GERRARD ADMITS THAT HE’S ‘RUNNING OUT OF THINGS TO DO TO ADDRESS DISCIPLINE’

3 FROM BACK PAGE on to play in midfield with ten minutes left. Mcgregor will now miss the final Old Firm derby of the season on Sunday and will be suspended for a further two matches, which means his ban will extend into next season.

Gerrard, pictured, believes Rangers’ entire season has been sabotaged by a total of 12 red cards – five of them picked up by one player, Alfredo Morelos. Mcgregor has now picked up two – he was handed a retrospective red card and two-game ban after kicking out at Lewis Ferguson against Aberdeen in February.

“I am open to advice, if anyone wants to give me any,” said Gerrard afterwards. “I am sure the players are sick of listening to my [broken] record on discipline and talking about it.

“If you look at our performance today and over the 90 minutes and again another discipline problem, it is probably the reason why we are not talking about success.

“This game is hard enough with 11. Hibs come, they are organised, they are on a run of ten games, you have got Celtic across the park who are unbeaten from new year. The job is hard enough and the games are hard enough so you need to be disciplined and you need to keep your best players on the pitch.

“They are not helping themselves, the players,” he added. “But I am running out of things to do to address it. I don’t want to be one of these managers that takes money out of the players’ pockets. They have got families and that is not the type of man I am, but they are leaving me with no other option.”

Gerrard’s ten men managed to close out a fifth successive victory and will host Celtic, who secured the league title on Saturday with a 3-0 win at Aberdeen, on Sunday. Asked whether there were plans to give Celtic a guard of honour when they come out at Ibrox, Gerrard replied: “Have I got plans? I don’t know, I haven’t spoken to them about it.”

Paul Heckingbottom, meanwhile, watched his side lose for the first time in the league since taking over at Hibs. They can no longer finish fourth which means their hopes of European qualification have been extinguished.

“When I came in no one was speaking about it [Europe] – it was just hopefully making the top six,” he said. “We did that with a game to spare and kept in the hunt. It was always a big ask.”