Rangers boss Stuart McCall stays relaxed about run-in

Rangers boss Stuart McCall says he does not mind the club playing two extra games, if it means securing a place in the top flight of Scottish football.

Rangers sit in second spot in the Championship, with a one point advantage over Hibernian and a six-point cushion separating them from Queen of the South.

If McCall's men can finish behind champions Hearts that would spare them two extra play-off games, with the teams finishing third and fourth facing off over two legs before taking on the second tier's runners-up.

You don't want to have to play the extra games but if you have to, you will. If you have to get through to the top league by playing six games then so be it.

The winner of that tie then meets the Premiership's second-bottom side in a crucial winner-takes-all battle.

Rangers recent form has been at best sketchy - they crashed to a 3-0 defeat against Queen of the South and could only manage a 1-1 draw with basement side Livingston either side of Sunday's four-goal romp over Raith Rovers.

But McCall remains upbeat saying: "At this moment second place is in our own hands. If you'd given me that a few weeks ago when I first came in, I'd have snapped your hands off for it.

"There were one or two people who thought we wouldn't even reach the play-offs. We've done that first part. Obviously we want to get second but Hibs and Queens want the same.

"You don't want to have to play the extra games but if you have to, you will. If you have to get through to the top league by playing six games then so be it.

"Of course it's important to us to finish second. But if we finish third or fourth that does not mean we won't get promotion. It's not the end of the world."