RAGING Rangers skipper James Tavernier branded the 3-0 defeat to Brann Bergen a DISGRACE.
The Ibrox side produced yet another diabolical Europa League performance to lose in Norway.
New boss Danny Rohl was forced to apologise to angry fans – with club captain Tav letting rip with an astonishing blast at his team-mates.
He slammed: “It’s just a disgraceful performance, it’s as simple as that.
“In all the years I’ve been here, with the consistency of poor performance that we’re putting in, I’ve not experienced it before.
“Some of us show our aggression after the games, AFTER we get beat.
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“You expect all the lads to take that in.
“But individually, we all have to look at ourselves much, much harder because it’s not good enough.
“You can get instructions from managers, but we simply have to put that on the pitch.
“We were just second-best. Be it first ball, second balls, there was just not enough fight.
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“And I shouldn’t be saying that for a player of a club like Rangers. That should be the given.
“You should want to fight, to go for every ball.
“Even if it’s a scrappy game, you’ve got to make it a scrappy game, but it’s just far too easy at this minute playing against us, and that’s the hurtful thing about this all.
“With games like last weekend, we put in a performance for 45 minutes, but we can’t make that consistent for 90 minutes.
“Today, we created a couple of chances in the first-half but then we conceded.
“We knew when we came in at half-time that we could obviously get back into this game.
“But then we conceded two more bad goals from ourselves, so we’re just shooting ourselves here.”
Tavernier now insists the struggling Gers players should be worried for their Ibrox future.
He added: “Everybody should be. You should be playing for the shirt. You come to this club to play, it’s an honour to come and play for this club.
“You want to make history playing for this club, but that’s nowhere near the required standard that we showed tonight.
“And yes the manager has come in. And we’ve only had only a couple of days on the training pitch. He can only can give certain instructions, but us as ourselves have to put that on the pitch.
“He can give us the best opportunity, but it comes within as a player to fight, to give it your all, that’s within.
“I don’t think that’s something that’s taught. I think you’ve either got it or you haven’t, and we’re just clearly not showing that at this moment in time.
“I’m raging. This is what I’m saying, it’s the first time I’ve been in this position, being at this club, and the amount of consistent games were on a certain basic levels, we’ve not been performing.
“And that’s what’s making me rage.
“The amount of chats that we’ve had after games, you want it to sink into the players’ heads.
“But it just isn’t at the minute, and that’s what I’m raging at.
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“I hope they are feeling the same but I’m obviously not in their heads.
“But we need to fix this, and the only way we can do this is by everyone playing for the shirt, chipping in and giving their all.”
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