Stephen Robinson is relieved Rangers decided against requesting Sunday’s Paisley clash to be shifted. ‌

Russell Martin ’s Champions League hopefuls pondered a postponement in between the Brugge clashes but performed a U-turn and the televised game is on . ‌

That’s good news for Robinson who wants games to get his St Mirren recruits up to speed. ‌

He’s phasing 10 signings into his squad and doesn’t fancy the first couple of months being any more stop-start.

Robinson said: “We want the game on because, otherwise, it does disrupt things and then you have an international break. So you have one game in, maybe, three or four weeks which isn’t what we want.

“Especially with all the new players we’ve had in. We want game-time; we want them to see how we play. Article continues

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