Steven Gerrard has admitted confidence levels are at rock bottom in the Rangers dressing room.
Gerrard struggled to come up with answers after his team's latest disturbing collapse allowed David Moyo to hand Hamilton a shock 1-0 win in Glasgow - just their second in Govan in the last 94 years.
The Rangers boss had urged his players to prove they had the nerve required to win trophies after seeing them dumped out of the Scottish Cup with defeat to Hearts on Saturday, but Gerrard was left desolate after suffering successive losses for the first time under his tenure.
He said: "Where do we start?" We have just given three points away, it's as simple as that. I'm not really sure I've got that many words to describe it.
"I didn't think I could be more disappointed than I was after Hearts - but here I am, even more disappointed than I was a few days ago. I laid down the gauntlet before the game and will continue to do that.
"But I have a dressing room that's shot of confidence. We have played ourselves into a rut and I've got a real tough, tough job to pick that up and improve it from here.
"I've been in dressing rooms where confidence is shot and things are not great. I'm not going to say this is the first time I've experienced that. But the dressing room is very quiet at the moment."
Rangers could have taken advantage of Celtic's draw at Livingston but instead find themselves 13 points adrift of Neil Lennon's champions-elect and have dropped 13 points in the last five weeks.
Gerrard added: "Myself and my staff are flat because we are doing everything we can. We are trying to change formations and personnel, doing different things in training to try and lift and put confidence into them.
"We lacked desire and commitment at the weekend which was really tough to take. I don't think we lacked that tonight. Tonight was more about quality and taking your chances.
"If you don't take them, you always leave yourself wide open to someone going and scoring against you. Credit to Brian and his team, they've done that. We've got a lot to do - a big, big lot."
Bacon-man
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it's so frustrating, after the win over Celtic I really thought we had closed the gap and where in for a title run in, now we may as well keep one eye on Aberdeen and the rest. been supporting this club since I was a little boy which wasn't an easy thing growing up Scottish born but living in South Africa in the late eighties and nineties we had no internet or Twitter to follow the games so I had to wait for match magazine to arrive here two weeks after it got releasing in the UK. at least now we get th Europa games on TV but have to watch the league games on pirate sites unfortunately. away now I'm almost 42 and have decided to move back to the UK in the next few months, I really hope the first time I step foot into Ibrox the team is playing better, would like to remember it for good reasons not bad.
I hope they play better for your return, ibrox hasn’t been the same recently.
Bacon-man
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it's so frustrating, after the win over Celtic I really thought we had closed the gap and where in for a title run in, now we may as well keep one eye on Aberdeen and the rest. been supporting this club since I was a little boy which wasn't an easy thing growing up Scottish born but living in South Africa in the late eighties and nineties we had no internet or Twitter to follow the games so I had to wait for match magazine to arrive here two weeks after it got releasing in the UK. at least now we get th Europa games on TV but have to watch the league games on pirate sites unfortunately. away now I'm almost 42 and have decided to move back to the UK in the next few months, I really hope the first time I step foot into Ibrox the team is playing better, would like to remember it for good reasons not bad.
What I find frustrating is the mistakes we make keep getting made again and again. The players just don’t care. They don’t understand our pain, they only want the European bonuses, that’s why we only play well in Europe. Might as well play the youth team, they would show much more intent than this lot.
mcwill40
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We’re far too predictable these days. Gerrard just won’t switch tactics
it's so frustrating, after the win over Celtic I really thought we had closed the gap and where in for a title run in, now we may as well keep one eye on Aberdeen and the rest. been supporting this club since I was a little boy which wasn't an easy thing growing up Scottish born but living in South Africa in the late eighties and nineties we had no internet or Twitter to follow the games so I had to wait for match magazine to arrive here two weeks after it got releasing in the UK. at least now we get th Europa games on TV but have to watch the league games on pirate sites unfortunately. away now I'm almost 42 and have decided to move back to the UK in the next few months, I really hope the first time I step foot into Ibrox the team is playing better, would like to remember it for good reasons not bad.
Bacon-man
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too many players comfortable in their positions picking up a wage and doing nothing. drop tav and Goldson for a start. neither of them should even see the captain's armband again. Gerrard's lack of change has cost us the league, fails to change his tactics and has been found out. losing to the league's bottom two clubs in the space of four days just shows that his tactics are not working. suppose it's going to be another bleeding heart society interview from him again. two years worth of progress has been binned in two terrible months, not surprised Ibrox was so quiet and emptied out towards the end. unless Gerrard can turn this around I doubt you will see him in the Liverpool dugout one day, he goes through the motions but I don't think he has was it takes to be a top class manager. ok rant over.
We’re far too predictable these days. Gerrard just won’t switch tactics
Bacon-man
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The sad thing is, as soon as I saw the lineup I saw this coming. WE NEED TO PLAY 4-4-2 IN SCOTTISH GAMES. It worked for 30 minutes against St Johnstone and as soon as we switched back to 4-4-3. Gerrard has admitted that the players lack in confidence, yet he continues to choose the same starting 11
mcwill40
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too many players comfortable in their positions picking up a wage and doing nothing. drop tav and Goldson for a start. neither of them should even see the captain's armband again. Gerrard's lack of change has cost us the league, fails to change his tactics and has been found out. losing to the league's bottom two clubs in the space of four days just shows that his tactics are not working. suppose it's going to be another bleeding heart society interview from him again. two years worth of progress has been binned in two terrible months, not surprised Ibrox was so quiet and emptied out towards the end. unless Gerrard can turn this around I doubt you will see him in the Liverpool dugout one day, he goes through the motions but I don't think he has was it takes to be a top class manager. ok rant over.