MORTON make the journey through to Fife tomorrow in a positive frame of mind as they seek to make it three unbeaten at the start of the new Championship campaign.

After two matches Dougie Imrie's men have picked up a respectable four points, a return good enough to leave them sitting joint top of the table along with Partick and Ayr United.

If anything demonstrates just how little there is to choose between the sides in the division it is the fact that only two weeks in no one has a 100 per cent record left to defend.

Morton have made a solid start with their 1-1 draw at Hamilton Accies followed by last Saturday's victory against Cove Rangers at Cappielow.

Boss Imrie has spoken often enough of the importance of having a strong home record and Ton making their ground an unattractive place for teams to visit.

So he must have been delighted by the way they backed up the point at New Douglas Park by collecting three in front of their own fans at the first attempt.

In a league where the margins are narrow, victories can have a transformative effect.

If you can dig out draws on the road and collect wins on your own turf then you will not go far wrong and Morton have certainly started the campaign the right way.

They had to work hard for the 1-0 triumph over newly-promoted Cove last Saturday but were decent value for it in the end.

The Greenock men made a lively start and looked threatening before the visitors gradually got a foothold and gained control from the midway point of the first half until the break.

If Ton looked like they had lost their way this was perhaps to be expected given the gulf in experience between the two teams, and Cove have served notice that they will be tough opponents for most sides.

It is to Imrie and his players' credit that they reasserted themselves after the break and tried to carry the game to the visitors, while looking largely comfortable in defence at the other end of the pitch.

It was however a game lacking in quality, until a flash of magic from Jai Quitongo settled matters.

The frontman's spectacular late goal was him at his best - using his strength to out-muscle a defender on the turn and reacting to what was really only a half-chance with a first-time smashed finish which left the Cove keeper Kyle Gourlay helpless.

As Quitongo candidly suggested afterwards, he is more likely to excel when he can be instinctive and less effective when there is time to think.

If he can continue to produce decisive moments like this then his manager, team-mates and supporters will not care one jot.

All of them are hoping that the player's return to Greenock after four injury-bedevilled years elsewhere will not only get his career back on track, but help make a crucial difference for a side which lacks an out-and-out scorer and needs everyone to chip in.

Aside from his red card for an overzealous challenge against Falkirk, he has made an encouraging start and looks and sounds to have matured.

His pace and presence clearly unsettled the Cove rearguard at the weekend, and it is a well-seasoned unit which has been around the block a few times.

If Quitongo can stay free from injury then he will hopefully find the kind of consistency he has been searching for since breaking through as a talented youngster under Jim Duffy in 2016.

The other pleasing individual aspect of Saturday's match was the return of vice captain Alan Lithgow.

The veteran defender could have a key role this season in helping what is a youthful squad and now that he has recovered from injury the focus will be on getting him up to speed, with bounce games perhaps being needed to bring him back to match sharpness after missing a full pre-season.

Until then he is likely to be reintroduced to the fold gradually, with Jack Baird and Darragh O'Connor working towards establishing a partnership at the heart of the defence.

Raith Rovers lie in wait for them tomorrow and the hosts will be impatient to get off the mark after losing their opening two matches.

That always brings a degree of anxiety from fans, especially under a new manager, but Ian Murray sounded like a relaxed man in the wake of his side's defeat to Dundee last Saturday, a game which by all accounts could easily have ended in a share of the spoils.

Murray is clearly confident his side will break their duck imminently and Morton have to guard against it happening tomorrow.

If they can go through to Kirkcaldy and set themselves out in a well organised and resolute fashion then that would gradually turn up the pressure on their hosts - the visitors must not give Rovers any invitation or encouragement to play themselves back into form.

Ton's last away win was at Stark's Park back in April and even if they fall short of repeating that tomorrow, another draw on the road wouldn't be a bad result to keep the pot boiling.