Head coach Danny Rohl has been speaking to the media before Rangers visit St Mirren in the Scottish Premiership on Sunday.
Here are the key points:
- On the ugly scenes after their Scottish Cup quarter-final penalty shootout loss to Celtic, Rohl says: "Nobody likes to see this. It was over 120 minutes, an exciting game. It should not have happened. The emotional part was great during the game. This is great and makes football exciting. I like to have this Old Firm with supporters from both sides. I think there is an investigation and then finally there will be some consequence. Let's see what happens."
- Rohl fears the disorder will lead to away allocations in the derby being cut or removed: "Yeah, it would be a shame for all of us. I really enjoyed this game with the supporters on both ends, I think this is great. It makes the football exciting and hopefully we can carry on. But of course, if such a thing happens then you have to be careful because it could be that there's a consequence."
- On being knocked out of the cup in that manner, Rohl said: "It was important to clear the mind. In cup it is all about results. You get nothing from good performances, we know this. The result was not what we want. There was a lot of positive things but football is all about results then we got nothing."
- Rohl dismissed the idea there is extra pressure on his side in the title race having missed out on cup silverware.
- "It's not extra pressure because our demand is still in the league to win the nine cup finals," he explains. "We need a good position and then in the split I think everything is possible. We took a lot of good points against the teams around us and this should be our goal."
- Having been within two points of leaders Hearts at one stage and now trailing by six, Rohl conceded his side have to "bring the momentum back" after just three wins in their past nine fixtures in all competitions.
- "I expect in the split the results will be sometimes tight and crazy," he says. "Everyone can beat everyone and this is a good situation to reduce the gap. We beat Celtic, we beat Hibs, we beat Motherwell and we beat Hearts. I think that makes me very positive that we can do this again."
- When questioned on mentality given results have dropped at a crucial stage of the season, Rohl adds: "Sometimes it's football. It would be more this kind of problem if you dropped after the first game against Celtic and you cannot come back in the second game again to this point. I felt from the first minute we dominated a team who thought they can play just the second half against us again and they will win this game."
- He adds that Rangers have a "big trust in ourselves" and the title race is "still close, six points, it's two match days. Our goal difference is not so bad. This is also important".
- With St Mirren now searching for a new manager after Stephen Robinson's departure to Aberdeen, Rohl doesn't expect too much difference in approach. "I think at first the old manager did a good job there," he says. "I'm not sure if they change so much. I think there's stability in this group of players."
- Mohamed Diomande is not available this weekend because of a minor shoulder injury.