Rangers manager Michael Beale tells BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound: "Ryan [Jack] had a bit of a broken up pre-season. It's important we have him for Tuesday. I felt there was no need for Ryan today.

"In terms of Connor [Goldson], he only trained two days before the Kilmarnock game. We were never going to play him three games in the first week of the season.

"We want to keep the consistency in the top end of the pitch. The consistency will help the team and certainly this front three playing more together you're hoping that some of the good things they did on Wednesday will lead to more goals.

"We need to start off where we started the game on Wednesday - forward running and energy. It's important that we create the amount of chances we are, that we start to take them. Otherwise everybody becomes tense in the stadium.

"I think Davie [Martindale] is going to be completely aware of that and he's going to be stubborn in the way his team play. They're a good team and they're hard to score goals against."

Victory today would send St Mirren free and clear at the top of the table - until Sunday afternoon anyway.

The Paisley side bullied Hibs to build a 2-0 half-time lead last week, with Mark O'Hara and Keanu Baccus doing a power of work in the midfield engine room. How will they cope without skipper O'Hara today?

They also showed great resolve to find a late winner once Hibs woke up to peg them back.

Home form was the cornerstone of last season's top six finish, with 70% of their points coming on their own turf.

Both these sides lost last weekend, but the narrative is very different.

County were praised for having a go at Celtic Park and scoring twice against the champions.

St Johnstone crumbled against three lower league teams in a dreadful Viaplay Cup group campaign and the angst continued with the loss of two late goals to Hearts at home.

The Perth side do have a decent record in Dingwall, losing just once in their past 12 Scottish Premiership visits (W5 D6).

The last meeting was a cracker, with St Johnstone leading 2-0, then trailing 3-2, only to level with a last-gasp goal.

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Livingston have never won at Ibrox.

They did come mighty close last season after Joel Nouble knocked in an early goal.

The West Lothian defended for their lives and lost Morgan Boyes to a red card before John Lundstram smashed in an equaliser in the first minute of stoppage time.

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Rangers are already playing catch-up in the league after a surprise loss at Kilmarnock last weekend.

Michael Beale's side responded with a 2-1 win over Servette at Ibrox on Wednesday, but there was an air of frustration at full-time, given the storming start they made and the failure to add to their tally against 10 men for most of the second half.

"There were real positive signs in midweek," said Beale yesterday. "We would have liked to have scored a few more goals and then it would have been a perfect evening. It doesn’t always work like that.

"The excitement is working with these players every day and building this new Rangers team."

Marcus Fraser wears the St Mirren captain's armband as Mark O'Hara misses out with an injury picked up in training yesterday.

Mikael Mandron returns from injury to replace Toyosi Olusanya and Caolan Boyd-Munce makes only his second league start as understudy to O'Hara.

There will be no love lost as ex-Buddies keeper Trevor Carson returns to Paisley, making his debut for Dundee in the process. He is one of two changes, replacing Jon McCracken - Josh Mulligan fills in for Juan-Antonio Portales, who picked up an injury just seconds into his debut.

Luke Graham, 19, is named on the bench and could make his debut.

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Ross County make one change to their starting XI after falling 4-2 at Celtic Park.

Ryan Leak is drafted in by manager Malky Mackay for his league debut, as Will Nightingale drops out of the matchday squad.

St Johnstone manager Steven MacLean makes two alterations from the side that lost at home to Hearts on the opening day, with Andrew Considine back into the starting XI alongside Matthew Smith for his first Scottish Premiership start.

Drey Wright and Tony Gallacher drop out with injuries.

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Jose Cifuentes makes his first Rangers start after a brief cameo from the bench against Servette on Wednesday. The Ecuadorian takes over from Ryan Jack in midfield.

There's one change to the defence with Leon Balogun replacing Connor Goldson. Goldson only recently returned from an extended period out and neither he nor Jack are included among the substitutes. Rabbi Matondo and Leon King return to the squad.

Just the one change for Livingston following last week's draw with Aberdeen, with Stephen Kelly in for the benched Kurtis Guthrie.

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St Mirren: Hemming, Fraser, Gogic, Taylor, Strain, Baccus, Boyd-Munce, Tanser, McMenamin, Kiltie, Mandron.

Substitutes: Urminsky, Bolton, Dunne, Kenny, Flynn, Olusanya, Jamieson, Greive, Nahmani.

Dundee: Carson, Mulligan, Shaugnessy, Ashcroft, Beck, McGhee, Boateng, McCowan, Cameron, Robinson, Bakayoko.

Substitutes: Legzdins, McCracken, Kerr, Tiffoney, Pineda, Robertson, Rudden, Anderson, Graham.

Ross County: Laidlaw, Brown, Leak, Baldwin, Harmon, Randall, Loturi, Dhanda, Sims, Murray, White.

Substitutes: Munro, Turner, Sheaf, Henderson, Tillson, Samuel, Brophy, Smith, Reid.

St Johnstone: Mitov, Olufunwa, Gordon, McClelland, Considine, McGowan, Phillips, Ballantyne, Smith, May, Carey.

Substitutes: Richards, Kucheriavyi, Jephcott, Ferguson, Parker, Steven, McCrystal.

Rangers: Butland, Tavernier, Souttar, Balogun, Barisic, Raskin, Cifuentes, Cantwell, Lammers, Dessers, Danilo.

Substitutes: McCrorie, Lundstram, Hagi, Matondo, Sima, Dowell, Sterling, Roofe, King.

Livingston: George, Devlin, Obileye, De Lucas, Brandon, Shinnie, Holt, Montano, Sangare, Nouble, Kelly.

Substitutes: Hamilton, Nottingham, MacKay, Ledingham, Guthrie, Penrice, Bradley, Parkes, Boyes.

Here we go for the next instalment of the new Scottish Premiership season.

We have an even split this weekend, with three games today and three tomorrow.

Rangers are looking to get off the mark, along with Ross County and St Johnstone, while St Mirren are the only team that can maintain maximum points from the Saturday starters.

Our radio coverage will soon be under way and we'll keep you up to date with all of the goals and best of the action right here.