He talks a good game, doesn't he, Mark Warburton?

It is hard to think of any coach or manager coming into Scottish football in recent times with as much assurance and street-confidence as the new Rangers manager revealed this week.

Warburton is a fascinating appointment by Rangers. He is a risk - absolutely - but there is so much else about him that is worthy of appreciation and inspection.

The former Brentford manager sailed through his opening forays in front of the Scottish press, without actually saying anything of any note, save for some populist soundbites. It was quite an accomplishment.

He was a new manager, at a big club, and with a Rangers legend like Jock Wallace - a manager the young Warburton knew and detested - peering down on him from a portrait. The terrain was ripe for a slip-up, but none came.

In Warburton, the risk for Rangers is obvious. At 52, he has only been a football manager for 18 months, and six of those were spent in the third tier of English football.

Five years ago he was still coaching 10 year olds at Watford and, by his own admission, was wondering where he was going to go next.

Warburton's experience of being in football management remains very limited. And his experience of Scottish football - and of our Championship - is next to non-existent.

All told, if this goes wrong, then the many unticked boxes of Mark Warburton this week will be held up by all and sundry. There will be serious recriminations.

If this was a delicate time for Rangers, a time to minimise risk in appointing a new manager, then the club has chosen to ignore that…in part, no doubt, due to other managerial targets withdrawing their interest in the Ibrox job.

Derek McInnes looked an outstanding candidate, but the Aberdeen manager put paid to growing speculation around him by committing - first in private, then in public - to an extended contract at Pittodrie.

That was Aberdeen's gain, and may not be Rangers' loss, depending on whether Warburton can adjust to the new circumstances around him.

Warburton certainly has a fascinating back-story. His background as a city trader reveals him as no mug. And his 18 months as Brentford manager - while brief - were stunningly successful. In six months he hoisted the club out of England's third tier, and then into the play-offs at the top of the Championship.

In a compressed period of time, this seems nothing if not stellar.

But…oh dear. He has been almost euphorically welcomed by a section of the Rangers support - which will cause some to pause uneasily.

Cynics might say this: many Rangers fans are euphoric about Warburton's arrival, just as they were over, first, Craig Whyte, and then Charles Green.

A jaundiced rule of thumb has come into play recently: beware what the Rangers fans want, because it will inevitably prove misguided.

In a chaotic and bruising period for the club, this sort of chatter is probably unfair. Either way, Warburton is now the latest popular test-case.

If he comes good, then Dave King and co will be thoroughly vindicated for their gutsy appointment. But if Warburton proves inadequate, fingers will swiftly point back to the folly of this week.

Ironically, Ronny Deila across Glasgow offers Warburton a pathway of hope.

Deila was equally a risk at Celtic, and has come good. But for many months - and well into the winter of last season - it looked like he would flounder.

The message for Rangers and Warburton would be: stay calm, remember the medium-term, and give this guy a fighting chance. He will certainly deserve time and patience in the job.

An amusing side-note in this is, it is maybe just as well for Warburton that there is a 35-year gap between his youth days as a Leicester City player and his time now at Rangers, given his dim view of Jock Wallace, a legendary Rangers manager.

Warburton laughed uneasily when confronting an image of Wallace inside Ibrox, but his previous, forceful words about the former Rangers manager's brutal methods could not be erased.

"He killed my love of the game," Warburton once said of Wallace. "I learned a lot from [him]…to never treat a player that way."

In days gone by, Rangers fans would have severely disliked this trashing of their hero, but a sufficient passage of time has passed for Warburton's words to lack any sting.

Wallace was a great Rangers manager, in his own unique way. If Warburton can claim a fraction of the old soldier's success, he will be satisfied.