And now for the tricky bit.
If Giovanni Van Bronckhorst thought he had his work cut out when he took on the challenge of replacing Steven Gerrard in the Ibrox hotseat, then the Dutchman ain’t seen nothing yet.
In many regards, his first six months in the job have been based around keeping Gerrard’s team ticking over. That he has done so while taking them to a Europa League final and ending the campaign on Saturday by lifting the Scottish Cup, constitutes a more than decent return from the Dutchman’s early days.
And yet it all has to be offset against the loss of a league title and a feeble capitulation which, in any other season, would have left a major blotch on the manager’s copy book.
Put it this way, 2003 still belongs to Celtic even though it was a year which saw Rangers clinch a domestic treble.
By making it to Seville, Martin O’Neill and his players achieved something truly out of the ordinary and so, using the same logic - and by getting to the same city - Van Bronckhorst and his players will be forgiven for allowing their domestic crown to slip.
It would have been tantamount to an act of inhumanity if they had ended the season with nothing more than painful regrets to look back on and even though Hearts may feel hard done by, justice was served on Saturday when the better team came out on top of a compelling end of season showpiece.
That thrilling, extra time climax allows Van Bronckhorst to head into the summer feeling more than satisfied with his own contribution.
But he shouldn’t be lulled into a false sense of security just because he’s been chapping on history’s door in his first season in charge.
He should know by now that focussing on the bigger picture offers only a fleeting respite in this fiercely parochial part of the world.
In the blinking of an eye it will all be about next season’s domestic squabble with the noisy neighbours and Van Bronckhorst has a long list of outstanding issues to address if he is to stand a fighting chance of going toe-to-toe in the top flight with big hitting Ange Postecoglou.
And there is no time for him to waste.
For starters, Van Bronckhorst needs only to look back on Saturday’s heroics against Hearts to see where his problems are likely to lie over the summer holidays.
Rangers won this game almost entirely down the left flank where Calvin Bassey and Ryan Kent took it in turns to strike terror into the Tynecastle side. The pair of them were close to being unplayable as they combined to unleash 120 minutes of mayhem on Craig Gordon’s defence and it is up to Van Bronckhorst now to ensure that they are still around when the next campaign begins.
With one year left on his contract, Kent is entering a corridor of uncertainty where his future is concerned and, unless the man in charge has some kind of ace up his sleeve, it might be almost impossible for him to recruit a player of like-for-like ability.
That makes it incumbent upon him to sit his winger down as a matter of urgency and convince Kent that they belong together for the long haul.
If he cannot, then Van Bronckhorst will have to consider allowing the Englishman to move on and that could spark something of a cull where this squad is concerned.
With Joe Aribo, Alfredo Morelos and Leon Balogun all sitting in the same contractual boat, these difficult conversations need to take place before Van Bronckhorst heads to the beach for some well earned R&R. If not he’ll spend his time off fretting anxiously over what he’s coming back to.
And that includes nailing down Bassey, this mountain of a young man who has emerged from the periphery of Gerrard’s squad to become a colossus of Van Bronckhorst’s starting XI.
Bassey’s performances in back-to-back cup finals were of such a stupendously high standard that they almost defied belief and the concern for Van Bronckhorst is that the 22-year-old’s superhuman contribution will not have gone unnoticed elsewhere, where the funny money resides.
It’s hard to imagine how Van Bronckhorst could afford to even think about sanctioning his sale but if a whopping offer was to thump down on Ross Wilson’s desk this summer, will the manager be in any position to veto it?
That’s a question worth asking because surely, if Van Bronckhorst was in charge of making the key financial decisions, then he’d already have Connor Goldson tied down on a lucrative new deal.
Goldson’s immense value to this team is surely not in any dispute given that Van Bronckhorst has found it impossible to select a starting line up without having the big man at the heart of his defence. It can’t possibly be coincidence that Gerrard reached the same conclusion so that does beg an obvious question, who is it at Ibrox that still needs to be convinced?
On top of all of that, Allan McGregor is currently rolling around in the dirt with father time and, at the age of 37, Steve Davis too could be nearing the end even though the Northern Irishman proved once again at the weekend that he ought to be going nowhere either.
Van Bronckhorst should demand that Davis is secured on a new deal before waving him off on a saga tour but the fact of the matter is the old boy left Hampden on Saturday night with his future still apparently hanging in the balance.
What’s more, with Aaron Ramsey and Amad Diallo now departing the scene following hugely unsatisfactory loan spells, Van Bronckhorst could be looking at a rebuild of the proportions faced by Postecoglou across the city this time last year.
Yes, the tricky bit start’s here alright, regardless of how testing these first few months may have been for the Rangers manager.
It’s what happens next that may end up defining him.
