Graeme Murty has his sights firmly set on Rangers' crucial Dundee clash
Rangers caretaker boss Graeme Murty admits Sunday's Premiership clash with Dundee has been consuming his every waking moment.
Rangers caretaker boss Graeme Murty admits Sunday's Premiership clash with Dundee has been consuming his every waking moment.
The Gers Under-20s coach was placed in temporary charge following Mark Warburton's shock exit last week.
Having guided the team to a narrow Scottish Cup win over Morton last Sunday, he will again be in the dug-out as they side take on Paul Hartley's side at Dens Park.
And the former Reading defender admits he has not been able to shake the Dundee match from his mind.
"I was walking round Loch Lomond on a day off with my little girl, my wife, my goddaughter and her mother yesterday,'' he explained. "Twenty minutes in I was thinking about formations, I was thinking about their players, I was thinking about how we tweak things.
"My wife clocked it right away.
"So when you ask me how much I've been thinking about Dundee, just pick a number and you're probably not even close.''
The travelling Gers faithful heading to Tayside will be eager to see just what formation Murty decided upon during his countryside walk.
He started with a front-three of Barrie McKay, Kenny Miller and Martyn Waghorn against Morton last weekend.
But he won applause from some supporters after he moved to a two-man strike-force during the 2-1 win against Jim Duffy's Greenock side.
Such a switch would have been unthinkable under Warburton, whose dogmatic approach saw him stick almost universally to a 4-3-3.
In the end it proved to be the right call as goals from Miller and Waghorn saw the Light Blues through.
And the interim boss is pleased it paid off.
He said: "The purpose of playing two was to make sure we had forward runners and got the ball into forward areas.
"I thought we were threatening. Some of the structural things behind weren't right but that has to be expected.
"However, the purpose was to make sure our key players got the ball more.
"Out of the front three, which turned to a front two, one got man-of-the-match, one got the equaliser and the other got the winner, so it kind of worked - but not perfectly.