KENNY Miller last night urged the Rangers board to take their time in appointing the right man this summer but cautioned that making wholesale changes to a club's playing staff is "rarely a recipe for success".

The 37-year-old, whose talks over a new contract have been put on hold while the club consider their options for the front office, has been encouraged by the suggestion the club are to bolster their football department by recruiting a director of football as well as a head coach.

But he sees no reason why the club should rush into replacing Graeme Murty as interim manager and knows from an experience that a summer clear-out isn't the best way to ensure progression on the field.

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"I have my thoughts [about who comes in] but you just want someone who comes in and sparks a reaction, who has a plan," said Miller, speaking as St Cadoc's Boys' Club handed over cheques from their recent charity dinner to the Beatson Cancer Centre and St Andrews' Hospice. "Whether he be Scottish, British or foreign, for me it’s just important we get the right man, whoever it is.

"But the noises I’m hearing about the structure they’re trying to put in place are positive," he added. "If a new manager comes in on a permanent basis then he can assess the squad and see where he is at, build his own opinions on where he needs to improve and then that can be done in the summer. Rather than someone maybe coming in for a few months – then away you go – and the next guy comes in and has to start from scratch, really."

His own future is one thing. But what happens to the squad assembled by Mark Warburton this summer is another. "Again, that’s not my place to say," said Miller. "But what I can say is a major overhaul of a squad is never a recipe for success. There is no way you can keep turning over eight, nine, ten players every summer and expecting to be successful. You just need to look at successful teams. It is two, three, four or five at a push – and integrating them into an already existing and decent squad."

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Miller has never formally been asked for his opinions on how the club should move forward by the club's board. But then, in a sense, he doesn't have to be asked when it comes to trying to help his team out. It is something the 37-year-old does naturally, spending most of his waking hours obsessing about the subject.

"I wish I could switch off sometimes, get away from it, but it means a lot to me, I’m passionate about it," said Miller, who has been helping caretaker boss Murty out with the club's Under-20 side. "I’m constantly trying to think about what I can add to help make it better. I’ve lived with football for a long time and you start to think like a coach, like a manager about how you can help and things you can do better to improve yourself and the team.

"As one of the most experienced boys in the team I try, where I can, to help," he added. "If I’ve got any wisdom I can pass on then I do it. But I don’t need to be asked to do that, I just do it. If Graeme needs a chat about one or two things he knows me well enough that he can ask, it’s no problem.”

While he has taken the first steps of a transition into coaching, the 37-year-old correctly reckons he has far too much to offer as an every-week player to go any further than that. Whatever frustrations there are about the club's inability to secure him on a contract beyond this season are parked when he goes beyond that white line.

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"The bottom line is that it’s never been thrown at me so there has never been any decision for me to make. But for me I have stated all along that if I make that step – even as a coach – then it can look from the outside that you’re beginning to make the transition. And I’m not ready for that. I don’t want to accept either that I’d be happy not to play very week. So I’m probably a few years away from going down that line.

"You can get frustrated about it [the contract] and let it affect you," he added. "Or you can get your head down and go to work."