THIS week I am going to be mostly talking about lobsters and Guns. That is not gun-toting lobsters to be clear, I do not have that much crustacean-led creativity in me.

The author David Foster Wallace once wrote ‘Consider the Lobster’ and I invite you to do that same here as we think on Rangers’ successful midweek exertions in the last 16 of the Europa League in the boiling pot of Belgrade. Why the lobster? Well, they don’t disintegrate but change colour when the heat is on.

It should have been clear to many that even after a fantastic 3-0 victory over Red Star at Ibrox that the tie was far from over. The Serbians had created enough space and chances to have had hope of putting on the pressure if they got an early goal in the return.

As it turned out they were gifted one by some inept defending on the part of Rangers within the first 10 minutes when Mirko Ivanic was allowed to slot home in a crowded box. Not the managed start hoped for amongst the travelling contingent and for the next 35 minutes thereafter, the heat was definitely rising. Rangers were ropey, incoherent, ball-shy and positionally blinkered. Red Star could have found themselves two or three up were it not for man-of-the-tie Allan McGregor.

Rightly criticised this season for some blunders, McGregor at 40 retains the criteria that determine the difference between goalkeepers who save shots and goalkeepers who engender team-wide confidence. He’s not Andy Goram but he is a very close facsimile. For an example of someone who has regressed in that process think of David de Gea.

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The pressure was stultifying but like that lobster, the heat did not lead to destruction but transformation. For all the relatively limited performances lately, Rangers have battled through and now find themselves staring at what could be a glory run-in. Title neck and neck, Scottish Cup shoot-out and Europa League quarter-finals. No need to dare to dream, just enjoy a Rangers reality.

So, guns, and off to Dundee we go. Rangers were again limited, poor even, in their 2-1 win at Dens Park. A rare James Tavernier penalty miss (even rarer as he did not hit the target) and a late goal from a centre-back probably gave the performance flavour. Aaron Ramsey bagging his first goal, a highlight we hope has more tribute acts to follow in the run-in.

What does not need revisiting are the songs being sung in protest of the Sydney Super Cup. Protest is fine, and the cup needs cancelled, but let us not give away ammunition to cancel ourselves in the process. Why regress when we know all it will do is lead to punishment for the Club? Counter-intuitive does not begin to quite cover the extent of the own goal ahead if we continue.

Russian playwright Anton Chekov (yes, a Russian, not all great works must be eradicated because of the current Russian administration’s lawlessness) mused that if you show a gun in the first act of a play then it needs to be fired in the second act. I have often wondered why not just fire it there and then but that is perhaps why I don’t own a gun.

Giovanni van Bronckhorst has his own frontman firearm but is intent on leaving it to be fired in the last moments of the final act. The man in question is Kemar Roofe who once again popped up when needed in Dundee to inadvertently assist in both the equaliser and winner. There is no doubting his presence in and around the box leads to chances. Rangers need him in as a starter, and it remains strange van Bronckhorst does not agree. Perhaps fitness is the concern.

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So, to April, the fool’s month, and only a fool would predict what will happen. However, it is reasonable to expect the final course of Rangers’ season will be caught, cooked, and prepared over the upcoming 30 days. League Old Firm, Scottish Cup Old Firm and Braga quarter-final double header promise a feast of football. As Rangers dine at the business end restaurant of European football, pity the poor Scottish club fans who can only press their faces up against the glass outside and dream of what could be.

Final word and a return to the singing. The simple calculation is do you think your words have influence other than to allow the Club to be hammered? The answer is no by the way, and in the process, it makes us look small. If we continue with this senselessness the claws will come out and it will be us being served up on a plate.

Tommy is the managing editor of This Is Ibrox

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