MORTON defender Lewis Strapp says that he'll have a point to prove when he crosses the touchline at Fir Park as he and his team-mates vie for a Scottish Cup quarter-final place against Motherwell tomorrow night.

The Ton youth product was a standout performer when Ton were put to the sword by the Steelmen in last season's Betfred Cup group stage.

He believes that the trip to North Lanarkshire will provide him with a gauge as to how far he has progressed in the last 18 months.

And the 21-year-old admits that there will be no love lost between himself and former mentor Ricki Lamie as they prepare to face off for the first time since the defender’s switch to Livingston in 2018.

He told the Tele: “I guess you could say this is an opportunity for me to see how much I’ve progressed in the last year.

“It’s always good to play against a team of that ilk, these are the games that you live for as a player at this level.

“We'll be the underdogs but we’re more than used to that nametag being used.

“I’m really looking forward to it and it will be exciting to see how we can match up against them and get on in the game.

“We just need to take things a game at a time and approach it positively before we switch our attentions to Hearts at Cappielow on Tuesday night.

“Hopefully we don’t need to play extra-time again, that would be the last thing we need going into Tuesday night and it’s shown before.

“It would be nice to progress to the next round and see where things take us.

“If we get through this tie we’re in the quarter finals which is an achievement in itself.

“If we can get past Motherwell then who knows what can happen, getting a scalp like that would be huge for us confidence-wise going into the remaining games.

“Big Ricki Lamie is there as well, it’ll nice to play against him as he was always good to me and looked after me when he was here at Morton.

“It would be nice to beat him though, I’ve not spoken to him at all but it would be nice to get one up on him.

“If he plays, though, he’ll be the other side of the pitch unfortunately, so he’ll not have to worry about me bombing forward.”

The full-back admits that he and his team-mates need to approach every game as if it was their last to prevent Ton’s league outcome going right down to the wire.

He believes that the relegation battle could throw up another twist in the tale before the curtains are drawn on the league campaign in under three weeks' time.

Strapp said: “We just need to take things a game at a time now.

“We can't afford to look too far ahead or try and plan where we could nick a point from or try and get a win, we just need to go and win games.

“I hope it doesn’t but it could go right down to the wire and if it does then we’ll be more than ready for it.

“It’s all still to play for and teams can still get dragged into the midst of it all, so we just need to concentrate on ourselves and take things from there, you’ve seen how tight the league is.”