Airdrie boss Ian Murray says he’s on the very best run of his managerial profession after claiming back-to-back supervisor of the month awards.
However he admits he would swap all of it to raise the League One trophy subsequent month.
The Diamonds are on an incredible 12-game unbeaten run with eight wins and 4 attracts preserving them on Cove’s coattails on the high of the desk.
That has helped Murray choose up prizes in January and now February, however it’s the one on the finish of the season he actually craves.
To get there, Airdrie must overturn a five-point deficit and Murray desires his facet to maintain the run going forward of a title-defining conflict at residence to Cove on March 26.
After choosing up his prize, he mentioned: “These awards are good to get for myself, for the employees and for the gamers as a result of it’s recognition of their work greater than something.
“However we’d swap every little thing for the massive one on the finish of the season.
“These [manager] awards actually assist and put you ready to problem for the larger ones – and that’s our goal now. The stage of the season we're at, we’d be silly to say we aren’t attempting to try this [win the league] as a result of we're.
“We're simply developing in opposition to an distinctive Cove crew who're additionally on a improbable run. That’s 18 video games unbeaten for them.
“Each groups, with the runs they're on, would anticipate to be high of the league by a ways.
“Cove will likely be sitting there pondering: how is the league not gained?”However that’s how constant each groups have been.
”We’ve nonetheless obtained to play one another once more and if we will preserve inside a distance of them for that sport, that will be nice.
”When that sport comes alongside we’ll must win that one to have any probability. It’s in Cove’s palms for the time being, however there’s a protracted method to go in a brief area of time.”
He added: “I’ve not had pretty much as good a run as this. It was powerful at Dumbarton being part-time within the Championship, which is a extremely arduous league, and issues by no means actually obtained going at St Mirren.
“It’s pretty much as good a run as I’ve had and I think about pretty much as good as Airdrie have had for a variety of years, so full credit score to the gamers for that.”
Airdrie beat Alloa 2-0 on the weekend and now head to fifth-place Falkirk on Saturday aiming to maintain the strain on.
Murray mentioned: “If we preserve profitable like we did on Saturday and we preserve that work price up, I don’t see why we will’t go and win a number of extra video games.”
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