Danny Rohl's Ibrox unveiling offered little to ease concerns over those above him in the pecking order at Rangers

Well, were you convinced by Kevin Thelwell and Patrick Stewart when they broke cover at the official unveiling of new Rangers head coach Danny Rohl?

Yeah, thought so. It all felt about as reassuring as the Indian bloke who just cold-called you on the mobile promising that giving him the password to your online banking is the very best way to make sure your laptop works properly in future.

Sporting director Thelwell’s admission that he maybe didn’t realise exactly how big Rangers were before he stepped across the threshold rang alarm bells. 

Or, rather, even more alarm bells than he’s already set off during his short time in the building.

It just adds to the suspicion — given the number of sub-standard players he subsequently brought in from the English market — that the scale of the challenge and the unique circumstances of football in Glasgow were neither researched with rigour nor taken seriously enough.

His tag-team effort with chairman Andrew Cavenagh, who really needs to learn how to pronounce his new manager’s name, in trying to justify the £8million signing — possibly rising to £10m if he ever does anything of any note — of Youssef Chermiti was just bemusing.

In a nutshell, the reasoning from inside Rangers is that centre-forwards cost an awful lot of money and you’ve just got to accept the need to spend bombs on young ones even if they’re not the best players in your squad.

Hamza Igamane — bought for £1.5m and sold for £10.4m — knocks that theory on the head right away. 

It’s nuts to suggest you need to commit £10m to a 21-year-old who has done nothing of any significance at all in senior football to turn a profit over time.

That’s eight outings and three starts now for Chermiti and, even at this early stage, it’s difficult to see anyone ever coming in to break the bank for him. Right now, you couldn’t give the laddie away in a Lucky Bag.

Thelwell has now spent well over £20m on this guy — initially for Everton and now for Rangers. In the two-and-a-half seasons since he signed him from Sporting Lisbon after a handful of starts, he has managed one goal. In an EFL Trophy game. Against Mansfield Town.

It’s crazy. He must understand the optics of it all. Just as he says he understood the optics of his 26-year-old son Robbie becoming Rangers’ head of recruitment — even though both he and the board decided to give it the OK anyway.

As Thelwell carried on digging a hole for himself, admitting criticism of his recruitment was understandable and stating that young Robbie will work ‘25/8’ for the club — or else have his pocket money taken away, presumably — Stewart was stuck at the very end of the top table in the Rangers media room like a naughty schoolboy caught shoving bog roll down the lavvy and flooding the toilets.

Honestly, has this guy got anything right since he took over as CEO under the old regime?

In a press call that left more questions than answers, Rohl refused to discuss why he pulled out of the running for the head coach’s job before performing a U-turn and saying ‘yes’.

At least he was clear after all Thelwell’s talk about believing in these dud players he’s signed was blown out of the water with that embarrassing three-goal tanking at Brann Bergen in the Europa League.

Rohl wasn’t interested in talking about positives afterwards. He stated it simply isn’t appropriate when you’ve just been taken apart by such mediocre opposition. All previous chat about being encouraged by what he’d seen in training had gone. He looked mildly shellshocked.

If the guy makes a fist of this with the squad foisted upon him, good on him.

Until then, expect Thelwell and Stewart to keep getting absolute dog’s abuse from brassed-off punters in airports and car parks and team hotels near you. They’ve got it coming with their latest appearances having offered nothing to stem the overwhelming tide of public opinion stating that they need to be washed out of Ibrox next.