Central Coast Mariners look the most likely target with director of football, Lawrie McKinna, having held discussions with Rangers before Christmas.

Green has set a cracking pace in recent days, meeting with the club’s supporters in Dubai on Monday before heading to Qatar and then Australia.

It is understood the Rangers boss was in Perth today and will head to Melbourne tomorrow before arriving in NSW.

While the Yorkshireman plans to meet with the club’s passionate fans in all three states it is understood a key element of the visit is to discuss football partnerships.

However, there has been no confirmation he met with Perth Glory, Melbourne Victory or Melbourne Heart.

The Gers have suffered a dramatic fall from grace - entering liquidation last year, pursued by the taxman, sold and sent crashing into the Scottish Third Division. Green led a consortium that purchased the 54 league title-winning club for £5.5 million.

According to a poster on RangersMedia Green told supporters at the Dubai meeting he was “looking at opportunities for academies in the Far East and Australia”.

Sydney True Blues Rangers Supporters Club is expecting up to 150 members to attend a Q and A with Green on Saturday afternoon. A release from the supporters club said the Rangers boss also hopes to open discussions with A-League clubs.

It is understood Green has teed up a meeting with McKinna and Mariners chairman Peter Turnbull.

Scotzine recently quoted Green as saying: “I am going to meet the directors of Central Coast Mariners on the back of conversations we have had.

“Australia is producing and has produced good footballers and one of the things we are looking at is putting an academy together with Mariners and it’s something we have exchanged emails on and something we would like to take forward.”

At the time the Mariners appeared to pour cold water on the idea noting it was developing its own academy pathway.

“We are open to the idea of collaboration with various professionals and professional clubs, however there is as you are aware, uncertainty with the level of football Rangers will play at for the foreseeable future,” the club told Scotzine.

“We would not entertain the prospect of acting as a feeder club or Academy partner with a club currently playing in the lower echelons of Scottish football.

“If/when the Rangers situation changes, we would look to an Academy proposal more seriously.”

The idea of football partnership was floated with McKinna before Christmas and during talks over the future of goalkeeper Mat Ryan who was linked with the former Glasgow powerhouse.

The Mariners appear to have softened their stance and are not averse to developing a football partnership, although an academy seems unlikely.

au.fourfourtwo.com was told talks would centre on football programs, although the Scottish side appears keen on using the A-League outfit as a source of talented footballers.

Despite the Gers financial woes, Sydney True Blues Rangers secretary Steven Townsend said they were as popular as ever.

“It’s made people support the club more,” Townsend said. “They’re in the Third Division and they’re still getting 39-40,000 people to a match which has set records recently in third tier football.

“The kind of following that the club has is, as far as I’m concerned, unparalleled. To have that kind of a following and that backing after what’s gone on at the club is something you’d rarely see in any other club around the world.”

Green will hold a Q and A session with the Sydney True Blues and Northern Beaches Rangers Supporters Club from 2pm on Saturday. Entry is free but ticketed and those planning to attend need to contact Townsend.