Malky Thomson: It's Business As Usual

MALKY THOMSON says it has been business as usual at Rangers Training Centre as the squad made use of the international break to prepare for their final two league games of the calendar year.

Rangers welcome Motherwell to the training centre on Sunday in their penultimate game before the winter break.

Speaking to RangersTV he said: “It has been good, obviously the girls were away representing their country and unfortunately probably never got the results they were looking for but life just goes on at Rangers for the girls that are here and we have been continuing preparations.

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“We had a bounce game against Glasgow Girls and it was good to give players some minutes and also for us to play about with some of the shape and different aspects of the game that we want to put in place.

“Training has been good this week, I think there is a real buzz about the club just now.”

One blow for Rangers over international break was the news that suffered a serious knee injury while representing Northern Ireland in their Women’s UEFA Euro 2022 qualifier against Belarus.

Thomson continued: “It is unfortunate that she has had a serious knee injury, we are going on what is coming back from the Northern Ireland camp at the moment.

“She will come back to us this week and we will have our own doctors look at her. Again everything is put in place for her and there's great support from the club and there will be a process put in place for her to get her back and to make sure that when she comes back she is ready.”

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The squad has been bolstered with trio Rachel McLauchlan, Kirsty Howat and Sam Kerr joining training this week having signed pre-contracts in the summer.

Thomson feels this will continue to strengthen the group of players, he explained: “We have been waiting a long time to have them with us and they have been targets of the club for a long time, so it will be good to get them in the door and get them part of the Rangers family.

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“They will definitely add to the group, they will make the group a lot stronger and it'll up the competition level and now it'll be a case where there will be real competition for places and it is what we want - it is a healthy environment.

“It will be a hard hard game again on Sunday you can see by Motherwell's results they have been close games, they've played some good games.

“We will plan and prepare in the same way and we will have our game plan. Our focus will be on our style of play and how we are going to approach the game.”

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Motherwell are the visitors to Rangers Training Centre as Malky Thomson’s side look to build on their strong start to the league campaign.

It is the last home match of 2020 for the Light Blues - who have won four of their opening five league fixtures.

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