Michael Beale and Rangers recruits got it horribly wrong and Servette could turn drama into full blown crisis - Keith Jackson

He promised to unleash his vision of organised chaos.

But Michael Beale’s big unveiling was defaced by a perfect picture of structure and discipline on Saturday and now that Rangers have tripped up on the starting blocks there’s a feeling of mild panic beginning to grip at the core of the Ibrox club’s supporters. It’s a knee-jerk overreaction - of course it is - but what else did Beale expect? He’s been around this place long enough now over two spells to know that there is no room afforded to calm and reasoned logic. And especially not when the stakes are sky high.

But the fact remains that, now that the league campaign has got up and running, Beale’s blue-print for his new look side remains as fuzzy and undefined as it appeared to be during a largely underwhelming run of pre-season warm ups. It all works flawlessly in theory. What Beale is attempting to create is a fluid, interchangeable, attacking unit which is almost impossible to predict and capable of doing damage to its opponents from every conceivable angle. Jurgen Klopp describes it as ‘heavy metal football’ and that’s the kind of tune Beale is hoping to get out of his squad, now that he has spent a small fortune bringing his own band together over the summer.

But the only confusion caused at Kilmarnock on day one of the top flight season was limited to the confines of Beale’s own dugout, where the manager looked increasingly perplexed by the reality of what he was seeing and, more concerning still, unsure of what he should do in order to fix it. It shouldn’t have come as any great shock, though. At least not to readers of this particular column. It may have gone down like a lead balloon with Rangers fans at the time but the same red flags were being raised