JIM McCOLL insists that Rangers Requisitioners have been successful in their bid for change - even though the Ibrox AGM is still weeks away.

The businessman led a group of disgruntled shareholders that set out to oust the Light Blues board and see Paul Murray, Malcolm Murray, Alex Wilson and Scott Murdoch appointed as directors.

Finance director Brian Stockbridge is the only man from the time of former chief executive Charles Green.

McColl said: "I couldn't stand back and watch it be destroyed, which it was going to do early on.

"I think it has recovered a bit but there is still a good bit of work to be done. A lot has been achieved.

"If you look at the people that have been moved out, there is only one person left that was with the Charles Green camp.

"Green, Stockbridge and Imran Ahmad worked together before. I think my involvement is over now.

"We have got the four nominees on, there are three new people on the board and I think much of the job is done."

While McColl has been at the forefront of the moves to get the two Murrays, Wilson and Murdoch on to the board, the 61-year-old has no intention of standing for election as a director or ploughing money in the club.

He said: "I am tied to invest my money with the guys that have given me it.

"I have built my business, it has been a lot of hard work and I don't want to see that go.

"I am not going to upset my investors and say I am investing in a football club."

The boardroom battle will come to a head at the AGM on December 19, with shareholders to vote on retaining the current board of Stockbridge, chairman David Somers, chief executive Graham Wallace and directors Sandy Easdale and Norman Crighton or elect any of the four Requisitioners.

McColl added: "I think anything more than two on is success.

"I think we have had a lot of success so far with the changes that have been made."

chris.jack@ eveningtimes.co.uk