THEY are in it to win it. The Championship trophy is the only silverware Rangers need to add to the Ibrox cabinet this season, but it is not the only one they have set their sights on.

With a Petrofac Training Cup final against Peterhead to come in April, Mark Warburton’s side are expected to finish the campaign with at least a double to their name.

But the lure of another afternoon at Hampden continues to drive the Light Blues in their pursuit of what is still an unlikely, but what would be a remarkable, Scottish Cup triumph.

The competition may offer a route back into the European arena but it is the journey back into Scotland’s top flight that Rangers must complete in the coming months.

That goal will move another small step closer if Warburton’s side can see off Livingston on Saturday but there is another fixture on the list - against Kilmarnock next month - that can be eagerly anticipated at Ibrox.

And striker Kenny Miller is determined the Gers will give it their best shot as they look to go all the way and celebrate at the National Stadium on the final day of the campaign.

He said: “It’s as important as any other competition that we’re in. We want to win it and, to do that, we’ll need to beat Kilmarnock and Dundee United or Celtic if that’s what it takes.

“The manager wouldn’t have it any other way. He’s set his standards; we want to win the Petrofac Cup, we want to take care of the league and, on May 21, we want to be walking back out at Hampden with the opportunity to win the Scottish Cup as well.

“But to get there we need to take care of the next round first. When you play for this club you want to win every tournament you enter and we have the opportunity to win a Treble.

“You want to be successful and the Cup has the added ingredient of providing a European place. That would be a really swift return to that for us.

“This is a new team under new management and we always thought that it would probably take us until next year before we could achieve that but winning the Cup would take us a step closer to where we want to be even quicker.”

Whenever Rangers have come up against top flight opposition in recent seasons, the theory has been that the fixtures could be used as a measure of their progress on the road to recovery.

The reaction to the defeat against St Johnstone in the League Cup earlier in the campaign irked Warburton and his players as Rangers failed their first Premiership test this time out.

The visit of Kilmarnock will give them a chance to right the wrongs from that evening and Miller is relishing the chance to face Gary Locke’s side.

“I’m delighted with the draw,” he said. “There was always a real prospect that we would face Premiership opposition in this round so it’s great to be at home.

“This is a game we’ll be looking to win so we can keep building on this momentum we’ve generated over the last three games. Hopefully, we can keep it going into the Cup tie.

“We beat them at Ibrox in the competition last year but that was a different Rangers team.

“Listen, it’s at home and it’s a match we want to win and one we’re all looking forward to, especially if we keep winning up until then.

“It was supposed to be a barometer of where we were when we played St Johnstone in the League Cup earlier in the season.

“We lost that day, although whether or not we deserved to depends on how you look at it. But we’ve come on as a team since then, we’ve tightened things up on the defensive side while still posing a threat going forward.

“I don’t even think we had an off night that evening, if you look at the game. The manager wants us to control the ball and dominate possession and we did that against Saints.

“Did we create chances? Probably not enough but we’ve changed the defensive aspect of our game since then and that’s helping us deal with that side of the game.

“We could have played better but we still did a lot of the things the manager wants us to do.”

By the time Kilmarnock visit Ibrox for the fifth round tie, there could be a different look about Warburton’s side if he can continue his Gers rebuild in the coming weeks.

Keeper Maciej Gostomski and forward Harry Forrester have agreed deals until the end of the campaign, while Matt Crooks and Josh Windass have already signed up for next season.

More fresh faces could arrive before the end of the window and Miller reckons the added competition for places will stand Warburton’s squad in good stead.

He said: “I think we need to strengthen the squad, there’s no doubt about that. The manager said at the start of this season that he likes to work with a smaller squad because he wants everyone to have a pathway to the first team.

“But we’ve had two or three injuries pretty much all the way through. David Templeton has been out since the opening day and Cammy Bell has also been out for a long time while every week someone or other is missing due to a little niggle.

“In that sense, maybe we do look a little thin but the manager constantly says that, if the right player becomes available and the club can do it, we’ll go for them and I think we’ve seen that in the last few weeks.”