Waggy: I’m not leaving
“This is a club with an expectancy and an ambition to be higher than we are at the moment. The larger fan base are just waiting to come out and give us their backing.
“The positivity can spark really quickly if we can gain momentum and that’s our challenge. Everybody I have encountered in Paisley has been supportive of what the club are trying to do.
“I think that’s because I had been quite open in telling them I understand the frustration and disappointment of where we are at the moment and it was never going to be a quick fix.
“It’s a new era and successful eras don’t always get built overnight. There is a longer-term plan in place here now and I would like to be a part of that for a while.
“I can’t guarantee during my tenure I’ll deliver the club to where it should be but I’ll be damned if I allow it to stagnate. I didn’t envisage losing my first six league games but I try to do the job a bit better than I did the day before.
“My sole ambition is one day leaving St Mirren in a much better position than when I arrived and I still believe we can be a Premiership team within a short period
of time.” wings. But the 26-year- old insists he’s staying put.
Asked if he was convinced he would see the season out at least, he said: “Of course, yep. It has just been one of those things that I haven’t agreed a new contract.
“I am more than happy at Rangers. I am playing for my position and I want to get back in the starting line-up and play as well as I can.
“I have targets and I want to win as many trophies as I can at this club.
“It’s just one of those things. I am in no rush and neither is the club.
“I have 18 months left on my contract and I’m happy to do my best for the club.
“It wasn’t left nastily or harshly, it was put on the back burner, that’s all.
“Early on in the season the performances weren’t great and I wasn’t justifying a new contract. We agreed to pick it all up later. I am more than happy to work hard.”
Waghorn hasn’t had his troubles to seek, on or off the park, hitting the headlines for a bizarre confrontation with a 15-year- old schoolboy who’d given him a hard time in the street.
He confessed: “I probably over-reacted but you don’t expect to get abuse walking down the street.
“I reacted in the wrong way. I should have looked back and moved on.”
Waghorn admits the frustration has also grown at his lack of starts in Warburton’s line-ups.
But he said: “I’m just pleased to get back on the scoresheet . It’s been a difficult period and maybe I haven’t had as many chances through the middle as I would have liked.
“My first goal seemed to take an age to go in, I was almost holding my breath.
“When the second went in it was like a huge weight was lifted off my shoulders.”