Rangers' well-documented woes this season came to a head on Sunday when Hibs ' stunning victory at Hampden sent them packing from the Premier Sports Cup in front of the watching Gio van Bronckhorst.
The debate over whether the new boss should have intervened before his initial start-date seemed to overshadow what was a desperately worrying performance.
It was yet another example of a team having to not having to create much against the Ibrox side to do some damage.
Former Manchester City captain Andy Morrison highlighted on Twitter that the Hibees only needed three shots to score three times and put the semi-final out of reach.
The Scots-born former Maine Road cult hero tweeted an image of the Hampden match stats which showed the Light Blues scored once from 18 goal attempts while Hibs netted three from three.
Morrison wrote: "Laid up with Covid and flicking through scores stats etc. and came across this one. The most important stat will always be goals scored to chances created."
Martin Boyle's penalty to complete a sensational first half hat-trick was the sixth goal Rangers have conceded in their last three games. In those three matches, they have faced just five shots on target, with Leon Balogun's own goal against Brondby the outlier.
The numbers are astonishing and they look no less grim the further back you take them.
They've faced 18 shots on target in their last ten games and conceded from an amazing 78 per cent of those.
Allan McGregor has been singled out for criticism and perhaps rightly so - he's the only one of the Scottish Premiership's starting keepers to save less than half of the shots he's faced this season.
Backup Jon McLaughlin has fared better but not by much. His 58 per cent success rate is better only than Aberdeen's Joe Lewis and Ross County's Ashley Maynar-Brewer among each team's most used stoppers.
Keepers in the top teams tend to have lower save rates since they face fewer shots, but Celtic's Joe Hart has managed nearly 70 per cent - around the average for the other Premiership keepers.
To highlight it as a purely goalkeeping issue would miss the point, but a drop-off in standards between the sticks is evident.
Combine that with the at-times shambolic defending in front of them, and Van Bronckhorst is faced with a rot he simply must stop
