I’m sure no one will be more frustrated about it than chairman John Bennett but I must say take my hat off to him for the way he’s gone about trying to address it.
Re-opening Ibrox against Celtic on January 2 would help deflect to an extent away from the botched rebuilding job, whether it is Phil Clement or a new manager in charge it can be framed as a massive boost after usiing Hampden and Murrayfield in the first half of the season.
But you just can’t put a time frame on anything can you. You’ve got to be kind of loose and, em to me it depends on how far it runs on as in how the damage is done.
The early promise of the Phil Clement Revolution had bought the Ibrox board some goodwill after funding the Micky Beale Revolution but the fiasco involving the Copland Crane has proved t be just too much for Empire.
The real reasons are being speculated on across social media while the club falls silent leaving Neil Doncaster to search for goodwill from other clubs with the timescale for the work to be completed still undeclared.
As Hands-across-the-Sea commented there has been more managers and Revolutions! than trophies delivered over the last eight years- the stadium fiasco seems entirely in keeping with a club that has no leadership, ideas or direction.
I was involved in a lot of stadium projects, some of the biggest infrastructure projects in Glasgow – and for this to happen, it’s disgraceful from the board’s point of view.
It is understood that no solution has yet been finalised as Rangers work through contingency plans that are likely to see them play outside of Glasgow during the first weeks of the term.
Work seems to be continuing at Ibrox but with only a handful or workmen inside the stand, it seems that they have been told to keep quiet with questions answered with ‘F**k knows mate!’
No timeline accompanied the Ibrox announcement, the media messengers all went with August only with nothing to back up that claim, September looks unlikely with October about as optimistic as it gets which puts the SPFL in a spot of bother.