Do THESE stats spell trouble for Rangers?

As Rangers fans are only too well aware, one recently-appointed manager has stood out in the SPL head and shoulders above the rest. Unfortunately for Rangers, it isn’t Graeme Murty.

Kilmarnock’s Steve Clarke has had a quite extraordinary impact at Rugby Park, becoming, since October, Scotland’s most influential manager above even Brendan Rodgers, and going past Graeme Murty on pure performance.

Here are the ‘power’ rankings for the SPL – albeit it is not 100% clear if that is for the whole season, since October or the latest round of matches. Either way it doesn’t look good for Murty and looks peachy for Clarke.

More clear is this:

Second only to Celtic, Kilmarnock have won more points per game since Clarke’s appoint than anyone in Scotland, including Rangers.

That is the singlemost damning stat against Graeme Murty and his performance. He is being outperformed by a fellow SPL rookie who only has a 20th (if even) of the resources Murty has at his disposal.

Rangers fans who think Murty is good enough need only look at how much better a job Clarke is doing with far less budget.

Furthermore, the two have both been in charge for 21 matches in total – and Clarke has taken considerably more points from top six sides in that time than Murty has. Both have taken 40 points, but naturally Murty has superior tools at his disposal than Clarke, and has performed less well with them.

We’ve nothing against Murty, but he isn’t a Rangers manager. We still get messages here at Ibrox Noise telling us to give him more time and he deserves fans’ support.

And we held off from any judgement till early March, as was our promise. But these stats are damning, and it seems to be a recurring theme at Ibrox.

Pedro got outperformed by the likes of Steve Robinson, Derek McInnes and Tommy Wright, while Mark Warburton was outclassed by Wright and Robbie Neilson.

Now Murty’s being undone by Clarke. Simply put, Rangers’ managers these days just aren’t good enough to be Rangers managers. Celtic brought in an ex-Liverpool manager with Champions League experience who was a slip away from winning the EPL. Killie bring in an experienced ex-Chelsea assistant coach. Rangers brought in a Portuguese guy no one had heard of then replaced him with the youth coach.

And we wonder why we struggle?