Rangers can't see truth for themselves but trust me when I tell you something about Barry Ferguson – Keith Jackson

Rangers probably don’t realise it yet.

And, granted, Saturday’s abject performance and awful result at home to Hibs certainly won’t make the truth of the matter any more obvious or easy to recognise.

But - and you’ll just have to trust me on this one - they have exactly the right man for the job in Barry Ferguson even if they can’t quite see it for themselves at this low point in the caretaker manager’s short stint at the helm.

Yes, Ferguson and his backroom staff are the right men in the right place and at the right time. They’ve just got the wrong team, inherited as it has been from a man who had no grasp at all on the rudimentary requirements of his role.

Philippe Clement may be long gone now but his legacy lives on in the shape of a first team squad which is not even remotely close to being fit for purpose. The reality is, the Belgian Baldrick is the man to blame for the shambling state that Rangers find themselves in.

Ferguson, Neil McCann, Billy Dodds and Allan McGregor are merely attempting to repair some of the damage done during his amateurish, error ridden 18 months in charge.

But it’s proving harder than even they might have imagined even though they went into this suicidal mission with their eyes wide open when they were first asked to answer the crisis call from the club that means so very much to each of them.

The pain was etched all over Ferguson’s screwed up features on Saturday as he watched the latest in a string of feeble efforts from a group of players who simply cannot be trusted to perform like professionals.

He may very well have been left with cause to wonder over the weekend if any of them were feeling even half of his hurt.

And that’s precisely why it might be a mistake for Rangers - and their