Former Rangers defender Clint Hill has revealed Mark Warburton "never did defensive work" in his time as Ibrox manager.
The Englishman won promotion from the Championship in his first season at the club and signed the likes of Hill and Joey Barton the following summer.
After a disappointing campaign, the Englishman left Ibrox in February 2017 with his side miles behind Brendan Rodgers' runaway Celtic side.
One noted weakness of Warburton's side was defending on set pieces, and Hill has admitted Rangers never practiced them in training.
He said on Open Goal : "We never did defensive work.
"We never worked on defensive work with Mark and that was a big point of concern for us.
"So we'd do loads of attacking free-kicks and corners and we'd never do a defensive corner.
"That riled Joey (Barton) up one day and he said: 'why aren't practicing out defensive corners?'
"'Oh we don't do that here'. He said: 'well maybe we f*****g should'.
"There was a conversation for 45 minutes about that, about why we should do it and why we shouldn't do it.
"It was just madness.
"We just didn't do it.
"I used to speak to Davie Weir and be like: 'why aren't we working on it? Why aren't we doing this stuff?'
"Because Dave was a top defender so I wanted to work with him.
"He said: 'we just don't do that, we're all about the football, we're all about passing, keeping hold of the ball, working teams'.
"You need something else. I just think you need a plan B.
"Listen, we played some good football at times but you go to places like Inverness, Hamilton on the plastic pitch... you need to be solid, you need to be compact, you need to scrap out a 1-0 win. It's not all about getting 800 passes and making things look good.
"I just don't think we had that. We didn't work on it, we didn't use it enough.
"I always thought if you were strong, compact and had good players you had a good chance of winning the game. It's not all about keeping the ball.
"Unfortunately Mark was all about his way, which is fair enough. A lot of managers or coaches don't have an idea.
"He has got a clear idea of what he wants to do, so fair play to him."
