Gers in good condition
Rangers boss Stuart McCall insists his side are well rested ahead of Thursday's Scottish Premiership play-off final first leg against Motherwell.
Gers are shaping up for their fifth game in 19 days but have kept things light since seeing off semi-final rivals Hibernian on Saturday.
Seb Faure (knee) and Gael Bigirimana (infection) remain out.
Rangers have held their nerve against second-tier rivals Queen of the South and Hibs to set up this two-legged shoot-out with the Premiership's second-bottom side.
But it leaves boss McCall with an emotional dilemma as he faces the prospect of relegating a club he still holds dear to his heart for the first time in 30 years.
However, the Rangers manager insists he will not even contemplate what demotion will mean to his old side unless his current team actually make that a reality.
"Since I've had a pair of football boots at four years old, I've always wanted to win," the 50-year-old said. "My kids will tell you that I've left them in tears at times after beating them at Monopoly.
"It's how I am. And just like Keith Lasley, Stevie Hammell and the rest will be wanting to win for Motherwell, it's in me to do the same.
"Football can be ruthless, but this is just the way it has turned out.
"I'm quite a loyal person and I had almost four brilliant years at Motherwell. But my thoughts on that and what comes next for them will only come after Sunday's match.
"I'm fully focused on doing the job I came here to do. Rangers are my club and we want to get promoted."
McCall led Motherwell to third place in his first year in charge at Fir Park before making the most of Rangers' absence to claim back-to-back runners-up slots.
But he walked away earlier this season after mustering just two wins from his side's first 12 games.
Now he admits if Well are relegated, he will stand jointly responsible.
"I've got to take a share of the blame for what has happened," he said. "I never once envisioned Motherwell would be anywhere near the bottom. The reason I left was that, after finishing best of the rest three years running, we had a poor start after getting a lot of injuries and I could only see us fighting for that sixth spot.
"I felt that would be a challenge that I just didn't have in me any more. I didn't have the energy or drive any more. So I thought it would be better to let someone come in and refresh the place."
Ian Baraclough wants his Motherwell side to negate Rangers' huge numerical advantage in the Ibrox stands on Thursday night by silencing the home support.
The Lanarkshire club believed they would be given 2,000 tickets but ended up with 950.
Motherwell then revised their decision to allow nearly 5,000 Rangers fans to occupy the traditional away stand at Fir Park, cutting the Scottish Championship side's allocation for Sunday's second leg to 1,500.
Baraclough, who revealed he had been interested in Haris Vuckic before the 22-year-old Slovenian moved on loan from Newcastle to Rangers in January, called on his players to render the vast Gers support irrelevant.
"I'm not going to get involved in a ticket row," he said. "We've been given what we have and we have to get on with that.
"We know that it will be a fervent crowd at Ibrox and we are going to have to silence them as much as we can.
"But as a player I wanted to thrive on that, I wanted to silence the crowd and put them on the back foot a little bit.
"It can turn against the home team and that is what you want to do as an opposition. Not to be intimidated by it, but to be really inspired by it."
Baraclough, who took over at Fir Park in December after McCall had departed the club before his subsequent move to Rangers, is determined to prove wrong those who have already got the Light Blues back in the top flight.
The former Scunthorpe and Sligo Rovers boss said: "A lot of the media build-up has been that possibly the winner of the Hibernian v Rangers semi-final was going to be promoted.
"That comes across as something that has been given to them before they have earned it.
"I would love to turn it on its head.
"I think people have written us from the off on this one and that feeling of upsetting the odds appeals to me."
Source: PAR
