Inspired by one Rangers fans describing Ben Davies as ‘excellent’, Ibrox Noise has to wonder what happened to many of our supporters that the downgrade from Carlos Cuellar to Ben Davies is regarded as nothing of the sort.

We understand it is a different era, where Rangers do struggle to sign the quality of the Spaniard, where the David Weirs are also tougher to come by, but we cannot help but wonder what psychology of some of our supporters would endorse someone like Ben Davies as ‘excellent’, and proclaim a player of his limited quality to be Rangers standard.

And we think we do know where this nonsense began.

Rangers supporters generally back our players (well, the manager anyway). And this was never more prevalent than when Fraser Aird, Darren Cole and Emilson Cribari were ‘strutting’ their stuff in Scotland’s then-Third Division.

As fans it was our job to back the players, to project that they were Rangers players and therefore by the simple wearing of our shirt, Sebastian Faure was good enough.

It was seen with outrage and confusion when Celtic crushed us at Hampden in 2015 and Lee McCulloch and Darren McGregor were our defence, and this lack of reconciliation is why today someone like Ben Davies is deemed ‘excellent’.

Some of our fans simply accept substandard players like him, Scott Wright, and other blatantly sub-par players as ‘Rangers Standard’ because they feel it’s their duty to back the players blindly, as they felt it was in 2012-.

This is not to dismiss Rangers supporters backing their team, we at Ibrox Noise are guilty of the same thing. Shock horror!

But we also know when players fall well short of being good enough, and Ben Davies, Wright and Tom Lawrence are just three of the examples.

The one barometer we offer of ‘Rangers Standard’ is ‘would Walter have used this player?’.

After all, the great man selected Kirk Broadfoot of all players, and he did a job.

But there’s a difference.

When you have one or two weaker players among 9 or 10 strong Rangers-level players, it makes those 9 or 10 elevate their levels even higher – play as a team, help out the weaker links and push through 110%. It’s as much character and team-building as much as anything else.

We don’t really think we have the quality of Rangers level among too many of our best players these days to make that compensation for the Wrights and Davieses.

We don’t have 9 or 10 Rangers level players to compensate for the one or two weaker guys.

So to label Ben Davies AS one of those Rangers Level players when he and many others players is nothing of the sort strikes us as borderline wokism.

To back and support any rubbish, blinding one’s self to how rubbish they are and portraying them as outstanding and mock and slaughter anyone calling them out as far from it.

Davies isn’t a completely horrible player, but he falls well short, as Wright does, of Rangers standard.

But unlike Walter’s day, we don’t have a Rangers level squad to hide that weaker aspect of it.

Would Walter have used Davies? Maybe. But he had Davie Weir and Carlos Cuellar as well as Barry Ferguson, Sasa Papac and Allan Hutton around him.

Champions.

We don’t have these now.

So Ben Davies or any other weaker player isn’t ‘excellent’. They’re just a mediocre player who can’t believe their luck getting £30,000 at Ibrox.

It would be a sad day when the new Rangers level WAS Ben Davies.