MARK WARBURTON will use the League Cup clash with Peterhead this weekend as Rangers' final warm-up game ahead of the new Championship campaign.

The Light Blues were 6-2 winners over Hibernian in the Petrofac Training Cup on Saturday as they got their competitive schedule off to an eye-catching start at Easter Road.

Doubles from forwards Martyn Waghorn and Kenny Miller and strikes from James Tavernier and Andy Halliday clinched a deserved win in Warburton's first game in the dugout.

The visit of Jim McInally's side on Sunday presents a far different challenge for Rangers, but it is one they must overcome as they look to keep up the momentum going into the league campaign.

St Mirren will make the trip to Ibrox a week tomorrow as Rangers' bid for the second tier title gets underway and Warburton is keen to continue moving in the right direction after an encouraging few weeks.

“We’re looking forward to Peterhead, we’ll train hard, prepare well and analyse the game and the performance as best we can from the weekend and look ahead," he told rangers.co.uk.

“We will focus on lifting the level of performance because we have to perform week in and week out - we can’t be good one week and not the week after, it has to be consistent.

“I think fitness levels have been good, bearing in mind we have lost a week compared to a normal pre-season and they displayed those levels on Tuesday and Saturday.

“We have more to come this week and more work to be done and we have said all along it is about the five game pre-season programme to then focus on August 7 against St Mirren.”