Yesterday’s news that the directors would hold a meeting next Tuesday rather than within the seven days promised to the fans at the meeting held at Ibrox last Thursday is a sure sign that the scramble to fend off the EGM is reaching crisis point.
I also think it demonstrates a clear lack of leadership; the idea that Charles Green can be employed as a consultant to liaise with shareholders and then make two out of control statements - one after being slapped down by Mather last Thursday - and remain in position is laughable.
We need a Board meeting to remove someone on £12k a year? In fact we need - according to Mather’s statement yesterday - an extra week to prepare for it as “this is something we need to address face to face.” This is preposterous.
At the fans' meeting Mather described Green’s behaviour as “immoral and unethical”, while Ian Hart described being “appalled” and Brian Stockbridge distanced himself completely by saying he was not a place-man for Green. So what’s changed in the last week? You’ve supposed to be Rangers directors - act like Rangers directors.
If Mather and his fellow directors are to have any credibility - or in some cases save their well-paid positions in the immediate or long term - then they have to act. This is but one example of the footering around that is crippling the club.
Like it or not, the tide has turned almost completely against Green and his camp followers - that’s clearly evident. Both Green and Imran Ahmad are off the Board and while they still want more money out of the club their credibility is gone and won’t be returning amongst vast swathes of the support or shareholders due entirely to their own behaviour.
You wouldn’t have the representatives of 28% of the shares in the club signing a requisition for an EGM if things were going well and the merry-go-round of director changes and perpetual crisis is draining the support - it shows the Board is dysfunctional and needs a change in either personnel or policy, certainly the latter.
Now’s the time for decisive action for the well-being of the club. Current members of the Board have shown themselves weak and incapable of handling the job. As well as Green’s position they should be considering their own.
Last week Craig Mather hung his hat on summoning a Board meeting. Due to his inability to deliver he’s now put his coat on a shoogly nail.
Don’t imagine that a mealy-mouth compromise will suffice. It’s gone too far for that.