GRAEME MURTY is confident Ibrox kid Jamie Barjonas will benefit from his Easter Road experience.

The midfielder was handed his first start of the campaign against Hibernian on Wednesday night and helped Rangers to a fourth successive Premiership win.

Barjonas has emerged as one of the most highly-rated prospects in the Auchenhowie Academy and Murty hopes he will continue to go from strength to strength this season.

He said: “I am pleased that he stood up to it but he knows he is better than what he showed.

“He showed some nice bits, but he has to play at an elevated level more consistently in training if he is going to come in to big games like this and play against big players like John McGinn.

“I said to him before the game he was getting an opportunity to play against someone who is rated by the whole world at £5million. Go and put yourself up against him and see how it goes.

“I think he enjoyed the experience. He will have learned a lot from it and will be a better player for it. It is a nice early baptism of fire for him in such a big game.”