Butland: Rohl is putting Rangers on the right path

Rangers goalkeeper Jack Butland believes head coach Danny Rohl is putting the team on the right path – but the players need to be braver and help each other get to their preferred destination.

Rohl’s winning start to life in the Premiership came to a halt in his fifth game in charge when Rangers were held to a goalless home draw by Falkirk on Sunday.

Falkirk goalkeeper Scott Bain made an excellent stop from Djeidi Gassama but was otherwise relatively untroubled as Rangers failed to cut the nine-point gap on leaders Hearts and remained behind Motherwell over the weekend.

Butland feels Rangers are still trying to ride a period of instability after a major overhaul of the squad in the summer and having had four managers in 2025.

“I do think there are a lot of performances out there, people really trying and really trying to do the right things,” he said.

“Whether we did the right things as a team and do enough is obviously the question and the reason why the game finishes 0-0. I’m not going to question that.

“I think we have been in a really difficult period to start this season. So many things going on, lots of changes.

“I’m not trying to make excuses, what’s expected is better than what we’re producing. Having come off four league wins in a row, it’s not the result we want or should have got.

“I can’t sugarcoat it, I don’t want to use phrases about going again because I know what it means and I know what the fans are seeing – especially from a results or performance perspective – is not good enough.

“But what I do have is, I have belief in the manager. I believe in what he’s trying to do and I believe in the messages he’s trying to get across.

“As a group, we’ve got to do better at putting those messages on the pitch and perform better. Simple as that.”

Rangers have failed to win 15 of their last 24 home games and Butland believes the onus falls on all the players to solve the issues of creativity.

“It’s on all of us,” he said. “It’s on us as a team to make sure that we’re trying to get the forward players in the right positions, giving them support from behind, overlapping runs, putting them in good areas to go and be successful.

“We have to give them the confidence to go and express themselves and try and be the players that as a club we obviously think they can be.

“There wasn’t any well-worked tap-in, we didn’t get anyone in a real position to go and find that confidence.

“We’ve got to put each other in better positions, help each other out a lot more in the final third to make things clearer and more obvious for people and we need to take a few more risks and be braver because ultimately, what happens if you don’t? It just becomes the same.”

Meanwhile, Rangers have announced the planned appointment of Jonathan Hunter-Barrett as academy director will not proceed.

Hunter-Barrett was due to join Rangers from Wolves, where he previously worked with Kevin Thelwell, who last week lost his job as Ibrox sporting director.