WELL, not for the first time, what a mess this all is at Rangers. Let’s deal with the changing room incident that has led to Kenny Miller and Lee Wallace being suspended first off.

Ask any player, and they will tell you that they have seen changing room bust-ups a million times.

It happened at every single club I was ever at. I’ve seen people getting punched, I’ve seen players nose-to-nose with managers.

At St Mirren, when Tommy Craig took over with Gary Teale and Jim Goodwin, there was a big argument in the changing room after the match. Big Marc McAusland went to punch one of the other players, missed him and caught Jim Goodwin square in the eye. This is the assistant manager.

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I’ve also seen situations where managers have lost the changing room, and someone has to fill the void. Once at Burnley, Brian Laws came in and the game before he left he did a David Brent. He said: ‘Right, who is with me?’ And not a single hand went up. He was away within two days.

So, things happen all the time in changing rooms. The amount of times I’ve seen fist fights and people being restrained, it’s ten-a-penny.

In my book, it’s the captain’s right and obligation to stand up. And after the performance that Rangers turned in on Sunday, something had to be said, you can’t sit in silence.

I would be more worried after a defeat like that if there wasn’t fights among players in the changing room and there wasn’t people going mad. Somebody had to step up, and Lee Wallace stepped up.

I always think it’s better to speak when tensions are high, because you get the truth. When you go to a meeting a day or two later, what you might have said at that point in time, which is what you’re feeling, you might not say.

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Lee Wallace obviously felt as club captain he had to stand up and do it, and some home truths have been spoken. Part of me completely agrees with the course of action both he and Kenny have taken.

None of this would have happened had Graeme Murty gone into that changing room and taken control of that situation straight away. There are times after a match when I’ve seen managers saying ‘you know what? I don’t even know what to say to you, I’ll see you on Monday’. Fine. But if you’ve just lost a semi-final 4-0 to you biggest rivals and put in a pathetic performance, then there has to be something said.

Murty has had to learn so much on the job, and he has had to go through things in his first appointment that some managers will never experience. The level of expectation, the level of criticism, these are all pretty unique to the Rangers job. You don’t get that cutting your teeth at Queen of the South, for example. You will make your mistakes, but your mistakes won’t be high profile.

So, I think that there has been an over-reaction on two parts. One, from Rangers in suspending the players. Was it a ploy to take the attention off the result? That might be cynical, but if that was the intention, it has backfired spectacularly, because it has been a PR disaster.

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Two, there has been a spectacular overreaction to the result. The scoreline was exactly along the lines that I thought it would be. Everyone is going into meltdown over it, but did anyone genuinely think that Rangers were going to win? The performance is where there are question marks, as well as over Murty’s tactics.

Setting up his team to be passive, asking his midfielders to play narrow, he got it wrong and that can be pinned on him. Also, the decision to put Andy Halliday in was the wrong one, and that was compounded by taking him off four minutes from half-time. That is throwing him under the bus, and it’s creating a situation that didn’t need to be created. Just wait until half-time. Those are two things that he did get wrong, and he has to put his hands up to that.

After doing so well against Celtic at Ibrox, albeit ultimately losing, why didn’t he go to Hampden and play that way again? It’s as good as it has got for Rangers, so go and take the game to them.

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At least Murty will come out of this whole situation having gained so much, and if he wants to be a manager moving forward, what he has learned in these last few months is gold-dust in terms of managerial experience.

The question now is where do Rangers go from here? Well, first up is Hearts on Sunday, and it will be interesting to see who they can even play in the team. Can you play Alfredo Morelos? Or Daniel Candeias after his cowardly huff up the tunnel at the weekend, which has gone under the radar slightly? I wouldn’t.

What a shambles. If Hearts put them under pressure in the first five minutes or even get the first goal, then Ibrox on Sunday will not be a pleasant place to be.