Controversial pundit Michael Stewart insists relegated clubs should blame Rangers for league reconstruction talks failing.
The outspoken former Hearts and Hibs midfielder believes the Ibrox side's behaviour over the last month has caused clubs to be unwilling to come together on an agreement.
He reckons they hijacked the issue for themselves in their row with the SPFL and have been no help to the likes of the Jambos and Partick Thistle.
Hearts face relegation from the Premiership if the league is called while Thistle and Stranraer are already being forced down from their respective divisions because of an SPFL resolution.
But Stewart insists that as well as the governing body, the clubs should turn their frustration towards Ibrox.
He took to Twitter to say: "Reconstruction was always an extremely difficult proposition to pass an SPFL vote but it was made almost impossible by the SPFL resolution which created an environment of extreme distrust and animosity amongst the clubs.
"It is fundamentally unjust to relegate clubs before a full season has been completed and surely we could’ve pulled together for the greater good and had a reconstruction solution temporary or permanent to resolve that for next season.
"I can’t get past the feeling that the way Rangers have behaved during this spell has done the relegated clubs absolutely no favours on reconstruction. They effectively hijacked this and polarised the debate thus making it all the more difficult to find a compromise."
The BBC and BT sport pundit also believes Dundee chief John Nelms might be regretting some of his comments.
Nelms had the casting vote in the initial SPFL resolution that sparked the recent arguments and believed he had used his hand well when pushing for reconstruction.
And Stewart added: "With reconstruction in the bin it also makes John Nelms proclamation of achieving so much during his ‘kingmaker’ period look as hollow as we all really knew it was."
