{"id":722043,"date":"2026-08-01T02:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T02:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/722043\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T02:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T02:37:14","slug":"same-start-but-different-outlook-at-rangers-era-begins-for-mcinnes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/722043\/","title":{"rendered":"Same start but different outlook at Rangers era begins for McInnes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Rangers striker Steven Thompson agreed with McInnes that there is no need to panic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not the result Rangers wanted, but it is a point away from home at a difficult venue,&#8221; he said on BBC Radio Scotland. &#8220;Other teams will come here and find it very difficult.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;At this point in the season, there&#8217;s no knee-jerk [reaction] or anything here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not what McInnes wants, but it&#8217;s the first game of the season. There will be time to judge once he gets the players he wants and once he gets more work done on the training ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He will have learned a lot from his players tonight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On a night where Pandur, centre-back Ben Godfrey and former Hearts duo Cammy Devlin and Lawrence Shankland all made their debuts from the start, it was a glimpse into what this new-look Rangers side might look like under McInnes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Summer signings Dan Neil and Ross McCrorie also came on as substitutes and McInnes made it clear there will be further additions in the weeks to come.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, former Rangers man Andy Halliday saw what he believes to have been flaws in McInnes&#8217; tactical set-up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;No matter how many defenders you play with, the main fundamental is being compact, and I thought Rangers were the furthest thing from compact,&#8221; he said on Sportsound.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;All the best individuals, other than Thelo Aasgaard, were Dundee United players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Rangers are a work in progress, I think they&#8217;ll still make additions to try and improve, but it certainly wasn&#8217;t the start they were looking for.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Rangers striker Steven Thompson agreed with McInnes that there is no need to panic. &#8220;It&#8217;s not the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-722043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722043","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=722043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}