Inside the Rangers crisis mode response as Michael Beale lieutenant reveals one word mantra steering the ship

Michael Beale's right hand man has given an insight into how the Rangers management team will be working to dig his team out of a crisis that has seen it booed off the park even when winning.

Harry Watling, one of Beale's coaching staff, insists that communication skills will be key to building confidence in a dressing room that looks short of it. That, and clarity of instruction, are cornerstones of the regime's coaching and management style, the 33-year-old reveals in the latest edition of the Gold Dust podcast, which was recorded before events of the weekend that saw a 1-0 win over Motherwell greeted with a chorus of jeers on the final whistle.

"You need absolute clarity on what you are and what your team is in every game," he says. "There is a real focus on the way you play out and the way you try to score goals. The way you try and get the ball back. I take notes in every game. I have really good communication with the manager on the bench. We speak a lot about what we're doing in the midst of every game. I've adopted the word clarity over the last four or five years.

"It's the most important thing in the game, for me. When the players arrive in the tunnel before the game, they have a real clear understanding, which links to confidence of how they are going to win the game. The manager here has been a massive influence on what I respect in the game. There are things we don't talk about every day, like the brilliance of just being good at the basics.

"The best coaches, whether they are the manager, assistant manager or first team coach - and we've got two or three in this building who are not coaches but say the right thing at the right time. They know when not to say too much , but their timing is spot on and that