Mark Warburton’s statement about winning the Scottish Cup and gaining promotion back to the Premierships might raise a few eyebrows.
But I can completely understand where he’s coming from.
Fortunately promotion has long since been secured, we beat Celtic in the semi-final so as much as a topflight was always the priority what a way to end a great season than beating Hibernian to also win the Scottish Cup!
This isn’t a given by any means as it isn’t just a case of Rangers turning up and doing this mind!
When Warburton arrived last summer his main aim was promotion from the Championship, winning tomorrow wouldn’t top that for him with the Rangers boss quoted by the BBC as saying.
‘There’s nothing more important than achieving promotion. There’s no doubt that was our main priority. The target was the Championship. You go into something, that’s your main target, you have to achieve that.’
He was quick to stress this is of course something we want to win.
If we can manage that it’ll be a ‘fantastic achievement’ with a Europa League qualification place also at stake too with him adding a ‘great end’ to the season by ‘finishing on a high’ is wanted.
‘It’d be a fantastic achievement. It’s a Scottish Cup final. There’s a place in European competition at stake. For us it would be a great end to what’s been a good season. The Petrofac was a bonus. The against Dundee and obviously the semi-final against Celtic was a huge bonus for us. But now we have to focus on finishing on a high.’
Rangers go into this meeting with Alan Stubbs’ side having won three of the five-matches this season, Hibs the other two.
Focusing specifically on this match he finished by saying he knows it’ll be ‘very tough’ against a good Hibs side but if we ‘deliver a performance’ we’re capable of we can win at Hampden Park.
‘Our job is to do what we do well and if we dominate the football, move it with quality and show good decision-making and we’re clinical in the final third, we’ll get the result we want. If we don’t, we’re up against a very tough opponent – well-managed, good quality squad, well-organised with good individuals. We know the threat they pose, I’m sure they know the threat we pose. The idea is for us to come, deliver a performance and hopefully, fingers crossed, lift the trophy.’
