John Bennett has shown Rangers ruthless streak and changes suggest club’s emerging from paranoid period – Keith Jackson

They've been accused of talking a good game for a long time now.

But even though they have developed a nasty habit of saying too much and delivering too little over these past few years, the noises coming out of Ibrox lately do suggest Rangers might finally be about to emerge from a prolonged period of paranoia and self delusion. Sunday's 3-1 win on the pitch at Easter Road helped the numbers stack up for manager Michael Beale who has totted up a total of 22 victories from his first 27 games at the helm.

That’s a win rate of more than 81 per cent which ought to be more than enough to convince the club’s supporters that the man in charge has a decent grasp on what’s required to go the distance when his first full campaign gets up and running after the summer. Beale is full of bright ideas and contemporary thinking and the attacking nature of his managerial approach ought to ensure that Celtic are given a more substantial run for their money when Ange Postecoglou goes chasing a third successive league crown. But, while the Londoner will have to oversee a major rebuild in the transfer market, the changes which are being made off the park could prove every bit as important in terms of the direction the club is moving in now they have a new and credible chairman sitting at the top of the table.

John Bennett might not have been in the job for long since replacing Douglas Park but the new man has certainly not been hanging about. If truth be told, many of the changes he has sanctioned inside the inner sanctum have been long overdue but it’s most certainly to Bennett’s credit they’ve been carried out so swiftly and decisively during his first few weeks as decision maker in chief.

Sporting director Ross Wilson was the first