Morton's Jack Baird expects 'difficult' game against Cowdenbeath

The Ton will travel to west Fife on Saturday to play the lowland league outfit in the third round of the Scottish Challenge Cup.

Morton defender Baird says he and his teammates recognise that the competition is likely to be their best chance of winning silverware this season and as such this weekend’s feature isn’t one they’re taking lightly.

He told the Telegraph: “It’ll be a tough one, people say there are no easy games in our league, but I don’t think there’s really any easy games in the country.

“There isn’t an awful lot between some divisions.

“They’re at home so it’s a difficult one for us to travel to and they’ll make it difficult for us.

“They’ll make it as uncomfortable as they can, we would be doing the same if we were playing a team coming from the premier league.

“It’s a game we want to win, out of the cup competitions it’s the one you’re most likely to go far in.

“It’s difficult in the other two cup competitions as soon as the premier league teams and the old firm come in, you’re really limited in how well you can do.

“This is our most realistic chance of a trophy, so we want to have a good go at it.

“I understand it’s not as important as the league, but we still want to try and win the game.”

Baird also believes that the fixture can be a springboard to help Morton boost their performance in the Championship after a difficult opening four fixtures.

He added: “It’s something you can use to help your league form too, especially if you go and get a good result, or you go and try and build on something you want to try and take into the next league game.

“You can use it and it’ll only benefit you, the more you play games, the more you’ll improve as a team.

“It’s one we’re looking forward to, not because we think it’s going to be easy or anything, we just think a game’s a game.

“We’re hoping to go and do everything right and progress to the next round.”

The towering Ton stopper - who scored his first goal of the season in last Saturday’s home defeat to Falkirk - was pleased to get on the scoresheet against the Bairns.

He admits he would have traded the goal for a win if he could have.

He added: “There have been pleasing parts and obviously not so pleasing parts to the start of the season.

“In terms of Saturday’s game, I would have liked to have won obviously, I’d have traded the goal for a win, but it was nice on a personal note to get off the mark this season.

“It’s something that’s important because we want to be trying to add goals from set pieces, but I would trade that for the win.

“It was one of those things last week.

“We probably did enough on the day to win the game, but it just didn’t fall our way.”