Hibs S&S guy joins Rangers

[BEARGER 1,830]

From Daily Record website.

 

RANGERS have landed a blow to Hibs by snapping up their head of sports science and fitness.

 

Former Light Blues’ starlet Craig Flannigan will quit the Easter Road club after Sunday’s championship clash at Ibrox to work for Mark Warburton and his first-team squad.

 

Flannigan is currently serving his notice at East Mains and Hibs are advertising for his replacement after his decision to accept a job at Murray Park.

 

 

 

Rangers and Hibs were involved in verbal spats all summer over the future of Scott Allan, who eventually moved to Celtic after the Leith board refused to sell to a title rival.

 

Warburton has also told Alan Stubbs to butt out of his business this week after the Hibs boss claimed the job of managing Rangers was “very easy”.

 

The decision by Rangers to offer a job to Flannigan, following the departure of ex-Celtic fitness guru Jim Hendry, will upset the Easter Road hierarchy still further.

 

 

 

 

Flannigan, 42, started his career with Rangers and played for Scotland at all levels from under-16s to under-21. He also played with Clydebank, Queen of the South and Partick Thistle.

 

He quit playing in 2001 to study sports science and has worked with several SPFL clubs over the past decade on fitness and conditioning.

 

A former education officer with the players’ union, he is highly rated and moved to Hibs last summer but the lure of a return to his boyhood favourites has proved too strong.

 

Flannigan declined to comment on his imminent switch.

Edited August 20, 2015 by BEARGER

[colinstein 294]

guaranteed Hibbies will say we're punishing them for Allan, and it's a deliberate ploy to undermine them ahead of the game on Sunday

[Bearman 9]

 

Rangers XI 1991. L-R: Shaun Rouse, John Morrow, David Bowman, Craig Flannigan, Levi Smith, David Hagen, John Walker, Rodney Paterson, Stephen Watson, Danny Donnachie, Steven Pressley.

Edited August 20, 2015 by Bearman