IT wasn’t pretty, but it was effective. It wasn’t great, but it was good enough.

The points are always going to be important than the performance for Rangers right now and that was the case against Ross County on Saturday.

Graeme Murty’s side were booed off at half-time after a lacklustre 45 minutes that saw the Staggies take the lead and threaten to cause another Ibrox upset.

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But the reaction at the end of the game was far more complimentary towards the Light Blues as goals from Alfredo Morelos and Danny Wilson clinched a crucial three points.

Rangers showed different sides to their game in the wins over Aberdeen as they blew the Dons away at Ibrox and then ground out a victory at Pittodrie.

And Murty reckons the hard-fought success against Owen Coyle’s side gave the Ibrox crowd another insight into his side.

“You can’t always flow, dominate and dictate in perhaps the way we want to – and I don’t think we did,” he said.

“But, sometimes you have to scrap and grind a win out, and sometimes those are as pleasing as the ones where you look really good.

“Things aren’t always going to go our way, and we have to show a bit of resilience, which I think we did.

“One of the key things we have to cope with is the expectation of the crowd. They expect us to dominate and dictate all the time, and I agree and concur with the fans – we should be doing that.

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“It’s not always possible, so we have to deal with that. We have to be strong enough to stand up and accept mistakes, but I want players who are brave and go and get on the ball even if the last thing they did wasn’t particularly great or didn’t work.

“So we have to be able to cope with that, and something that pleased me is we tried and we tried.

“Alfredo [Morelos] kind of epitomised that with his goal – he did miss a chance, but he got in there again and actually took his goal really well and looked quite composed in his finish. He had a lot to do with the set-up play, but his finish was composed so good for him.”

Performance levels may have fluctuated and points may have been dropped too easily this term but the backing Rangers have received from the stands has never diminished.

Hibernian, Hearts, Celtic, Kilmarnock and Hamilton have all taken points from their trips to Ibrox so far this term.

The home crowd can often be as much of a hinderance as a help and Murty knows the players must do their bit to get the supporters on side.

He said: “It was good for us but I keep on saying that it is up to us to give the fans something to cheer about.

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“We didn’t do that enough in the first half. Although we had a couple of opportunities, we could have done it more, we could have done it more quickly.

“Even when we are moving the ball around the back of the pitch, we can still do it with a better tempo and get into the final third with more regularity and more intent, which gets the crowd involved and gets them off their seat a little bit.

“If you have got 50,000 people there, you want to use them as part of your weapons and the more that we can do that, the more we can get them engaged, the better it is going to be and the more intimidating Ibrox is going to become.”

The changes that Murty made on Saturday proved to be decisive as he tweaked his formation and introduced Morelos in place of Carlos Pena.

Rangers were a more effective unit and posed more attacking threat in the second half and Murty will learn lessons from how the action unfolded.

“We have to make sure we put them in a structure that fits them,” he told RangersTV.

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“I looked back at the game on Saturday and we tried to play a diamond and Ross County matched us up.

“But I looked at the personnel and I actually felt for Daniel Candeias at times because it is not his position and I asked him to play in a certain way.

“It didn’t suit him in the first half so we had to change things slightly and give him a better role that more suited his attributes in the second half.

“I think we got the rewards from that and he got the rewards from that. I apologise to him for that and trying to make him play that.

“But he gave it a go and it wasn’t through a lack of effort, it was just through making sure we put square pegs in square holes more than anything else I think.”