STEVEN GERRARD hopes Rangers can find the right balance of controlled aggression against Celtic.

Keeper Allan McGregor picked up the Light Blues’ 12th red card of the campaign in the win over Hibernian.

Gerrard has yet to speak to the 37-year-old personally about the incident but knows his side have to learn their disciplinary lesson.

Gerrard said: “I addressed it in the dressing room after the game. I haven’t spoken to Allan in a one to one sense, I have got more important things to focus on, which are to prepare the squad for the Old Firm and a massive three points. That is my focus.

“I will be speaking to all the players individually before they leave at Kilmarnock. We have already spoken to certain players and over the next ten days I will have one to ones with them all. Once I do, I am sure last week will come up.

“Of course there has to be passion, we have to have desire and commitment and Celtic have to feel us. But there is a way to do that, a way to do that with control and discipline and we got that side of it bang on in the last Old Firm at Ibrox.

“We played at a tempo and intensity that was right on the edge and that is where good performances come from and where the level of performance could be to get the win.

“If you go in and think we are worried about the discipline side and we can’t tackle, we won’t find that level of performance. It is about getting the balance right.”

Gerrard admitted on Sunday he could start fining his players for stepping out of line.

A lack of discipline has cost Rangers dear and the Ibrox boss will be firmer with his squad going forward.

He said: “I think we have already done that and if players get it wildly wrong that will continue to happen.

“A lot of things have to stay in house but the players know where they stand in terms of that, they know that I have tweaked the rules and we will be making it very clear next year. Sometimes you have to take a yellow card or yellow cards happen, red cards happen. I get it, it is football.

“The way I want the players to play, sometimes they will get it wrong and I will take responsibility for it. When you get it wildly wrong, as we have done in certain situations, it is very difficult for a manager to defend, otherwise you look completely stupid.”