Michael Beale didn’t hang about to hear the reaction. While the manager made straight for the tunnel at full-time following the briefest of handshakes with Brendan Rodgers, chairman John Bennett and predecessor Douglas Park exchanged terse words.
Fair play to the players for forcing themselves to endure a lap of dishonour during which the Ibrox faithful made clear just what they thought.
And it wasn’t pretty. Scuffles even broke out in the Broomloan Road. Those watching on must have wished their team had shown the same levels of fight.
If referee Don Robertson thought he’d got it tight for chopping off two Rangers goals, then it was nothing compared to the blast of rage that was aimed at the Ibrox boss after overseeing yet another big-game failure.