It was a day that started with protests against Russell Martin and ended in progression.
On Saturday, the Rangers head coach's name was scrawled across bed sheets and hoisted aloft in the street. "Russell out - worst manager in history" was the claim.
His face, and also that of chief executive Patrick Stewart, was plastered across posters as fans took a stand outside Ibrox, while inside, balls were hurled on to the pitch and messages unravelled in a deliberate delay to draw attention to his position.
The fact a relatively perfunctory 2-0 Premier Sports Cup quarter-final victory over Hibernian was recorded will therefore have come as some sort of relief to Martin.
Yet, with a backdrop of more than 15,000 empty seats and protests, including one banner unfurled when they were winning, this glimmer of respite perhaps simply fails to add pressure rather than relieve too much of it.