Gerrard has put a solid time frame on crucial Rangers judgement

Steven Gerrard has today partially back up Ibrox Noise’s assertion of time frame over just how long we can wait before judging that Rangers have truly turned a corner in terms of results and consistency.

We have always felt on the site that until we go six months of consistency and challenging at the top of the SPL, we can’t really make any judgements, but Gerrard has gone further.

Speaking before tomorrow’s crunch clash with Villarreal, the manager dismissed the idea of Ibrox being a ‘fortress’ until a full season has elapsed and the consistency and results remain.

He said:

“I think it takes a long period of time to become a fortress, it’s still early days of course, our form is really good and strong at home but I think you judge your home form over the course of a season.”

Naturally, any team is judged by their home form – it’s the bread and butter of basic performance, and we can’t disagree with Gerrard in saying we should judge ours next May. We still think six months is a fair amount of time to form opinion on it though, so by early February while we may have an idea or two, we would equally say the end of the season is the final judgement.

On that front though things are decent at present.