The Ibrox side required an 87th-minute own goal from Tim Clancy to scrape their 2-1 victory over Killie after El-Hadji Dioufs first domestic goal for Rangers was cancelled out by a Jamie Hamill penalty.
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Despite the victory, which leaves Rangers in prime position two points behind Celtic and with a game in hand, Smith was unhappy at the restlessness shown by sections of the Ibrox crowd, many of whom left before the end. The Rangers boss believes his threadbare squad deserves more credit ahead of a week which sees them host PSV Eindhoven in their second-leg Europa League last-16 clash at Ibrox, before facing Celtic in the Old Firm Co-operative Insurance Cup Final at Hampden on Sunday.
Show some support! Walter Smith was disappointed with the Ibrox crowd
I think there has to be an understanding of what were trying to achieve at the moment, said Smith. I said before our last league game at St Mirren that we had two very important matches coming up and after that, when we come out of the international break, Id hope that we could have most of our injured players back and available to us.
That was a reference to the missing Steven Naismith, Kirk Broadfoot and Jamie Ness. Smith added: That would increase our options and let us shuffle the pack, because, at the moment, were having to use the same players for games.
So, I was delighted to get the wins in these two games for that very reason. I thought it would be a difficult 90 minutes after the European match. Kilmarnock have been dangerous opponents for everyone this season.
Smith was pleased at Dioufs first Ibrox goal and the contribution of substitute Vladimir Weiss, whose cross was swept home by the unfortunate Clancy for the winner.
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Spot-on: Jamie Hamill scores Kilmarnock's equaliser from the penalty spot
The Rangers boss blasted Killies claims they could have had two more penalties in addition to the one they got for Richard Fosters challenge on Clancy.
He said: We were fortunate? Were Kilmarnock not fortunate? Nikica Jelavic turned the boy (Manuel Pascali) and was pulled down in the box that was a penalty for us. So, if Kilmarnocks penalty is one and that one isnt, then I have wasted my time in football for a long while.
At their penalty, the Killie players boot was up at Fosters head, so its very difficult to understand that decision. Also, it was very difficult to understand the time-wasting. I dont mind time-wasting, but for the Killie goalkeeper (Anssi Jaakola) to go through 90 minutes wasting the time that he wasted and for the ref never to speak to him, is amazing.
I think a lot of the calls today were questionable. On the plus side, Dioufs goal is a good one for him and the introduction of Weiss gave us the spark we needed.
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