These seem to be coming earlier and earlier each year!
After today's defeat, Rangers find themselves 7 points behind Celtic. That means that if they change their manager now, the new guy has it within his power to win the league - just win all your games, and it's job done. If Rangers lose one more game, that is no longer the case and they'll need someone to do them a favour.
(Of course, the current Rangers team are in no shape to win all their remaining games, but that's another issue - I'm just talking about the mathematics of the situation.)
Since Michael Beale is clearly not the solution they need, and isn't going to make it to the end of the season, that means the time to act is now. But there's a really big problem: if you're going to change manager, you need to find someone better. And in this case that someone must be able to take this group of players through to the January transfer window without dropping any points, and then must be able to get through the rest of the season with, most likely, only nominal rebuilding (because Rangers spent all their money backing Beale).
It's really hard to think who they could get in that circumstance.
And yet, do it they must.
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