MORTON left-back Lewis Strapp says he's honoured to have been recognised by his team-mates and supporters after winning a double in the club's end of season awards.

The 22-year-old picked up both the fans’ player of the year award as well as the players' young player of the year.

Strapp was a mainstay in Dougie Imrie’s side, making 27 appearances in the league, scoring once and providing five assists last season.

The full-back, who has come through the club’s youth system, has paid tribute to both his manager and the fans after picking up the award.

He told the Tele: "I am over the moon.

"I have been there that long that Morton is close to my heart. It's my team and my full life.

"I have not known anything different than Greenock Morton and ever since I started playing with the first team, I have had a good reception from the fans.

"A lot of my friends are fans and that might have helped with the voting.

"I think half of Dunoon voted for me!

"Dougie has come in and started playing me at left wing back.

"I had come onto my game and then I had had a wee dip again. But ever since the gaffer has come in I have loved every minute of it.

"I feel as if I'm playing better, it suits me more and I am just glad the fans can see that.

"I would just like to thank them for their efforts. In away games they have been different class and we started picking up a few points. It has been amazing."

Strapp has also paid tribute to his team-mates after it was their votes that saw him claim the players' young player of the year award.

He believes their successful second half of the campaign has been a collective effort as the club steered their way towards safety.

He added: "One thing that is good about football is that they forget the first six months.

"If you're playing a full season you don’t remember your first half of the season, you remember your second half.

"What a team we had this year. If it wasn’t for them, as much as I got the awards, the turnaround at Christmas has been down to us all sticking together.

"Even the boys who weren't playing who maybe thought they should have been playing, nobody was spitting the dummy out.

"We all stuck together. When I was injured Mark [Russell] was in, when others were injured other boys came in, and off the bench too.

"Everybody put the work in, if there was one of the teams in the league that could turn something around it was us.

"What we have done from Christmas to the end of the season is amazing.

"If you look at where we were then, and six months later we have maybe one of the best forms in the league.

"Credit must go to the team, the gaffer and the backroom staff as well."