DON'T MAKE GERS GREET AGAIN

After Martin's calamitous appointment and millions wasted on rebuild, the club's American owners and their Ibrox executives have been put on notice....

- ANDY NEWPORT

ENOUGH had become enough long before Russell Martin was finally put out of his misery on Sunday night.

In their bid to break the relentless cycle of sacking managers, the Ibrox board made the cardinal sin of persisting with one who simply wasn't up to the job.

In the end, they waited 122 days before finally pulling the plug-a figure that only just edged out the 79 words they used to announce his sacking.

Maybe had they got those two numbers the other way round there might still be a title race to salvage.

Martin is gone but a deep sense of bitterness remains. This was supposed to be a new era at Ibrox, one in which Rangers could use their new American funding to spend their way back to success.

As it turns out, Gers have wasted not only millions on their disastrous rebuild but also any sense of goodwill that followed the takeover.

And if the club's Stateside owners think they've doused the anger and the fury that erupted on the back of an abject start to the season just by binning Martin, they are about to get an awakening every bit as rude as the abuse that rained down upon the man they've just axed.