Barry Ferguson is nobody's fool and Rangers may soon realise he has one non-negotiable – Keith Jackson

Sooner or later there’s going to have to be a serious conversation had about Barry Ferguson. Just not quite yet.

And most certainly not based around the chaotic nature of Saturday night’s performance at Dens Park, where Ferguson notched up another victory on his managerial belt in the most dramatic fashion imaginable and yet still struggled to hide his utter exasperation when it was over.

Yes, Rangers might have got out of town with three points thanks to a late winner from Cyriel Dessers but deep down Ferguson must have felt as if his own credentials for the job were being recklessly undermined by a group of players who simply cannot be trusted to turn up for their work.

Just half a dozen games into his role as interim manager it seems reasonable to conclude already that Ferguson splits the room where the Rangers support is concerned.

Some of them will point to the three goals conceded on the road against Dundee as proof that the former skipper and his coaching staff lack the experience and nous required to land the gig on a more permanent basis.

Others will argue, every bit as forcibly, that it was precisely because of their presence on the sidelines that Rangers mustered up the character and resilience to come back from 3-1 down and snatch a 4-3 win at the death.

The body of evidence piled up over the course of a car crash of a campaign under Philippe Clement certainly suggests such a comeback simply would not have happened without Ferguson prowling around in the technical area with a furrowed brow.

It felt almost as if he was daring his players to return to the dressing room without first digging themselves out of a humungous hole.

It was their sloppiness and abject lack of professionalism which got them off to such