Gers stick to plans despite poor start

Danny Wilson insists Rangers have not altered their ambitions for their season despite slipping into the bottom half of the Ladbrokes Premiership after a stuttering start to the campaign.

The Ibrox faithful expected their team to put up a fight for Celtic’s crown as they made their long-awaited return to the top flight.

But ahead of today’s clash with Partick Thistle, the Light Blues now find themselves in seventh place after just two wins from seven games.

Brendan Rodgers’ rampant leaders are already seven points ahead with a game in hand but defender Wilson shot down suggestions that Rangers might have to rein in their expectations for the rest of the campaign as they struggle to get to grips with life in the top flight.

The former Liverpool and Hearts centre-back said: “We won’t change our ambitions because of a couple of bad results or a slow start to the season because we need to be challenging near the top.

“We’ll go into Saturday’s game looking for three points and we know we need to start moving up the table because where we are is not where we want to be.

“Had we won the game at Aberdeen at the weekend we would have been second but as it happens we are down to seventh – but I wouldn’t read too much into that right now.

“It’s still fairly tight from second downwards so we need to get ourselves back up there and challenge at the right end of the table.

“If you put the performances in the points will come but in saying that we have played very well and maybe not got what we fully deserved from the game.

“That is how football works sometimes, we are not just going to go back to basics and start doing things that aren’t what we do.”

Rangers playmaker Josh Windass could return having missed two games with a hamstring problem but midfielder Jordan Rossiter is still trying to shake off his calf strain.

Thistle skipper Abdul Osman returns from suspension while the club are hopeful that midfielders Chris Erskine (calf) and Steven Lawless (stomach) overcome injuries in time to take their places.