Rangers boss Steven Gerrard has backed his side for appealing the bans served to the Ibrox Five by the SFA.
The players will learn their fate on April 20 over whether Nathan Patterson, Calvin Bassey and Bongani Zungu, Dapo Mebude and Brian Kinnear will have their six-game bans overturned or reduced.
That hearing appeal date will be 65 days on from the breach itself and the lengthy wait for a conclusion irked Celtic interim boss John Kennedy.
The side's face off next weekend in the Scottish Cup with Patterson likely to start three days before the Hampden case.
Gerrard insists his side are as equally frustrated as their rivals with the Ibrox claiming the governing body are "guessing" over punishments they have dished out this season.
Speaking at his press conference, he said: "We don’t control when the hearings come. We don’t pick and choose when they come. We wait for the SFA to get in touch with us and we accept the first possible chance to do that.
"I agree with John on the inconsistencies within the SFA because we’ve been speaking about that for some time now. If you’re talking about punishment, Bolingoli left the country of his own will and came back and trained among his peers and played against Kilmarnock and put people’s health at jeopardy. He was given a five game ban, three suspended and I think the Aberdeen guys were given three games and they were all suspended and there were positive Covid tests on the back of that as well.
"I definitely agree with John in terms of the inconsistencies and I’d be a bit frustrated as well if good players were available to play against my team next week as well so I feel his pain.
"I’m not frustrated over John’s comments. He’s well within his rights to have his own opinions and has his own press conference where he has questions he has to deal with himself.
"Nothing has come of the Dubai trip, the only thing that has is nobody else is allowed to go on a training camp.
"Nothing has happened from that, we move on from that incident but rules were broken on that trip in terms of drinking together with no social distancing but the Celtic business is not for me to talk about. My worry and my concerns are Rangers and we’ll look forward to that hearing and deal with it.
"I definitely agree with John in terms of the inconsistencies when it comes down to punishment. I’m the only one who knows the details of our own Covid situations.
"A few of the things I said got taken out of context in terms of the Nathan Patterson quotes. These guys broke rules, they deserve punishment. What we feel is not everything has been taken into consideration because we were at the forefront of making sure we suspended players ourselves and they missed games of football on the back of that.
"We took the maximum fine and were really strong and forceful in terms of our punishment of the lads.
"We’re not trying to defend what they’ve done, it was my own opinion. I don’t think there’s any consistency in terms of the outcomes of the bans.
"I don’t see why these set of players deserve the same or any different to previous situations. It seems as if the SFA are guessing in terms of punishment, that’s a frustration from our point of view"
