As we all know now, Rangers did not quite manage to score enough goals to go clear on goal difference, with a staggering 43 shots yielding just three goals, with George Wickens’ in County’s goal having a good night and managing 19 saves.

However, it’s worth pointing out very few of them were staggering saves, he simply did his job, and it was a depressing lack of conviction up front which saw that number of shots give just a hat trick of goals.

However, it does now indicate Rangers, under Philippe Clement, have definitively wiped out Celtic’s lead completely, and the Old Firm, for the first time in an age, are absolutely bang-level in every metric, meaning they’re joint top completely.

It also demonstrates a reset, and that everything Celtic did when Michael Beale was in charge is gone, and the league effectively begins all over again for both teams.

While we are absolutely disappointed we did not take the outright goal difference lead, and just one more goal would have secured that, it’s hard not to be happy to see the lead they had gone, and the quip of 7-up now completely gone.

We even remember one female timmy came on with a ‘mind the gap’ line after the side dropped two points at Aberdeen – we suspect types like her are not so cocky now.

Rangers’ display tonight was the same as so many recently – a bloodythirsty hungry first 15+ minutes, which then died out as the side failed to capitalise either on possession, chances or an early goal.

The equaliser from County was a calamity – abysmal defending from Connor Goldson, and equally bad positioning and lack of awareness from John Souttar. They’re not a terribly coherent pairing. But it was also a good goal – a fine cross and finish.

It was also ridiculously against the run of play, but then that’s how you get punished even by diabolically abysmal teams if you don’t take your (many) chances.

And Rangers were so wasteful this evening – Wickens was good for County, but Dino Zoff he isn’t, and just bad finishing stopped a cricket score. This, truly, should have been 10+ goals.

But sadly Rangers’ forwards just weren’t in the mood at all. Dessers wasted so many that despite a brace, he could have had 5. McCausland was woeful again, with zero decent crosses, zero dribbles, zero assists and zero much of anything aside a speck of defending. Matondo? Not a whole lot better.

The two who did have good evenings were the continuingly impressive Oscar Cortes, on for the second half, who already looks the most dangerous forward we have, and Todd Cantwell, who has found a tonne of form back and is looking infinitely more like his last season self.

But neither of them were able to assist or find the net, that was all down to Tavernier, who managed a ridiculous 3 assists in this one, with another 6 shots, 2 on target, and a comically-brilliant 8 key passes.

This one saw the number of fan mentions of Shankland through the roof, and while we’ve suggested on Ibrox Noise that we need to move on from the Hearts striker and the fact we didn’t get him, it won’t stop fans pining for him when we fail to convert literally dozens of chances.

It was both a good evening, and a bittersweet underwhelming one.

An evening we should have put 10 goals past County, we struggled to find 3.

We should be top of goal difference, but it wasn’t to be.

But you won’t find too many Celtic fans swarming our sites tonight, that’s for sure.