Many believe Philippe Clement is now holding onto the Rangers job by the skin of his teeth.
The Belgian narrowly avoided back-to-back defeats against St Mirren and Motherwell and the comeback to draw with the Steelmen may just have saved his job.
Not many Gers bosses can survive consecutive displays and results like that, especially with how far behind in the title race the club already are.
Hamza Igamane’s double earned a point at Fir Park and while that is still far from ideal, there are at least slight positives to take and shows the players are still fighting for the manager and the cause.
With Celtic up next on Thursday, they will need to show the same fight again.
Rangers fans have already turned on the manager again and are urging new CEO Patrick Stewart to act with the manager’s position now ‘untenable’.
Clement himself admits the Gers board need to make a decision as he was quizzed on the potential for losing his job.
While Kris Boyd has slaughtered the Belgian and claims his reliance on sports science advice when picking his team could get him the sack.
Now, Ross McCormack insists Clement is under “sever pressure.”
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Ross McCormack on how Clement is still Rangers manager
In fact, the Rangers academy product thinks the manager may already have been sacked if not for two factors.
One being the obvious in that the side battled back to claim a draw with Motherwell instead of losing the game.
But the fact that the next game is a derby may just have saved his skin too.
McCormack told the BBC’s Scottish Football Podcast: “I think he’s under severe pressure to be honest with you.
“I look at it and probably say that he’s lucky about two things. It’s the Old Firm game next, if it wasn’t I think they could have made a change after the Motherwell game but I don’t think you can do that before an Old Firm game. Too much havoc would be caused.
“Also I think, and Rangers fans won’t agree with it, but the difference in coming back from 2-0 down and getting 2-2, you can get a lot more positives out of that than you can if you got beat”.
What Clement has said about Rangers sack prospect
”I’m not concerned,” Clement insisted after the Motherwell game.
”Because I’m only busy with the team and we knew before this season what a challenging project this would be.
”On that side, it’s difficult to speak about that because you will not understand and people outside maybe will not understand.
”But there’s been an evolution made. The last two games not, for sure not.
”And we have hurt ourselves in that way but there were good games the last couple of weeks where the team showed the potential.
”In that way there are already teams interested in some players for the future, what we didn’t have the last two years.
”So we’re taking steps but you cannot speak about that after losing points against St Mirren and Motherwell, I know.
”We hurt ourselves, we, that’s the players, staff, me, altogether, the responsibility that we get these goals against.
”The difficulty in that is that is that’s it’s avoidable individual mistakes in that moment and two times the opponent kills it off directly, not missing the chance but they directly score.
”So we need to work hard now to in a few days be much more resilient and much more determined in these defensive actions.
”That’s going to be one part of the game but also of course with the ball, to show what theory showed in this cup final.”
