MICHAEL Tidser insists he’s not paying any attention to the impending Premiership play-offs while there’s still league action to be played.

Morton face Dundee United in the Ladbrokes Championship on Saturday afternoon, the final fixture before the play-offs kick off on Tuesday where the Greenock men could potentially square off with the Terrors for a second and third time in the space of a week.

Tidser maintains that he has emptied his mind of play-off thoughts until the conclusion of what has been an impressive league campaign for the Ton.

The midfielder was ultimately disappointed with the 3-1 defeat to Dunfermline at East End Park as he reckoned his side deserved at least a point, and says Ton have to knuckle down and start converting their chances to build momentum going into the season’s finale.

He told the Tele: “I approach every game wanting to do my best. The play-offs, I couldn’t care less about just now, they’re not even in my mind. 

“I can’t speak for my team-mates but for me, when you go out there on a Saturday at 3pm your objective is to win.

“Unfortunately we didn’t do that on Saturday but we’ll take it on the chin, learn from it and move on. I think over the piece a draw would’ve been a fair result against Dunfermline, and to lose the third goal at the end was rubbing salt in the wounds because I thought we had performed quite well.

“We dominated possession but just couldn’t take our opportunities. We’re still creating chances and doing what the manager wants us to do.

“We lost sloppy goals on Saturday but we’ll dust ourselves down and get ready for Dundee United.”

Morton finished the game with four youth academy players on the pitch and Tidser insists none of them looked out of place on the Championship stage.

He praised coach Andy Millen — who was in the dugout for the Pars defeat — for doing a brilliant job nurturing Ton’s burgeoning talent.

He added: “They’re good young boys, Andy Millen does a great job with the under-20s. Their results and league form this season show that the future is bright with the club. 

“Some of the young guys come through every other day to train and don’t look out of place, they do well, and I think the manager has shown a lot of faith in them to put them out there.

“It’s a learning curve, they’re still really young and they’ll only get better in my eyes.”

And of gaffer Jim Duffy serving his second of a two game ban, Tidser said: “It’s been strange with him not being in the dugout.

"It’s certainly been a lot quieter. I think the gaffer knows that as well, but he’s been in the stands and he’s probably been able to see it differently from there.

“All you can do is try and do as well as you can and hopefully do enough to impress him.

“Personally I think the young lads did well and all of that is positive for the club. We now dust ourselves down and hopefully we’ll go into the play-offs with a positive mindset.”