With Rangers now close to sorting out a deal with Hampden for an initial five home matches, what does this mean for the club, the fans and the game at large in Scotland?

On the face of it, fans will still be in the south side of Glasgow cheering their side on, so in terms of pure travel and disruption, the upheaval for supporters, purely logistically, isn’t too awful.

There is no subway in Mount Florida, but there is a station near the stadium so early exits (and ones after full time, what a concept) from the match will now crowd around at Mount Florida station, a short walk from the ground.

In that sense, nothing much really changes.

But of course, everything does.

We all know the national stadium, it is nowhere near the atmosphere of Ibrox (or Parkhead, let’s be honest) and the running track around the pitch and massive stand offs at each end mean that the crowd is substantially back from the action, rather than right on it at Ibrox.

And of course the big issue was previously season tickets but we would expect that all STs will be valid for Hampden, whereas there was going to be a bit of a set to over the Copland being closed for the early portion of the season.

We’re not going to pretend to know all the ins and outs of this deal, or all the ramifications and implications – it remains rather guesswork at this point.

But we have to say the club’s handling of this situation has been as disgraceful as anything we’ve seen from any Rangers board.

John Bennett, as the boss, is the one who has been conspicuous by his silence on this – can’t blame outgone CEO James Bisgrove – he’s been away for a couple of months now, and while this may have been under this watch, that’s conjecture in reality.

The boss is now Bennett, and he (allegedly) fired an unnamed Project Manager over this, but this is now all under Bennett’s watch.

The complete lack of apology or communication about this dire situation has been absolutely horrendous, and has summed up Rangers’ abysmal close season sadly well.

We’ve seen other outlets scathing of Rangers’ conduct, and we have to say there’s no case for the defence.

Rangers’ complete lack of comms about the situation, lack of apology, and lack, at this point, of any kind of compensation for fans really is pretty poor.

Another bad board?

Well, you learn how bad things are run in the event of a crisis, and this definitely was a crisis. Last time Rangers were actually well-run?

You’d have to go back to Sir David Murray for those good old days, we’re afraid, and he ended up vilified as well.

Very few decent suits in there since then, a real lack of accountability.