MORTON goalkeeper Ryan Scully says his wonder saves are ones he’ll sit back and admire for a long time.

The shotstopper was forced into action midway through the first half on Saturday, brilliantly stopping Queen of the South from opening the scoring.

The 25-year-old first blocked Stephen Dobbie’s sidefooted volley, before getting up quickly to deny Lyndon Dykes with a reaction save, pushing the effort onto the bar before clutching onto the ball.

Queens’ boss Gary Naysmith hailed the save as ‘world class’, while Ton manager Ray McKinnon said it was ‘out of this world’ and Derek Gaston described it as ‘the best double save I’ve ever seen’.

Scully says it was great to hear such positive comments about his vital stop.

He told the Tele: “It’ll be good to show the family and it’s one I’m definitely going to savour, you don’t make many like that.

“It’s nice to hear people saying those things about you. 

“It took forever to come down off the underside of the bar.

“I didn’t know where it was as well, so I was just delighted it landed up in my hands.”

Scully’s performance helped the Ton earn a 2-2 draw at Cappielow, however, the goalkeeper was disappointed not to have held onto their two-goal lead.

But he believes a draw was probably a fair reflection of the game.

He added: “Looking back on it and once you’ve had time to digest, it was a pretty even game and they had the slightly better chances.

“A draw overall was probably the fair result, but after being 2-0 up we should have seen the game out and I see it as dropping two points.

“We need to take the positives from it, we got a point and hopefully we can kick on this week.”

The former Partick Thistle goalkeeper said it was good to start his first league game at Cappielow, and was impressed with the turnout by the Ton fans on the opening day of the season.

Scully hopes they can attract more fans to Cappielow this season — but he knows that’s down to the players producing the goods and picking up victories. 

He said: “I really enjoyed my first league game at Cappielow and hopefully we can get even more people through the turnstiles. 

“That comes down to us performing well and winning games.

“The fans gave us a positive reception after the result and we can hopefully repay them.

“They’re knowledgeable fans and know this is a new team. Some fans can spit the dummy out because it was a two-goal lead we let go, especially at home as well.

“But the results will come and I think they’ve seen over the last few games that we’re a work in progress, and as long as they know we’re going to get there at the end of the season. 

“Fingers crossed we can get the results and keep them happy.”