I am sure the fall-out from Tuesday night will be an eye-opener for some of the players and nobody likes hearing the chorus of boos ringing around the stadium when you are walking off the park.

That wouldn’t have been nice for the players but the fans had every right to be upset at going out of the cup and they will be demanding a response against Kilmarnock.

The players are gutted that they are not going to Hampden to play Celtic and they don’t still have a shot at the cup, but that is down to them.

Most of these players haven’t had a season like this where they have played as many games, and certainly not under the pressure that they are at Rangers. It is constant football, constant demands and there will be spells where you aren’t at it.

Steve Clarke’s side aren’t on the best of runs right now but we all know that it will be a different team that comes to Ibrox and they will raise their game to another level when they play Rangers. It is about what we do, though, and the experienced players will look to pull the team through.

This is a game where, if you are not at your best, you could hear the crowd quickly turn when things go against Rangers. If you don’t start well and you are struggling, the fans will get a bit restless.

As a player, you have to have the mentality to be able to hand that and not hide, that is the main thing.

The worst thing a player can do at Ibrox when they are getting a bit of stick is hide because the supporters can sense that straight away and that won’t help the situation.

There may well be a couple of changes to the team and the fans will be expecting to a big improvement.

AND ANOTHER THING

THE Premiership games last weekend perhaps summed up how frustrating a campaign it has been for Rangers at times.

Steven Gerrard's side should have won at Easter Road but then allowed Hibernian back into it and were denied what would have been a deserved victory after Daniel Candeias' early goal.

Then, on Saturday, Celtic are held by Aberdeen at home and what could have been another chance to cut the gap at the top had passed Rangers by.

With nine games to go, you have to say it will be really tough for Rangers to win the league. But nobody at Ibrox will give up.

I certainly won't give up on anything. If you do, you are basically saying to the fans what is the point in coming along?

Until it is mathematically impossible, you still have a chance and you have got to go out there thinking that.

Rangers can only win all of their games and give themselves a shot at it.

That is the attitude they need to have and the mentality has to be right against Kilmarnock today.