The fans who stayed at home last night will be kicking themselves.
But Rangers’ sudden explosion of goals still won’t be enough to stop the shareholders turning up from putting the boot in. The official attendance for this demolition job on Derek McInnes’ ragged Rugby Park side was announced at 44,118. But if you believe that you’re likely the type who’ll believe a Gregg Wallace apology.
What you can be sure of is that it will be standing room only tomorrow lunchtime when the Ibrox club’s beleaguered board walk out to face the wrath of the Light Blue legions at what’s expected to be an explosive AGM. A six-goal drubbing of a team sitting third bottom of the Premiership might have lifted the strain on Philippe Clement’s shoulders. But it’s not going to satisfy those ready to demand answers from the club’s custodians.
Losses of more than £17million, a stadium cock-up that forced the club to move to Hampden and a rebuild that currently has the club’s title bid on the verge of collapse will be the burning issues up for debate.
Clement will argue that the fans who left thousands upon thousands of blue seats sitting empty last night missed out on seeing the show he’s been predicting would come for months.
A team that had previously been outscored by St Mirren and Dundee all of a sudden looked capable of hitting the net at every opportunity.
They only managed one in a dominant first half show as James Tavernier put them ahead.
But with kid striker Hamza Igamane looking every inch the new talisman Rangers have been crying out for, they simply swept Killie aside.
Brazilian Danilo was back in for his first league start of the season and fired home the second before Igamane put the result beyond doubt.
Vaclav Cerny nabbed a fourth before sub Cyriel Dessers rubbed salt into Ayrshire wounds with a late double.
McInnes has been tipped as the man to pick up the pieces should Clement’s fail to provide the answers shareholders are looking for on Thursday.
But this audition couldn’t have gone any worse, with his side stuck just a point above the relegation spots have now gone five without a win.