Recent picture of Ibrox

[G.E.C. 18,702]

[Straight-Edge-Loyal 6,677]

That is just wrong

[folkestoneger 8,076]

Pitch adapting to Ally's favoured style of football

[trublusince1982 768]

do we get a new pitch after its all done?

[one55 1,510]

fucking ridiculous man.

they better put it back exactly the way it was before our first game.

honestly the thought of thousands of big necked cauliflower ear fat broken nose ugly cunts in our stadium makes me feel sick.

edit* and what the fuck is that hangin from the sandy jardine stand? lights or some shit? get it tae fuck man.

[govansw1 326]

What is that hanging from the SJ stand?

[one55 1,510]

wish we told the GCC to get tae fuck.

[Malvern 11,329]

do we get a new pitch after its all done?

Yeah we do, when we have paid for it. We are not the East Enders mate, we have to pay our way.

[.Williamson. 81,876]

Do we make any money from this?

If so and the pitch is repaired afterwards I couldn't honestly give a fuck

[one55 1,510]

Do we make any money from this?

If so and the pitch is repaired afterwards I couldn't honestly give a fuck

probably not. if we do it'll be peanuts compared to what the co-op park/hampden gets.

[1690tamRFC 5,001]

My main is the fact they have had to completely disconnect the under soil hearing to insert massive concrete bases to hold up the rugby goal posts and have no time to remove the concrete before the start of the season, resulting in them staying in place, and at shallow depth to the playing surface inside the penalty area. It's utter madness to have allowed Ibrox to be used in such a way such a short time away from our first game and it's 100% going to affect the pitch for our season.

[thehost 11,061]

guys can you clear something up here, seeing that pic has reminded me of something I hopefully have picked up incorrectly

I know the filth are getting a free 1.6m new pitch

on the basis that they are playing rugby, our pitch, I presume that we are also getting a new pitch at the same cost

for some reason I seem to think we are not getting the pitch replaced but surely I am mistaken on this?

anyone shed any light?

[.Williamson. 81,876]

My main is the fact they have had to completely disconnect the under soil hearing to insert massive concrete bases to hold up the rugby goal posts and have no time to remove the concrete before the start of the season, resulting in them staying in place, and at shallow depth to the playing surface inside the penalty area. It's utter madness to have allowed Ibrox to be used in such a way such a short time away from our first game and it's 100% going to affect the pitch for our season.

I'm more annoyed about it all after reading this

[1690tamRFC 5,001]

guys can you clear something up here, seeing that pic has reminded me of something I hopefully have picked up incorrectly

I know the filth are getting a free 1.6m new pitch

on the basis that they are playing rugby, our pitch, I presume that we are also getting a new pitch at the same cost

for some reason I seem to think we are not getting the pitch replaced but surely I am mistaken on this?

anyone shed any light?

Strangely enough that was the one thing that has never properly been mentioned, as far as I could make out they have to put the pitch back to what it was like previous, although I would imagine it'll be the club that has to pay for the whole thing to be done again at the end of this current season and the concrete removed and under soil heating reconnected. Whole thing is a farce.

[Malvern 11,329]

Can't remember where I read it but pretty sure we do not get any money to redo the pitch, the club will have to pay for it if I recall correctly.

[Super Ally 1690 21]

Think we can win by bigger margins playing that way . I'm in

[1690tamRFC 5,001]

I can't find the link with all the figures relating to this, but from memory we were to get £250000 for hosting the events and they were responsible for extending the playing surface back to where it was originally, but outwith that I hadn't seen anything to suggest that they were paying anything towards the pitch costs.

[NornIronBear 450]

Whole thing is a farce. No communication from the club about what's happening, the council have come in and removed railings to fit in the shabby tents which will no doubt become potholes and there as been no clean up outside the stadium.

Considering we are a proud member of the Commonwealth you'd have thought the club would have had the painters and cleaners in.

Zero spent on Ibrox which is hosting days of activity, couple of million spent at the Co-op dome for one evening says it all.

As for the underground heating, does that mean it's out of use next season?

I was proud when Ibrox was selected to welcome the Commonwealth but with all the corruption involved and the obvious bias to the Commonwealth haters in green I now can't see the end of the sham quick enough.

I wonder who will very cheaply be offered the velodrome after a year or 2 so they can move their training complex and sell that land for £millions?

Roll on the football.

WATP.

[1690tamRFC 5,001]

Whole thing is a farce. No communication from the club about what's happening, the council have come in and removed railings to fit in the shabby tents which will no doubt become potholes and there as been no clean up outside the stadium.

Considering we are a proud member of the Commonwealth you'd have thought the club would have had the painters and cleaners in.

Zero spent on Ibrox which is hosting days of activity, couple of million spent at the Co-op dome for one evening says it all.

As for the underground heating, does that mean it's out of use next season?

I was proud when Ibrox was selected to welcome the Commonwealth but with all the corruption involved and the obvious bias to the Commonwealth haters in green I now can't see the end of the sham quick enough.

I wonder who will very cheaply be offered the velodrome after a year or 2 so they can move their training complex and sell that land for £millions?

Roll on the football.

WATP.

Regarding the under soil heating, all the pipe work had to be disconnected and removed from the area that the concrete bases were being inserted, wether or not they have been able to reconnect the remaining pipe work around this for the rest of the pitch to be heated I'm not 100% sure.

[Getstiffed 8,863]

Looks like we are going all out to fit our style of play around Peralta.

[1690tamRFC 5,001]

THE work to get Ibrox Stadium ready for the Rugby Sevens at this summer’s Commonwealth Games continues at pace and on Monday the next phase will start with the pitch being extended at the Copland and Broomloan ends.

Once completed the new pitch for the Sevens competition – which will be held on July 26 and 27 – will stretch across to the advertising boards with the blue track at the front of both Stands completely covered.

Head Groundsman David Roxburgh is working closely with organisers to get the playing surface ready and it has thrown up more than a few challenges for him and his staff.

He told rangers.co.uk: “At the start of next week we need to come in and cover the blue track with boards at the two ends. A membrane then goes on top of the boards and we build the same profile as the current pitch up to the required level.

“We don’t seed it because we don’t have time for the grow-in for the Commonwealth Games so it will be turfed instead.

“That turf should be in the ground by June 14 and that will give it a grow-in period so it marries with the rest of the pitch.

“So everything is going to plan right now but we’ve still got a few hurdles to get over, it’s not just a case of extending the pitch.

"Irrigation needs to go in because we could have a dry summer and need to wet it. We also need to put drains in the extended areas because we could have a wet summer.

“You never quite know what you are going to get here in Scotland so there is a lot of work involved and the take-out will be the difficult bit as it has to come out quickly. We will then have to reshape the bankings once the turf and materials are taken away.

“The concrete blocks that hold up our goals also had to come out and they will need to be rebuilt again when the rugby is finished.

“The rugby posts go almost two metres into the ground and there will be 10 tonnes of concrete holding them up.

“The posts will sit on the current six-yard line because a football pitch is 105 metres long and the rugby pitch is only 100 metres long. They will also be shifted over by two metres towards the Govan Stand.

“The width of a rugby pitch is 70 metres and a football pitch is 68 so we couldn’t put a metre either side of our football pitch because of the sightline from the Club Deck.

“If we brought the pitch any closer to the Main Stand fans in the Club Deck would not be able to see part of the pitch so we had to move it two metres the other way.

“Due to timescales the concrete blocks that hold in place the rugby posts will have to stay there for the entire season and they will be 100mm below the surface which shouldn’t be a problem.

“But to deal with this situation we had to cut 32 pipes out from our undersoil heating, take them away, re-join them and run them across the top of the concrete.

“To take the blocks back out we will have to cut the pipes again and bring in a crane to lift them out. We can’t do that until next year because we don’t have time to do it before the start of the football season.

“So this has all added a lot more work for us but we are getting there and we’re confident the pitch will look fantastic for the Commonwealth Games.”

After the Rugby Sevens competition is finished Roxburgh and his team will move swiftly to get their pitch ready for the new football season.

He added: “We’ll still have the same pitch and what we have done this summer is our normal renovation work.

“This involves stripping the grass off the surface and taking away the top 25mm of rotten material.

“We replace that with 150 tonne of fresh material and we mix that all back in. We then re-level, reconsolidate and reseed the pitch with new grass.

“Out pitch has also got synthetic elastic in the profile. They developed a new process seven or eight years ago where they introduced Elastane into it, this is basically just small bands of elastic.

“It’s only three per cent but it makes the pitch that wee bit softer and it also protects the players. When a player goes in and his studs catch the pitch will move whereas other pitches would sit and the players could get injured.

“It also helps when we get small divots and wee marks. Within a few days those wee marks start to come back out a wee bit so it keeps the pitch open and free-draining. It also keeps it warmer which helps in our environment.”

[The Educator 1,572]

If anything this just proves the point of state aid to c****c, on reading details of what they have done inside the piggery they say that everything will be returned to the same as it was before the games. How that equates to a new £1.6m pitch for them and not Ibrox where more work was carried out on the playing surface doesn't add up unless you are operating with an inbuilt bias to one club. Does anybody know the details of what is happening regarding the pitch a Hampden? Again if they are or are not getting a new pitch will prove a point of bias, if they are it's a bias against Rangers, if they are it's clearly a bias towards c****c.

The joke is our stadium still looks a million dollars better than theirs.

[WilliamFyfe 1,438]

Big punt up the pitch tactic!

[Copland bear 7,966]

Oh great we get 2 sets of rugby posts and they get millions spent around their shithole, cheap land deals, listed buildings knocked down.

[TheRoyalBlueShirt 140]

The joke is our stadium still looks a million dollars better than theirs.

Some things NEVER change