Graeme Murty not short of advice before Rangers played Morton in Scottish Cup
The under-20's boss was asked to take charge following the departure of Mark Warburton.
Last updated 13th Feb 2017
Caretaker manager Graeme Murty claimed he had the world'' telling him which Rangers team to pick for the 2-1 William Hill Scottish Cup fifth-round over Morton at Ibrox.
The Gers' under-20 boss was asked to take charge on Friday night after the club issued a statement claiming Mark Warburton and his management team had resigned, although that was reportedly denied by the former Brentford boss.
Murty tried unsuccessfully to call Warburton but had plenty of advice given to him before the game.
The Championship side took the lead through Michael Tidser in the seventh minute before goals from strikers Kenny Miller and Martyn Waghorn gave the Light Blues a home quarter-final tie against the winners of the Dunfermline versus Hamilton replay.
Murty, who was at the Glasgow Warriors rugby game on Friday night when he got the call to go to Ibrox, said of his first experience of picking a Rangers first team: It was difficult because I had the world telling me what to do.
I had quite a few people on Twitter telling me what team to pick. I had every person in my phone book telling me I have to do this and do that.
In the end I had to go with what I thought. Picking it was difficult but telling the players who were not involved was even harder. I thought I should do that face to face and give them the respect they deserve, so I did and the result is what you saw.
It was a bit of a whirlwind really. I will take some time tonight to decompress and relax and possibly have a glass of wine and get my thoughts sorted out but I have to say I stood on the sidelines and thoroughly enjoyed watching the team play.
I am just busy sorting out my head. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Does it drive me in a way for the future? I have no idea. I will sort my thoughts out later.''
Murty will try again to call Warburton to thank him for bringing him to Ibrox.
He said: I wanted to basically thank him because he was on my interview panel and he has been very open, inclusive and welcoming to me since I have been at the club.
So I tried to have a chat to him - but he hasn't taken my calls yet. But I will definitely try to get in touch with him.''