Big player reshuffle at Rangers

The biggest boost for the club is the return of defender Jermaine Johnson, who has rejoined on another month's loan from Championship side Derby after returning to his parent club at the start of last month.

Also new to the first-team squad are free agents Patrick Samba and Adam Whitehouse, a striker and goalkeeper respectively. Congolese-born Dutchman Samba was last with Glapwell and has played in Finland's First Division for TP-47 , while 17-year-old Whitehouse has come through the youth set-up at Rangers.

The teenager will now act as No 2 to Lee Evans, after the registration of Bill Lumley was cancelled for him to leave the club. The former Wolves academy goalkeeper has followed defender Andy Owens out of the exit door at Marston Road.

Johnson, Samba and Whitehouse will now join the travelling party tomorrow to make the 440-mile round trip for the all-Blue Square North clash, and the squad will enjoy a rare overnight stay at the Premier Inn in nearby Washington.

Fans stumped up the cash to pay for it, with chairman Jon Downing re-iterating the club's gratitude to those who donated.

He said: "I just want to say a big thank you to those people that contributed to this overnight stay for the players, it's just another sign of this club's pedigree."

Saturday's tie is an important game financially for the club, with £4,000 up for the grabs for the winner in prize money alone.

But midfielder Jake Moult insists it's no different than any other game.

He said: "All we can concentrate on is doing enough to get into the next round and take it from there. As players, we just want to go out and win the game.

"All we can do is the best we can over the 90 minutes and see where we are at the end of it. We have a job to do, anything off the pitch to do with the money side of it is out of our hands.

"We just play the match with the same objective as every game - to win."