JIM Duffy says his side cannot afford to get carried away with their win over league leaders Forfar or Airdrie will be ready to bring them back down to earth with a bump tonight.

Morton shaved the Station Park outfit’s lead at the top of League One to a solitary point with a convincing 2-0 win at the weekend.

They are back in action tonight when they travel through to Airdrie for a Scottish Cup third round replay following the recent goalless draw at Cappielow.

And Ton boss Duffy insists his squad will not have allowed Saturday’s success to take their eye off the ball and lose sight of the threat posed by the Diamonds this evening. He said: “Overall it was a good team performance on Saturday but it’s just another three points added to the tally.

“It doesn’t say anything [significant].

“It just allowed us to enjoy the weekend before coming back in yesterday and focusing on the game against Airdrie.

“The game tonight means we didn’t have too much time to enjoy it but we weren’t going to get carried away anyway because this is another tough game.

“We actually play Airdrie back to back now, which is never ideal, and we’ll need to improve significantly on the first cup game to have any chance in the replay.

“Although it wasn’t a performance that we were totally happy with, the main thing is that we still have a chance to progress. I’m hopeful and confident that we can improve in tonight’s replay.” Meanwhile, Craig McPherson reckons Morton will be in for an old fashioned cup tie at the Excelsior Stadium.

The Ton assistant spent a season and a half as an Airdrie player, winning the Challenge Cup with the Diamonds in season 2001-02.

Despite the fact the original incarnation of Airdrieonians folded at the end of that campaign, McPherson sees the current entity as the same club and says they carry the same cup traditions.

He told the Tele: “I had just over a season at Airdrie. I joined in the February of 2001 and then spent the full following season there.

“I really enjoyed it. It was just after Steve Archibald’s time there, and we had a good group of players brought together by Ian McCall, who I worked with at Morton previously. We weren’t glamorous but we had a good group of pros and we worked hard for each other.

“There were boys like Allan Ferguson, Kevin James, Mark Roberts, Owen Coyle and Allan McManus. Ian McCall and Brian Rice instilled that work ethic in us, and I think most Airdrie teams down the years have had that.

“That’s the key to a good dressing room.

“We stayed up that first year and then ran Partick Thistle close in the league and won the Challenge Cup the next season.

“There was a lot going on behind the scenes that we [the players] weren’t involved in and Airdrie went out of business not long after that.

“But I look at the current club as the same club I played for. I don’t see them as any different and feel as though they carry the same traditions.

“They are well organised with Gary Bollan and Stuart Balmer. I see the same determination from these guys as we had.

“And I think the old tradition that Airdrie had when they were a very successful cup team comes to the fore in games like tonight.

“It’s going to be a very tough game. When they came to our place last week they made it very difficult for us.

“And they’ll do the same again tonight — so we need to make sure we’re ready to match that and go and compete with them.”