RANGERS will not ask for their Championship clash with Raith Rovers next weekend to be postponed due to international call-ups.

Boss Mark Warburton admitted at the weekend he could look to re-arrange the Ibrox clash if he was going to be without a host of key players due to the latest round of international fixtures.

But the match on Saturday, 5 September will proceed as normal and Warburton said: “We are playing the game, it will go ahead as planned.

“If we lost a lot of players due to international call-ups, we would look to do the right thing.

“The only focus for us is being the best we can be each and every time. If we lost five, six, seven players then we would have to look at the situation.

“That is not the case so we are comfortable and our focus will go onto that game as soon as we finish against Queen of the South and move forward from there.”

A more pressing concern than the Raith fixture to Warburton is the trip to Airdrie tomorrow night as he looks for his seventh consecutive win as boss.

The Light Blues head to New Broomfield with a clean bill of health after Lee Wallace recovered from the knock he picked up against Hibernian on Sunday.

And Warburton is determined to add another win to his tally as he bid for a place in the League Cup third round.

He said: “We have got scout reports and some footage so we will do our homework as best we can.

“I don’t know everything about them but we will look at the reports and discuss it with the team. We have had them watched and we will prepare the best we can.

“Like any game, it is about us and if we apply ourselves and do what we do well we will be ok.

“If we are sloppy, if we are loose, if we are below par, as we were on Sunday, we will have a problem.”