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Rangers boss Russell Martin(Image: SNS Group)<\/p>\nThe former Ibrox striker and coach was in the stands on Tuesday night as Gers crashed to a 3-1 defeat to Club BruggeRangers boss Russell Martin(Image: SNS Group)<\/p>\n
Billy Dodds admits he’s been taken aback by how quickly the Rangers support appears to have turned on Russell Martin<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ibrox turned toxic on Tuesday night as Club Brugge stormed to an early three-goal lead to all but crush Gers’ hopes of reaching the Champions League proper<\/a>.<\/p>\n Martin’s men were booed throughout the game and thousands of disgusted punters even flooded for the exits before half-time.<\/p>\n The Light Blues did produce a spirited performance after the interval, but the stadium was almost empty by the time the final whistle blew.<\/p>\n Former striker Dodds – who was part of Barry Ferguson’s interim coaching staff last season – was stunned at the furious reaction from the stands.<\/p>\n He told Go Radio: “I’ve never seen en masse so many supporters turn on him, or not happy with the situation and show him that they aren’t happy with where Rangers<\/a> are.<\/p>\n “I’ve never seen this early in the season, the crowd get to Russell Martin or the players at times, the way they are doing.”<\/p>\n Dodds claims Martin did himself no favours by pointing out that “there has been fragility in this club for a long, long time.”<\/a><\/p>\n He added: “I think Rangers fans are desperate to cling onto something, and then as a collective they are desperate for the team to do well and they’re frustrated.<\/p>\n “I get that Russell is coming out after the game and is trying to be positive, but the one thing about it is he’s saying it’s been vulnerable and fragile before.<\/p>\n “But the one thing he’s got to be careful with, he’s made ten signings. Rangers fans want to see progression in between that. He’s talking about the fragility?<\/p>\n “When he was saying it, I was thinking three out of the back four were his signings and loan signings on top of that.<\/p>\n “The Rangers fans want to see the fragility slowly but surely go and they’re not. They saw it last night worse than it’s ever been.<\/p>\n “When there’s going to be pain as Russell Martin said, they want to see progression within that pain and I don’t think they are seeing that so far.”<\/p>\n Tune in to Hotline Live<\/a> every Sunday to Thursday and have your say on the biggest issues in Scottish football and listen to Record Sport’s newest podcast, Game On<\/a>, every Friday for your sporting fix, all in bitesize chunks.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former Ibrox striker and coach was in the stands on Tuesday night as Gers crashed to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1614,1946,28104,1638,7081,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-360299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-champions-league","9":"tag-rangers-fc","10":"tag-russell-martin","11":"tag-scottish-premiership","12":"tag-scottish-professional-football-league","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115063007961473857","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}