DONE DEAL:Rangers and Celtic agreed terms and conditions over a young star under 20

The ever-expanding football calendar is often moaned about by players and managers alike with Rangers no different in terms of having a packed schedule.

Philippe Clement’s time looks up as Rangers manager but can’t have any excuses about the recent fixture list affecting his plans.

The defeat to St Mirren is bad enough, but it is made even worse when you consider that it is now part of a worrying trend for Rangers.

Philippe Clement had a whole week to prepare shambolic Rangers

It is a season of records for all the wrong reasons.

The Buddies first win at Ibrox since 1991 wasn’t pretty, it wasn’t particularly hard fought either.

It was physical and it was direct and Rangers simply didn’t ask enough questions.

Bizarre, when you consider what Clement said when asked if the players need to take more responsibility:

“It’s everybody. In the first place me. We had a plan for this game,” claimed the Gers boss.

It was a good training week with good quality, and I didn’t see that back today. I need to find out the reasons for that and to find solutions.”

A full week to prepare and implement a game plan against a team who play the simplest and most obvious of tactics every time they play Rangers?

What message is Clement trying to get across in training?

What has been going on at the training ground?

This isn’t the first time either.

Rangers drew 1-1 with Dundee Utd earlier in the season, then lost to Queen’s Park, both times, they had the full week off to rest, recover and prepare.

On each occasion, the performance was a shambles.

Slow, laboured, one-dimensional, lacking inspiration or any ideas, despite spending the last three weeks from Monday to Friday on the training ground.