Gary McAllister admits Rangers have to work on ‘discipline problem’

RANGERS assistant manager Gary McAllister admits they need to address their “discipline problem”.

Alfredo Morelos received the club’s eighth red card of the season during the midweek defeat by Aberdeen and his own third, although his first was later downgraded to a yellow.

When asked if Rangers needed to address the issue, McAllister said: “Of course, there is a discipline problem with the number of red cards and bookings we have had. But it’s something we are working on continually.

“The players are working at it, we are trying to pass on years of experience to players that maybe haven’t been in these situations before. So everybody at the club is trying to improve the whole discipline issue.”

Striker Morelos was already suspended for the clash with Dundee on Sunday, but will now miss next week’s match at home to Hamilton also.

McAllister added: “It is a fine line when you have loads of competitive players and sometimes, generally when you are on a yellow card and you run the risk of getting a second yellow, you have to make split second decisions.

“At this moment in time, sometimes we have made some poor decisions.”

Second-place Rangers are hoping to bounce back from midweek defeat to Aberdeen, where they failed to capitalise on an opportunity to remain at the Premiership summit.

“The first thing for me is the performance has to be better,” said McAllister.

“Not only did we lose, I didn’t think we played well.

“When you look through it, one to 11, it would be hard to find a player who got pass marks.

“Not because of the lack of effort, but it was an off-night and we didn’t have any passages of good play.”