Our resident Rangers legend on all the action from Govan

STEVEN GERRARD spoke to his players on Tuesday morning and stressed to them the importance of discipline after Scott Arfield got Rangers’ seventh red card of the season against Hearts.

But then Alfredo Morelos was sent off for the third time – one of which was rescinded we have to say– as we lost 1-0 to Aberdeen on Wednesday.

The manager is clearly not happy with the disciplinary record right now and I am sure he will be making that point again to the squad.

But sometimes it doesn’t matter how much you talk to players, because in the spur of the moment they do things that they shouldn’t.

When there is a 50-50 ball there, you don’t suddenly think ‘the manager says we need to not get sent off’. You can’t pull out of a tackle.

But it will be the silly cards that we have picked up, like Morelos’s second booking for flicking out at Graeme Shinnie, that will really annoy Steven. That is avoidable.

What can the manager do about that though? He can talk to players until he is blue in the face, but people will always have moments of madness when they are caught up in the game.

How many times have you seen a ball go into the box and the defender puts his arm up or punches it away? People say ‘what is he doing?’

But he doesn’t know. It just happened. The ball was there and he did it.

That can be the same with players when it comes to red cards and Alfredo will know himself that he can’t do things like that and expect to get away with it. He has got to learn.

It is great that he is scoring goals and he has probably been the best striker in Scotland this season. But if he is not on the park then he is no use to Rangers. Steven needs him up front, not