NEIL McCANN is confident Rangers won’t slip up for a second time as they chase the Championship title next term.

The Light Blues could only finish third last season as they never got close to champions Hearts and eventually missed out on promotion via the play-offs.

The arrival of Mark Warburton as boss has given the Ibrox squad a fresh start and more arrivals are expected in the coming weeks following the captures of Danny Wilson and Rob Kiernan on Tuesday.

And former Ibrox stasr McCann reckons the Gers will have enough to get over the line and finally clinch their return back to the Premiership at the second time of asking.

He said: “I expect them to win the league. I did last year and I was absolutely shocked that they didn’t.

“But one thing that Hearts did last year was right from the very outset, the first game last season, they put their marker down.

“They put Rangers on the ropes and Rangers just didn’t recover.

“Hearts went on and that is something Rangers must do, but they are going to face a real challenge, and I mean a real challenge, from the other side of the city in Edinburgh in Hibs.

“I think Alan Stubbs had Hibs playing some brilliant stuff last year. They came up a bit short, of course, meeting Rangers in the play-offs, but he has already started strengthening.

“He did that almost immediately after the season.

“So they will be strong, St Mirren coming down, I’m not sure they will have enough to challenge Rangers and Hibs, so I do think it will be between those.

“But I fully believe because of the manager position with Mark Warburton coming in with a freshness and a blank canvas I think they will be definite favourites to win the league in my opinion.”