Frustration surrounds Rangers. No league victories, Thursday nights are no longer sacred at Ibrox on the evidence of yesterday evening, and supporters don't want the current man in charge of the first team.
Last night's 1-0 defeat to Genk brought on more audible chants of 'Martin, get to f***' among the hardy souls who waited until the bitter end to boo the team off the park.
Circumstances certainly played a big factor in the outcome against the Belgians. Mohamed Diomande has to shoulder much of the blame for that though, following his first half red card.
Andrew Cavenagh was in attendance yet again, after flying in from America for a recent rare Rangers win over Hibernian last weekend.
Russell Martin admitted last night he would hold talks with the chairman in the aftermath of the latest in a long line of difficult results at this early juncture in the season.
How significant were those discussions? Well, the Rangers head coach was never going to be transparent on that.
"I'm probably the one that feels that the most, the most frustrated one because ultimately I'm the head coach of the team," the 39-year-old said. "So, whilst everyone is probably feeling a bit frustrated and all that stuff, I think there's an acceptance of them that as people have run football clubs and sports teams for a very long time, that sometimes things can take a bit of time to change and to get to where you want to get to is not always going to happen overnight.
"But we're all frustrated, everyone's feeling it. So, whilst the fans are feeling it, we're inside the building, we're feeling it more than anyone because we're the ones that ultimately have to go out and put the performance on the pitch and get scrutinised and critiqued for that. But we're all together, I really feel that.
"Everyone's been really together, really stuck together through this period. And like I said, if we can get through that period, which I really believe we will, we'll all be so much better for it.
"You guys love, I say you guys - the media - love making out as if everything is a big conversation about, is he going, is he staying, what's being said? But generally we chat about the football club, about what we can improve, about the performance, about the next game.
"And it's always the same, it's never just me and Andrew, it's me and my staff, Kevin [Thelwell], Andrew, Patrick [Stewart], all of the guys in there.
"We had a good conversation, honest conversation and it was the same again. So, there's nothing out of the ordinary with that."
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Martin continued to play things down later in his one-on-one interview with Sky Sports.
With pressure mounting on his position, certainly among angry supporters, who have repeatedly called for the removal of the former Southampton head coach, Martin insists any manager in the game currently is on the same boat - no matter how good or bad results are.
He added: "I think if you're a football manager now, your job's under threat wherever you work, all the time. Such is the world and such is the industry, it's brutal.
"So, genuinely, if we were doing brilliantly, I wouldn't listen to the outside noise. If we're doing not very well, I don't listen to it because I think you can get caught up in all of it. So, I would always treat it the same.
"If people are praising you and liking what you do from the outside, when people don't see it, it's really difficult. So, as long as I feel in here, the staff, the players, the supporting team around all of it, as long as I feel they're here, they're with us, we're together, which I really feel, then I'll be happy and I really trust that with a good process and good people, the outcome will follow."
Martin is without a win in Rangers' opening five league matches in what has officially been the club's worst start to a campaign.
They could potentially go into Sunday's game bottom of the Premiership, although this is dependent on Aberdeen beating Motherwell by a heavy margin, and Kilmarnock losing by a couple of goals at Dundee United.
Regardless, the start to the campaign has been unacceptable from Rangers' perspective, and a trip to Livingston is hardly the ideal fixture up next when in desperate need of a victory.
Martin said: "We want to compete and we want to be at the top of the table at the end of the season. So, if you leave it too much longer, you'll start running out of games. So, we have time. It's really early on in the season. We have time to build and win and claw our way back and we have to be that.
"We have to be really hungry and start hunting the top and really start making the points difference up. So, it has to start and it has to start on Sunday.
"I think it's one of the unique and interesting aspects of being the head coach here. You go from Hibs in the cup to Genk in Europe and then to Livingston in the league and they're all very different. So, it's good, but we have to try and turn the game to one we want to all the time.
"I have big respect for what Davie [Martindale] has done there at that club and how they've gone about it. They're really difficult to play against. I think that's quite well known, but we'll go there with the aim of making it the game that we want it to be and to win the game.
"I'm looking forward to it. So, it's been frustrating so far. We have to use that frustration and turn it into energy, which I feel everyone has. We have to perform, we have to win and it will set us up and hopefully build some momentum in the league."
