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 create precious little 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.
Martin Boyle's decisive penalty 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 Mcg
6 goals conceded from last 5 on target
14 from last 18
McGregor save % - 44%
McLaughlin 58%, Joe Hart 69%, Craig Gordon 80%, Siegrist 77%,, Liam Kelly 78%, Jak Alnwick 70%, Matt Macey 67%, Joe Lewis 52%, Zander Clark 82%, Max Stryjek 71%, Adam Legzdins 67%, Ashley Maynard-Brewer 56%