Calling out absent friends- the AWOL Ibrox directors

Three directors in The Rangers International Football Club didn’t bother making the effort to attend the club’s 12th ever AGM.

Confirmation that less than £1m was raised from the sale of five first team players came as a shock to shareholders who had been reassured by the media messengers that Utrecht had splashed out £2.7m for Sam Lammers with £1m less received from ARIS Limassol for Connor Goldson.

The back-tracking from the messengers has been hilarious as they skirt around the issue of how easily they were duped into spreading good news that is as fake as the claim to be The World’s Most Successful Football Club.

At the AGM caretaker Chairman John Gilligan became MC, the 72-year-old that was drafted in earlier this year because none of the Directors would step in after John Bennett walked away for what was described as health grounds.

Flying in from North America the other Alistair Johnston waffled away all sorts of nonsense after decades of failing to deliver a thin dime from the Land of the Free, Johnston is also a Director of the once prestigious International Management Group (IMG) but has brought nothing to the table despite being a director of both Ibrox clubs.

Gary Keown of the Daily Mail sat through Thursday’s AGM, it seems that he didn’t leave the Armadillo inspired with hope for the future

Johnston is now 76. It is not clear what he has delivered since returning to the board in 2017. Or what role he will play going forward.

Gilligan stated that plans are in place to create a new team of directors that will be largely Scotland-based. It is easy to see why convening board meetings might be tricky when Johnston is in the USA with investor John Halsted and George Taylor and Julian Wolhardt have their bases in Hong Kong.

Halsted, Wolhardt and Taylor weren’t present on Thursday, but there is no hiding for anyone in the corridors of power at Ibrox any longer.

Graeme Park was invited to speak but Gilligan and Johnston jumped in to protect Dougie’s boy who has been in a blazer since 2017 with the appointment of Pedro Caixinha his only known contribution.