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Barry crashes to another Ibrox loss and has concerns ahead of Bilbao Euro clash

- SCOTT MCDERMOTT

ONE thing's for sure. Barry Ferguson won't get the Rangers manager's job if he can't win a game at Ibrox.

That's now three defeats on the bounce at home for the interim gaffer.

Motherwell plundered three easy points here, before Fenerbahce won in Europe only to be defeated on penalties.

And yesterday in Govan it was Hibs' turn to comfortably see off a Rangers side who look petrified at their own ground.

So forget the Old Firm triumph at Parkhead or success on the road at Kilmarnock, Dundee and Istanbul.

If Ferguson and his staff can't get a tune out of this lot at Ibrox, they won't be in charge next term. In five of his seven games at the helm they've conceded the first two goals.

All of which makes you worry about what Athletic Bilbao might do in Glasgow in the Europa League quarter-final on Thursday night.

But it seems churlish only to talk about Rangers' failings yesterday. Because it was Hibs' and David Gray's day.

They made it 16 without defeat in the league as they picked up their first win here in five years. And no one can say they didn't deserve it.

Goals from Dylan Levitt and Martin Boyle sent the travelling support back to Leith ecstatic.

Gray has done a phenomenal job given how the campaign started for the Easter Road men.

And after making light work of putting Rangers to the sword, they now look certain to take third spot in the table.

Ferguson would have been looking somehow to find some Ibrox momentum.