Andy Halliday questions Rangers recruitment after two years of being light in four positions

Andy Halliday reckons Rangers ' recruitment has left them short in four areas.

The former Ibrox player watched his former club take an Old Firm derby battering at the weekend, shortly before he and his Hearts teammates went down 1-0 to Livingston. But his assessment of the strength in depth isn’t a knee-jerk reaction to the 2-0 defeat on the other side of Glasgow. Halliday has pinpointed where he feels the Light Blues need more strength in depth for the last two years. And he doesn’t lay the blame at Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s door.

Halliday believes the Ibrox side lack a real replacement for Ryan Kent and that behind Allan McGregor, there isn’t a keeper that screams Rangers No 1 with the veteran approaching the end of his career between the sticks. Finally, despite signing former teammate John Souttar, Connor Goldson is yet to play alongside a regular partner in the heart of defence.

"I wouldn't go as far as blameless but I don't think he (van Bronckhorst) was the main culprit for the weekend's performance,” Halliday told Clyde Super Scoreboard.

"But if you look at the last 13 away games in this calendar year, they only won six, drawn five and two defeats. 22 goals for and 19 against.

"That's probably the biggest thing for me because that's plus three goal difference in 13 games so you can't say that Giovanni van Bronckhorst is blameless when that's the sort of record he's had.

"But I do look at Rangers' team and they're still lacking in the same problematic positions that we've been saying for the last two years.

"Even going into the summer, the goalkeeper and right wing positions. I've lost count of how many transfer windows Rangers have been trying to replace that right wing position.

"A creative goalscoring