If Gers are serious about taking on Celtic on the field they also need to match them up in the boardroom too

Directors are running for Ibrox exit but crisis can be turned around with right appointments

- ANDY NEWPORT

ONCE upon a time, it would take a banner protest round Ibrox to force unpopular figures off their perches atop the Marble Staircase.

More recently, well they've been sprinting for the exits before the Rangers support have even had time to strip the bedsheets and apply the first brush strokes on those infamous mugshots with the red stripe slashed through them.

James Bisgrove, John Bennett and now Creag Robertson have all jumped before they were pushed out by a furious fanbase.

You can certainly see the sense in it given the treatment some of their colleagues have endured.

A little under 18 months has passed since the Rangers board endured a week from hell.

What started with an Old Firm defeat ended with the directors squirming in their seats as the Ibrox faithful spelled out exactly what they thought of the men in charge. "After 55 titles you took your eye off the ball - time for a change," read a display that emerged from the section housing the Union Bears during a league win over Kilmarnock.

That day it was CEO Stewart Robertson and director of football Ross Wilson who were firmly in the crosshairs of the scunnered support.