New Arbroath boss Allan Moore has a proven track record at winning promotion having done it twice as a manager with Stirling Albion.
However, he made sure that when he met the Red Lichties squad for the first time on Wednesday night he left them in no doubt that if Arbroath are to bounce straight back up, the onus will be on them to make it happen.
Moore was appointed the new Gayfield gaffer on Tuesday night with the club board determined to make a quick appointment following Paul Sheerin’s abrupt departure to Aberdeen to coach the Dons Under-20s side.
The new manager has brought Todd Lumsden in as his assistant, someone he knows well.
Moore said: “I am delighted to get Todd on board. Like me, he is really up for the challenge.
“He had been working with the Rangers Under-17s but he wanted the passion of full-time football again.
“Todd works at the New Lanarkshire College and I help him with coaching there so we will be able to bounce ideas off one another and also when we are travelling through for training and games.
“Promotion is our No 1 target. I told the boys on Wednesday night that Todd and I have not come to Arbroath to finish second.
“It will be difficult as I think Clyde may throw a bit of money at it after getting Barry Ferguson in as manager and I believe Annan will be there or thereabouts.
“I know what it takes to win promotion. However, I have already told the lads that it isn’t the manager who gets you promotion, it is the players who do the business with a lot of hard work.
“I think we have a good nucleus in place with the likes of Bobby Linn still at the club but we really must bolster the squad.”
Moore has been out of the game since being sacked by Morton last December following a poor run of results.
The previous season, he had taken the Greenock side to a second-place finish in the old First Division and even last September masterminded a stunning League Cup victory over Celtic at Parkhead.
He admitted that after all he had done for the club, he felt they failed to show him the correct amount of loyalty when the team were struggling last season.
However, he insists that he has learned from his mistakes and is keen to move on with Arbroath and consign what happened at the end at Morton to history.
He said: “I have been out of the game since last December and have had a bit of time to reflect on what happened at Morton.
“You need to learn from your mistakes but after the chairman slashed the budget, I lost players like Peter MacDonald and Willie Dyer.
“We had to go with a smaller squad and some of the boys I was trying to bring in were being offered the same amount of money with part-time clubs as I could offer.
“Obviously, if they had another job outside football then they weren’t going to pack that in to go full-time on the wages I could give them.
“I had to bring a few foreign lads in and to be fair, they were decent but they needed time to settle in and overcome the language barrier.
“Unfortunately, I wasn’t given that time and I was sacked after just 13 games of the season which considering I had taken the team to second place the year before didn’t really show a lot of loyalty on Morton’s part.”