BEARGER 1,829 Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 (edited) Rangers' final home game of the Championship season has had the details confirmed, and the Livingston game has been organised. Beginning with the final Ibrox encounter of the Championship season, we host Alloa Athletic on home soil on Saturday April 23 and the game has been given a 12.30pm kick off slot. With Livingston set originally for Saturday April 16, the game was postponed owing to our involvement in the Scottish Cup semi final. Following discussions the game has been re-set for Tuesday April 26 and taking place ten days later at the Tony Macaroni Arena, it will now kick off at 7.45pm. It means Rangers end the 2015-16 season with back to back away games, with Alloa at home as above on April 23, and then Livington followed by St Mirren on April 30. Edited March 21, 2016 by BEARGER 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEARGER 1,829 Posted March 21, 2016 Author Share Posted March 21, 2016 RANGERS need just eight more points to lift the Championship title and earn promotion back to the top flight of Scottish football. With second-placed Falkirk sitting on 61 points, and third-placed Hibs sitting on 55 points with two games in hand over Falkirk, the highest points tally either side can reach is 79. Despite a close-fought battle for most of the season, Alan Stubbs' Hibs currently sit the same distance from fifth place and falling out of the play-offs as they do from top spot in the Championship, with a 17-point gap separating the Easter Road side from both Morton and Rangers. Rangers, despite their 3-2 defeat to Falkirk on Friday night, sit on 72 points and can take the title providing they win their next three games. image: http://i4.dailyrecord.co.uk/incoming/article7568753.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/JS85166428.jpg Rangers manager Mark Warburton at training That means that the earliest Rangers can win the title will be Tuesday, April 5 against Dumbarton at Ibrox. Mark Warburton's men face Queen of the South on Saturday hoping to bounce back from the defeat to Falkirk, and start their run towards clinching the title. A trip to Raith Rovers is sandwiched between the two matches and with the Kirkcaldy club attempting to seal a play-off spot, a potential banana skin awaits at Starks Park. Winning the title against Dumbarton could start off a huge couple of weeks for Rangers, with Warburton's side involved in the Petrofac Training Cup final against Peterhead the following Sunday, before a mouth-watering Scottish Cup semi-final against Celtic a week later. But the Ibrox club might not be the first side to win a league title in Scotland, with Dunfermline able to reach 75 points, one point more than second-placed Peterhead can accumulate, and win League One by April 2, three days before Rangers could potentially clinch the second-tier title. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RANGERRAB 3,410 Posted March 21, 2016 Share Posted March 21, 2016 (edited) Wow how dumb are the daily rhebel...... The earliest Rangers can win the league is away to Raith Rovers on April2 not Dumbarton on April5. If Rangers beat QOS at home on Saturday and then Raith Rovers on April2 they could be champions if both Hibz & Falkirk dont win both their next two games. If say Hibz and Falkirk drew one of their games and won the other the maximum points they could get would then be 77 whilst Rangers would be on 78 points after beating QoS and Raith therefore champions Edited March 21, 2016 by RANGERRAB 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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