Gio van Bronckhorst will know Rangers destiny rests on next four days even if he won't show it - Keith Jackson

Five months in and so far it’s been a rather curious, wildly unpredictable story of ‘Jeezo’ van Bronckhorst.

Lauded for lighting up Europe, lacerated for a lamentable domestic surrender at the same time, it’s been a case of ‘How on earth did he manage that?’, one week and ‘Why on earth did he do that?’, the next. With very little room for middle ground in between.

So it’s probably quite in keeping with all this early yo-yoing that the highs and lows to come over the next four days may very well determine what Rangers have in their grasp with this difficult to read Dutchman.

When the smoke clears after Thursday night's Europa League quarter-final against Braga and Sunday’s Scottish Cup semi against Celtic, Van Bronckhorst’s credentials are likely to have been defined one way or the other.

He’ll either be viewed by his own supporters as an upgrade. Or a hand grenade.

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One thing seems sure, all this uncertainty can’t go on indefinitely.

In fact, the only real consistency about Van Bronckhorst’s first few months in charge has been his unerring ability to flat-line whenever a microphone is shoved under his nose, no matter what madness he is being asked to assess.

But even that poses its own