Kilmarnock 1-0 Rangers: Have Rangers regressed under Philippe Clement?

Early in the second half at Rugby Park, a group of travelling fans unfurled banners which read, ‘the mismanagement of Rangers must stop and stop now’.

There is no permanent chairman at Ibrox, while they are currently without a chief executive and director of football.

“I think the fans feel Clement has been made a scapegoat, he’s a spokesman for the club and it shouldn’t be like that,” said Dodds.

Asked about off-field issues, the manager told BBC Scotland: “I don’t want to go into that because I don’t want excuses about pitches, winds, whatever.

“We need to focus on ourselves, on the players, on the new players coming in, to get them at their best level, focus on the players who were here, to get to their best level, and to play better than we did today.

“In the end, if you win this game, which was possible in the second half, and you scored the goal, you can have a totally different feeling.

“But we didn’t do enough to get that feeling, so we need to learn from that and be stronger.”