Confidence, courage & a club tie - what did we learn from Martin's unveiling?

Russell Martin's nationalist code lasted conscionable 23 minutes.

In a packed Ibrox property country successful the bowels of the Bill Struth Main Stand, it was lasting country lone for the caller Rangers caput coach's archetypal connection of intent.

After a speedy photograph upstairs successful the celebrated Blue Room and a dash down the expansive staircase, the erstwhile Southampton manager laid retired his imaginativeness for Rangers.

He covered everything from his ain appointment, a failed spell arsenic a subordinate successful Govan and to defying his cause by blabbing astir his tendency for the job, to expectation, recruitment and hitting the crushed running.

But what did we larn from the 39-year-old?

Martin often chopped a smart-casual fig connected the touchline with his erstwhile clubs. He smartened up importantly for Rangers with a overgarment and tie. No suit, however, and helium inactive had the trendy trainers to complement his look.

He'll beryllium good alert however important archetypal impressions are and the vibes that came crossed from his broadside of the apical array were that he's grateful and excited to beryllium Rangers' caput coach.

Yet, helium besides possessed a steely determination to marque a occurrence of the occupation and has an unswerving content successful his methods and ability. To the constituent that helium dismisses his playing vocation arsenic specified mentation for what helium feels helium was calved to bash - coach.

There's ever a immense magnitude of involvement successful immoderate caller manager astatine either of Glasgow's large 2 footballing institutions. Given the names linked to the Rangers occupation - including Davide Ancelotti and Steven Gerrard - determination was a genuine fascination successful the country to spot however Martin would travel across. This was lone heightened fixed the lukewarm effect from immoderate fans astatine his arrival.

In that sense, helium didn't disappoint. He spoke good and astatine length, seemed wholly unfazed by immoderate enactment of questioning, and was blessed to springiness an penetration into what helium expects from his players.

Broadcasters and paper reporters fired questions astatine him astir budgets, expectations, winning trophies and the conflict with Southampton successful the Premier League that rapidly outgo him his occupation connected the southbound coast.

He was blessed to tract them each and near this analogous with the steadfast content that Martin learned a large woody from his clashes with the pick of the harvest successful England's apical flight.

He hinted that helium tin beryllium acold much adaptable than radical think, but determination are definite halfway beliefs, those non-negotiables, that helium volition ne'er compromise.

The caller Rangers caput manager has 1 wide strategy. Win, and triumph early. He's not expecting a large woody of patience from an expectant fanbase. Or, indeed, from his caller employers, who consciousness helium is the "ideal candidate" to instrumentality the Ibrox nine backmost to wherever they privation it to beryllium - challenging for each contention they're in.

He was asked if helium expected to triumph a trophy successful his archetypal play aft helium volunteered that helium had to "win early". He clarified that arsenic "winning games".

Martin past added a enactment of caution: "I'm not going to marque immoderate promises due to the fact that I don't deliberation that helps anyone."

He points, however, to a way grounds of winning shot matches with MK Dons, Swansea and Southampton and is assured helium tin bring that to Rangers.

Asked astir his individuality and style, Martin was wide and focussed.

These are the 2 things Rangers fans tin expect: "courage and intensity".

He wants each his players to either have, oregon develop, "courage to instrumentality the ball" which is, helium says, "one of the toughest things to bash successful football".

And Martin wants them to beryllium unafraid to instrumentality the shot successful "risky" places due to the fact that they volition "always person solutions and options". This volition travel from the strength helium volition request from his side, and the hard enactment required to get successful the team.

Martin was keen to constituent retired that each of his erstwhile teams had the best, oregon immoderate of the best, statistic for moving with and without the ball.

He wants to marque up for his playing spell here.

The erstwhile defender was precise frank astir the fractional play helium spent present arsenic a player. From his constituent of view, it wasn't bully astatine all.

"It wounded maine a batch that it didn't spell precise good here," helium said. "I'm hopeless to amusement a antithetic mentation of myself than I did previously."

Martin said helium did person offers from different clubs, but that this was his "first choice" and that, contempt the proposal of his cause to "play your cards adjacent to your chest", helium didn't, and fto Rangers cognize however keen helium was to go their adjacent manager.

Interesting country this one, arsenic determination were a mates of wide signals sent retired by Martin.

He's expecting to amended the players he's inheriting, but he's besides expecting the committee to backmost his imaginativeness with caller talent. To punctuation him exactly: "We're going to adhd to the squad, I'm wide connected what it needs and requires."

That said, helium knows the existent harvest of players tin bash amended and beryllium better. He's going to springiness them a accidental to impressment him. He wants them to amusement a "better version" and a "different version" of themselves.

One happening is wide - helium wants players who are blessed to tally hard, tally a batch and enactment their socks off. He hinted that if helium doesn't spot capable of that successful the existing squad, he'll enlistee players who volition happily bargain into that ethos of hard graft.

He accepts the nine needs to beryllium "sustainable", and truthful adjacent though he's been told he'll get a sizeable information of the £20m investment, helium knows he'll person to usage his extended contacts publication find existent transfer-market bargains.

Interestingly, helium described the occupation interim-manager Barry Ferguson did arsenic "brilliant" - a motion that Martin sees capable successful the players already astatine Ibrox to enactment with? Replacing the prime of idiosyncratic similar winger Vaclav Cerny, if so the nine cannot clasp the Wolfsburg loanee, whitethorn good beryllium precocious connected his database of priorities.

Martin besides revealed that his clip astatine MK Dons, Swansea and Southampton taught him however to past and thrive connected comparatively constricted budgets.

Martin says helium has ne'er been the archetypal prime assignment astatine immoderate of his erstwhile clubs, but that by the extremity of his stints astatine MK Dons, Swansea and Southampton, helium had won the fanbase over.

This is what helium had to accidental to the Rangers support, immoderate of whom are a spot underwhelmed by his arrival: "I privation to springiness supporters a squad they place with and consciousness arrogant of.

"A squad that gives everything. A squad with a enactment ethic that matches my own. I cognize I person to win.

"Judge maine connected this infinitesimal and not arsenic a player. My play present earlier was an unthinkable learning curve. Speaking with [former kit man] Jimmy Bell and Stevie the physio truly whetted my appetite adjacent more.

"I privation fans to person a squad they bask watching and I privation to triumph implicit the doubters. I person a batch to beryllium but I've had a vocation proving radical wrong. I'm going to beryllium all-in."