The new matter of debate for Rangers followers proper now's whether or not they would take Europa League glory over retaining their Scottish Premiership crown.
Former Ibrox captain and Report Sport columnist Barry Ferguson mentioned final week that a 56th home title for his outdated membership needs to be the precedence.
Not many supporters would probably agree with that view because the Mild Blues look to win solely the second main European honour of their historical past on the fiftieth anniversary of their first.
And whereas bragging rights could be misplaced in the event that they got here second, they'd nonetheless safe the last word prize of Champions League group stage soccer subsequent season.
If Connor Goldson hadn’t come to the rescue along with his late winner at Dens Park on Sunday then they won't even have had a selection.
A 5 level deficit to leaders and rivals Celtic with seven video games to play, albeit two of them Outdated Agency showdowns, would have been an excessive amount of within the eyes of numerous followers.
However Goldson’s strike stored the hole at three factors and Giovanni van Bronckhorst can problem on three fronts.
Nonetheless, there isn't a doubt that a jam-packed schedule goes to check his Rangers squad to the complete..
It's going to change into a juggling act within the coming weeks with the video games coming thick and quick and gamers will probably must be rested.
Celtic and Rangers have each reached a European last within the final 14 years and on every event they missed out on the league title on a dramatic last day after shedding their respective finals - Celtic to Porto in 2003 and Rangers to Zenit St Petersburg 5 years later.
The quantity of video games was thought-about an element of their respective pursuit of European glory and that's the problem for Van Bronckhorst as he seems to be to achieve the Europa League last in Seville.
But there's a actual distinction in how the ultimate seven video games panned out for Celtic in 2002/03 and Rangers in 2007/08.
Whereas Walter Smith’s facet began flagging within the house straight - albeit they have been in 4 competitions at one level and performed 68 aggressive video games that season - it appeared give Martin O’Neill’s Hoops a lift.
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Austin McCann scored that memorable thunderous winner for Hearts towards Celtic at Tynecastle in April 2003 however that was their ONLY defeat within the last seven matches.
It nonetheless wasn’t sufficient for them to make up floor that had been misplaced earlier which might have been attributed to their European run.
In distinction, Rangers dropped 10 factors within the last seven matches in 2008 earlier than they summoned the vitality to finish the season on a excessive and raise the Scottish Cup.
Right here, as this present Rangers staff method their last seven league video games whereas additionally chasing Europa League and Scottish Cup glory we glance again on the leads to these seasons the place the Outdated Agency reached the UEFA Cup last.
Celtic 2002/03
Hearts 2 Celtic 1
Rangers 1 Celtic 2
Dunfermline 1 Celtic 4
Motherwell 0 Celtic 4
Celtic 1 Hearts 0
Celtic 6 Dundee 2
Kilmarnock 0 Celtic 4
Whole factors dropped in final seven video games - 3
Rangers 2007/08
Celtic 3 Rangers 2
Hibs 0 Rangers 0
Rangers 1 Motherwell 0
Rangers 3 Dundee United 1
Motherwell 1 Rangers 1
St Mirren 0 Rangers 3
Aberdeen 2 Rangers 0
Whole factors dropped in final seven video games - 10