Rangers have been battered from pillar to post but I've looked at fixture list and see chance to kill noise - Barry Ferguson

Michael Beale and his players have been battered from pillar to post since Sunday afternoon and that comes with the territory when you let the Rangers support down. I know. I’ve been there and it is a horrible feeling.

I was over in Eindhoven and although PSV were a level above, the manner in which Rangers lost disappointed their fans. Then you bounce straight into Sunday’s game and while I wasn’t over-confident I thought Rangers would get a result against Celtic and it didn’t happen. You can’t change the past, but you can affect the future, though, and that’s the message those Rangers players should be hearing over the coming days.

There’s a lot of noise just now and the only way to quieten it is to do the business on the pitch. That starts with travelling up to Perth at 12.30pm next Saturday. I know a lot of people want the manager out and I understand the anger but I do think it’s far too early for Michael Beale to lose his job. The international break gives everybody, inside and outside the building, the chance to calm down. But the players have got to come back ready to bust a gut because the only way to kill the noise is to win games.

It’s not only Beale who is under pressure. The players have got to take a bit of responsibility as well. The jury is still out on almost all of the new signings made by the manager in the summer. It’s fair to say Jack Butland has looked every inch a Rangers goalkeeper, but all of the outfield signings have still got a lot to prove. I’ve always said you have to give new players time to settle into arriving in a different country, a new environment, sometimes coming without their families, waiting to move into houses or apartments.

Now, though, we are four weeks into the season and by