A Rangers banner unfurled at Ibrox on Thursday

May 30 was meant to be the day of a new beginning for Rangers.

New investment. New regime. New manager en route. A new outlook, all triggered by the arrival of a US-based consortium vowing to get the club "back to the top".

Already the Trumpesque "Make Rangers Great Again" merchandise seen back then has been parked. The star-spangled banners in the Ibrox stands now replaced with statements of protest, accompanied by howls of dissatisfaction.

Five harrowing months on from when the group led by Andrew Cavenagh walked in the big door in the Bill Struth Stand, the feel-good has been has been banished amid interminable disappointment.