TALKS have started within an influential group of Rangers supporters over going to the entire fanbase with a proposal to stage a groundbreaking boycott of Ibrox.

Sons Of Struth, responsible for a number of marches, leafleting campaigns and card displays aimed at the current board, met last night to discuss polling their 1500-plus members over staying away from home matches completely in the wake of an earlier campaign that saw only 23,000 season tickets sold.

Should a majority agree, they will seek the backing of all other organisations within the Union of Fans collective over ditching the current policy of attending fixtures on a game-by-game basis in favour of putting no money into the club whatsoever.

Sons of Struth staged the meeting after convicted fraudster Rafat Rizvi, wanted by Interpol for corruption and money laundering related to the collapse of an Indonesian bank in 2008, was photographed with Rangers director Sandy Easdale in Glasgow earlier this week.

Rizvi was part of a delegation led by Malaysian businessman Datuk Faizoull Bin Ahmad, and Rangers stated last night that the visit was arranged purely because Bin Ahmad is seeking a youth development partnership with his own football club, Felda United.

Rizvi, however, was linked with the former Ibrox chief executive Charles Green's original takeover at Rangers and is understood to be connected to the one-time commercial director Imran Ahmad, currently embroiled in a damaging court battle with the Ibrox club.

Rizvi was targeted by Sons Of Struth in a leaflet labelled 'Spivs Out' and distributed at home matches early last season with Easdale going on the record towards the end of the year to insist the Pakistan-born UK national, sentenced in his absence to a 15-year jail term in Indonesia, was not involved with Rangers.

Despite the club's protestations, Rizvi's reappearance has alarmed supporters and is being looked upon as the final straw among some followers eager to become more militant in their opposition to those in the boardroom.

The Union of Fans last night urged chief executive Graham Wallace and the rest of the Rangers International Football Club board to "take the necessary steps for the immediate removal of Sandy Easdale as a director of Rangers Football Club".

Sons of Struth will also speak to members about potential boycotts of Sports Direct, the leisurewear chain owned by Newcastle United owner and Ibrox investor Mike Ashley, and McGill's Buses, operated by Easdale and his brother James, who is a director on the PLC board.

"I am being told daily, sometimes hourly, by people that it is time for a full boycott," revealed Craig Houston, spokesman for Sons of Struth. "Our next step over the next few days will be to listen to our members and poll them over whether that is action that needs to be taken as a fanbase.

"We have always supported going on a game-by-game basis and asking fans not to go to matches at all is a tough ask, but this saga just gets sillier every day. There has to be a silver bullet moment where you say enough is enough. If that results in boycotts of your team, certain sports shops, certain transport or insurance companies, so be it.

"If a majority of supporters want to do that, we will be duty-bound to go with that. If we poll members and they support a boycott, we will ask the other Rangers supporters, the full fanbase, to follow us. We have had good responses in the past, though."

Rangers attempted to calm the

firestorm surrounding Rizvi's presence by issuing a statement claiming "the visit was organised as part of on-going discussions between Rangers and Felda United with regard to a potential youth development partnership" and that "subsequent reports suggesting Mr Bin Ahmad is in discussions with Rangers regarding anything other than youth development are untrue".

But Houston added: "We have been asking the board to reveal the identities of their faceless investors. We put Rizvi on the front of that 'Spivs Out' leaflet because of associations he allegedly had with Craig Whyte and Charles Green. We have never been able to clarify whether

he did invest in Rangers or not."