THE BBC says it will continue to report on Rangers matches by using agency journalists as it stands by its decision not to send staff to Ibrox after the club banned one of their reporters.

It is understood that there has been no moves to break the dispute which came about after senior sports reporter Chris McLaughlin was told to stay away.

Fans have lodged their concerns about the BBC boycott which was to begin with the club's 3-0 victory over Peterhead on Monday.

Mr McLaughlin was told he was not welcome after being accused of filing misleading and unbalanced reports by Rangers.

Some fans have protested to the BBC and to the communications regulator Ofcom saying the BBC actions are indicative of what they felt was a continued bias against the club.

BBC sources insist there will be no staff member going to Ibrox until the ban on Mr McLaughlin is lifted.

The BBC said they would continue to report on Rangers but will use news agencies to help continue their coverage of games as they boycott Ibrox.

One source said: "They banned Chris and we said we won't send anyone to Ibrox while that remains the case but we will continue to report on them - just not from the ground.

"We get agency copy like everyone else so we can do score updates and action updates during our live programmes and online in much the same way papers do when they don't have staffers at the game."

The boycott is expected to continue on Friday with Rangers' Ladbrokes Championship game against St Mirren and a match against Hibernian on August 23.

Rangers has previously said its latest concerns with coverage came to a head after a BBC report 'unfairly focused' on the arrest of Rangers fans after the club’s 6-2 win over Hibs.

Two years ago, Rangers banned BBC journalists Chris McLaughlin and Chick Young from the club's stadium and training ground after the broadcaster revealed a leaked document which indicated a plot to sack manager Ally McCoist.

In July 2011, the Beeb were banned and later issued an apology to McCoist over their reporting of his views on football violence and sectarianism.

A second ban came three months later over their documentary Rangers – The Inside Story about Craig Whyte’s disastrous club takeover.

In September, 2012, the BBC infuriated the club again with a spoof of the American TV drama Mad Men depicting McCoist falling from a building.