Pedro Caixinha is now going to be judged on a game-by-game basis, and any defeat in the next three or four weeks is going to be massive for him.

The Rangers fans are now contemplating whether he is a manager or whether he is not a manager, so he has got to prove not only to himself and the team, but to the fans, that he has got a team here who can win.

The club lost so many points last season to teams outwith Celtic and Aberdeen, and Ross County were one of those they found most difficult to contend with, drawing three times.

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To be fair, that had nothing to do with Pedro, but those were the games that killed Rangers last year. They have to beat all the other teams, and Ross County proved they were a match for Rangers last season.

There is no doubt in my mind that the focus will be heavily on the manager.

The difference in Glasgow at this moment in time is that one team is flying high, they’re in the Champions League, they have all the money in the world and everything is hunky dory.

On the other side of Glasgow, it’s doom and gloom. That’s just how it is when one side is doing well and one is not.

Rangers have to treat this game as big as any other against Celtic or Aberdeen, these are the games they have to win and I feel that this is a game that Pedro has to win for himself too.

Ross County are no mugs. Aberdeen went up there last week and only just scraped through to win by two goals to one, and Aberdeen are a decent side.

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No matter how you look at it, it’s a very, very hard game for the manager, and unless Rangers are on their mettle and they’ve got everybody firing, then you can see this becoming another disaster for them.

I have been saying this for months, but I still think they are very, very weak up front. There is no sharpness, it’s just not happening and they have to find a solution to that.

To be fair, the ammunition has simply not been there. The wide men aren’t getting down the flanks and getting decent balls in for the strikers, one of the centre-forwards is having to come back into his own half to get the ball, leaving the other one isolated. They are a bit disorganised.

Defensively, I thought they would be better having watched them in pre-season. Those friendlies don’t mean a thing though, and they haven’t looked solid.

Obviously last week they were ok because Hearts never did anything in an attacking sense apart from John Souttar’s 35-yarder off the bar, so they weren’t tested.

But up at Ross County, they will look at last year and know that they have played well against Rangers, and they know how to play against them.

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They will get in and about Rangers, and Rangers seem to struggle when teams do that.

The strength Caixinha does have is the choices he now has available in midfield. He’s got good players there like Niko Krancjar and Jordan Rossiter on the bench, as well as the new signing Carlos Pena. Though we don’t even know if he can play yet.

The bottom line is that they have to start winning games, and they have to start now. They cannot be so far behind after three games, five points adrift already.

The manager says he isn’t worried and that goals will come eventually, but eventually isn’t good enough, it has to start on Sunday.

It’s all very well saying that it will come, it will come, but Christmas is coming too. At Rangers, you have to deal in the here and now, and that’s why they need someone to score goals and they need to start winning games.

We would love to see silky soccer, but wins are all that matter right now, and it’s the games against the Ross Countys, the Motherwells, the Dundees and teams like that they have to be winning.

The Aberdeen and Celtic games take care of themselves, but Sunday is so important.

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There are punters now saying that Pedro isn’t good enough and they want rid of him, and several pundits are now saying that he isn’t going to last, and you can’t disagree.

You have to give him a chance of course, every other club have brought players in and they will get time to settle in. Unfortunately, at Rangers, you have to hit the ground running, and that goes for the manager too.

I know Dave King is on record saying that they back their manager and they have given him money to spend, but that can be a good thing or a bad thing for a manager to hear.

I think he will get more time. But if there are two or three losses in the next four or five games, then the fans won’t accept that.

It doesn’t matter what the chairman says or what the board say, if the fans are up in arms and giving the team stick and not going to games, then they have to act.

That’s why Pedro Caixinha is under pressure, big-time, and it is imperative that he starts on a winning streak against Ross County.