Ibrox whizz kid Bisgrove reveals plans to raise stadium capacity to 70,000!

James Bisgrove has been feeding moonbeams to the Gullible & Deluded at an Ibrox Fan Forum.

Loyal Bears were invited to New Edmiston House last night to hear the plans of the newly installed CEO who approved Micky Beale’s summer spending spree.

The annual change of manager followed by the bounce that follows has kept the bears onside with no hard questioning of the colossal waste of money with players like Cyriel Dessers and Sam Lammers on massive contracts for the next four seasons.

Since the turn of the century there has been very little spent on maintenance at Ibrox but once a year they like to flag up exciting new plans for a stadium badly in need of basic improvements.

Covering last night’s event The Sun reports:

RANGERS are investigating two major moves that could dwarf neighbours Celtic.

Chief executive James Bisgrove confirmed the club was considering early ideas of an ambitious stadium expansion plan which could eventually take the Ibrox capacity over Celtic Park’s.

Currently the Light Blues’ home on the southside of the city is the fourth biggest sports arena in Scotland – behind Murrayfield, Celtic Park and Hampden.

However outline plans for ways to increase the current 51,000 seat selection have been discussed behind the scenes.

One includes making the stands behind each goal bigger – and lifting the overall stadium capacity by 37 PER CENT.

Numbers being thrown around could add between 8000 and 10,000 seats on each side to take overall audience figures beyond 70,000.

Since Celtic Park was completed in 1998 there has been regular moonbeams from Ibrox about lifting their capacity above the 60,000 seater across the city.

Three of the roofs at Ibrox were built in the early eighties with no prospect of removing them and continuing to keep the stadium in use.

To build up you need to dig down, close to the water table at the River Clyde the moonbeams will continued for years to come with neither the finances or technology available to do anything beyond squeezing another 2,000 seats into both corners at the side of the Sandy Jardine Stand.