The Ibrox club wanted the game postponed as three of their players were on international duty, and after the SPFL rejected Cowden’s bid to get the game back on, it was announced that the fixture will take place on 4th November.

When the Blue Brazil finally face Rangers, it will have been almost six weeks since their last home game against Queen of the South on 27th September, and financial director David Allan admits that’s put pressure on the budget.

“It does have an impact on the finances,” he said. “We work out a budget at the start of the season when the fixtures are released and we were counting on around £50,000 of gate money from the Rangers game.

“If you add in 100 hospitality bookings at £100 each, that’s another £10,000 all factored into the budget, so we’re losing £60,000 in a month.

“We’ll make it up later but it will definitely be less in a midweek game. It’s less convenient for fans - there will be midweek European games, some will be finishing work at 5pm and might struggle to make it in time.” It’s not just the regular gate which is affected, as Mr Allan explained that they lose out on hospitality because of the awkward timing.

“If a game is on a Saturday people can book hospitality and come in at 12pm for a leisurely lunch, but for someone who is working until 5pm in Glasgow they’re not going to get to the ground in time for it to be worth it,” he said.

“We had hospitality requests from groups from Germany and Northern Ireland if we’d been playing on the Saturday but now that it’s midweek they can’t make it.

“So it’s a big hole in the budget that we have to work around, and it’s a real blow to us.” Despite the change of date, the club are still hoping that fans of both sides will show up in numbers so that the financial loss is kept to a minimum.

“I think we’ll still get a decent crowd,” Mr Allan added. “I was budgeting for an attendance of around 4000. For a midweek game we’d like to have the same crowd, but if it’s less than 3000 it would be a big blow to the budget.”