FLASH & BURN

Dejected Dessers issues Rangers rallying call to his Ibrox team-mates as he urges them to turn fleeting magic moments into 90-minute wonders and kick-start the Russell Martin regime

- BY ANDY NEWPORT

CYRIEL DESSERS reckons the gap between where Rangers are and where they want to be is only down to a few percentage points.

But right now, an inch is as good as a mile as far as the irate Ibrox support are concerned.

Two played and four points spilled is the brutal truth of Russell Martin's opening two games as Gers boss.

Those numbers certainly aren't adding up to anything positive for a support simply sick and tired of seeing their team fail to produce when the pressure is on domestically.

But reading between the lines, Dessers can see a plot line emerging which he believes can lead to a happy ending for the Light Blue legions.

There have been moments and flashes of quality, that offer a glimpse at what Martin has planned for this team.

Asked how convinced he was that Martin could turn things around to mount a title challenge, striker Dessers said: "I'm very convinced because I see him in the building every day, how he is on the pitch and how he is in the video meetings.

"He tries to transfer that to us as a group as well. Obviously, that cannot happen in one week but we've already seen some flashes of that, for example, on Tuesday, against Plzen.

"But you want to see that twice a week."