Rangers wanted their version of ANGEBALL but all they've had so far is YAWNBALL

THINGS are likely to get worse before they start to get any better.

- KEITH JACKSON

The warning has been issued to Rangers supporters so many times on these pages since the appointment of Russell Martin that it's in serious danger of becoming boring and losing impact.

And yet, even those of us who predicted a bumpy ride ahead for the new boss have been left almost open-mouthed by just how difficult Martin is making the job of fixing his football team appear to be.

Two games into the new campaign and he's already stranded four points off the pacesetters at the top of the table.

In fact, on Saturday evening Martin became the first Rangers boss in 36 years to fail to chalk up a topflight win in his first two attempts when Steven Pressley and Dundee were robbed of recording a first victory at Ibrox since the turn of the century.

And even though Martin was always likely to have his work cut out in rebuilding an entire squad while simultaneously attempting to reinvent the wheel with his own ideology on how the game ought to be played, it's hard to imagine how his introduction could have landed any less impressively.

The very people who have been asked to offer the new man some much-needed patience and time are already nearing their wits end.

These emotionally exhausted fans simply will not tolerate watching the surrender of another league title.

But soon they may have even more to fret over than just the continuation of decades of Celtic's domestic superiority.

Because when Hearts left Tanna-dice on Sunday evening having banked six points from six, a more humiliating reality might have been beginning to dawn on them.