According to former Ibrox goalkeeper Cammy Bell, who challenged claims that the Light Blues should have their knuckles wrapped by league bosses just like Scottish Premiership rivals Dundee did following the Dens Park washout last season, Rangers will avoid a punishment from the SPFL amid their Ibrox lockout, just as Hearts did during their Tynecastle building troubles. Rangers chiefs have been left with a major headache as they search for a temporary home with their home out of commission for the first month of the 2024–25 season due to delays to improvement work on the Copland Road stand.
Rangers now know they must find a different location for their “home” Scottish Premiership match against Motherwell and Ross County, which is slated for the first month of the calendar. They also need to find a location for the vital Champions League qualifiers and a possible home Viaplay Cup last-six match.
Some punters have drawn a comparison to the sanction handed out to Dundee following a series of call offs last term at Dens Park. Rangers finally managed to get their away fixture in the City of Discovery played on Wednesday night at the THIRD attempt after two previous call-offs – with six call-off throughout the season landed the Dark Blues a whopping £186,000 fine with £120,000 suspended. However, Bell reckons that Hearts’ issues in 2017 are more realistic. After a delay in fitting seats in the club’s new main stand it was announced that three of its first four home games of the Jambos’ campaign would be moved to Murrayfield, while switching the other against Partick Thistle to Firhill.
The Edinburgh team was not disciplined by the SPFL. “The games will go ahead at the date and time they are scheduled to (be played),” Bell stated to Clyde 1 Superscoreboard. I believe that there will be a solution soon enough; perhaps within the next week or two, it will be made public. “The games will take place on the dates that they are scheduled for, regardless of the venue. That is, in my opinion, the major aspect. I make no comparisons to the Dundee circumstances at all. In my opinion, the Dundee incident involved them disregarding their pitch and breaking the rules as their pitch wasn’t good enough to support a game.
Since Hearts and Rangers both experienced construction-related problems in the past and Hearts were not penalized at the time, I don’t anticipate Rangers facing any penalties either. It was detected sufficiently early; it wasn’t discovered a week before the season began. I disagree that the circumstances are the same as in Dundee because it appears that they are still in June and are in advanced talks with the SPFL over their temporary relocation.
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