There's a very simple solution to begin untangling the unfathomable mess Rangers have managed to make of themselves. Those in charge of handling the Ibrox club’s affairs only have to ask themselves one question whenever they are tasked with making the kind of decisions which might make the situation even more desperate than it is already.
What would Walter Smith have done? And if they don’t know the answer then, by process of elimination, they should be able to work out how the great man would most certainly not have gone about it.
For starters, Smith may have been a Rangers diehard all of his life but he also held a healthy disregard for the opinions of his fellow supporters.
Throughout his trophy-laden two stints in charge he realised while they doted on him one week, they would demand his head on a plate the next.