Jekyll and Hyde Rangers are throwback to team I played in and these could be the reasons for the madness - Barry Ferguson

Sitting eighth in a 36-team table with some European giants, above the likes of Manchester United, Tottenham and Roma and just three points behind leaders Lazio.

Yet third in the Scottish Premiership - the 11-point gap to leaders Celtic the same as it is to Kilmarnock who are sitting in tenth.

THREE goals in the first half away to the team sitting fifth in France’s Ligue 1 - that’s one more than in FIVE domestic away games combined. Honestly, if Philippe Clement had any hair then he would have been pulling it out on Thursday because I know many Rangers fans are. The 4-1 win against Nice on Thursday night was a sensational result and I won’t listen to anyone trying to play it down because of the home side. That’s a team unbeaten in eight games in one of the Big Five leagues in Europe.

No, instead, from a Rangers point of view it has to be the blueprint. I’m starting to sound like a broken record but that’s the standard they have set and they must stick to it. Not only in Europe, but domestically as well.

No disrespect to Perth, but the Fair City must be as far removed from the Cote d’Azur as you can get. And McDiarmid Park on a freezing Sunday lunchtime in November a far cry from the Allianz Riviera. But St Johnstone this weekend is the bread and butter for Rangers. And these players MUST transform their European form into the Premiership.

In the previous game against Olympiacos I watched the impressive performance in Athens and I was thinking ‘take this into Hearts on Sunday’ but it was like two different teams as they scraped a 1-0 win.

I was at the Dundee United game on Saturday and it was below par - there was no tempo or aggression - but only slightly better in the second half so you were worried going to Nice - and