He was eager to battle towards these he shares a altering room with at Hearts - however Scott McGill says the primary factor from Airdrie's journey to East Fife was constructing stress on Cove Rangers.
The Jambos loanee was a formidable performer as Calum Gallagher targets both facet of half-time sealed a 2-0 League One win at Bayview for the Diamonds.
On the opposing facet, Hearts children Finlay Pollock and Leo Watson have been dealing with off towards their midfield teammate within the Tynecastle youth system.
McGill says he spoke to Pollock earlier than the sport, however the goal did not change with Ian Murray's males eager to make it 16 league video games with no loss.
A tussle with associates did spotlight the significance of his Lanarkshire mortgage: "There's a few Hearts boys within the East Fife staff! But it surely was good to have that battle.
"I spoke to him throughout the week about it and I saved it easy on the pitch. It is nice. That's the reason we're out on mortgage, to get these minutes and to get expertise. We are going to simply be specializing in ourselves and taking it one sport at a time.
"Hopefully we are able to go all the best way as a staff now. Now we have a number of skilled gamers in our altering room."
McGill's adopted staff minimize the hole on league leaders Cove Rangers to 2 factors forward of their sport with Queen's Park in the present day. Second-placed Airdrie have 4 video games to go and the 20-year-old is eager to take issues all the way down to the wire.
He added: "We're protecting it going. We'd like that momentum to maintain the stress on Cove and that is what we did on Saturday with one other three factors.
"We simply have to preserve making use of that and protecting our confidence excessive. That may assist us put the stress on Cove.
"Now we have a great deal of good gamers within the staff. Hopefully Cove drop some factors."
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