Kilday made all 44 of his appearances at right-back last season, but played across the defence in his time with Hamilton Accies.

A combination of injuries to Frank McKeown, Ricki Lamie and Thomas O’Ware, and Luca Gasaparotto’s international commitments, has seen him fill in as a centre-back this term.

And after impressive outings there, particularly last weekend against Livingston, Duffy has told the 23-year-old he now considers him a candidate to play in either position.

Kilday told the Tele: “I prefer playing centre-back and the gaffer spoke to me the other day and said he’s comfortable playing me in either position, right-back or centre-back.

“I don’t think he’d ever seen me play there before I came to Morton, but there’s been a few injuries this season and I’ve had to fill in and he’s seen that I can play there. I think I’ve done well in the centre so I don’t think it’s too much of a big deal or an issue for him to put me in there anymore.

“He told there will be games this season when I play centre-back, and he also said to me: ‘I think you enjoy centre-back more and you can see it’.

“I really enjoyed last Saturday. Those are the games centre-halves like, the ones where you really have to dig out the result. I thought the boys did that really well. Before I came to Morton I was more comfortable at centre-back but did play at right-back and have played so many games there it’s like second nature now as well. I do prefer playing centre-back but enjoy both and am happy to play either or — just as long as I play!” In his most recent three appearances at centre-half, the former Hamilton man has partnered Luca Gasparotto.

Kilday feels he and the Canadian complement each other’s games and sees potential for their instinctive understanding to develop into a strong partnership.

He explained: “The big man is a really good defender. He’s very aggressive and very good in the air, and we both cover each other well and talk to each other a lot.

“I thought we were excellent together last week, won everything that came up our end. We’ve now played together against Alloa, Dumbarton and Livi and won the three games.

“It’s looking like a good partnership and hopefully it can continue but it would depend on whether the gaffer wants to keep me at centre-back, so we’ll just need to wait and see what happens.” A strong defensive backbone has been crucial to Morton’s recent run of three consecutive Championship victories.

Although Kilday admits they haven’t exactly been sparkling displays, the wins have coincided with them going back to basics and making themselves hard to beat first and foremost.

He explained: “A few of us were talking in the dressing room after the Livi game, and those three games that we’ve won have probably been the worst we’ve played this season.

“At the start of the season we were playing really well, but just weren’t getting the breaks. But we’ve changed it up a bit, becoming more solid and not letting teams get much against us anymore.

“The gaffer has always said to us there are two ways you can win football games: by either playing great football or digging in and grinding results out. “In the last three games we have been really good defensively and ground out the results, showing we’re capable of winning that way.” The Greenock men look to continue their winning run at Cappielow this afternoon when they face Queen of the South for the fourth time already this season.

Kilday has been satisfied with Ton’s performances against the Doonhamers thus far and feels those past meeting have shown they are capable of achieving a positive result on home turf today.

He said: “It’s Queen of the South — again. We’ve played them so many times now and know they are a good team so this will be another hard game.

“But I feel we’ve done really well against Queens when we’ve played them; there’s hasn’t been too much in the games.

“In the one we lost 1-0 I don’t really think we deserved to lose, and in the other two games we did really well. It will be a hard game but one we’ll be looking to win.”