Brindley eyes a win for Rangers

Droylsden come to Marston Road tomorrow (3pm), before the visit of Workington on Tuesday (7:45pm), who go into the weekend fixtures just overlooking Rangers by a point and a place in 14th.

But first fellow relegation victims from the Blue Square Premier last season in Dave Pace's side provide the opposition, and they have their own axe to grind with the home side.

The Bloods finished bottom because of a late Stafford burst in 2007/08, and lost 1-0 at the Butchers Arms in September's corresponding fixture.

Now the Greater Manchester outfit face Brindley for the first time and the Rangers boss is clear in his instructions - a win could make all the difference.

He said: "The games keep coming in these little clusters and we have got to keep plodding on. We have got these two home games now and we need to win one of them, at least. That would be a start and if we could win both, well, we would be a good part of the way there.

"Droylsden are still in with a shout of a play-off place and it won't be easy, but we need to take something from the home games we have in front of us."

Rangers at least stopped the rot in game three of a tough away sequence at Redditch on Tuesday night, a 2-2 draw their first point of the triple-header.

As usual, it was done the hard way - they were 2-0 down before they woke up - but, at this stage of the season, every point will be well earned.

Had it not been for individual errors, Brindley could have been two points nearer to safety, but in the end a David McNiven brace saw them glad to muster parity.

Brindley implores his side to tighten up at the back from now on.

He added: "We have to stop giving away these silly goals. Redditch is a good example of that. We were the better side, but gave away two schoolboy errors and found ourselves 2-0 down, just like that.

"You are always going to struggle to win games giving goals away like that. We can't let it keep happening."