UNLESS you have been hiding away in, well, a caravan for the past few days, you will be aware of Pedro Caixinha’s well-documented pearls of wisdom regarding barking dogs and those aforementioned mobile homes.

According to some hysterical, fist-shaking observers, defeat to Ross County up in Dingwall today could soon see the bold Pedro out of a job even before the Scottish Caravan Club has held its autumn AGM.

Time is something you can’t buy at a bargain price in the transfer market, after all.

Such is the fickle and frenzied nature of life in the hot-seat at Ibrox, many already have Caixinha on borrowed time.

After just three Premiership games, that would appear ludicrous but then football in this part of the world has never been a hotbed of calm, reasoned judgment.

The trip to the Highlands could be riddled with perils and pitfalls. Rangers didn’t beat Ross County in three meetings last season but Caixinha is relishing the trip north.

As for his immediate job prospects? Well, the blunt, straightforward question was posed and the Portuguese responded.

Asked if he felt his position was in jeopardy, the 46-year-old said: “I’m here to be the face of the club and at this club we don’t have those sort of meetings.

“We’re working together. They [the board] have their job to do and I have mine which is specific to football.

“I don’t talk about having support from the board. I never think like that. If I do, I won’t take the right decisions.

“I love my job and I love my work. I’m addicted to this. I have the character to do my job and take the club in the right direction.”

Having picked up four points from a possible nine in the league, Rangers are already playing catch up and Ryan Jack, one of a raft of new faces brought in during the close season as Caixinha embarked on his major overhaul of the squad, is well aware of the demands that need to be met. With every dropped point comes more scrutiny, finger-wagging and burdens.

“Results wise there’s no getting away from it and to pick up just one point in the last two home games has not been great,” said Jack of the recent defeat to Hibernian and the draw with Hearts in Rangers’ own backyard.

“The only answer is to work as hard as we can and stick together as a group of players and staff. I’m sure we’ll get through it.

“At the start of the season we said it was important to keep winning and keep the fans onside. The last two games have not been good enough. We’ve just got ourselves to blame.

“After every game you look to see how other teams have got on. Aberdeen, Celtic, Hearts, Hibs. You look at every result.

“But we can’t have our mind anywhere other than on Rangers. We’re behind already and there’s going to be no more room for error or slip-ups.

“There’s pressure on every game. The manager always gets across that there is an expectation to win every game. That’s just what comes with playing at a big club.

“There’s not a better feeling than knowing that after you’ve worked hard for 90 minutes you’ve got the result. As players we just want to get that back and get everyone onside.”

Since arriving in Govan from Aberdeen, Jack has endured a topsy-turvy ride with the club he supported as a boy.

The calamitous European foray in Luxembourg probably had the 25-year-old wondering what the heck he had let himself in for. Progres of the Niederkorn variety may have provided a shuddering stumbling block for Rangers but Jack remains confident progress can be made on the home front.

“It has been frustrating with the start we’ve had, the European stuff and the fact it hasn’t been that great over the last two weeks in the league,” he conceded. “But it is about looking to the future and I am optimistic we can turn it round with the ability we have in the squad.

“There are no regrets for me at all. I always look at my life that way. Everything I do is about moving on and looking at the future.”

For Jack, the rough and tumble of Scottish football is nothing new. For the other recruits from further afield, though, the domestic scene can be something of a shock to the system.

“It is different, there is no doubt about that,” added Jack, who had been pondering a move across the Atlantic to the MLS in the USA before Rangers came calling.

“Even after the Motherwell game, Bruno [Alves] and Fabio [Cardoso], the centre-halves, said they had never seen so many long balls and that they’d never had to challenge for so many headers and do so much running.

“It is the possession game they are used to. For them, it is has been different and it’s about trying to adapt to a lot of long balls and teams trying to put us under pressure. But that is what comes from playing at such a big team.

“They have adapted quite well and we have been working on the intensity and them having to defend long balls coming into the box in training. They are doing great in training on that side of it.

“Of course I see enough to suggest we can go on a run of wins. In training, we’ve got a great group of lads who work really hard. We have a great team spirit going too and that always helps.

"The circumstances maybe haven’t helped us, but the spirit that I have seen and the quality that I have seen gives me hope that we can turn it round.”

One win, a draw and a defeat is hardly a disastrous start to a league campaign but it simply doesn’t cut it with those of a Rangers persuasion. Another stumble today will have the natives even more restless.