Neil Wainwright has declared his intention to stay at Darlington beyond this season, as long as he's offered a new contract.

After three-and-a-half years and over 150 appearances, the winger's deal expires at the end of the season and the Quakers have yet to approach the 27-year-old with a new offer.

Since January 1 Wainwright has been entitled to speak to other clubs and could sign a pre-contract agreement elsewhere, allowing him to leave Darlington on a free in the summer.

But although fellow League Two side Kidderminster Harriers last week made an approach - rejected by manager David Hodgson - the ex-Sunderland winger is adamant he wants to play nowhere else but Darlington.

"I definitely want to stay, I love the club," said Wainwright who has played in all but five games this season, only a hamstring injury in October preventing an ever-present record.

"It's a really good place to be, especially now. I want to stay part of a team which I feel is a genuine promotion contender, a team that is going places, so I don't want to go anywhere else at all.

"Nothing has been said about a new contract but it's nice to know that the manager has turned an offer down from another club.

"Now I've just got to try to earn a new contract to stay here.

"For me Darlington is the place to be. We've got a good squad, we're towards the top of the league and we're challenging for promotion. If we don't get into the play-offs at the end of the season everyone will be really disappointed."

Along with Craig Liddle, Wainwright is the only Darlington player that was on the club's books during Quakers' last play-off push in 1999/2000, when he joined for what was a successful 17-game loan spell from Sunderland.

In a team which Wainwright says compares favourably with the current side, during the closing stages of that season he played an instrumental role on the right of midfield, which is where he has played the vast majority of his 158 games for Darlington.

In the 1-1 draw on Saturday at Northampton he was on the opposite flank, but for right-footed Wainwright the position wasn't completely alien to him as he began his career as left-winger at Wrexham

"I'm not sure how I changed from the left to right. When I went to Sunderland Peter Reid decided I was a right winger and it's been that way ever since."

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