Alex Lowry should not be playing B team football as Rangers pay price
Rangers are now set to be without the services of teenage sensation Alex Lowry after the B team’s 7-0 thumping of Dumbarton on Tuesday.
The 19-year-old had already scored a hat-trick as the Light Blues cruised through in the SPFL Trust Trophy but he was kept on the pitch rather than protected for another day.
And he paid the price for that decision as Ally Love lunged into an abhorrent tackle on the starlet which left him in agony on the floor and needing a stretcher to depart the field of play.
The 7-0 rout no longer seems like a victory now with Lowry potentially out for several months if the diagnosis is as bad as first feared from watching the footage of the tackle that should have seen Love sent off, not just booked.
Giovanni van Bronckhorst is now paying the price for not bringing Lowry into his squad full-time or sending him out on loan but instead choosing to let him play in small competitions.
You just wouldn’t see a tackle that dangerous or obviously intentional higher up the Scottish football pyramid where Lowry should be playing regularly.
The signings of Tom Lawrence and Malik Tillman have obviously created an additional hurdle for the teenager to overcome to gain regular senior football at Ibrox but that doesn’t mean he has to stay and play for the B team.
As soon as it looked like he wasn’t going to feature each week, Rangers should have been sounding him out for a loan because there would have been clubs swarming from across the country to sign him.
But now they have to face the consequences of failing to do that and if Glen Kamara were to leave before the transfer window shuts, van Bronckhorst now has one less player available to replace him at Ibrox.
In other Rangers news, Tom English has blasted this “stupid” Ibrox ace after what he did against Hibernian but insists he is not a big miss.