Rangers fans raging over Barry Ferguson admission about Rangers not being feared anymore,he tells EVERYONE in squad their future is…

FUMING Barry Ferguson claimed teams don’t fear playing Rangers anymore.

The interim Ibrox manager watched his side twice pegged back in Paisley after going in front.

And he insisted even in-contract players at the club are now playing for their futures.

He said: “The issue I’ve got is that people don’t fear playing Rangers now, whether that’s at home or away.

“They enjoy coming to Ibrox, then when you go away from home, teams look if they can bully you, run harder than you, get in about you.

“And that’s something that needs to change going forward.

“You need to build a strong team domestically.

“And I’m sure whoever takes the job will hopefully totally understand that.”

Rangers led through Cyriel Dessers and Nico Raskin but goals from Mark O’Hara and Conor McMenamin twice got St Mirren level.

Ferguson added: “I never got the three points, which was what I demanded.

“You can’t come to a place like St Mirren, lead the game twice and give away a couple of sloppy goals. I know it’s a difficult place to come, but when you lead twice, you need to maintain that lead.

“You spend a week sitting down individually then collectively, you work on things and you show them video stuff about what you’re wanting them to do.

“They don’t carry it out and at times it’s frustrating.

“When we carried it out, we scored two goals, we played the ball quickly and played two or three touch.

“Then at times we go back to the way it was a few months ago – pedestrian and slow.

“That’s not the way I want my team to play, it’s certainly not the way we train.

“And when we go that way, it allows St Mirren back into the game.

“It’s something that’s been playing in my mind for a number of weeks.

“It’s the frustrating part because when we do move the ball quickly we’re a good team, and when we don’t we look really average and easy to play against.

“And that’s really frustrating thing – when you obviously work at things and then at times they don’t carry it out.

“So it’s my job to try and change that in the remaining four games.

“I’ve said to them, even if they’re in contract, that everybody’s playing for their future.

“Because there’s going to be a lot of changes – and there needs to be a lot of changes. We all know these changes need to happen and they’re starting to happen.

“Kevin Thelwell’s coming in as sporting director and they’re certainly moving in the right direction.

“But we all know we’re coming to the end of the season, it’s a short period you get off then you’re straight back into pre-season and you’ve got qualifiers for Europe.

“Before you know it, the season starts. So there’s a big job to be done.”

Rangers face newly-crowned champions Celtic at Ibrox on Sunday and Ferguson says it should be easy for his side to raise their game for the final Old Firm meeting.

However he faces a sweat that he may have lost another central defender after Robin Propper suffered a late injury at Paisley.

He played on after injuring his ankle in a challenge that had team-mates frantically signalling for him to be replaced.

Ferguson said: “I’ll need to speak to the physios to see how he is.

“I know it’s his ankle but I don’t know if it’s going to be serious, if he’s going to be out for a couple of days or a couple of weeks.

“It wouldn’t be ideal if we get another injury but I’m not going to use that as an excuse.

“That’s part of football. That’s why you carry a squad.

“Every game you play for Rangers should mean something. It’s easy to get up for games like next week’s.

“But every game you cross that white line when you’re representing this club. It should mean everything to you.

“I’ll be coming in with my sleeves rolled up ready to go. So will my staff – and the players better be too.”

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