- James Tavernier is to leave Rangers at the end of the season
- 34-year-old’s final match at Ibrox is against Hibs on 13 May
- Edinburgh club was the victim of captain’s first Rangers goal
James Tavernier will take to the Ibrox turf for the final time on Wednesday 13 May in Rangers’ penultimate match of the season.
That match will be against David Gray’s Hibs side ahead of Tavernier’s final bow against Falkirk three days later.
It remains to be seen how the captain will end his 11-year tenure at Rangers.
However, the final meeting against the Easter Road club provides the 34-year-old with the opportunity to potentially create a full circle moment.
Tavernier’s first goal for Rangers was against the Hibees
Rewind back to 25 July 2015, James Tavernier’s first competitive match in a Rangers jersey.
The 23-year-old defender would make an immediate impression and scored a free-kick to level the scoring as Rangers ran out 6-2 winners in the first round of the Challenge Cup.
That match at Easter Road sparked the beginning of Tavernier’s Rangers career while the ability to score free-kicks and rescue the Gers from losing positions is a quality that we would see countless times in the 10-plus years that followed.
Hibs match is opportunity for captain to possibly go full circle
And that is why the upcoming match against Hibs provides Tavernier with an unique opportunity.
As the next five games go by, if the captain scores a goal it will carry that extra significance as neither he or us will know if that celebration will be his last.
His final bow will come against Falkirk, but the visit of Hibs gives the 34-year-old the chance to score his potentially last Rangers goal against the same club he netted his first against.
Should this happen, it would make his departure even more emotional and see his Rangers journey come to a perfect and nostalgic conclusion.
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This scenario would be a fitting end to a man whose Rangers career has been defined by scoring when it matters most.
The prospect of his final goal coming against Hibs at Ibrox would neatly tie up James Tavernier’s 11-year chapter and be a fitting end to a Rangers servant who has given so much.
