RANGERS' trophy-winning hero Kris Boyd dropped a bombshell after the final when he confirmed that he is considering his future at Ibrox.
Boyd, whose goals have won both the Scottish Cup and CIS League Cup finals for Rangers, says he will be having a "long hard think" about his future at the club.
He has scored 25 goals this season for Rangers, despite not being a regular, and after
taking his Scottish Cup tally to six, he made his dissatisfaction clear.
"I would have liked to have played more but that's life," said the 24-year-old former Kilmarnock player whose contract at Ibrox doesn't expire until 2010. "It's the manager's decision and there's nothing I can do about it. I will go and have a long hard think over the summer and take it from there. Obviously, it gets to people. I'll think about what's best for me and we'll go from there."
Boyd said he had not been sure he was going to be start yesterday's match, despite being one of Rangers' few successes in the dramatic league-sacrificing loss to Aberdeen on Thursday.
"After Thursday night I thought I had the chance of starting but I didn't know until this morning," said Boyd. "Once the gaffer read out the team, the most important thing was to win the cup and we have done that. It doesn't make up for the SPL and the UEFA Cup. We are obviously disappointed not to win them."
David Weir, at 38, won his second Scottish Cup medal yesterday but was non-committal about his future at Ibrox: "I'll be speaking to the manager and my family as soon as possible."
The veteran defender was very definite in his criticism of the way the season ended with Rangers being forced to play so many fixtures. "With what they have been asked to go through, then it's not exactly a surprise to see how tired the boys are," said Weir.
"We have played in Aberdeen on Thursday night and then played a Scottish Cup final on Saturday afternoon, and when you sit down and think about it, it's a disgrace, an affront to the competition. It was only mental strength that got us through. We have had four games in a week and I don't know how many in the last month, so the quality was always going to suffer."
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