Jack Butland warns Rangers slackers won't be tolerated as keeper lays down challenge to teammates

Gutted goalie Jack Butland has warned his Rangers team-mates there can be no slacking just because their silverware hopes are sunk.

The Ibrox No1 put in a man of the match display to help Philippe Clement’s men get back to winning ways at Tynecastle on Sunday. But it’s a result that won’t matter much in the grand scheme, with Gers hopelessly 13 points adrift of champions-elect Celtic.

The Hoops have already picked up the Premier Sports Cup and will now be looking to make it an astonishing sixth Treble in the space of nine years after Gers’ shock exit last week from the Scottish Cup. The Europa League is all the Light Blues have left to play for but Butland insists that’s no excuse for dropping standards domestically.

He declared: “There’s everything, always everything to play for. There’s no friendlies here, there's no free hits, there's no games that you can toss aside as being, ‘it doesn't matter’.

"Because no matter the game, if you don't get the right result, the reactions are the same.

"That's what this group is going to have to expect and as a result of that, the focus is to win every game. It's what the standard is and it's what the fans need now, it's what the club needs, some real positivity, some performances that they can see progress in. But ultimately they need to see results and that's what we need to focus on, one game at a time between now and the end of the season.”

Butland wasn’t on the pitch as Queen’s Park hero Seb Drozd struck to consign Clement’s team to one of the worst results in Gers’ 153-year history last weekend. Understudy Liam Kelly was the man in goal for that stunning upset - but Butland insists he’s still felt his own share of responsibility for a defeat that has left under-fire boss