Rangers head of recruitment Frank McParland has launched a blistering attack on the use of plastic pitches in Scotland and feels it is harming the game's development.
Gers manager Mark Warburton has called for plastic pitches to be banned in the Scottish top flight and the former Brentford boss is unhappy at their use, feeling Kilmarnock's surface at Rugby Park made an injury suffered by striker Martyn Waghorn worse than it should have been.
There has however been a defence of the use of artificial pitches in some corners, not least from Celtic boss Ronny Deila, who feels in the absence of a quality grass surface they are acceptable, while others argue they offer a degree of pitch consistency in all weathers.
But McParland is not convinced and has launched a blistering attack on their use in Scotland.
He told Rangers TV: "It's different than down south. I know a lot of people are talking about plastic pitches. I really don't like them. I am totally with the manager on that.
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"Sometimes I'm reading ex-players and people saying you just have to get on with it. Well, I don't think we do have to just get on with it. If you keep doing what you're doing then you keep getting what you're getting.
"We want football to improve, not just for Rangers, [also for] Scottish football, it will be great if that's improved.
"I'm mainly interested in Rangers improving and I think if you're playing on good surfaces, top surfaces like we played with at Brentford even in the Championship, then that's what we need for Scotland to improve", McParland, who worked alongside Warburton at Brentford, added.
Rangers have had to cope with playing on a number of artificial surfaces this season and it remains to be seen if there is a shift away from them in Scotland.
