Tim Flowers urges calm at Rangers

Stafford Rangers manager Tim Flowers has urged fans to keep calm as he looks to find a way to steer the club clear of relegation danger.

Rangers could have been in bottom place of the Blue Square North today, had basement boys Redditch won their game in hand against Nuneaton last night.

However, the Reds spectacularly fluffed their lines, losing 5-0 at home.

But Flowers' men still occupy the second relegation place going into another tough game at second-placed Guiseley on Saturday, while Redditch go to Workington still level on points.

It's a fight just to stay off the bottom for Rangers at the moment and the manager laid down the law to his players at last night's training session, after one point from his five games in charge.

The mood is tense at Marston Road but Flowers insists he is not feeling the heat, despite the team's plight.

He said: "I don't feel pressure, I have never been anything other than a calm person.

"I am not going to try and dress up or hide it, we have been poor and we have got to do better.

"This is a good football club and we have got a lot of people to stick up and play well for.

"The goalposts haven't been moved, it was never going to be anything other than a relegation fight.

"But I am certainly not looking at the league table and fretting at the moment."

It's not likely to get any easier for Rangers either, having to play all of the current top three in the next five games.

Guiseley on Saturday precedes a derby double-header against third-placed AFC Telford starting at Marston Road on Boxing Day, with the return game at the New Bucks Head on New Year's Day.

Sandwiched in between is a trip to mid-table Worcester, with current league leaders Alfreton also lying in wait on January 3.

A minimal points return could be disastrous and Flowers warns there will be nowhere for the players to hide.

He said: "We have got a tough run coming up but people have got to rise to the occasion.

"There isn't going to be any easy games, not for us, because if we are losing to Vauxhall Motors and Workington we are not going to have any easy games this season."

A fringe Rangers side go to Market Drayton Town in the first round of the Staffordshire Senior Cup tonight.