It might not be getting held in a marquee this year, but Rangers AGM is likely to be every bit as poisonous as the one that was so famously held by a board that would soon be the subject of a coup.
Ibrox will still be a matter for discussion and how the upgrade to the Copland Road stand went so badly wrong with several other areas of concern too.
Philippe Clement’s position as manager will, rightly, be questioned, as will the board’s ability to take Rangers forward.
Three questions that need to be asked at Rangers AGM
These are three questions that fans should be asking, aside from the obvious ones, and to avoid trivial matters like the half-time pies being a subject of debate.
Rangers have £20m European black hole looming
If Rangers don’t win the league, and Scotland’s coefficient ranking stays outside top 15, that would lead to three ECL qualifying rounds needing to be played and potentially losing out on £20m.
Rangers, Hearts and Celtic have all picked up decent points this season, but so have rival countries.
Celtic are fully aware of this, which is why they spent £20m on a midfielder and a striker in the summer.
What long term plans do the board have to lessen the reliance on European money?
What are the club’s plans to prevent a repeat of 2024 shambles?
How has the club’s succession planning failed so miserably to have an almost non-existent football board?
Patrick Stewart has been appointed as CEO and will make a start to his lengthy to-do list on the 16th of December.
His office might be a dusty one with his predecessor James Bisgrove having tendered his resignation in the springtime, how it has taken so long to find a replacement is bordering on negligence.
To compound the problem, there is no permanent chairman, academy director, head of football operations or recruitment director.
Nils Koppen has been promoted into a technical director role, but he can’t be expected to do it all on his own and should still have department heads reporting to him.
This year has seen the situation go from bad to worse, and it is one that was easily avoidable.
Do Rangers need an off-field restructure?
Has the off-field mess highlighted the need to review the structure of the football operations aspect of the club?
All it has taken is for a couple of posts to become vacant and the mechanism to sack and then hire a new manager has evaporated.
Clement can count himself very lucky that the board and football structure was in such a mess when you consider that both Michael Beale and Giovanni van Bronckhorst were given their P45 for less, and they had both beaten Celtic.
