Clement arrived at Rangers looking like he'd cook up something special but fans are growing fed up with bland servings

Tomorrow marks the first anniversary of Philippe Clement’s first game in charge, a four-goal frying of Hibs that offered the Rangers faithful hope their new boss could be the man to cook up something special.

Twelve months down the line and there’s a sizeable but growing portion of the Ibrox support who are growing fed up with the bland menu the big Belgian is serving up. Clement must know by now he’s not to everyone’s taste. There have been enough moments of late when the fans have made their disgust plain. Sunday was one of those.

With the chance to carve into the five-point lead held by Celtic and Aberdeen at the top of the table, Gers choked as Marley Watkins winner saw Kilmarnock tuck into a deserved victory. Clement’s team trudged wearily over to the away end to give their apologies at full-time as that deficit slipped to six, but found their supporters turning their nose up at another flavourless performance.

It’s led some to cast an envious eye to Aberdeen, where Jimmy Thelin has managed to spice things up at Pittodrie without having to plead for the kind of patience Clement has been endlessly appealing for of late. Clement isn’t going to busy himself with that kind of discussion, or even talk about the state of the title race eight games into the season.

But the under-pressure gaffer knows he needs to perfect his Ibrox recipe if he’s to avoid slipping from the frying pan into the fire. “I think the angriness has to do with a lot of things,” said the beleaguered Belgian after the 1-0 defeat at Rugby Park.

“So I will be focused on the sportive side to get the best out of this squad, what the squad is now. We spoke about that. To do that in one transfer window was impossible with the finances at this moment.

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