The VAR officials have been slammed for their decision-making during Rangers' win over Kilmarnock.

Philippe Clement's side ran out comfortable 4-1 winners at Ibrox against the 10-men of Killie.

But Kris Boyd was left unhappy with the standard of officiating during the first half of the game, with the scoreline 1-1 at that point.

Matty Kennedy had Derek McInnes' side in the lead during a bonkers opening 20 minutes, which also saw Rangers miss a penalty and a controversial red card for the visitors. 

Steven Kirkland was the main VAR for the top six encounter. 

And when reviewing the VAR check for a Rangers penalty after only two minutes - which was eventually dismissed by on-field referee David Dickinson - Boyd raised questions over Kirkland.

Boyd explained: "Yeah and I am going to go back. I said the referee has had a shocker, he has made some bad decisions but I want to clear that up.

"It is the officials that have had a shocker. They are meant to be working as a team and I am looking at Steven Kirkland on VAR. That is not a penalty. This set the tempo.

"Fair play to David Dickinson for going over and continuing with his on-field decision but you look at the time it took to get to that. You can understand why the fans and everybody is frustrated. The inconsistency, you have got to be stronger.

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"You don't want to speak down on people but you have got to ask yourself, 'What level of referee is Steven Kirkland? Why is he officiating VAR?' We have got full-time VAR referees. Why are they not operating our machines?"

Chris Sutton added: "I take Kris' points. The (Corrie) Nbada incident for handball was two and a half minutes. We could see it within, not that we know everything, most that know anything about football could see within 15 seconds.

"Why does it take that long? The early stages there was to much re-refereeing and that is not what we want."