Haunted Philippe Clement faces Rangers Judgement Day | OneFootball

Rangers scraped a painful win against a ‘plucky’ St Mirren who frankly deserved more than they got, in another episode of how poor Philippe Clement’s side is domestically.

For a long time of this one many Rangers fans were into ‘fighting for third place’ territory, and in truth, we probably are despite that brilliant Dessers assist and shrewd Cerny finish to seal the points at Ibrox on Sunday.

To know for sure Rangers’ place, Wednesday probably goes down as the biggest match against Aberdeen in years.

Clement hasn’t won at Pittodrie yet, a single point in one visit his reward around a year ago, that draw of course being his first dropped points as Rangers manager. That day saw Connor Goldson and Leon Balogun being given the runaround by ex-Dons striker Bojan Miovski with Clement demonstrating suicidal tactics and not for the first time.

The sad thing is, Rangers are in a far worse place today, and Aberdeen are in a far better one as we prepare to travel up there again, and the Dons are buoyed by their brilliant point at Parkhead showing, almost certainly, that they’re the real deal right now.

So where do things stand?

If Clement doesn’t take full points up north, his already shoogly peg gets even shooglier and it has to be Eric Ten Tag territory.

Post-match Ibrox Noise held a straw poll and while the minority of Happy Clappers did of course abuse the page for the question, 90% of all replies wanted Clement gone – the win over St Mirren did nothing to quell fears that the Belgian is the wrong man, and we’d say Wednesday is Judgement Day for him.

If Clement cannot take full points off a side above us, cannot claw back some of the deficit that Rangers suffer behind the Pittodrie side, it will surely be endgame for him.

If Rangers end up 9 points behind Aberdeen come Wednesday night, there can be no further case for his continued employment at Ibrox.

It doesn’t matter that Aberdeen are even pushing Celtic, it matters that Rangers are 6 points behind both at this point, and that needs arrested.

Wednesday has become mammoth for Clement and Rangers – victory would be a massive scalp, and that in itself is a sad thing to say that the scalp is Aberdeen, and not Rangers this season.

Things have to change.