ANDY Halliday has insisted this season will be a failure for Rangers if they fail to win a trophy.
The midfielder, who captained his team at Cowdenbeath on Wednesday night, was adamant that progress alone wasn’t good enough for the Ibrox club and that the supporters needed to see some long-awaited silverware.
Steven Gerrard has always been coy when speaking of what he hoped to achieve in his first season as manager.
His Rangers have made strides this season including qualifying for the group stages of a European competition for the first time since 2010.
They remain in the Ladbrokes Premiership title hunt, although Celtic's midweek win over St Johnstone means Brendan Rodgers' men have a six-point lead as they chase eight-in-a-row.
And having lost to Aberdeen at the semi-final stage of the Betfred League Cup, the Light Blues' best chance of claiming silverware could come down to the William Hill Scottish Cup – although Rangers have a difficult trip to Kilmarnock in the next round.
Halliday said: “Listen, I think you guys and the fans have given us a lot of praise this year because there has been progress. But, if we don’t win a trophy at the end of the year then it has been a failure of a season for my account.
“I have not won a real Rangers trophy since I have been here and I am obviously looking to try and win one. This is one of the two chances we have got.”
And he added “We've managed to make it a real title race this year. But I still think it would be a disappointment and a failure if we don't win a trophy. It's as simple as that.
"This is a club that has a tradition based on winning things and if we were to walk away empty-handed again at the end of the season then we will be judged on that."
Halliday revealed that his manager felt the same way. He said: “That is 100 per cent, nobody has got more of a winning mentality than that man. He is drilling that into the boys every single day. Like I say, the progress has been there but we need to progress even more if we want to win.”
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