SAYS RYAN JACK
RYAN JACK offered a brutally honest assessment of Rangers’ display on Saturday and insisted they can have no complaints if their big-game mentality is being questioned.
Graeme Murty’s men dominated Hamilton Accies until conceding a shocking goal early in the second half and then proceeded to panic and allow the increasingly disgruntled 49,000 crowd to get to them before losing a second goal.
It was enough to hand the Lanarkshire outfit their first league win at Ibrox since 1926 and added to a horror list of results that has seen Rangers win
It just shows that when you take your eye off the ball teams can hurt us RYAN JACK DAVID McCARTHY
only two of their seven home matches in this campaign. Jack was one of the few Rangers players to emerge with any credit from a match that saw Alfredo Morelos miss a host of chances and Ross McCrorie gift David Templeton the opening goal.
But he believes finger pointing and playing the blame game within the dressing room would be counterproductive and insisted that will never happen.
The midfielder said: “Alfredo is a good lad and we’re all here for each other. It’s not just Alfredo, we’ve had a disappointing result here and we all just have to stick together as a team.
“A few of us have spoken to Ross and told him everyone makes mistakes. That’s football and it’s part of the game.
“I told him I’m the first one to hold my hands up. I’ve made mistakes in my career and it’s how you react and respond that counts.
“He’s got a really mature head on him so I’m sure if he’s selected this week he will put that right.
“It’s important we don’t come away from here blaming each other, falling out and arguing.
“It’s about sticking together and getting back around each other in training and making sure we show a reaction.” Jack admitted he couldn’t believe Rangers lost a game they’d controlled throughout the first half but he knows the response to conceding the first goal leaves his side wide open to accusations of being mentally weak.
He added: “We dominated and created lots of opportunities. In the first half we were miles ahead of Hamilton and created gilt-edged chances.
“We had a real spring in our step and we were all together. At half-time we said we had to just do more of the same, keep doing what we were doing and the goal would come.
“Obviously, it’s then a sore one to take. We’ve had a chance to beat Hamilton at home and put on another good performance which I think we did in the first half.
“We didn’t get the goal, fair enough, that happens. But I think when we lose the goal there are