Lee McCulloch has warned Rangers' Euro flops they will have to win the Scottish Premier League to erase memories of last week's Champions League humiliation.
Walter Smith's side are still reeling from one of the worst results in their history after the Glasgow club were dumped out of Europe by Lithuanian minnows FBK Kaunas in the second qualifying round on Tuesday.
Just three months after reaching the Uefa Cup final, Rangers are facing an entire season without European football, as well as blowing the chance to earn £10 million (Dh70m) given to teams who reach the group stages.
But they have no time to lick their wounds as the new domestic campaign gets underway with a trip to Falkirk tonight. McCulloch knows Rangers have only themselves to blame and concedes the best way to make amends is to end Celtic's dominance of the SPL.
"The only positive thing is that the season hasn't started yet," said McCulloch. "We said from the start that we wanted the league and we have a bit of pressure on us now to win it. Celtic have a bit of momentum and there are other teams who will be much stronger.
"Things will come together. There are a lot of Scottish boys here and they know what it's all about."
Rangers have lost just one of their last 19 meetings with Falkirk, so a clash with John Hughes's side would usually be seen as an easy fixture.
But McCulloch admits the need to avoid another embarrassing defeat so soon after the Kaunas catastrophe will put Rangers under even more pressure. "It was always going to be a pressure game, first game of the season away from home to a good team, and now there is a wee bit more pressure. But we will be up for it," said McCulloch.
Meanwhile, Scott Brown of champions Celtic says he would not mind repeating last season's nerve-jangling finale as long as he got his hands on the championship trophy again.
The midfielder helped his side clinch the league in the final game of the season with a 1-0 over Dundee United at Tannadice, after arch-rivals Rangers had led them for most of the campaign.
The Scottish international, whose side begin the defence of their trophy at St Mirren tomorrow, said: "If anything, what we achieved last year should inspire you as a player because you want days like that. I'd be happy if we even won it on the final day this year, as long as we win it.
"I don't care how we win it, although I am sure that the Celtic fans and us as players would be happy if we won it with a few games to spare."