So the big breaking Rangers story the past 24 hours, in fairness, there’s been a few, has concerned Danny Rohl and an apparent confrontation with Rangers chairman Andrew Cavenagh.
Hot on the heels, of course, of Cavenagh’s sensational interview in which he backed Danny Rohl to the hilt, has come the story from STV’s producer Callum Bell where he made a significant claim about Rohl at the Rangers Hearts match.
Public confrontation claim
The claim here at Tynecastle apportioned to Rohl making a confrontation with Cavenagh after the miserable defeat, screaming at his chairman that he needed leaders.
Now, the issue here was not necessarily so much the fact that he would want something from his chairman.
We’re not going to be unreasonable about that request.
But as STV’s producer pointed out, this claim, this raging argument, was made in front of people, including the players themselves.
By Rohl making this demand public, it was as if he was grassing up his squad to his boss, demanding better, almost sounding like, in fact, his boss is his employee.
Questions over Cavenagh’s stance
That Rohl behaved this arrogantly, and we have no reason to believe that the producer in question is lying, if Rohl behaved this arrogantly, then it begs the question of just how soft Cavenagh actually is.
Is it possible that Keith Jackson was right the whole time?
That Cavenagh made the decision that Rohl must go and that instead of saying so, has said the exact opposite as a way for marking up the price.
There is so much speculation about Rohl leaving Rangers.
As we have reported many times, there have been internal investigations regarding his future and regarding the recruitment process.
That doesn’t just stop overnight for a sudden and unexpected Cavenagh backing.
A telling development
We are really puzzled by this direction of events.
If this confrontation is true, there is no way that Cavenagh would want to keep Rohl at all because Rohl has no right to publicly humiliate his chairman in this way by making demands and also undermining the squad.
Yes, we are well aware the Rangers squad is short of leaders, considerably short of leaders.
It’s short of leaders in the management too, but that’s another story.
And Rohl’s not wrong to call it out, but not in public, not in front of the players, not in front of TV cameras, not in front of staff, not in front of fans, for everyone to hear.
So this is a very, very telling development and we don’t have any reason to believe that the witness is in any way lying on this one.
End of the day, it’s just yet another sordid episode in the soap opera that is Danny Rohl.