Steven Gerrard urges Rangers to improve their discipline next season

Steven Gerrard has told his Rangers squad they will end up empty handed again next season if they do not clean up their act.The Light Blues picked up their 12th red card of the season when Allan McGregor was dismissed for kicking out at Hibernian striker Marc McNulty last Sunday.The veteran goalkeepers moment of madness left Gerrard who has already seen striker Alfredo Morelos sent off five times this term exasperated once again.The former England midfielder admits his sides indiscipline has hampered their attempts to halt Celtics bid for the triple treble and worries they will face more pain after the summer if they cannot cut out the needless cards.Speaking ahead of Sundays Old Firm clash, when his side will square off against the Hoops for the first time since Morelos was sent off for lashing out at Scott Brown at Parkhead, Gerrard said: The word discipline has come up a lot of times this season and the last game as well.The players are well aware of how I want them to behave. The last Old Firm is in the past, so we dont need to go back and talk about what happened there.Celtic are coming as champions and well do everything we can to get three points. Thats our only focus not worrying about the past.As manager of this team I do everything I can to support the players.But they have got to respect the club, the supporters and what were trying to achieve here. They have also got to respect how hard the job is with the challenge other teams are setting us and realise its crucial, its vital, we have a level of discipline and keep important players on the pitch.I dont know the exact numbers of games or minutes but weve had too many good players missing for important parts of the season and if we dont improve our discipline I predict we could have a similar season to the one were having next year.There is no way you can be successful if your big players are missing for big games.Of Rangers 12 dismissals this campaign, only four could be termed footballing incidents with the rest either for violent conduct, dissent or unsporting behaviour.Gerrard added: We want the players to be aggressive, to compete and at times we understand that you will get a double yellow through the season or a couple of red cards where we go, OK maybe we were unlucky there.But the red cards that we have had, the majority of them have been unacceptable.Its frustrating as a manager to keep talking about discipline and certain individuals in the press.But its down to those players to sort themselves out and behave differently.But as I say that, I love players who play on the edge and give it all, who compete and fight. However, you have to channel that in the right way.(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){

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