Rohl<\/a> – who pulled off a great escape in his only previous management job at Sheffield Wednesday – is adamant he can turn the energy inside the stadium back in Rangers\u2019 favour.<\/p>\nAnd when the question of the abuse aimed at his predecessor was put to the German, the former Bayern Munich and Germany assistant said: \u201cI\u2019m a guy who always sees opportunity and not the risk.<\/p>\n
\u201cI see this step as a big, big opportunity to be successful and to win titles. For me there was not one question mark to come here about these things.”<\/p>\n
Rohl is well aware of the size of the task but continued: \u201cOur mindset should be a restart here.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe cannot change the past, but we can start from today, and hopefully a long, long, long change into the future.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we go with this mindset, and we have this positive mindset, then we go ahead.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I took over in Sheffield, the group of players had, after 11 games, no wins, just two draws, and we were the first team who should have been relegated.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you go there and you are not convinced, and you give them no belief, then it’s tough. This is also important to understand.<\/p>\n
\u201cI give my players straight the belief, and I come a little bit back to my experience.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven in Munich, you had players with big names, but if they had not the self-confidence, they would not perform, and this is a crucial thing.<\/p>\n
\u201cSelf-confidence comes not just about talking, it’s about doing on the pitch, and this is what we want to try to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Rangers head coach Danny Rohl goes to apologise to fans<\/p>\n
Sections of the Rangers support have accused the Gers hierarchy of repeating the Martin mistake by hiring a young head coach with little experience of being the man in charge in the dug out.<\/p>\n
Rohl counts assistant gigs at Bayern Munich and the German national team among his his previous posts but has only been in charge of a side, Wednesday, for 89 games.<\/p>\n
But he said: \u201cYeah, I’m Danny Rohl, I’m not Russell Martin. I think to compare coaches is difficult. Hopefully you will soon see which direction we want to play football.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me, every coach has his own opinion. I have my clear identity about how I want to play.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe we’re similar, we have a background both in Southampton and maybe in the Championship, maybe this is the reason why people see this. But if you compare the styles, you will find a lot of different things.\u201d<\/p>\n
Martin\u2019s possession-based strategy came in for fierce criticism as Rangers got off to a worst start in almost 50 years.<\/p>\n
One win from eight league outings leaves the Ibrox club sixth and a mammoth 13 points behind leaders Hearts ahead of the visit of Killie.<\/p>\n
But Rohl has vowed to get his side rocking with an injection of urgency. He said: \u201cI think it’s very important to understand in which areas we have to speed up, but I like also to score after 10 seconds!<\/p>\n
\u201cI think this is exactly the picture you should have in mind when you look in the future at games from Rangers and from my team.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me, ball possession is not everything – it\u2019s about chances and goals, and for this, you need a direction that’s forward instead of backwards.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New boss is set for his home debut against Kilmarnock and is adamant he can turn the energy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[86566,2600,218,2718,54403,69158,2714,2715,8058,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-226026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-danny-rohl","tag-europa-league","tag-football","tag-kevin-thelwell","tag-kilmarnock-fc","tag-patrick-stewart","tag-rangers-fc","tag-russell-martin","tag-scottish-premiership","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Russell Martin had to be escorted to his car after his final game in charge of Rangers(Image: Daily Record)<\/p>\n