Rangers fans need to lay off Ryan Kent

Once again Ryan Kent is the subject for unfair criticism with fans taking to social media and Ibrox Noise channels to vent their dissatisfaction at the winger.

After he had a quiet match v Spurs, the usual fashionable criticism piped up calling him lazy, weak, and more and more joined this same bandwagon.

It’s true he wasn’t at his zippy best yesterday, but he certainly didn’t want for trying, and he WAS impressive against West Ham.

It seems to us a trend of the modern Rangers fan is to pick on players who don’t deserve it, when they have a singular match which is slightly below their normal standards.

The same fans, incidentally, singing the Kent song and espousing him for England after his Dortmund triumphs, are now pointing out how **** he is and how he should be dropped.

It’s true, the lad DOES need to sort his contract out – we understand he’s mulling it over but is happy and settled here.

But he’s becoming an increasingly easy target for criticism on the occasions he doesn’t set the heather alight.

It’s correct that he should face competition for his place – no player should be complacent (Connor, we’re looking at you) and the likes of Wright, Lawrence, Matondo etc will help keep Kenty checking the rear view mirror.

But if you had any doubt about Kent’s importance, we remind you of how bad Wright was early last season when the first choice got injured – the ex-Aberdeen man was a pale imitation of Kent, and very little was going down Rangers’ left at all.

This was when some fans, who have probably forgotten now, realised they took Kent a bit for granted, because his return was affectionately received.

Moral of the story?

Lay off Kent. There are players in our shirt justifying their places far less than the former Liverpool man is, and we’d very much miss him if he wasn’t there.