Well, the last of the board members who were targeted by some within our support and labelled spivs, has gone. Our CEO Graham Wallace has made a promising start at our club and I expect further changes will be forthcoming in the near future. I hope that the remaining board members will be given a chance to bring about some much needed stability to our club, but sadly as I witnessed on social media last night, I doubt it.

There are already people slaughtering some of the remaining board members and one idiot in particular made the outrageous claim that Mr Stockbridge leaving is simply another cunning attempt by the board to seduce the support into buying up season tickets for next season.

While Celtic are embroiled in controversy over dodgy land deals, all of the Rangers support should be working together to expose the full story behind these allegations. Instead we find ourselves still crippled by in-fighting among factions within the support. I was accused of backing Charles Green by the very same idiot, as if that was some kind of crime. Didn't we all back Charles Green at some point?

I recall the queues of people waiting patiently to purchase their season tickets as we backed Mr Green in our tens of thousands. Charles bought the club, but we saved it. While the media speculated about whether we would manage to attract attendances of as many as 20,000 and whether that number would dwindle away as we made our journey from the bottom tier of Scottish football back to the top, we proved them wrong time and time again as the 'Sold Out' signs appeared on ticket office windows throughout the whole country, wherever Rangers turned up to play.

All of us remember the words of Ally McCoist who famously stated, 'this is my club, the same as it is for thousands and thousands of Rangers supporters, and we don't do walking away.' Those words were spoken after we were plunged into administration in February 2012, and many of us drew inspiration from them. I also remember him saying he would work for nothing, and despite having doubts over his managerial ability, I decided to put my doubts to the side and support him and our club.

Those doubts over his managerial ability were formed on the basis of results which had been less than impressive since he took over the reins of our club in 2011. A third round qualifying match for the Champions League against Malmo FF saw our club exit 2-1 on aggregate. This was followed soon after by a defeat in the play-off round for the Europa League at the hands of NK Maribor. A further loss to lower league opposition in the League Cup had alarm bells ringing, and despite a promising start in the now defunct SPL, a fifteen point lead over nearest rivals Celtic was surrendered, and on the 5th of February 2012 we suffered another cup exit, in a 2-0 defeat at home to Dundee United in the Scottish Cup. With the team now languishing in second spot in the SPL, four points behind Celtic, administration and the subsequent ten point deduction handed to the club for entering administration put an end to the season, with the clubs survival being the sole focus for us all.

We did finish second in the league, however what was of more concern was whether we would actually have a team to watch playing football the following season.

A transfer embargo meant we were limited to playing a blend of youth and veterans as we started on our journey in SFL League 3 in August 2012. An earlier 2-1 victory in July versus Brechin City in the Challenge Cup, albeit after extra time, gave us a glimpse of the fare which would be laid before us, and it wasn't pretty. While I was hoping to see a young vibrant team, playing with technique and a freedom to express themselves by adopting a high tempo passing game, I was instead watching journeymen professionals kicking high balls up the field in a style more akin to Sunday football. I was as disappointed in our team's performances as I was impressed by the quality of passing by some of our rivals in SFL league 3.

I stuck by the team in the hope that I would witness improvement, but sadly it didn't happen. Scrappy wins and draws in the league and a fifth exit from cup competitions in 14 months; this time at the hands of Queen of the South in the quarter finals of the Challenge Cup, was followed by McCoists' first defeat in the league, a 1-0 defeat to bottom club Stirling Albion on the 6th of October.

A fifth round defeat in the Scottish Cup and a quarter final exit in the League Cup did nothing to convince me that McCoist was the man to take our club forward, and the style of play was truly awful. The league was won on the 30th of March with a goalless draw against Montrose, and we hoped that an end to the transfer embargo might bring us a better quality product on the pitch for the following season.

With the club locked in a bitter war between rival factions trying to gain control of our club, the finances of the club were put under the microscope and accusations and counter-accusations were made, which did nothing but damage our club and drive down its share price. Every pound spent was the subject of scrutiny and the board were attacked and threatened by many supporters groups loyal to Paul Murray and his consortium. On the pitch, the football hadn't improved.

A first round defeat in the League Cup continued McCoist's woeful record in cup competition, with dire performances week in, week out. Despite the product on view, the sold out signs are still being displayed whenever the only show in town visit.

At the much anticipated AGM, it was revealed that our managers' salary was £825,858 p.a. I was staggered that this man who had proclaimed he would work for nothing, was happily taking this amount of money from our club during these difficult times. As if shamed into it, McCoist announced that he had offered to take a 50% reduction in his salary during these financially difficult times for our club. It later transpired that this wasn't to be a cut, but merely a deferral. It also transpired that at no time was McCoist working for nothing, and for a so called Rangers man to be happily taking this amount of money from the club during its present predicament is nothing short of disgraceful.

Recent leaked emails do nothing but further convince me that McCoist is as much a drain on our resources as the people on the board who were branded spivs and thieves. This man is taking a salary which is more than many English Premiership managers are on, and we have a playing squad of 56 while playing in SPFL league 1 against part-time players. This simply is unsustainable, and in my opinion a salary of around £100,000 p.a. would be more than generous, bearing in mind our current circumstances.

While the sold out signs continue to be displayed wherever we go, it appears that we ourselves have been sold out…

…by our manager.