KENNY MILLER today admitted Rangers need to find some consistency for the first time this season to win promotion via the SPFL Premiership Play-Offs.

Miller was devastated when the Gers failed to secure second spot in the Championship and book their place in the play-off semi-final.

The Light Blues drew 2-2 with champions Hearts through in Tynecastle at the weekend - as Hibs thrashed Falkirk 3-0 away from home.

The striker and his team mates now have to take on Queen of the South at Palmerston Park on Saturday in the first leg of the quarter-final.

The former Scotland internationalist is confident Stuart McCall's side can win in Dumfries - despite crashing to 2-0 and 3-0 defeats on the artificial surface there this season.

However, he believes it is more important for Rangers to string together a run of results if they are going to clinch a return to the top flight.

If the Glasgow club manage to overcome Queens they will then take on Hibs in the semi-final and, in all probability, Motherwell in the final.

Miller said: "When we played Hibs and Hearts a few months ago, we looked at them and said these are games that can really get us started.

"We were fortunate enough to win both of those games. I say fortunate, but we fully deserved to win both of them.

"But at that point we wanted to win all of our remaining fixtures. We wanted to kick on and win every game and it hasn't gone that way.

"It has been the tale of our season. We have had a good performance and then a couple that weren't so good.

"Even when we were winning the games, our performances still weren't what they should be. We were sneaking results."

Miller netted in the first half of his side's final Championship showdown with Hearts at Tynecastle on Saturday to take his tally for the season to eight.

It is a disappointing haul for the former Hibs, Cardiff City, Derby County and Wolves hit man who had hoped to help his boyhood heroes win the league after joining for a third time last year.

But the 35-year-old, who was devastated when Rangers let a two-goal lead slip in the final 10 minutes at the weekend, is not dwelling on his disappointing return of the weekend result.

He is one of many Gers players who has been lifted by the arrival of McCall as manager back in March and is confident both he and his team can finish the season on a high.

He added: "The manager is a big advocate of focusing on what we can control. The Hearts game is gone and the play-off games are what we must focus on.

"That is what we can affect now. If we are promoted back to the Premiership on May 31 then it won't all be forgotten, of course it won't.

"But we will have achieved the goal that we had at the start of the season- getting back to the top division.

"We have definitely not reached the level of consistency we would have liked to throughout the season and that must be our objective in the coming weeks."