It never so much rains at Rangers as the heavens open above and it pours all over Ibrox.
At the same, we’re used to seeing all hell break loose below.
Over the last two decades supporters of the Ibrox club have gotten used to nonsense after nonsense, with certain periods more famous for supplying banter than others.
It’s just never us laughing, at least on the inside.
After climbing back up the divisions to regain Scottish Premiership supremacy, you’ll forgive fans for thinking the side splitting laughter of our many rivals had been condemned to the history books.
But the club’s mismanagement at every level over the last three seasons has proven – not to be dramatic or anything – potentially catastrophic.
Celtic are not only closing in on our world record trophy haul after enjoying three titles on the trot.
But they’ve also indulged in the financial luxury of Rangers’ hard-earned automatic Champions League spot in the process.
Ahead of the new season, we spoke frankly about things having to be different this time around to hold off what feels like a bubbling Rangers revolt.
But my God, as the rain thunders down over Govan, this season is already off to one hell of a start.
Ibrox fiasco heading for Hampden end
The situation with Ibrox Stadium makes for drastic reading.
Rangers confirmed that delays to the supply and construction of a new Copland Stand cantilever means that Ibrox will be shut for the immediate future.
With fans hoping it might only result in a lock out until September, the Daily Record are now claiming the delay could run to October.
It’s claimed Rangers are closing in on a deal to play at Hampden until the stand opens but no matter what happens, the fiasco is going to cost the Gers a pretty penny.
Between the cost of relocating to the national stadium and the loss of hospitality seats at the Champions League qualifiers, this is going to hurt.
And more than just the club’s well-worn leather wallet.
There’s a potentially momentum-sapping impact in losing the Ibrox advantage in Champions League qualification whilst losing our home stadium isn’t great for a new squad of players trying to gel.
James Bisgrove got out of dodge just in time. In retrospect the flailing CEO looked well out of his depth in the blue sea of Ibrox.
Rangers fans, who once again backed the club with astonishing season ticket sales despite the cost of living crisis, are increasingly incensed.
A lack of communication is being berated from every corner as fans await a statement from chairman John Bennett from a balcony of the Ibrox main stand like some kind of medieval land baron accused of misspending increased taxes.
The vacuum is becoming increasingly airtight, the conspiracies are rampant, and Rangers fans are ultimately becoming disillusioned with a club who are not handling the situation as well as they might.
It’s going to have to change directly or the situation threatens to spread onto the pitch and social media the moment there’s a misplaced pass next season.
Rangers fan confidence plummeting
All of this Ibrox nonsense is happening at a time of huge upheaval in the squad.
It probably could not be happening at a worse time.
Rangers manager Philippe Clement has previously insisted that he’d put a team out worthy of the badge even if we had to play in a car park.
It’s a mantra which has already backfired once when the Rangers team chucked it on Dens Park’s waterlogged atrocity last season.
After jetting out to the Netherlands for a pre-season training camp, Rangers haven’t exactly inspired confidence in the fans that they’re in a fitter state to compete this year.
With as many as seven names linked to the Ibrox exit door, the squad which boarded the flight to Holland might look very different to the one which takes the M8 to Tynecastle.
Philippe Clement has made a public plea for experience after adding a number of young talents to his team this window.
By the time it arrives the club’s rigorous pre-season camp – designed to halt a spate of injuries in the team over the last two years – will have been and gone.
With the unexpected financial burden of the Ibrox fiasco weighing heavy too, it’s not clear if this has eaten into Clement’s recruitment budget.
The whole thing – the Ibrox lock-out, the lack of communication, the stuttering transfer window – is contributing to a swelling feeling of apathy amongst Rangers fans.
In an off-season which promised so much, Rangers fans already have their heads down ahead of a new season which is right now promising so little.
Ordinarily we’d be either deluding ourselves by dreaming of blue heaven or bracing for red hell.
But having seen all of this chaos before, an increasing number are just helplessly standing in the rain asking, ‘why does it always rain on us?’
