DARREN McGregor has had the ups and the downs, suffered the draws and the defeats ...

but he definitely has no regrets.

In his first season at Ibrox, the 29-year-old has had to deal with more than some players will experience in their whole careers, but his dream has never become a nightmare.

On the park, McGregor has been part of a side that has been outplayed, outfought and embarrassed by teams they should be beating with ease, and one that never looked like putting together a title challenge.

Off it, he has seen the club dragged through the mire, hit the front pages just as often as the back and witnessed a boardroom coup at the end of a prolonged fight for power.

In the dugout, two managers - Ally McCoist and Kenny McDowall - have gone and the third - Stuart McCall-may only be in position for a matter of weeks.

For a player who had spent the previous six years on the books of Cowdenbeath and St Mirren, it has been quite a change but, if McCall can lead Rangers into the Premiership, there would finally be a reason to celebrate for McGregor and his team-mates.

A lot of questions can be asked and 'what ifs?' pondered at Rangers this season, but the defender won't look back and wonder.

"Definitely not," was McGregor's response when asked if he had any regrets over his move to Ibrox last summer.

"I was well aware coming to a club like Rangers that I couldn't pass up the opportunity.

"I still love coming into Murray Park every day and turning up to Ibrox is a privilege, and one that I would never have had the chance to do years ago.

"I have to thank Ally for bringing me in. I have loved every minute of it. There have been more downs than ups at stages with everything that has been going on, but it is still a great club to be at.

"The facilities and people here are brilliant. I am just happy to be playing football."

Having seen their ambitions of the Championship title ended some months ago, it is the fight to finish best of the rest behind Hearts that is Rangers' main aim now.

Victory over Livingston tonight would take them up to second spot in the standings and three points clear of Hibernian with only a hat-trick of fixtures remaining.

Being content to land a runners-up place and take home the consolation prize is not usually Rangers' way, but McGregor knows needs must this time out.

He said: "We are the ones who have got ourselves into this position, we can't look to blame anyone else. It is up to us. The aim at the start of the season was obviously promotion.

"Winning the league would have been great. But the way it has panned out it will need to be through the play-offs. If we did get promoted, it would be seen as a successful season.

"I know that is quite hard to comprehend, but from where we were a couple of months ago, to actually get up ... I think a lot of fans would accept that it has been a bad year.

"All the boys will hold their hands up and say it has not been good enough, but we still managed to get up. So let's look forward."

After a run of form that raised questions over whether Rangers would even get a second chance of promotion this term on McDowall's watch, McCall has masterminded a spell that has saved the Light Blues' season.

Defeat to Queen of the South last Thursday was the first setback he has suffered, but Rangers head to Livingston tonight on the back of a 4-0 win over Raith Rovers and fully focused on, and prepared for, the job in hand.

McGregor said: "I don't feel any more tension than I did at the start of the season or the middle of the season.

"The Queen of the South game was difficult - they scored at the right times for them and maybe the wrong times for us. It is a difficult place to go and they have good players.

"We weren't at it and we made too many mistakes in that game. But we rectified that by winning and keeping a clean sheet against Raith, and that's all you could have asked from us following a poor result.

"Livingston are on a good run and high on confidence and we'll need to go there and apply ourselves. Against Hibs and Hearts you saw a glimmer of what we are capable of and we need to bottle that and take that into Livi."

If Rangers can emerge victorious at the Energy Assets Arena, it would be another significant step in the right direction as the finishing line approaches.

The consequences of claiming second ahead of Hibs and Queens could prove decisive in the end-of-season shootout and McGregor is determined to finish with a flourish.

He said: "I think there has been a lot made of getting second and third and fourth place.

"But I think that we would want to finish second because it is one less game and it's one more week of preparation for the team that isn't playing.

"So that's our aim, but obviously Hibs and Queen of the South will have a say in that and they'll want to win their games, too.

"The ball is in our court and we will want to go out and win every game between now and the end of the season."