Where did it all go wrong *this* time for Stevie’s Rangers?

We’ll try not to be knee jerk given the match is still fresh in our memories, but for two performances in a row to be that diabolically poor is deeply worrying.

Ibrox Noise warned weeks and weeks ago to much disagreement that Steven Gerrard’s tactics of attacking his players every chance he got was not a good idea, and wouldn’t work long term.

We appeared to be wrong as a fine run of seven unbeaten appeared before us, including six wins, but somehow the grit of those results has vanished and been replaced with a complete lack of heart, desire and effort on the part of the entire squad.

Something has changed inside the past four or five days – Gerrard complained his instructions were not being followed post-match on Wednesday, and if yesterday’s atrocity against McIntyre’s men was anything to go by, even less listening has been done since.

The players appeared lethargic, the off-ball movement was borderline non-existent, and the shape was all over the place.

It was supposed to be a 4-2-3-1 we believe, but half the time it was a 4-1-4-1 or a 4-1-5. In short, it was a hell of a mess and Dundee had it easily covered.

We have to question why Gerrard’s raft of changes drew exactly the same worrying lack of response from the players.

Six changes from Wednesday and a continued lack of spark or invention.

Seventh-placed Aberdeen and bottom-placed Dundee were meant to be two of the most winnable matches we had this month, and we’ve failed twice.

Mercifully teams around us have completely let us off the hook – with Hearts’ table topping season long gone and Kilmarnock being completely gubbed by Celtic on Saturday, we still, despite one point of six, have managed to in fact go back to second place.

But there’s only so long we’ve get a reprieve like this when our own house is not in order.

And it’s even more frustrating to imagine that two wins in the past two and we’d still be top – that a win yesterday and we’d be level on points with Celtic at the top.

So Gerrard can consider this a let off – but his team right now is not delivering and his own tactics don’t seem to be much cop either.

Worrying.