They lost points at St Mirren. They lost points at Motherwell. They threw another two down a gutter in the final minutes against Hibernian at Easter Road.
As Philippe Clement's Rangers suffered another bout of dizziness against a bone-deep Dundee team, one was beginning to wonder when they will win an away league game again.
On a bitterly cold night at Dens Park, the temperature rose a degree or two at the final whistle when, after a woeful display, the traveling support reiterated their anger and impatience with the manager's mandate.
Any more displays like this and the decision will no longer be in the hands of the Rangers board of directors. They will have no choice but to act.
Mohamed Diomande shot from 20 meters and hit the crossbar in the final minutes. Beyond that, this was another tepid, lukewarm, unacceptable performance from a team that now sits 15 points behind arch-rivals Celtic. The league is over.
A relentless run of midweek matches is testing managers around the world. None more so than Dundee's Tony Docherty, who came into this match with ten players missing.
It was another disappointing night for Rangers manager Phillipe Clement as his team drew
Oluwaseun Adewumi celebrates with Simon Murray after scoring against Rangers
Acknowledging the blow of losing former PFA Scotland Young Player of the Year Lyall Cameron before kick-off, Docherty was forced to name two goalkeepers and just five outfield players on the substitutes' bench.
By asking your seriously depleted team to show “personality and mentality,” you can have no complaints about the end result.
In his first start with the club, 19-year-old Mexican midfielder César Garza faced the challenges as if he had been born for Scottish football. With on-loan goalscorer Oluwaseun Adewumi, Dundee had the best player on the field.
Rangers arrived at Dens Park on a run of just three wins in their last 10 away games in the league this season, efforts to stop the rot undoubtedly hampered by a run of defensive injuries that have not shows signs of ending.
Dujon Sterling joined captain James Tavernier, John Souttar, Leon Balogun and Neraysho Kasanwirjo on a long casualty list.
Clinton Nsiala joined Rangers from AC Milan and will turn 21 next week. The French-born defender had made four appearances for the club's B team and his last match ended with a red card after 36 minutes in a 3-1 defeat to Queen's Park on 3 December.
Apart from 45 minutes in a pre-season friendly against Birmingham, the defender had not played first-team football and, although he was lucky to avoid a penalty before Vaclav Cerny canceled out Adewumi's opener, it was not the reason why. that the Rangers failed. to win this game. The responsibility for this should fall on a manager who is running out of lives.
Dundee opened the scoring after six minutes. Scott Tiffoney's shot was blocked and spun towards the byline, Josh Mulligan's cutback opened up all the space in the world for Adewumi to loft the ball into the net unopposed from 12 yards.
The 19-year-old Austrian, on loan from Burnley, had all the time in the world to score his third goal for the club and leave Rangers in the hunt for an away league game. Again.
Rangers got a point at Dens Park thanks to a powerful strike from winger Vaclav Cerny
There was no sign of a comeback in the first half hour as Rangers were labored and lackluster. The ball floated under the foot of Ridvan Yilmaz on the Dens sideline and left the game unopposed.
Minutes later, the same thing happened to left-back Jefte on the other side of the pitch and it seemed to sum up Rangers' performance perfectly.
Fans watching on Sky Sports had one finger on the remote control to pass the word to Traitors on BBC1 when the visitors equalized with their first shot on target after 34 minutes.
Clement has had a lot to say about refereeing decisions in recent weeks. However, the Rangers boss could consider his team lucky to escape a penalty when Nsiala clumsily stamped on Simon Murray's foot in the box during a Dundee attack. Regardless of whether it was accidental, clumsy or unintentional, it looked like a penalty.
Playing with referee Callum Scott's whistle (or without), Rangers went full speed ahead on the counter-attack and made the most of the reprieve. Hamza Igamane showed good body strength on the edge of the area to retain possession from a challenge from Aaron Donnelly and pass the ball straight to Cerny in space.
The Czech evaded Ethan Ingram and went wide, firing an angled shot between the legs of Dundee goalkeeper and captain Trevor Carson.
While a VAR review by Greg Aitken must have shown what others appeared to see (Murray's left foot was stepped on), Dundee's appeals for an intervention came to nothing.
The verdict of the SFA's five-person Key Incident Panel on a controversial passage of the game will be fascinating, but inconsequential. Rangers' goal stood and the Dens Park side overtook St Johnstone as the team to concede the most first-half goals in the Scottish Premiership this season.
Why this Rangers team starts games so slowly remains an enduring mystery. The arrival of Rabbi Matondo in place of Ianis Hagi at half-time felt like an attempt by Clement to inject some pace and urgency into a performance that was lacking both and it took an excellent one-handed save from Carson to deny Cerny his second goal of the night. some key police defending from the local side.
Despite all the pressure from Rangers, Dundee had the most skilful and dangerous player on the field in Adewumi. The scorer of the first goal thought he had scored a second when he headed in a Murray cross, a desperately tight offside that limited the celebrations.
Another opportunity occurred when he savagely attacked substitute Julien Vetro's cut over the crossbar. Minutes later he was stinging the palms of Liam Kelly from 20 yards as a worn-out Dundee team searched for a winner.
While Diomande almost won for Rangers with an outstanding goal, a strong long-range shot that hit the crossbar, Dundee were worthy of their point. It's hard to say the same for a Rangers team that succumbs to chronic, paralyzing dizziness every time they leave the city of Glasgow.