BEGGING FOR THE BULLET

Thelwells decisions were so bad from the outset, it appeared he was desperate for Cavenagh axe to land a bumper pay-off... and empty shirt Stewart wasn't much better

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KUDOS to Andrew Cavenagh.

It may have taken the Rangers owner a few months to get his head around the issues confronting his football club but once the penny dropped, he acted with a decisive and ruthless streak which in turn underpins his own credibility for the role.

In truth, the sackings of chief executive Patrick Stewart and sporting director Kevin Thelwell were long overdue. The pair were so obviously out of their depth it’s difficult to think of a single decision that they got right during their short time at the helm.

From appointing Russell Martin as manager in the summer to spending £10million on a striker with no track record of scoring goals and alienating their own support, Haudit and Daudit have been an unmitigated disaster.

But even so, Cavenagh has moved more swiftly than many might have expected to kick them both to the curb.

That will come as welcome news for the club’ long suffering supporters who were starting to reach the conclusion that the whole American takeover, complete with the arrival of the San Francisco 49ers, was becoming an epic disappointment.

Six months on, it does appear that Cavenagh and his wing man, Paraag Marathe, are ready to start taking this thing seriously.

Of course, there is much work for them still to do and that will start by appointing first in class professionals who are worthy of the positions that Stewart and Thelwell now leave behind.

Replacing a couple of dudders with the men of a similar calibre might appease fans in the short term but will do nothing to address the fundamental failings which have rendered Rangers as an irrelevance in their own backyard for much of the last 20 years.