and to go as far as we can in the Scottish Cup to get the club back into Europe.

There are no excuses, they can’t say ‘oh, our manager is gone’. That is rubbish.

You have to get on with it, they are well paid professionals and they have a job to do for Rangers Football Club between now and the end of the season no matter who is in the dugout.