SOMETIMES as a player you just need to take your hat off and say you were beaten by the better team on the day. That is football.
On Sunday, I think that was the case at Parkhead. The result hurt Rangers, of course it did because it was their biggest rivals.
But there are players in that team that are at the lowest of the low in terms of their confidence and they stood no chance against Celtic.
When you are that low on confidence, and I have been there before, you are not even as fit as you should be and you can’t cover the distances that you can normally cover.
Instead of your body pulling you around the pitch or taking you around the pitch, you are having to take it round the pitch. It is mentally draining.
Then you have to take the ball under pressure and I just thought a number of the players were just so low on confidence on Sunday.
It looks like they are not trying, it looks like they are not fit. But, really, it was Celtic at the top of their confidence and Rangers at the bottom of theirs and it was 5-0 going on 10-0.
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You have to say it is not good enough and that we need a lot of new players to come in. There are some there that will leave in the summer.
They have found out what it is like to play for Rangers and the demands, the pressure, the expectation, and the backlash that comes when you don’t hit the heights required.
That is where the mentality comes in and that is something that needs coached at Rangers. It is not just technique or fitness, we need players with that mentality and, in my opinion, a bit of aggression as well.
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