Source: Team_Talk
Smith: Gers will get back on track
Rangers manager Walter Smith branded suggestions that a team could maintain a 100 per cent record throughout the entire season as ridiculous.[LNB] Smith's side were aiming for 10 wins out of 10 in the SPL last weekend but were held to a 1-1 draw by promoted Inverness.[LNB]They then suffered their first defeat in the Champions League this term, losing 3-0 in Valencia on Tuesday night.[LNB]But Smith claims dropped points are inevitable over the course of a campaign and simply urged his players to return to winning ways at St Mirren on Sunday.[LNB]He said: "We've made a good start to the season.[LNB]"You're not going to go through a season without dropping any points. I've said that on many occasions since the start of the year.[LNB]"The fact that we were winning game after game starts to bring ridiculous talk about you going through a season winning games. You don't do that - that doesn't happen.[LNB]"It's not happened in any of the time that I've been here and won't happen this season. Points are going to be dropped by a whole load of clubs.[LNB]"You always try to make sure that you're not dropping that many and that means we need to get back on track and try to make sure that we win."[LNB]Smith added: "It doesn't change anything at all. We're were getting into the first week of November and hadn't lost a game.[LNB]"For any club, that would have been recognised as a good start to the season. We've had a good start and we just need to make sure it continues.[LNB]"We saw last week that, if we're not on top of our game, then we can drop points. We did that and deservedly so last week against Inverness.[LNB]"We have to pick up again and make sure we can get back on track. I'm sure we will."[LNB]Bottom side St Mirren have a new manager in Danny Lennon this season but Smith expects them to provide just as strong a challenge against Rangers as they did when Gus MacPherson was boss.[LNB]He said: "The away games always throw up a great deal of difficulty and St Mirren always have a good attitude and are difficult to break down.[LNB]"Under Danny Lennon, I don't think they will be greatly different to what they were under Gus MacPherson so they will still be the same.[LNB]"They have had some decent results this season but we look forward to trying to get back on track on Sunday.[LNB]"I don't think St Mirren will expect their season to be greatly different from previous ones.[LNB]"They know they are going to have to battle away - that's where the club are. They have done that effectively.[LNB]"Danny has come into the SPL for the first time and I think his club have got decent results so far considering the changes that have been made for the first time in quite a number of years.[LNB]"Gus MacPherson had quite a fairly settled line-up and they were always difficult to overcome.[LNB]"Danny has had to bring in some new players and they have still achieved some decent results so it's always an awkward game."[LNB]
