Jim Lister insists it’s still far too early for title talk at Forfar.
The Loons kept their seven-point advantage as they came from behind to win “ugly” at Annan.
But veteran hitman Lister, who scored his side’s equaliser at Galabank, is adamant there is still lots of hard work ahead before the Loons can start thinking seriously about a return to League One.
He said: “We’re not talking about the title. We’re just taking each game as it comes.
“We’ve got plenty hard games coming, so there’ll be plenty ups and downs still to come.
“We’re looking over our shoulders all the time.”
Lister isn’t surprised his side are doing well in League Two, but didn’t expect them to be seven points clear at this stage of the campaign.
He said: “I would be disappointed if we weren’t winning fairly regularly with the squad we’ve got here because we’ve got players who would do well in the league above.
“But I’m probably a bit surprised we’re seven points clear.”
It looked like Forfar might be about to suffer a rare defeat when Max Wright put Annan ahead with a penalty after Jamie Bain fouled him in the box.
But Lister headed Gary Bollan’s side level from a Lewis Milne cross in the 38th minute.
The winner came three minutes after the restart when Milne’s low ball across goal appeared to be knocked into his own net by Annan defender Callum Home.
Thick fog came down towards the end.
However, Forfar kept their focus to see out a gritty win.
Lister said: “It’s always a hard place to get a win, so we’re delighted.
“It was an ugly win but three points is all that matters at this stage of this season.
“We played some decent stuff in the first half, but in the second half we got a fortunate goal and then had to huff and puff a wee bit. Our defence was really solid.
“The game probably wasn’t far away from being called off with the fog towards the end.
“I think that was getting into a few players’ heads.
“We could see each other okay and we could see the ball but I just felt if we’d played on much longer and the fog kept coming down the way it was, it would have been touch and go.”
