When Stewart Petrie took over as boss at Montrose, anyone willing to wager that the Angus club would finish the season with a great chance of making the promotion play-offs would probably have been laughed out of a bookies.
Back in December when he was appointed, the Gable Endies were rock bottom of League 2 and in dire straits.
Now, Montrose have moved up into fourth place following last week’s 1-0 win at Berwick and this afternoon, they are on the road again to Annan, who sit in third just one point ahead of Petrie’s men.
The Links Park manager said: “We played well in the first half last week at Berwick against a side fighting for their lives at the moment.
“We scored a fine goal through Chris Templeman who is in a good run of form just now.
“We didn’t play as well in the second half but the boys did really well again to take another three points.
“We also kept a clean sheet, our second in a row, which is always pleasing.
“The lads deserve enormous credit for taking us up into promotion play-off contention and the challenge now is to stay there.
“We only have two games left and it is all to play for.
“We have a good away record but we are under no illusions about how tough it will be at Annan.
“However, it is a challenge we look forward to.”
