Rangers might be a mess, but there is no better time to be given the chance to be the next manager.
When Giovanni van Bronckhorst arrived, we were four points clear at the top of the Scottish Premiership table, by the time that he lost his first Old Firm derby at Parkhead some two months later there were early calls for his head as we dropped to second place in the table.
After winning the league the season before and Celtic a team in transition, many thought that retaining the title was a formality. Even a slow start to the campaign was forgiven because Ange Postecoglu was struggling on the other side of the city – fast forward a year and they have lost just once in the league in the time that Van Bronckhorst has been in charge.
A new manager wouldn’t solve all our problems but neither would they be expected to win the league. There is an acceptance that many of the players have checked out and that a clearing of the decks needs to be done in a top to toe fashion, it’s just not that easy, unfortunately, to remove a chief executive, chairman and sporting director. The manager is always the one to take the fall.
What they would get though is time but there would be a caveat.
There would have to be a tangible style of play, an increase in intensity and a refusal to continuously pick the same players regardless of form.
We don’t have to go that far back to Alex McLeish who won five trophies on the spin after taking over from Dick Advocaat in what is still one of our most underrated achievements by any manager – what we would give for a repeat of Big Eck’s impact now.