{"id":89771,"date":"2025-10-19T01:44:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T01:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/89771\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T01:44:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T01:44:06","slug":"different-coach-same-rangers-steven-smith-questions-mentality-after-dundee-utd-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/89771\/","title":{"rendered":"Different coach, same Rangers – Steven Smith questions mentality after Dundee Utd draw"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is certainly not the first time Rangers’ mentality has been questioned. For almost a decade, it has been a frequent criticism from fans and pundits.<\/p>\n

Martin, who was sacked a fortnight ago, also chipped in. So, too, did Barry Ferguson during his interim spell last term.<\/p>\n

Former Rangers striker Billy Dodds, who was part of Ferguson’s backroom team, told BBC Scotland<\/a> earlier this week: “There’s no real standout leader, even though there’s the captain, the vice-captain, there’s a leadership group. <\/p>\n

“I think the boys have got to get together, but they can only do so much. It’s up to the club’s hierarchy to get the managerial situation sorted out and get a strong figure in there that’s a leader.”<\/p>\n

Kevin Muscat is expected to be that man<\/a>, but Smith would not comment on the Shanghai Port boss’ potential arrival – or his own future.<\/p>\n

Regardless, repairing Rangers’ vulnerability poses a significant challenge to whoever is the next permanent head coach.<\/p>\n

While Saturday’s first-half display highlighted the potential in this new-look squad, a fragile mentality roots deeper by the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is certainly not the first time Rangers’ mentality has been questioned. For almost a decade, it has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-89771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}